Coastal Cleanup Month Results
370 cleanups done and over 12K cigarette butts picked up!
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Street To Beach Cleanups & Butt Blitz August Update
Over 10,000 filters already recycled for the Butt Blitz and over 710 cleanups done since Memorial Day.
Read more2020 Annual $500 Scholarship: Adeline Wilson
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 […]
Read moreOur Volunteers Are Going Outside To Help The Ocean
In the Bay Area, we are all restricted to shelter in place but we are still allowed to go outside for exercise, grocery shopping or run important errands. We are very excited to report that our volunteers are following our recommendations and picking up trash, while they can, to keep giving our Ocean the love that it deserves. We encourage […]
Read moreMark & Lloyd at Rockaway During MLK Day
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 […]
Read more7 Kayaks to Cleanup the Water & Jetty
For the first time ever we partnered with the Half Moon Bay Kayak Co to give our volunteers the opportunity to pick up the trash floating on the water of the harbor or stuck between the rocks. It was a great success! Our 7 kayaks went above and beyond to paddle and remove 31 lbs of trash including fishing lines, […]
Read moreRuss Hartman, Unsung Hero 2019
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 […]
Read moreJeff & Paxton’s Fight Against Plastic
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 […]
Read moreHow Ocean Shore School is Saving the Fish
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 […]
Read moreA Well Deserved Scholarship Donated to Reed Blount
This year, we donated a $500 scholarship to Reed Blount who has been helping us for years. We are so happy to be helping the younger generation, it is a great for us to give back! Here are a few word from Deirdre Martin who had the incredible pleasure to meet and be with Reed over the years. ” I […]
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