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Jun 24, 2009 at 02:12 PM

Various government entities joined with volunteers Saturday for a cleanup on East Lake Tohopekaliga. Volunteers gathered at Ralph V. Chisholm Regional Park to begin to their work removing trash from the lake, aided by local airboaters.

Cleaning up East Lake Tohopekaliga

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News-Gazette Photos/Marvin G. Cortner

 Above, Capt. Brent Sloan, of Big Toho Airboat Rides. which is based at the Kissimmee lakefront on Lake Tohopekaliga, takes a volunteer crew out for the morning.

Todd Harmon, of St. Cloud, and his son, Trevor Harmon, 7, remove cattails from a plastic packing crate before pulling it aboard an airboat. The Harmons, along with Osceola County Extension aquatics faculty member Stacia Hetrick, were on an airboat piloted by St. Cloud resident Chad Summers, of Boggy Creek Airboat Rides, a co-sponsor of the cleanup.  Click to see real size