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More than 30 organizations in Northeastern Pennsylvania gave Mother Nature a helping hand by participating in the Great NEPA Clean-Up during Earth Week from April 18 to April 25. The event, hosted by the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority and the Northeastern Pennsylvania Conservation Alliance, included clean-ups, plantings and other programs organized by communities, businesses, universities, state parks, environmental groups and nonprofit organizations. All across the region people helped the environment by reusing, reducing, and recycling.

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Clarks Summit Clean Up: Clarks Summit council members and volunteers cleaned more than two miles of roadsides in Clarks Summit during the Great NEPA Clean-Up on April 18. Shown from left, are: Pat Williams, Barbara Evans, Denise Prowell, Gerrie Carey, Roy Davis and Herman Johnson.

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Ryan Exner, Gery Pawelzik, Fielding Confer, and Zach Sloneker, members of the Abington Heights High School National Honor Society, volunteered at the Waverly Community House’s One Stop Donation Drop during the Great NEPA Clean-Up on April 18, 2009.

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More than 300 volunteers of all ages cleaned up local roads, trails, streams and gardens. Many local residents joined 600 volunteers across the state to clean 136 miles of PA Route 6. Hundreds of people attended the fairs, lectures and other events hosted by the University of Scranton and Penn State Schuylkill, and the lawn at the Waverly Community House was covered with boxes of donated items at the One-Stop Donation Drop.

Supplies for the Great NEPA Clean-Up were provided by PennDOT and GLAD Products Company through the Great American Cleanup of PA, which runs through May 31. Giant Food Supermarkets and Wegmans provided water and snacks for volunteers.

For details, contact 963-6730, ext. 8212, or lritchey@LHVA.org.