Thirty-Ninth St. and Keystone Ave. in Indianapolis may seem a strange location for a hunting and fishing club, but Joe King says that he wouldn’t have it any other way.

King is president of the Dirty Dozen Hunting and Fishing Club that calls the inner city address home. On Saturday King, Dirty Dozen Club members and as many as 1,000 children will conduct a huge cleanup on Fall Creek.

The group will remove trash of every description from a section of the creek from 38th St. and Fall Creek to Burdsal Pkwy.

King and eleven other black Indianapolis businessmen started the club as a hunting and fishing nucleus for African-American sportsmen. Somewhere along the line they decided to give something back to the community. They chose to introduce the inner-city children of Indianapolis to the sport that they had enjoyed for so many years. Dirty Dozen members feel that they can provide inner-city kids an alternative to gangs and drug use.

The hunting and fishing education provided by the club includes an emphasis on caring for the environment. Joe and the other members of the Dirty Dozen Hunting and Fishing Club feel that the best way to teach children about cleaning up the environment is to give them the opportunity to do just that.

The cleanup will begin at 8 a.m. and should be completed by noon. Any members of the press interested in the cleanup are welcome to attend. For more information please call Joe King at 294-6327 or 541-0271.