THANK YOU ALL - FOR YOUR HELP WITH OUR BEACH & RIVERBED CLEANUP!

According to the California Coastal Commission: "Orange County (thanks to you) exceeded last year's number of attendance by 28%! And weight of trash exceeded last year's number by 36%!"

We had 715 people in the bottom of the riverbed helping us make a difference! This is even more than we had last year! Can you believe that we filled 8 dumpsters of trash? And that trash will not end up on our beaches!

I want to personally thank the following people and groups that helped us!

Jim Meyer, Trails 4 All for coordinating 36 inland sites for this huge event!~

Angeline Santiago, CA Coastal Commission for coordinating 18 coastal sites for this huge event!~

Boeing employees and especially Sarah Murr!

ADP Payroll Service employees and especially Lisa Domer who took excellent care of our beach cleanup location while Steve & I were at the riverbed location, with the help of Flor Wickham, Carlos Castellanos, Anthony Pace, Monique Langenwalter, Theresa Jenkins, and Joe Hernandez.

SB Host Lions & Leos for cooking 400 hot dogs for us, specifically Gary Denni & Scott Newton!

Tahira from Ruby's for donating free shake coupons for those of us over 12 years old and free lunch/dinner coupons for those of us under 12 years old

Jose Rodriguez from Hunter And Associates who provided the "Diarama display" to show us how trash ends up in our ocean

Bob Eagle from the City of Seal Beach

David Carmany, City Manager, Seal Beach

Gonzalo Vazquez from the City of Cypress

Cub Scout pack 295 from Cypress

Carol Gropel, Kent Trollen & John Schaefer for their assistance in finding parking spots for all attendees!

Robin Fort-Lincke & Rob Roy from SBTV3

Laylan Connelly from the OC Register and KDOC TV

Mike Balchin from River's End Cafe for donating $1 off coupons for his restaurant at 1st & Ocean

Gina and the Long Beach Spanish Meetup!



***AND here is some of the really strange stuff that we picked up***

Mannequin head
Decomposed 8-track cassette player
Angels Baseball Hat
Tennis ball
Knife
Socks
Bicycle wheel
Two dead birds
Cigarette lighter
Scarf
Chinese food container
Rubber tire
Pink bra
Syringe
3 cigarette lighters
Baseball
Red hard plastic ball
Hard plastic miniature lion
Rusted aerosol cans
Visine eye drops
Soccer ball
Huge plastic bags
Colored ribbons
Animal toys
Pair of Dockers shoes tied together (but water logged)
Old snow ski pole
Tetherball

Thanks again to everyone!

Kim Masoner, Founder
Save Our Beach
"Quietly Changing Our World"