Canoeists Sought for a Cleanup ; the Ferry Beach Ecology School Is Directing the 9th Annual Sweep of a Four-Mile Stretch of the Saco River.

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Ferry Beach Ecology School is seeking volunteers to participate in its 9th annual Saco River Canoe-A-Thon and Cleanup on Saturday.

Participants will collect trash in their canoes from the public boat launch in Saco along a four-mile stretch of Saco River to Camp Ellis. Maggie Daigle, community relations director at the school, said every year volunteers pull a hazardous assortment of items out of the river such as tires, a car engine, a small freezer, kitchen appliances, a toilet and lots of plastic debris.

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Canoeists Sought for a Cleanup ; the Ferry Beach Ecology School Is Directing the 9th Annual Sweep of a Four-Mile Stretch of the Saco River.

"Every year we get a large mountain of trash, enough to fill half of a dump truck," Daigle said. "The more...

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