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Volunteers spiff up Sandpoint’s Sand Creek

About 40 volunteers chipped in on April 16, 2011, to remove trash from the shoreline along Sand Creek in downtown Sandpoint during the annual Sand Creek Clean Up. 
 (Courtesy photo)
About 40 volunteers chipped in on April 16, 2011, to remove trash from the shoreline along Sand Creek in downtown Sandpoint during the annual Sand Creek Clean Up. (Courtesy photo)

STEWARDSHIP -- About 40 volunteers chipped in Saturday to remove trash from the shoreline along Sand Creek in downtown Sandpoint during the annual Sand Creek Clean Up.

The helpers were organized by the Downtown Sandpoint Business Association and Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper.

The event removed a truck full of garbage in a little more than an hour, and prevented the trash from fouling Lake Pend Oreille and the beauty of the spring and summer seasons in downtown Sandpoint.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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