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Sleepy Eye native Liz Kolbe stands in front of her ReClaimed wearable art display at New Ulm’s Own Fair Trade Art store, 212 Minnesota St. N.

A Sleepy Eye native is helping save the planet, fighting global marine pollution by leading beach cleanup efforts and making jewelry from single-use plastic collected in Thailand. Reclaimed is a project by traditional tattoo artist Liz Kolbe. She spends about half the year on the remote, tropical island of Koh Phi Phi,Thailand. The daughter of Katelyn, a Thailand native, and Mike Mason of Sleepy Eye, she spends the rest of the year with the Masons.

Born and raised in Sleepy Eye, Kolbe was the youth director at Trinity Lutheran Church after her college undergraduate work.

“I was always conscious about picking up trash around Sleepy Eye Lake,” Kolbe said. “Our church stewardship unit included taking youth out to clean ditches and teach them…

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