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BY KENT JACKSON<\/div>\n
Published: January 20, 2015<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ed Wytovich of the Catawissa Creek Restoration Association shows photos of the work being done at the creek to a group of Hazleton Area High School students in Shawn Darraugh’s employability skills class during session on environmental stewardship inspiring a new generation to engage in volunteer service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy, The program was sponsored by the Greater Hazleton Area Civic Partnership and held at the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce on Monday. ERIC CONOVER\/Staff Photographe<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Three people who have cleaned streams and lakes in Northeastern Pennsylvania told students on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that volunteers can improve the natural world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ed Wytovich said he wanted to volunteer since boyhood when his friend pointed to a pretty spot along a polluted stretch of river where they played and said: \u201cI\u2019ll bet in 30 years when they fix it up, we\u2019ll be could go fishing.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took 40 years, but trout now live along that stretch of the Little Schuylkill River in Port Carbon, said Wytovich, who started a group to remove polluted mine drainage from the Catawissa Creek.<\/p>\n