One of the problems in having a far-flung family with one piece of it close by and the rest several hundred miles away, is that I do tend in this blog to use pictures of the local grandchildren more than the others. I'm sure their exciting events are used disproportionately as well. For that reason I'm delighted to be able to highlight some of the southern Californians in our family.
According to an article in the Long Beach Press-Telegram
"Small armies of environmentalists and beach lovers are expected to comb coastal sands Saturday and bag tons of debris dumped along the city's shoreline.What made the article especially exciting for our family was that the Press-Telegram managed to take (and publish) some pictures of Jessica (below), and Staci, Libby, and Perry (above) in action actually cleaning up the beach.
It's part of the 23rd annual California Coastal Cleanup Day, considered the largest volunteer program of its kind.
Long Beach is expecting more than 1,600 volunteers who will be rolling up their sleeves for the workout between 9 a.m. and noon, said city program coordinator Meaghan O'Neill of the El Dorado Nature Center."
If I had some first-person accounts of the event, I could include those on this blog.
Well, actually I thought the 30 minute cleanup program seemed to be a victim of its own success.
ReplyDeleteThe beach was surprisingly clean when we started. Probably averaging 1 cigarette butt or similar per square meter at the most, and we probably generated more trash than we picked up.
But it was fun and a good teaching experience. I just think it needs to step up the organization one more level, focusing on different areas of the beach, putting the mob into patrols with certain responsibilities.
Yes, we certainly generated more trash than what we picked up, but that trash went into landfills and not the ocean. I guess we could have emptied all of the trash bags into fire pits and burned all of it and then saved the bags for next year...
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