WE HELPED CLEAN BEACHES
Because of the terrorist tragedies on Tuesday, September 11, organizers of International Coastal Cleanup Day briefly toyed with the idea of postponing the huge operation scheduled for the beaches on Saturday, the 15th. But they were shouted down by a chorus of volunteers.
An untallied number of Santa Monica Rotary and Rotoract
members were among the 6,829 volunteers who scoured beaches, creeks and
estuaries in the county. They carried out 44,240 pounds of garbage and 3,964
pounds of recyclable. Elsewhere along California’s coastline, an estimated
40,000 people removed about 600,000 pounds of trash from beaches.
...Keith Monroe
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Our Heal the Bay members left to right are as follows: Dick Lawrence, President Hal Quigley, Nancy Freedman, and Jim Westbrook. Others in picture are Santa Monica College Rotaract Volunteers including Rotaract District Governor Vivian Rivas in the Orange shirt. |
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