HAUGHVILLE Belmont Beach, a small riverfront park in the Haughville neighborhood, is looking a little cleaner thanks to volunteers from Keep Indianapolis Beautiful and the White River Alliance.

Historically, this part of the White River was a segregated beach. It wasn't that long ago that the beach looked like a mess.

"I don't see pop cans down. I don't see bags of chips no more," described Teddrick Hardy.

Hardy is the President of the Friends of Belmont Beach group.

"I don't even see the fishing line out like I used to," Hardy continued. "Five years ago, if I came out, all those things I mentioned would be laid out, trash everywhere, and people didn't know what to do."

Since that moment, it has taken a huge effort from the community to start to clean the beach and the surrounding nei

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