Marina cleanup hauls in a ton of trash

LPOIC volunteers weigh garbage that has been pulled from the bottom of the marina.
Photo by LAUREN REICHENBACH

A cook stove was pulled from the bottom of the lake.

Over three dozen volunteers worked hard to clean the marina.

by LAUREN REICHENBACH
Staff Writer | June 13, 2023 1:00 AM

While the Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club might be seen as just a fishing group, some of its members are going above and beyond behind the scenes to do more for the community and the lake that blesses all the members with great fishing.

On Wednesday morning, 22 volunteers from LPOIC as well as a dozen Kootenai County Sheriff’s deputies headed for the Bayview Marina on the edge of Bonner and Kootenai counties with the goal of hauling as much garbage out of Lake Pend Oreille as possible...

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