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Boy Scout Troop 33 Holds Eagle Scout Court of Honor for Damien Cheveyo Weist
Bath Area Fish Committee Holds 70th Annual Children’s Fishing Contest
Looking by Back Ed Pany Dredging the Lehigh River: Part 1 of 3
Coal dredging on the river; photo courtesy of the Wilson Putt Family
Damien stands with his Eagle Scout Project with his parents, Chad and Aneilia, and brother and sister, Gavin and Karina. Submitted by BRIAN RADCLIFFE On Sunday, April 27, Boy Scout Troop 33, from Emmanualsville Church, held an Eagle Scout Court of Honor for Damien Cheveyo Weist at the American Legion, Eckley E. Patch Post 470, in Bath. In attendance were members and alumni from Troop 33, fam-
ily and friends, State Rep. Ann Flood, Post 470 Commander Brian Radcliffe, Witauchsoman Lodge No. 44 Chief Darren Woodruff, Mr. Robert Kuhlick, masonry instructor from Bethlehem Area Vocational Technical School, and Stephanie ValekHillegass and Jeffery Nicholas, Continued on page 2
Mako sounds the horn. By HOME NEWS STAFF The Bath Area Fish Committee recently held their 70th Annual Children’s Fishing Contest at Continued on page 7
In today’s column we are going back 70 years to a familiar sight, dredging for reclaimed coal on the Lehigh River. A few weeks ago, Mrs. Cindy Beck Deppe sent this writer and Larry Oberly photographs on dredging of the Lehigh River. The photos were taken by her father William Beck, founder of the landmark Becky’s Drive-In. The photographs take us back to an era when anthracite coal was king in Eastern Pennsylvania. The area contained one of the largest deposits of hard coal in the world. Mines and breakers dominated the landscape of the coal regions of Pennsylvania. In processing the millions of tons of coal annually, some coal was
washed into the Lehigh River. The Lehigh River has an interesting history. The river as we know it today was once controlled by the Lehigh Navigation Company. In 1818, the Lehigh Navigation Company reached an agreement with the state of Pennsylvania for control of the Lehigh River. The state agreed that Lehigh Navigation could Continued on page 3
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