"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Thanks to the volunteers that made today’s cleanup at Rockaway Beach a success. We had some new volunteers…Thanks, Joanna, for signing up! Totals for 8/1/15: Trash: 17 pounds Recycles: 12 pounds Volunteers: 12 Cigarette Butts: 1143
Read moreClick on the image below to download the official California Coastal Cleanup Day posters. There is an English and Spanish version.
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41 people from the fireworks booths showed up at 7:30 AM to help clean up debris from the previous evening’s fireworks at Rockaway Beach. Public Works handled most of the sign ins and sign outs for the fireworks people. 8 volunteers for the PBC also helped. General consensus is that there was less debris than last year. Thanks to […]
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What are you doing this Summer? Help protect San Mateo County beach users by sampling beach, creek and bay waters! County staff will provide training, needed equipment and supplies for the sampling. Samples are collected every Monday morning, and volunteers drop samples at convenient locations in either Half Moon Bay or Pacifica for transport by County staff to the Public Health Laboratory for analysis. Sampling occurs year‐round, and […]
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Enjoy a day at the beach with others in our surfing community, celebrate the intergenerational nature of our sport, and raise some much needed funds for Pacifica’s Environmental Family, Pacific Beach Coalition’s fiscal sponsor! The Kahuna Kupuna is an annual shortboard and longboard surf contest that honors the more experienced (in age) surfers among us! The main focus of the […]
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We were blessed with sightings of whales and new out-of-town volunteers, comprising a party of 8 deaf adolescents visiting with their church pastor and 2 chaperone interpreters from Texas. The day was warm and sunny. We welcomed new volunteers who were very enthusiastic about their task to clean up the Mussel Rock area. Most of them wanted to swim in […]
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BREAKING NEWS: Cigarette Receptacles installed at Sharp Park and Linda Mar Beach! Each receptacle include a sheet full of cigarette butts facts to educate the public about cigarette butts and their negative effect towards the environment. More containers coming soon to Linda Mar, Rockaway, Winters and Seahorse Saloon. There will be 14 receptacles installed around Pacifica – These were financed […]
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You might think it is beautiful to see a bright colored balloon fly in the light blue sky but this thought will rapidly go away once you see a dead bird on the beach tangled in a balloon ribbon! Surveys have shown the amount of balloons and balloon pieces found on the beach have tripled in the past 10 years. […]
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By Amidia Frederick Mori Point was abuzz with excitement this spring with the appearance of two whales. The San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department and the city of Pacifica buried the humpback and sperm whale on May 19, completing the burial over the course of two days. The original decision was to let the whales decompose naturally, but surrounding communities […]
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