The Clinch River is much cleaner between Hill Station and Clinchport, VA  thanks to a group of local high school students. On Sunday, September 26, 2010 Rhonda Kilgore, a teacher at Gate City High School, Gate City, VA brought her leadership class to Natural Tunnel State Park for a canoe trip. This was not an everyday canoe trip. Their focus was to pick-up trash while giving back to their community. The students did just that in the pouring rain. They pulled out 6 tires, 2 plastic lawn chairs, 2 tractor batteries, and several bags of plastic, paper and glass. Mrs. Kilgore will be back Sunday, October 3, 2010 with another group of students participating in another Canoe Clean-up program that will focus on a different section of the Clinch River.