"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
On Saturday 25 March, as I was attending the American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting in San Francisco, Joe Recto stood in admirably as Site Captain and was assisted by many of the site’s Rock Stars who are regular supporters of this cleanup plus new volunteers. See photos below. Good weather and a 35-strong group of volunteers cleaned up 147 lb trash and 800 cigarette butts. […]
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What a gorgeous day we had last weekend for our cleanup. Not sure if our hard work is finally paying off, but our volunteers picked up only 87 lbs of trash and 16 pounds of recycle. By far the smallest amount of trash collected in a while. 224 cigarette butts, 10 straws, 34 bottle caps collected which is still a […]
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Having counted only 5 volunteers at the last cleanup, I was very surprised to greet a big group from Fremont as early as 8.45 am when I pulled up at my site to unload my car. From then on, even more volunteers arrived. We counted a total of 48 volunteers including groups from UCSF, Rakuten, Davita, and Skyline College. We picked up 137 […]
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Today was a BEAUTIFUL day! The sun was out – how amazing is this?! I had almost forgotten about that guy! But the most beautiful part of the day was our 25 volunteers who came to pick up the trash out of Pillar Point Harbor and beach. We collected 88 pounds of trash 25 pounds of recycle and 142 cigarette butts. […]
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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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A shootout to the Gatepath group, who volunteered at Go Native Nursery for the morning. Because the weather was so uncertain (rain – no rain??), they chose to work inside and stay dry, instead of working on the exposed beach bluffs. One of things that they got to see was to watch newly seeded purple needlegrass seeds. When first watered, […]
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I am so proud of you all. First of all we had 52 volunteers which is always an amazing number and second of all, you did such a great job! 210 pounds of trash including 40 pounds of recycling and 182 cigarette butts. Let’s not forget the diaper, 10 dog balls, fishing lines and ropes and the buoy stuck in […]
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Earth Day Beach Cleanup: Saturday, April 22nd 9AM to 11AM Sign up here! NEW THIS YEAR: 2 LOCATIONS AT PILLAR POINT Site captains: Celine, Mary Anny and a Junior from Heir to Our Oceans. Where to Meet: Next to the Harbor Master Office at 1 Johnson Pier. Look for the blue flag. Cleanup Areas: Volunteers usually cleanup the beach, parking lots, […]
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Town School for Boys rocked it again today! 15 pounds of trash 5 pounds of recycle 75 cigarette butts
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Jeff Christner over the years, has been incredible at finding and documenting all the pieces he found that could have been coming to our shore from Japan. And the most exciting part is that some of his findings have been officially registered as 2011 Japanese Tsunami Debris! We are all proud of Jeff and the great work he has done […]
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