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Teens teaming up to clean W.Va. rivers
Teenagers from four states will spend close to two weeks ridding the Little and Big Coal rivers of litter in a project being coordinated by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection.
YouthWorks, a Minneapolis-based Christian organization that provides mission work for church groups, is sending around 40 high school-age kids to Boone County beginning Monday, July 27, to help clean up the rivers. The youth will work on the rivers a total of eight days between July 27 and Aug. 6.
Jess Driesenga, the site coordinator for YouthWorks, said 15 to 20 kids from North Carolina and Michigan will be on the rivers the first week. Around the same number of volunteers from Illinois and Pennsylvania will work the second week, she said.
Driesenga said the Coal rivers project is part of YouthWorks' new focus on the Christian's role in protecting the environment.
Volunteers will spend about five hours a day on the rivers picking up everything from old tires to kitchen appliances. They'll cover about 30 miles of river over the eight days.
