VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 SPRING/SUMMER 2005

Clinton County CleanScapes, Inc. YOUR PARTNER IN HELPING COMMUNITIES CLEANUP OUR WATERWAYS & LANDSCAPES AFFILIATE

Serving Centre, Clinton & Lycoming Counties Since 2000

2005 Spring Cleaning! Eight cleanup events partnered 145 volunteers with DCNR staff from Sproul & Tiadaghton State Forests & they removed 21.19 tons of man-made debris & 133 tires from state & private lands.

Rhododendron nudiflorum [pink azalea] was in full bloom during Tiadagh-ton’s Shaw Mt. Road May 14th cleanup. 16 volunteers joined DCNR employees & they removed

.77 tons of trash & 7 tires from this shrub’s setting.

Sproul DCNR staff Rich Kugel, Paul Brown & Lin Greenaway w/1000’s of shingles at the Stony Run Rd. event.

Tiadaghton’s DCNR staff Frank Lowery & Jason Smith worked on Shaw Mt. Rd. with 16 volunteers & removed .77 ton & 7 tires.

Bald Eagle Boys Camp volunteers cleaned up Quarter Mile Road with DCNR staff at Sproul State Forest.

Misty Cooper lead the Bethesda Day Treatment volunteers on the Rt. 44 pull-off near Stony Run Rd.

Stony Run Road in Sproul State Forest before the Phase II event, Clinton Co.

West Branch Riverbank cleanup in Memorial Park, Lock Haven before 42 volunteers worked with the City of Lock Haven & they removed 2 tons & 6 tires.

High school students team together during the Barbour Farm event, Lycoming Co.

Carpeting & bagged deer carcasses on Sulphur Springs Road, Lycoming Co.

Emily Kane

Bill Foster

E. Lynch

E. Lynch E. Lynch

E. Lynch

E. Lynch

E. Lynch E. Lynch

Stony Run Rd., 2 cleanups=10 tons & 57 tires.

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Summer Sizzles! Reflections from 2005

Two West Branch Susquehanna water-way cleanups brought 80 volunteers together & they removed 1.74 tons of debris, an oil tank & 203 tires from Woodward & Grugan Townships.

Funding for this publication was provided by the Clinton County Community Foundation, Inc.

At the Bald Eagle Creek cleanup, CCC joined Central Mt. high school student Amber Young, her family & friends from Luck 7 Meats & the 14 volunteers removed 1.04 tons of debris & 4 tires!

Left-Lock Haven Un. students David Gooch, Rebecca Shorter & Megan McGarvey join Sue Ann Schatz & CCC Board member & Wayne Twp. Landfill staff engineer Mike Crist in Grugan Twp. on the West Branch & they removed .77 tons & 10 tires.

Right-CCC board member Colleen & husband Jerry Lacy launch onto the West Branch Susquehanna dur-ing the Phase I cleanup.

Above-Contractors Danny & Jeff Labant, from excavating business Let George Do It, removed an oil tank & heater from the waters surrounding the Great Island.

Left-“VICTORY!” Jim Bechdel, Clinton Co. Arts Council V.P. Jeanney Wharton & El i sabeth Lynch loaded this heavy debris from Clinton’s Bald Eagle Creek.

Right-Divers from around the Keystone state & beyond brought 1.64 tons of tires from the West Branch during the Phase II cleanup. Next year’s event will occur on July 29, ‘06.

Above-The largest catch CCC hopes this crew will ever catch from Bald Eagle Creek—a steel table with an iron vise that didn’t want to leave the water & it took over an hour to land!

Bald Eagle Cr. Cleanup.

Every cleanup unearths friendships & treasures!

Sue Peters Sue Peters

E. Lynch

Sue Peters Sue Peters

Bill Foster

E. Lynch E. Lynch

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE—A CHANGE IN COURSE

PARTNERS IN PROSECUTION Story & photo provided by Elisabeth Lynch

Spring/Summer Supporting Members

COMMISSIONERS

Clinton County; Tom Bossert, Harold Yost, Jr., & Richard Kyle

BUSINESSES I-Quad Associates Consortium Leasing

FAMILIES & FRIENDS Ted & Tracey Barbour Dr. R. Harnishfeger Ken Flannigan Jo Ann & Michael Williamson Robert & Phyllis Wimer

SPECIAL GIFTS Pizza Hut Scot’s Lo-Cost Walmart Robinson Portable Toilets Avery Dennison Wayne Twp. Landfill Croda, Inc. PENNDOT Dist. 2-3 DCNR Sproul DCNR Tiadaghton Clinton Co. GIS Hope Hose #6 Lock Haven Dive Unit #6 Lock Haven Sunken Treasure Scuba Shop, Jersey Shore Keystone Divers Club Rock, River & Trail Out- fitters, Lock Haven Old Corner Bottle Shop BOARD OF DIRECTORS Tim Holladay, PRESIDENT Michael Crist Erin Dunleavy Dr. Lester Kleckner Amy Laprolia Lyle McKean Colleen Xethakis-Lacy

Dumpers can be a sneaky lot. Years ago, dumpsites were riddled with discarded mail, dog-eared magazines with attached mailing labels & empty prescription bottles with the patient’s name. With trails to follow, tracking down the owner of the trash wasn’t very difficult. As with all living organisms, most of the dumpers are evolving. The evolving one’s burn their junk mail & rip the labels off empty bottles before they “discard” their disposables. The less devel-

oped dumpers just bag it all & let it fly. In July, CCC received a citizen complaint that a site in Clin-ton Co. was repeatedly attracting an habitual dumper. After surveying the area & interviewing the citizen, we asked the State Police in Lamar to send a Trooper to meet us at the site. Trooper Couturiaux collected the discarded mail & maga-zines that the citizen had found in some of the bags & then he snugged on a pair of protective gloves & began sorting through the rest of the collected trash. After the on-site investigation, he proceeded to write up a non-traffic citation to the alleged dumper. After receiving the citation a few days later, District Judge Frank Mills sent the dumper, Mr. Gerald L. Laugman from York, a summons. By September, Mr. Laughman pleaded

guilty to scattering the rubbish & delivered a check for $404.82 to the District Court. News spread & the Clinton County Solid Waste Authority (CCSWA) wanted to reward the citizen for initiating this prosecution & sent the citizen a $250.00 reward. On behalf of all the enforcements agencies involved in this case, CCC would like to remind our readers that CCC & CCSWA are not enforce-ment agencies, but CCC will assist citizens throughout the entire process and/or we may act on their behalf. Again, thank you Trooper Couturiaux, District Judge Frank Mills, CCSWA & especially, the selfless citizen who took the time to call us, meet with CCC & will continue to monitor the area.

As the Clinton County CleanScapes President, I am excited to announce some major organizational changes. First, we have inde-pendently incorporated from the main office of PA Clean-Ways, Inc. located in Green-burg, PA. The reason for this change was initiated back in February when the main office announced they could no longer monetarily support their Chapters & began re-structuring those Chapters as 100% volunteer operations. Most of the Chapters accepted this change, but our Board decided that our mission would best be achieved by in-corporating independently from PA CW, Inc. With incorporation, we will maintain local con-trol of our programming, retain our part-time Pro-ject Director & expand our cleanup locations to

include additional waterway debris removal events in Centre, Clinton & Lycoming Counties.

Our second major change is our official name. In 2000 we began as PA CleanWays of Clinton Co. & as of autumn 2005, our new title is Clinton County CleanScapes (CCC), an affiliate of PA CW, Inc. In closing, I want to per-sonally thank Attorney Don-ald Faulkner of Snowiss, Steinburg, Faulkner & Hall of Lock Haven for assisting us throughout the incorporation process. Thank you! To our readership & members, due to the withdrawal of funding support from the main office,

your annual memberships & special contributions will make a significant impact in our ability to pro-vide cleaner landscapes & miles of debris-free water-ways for many years to come. Enjoy, Tim Holladay.

Emily Holladay

“ O n c e a g a i n , t h e Tiadaghton State Forest staff would like to thank C l i n t o n C o u n t y CleanScapes for their recent cleanup effort…The vista looks beautiful!”

Jeffrey S. Prowant DCNR District Forester Tiadaghton State Forest

2000-2005 PROGRESS REPORT Volunteers: 560 Tires Recycled: 3,193 Tons removed: 615.26

Newsletter Printed on 100% Recycled Paper by Reese’s Print Shop of Lock Haven, PA.

Tim Holladay enjoying the debris-free waterway of Walis Run, Lycoming County.

On June 9th, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission awarded CCC $5,000.00 to pay for trash removal tipping fees on debris col-lected from the W. Branch Susquehanna River. We want to thank Northcentral PA Conservancy’s Renee´ Carey for nominating CCC for this award. Through DCED, State Senator John N. Wozniak provided CCC with a $6,000.00 grant to remove man-made debris from the West Branch Susquehanna River & its tributaries. Thank you Senator Wozniak & to his Administrative Assistant Julie Brennan, we greatly appreciate her assistance throughout the entire application process. Beginning this autumn & running through the winter months, CCC will be site surveying riverine areas in search of flood debris & dumpsites. Cleanup events will begin next spring & run through the summer of 2007. Put your known site on our list by reporting it to our office at 570-893-4123. Thank you & contact us soon!

A VERY SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION

CLINTON COUNTY CLEANSCAPES Garden Building, 3rd Floor

232 East. Main St. Lock Haven, Pa. 17745

Voice: 570-893-4123

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By becoming a member & by increasing your donation by checking Special Contribution, your support will help fund the following: • $5 sponsor’s lunch & refreshments for one volunteer • $25 sponsor’s film development for 2 cleanup events • $50 sponsor’s 125 miles of travel to & from dumpsite surveys • $100 sponsor’s the printing for 100 newsletters • $500 sponsor’s 48 hours of field & stream surveying • $1,000 sponsor’s 1 year of liability insurance • $5,000 sponsor’s 8 complete cleanup events • $15,000 sponsor’s one year of programming expenses

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