Every year in the Spring, the Rotary Clubs in the US and Canada that serve the areas surrounding the Great Lakes, from Superior to Ontario, try to clean up the watershed.

Besides doing a group Cleanup of  a portion of the Seaway Trail that has ditches draining directly into the Niagara River that would, as soon as the underbrush and poison ivy regrows, become inaccessible, members of the proudly Bi-National Rotary Club of Lewiston, NY & Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON  also plawk (a Scandinavian term for picking up trash while walking) all along the Niagara River and Lake Ontario shores year round

So far this year members of the 88-year-old Rotary Club have collected numerous bags of returnable bottles (the deposits of which were used to support wildlife rescue) as well as trash of all description.  Lewiston/NOTL Rotary doesn’t mind doing the dirty work that helps make the communities on both sides of the Niagara River a great place to live.