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Photo Gallery: Over Twelve Bags of Garbage Plucked From Fox River Bank

Volunteers turned out last Saturday to clean up the Fox River bank from Violet Patch Park to Hudson Crossing Park.

Thanks to a group of volunteers - mostly from the Valley Baptist Church in Oswego - the banks of the Fox River are a little cleaner.

Last Saturday volunteers from Montgomery down to Plano gathered at Violet Patch Park in Oswego as part of the Environmentally Conscious Oswego (ECO) Committee's project to clean up the Fox River. 

Volunteers were given plastic bags, gloves and garbage claws to pick out garbage - ranging from old bottles, wrappers, to dangerous fishing line - from alongside the river.

Members of the Prairie State Canoeists (PSC) floated downriver in kayaks and canoes to pick up garbage in the river, including a host of tires. 

Oswego Village president Brian LeClercq said there were over 12 full bags of garbage collected from the riverbanks.


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