"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
by Greg Finkelstein – PBC Naturalist Some of my earliest memories are of duct taping my shoes to the ends of my jeans. During my childhood, my father, Jay Finkelstein, was a leader of the Bayfront Cleanup, which is now a part of Coastal Cleanup Day. On that day, he would borrow an airboat, and we and a small team […]
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A group of Ocean Shore students restore some native habitat in memory Patty McNally.
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Thank you to the 6860 volunteers who have joined our Street to Beach Cleanups program.
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370 cleanups done and over 12K cigarette butts picked up!
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Over 10,000 filters already recycled for the Butt Blitz and over 710 cleanups done since Memorial Day.
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Four plus years ago a young woman attended a Pacific Beach Coalition meeting, started helping at beach cleanups, and joined in the habitat restoration events too! Now, after logging 335.5 volunteer hours (most of them with the Pacific Beach Coalition) with Oceana High School’s volunteer program, Adeline Wilson will be completing her senior year and graduating on May 15th. Adeline is passionate about stewardship […]
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A stranger, Lloyd From Oakland, knowing nothing about PBC, just hanging out on South Rockaway Beach, offered to help me clean up a lot of garbage that washed in from the storm. It took a few trips with his laundry basket to haul it all to the trash can at the top. I gave him my “Earth Hero 2019” button. He […]
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Russ Hartman embodies the spirit that Cedric brought every day – he quietly and consistently works hard on his own to make Pacifica a more beautiful place which truly qualifies him as our Unsung Hero. For years, Russ single-handedly eradicated the large patches of invasive pampas grass along Highway One and has since patrolled the Coastal Trail from Linda Mar […]
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We Couldn’t Be More Proud of our Volunteers Jeff and Paxton! Pacifica Magazine features Jeff and Paxton (graduate of Oceana High School and honored with PBC’s first Earth Hero scholarship program) Christner and Mussel Rockstars in their October 2018 edition. Probably one of the most amazing story about plastic and our OCEAN Problem! –A must READ! Story available in the […]
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Here is an incredible story from Eleanor Jonas, Ocean Shore School, 8th Grade On May 25th, we Ocean Shore School seventh and eighth graders ventured out for the fifth year in a row to see how many cigarette butts we could find and keep from polluting the ocean. In a competition to save the fish, the eighth graders raced the seventh […]
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