"Shake Your Tail - Save a Whale"
Our May 20, 2017 Linda Mar Cleanup was destined to be a big one, what with the great weather we were having. As the morning sun rose, cutting the fog with a warm blast, we knew we were in for a lot of litter, as is often the case when big crowds come to the beach. But wait! Where was […]
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Freidel’s comments about the pictures from above. 1- 3 of 5 person weeding team, Rockaway Switchbacks from May-12-2017 2- Part of BLUE plastic crate, and other plastics and trash picked up in a short walk along surf and beach at Linda Mar beach, early May-2017. Next time need to bring a bigger bag! There was quite a […]
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Thank you all volunteers, who are now official Mussel Rockstars! Volunteers from the Pacifica Church of Latter Day Saints cleaned up as early as 7.30am on a bright Saturday. They adopted Mussel Rock as one of their many volunteer projects. This means they will be back 2 more times to conduct a beach cleanup in 2017. Their member, Christine Burr, provided drinks and […]
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This Earth Day was incredible! 120 volunteers came and removed 1006 pounds of trash from our Ocean and coast, incredible! Thanks to Apple, Rakuten, Ebates, Nueva School, Scout Troops, Heirs to Our Oceans and ALL the Amazing volunteers for coming to Pillar Point and Mavericks. Some more numbers: – 1006 pounds of trash including 125 pounds of recycling – 1522 […]
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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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