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Volunteers cleaned up county beaches
Members of 4-H Bits-n-Spurs Club picked up 260 pounds of garbage from Granny’s and Redoubt Coves on San Juan Island. By Jana Marks Sunday, April 20, 2008, in celebration of the 38th Earth Day, 51 volunteers joined sponsors National Parks and Friends of the San Juans and cleaned South Beach, San Juan Island. They picked up 660 pounds of garbage including nine tire floats, a 10-foot length of large hawser roop, a sand filled TV set, four large styrofoam chunks and bags full of little pieces of plastic and styrofoam, food wrappers, cigarette butts and lighters, clothes, bits of rope, netting, shotgun shells, etc. While the majority of the volunteers stuck to the main beach area, 21 members of the Bits-n-Spurs 4-H club ventured into the more difficult to access Granny’s and Redoubt coves to the west where cleanups rarely happen. In addition to individuals around the county adopting their favorite beaches, the Soroptimists cleaned Jacksons Beach – a service they do every three months, the Shaw Island School cleaned South Beach, Shaw Island, and Nick Teaque of BLM assembled volunteers for several south Lopez Island beach areas. Throughout the county, individuals and groups, consistently commit themselves to cleaning up our counties beaches and roads. What is striking, however, is that this effort could be repeated every month and we would always have something to pickup. So, in addition to litter pickups, what other solutions can we come up with to eliminate our litter problem? I think about our responsibility as citizens to manage ourselves within our communities well, including managing our garbage. It takes a consciousness to not just drop that cigarette butt on the ground or let our wrappers blow away in the breeze, a caring. Please, let everyone become a partner in keeping the San Juans Islands clean, beautiful and healthy for all living things. Let’s "Imagine No Litter" together. Join community in action! For information on beach cleanups contact Jana of Friends of the San Juans at 378-2319, or for road cleanups contact Lori of the Anti-Litter Initiative at 378-4643. |
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