Local youth clean up Nome’s beaches

By Ariana Crockett O'Harra Kids cleaning up trash on Middle Beach on July 31 ended up finding a whole host of strange pieces of trash. Old ropes, tires, a pig's foot and a discarded strobe beacon were some of the debris collected by Nome Eskimo Community's Outdoors Club, helped by Kawerak Environmental and Gay Sheffield with UAF Alaska Sea Grant. The Norton Sound Health Corporation’s Environmental…