"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
All the Trash Got Picked Up. All the Plants Got Planted! Thank you so much to all the volunteers and site captains for making this incredible day possible. We had enough Earth Heroes to picked up all the trash at Linda Mar and plant all the native plants we have been nursing for a couple years. 127 Volunteers for Linda […]
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Legal But Not Everywhere There was a lot of controversy about why are fireworks legal in Pacifica mostly because of the trash and the mess often left behind after the celebration. Some worth remembering is that fireworks used to be allowed everywhere in the past and now, on our side of the West Coast, it is only legal to discharge […]
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A Google team came out for a Give Back outing on November 14th despite the weather not being in our favor. The pouring rain went on and on at Linda Mar Pacifica, but the volunteers decided to go on with the beach cleanup anyway. All the members got a lot of trash that had washed out of the San Pedro […]
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2,000 pounds of Dried Weeds Removed Beach Cleanup Results – 12 pounds of Trash, 9 pounds of Recycling, 5 pounds of Rigid Plastic, 326 Cigarette Butts – (boo hoo), 6 pair of shoes, several ropes, 3 surf leashes, beach toys, a volleyball, boxer shorts and too many pieces of plastic to count… Habitat Restoration Results – Approx 2,000 pounds of […]
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We were a small but determined team today, with representatives from drinkpath.com showing up to tell us about their new product – reusable aluminum bottles already filled with water (an alternative to throw-away plastic water bottles). Two volunteers cleaned San Pedro Avenue, and another came from Esplanade to be sure her haul of 400 cigarette butts was counted. The PBC […]
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Our May 20, 2017 Linda Mar Cleanup was destined to be a big one, what with the great weather we were having. As the morning sun rose, cutting the fog with a warm blast, we knew we were in for a lot of litter, as is often the case when big crowds come to the beach. But wait! Where was […]
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Rain? Oh we can handle rain. But WIND! Whew! As steady 30 mph winds almost blew us all over, once again our returning earth heroes at Linda Mar Beach returned on Saturday, Feb 18! Thank you once again to Danny Yanow and his Westborough Middle School Wind Warriors, close to 50 energetic souls, Aragon, Oceana, Terra Nova and East Bay […]
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With the advent of our first rain since March, we thought our regular Linda Mar Heroes would stay home, nice and dry on our Third Saturday October Cleanup. Donning raingear and smiles, we had a small but mighty force! We didn’t expect much from beachgoers since the weather hadn’t been all that sunny, but oh did the huge waves bring […]
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Let’s see. Start with a beautiful, sunny, breezy 65 degree Saturdaymorning, the dayafter school let outfor the summer. Add nice waves, over 100 surfers, families headed for the beach with coolers and umbrellas, and we have everyone ready to enjoy our beautiful Linda Mar Beach. As we set up for our monthly cleanup, we were met by whales playing and […]
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May 21, 2016 was supposed to be one of those rare, unseasonal cold, windy and even rainy days, enough to discourage the toughest Earth Hero. However, as the sun came out, 35 fantastic volunteers showed up to clean Linda Mar Beach. Accretive Solutions, led by Gabby Galindo, brought over 20 volunteers from as far as Manteca; Mercy High School returned […]
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