Beach Clean-Up
A new year of Sunset Beach Civic Association activities is upon us! To me, it’s like the beginning of football season. After a long off-season of no football, I am anxiously anticipating football in the fall. So, likewise, I am anxiously anticipating meeting many of you on the morning of every Second Saturday of each month to do our beach clean up.
So, what’s new about beach clean up? Well, except for the obvious (there’s more beach to clean up), not much. We will still meet the second Saturday of every month and go out and clean up our beach and dunes. For most of these second Saturday’s, you’ll meet up with my wife, Debbie, and me. Debbie will be set up at the pavilion with the radio playing and with buckets, bags and pick-up tools readily available for you to use to help you do your part of our clean up effort. As for me, I’ll be out picking up trash. Most times we’ll be there from 9 – 12 o’clock noon. We will have bottled water for everyone and sometimes, a cold adult beverage will available for your consumption.
This season, we will continue to monitor our No-Butts-Left-Behind Zone campaign. Last month, after collecting all the trash, I went through it, found and counted 840 cigarette butts. Eight-hundred-and-forty! That’s just way too many butts left behind by our neighbors and guests. Recently, our partner, Keep Pinellas Green, announced a new, recycle your cigarette butts campaign. Basically this campaign provides special cigarette butt repositories. We will be looking into this campaign and possibly obtaining some butt repositories (to see if they make a difference).
In closing, I hope to see you on one of our Second Saturdays. In the meantime, thank you for your support and to all of you who routinely pick up trash on your daily walks on the beach. Every little bit helps!
Steve (the beach clean up guy)