Cleaning Up Along the River
By the News-RegisterThe Ohio River is at once one of the most beautiful, useful assets in our area — and one of the largest trash dumps. For some reason, stream banks seem to be viewed by some as perfect places to dispose of garbage and junk. Combine that with the debris that washes down the river during periods of high water, often becoming lodged on its banks, and the beautiful Ohio sometimes isn’t much at which to look.
Each year, thousands of volunteers throughout the Ohio River valley and on some of its tributaries spend a day doing something about that. They work with the annual River Sweep program to collect and dispose of trash and junk on the rivers’ banks. The event is organized by the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission.
River Sweep 2008 in our area has been set for June 21. We are aware of specific plans for cleanup work in Ohio and Marshall counties; help in other areas no doubt would be welcomed.
Cleanup work is planned for the Heritage Port-WesBanco Arena and Wheeling Island boat ramp areas of Ohio County, and for the Riverside Park area in Moundsville.
Down through the years — River Sweep is in its 19th year — the program has done an enormous amount of good. According to Jeanne Ison of ORSANCO, about 100,000 tons of debris has been removed from river banks during that time.
If you are interested in working with River Sweep, you can call 800-359-3977 to obtain information. If you have a few hours to spare on June 21, we encourage you to help the program in making a few sections of the Ohio River bank more attractive.
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Georgetwin
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06-19-08 11:28 AM
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Cory1978, you posted an article Stereotyping conservatives. I thought Liberals were AGAINST profiling? So you have told yet another lie. Question for everyone, WHO has called fellow posters the following names on this website? 1. typical tard 2. loons 3. frekin wack jobs –NICE SPELLING! LMAO! 4. coward –THIS while hiding behind his keyboard 5. retard 6. idiot 7. scum bag 8. inbred alcoholic 9. dick sucker Give Up? It was Cory1978, The Bitter Little Runt of a Coward. He CLAIMS he doesn’t call names. I and MANY others have refuted this claim TIME and TIME again. In closing, I urge EVERYONE to ignore The Bitter Little Runt of a Coward. He is a smug, arrogant, coward who uses this forum to attack people from the safety of his basement. Thus proving how GUTLESS he really is!
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Georgetwin
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06-18-08 10:43 AM
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Coward1978 LIBERAL TRAITS – They are fundamentally physical and moral cowards (i.e. BitterrCoward1978, Billary Cankleton). They abhor a level playing field as they lack the skill and/or courage to make it on their own, so they WHINE and CRY that the government should help them (i.e. Shrillary Cankleton, BitterCoward1978). They don’t believe in RIGHT and WRONG as they believe themselves to be SMARTER than everyone else and therefore, they know what is best for ‘the little people’ (i.e. BitterCoward1978, Al Bore). They tend to be dysfunctional and/or tend towards addiction and rationalize this state of affairs by saying, “EVERYONE does it!” (i.e. Fairy Reid, Christopher Dodd, Billary Cankleton). They lack the COURAGE to be a Leader as their cowardice precludes strong, decisive, action when faced with a conflict (Billary Cankleton, LBJ). They are pathological liars, especially to the wives they CHEAT ON with alarming regularity (i.e. LBJ, JFK< Billary Cankleton). They KNOW if they to
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Georgetwin
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06-16-08 11:16 AM
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No bitterness here, LMAO!
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Georgetwin
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06-16-08 11:12 AM
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Bo bitterness here, LMAO!
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cory1978
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06-13-08 3:16 PM
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dang recyclers
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cory1978
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06-13-08 3:16 PM
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where are all the environazi hater comments......don't they know that fish eat the trash!*****recyclers..i hate em! i love trash and i love to destroy my environment so my children can catch and eat catfish.....i just love waking up in the morning with that "glow" on my cheeks from eating fish from the ohio river
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