STREAM CLEAN UP

MARBLE HILL -- The Missouri Department of Conservation's clean up of portions of Hurricane and Crooked creeks near Marble Hill will be held Saturday.

Brian Todd, fisheries biologist with the department's Southeast Missouri regional office at Cape Girardeau, said he was hoping for 100 to 200 participants for the cleanup of the two creeks.

He participants should meet before 10 a.m. at Twin City Park, next to Sonny's Restaurant. The teams will be transported by donated vehicles to their pre-designated cleanup locations.

The Crooked Creek cleanup will start near Glen Allen and extend downstream to its confluence with Hurricane Creek, near the old railroad trestle pilings.

Todd said the Hurricane Creek cleanup will begin north of the Highway 34 bridge and continue downstream to the creek's confluence with Crooked Creek.

After the cleanup is completed at about 4 p.m., a beach party will be held for the participants, at Mock's Twin Creeks Camp.