"Trash in the Bin, Not the Pelican"
A handful of hardy volunteers and neighbors showed up Thursday afternoon to help clean up Esplanade Beach. In addition to five pounds of trash and styrofoam pieces large and small, more than 100 cigarette butts were collected from the street, ground and the black bucket by the benches. “Interesting” finds included a barnacle-encrusted fishing buoy, another chunk of blue crate, […]
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Thank you to Earth Heroes Céline Gerakin Pillar Point site captain, San Mateo County Park Ranger Rob Cala and others who cut and removed this stranded boat. For a week this sailing vessel has been in the mind of the locals and the community helped every single day to secure and dissemble the boat before it could break up and […]
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Words from our dear Patty: “Earth Day Habitat Restoration at Rockaway with Deacon Noel & the Confirmation Teens from Good Shepherd. Thank you for all your hard work!”
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Words from Dig it Dave, our Roberts Road Site Captain: “This Earth Day I got to wear many hats. I got Team Dig It together to clean up Roberts Road. Sharon Van Huystee Martinez my other half did a great job organizing the team, sorting, and calculating. It was nice to see that we didn’t have much trash to pick […]
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Report from our Mussel Rock volunteer Jeff Christner: “Did a quick post Earth Day hike around Mussel Rock at low tide today and the beach was mostly accessible, albeit with some dangerous climbing over some of the sea wall rocks. Found a sea lion, who I thought was dead at first, but I think he was just resting, he soon […]
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I think the Earth can be proud of us! At Pillar Point we had an amazing group of very motivated volunteers. Almost everyone showed up well before 9 AM and was ready for some action! The volunteers kept on coming with buckets and hands full of tires, pieces of wood or metal scraps. But thanks to Gina (from Apple), Nicole David, […]
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Earth Day 2016- PBC’s 12th! As usual, Linda Mar’s Earth Heroes numbered over 100- this year, 159 signed in to help our otters and friends live a clean, healthy life in their ocean! So many veterans, so many first-timers, and all good-spirited, energetic souls dedicating their Saturday to helping clean the beach and ocean. Many, many individuals, Daisy Troop 61840, […]
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It was a wonderful surprise that 20 students from San Mateo College arrived early to join the Mussel Rockstars today (photo above). One of the students brought her 3-year-old daughter who was heard to squeal with delight at retrieving some trash from a bluff. She danced around afterwards and made us all laugh out loud (photo at right). This is […]
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From Kristine’s blog, our new site captain at Montara State Beach. Completing over 52 days of beach cleanups this year, I can now say the hardest aspect of doing them, is being on the front lines of environmental pollution on a daily basis. It is not actually getting to the beach and picking up the trash, but merely witnessing the disregard […]
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Bay Area High School Team Serves and Learns By: Jackson Confer – following a volunteer workday for their team led by the Pacific Beach Coalition at Linda Mar State Beach The beaches of Northern California are the beaches that I’ve grown up on, and I never realized exactly how polluted they were until I took part in a recent beach cleanup though the […]
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