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FOB/TOB Oyster Bay Harbor Cleanup With Many Hands Making Work Light

by Pat Coate | October 09, 2009
"I was especially glad to see such a large turnout of students, Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts."
- Patricia Aitken, Friends of the Bay acting director

Thanks to the combined efforts of the Town of Oyster Bay, Friends of the Bay and a dedicated corps of volunteers from the local community who worked together for the 24th International Coastal Cleanup, the beaches and bays of Oyster Bay are now much cleaner.

Other volunteers headed out in boats onto the water to beaches on Centre Island to remove trash that had washed up there during the summer months.

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