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Montoursville

On November 12, 2011 members of the Montoursville Key Club participated in the cleanup of the Memorial Garden located next to their high school.  The Memorial Garden was constructed in the aftermath of the crash of TWA's Flight 800, on July 17, 1996. Sixteen students and five chaperones from Montoursville High School were on board the flight as part of a class trip to France. The memorial consists of an angel statue surrounded by 21 trees placed 21 feet apart in a circle to represent those who lost their lives in the tragedy. The Montoursville Key Club helps maintain the Memorial Garden twice a year – once in the fall to rake leaves and again in the spring to spread mulch. Twenty Key Club members participated in this fall’s cleanup by raking and removing leaves from the memorial. Bob Weaver, a member of the Flight 800 Memorial Construction Committee and the father of one of the students that lost their life that day, spoke to the Key Club at their monthly meeting on November 4th in preparation for the cleanup. He provided the members with a history of Flight 800 and the construction of the Memorial Garden. He then attended the cleanup and led a moment of silence afterwards.

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