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                      REPORT ON 1990 FLORIDA BEACH CLEANUP


                         Center for Marine Conservation


                                  January 1991



















           Funds for this project were provided by the Department of
           Environmental Regulation, Office of Coastal Management using
           .funds made available through the National Oceanic and
           Atmospheric Administration under the Coastal Zone Management
           Act of 1972, as amended.








                                                      



                                                                      Jan. 30, 1991
      1990 Florida Coastal Cleanup



       Heidi B. Lovett & C. Edward Proffitt, Ph. D.                    CM
                                                                    
       The Center For Marine Conservation
       One.Beach Drive                                               NA90AA-H-CZ809
       Suite 304                                                      
       St. Petersburg,   FL 33701


       U.S. Dept. of Commerce/NOAA         Dept,. of Env. Reg.          Final
       OCRM                                Coastal Management
       1825 Connecticut A., N.W.          2600 Blair Stone Rd.   
       Washington D.C. 20235               Tallahassee, FL 32399

       Final Report prepared by Heidi Lovett, assisted by Gina Ruiz.
       Further results will be published in the 1990 Natiional Beach Cleanup       Report and
       future Coastal Connections Newsletter, all published by CMC's National Office

       
       On September 23, 1990 the Center for Marine Conservation coordinated the 4th
       statewide Florida Coastal Cleanup. The event was the largest ever of its kind
       in history attracting 18,431 participants. These volunteers cleaned approx.
       200 tons of debris-from 1,050 miles of Florida beaches, estuaries, mangrove
       islands, shallow waters, aid coral reefs. Much of the glass, aluminum, and
       plastic containers, as well as monofilament fishing line collected was recycle
       A total 704,780 items were collected and r     ecorded on data cards. Plastic and
       styrofoam items combined comprised nearly 64 % of the total. This percentage
       has remained relatively constant throughout all of the statewide cleanups sinc
       1988.    At least 15 individual animals (4 fish, 9 birds and 2 crabs) were
       found entangled in monofilament fishing line or discarded fishing nets. 
       Initial results also show that at least 78 items found on our beaches hailed
       from 27 different countries, and another minimum 27 items bore the logos or
       names of 8 cruise lines. There was a significant decrease (44 %) in the amount
       of monofilament that was collected this year as compared to 1989.           Yet it still
       is equivalent to 260 miles of line.
       The Coastal Cleanup is a significant event, not only because of its immediate,
       short-term result --- a cleaner Florida coastline, bu    t because it promotes long
       term behavior changes through data collection and education on the marine debris
       problem. The participants in the event witness first hand the large amount and
       variety of debris items found on our coasts. In addition through education an
       media, the general public and policy makers learn about this important issue.
       








                       
          Coastal zone management/Coastal program issues/Marine debris problems/
          Active participation & education




         
         Release unlimited                                Unclassified
         CMC
         1725 DeSales ST. N W, Washington, D.C. 20036                              








                                THE 1990 FLORIDA COASTAL CLEANUP


                                      FINAL REPORT TO DER
                                   (WITH PRELIMINARY RESULTS)



                                    DER Contract No. CM-271
                                 CENTER FOR MARINE CONSERVATION
                   One Beach Drive SE, Suite 304, St. Petersburg, FL 33701





            Table of Contents                                        Page

            Executive Summary                                           1
            Organizing, The Year in Review                              3
                 Coordination
                 Training Zone Captains and Site Coordinators           4
                 Workin'c'with the Media and Announcing  the Cleanup    5
                 Recycling                                              6
            The Results                                                 7
            Conclusion                                                  8
            Budget                                                      10





            EXECUTIVE SUMMARY



                 On September 23, 1990 the Center for Marine Conservation

            coordinated the fourth statewide Florida Coastal Cleanup. The event

            was the largest ever of its kind in history, attracting 18,431

            participants.    These volunteers cleaned approximately 200 tons of

            debris from 1,050 miles of Florida   beaches, estuaries, mangrove

            islands, shallow waters, and coral reefs. Much of the class,

            aluminum, and plastic containers, as well as monofilament fishing, line

            collected was-recycled.


                 The Coastal Cleanup is a significant event., not only because of

            its.immediat.e, short-term result--a cleaner Florida coastline--but

            because it promotes long term behavior chan-@es through data collection
                                    C>                   n

            and education on the marine debris problem, The participants in the









            event witness f irsthand the large amount and variety of debris items

            found on our coasts. In addition, through school and public education

            programs and through media activities, the general public and the

            state s policy makers become aware of this   import-ant issue.


                 The.Center worked with approximately 71 "Zone Captains" in 34 of

            Florida's 35 coastal counties, At least 11 of these Zone Captains

            were.new, and thus were trained. by the Center. Many old and new Zone

            Captains increased the number of cleanup sights for which they were

            responsible, making it possible to cover more miles than in last.

            year's event.-. Coordination of cleanups in coastal state parks and

            recreation  areas was also expanded, through the cooperative efforts of

            the Genter  and the Florida bepartment of Natural Resources,


                 A total 704,780 items were collected and recorded on data cards

            by category. Plastic and polystyrene (,---,tyrofoam) items combined

            comprised nearly 64% of the total. This percentage has remained

            relatively constant, throughout all the statewide cleanups in Florida

            since 1988.



                 At least 32 birds, 12 sea turtles, -and and assortment of rays,

            crabs, and fish were found dead during the cleanup, Of these, 15

            individual animals (4 fish, 9 birds, and 2   cra*bs) were found entangled

            in monofilament fishing line or discarded   fishing net.s.



                  Initial results also show that  at least 78 items found on our


            beaches ha iled from 27 different. countries, and another minimum 27

            items.bore the logos or names of 8 cruise lines.


                 ApproNimaf-ely 260 miles of monofilament fishing line was








                        around the  state,   This represents a decrease of 44% from-

             the amount collerted   last year.     This decrease suggests that the

             edticational campaign  concerning the dangers of monofilament, conducted

             by the Center for Marine Conservation and other organizations, is

             having a positive effect on the recreational fishermen and women in

             the state.




             ORGANIZING, THE YEAR IN REVIEW



             COORDINATION



                  The Center for Marine Conservation      began planning for the 1990

             Coastal Cleanup in earnest by January 1990. Disci      issions were held

             with most of the "old" Zone Captains to gauge their interest in

             continuing in that role. Simultaneously, new Zone Captains were

             sought in areas where there was a vacancy and in new areas of the

             state where there had been no previous direct, involvement.



                  During this period, staff at the C     enter also became engaged in

             assisting with spring coastal cleanups. The Center had not planned on

             a spring statewide cl.eanup, however it was expected by some since we

             had held one in 1989.      In somf- cases the cleanups were a part. of

             Earth Day 1990 events.      The positive outcome of these spring cleanups

             and other related events was an increase in requests for educational

             information concerning m-ar'ine debris.. Though CMC staff could only

             physically be at. three individual Earth Day events, our materials were

             at many more around the state, In addition to information about. the

             dangers, of marine debris, the g@eneral public was given early notice of

             the statewide cleanup that would occiir on September 23., 1990,










                  The Steering Committee for the coastal cleanups met on May 24 to

             solidify the plan for the cleanup.  Primarily, program expansion was

             discussed how to involve more organizations and individuals, and if

             any new materials should he developed.    One decision was to include in

             the cleanup brochure information about the accomplishments that

             coastal cleanups have helped to bring about (please see enclosure),

             It was also agreed that all materials should be printed on recycled


             paper,



                  Most of the materials printed   for the cleanup were designed,

             produced, and distributed by the CMC staff in Florida.      This included

             the brochure, poster, hats (for Zone Captains and their site

             coordinators) and the "Special Area" designation petition.     The data

             cards and the data guides (poster form this year) were produced by

             CMC's National Beach Cleanup Program, but, were distributed through the

             Florida Office, along with the pencils that were donated by

             FaberCastell, Trash bags were donated by GLAD Wrap and Bags, who also

             took care of most of the shipping costs for the bags.


                  To assist the public in finding their local coordinator and/or to

             give out specific information about the cleanup sites in their area,

             the center established a toll free phone number, 1-800-CMC-FLORida.




             TRAINING ZONE CAPTAINS AND SITE COORDINATORS



                  The "training" that goes on for Zone Captains is done over the

             phone, in individuals meetings around the state, and through "packets"

             that are developed and mailed by the state coordinator on a regular

             basis over at least a six month period leading up to the cleanup.
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             This  year all Zone Captains received a CMC  manual  "All About Beach

             Cleanups      and new Zone   Captains received "A Citizen's Guide to

             Plastics in the Ocean," another CMC publication.         Packets also

             regularly include press releases, related information such as how to

             get involved in    Coastweeks or get activities listed in the state's

             Coastweeks calendar and any new ideas.


                   The Zone Captains are encouraged to hold workshops or meetings

             with their site coordinators to train them on how to fill out data


             cards, separate trash for recycling, organize a check-in site, how            to

             report stranded animals, and fill out the end report, among other

             things.




             WORKING WITH THE MEDIA AND ANNOUNCING THE CLEANUP



                   On May 24 the Center held a kick-off press conference in St.

             Petersburg that was well attended and picked up around the state by

             TV, radio, and the press. In addition to releasing the 1989 National

             Cleanup report, and announcing the September 23 Coastal Cleanup date,

             the Center launched    its "Clean Oceans Campaign" which features the

             character "Popeye" as the spokesperson, The campaign included a 30

             second Public Service Announcement (PSA) spot which was released

             around the state. It listed a national toll-free number at the end,

             for more information about, marine debris, Any individual calling from

             Florida was mailed information and was referred to either the Florida


             Office's  tol-free number or their county's Zone Captain to get more
                                                

             information about the Coastal Cleanup.


                   In the ensuing months, several other press announcements about



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the cleanup were released and CMC staff and the local coodinators

conducted radio, TV, and press interviews and appeared on longer shows

to "get the work out" aobut marine debris and the Coastal Cleanup.

     During the late spring, contact was made with Senator Graham's

office in Washington to enlist the Senator's assistance with a PSA

specifically about the Florida Coastal Cleanup. A successful PSA was

developed and widely distributed around the state, after which time

the use of the toll-free number increased dramatically.

RECYCLING

     Recycling is always and important part of the coastal cleanup.

The Center distributes the Florida Business and Industry Recycling

Program's (BIRP) updated list of recyclers to all Zone Captains early

in the year, and encourages them to recycle glass, aluminum, and

plastic. When needed, CMC staff assisted individual locla

coordinators with their specific plan, such as when there were no

recyclers in their immediate area. Most recyclers, such as Waste

Management and BFI, among others, were extremely helpful and are

repeat participants with the cleanup program.

     A new twish to recycling this year was an arrangement the Center

made with Berekley, a manufacturer of fishing line and tackle.  They

agreed to accept the collected monofilament fishing line and nets,

even if somewhat dirty, to recyle into new fishing-related products.

Their recycling program ws new, and they were excited to get involved

with coastal cleanups.



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THE RESULTS

     Table 1 (a-d) is a list by counties of all the debris items

collected and recorded on the standard CMC data card. Statewide

total of individual items are listed to the far right of pages 1 (b)

and 1 (d). Total items recorded by county or "zone" are listed at the

bottom pf pages 1(c) and 1 (d). Below is the total number of items per

category, and their percent of the total:

ITEM					QUANTITY			PERCENTAGE
									OF TOTAL
plastics				349,995			49.66

Styrofoam 				99,899			14.17

Glass					72,777			10.33

Rubber				10,436			1.48

Metal					83,890			11.90

Paper					62,260			8.83

Wood					17,538			2.49

Cloth					7,985				1.13

Total					704,780			99.99

     Plastics and sytrofoam cobined equal 63.83% of the total number

of items collected. This value has remained fairly constant through

all four statewide coastal cleanups. This suggests that packaging in

Florida and/or the customer's choise of packaging has not changed much

over the last three years (most debris items are some sort of package

material). The data has to be looked at in more detail before any

conclusions can be made.



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     In contrast, there was a large decrease in the reported amount of

monofilament fishing line that was collected this year compared to

last year. Approximately 260 miles of monofilament was collected.

This is a 44% decrease from the 467 miles collected in 1989. This

decrease suggests that the educational campaign concerning the dangers

of monofilament to wildlife has had a positive effect on the habits of

fishermen and women around Florida.

     table 2 lists the numbers of volunteers, miles they covered, the

total weight of the debris collected, and the total number of items

listed on the data cards by county, beginning in the northeast part of

Florida and continuing around the Panhandle.

CONCLUSION

     The 1990 statewide Florida Coastal Cleanup was a highly

successful event. Participation jumped by 26% since the 1989 Coastal

Cleanup to reach 18,431, and an additional 139 more miles were

covered. In fact, if ot for the unfortunate sewage spills in Palm

Beach County which kept potential volunteers away, we feel confident

that participation in Florida would have topped the anticipated 20,000

mark (in 1989 Palm beach had 2500 volunteers, in 1990 only 1056).

     In additin, the requests for marine debris information from

students and people of all ages throughout Florida, as well as from a

wide variety of Florida organizations has increased dramatically.

This all points to an increase in public awareness and concern about

the marine debris problem--a concern that is significant enough that

the public wants to actively do something about it.



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     The Center for Marine Conservation hopes to expand the annual

statewide cleanups to include even more user groups (involve statewide

and local boating and fishing organizations more), civic clubs,

chambers, businesses, scouts, and schools.  Though the cleanups have

covered 1000 miles or more, there remains another 8000 miles that have

yet to be cleaned of debris, and many communities that have not been

involved.

     In addition, programs such as Adopt-A-Shore, Boater's Pledge, and

others are supported by the Center and considered necessary to further

educate the public, in particular those not yet aware of the marine

debris issue.





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                  BUDGET FOR THE 1990 FLORIDA, CO.ASTAL CLEANUP
                  For October 1989 Through December 1990



        ACCT.CODE.    EXPENSE                          DEBIT               CREDIT


           40009  Foundation  Grants.                                   26000.00
           40010  Individual  Gra nts                                      600.00
           40011  Corporate Grants                                      15800.00
           40012  Governmental Grants                                   25567.00
           40021  Pro.c. Receivable Income                              20833.00

           50002  List Rentals & Exchanges             76.20
           50010  Art/Typesetting-DM                  171.77
           50012- Mettings & Conferences              502.14
           50015  Overhead                          20244.71
           50020  Salaries'-_& Wages                38107.18
           50026  Travel & Entertainment            2515.70
           50028  Telephone                         4855.04
           50030  Audio Visuals                       554.03
           50031  Advertising                         194.37
           50033  Rent                              4322.34
           50034  Postage                             312.39               830.65
           50035  Freight & Messenger               2236.80
           50036  Printing                          5016.93
           50037  Typesetting                          68.10                   -
           50038  Publications                        122.00
           50039  Subscriptions & Dues                 32.40
           50040  Insurance-Other                     120.00
           50043  Consultant                        .5071.24
           50044  Temporary Help                    1841.50
           50048  Office Supplies                   1470 * 67
           50051  Maintenance & Repairs               787.95
           50053  Miscellaneous                       340.02
           50054  Public Relations (Hats)           3080.34


           Total  Florida Coastal Cleanup           92043.82            .89630.6.5




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              Preliminary Results                  1990 Florida Coastal Cleanup


              County                               Volunteers Miles                  Pounds          Items


              Nassau                                         63          16.3             800          3372
              Dtival                                       397           39.5         35919          15220
              St. Johns                                    168           16.0           1884         11595
              Flagler                       East             83          18,0             980          5100
              Volusia                     (-',oast         506           16.5           2321         3.3051
              Brevard                                      600           50.0           4081           3195
              Indian River                                 6.36          32.0           4700         19044
              St.. Lucie                                   602           10.0           6425         24966
              Martin                                      1213             7.0        32665          28882
              Palm Beach                                  1056           42.0         1.5000         20291
              Broward                                     15-35          32.3         13300          79924
              Dade                                        1378           57.8         13495          83550

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              Monroe                        Keys           388           1910         17027          30185
              Dry Tortugas                                   30            2.3          1656 included
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              Collier                                      397           80.0           5932         15484
              Lee                                         1000           40.0         12000          20802
              Charlotte                                    435           48.0           6610         10733
              Sarasota                                     154           12.5             610        3053-5)
              Manatee                                      435           43.0         13200
              Hillsborough                                2400           '70.0        60410          37368
              Pinellas                                    1583         160.0          86720          71913
              Pasco                        West.           524           30.0           7160         14128
              Hernando                    Coast              14                ?          245             519
              Citrus                                       630           42.0         18660          22941
              Dixie                                          28            4.0            400          2331
              Taylor                                         56            3.0          4100           5747
              Jefferson                                         9          4.0              50,           20.5
              Wakulla                                      337           27.0           6361         1.5277

              ----------------------------------------------------------
              Franklin                                     163           17,0             812        10018
              Gulf                                           36          12.0           1268           2306
              Bay                   Panhandle              362           1910           5192         25641
              Walton                                         33            A.o            194          2911
              Okaloosa                                     235           1318           4000         12462
              Santa, Rosa                                  332           13.0           2810         28647
              Escambia                                     595           4.5.0        12680          16437

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              Totals                                     18413       1047.95         399667          704780




              By Region


              East, Coast                                 8237         3.37.4        131570          328190
              Keys                                         418         1L.1.2-5)      18683          3018.5
              West Coast                                  8002                       222458          047983
              Panhandle                                   1756         1255,8         269-56         98429,









                           Center for Marine Conservation
                             Formerly Center for Environmental Education. Est. 1972












           Contact: Gina Ruiz                    IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                                                OCTOBER 22, 1990
                      (813) 895-2188


                 OVER 18,400 FLORIDIANS MAKE SEPTEMBER'S BEACH CLEANUP
                                     NATION'S LARGEST


                 (St.   Petersburg) ... The third Florida Coastal        Cleanup,
           organized by the Center for Marine Conservation (CMC), held the
           morning of September 22, was the largest single state cleanup
           ever, in the nation's history.      Over 18,400 volunteers scoured
           1,047 miles of Florida beaches.       And over 399,000 pounds of
           debris were picked Lip and catalogued for the Center's 1990 report
           to be released next spring.

                 Gina Ruiz and Dr. Edward Proffitt of the Center's Florida
           office applaud the many citizens of the state and the many
           organizations and individuals who supported this year's cleanup.
           Ruiz said, "Floridians can hold their heads high as turnout for
           this past September's cleanup was phenomenal. The people of
           Florida realized that in many ways, the future of this state,
           both economically and environmentally, are tied to clean coasts
           and beaches.    What is encouraging is that a statewide commitment
           exists to protect our valuable coastal resources and the wildlife
           that frequent and inhabit our shores."

                 The   Center   for Marine Conservation is        the     leading
           organization dedicated solely to the protection of marine and
           coastal wildlife and their habitats.      The Center's headquarters
           is in Washington,       D.C. with, regional offices in Hampton,
           Virginia; St. Petersbut-g, Florida; Austin, Texas; San Francisco,
           California; and Cambridge, England.












                  One Beach Drive, SE, Suite 304 0 St. Petersburg, FL 33701 * (813) 895-2188, 895-3248

                             1725 DeSales Street, NW e Washington, DC 20036










                                      PRELIMINARY RESULTS
                                  .FOR THE FALL CLEANUP 1990



           COUNTIES                              YOLUNTEERS     MILES       POUNDS

           ALACHUA                                  45          5           72
           BAY                                      362         19          6j192
           BROWARD                                  1,535       32:.3       13,300
           BREVARD                                  600         50          4,081
           CHARLOTTE                                453         48          6,609.5
           CITRUS                                    .630       42          18,660
           @COLLIER.                                397         80          5,931.75
           DADE                                     1,378       57.8        13,495
           DIXIE                                    28          4           400
           DRY TORTUGAS                             30          2.25        1,656
           DUVAL                                    397         39.5        35,919
           ESCAMBIA                                 595         45          12,680
           FLAGER                                   83          18          980
           FRANKLIN                                 163         17          812
           GULF                                     36          12          1,268
           HERNANDO                                 14                      245
           HILLSBOROUGH                             2,400       70          60,410
           INDIAN-RIVER                             636         32
           JEFFERSON                                9           4           50
           LEE                                      19000       40          12,000
           MANATEE                                  435         43          13,20 -0
           MARTIN                                   1,213       7           32,665
           MONROE                                   388         19          17,027
           NASSAU                                   63          16.3        800
           OKALOOSA                                 235         13.8        4,000
           ORANGE                                   ?           ?           ?
           PALM BEACH                               1,056.      42          15,000
           PASCO                                    524         30          7,160
           PINELLAS                                -->l 583     16 0        -;86,720
           SANTA ROSA                               332         13          2,810
           SARASOTA                                 154         12.5        610
           ST. JOHN                                 123         11          1,812
           ST. LUCIE                                602         10          6,425
           TAYLOR                                   56          3           4,100
           VOLUSIA                                  506         16.5        2,321
           WAKULLA                                  337         27          6,361
           WALTON                                   33          6           194




           TOTALS                                   18,431      1,047.95    399,666.25

                                                                         (181.6 TONS)











                                                 Preliminary Florida cleanup statistics


                       Dead      animals


                                 324 fish
                                 32 birds
                                 26 rays
                                 12 sea turtles
                                 7 crabs


                       Dead      animals         who were entangled in monofilament

                                 4 fish
                                 9 birds
                                 2 crabs


                       Medical Debris


                                 209 items -- 169 syringes
                                                               6 IV bags
                                                            34 other


                       Pounds of Monofilament =                          374.95 lbs


                       Foreign Countries

                                 Australia                    1
                                 B ra z i1                  1
                                 B ri ta i n                  2
                                 Canada                    3
                                 China                         2
                                 Columbia                      1
                                 Costa Rica                    1
                                 Chek                         1
                                 Denmark                        2
                                 Dominican Re p                1
                                 France                        6
                                 Germany                       9
                                 Greece                        3
                                 Guatemala                     1
                                 Holland                       2
                                 India                         1
                                 I t a I y                     2
                                 Jamacia                       1
                                 Japan                        6
                                 M al a y s ia                 1
                                 Mexico                         2
                                  No rway                       2
                                 Sand Bruno                   1
                                 S pa i n                      1
                                 USSR                      1
                                 Venezuela                    15
                                 Y u g o s la v i a            1

                                 Totai                       78   items from 27 countries


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           Cruise Lines


                Caribbean Cruise     1
                Carnival             4
                Commodore            4
                Emerald Green       1
                Fantasy              1
                Fun Ships            7
                Glass Bottom         1
                Royal Caribbean      1
                Royal Carnival       6
                Windjammer           1

                Total                27 items from at least 10 vessels
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                           Center for Marine Conservation
                             Formerly Center for Environmental Education. Est 1972




       Contact: Patty Debenham or Tom Miller          FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                  (202) 429-5609                      NOVEMBER 9, 1990
                  Lisa Younger
                  (804) 851-6734



                 FALL 1990 INTERNATIONAL BEACH CLEANUP DRAWS OVER 100,000



             (Washington, D.C.) ... Early results are in and the 1990 fall
       international beach cleanup was a tremendous success. Over 100,000
       participants volunteered their time! for cleaner beaches while helping the
       Ce.nter for Marine Conservation (CMC:) collect valuable information on beach
       debris. Cleanup volunteers documented every scrap of trash collected to
       assist policymakers in solving this international problem, while fingering
       those who violate anti-pollution laws along our coasts and at sea.
            Patty Debenham, coordinator of the national beach cleanup for the
       Center, called the turnout a confirmation of the worldwide concern over the
       plight of our coasts and beaches. "From Alabama to Alaska, and from Canada
       to Japan, people have taken it upon themselves to rid our coasts and
       beaches of deadly trash, trash that kills wildlife by the tens of thousands
       every year."
            According to Lisa Younger, CMC's national database coordinator, "What
       is really encouraging is that public awareness and concern are now
       worldwide as Japan, Taiwan, and Guatemala held cleanups for the first time
       this year." Continued Younger, "This truly is an international problem
       which requires cooperative international solutions. We urge all coastal
       nations to vigorously pursue and, more importantly, prosecute all oolluters
       in national and international waters. Finally, the United States needs to
       take the lead and increase enforcement   monies for the U.S. Coast Guard and

       set a standard for the rest of the world to -1:`ollow."






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          Preliminary results show that Florida,- California, and Texas held the
     largest cleanups. As the enclosed fact sheet reveals, trash was picked-up
     and catalogued on CMC data cards along 3,000 miles of beach. The data will
     be compiled state-by-state and-country-by-country, and the results made
     public prior to Memorial Day 1991. The data results will then be made
     available to local and national policymakers throughout the world. From
     this information, we can better understand the scope of the problem, seek
     to prosecute violators, and propose solutions to this growing marine
     problem.
          The National Beach Cleanup, part of CMCs Clean Ocean Campaign,,it
     supported by the Center's 110,000 members and special contributions from
     the Environmental Protection Agency; National Oceanic and Atmospheric
     Administration; the Council for Solid Waste Solutions ( a division of the
     Society of the Plastics Industry); Dow Chemical Co., Kettering Family Fund;
     NAPCOR; Patagonia; Professional Association of Underwater Instructors;
     Fathom Cologne; Amoco Foundation; Faber Castell Pencils, GLAD bags; and 7-
     Eleven stores. Lastly, CMC greatly appreciates involvement from King
     Features, who has allowed us to use Popeye the Sailor as the.official
     mascot of the Clean Ocean Campaign.
          The Center for Marine Conservation is tn'*e leading organization
     dedicated solely to the protection of marine wildlife and their habitats.
     The Center's headquarters is in Washington, D.C. with regional offices in
     Hampton, Virginia; St. Petersburg, Florida; Austin, Texas; San Francisco,
     California; and Cambridge, England.




                                        -Cmc-







                                              Center for Marine Conservation
                                             PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM 1990 NATIONAL BEACH CLEANUP




               STATE                 NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS              MILES OF BEACH CLEANED                POUNDS COLLECTED


               ALABAMA                                        2,618                                62                         14,340
               CALIFORNIA                                    16,122                                368                       250,834
               CONNECTICUT                                       751                               41                         20,130
               DELAWARE                                       3,500                                72                         30,116
               FLORIDA                                       18,431                             1,048                        399,666
               GEORGIA                                           200                               25                         16,000
               HAWAII                                         5,000
               ILLINOIS                                           77                               0.75                           771
               INDIANA                                            13                               0.5                            230
               LOUISIANA                                      6,000                                76                        250,000
               MAINE                                          2,026                                115                        20,335
               MARYLAND                                          734                               46                         32,613
               MASSACHUSETTS                                  4,200                                200                        70,000
               MISSISSIPPI                                    1,814                                106                        44,000
               NEW HAMPSHIRE                                     491                               14                         10,520
               NEWJERSEY                                         200                                 6                          2,000
               NEW YORK                                       2,800                                71                         84;000
               NORTH CAROLINA                                10,000                                350                       330,000
               OREGON                                         2,665                                120                        43,200
               PENNSYLVANIA                                       74                                 4                            742
               PUERTO RICO
               RHODE ISLAND                                   1,100                                25                         20,000
               SOUTH CAROLINA                                 3,262                                                           71,069
               TEXAS                                         15,822                                186                       466,540
               VIRGINIA
                   Ocean Beaches                                 220                               20                         25,000
                   Chesapeake Bay                                830                               27                           9,079
               VIRGIN ISLANDS                                    150                               0.25                       30,000
               WASHINGTON
                   Ocean Beaches                                 850                               60                        176"000
                   Puget Sound                                2,288                                33                         29,400


                                                                     INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION
               CANADA
                    New Brunswick                                439                               14                         24,317
               JAPAN                                             700
               MEXICO                                            350                                 7                           4,000
               TOTALS                                        103,727                          3,097.5                       2,474,902


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By Wendy Fullerton
News-Press Staff Writer

     Amid sunbathers and swimmers, the
beaches were filled Saturday with trash pok-
ers and pickers.

     As part of the Fourth Annual National
Coastal Cleanup Day, more than 100 people
turned out for a glorious morning filled with
"garbage".

     From Lovers Key and Bonita Beach to
Naples pier and Marco Island, clear, plastic
Glad bags became filled with cigarett butts,
soda and beer cans, shoes, and even tires,
mud flaps and a pair of ladies stockings.

     In Naples, the majority of debris picked
up was cigarette butts, according to Ri Tarn-
pilli, one of the participants.

     "They ought to give a rebate for butts,
maybe people would take them with them
when they leave" she said.

     Tranpolli and her husband, Mike, cov-
ered a half-mile of beach near Naples Pier.

     having just moved to Naples from Con-
necticut because of their love of the environ-
ment, they felt they should take part in the
cleanup.

     "We though it would be proper to share
and take care of it," said the avid beachgoers.

     Collier County's coordinators were the
Conservancy and the Everglades National
Park.

     Clad in gloves, Clarence Banister, a Boni-
ta Springs resident, combed through the
grass and waters of Fish Trap Bridge with a
plastic piker, spearing cans and paper prod-
ucts wherever he saw them.

     A 1,000-pound scale awaiting bags of gar-
bage sat in the parking lot at Bonita Beach.

     New Pass seemed to be the area that had
the most debris. More than four truckloads of
garbage were brought back for weighing.

     The biggest find for the day could not be
lifted by one man along. A broken, barnacied
boat was marked and a truck was sent to pick
it up.

     With the state slogan, "take pride gulf
wide", the Citizens Association of Bonita
Beach (CABB) coordinated cleanup for 20
miles of beach and passes in south Lee Coun-
ty and north Collier County.

     The Naples Boys Scout Troop 38 gave up a
weekend of camping to participate in the
cleanup.

     Lee County Commissioner Ray Judah
staked out Lovers Key as his cleanup territo-
ry.

     Other officials who attended included
Lee County commissioners Doug St. Cerny
and Bill Fussell and State Rep. Tim Ireland,
R-Cape Coral.

     CABB president Marge Ward attributes
her organization's efforts to Fussell, who led
the commission to keep fees off the beach in
1985. Ward had attended that meeting and
stated that they would clean the beach and
Fussell said that they've been "true to their
work," out there 365 days of the year.

     Volunteers from both counties collected
and recorded the amounts and types of de
bris to provide research information on the
origin and types of garbage found on Flor-
ida's beaches.

     All of the information is then placed into a
book of data and information by the Center
for Marine Conservation. Ward said she had
just received the book from the 1989 clean-
up.

     Volunteers at Bonita Beach were
awarded at lunchtime with hot dogs and
hamburgers donated and cooked by McCul-
lly's Rooftop Restaurant owner Joe McCully.
King Bigelow, manager of the Bonita Beach
Road Domino's, donated pizza for the hungry
garbage-pokers. Publix and Florida Choice
also pitched in with food.

     All of the aluminum that was found will
be recycled and the money will be given to
the Supporters of Delnot-Wiggins Pass, an
organization that benefits the state park.

     The amount of garbage had not been
totalled Saturday. Ward said that it would
probably take all day Sunday to do.

     Last year, more than 16,000 pounds of
debris was collected in Lee and Collier coun-
ties.

















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          Volunteers at Saturday's cleanup found fishingli@@,iine, cans and cigarettes, as welt as tires, batteries, 55-gatton drums and a washer and dryer.
                 300 clean up 'fteasure Coast beaches
          Volunteers find birds                    dead in fishing fine .                      plastic Saturday morning knew that         life Hospital, the cleanup drew 700
                                                                                               message. Many said they would give         people to Martin County beaches and
                                                                                               up a Saturday moming of cartoons           600 in St. Lucie County.
          By TERESA LANE                                Two other birds, a pelican and a       every month to protect the creatures          Although the trash of choice by far
          Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
                                                     b!ack-crowned night heron, managed        they've seen at Sea World or read          was miles of fishing twine, soda cans
             Most of the 1,300 or so volunteers      to survive the,maze of line on Bird       about in school.                           and cigarette butts, volunteers also
          who scoured Treasure Coast beaches         Island. but the heron was so badly            "They say the six-pack rings can       reported lugging tires, batteries, 55-
          in search of garbage Saturday had          injured it required treatment at the      kill the sea turtles, and animals can      gallon drums and even a washer-and-
          merely seen television accounts or         Treasure Coast Wildlife Hospital in       choke on the cigarette butts," said 12-    dryer set from area coastlines.
          read of what happens when fishing          Martin County.                          . year-old Shannon Farrell of Port St.
          twine and plastic six-pack rings come         Organizers of the third annual Na-     Lucie. Shannon picked up two trash            A handful of medical syringes, nee-
          in contact with birds and ocean wild-      tional Coastal Cleanup said stories       bags of garbage from Waveland Beach        dles and medical vials were reported
          life.                                      such 2s Gersony's are why the annual      in St. Lucie County with her mother        at Normandy Beach, Hermann's Bay,
             Judy Gersony, a member of the           beach scourings are so important -        and fricnd@                                Bob Graham Beach and Bathtub
          Treasure Coast Sierra Club, saw the        not only to make the beaches more             "These beaches are still a lot         Beach.
                                                     invitirg to humans, but also to protect   cleaner than Fort Lauderdale," said           The weight of the garbage. won't be
          tragedy firsthand Saturday when she
          and other animal loveis paddled            the ever-dwindling number of animals      Shannon, who recently moved from           known until Monday, but Oceano- -
          across the Indian River to a spoil         that remain as Florida develops its       that city. "I want to help keep the        graphic Society spokesman Mark Per-
          island and found five dead birds           MaRt.                                     water from being polluted."                ry said Martin workers collected 750
          shrouded in a web of fishing line.            Hrndreds of children who combed            Sponsored locally by the Florida       large bags - about a third of which
                                                     beaches in search of cups, cans and       Oceanographic Society and the Wild-        can be recycled, he said.





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                             Kyle Fluegel, 7, of Fort  Pierce  found more     than one    use for  the  bag he toted as he helped clean up North Beach
                             Saturday.
                        .-Volunteers clean 110 miles of beach

                             Paul Owers                                                                                  because these are the people that one day
                             TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER                         'if we can clean up some of                    will make the decisions about the beaches
                                                                                                                         and the environment."
                             If you checked the contents of just about    this stuff, the better off                      Administrators from the Little Red
                             any garbage bag on any St. Lucie County
                             beach on Saturday morning, you'd prob-       we'll be.'                                     Schoolhouse and St. Andrew's Episcopal
                             ably find the usual items such as soda                                     Pat Ernest       School said the day was a good opportun-
                                                                                                                         ity for parents and the children to spend
                             cans, cigarette butts and fishing line.                                                     time together.
                             Then there were the trash sacks that         lected 6,425 pounds of'     non-recyclable      "It also helps 'build the children's
                             contained some pretty atypical stuff:        garbage, said Richard      Futch of the            eness of environmental issues," said
                             Bullets. Shoe polish. A training bra?        county Parks and Recreation                    awar
                             At least it can be said the day wasn't.      Department.                                    Kathleen Forsman, director of the Little
                                                                                                                         Red Schoolhouse, a child-care center.
                             dulL                                           Many of the items collected daring the       ,
                             More than 600 volunteers, along with         three-hour event will be recycled and          Once habits are formed, it's hard to turn
                             their peers around the state, participated   analyzed. If officials can determine the       people around. We want to start when
                             in Coastal Cleanup to gather the debris      source, it could help bring about legisla-     they're young.
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                             that has accumulated on the beaches in       tion to prevent damage! to the environ-          "Anytime we take the kids places, like
                             the last year.                               ment, Ernest said.                             the parks or beaches, we emphasize not
                             The volunteers cleaned about 10 miles          The young and old did their part, and        -to leave messes behind. It's a daily thing.
                             of beachi@s, said Pat Ernest the county      the future was on the rninds of many.          You can't be environmentally aware once
                             cleanup coordinator.                           "This is really important because these      a year."
                             ."If we can clean up some of this stuff,     will be the Idds' beaches," said Denise          Twelve members of the Fort Pierce
                             the better off we'll be," Ernest said.       Blanton, captain of the South Beach
                             On South Beach alone, volunteers col-        cleanup. "It's important to be aware                                Turn to BEACH/C3




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                                                                               to delan up
                                                                               the'beaches

                                                                               Gloria Taylor Weinberg
                                                                               TRIOUNK STAFF WRITER

                                                                               California's beach boys (and girls) once
                                                                               again have challenged Florida beach lov-
                                                                               ers to see which state can turn out the
                                                                               most volunteers for this year's nationwide
                                                                               Coastal Cleanup, set for Sept. 22.
                                                                               With your help, they won't stand a
                                                                               chance.
                                                                               Florida's track record is good. The
                                                                               state has come out on top each year, and
                                                                               last year nearly 5,000 more Floridians
                                                                               volunteered to help rid our beaches of
                                                                               plastics and other trash than showed up
                                                                               for the cleanup in California.
                                                                               Nationwide, 65,636 volunteers collected
                                                                               861 tons of trash from 3,000 miles of

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                                                                               Beaches
                                                                               From 01

                                                                               shoreline 'last year during the Coastal
                                                                               Cleanup.
                                                                                 In St.  Lucie County, 670 volunteers
                                                                               stooped and scooped more than six tons of
                                                                               debris from the county's 22 mfles of
                                                                               beach.
                                                                                 Pat Ernest, coordinator for St. Lucie
                                                                               County, is appealing for volunteers to
                                                                               sign up early.
                                                                                 "It's essential that those wishing to
                                                                               participate sign up in advance," Ernest
                                                                               said.
                                                                                 She said volunteers should give their
                                                                               names, telephone numbers, the number of
                                                                               people in their cleaning parties and where
                                                                               @they prefer to work, if they have a
                                                                               preference.
                                                                                 Those without a preference will be
                                                                               assigned one of the nine area beaches
                                                                               targeted for cleanup - Waveland Beach,
                                                                               Normandy Beach, Herman's Bay, Walton
                                                                               Rocks Park, Frederick Douglass Park,
                                                           C6                  JohmBrooks Beach, Surfiside Park, South
                                                           04                  -Beach Boardwalk and Pepper Beach
                                                                               Park.
                                                                                 The.Coastal Cleanup is backed by the
                                                                               Center for Marine Conservation, a
                                                                               national non-profit organization con-
                                                                               cerned with pollution control along coas-
                                                                               W waters and shorehnes.
                                                                                 Discarded fishing Iine and plastic six-
                                                                               pack rings pose It particular threat to sea
                                                                               turtles as well as pelicans and other-
                                                                               marine life. Bottles, driftwood and other
                                                                               debris can be a problem for hatchling sea
                                                          LU                   turtles, which have to go around or over
                                                                               the obstacles on their way to the sea.
                                                                                 Volunteers should bring gloves, suntan
                                                                               lotion and bug spray for the cleanup,
                                                                               which starts at 9 a.m. and ends at noon.
                                                                                 For information, or to volunteer, call
                                                                               Ernest at 879-1481.


















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                nn                                                           h eann'                                                                                         Sept. 22
       A                                     I be.AL.-..                                 d                                  p           seti[or                                                                                  for beach cleanurp
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    To volunteer for the Se
       By ROGIM HILL                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Rt
                                                                                                                                                                                   from beaches..                                22 beach cleanup in St. Lucie
       Managing editor                                    Last year, 65,361volunteors participated nationwide In the Coastal Cleanup,                                                 0 To* remove from the coastal              County, call Pat Ernest at
                                                      Callecting.861 tons Of traSll fMM .7,000 M118S Of ShOMAnill.                                                                 environment debris which is po-               879-1481.
         More than 1,000 volunteers are              .  I-                                                                                                                         tentially injurious or deadly to ma-             To volunteer in Martin
       @'expectcd to scour Martin@atid'&:"'.     id'6-6-i't stop at the beaches."           of the. Treasure Coast Wildlife             ways.                                      rine and shore life.                          County, call the Florida
       Lucie counties for -litteron' Satu'r-       Other changes also are in store          Hospital.                                     St. Lucie County's 570 volun-               2 To increase public awareness             Oceanographic Society at
       day, Sept  *'22, as part of the Na-       for the Martin County cleanup,                The St. Lucie sites scheduled for        teers combed 12 miles of beaches,          of the marine-debris and beach-lit-           225-0505 or the Chamber of
       tional Coastal Cleanup, sponsored         Guertin said. This year, area              cleanup include: Waveland Beach,            collecting more than six tons ofde-        ter problem.                                  Commerce in your communi-
       by the Center for Marine Conser-          Chambers of Commerce will coor-            Normady Beach. Herman's Bay,                bris, including four tons of plastic.         0 To show California and the               ty:
       vation.                                   dinate the efforts in their diitricts,     Walton Rocks Park, Frederick                In Martin County, 625 volunteers           rest of the country that the citizens            E Stuart/Martin County         ,
         Nine St. Lucie County beaches           while FOS will handle parts of             Douglas Park, John Brooks                   picked up another six tons from 22         of Florida are proud and protec-              -287-1098.
       will be policed by volunteers this        Hutchinson Island and Jupiter Is-          Beach, Surfside Park, South Beach           miles of beach.                            tive of their beaches and coastal re-            0 Jensen Beach - 334-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 I.AA
       year, while in Martin COunty ef-          land. And due to -he incre-asing                                 --p r Beach             Ernest reported that Florida,            sources and are willin                        j-.
                                                                                         6  Dualuwaly. anu 1-c Pe                                                                                           g to demon-
       forts will expand to include not          number of volunteers that have             Park.                                       with nearly 15,000, had 50 percent         strate that pride and commitment                 E Palm City - 286-8121..,
       only beaches but upland areas,            participated each year, FOS is no             Officials of both efforts stressed       more volunteers than the larger            by turning out in record numbers                 N'Hobc Sound - 546-
       too. "The Coast is Clear" is the          longer hosting a beachsidc party           that volunteers must register ahead         and more populous state of Cali-           on Sept. 22.                                  4724
       slogan for the latter.                    following the cleanup.                     of time to participate in         .   the   fornia. This year, she said, the Ca-          To volunteer in St. Lucie Coun-               E Indiantown/Port
         "Based on what happened last               "We're trying to concentrate            cleanup.                                    lifornia sponsors of the cleanup           ty, call Ernest at 879-1481.                  Mayaca - 597-3129.
       year, we've expanded the effort be-       our efforts on research and educa-            Last year, 65,363 volunteers             have issued a challenge Florida to            To volunteer in Martin County,
       yond the beaches," said Gary              tion," Guertin said, adding that he        participated nationwide in the              see which state will garner the most       call FOS at 225-0505 Or the
       Guertin, spokesman for the Flor-          expects the Chambers of Com-               Coastal Cleanup, collecting 861             volunteers.                                Chamber of Commerce in your                   0 Palm C
       ida Oceanographic Society, one of         mercc to host smaller post-Cleanup         tons of trash from 3,000 miles of             According to Ernest, the local           community:                                                ity - 286-8121.
       the co-sponsors of the effort. "We        parties in their communities.              shoreline. In Florida, 14,632 vo-           effort has four goals:                        0 Stuart/Martin County                     N Hobe Sound - 546-4724
       were done by 9:30 last year and             'Me cleanup in St. Lucie County
       certainly the marine environment                                                     lunteers cleaned up more than 900             N To record number, wcight4s             287-1088.                                     0 Indiantown/Port Mayaca
                                                 is being coordinated by Pat Ernest         miles of beaches and inland water-          and types of all trash collectet
                                                                                                                                                                                      0 Jensen Beach         334-3444.           597-3129.






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                                                                        1990       coastal
                                                                             Cleanup
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                                                                          The annual Na-
                                                                      tional Coastal Cleanup               In each previous
                                                                      sponsored by the                 cleanup. Florida has
                                                                      Center for Marine Con-           outnumbered Califor-
                                                                      servation, will be held          nia in the number of
                                                                      Saturday, September              volunteers           par-
                                                                      22, 1990 from 9:00               ticipating. Last year
                                                                      a.m. until noon. Ali             nearly 15,000 turned
                                                                      volunteers must sign             out in Florida, while
                                                                      up in advance. In St.            only 10.000 par-
                                                                      Lucie County. call Pat           ticipated in California.
                                                                      Ernest of the Treasure           This year California
                                                                      Coast Wildlife Hospital          has Issued a challenge
                                                                      at 879-1481 to register'.        to Florida. They claim
                                                                      When           calling.          they will not only have
                                                                      volunteers should be             more participants. but
                                                                      prepared to provide              will also surpass
                                                                      their name. a contact            Florida's record tur-
                                                                      number, the number of            nout on 1989.
                                                                      people in their cleanu
                                                                      party, and their @refeg              The September
                                                                      red beach. Nine St.              1990 cleanup has four
                                                                      Lucie County public                      1.) To record
                                                                                                       g=-ers. weights. and
                                                                      beaches are targeted             n
                                                                      for the cleanup:                 types of all trash col-
                                                                      Waveland. Beach. Nor-            lected     from       our
                                                                      m  n@y Beach. Her-               beaches. 2.) To remove
                                                                      m:n   s Bay, Walton-             debris from the coastal
                                                                      Rocks Park. Frederick            environment which is
                                                                      Douglas Park. John               potentially injurious or
                                                                      Brooks Beach. Stufside           deadly to marine and
                                                                      Park, South Beach                shore life. 3.) To in-
                                                                      Boardwalk and P!Tper             crease           public
                                                                      Beach Park. For      ose         awareness of the
                                                                      having no preference.            marine debris and
                                                                      beaches will be assign-          beach litter problem.
                                                                      ed based on proximity            4.) To show California
                                                                      and travel conve-                and the rest of the
                                                                      nience.                          country, once again,
                                                                                                       that the citizens of
                                                                         Last year   . 65.636          Florida are proud and
                                                                      volunteers participated           rotective of their
                                                                      nationa              the         geaches and coastal
                                                                                                       resources and are will-
                                                                                ManIn                  Ing to demonstrate
                                                                      Coastal C      up col-
                                                                      lecting 861 to@s of              that pride and commit-
                                                                      trash from 3,000 miles
                                                                                                       ment by turning out in
                                                                      of shoreline. In Florida.        record numbers on
                                                                      14;.'632, the largest            September 22.
                                                                      number ever to par-
                                                                      ticipate in a state-wide
                                                                      cleanup. turned out to
                                                                      clean over 900 miles of
                                                                      beaches and Inland
                                                                      waterways. In St.
                                                                      Lucie County, 570
                                                                      volunteers combed 14
                                                                      of the county's 22
                                                                      miles of coastline. col-
                                                                      lecting in excess of 6
                                                                      tons of marine debris.
                                                                      Seventy-four percent
                                                                      of the items collected
                                                                      were plastic.










                                                 TALK-OF THE TOWN'.e.,...
                                                            Compiled by Beverly Geist
                              Do  you plan       to  participate in       Beach     Clean.up Day on Sept. 22?







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                              MELISSW           GGIORE.         CLIFF HAIRSTON                  KAYLYN CASTO
                               "Yes, I plan  to go to the        'Yes, and     I   think       .'Yes,- because  I  love
                              beach clean-up because I,       people shouldn't litter."    going to the beach and I
                              think ',our @eaches                                          ha te trash."
                              shouldn% be trashy:'


















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                                    TYLER SMITH                 JAMISON STILES                   AMANDAODOM
                                'Yes, 1, am going f o the
                              beach to pick up trash be-        Tes, so we will have bit-      'Yes, and    I think we
                              cause if people keep litter.    ter. beaches and so   'that    shouldn't  litter Florida"s
                                                             more people will come
                              ing Panama City Beach    I it  here."                          beaches.,"
                              may not be the world's most
                              beautiful beaches! any.
                              more."


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							COASTAL CLEANUP

     The Center for Marine Conservation invites all Bay Countians to
participate in the 1990 Coastal Cleanup which will be held Saturday
morning, Sept. 22. Offician Cleanup areas so far include St. Andrews State
Recreation area, Shell Island, Tyndall Air Force Base, and Beach Drive.
Come prepared with hat, comfortable shoes, sun screen, sunglasses and
work gloves. All the garbage bags you can fill will be provided on site. It you
would like ore information or would like to clean a beach not mentioned
above, call your local coordinator at 234-9856.











                                       \J            BEACH CLEANUP

                                     lv@_            KeppDLer i's organizin* g
                                                     the          county wide effor, t
                                                     Ka'tWeen Chapman                         ke Ippner's   firIst recollection
                                                     Beach*Ray'Newis                       of "doing anything environ-
                                                                                           mental"is her participation in
                                                        Lisa Keppner is a           Bay    the first Earth Day,    .April., 22,
                                                     County citizen who does more          1970. She gradually: became
                                                     than talk about, protecting the
                                                                                           aware of problems affecting the
                                                     environment. She suits her ac-        -environment. Now, to her, "ies
                                                     tions to her words.
                                                                                           just normal" to be active in this
                                                        This -month, Keppner is or-        arena.
                                                     ganizing the Beach    'Cleanup for       "'.Lots of people are interested
                                                     Bay County'   *Earlier this year,     in the environment inr Bay
                                                     the brown-haired,, hazel-eyed         County,"said Keppner. "Thait's
                                                     young woman directed Earth            why I like it here so much."
                                                     Day activities for the county.           This is the second year that
                                                        She is also a member ot St.
                                                                                           Keppner has organized the Bay
                                                     Andrew Bay Resource Manage7           County Beach Cleanup. In
                                                     ment Association. She handles         1989 the event concentrated on
                                                     the RMA!S. recycling prograrn         a, I
                                                     and has been a scientific advisor..   ". Andrew State Recreation
                                                     to the group.                         Area And Tyndall Air,Force
                                                                                           Base.
                                                        Earlier this year,- the Bay
                                                     County Audubon Society recog- -          Keppner is pleased to see this
                                                     nized .Kep ner forher environ-        yea 's project expand W include
                                                                p                              r
                                                     mental ..achievements and             Beach Drive in Panama City,
                                                     named her, "Conservationist of        Shell Island, and an area near
                                                     the Year.                             the Hathaway Bridge.







                                                                                       FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1990---.-'


                                                                        Beach cleanu expected
                                                                                                                  p
                                                                        to draw 20,000 in Flotida

                                                                        From sUff                                 nets that are harmful to marine life..
                                                                         Hun,@reds of Northeast Florida resi-      In Duval County        olunteers will
                                                                        dents are expected to hit the beach       gather at three locativons: Huguenot
                                                                        and waterways tomorrow to pardci-         Memorial Par@, the Heckscher Drive
                                                                        pate in a statewide cleanup of litter.    fishing pier at Blount Island and Lit-
                                                                         Local volunteers are needed for          tle Talbot Island State Park.
                                                                        cleanups on beaches from Fernandi-         In St. Johns County, cleanup
                                                                        na Beach. to Crescent Beach. The          groups will meet at the Guana River
                                                                        cleanup crews will work from 9 a.m.       State Park south entrance, the Vilano
                                                                        to noon.                                  Beach boat ramp, Anastasia State
                                                                         The project is part of a statewide       Recreation Area, the Crescent Beach
                                                                        effort to clean up Florida's beaches,     boat ramp and the east side of the
                                                                        .rivers, wa,wrways and reefs. Organiz-    Shands Bridge on Florida 16.
                                                                        ers say the event - the fourth state-      In   Nassau     County,      volunteers
                                                                        wide coasW cleanup - is expected          should gather at the Atlantic Recrea-
                                                                        to draw 20,000 volunteers                 tion Center or the main beach at At-
                                                                         Last year's cleanup d@rew 14 000         landc Boulevard. Both locations are
                                                                        volunteers who collected more i@an        in Fernandina Beach.
                                                                        200 ton@ of tmsh.
                                                                         Of that, I ton was collected by 124       Refreshments will be provided fol-
                                                                        volunteers on Duval County beaches.       lowing   the    cleanup.     Volunteers
                                                                         Participants will be provided trash      should wear comfortable clothing and
                                                                        bags and data cards to record the         may want to bring garden g)oves..
                                                                        types and amounts of trash recov-         hats and sunscreen.
                                                                        ered. 'Me results will be tabulated        The cleanup is sponsored by nu-
                                                                        and entered into a nadonal computer       merous organizadons, including the
                                                                        data base.                                Center for Marine Conservation, a
                                                                         Much of the trash collected will be      nonprofit marine conservation organ-
                                                                        recycled, including fishing line and      ization.



















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             A time for answers
                 L,ouis S. Sheffield Elementary School at
             13333 Lanier   Road has its open house for
             parents at 73D p.ffL TUesday.
                 Donna Ayers, assistant principal, said
             the open house is an opportunity for
             parents  to get answers to all their
             Unan"ered questions about curriculum,
             school   rules, hornework policies and
             enrichment program.
             Ribault open house
                 Parews   of students at PjbaWt Junior
             High School, 3610 Ribault Scenic Drive,            are
                      to an open house at the school
                         at 7 p.m. Monday.
                 Susan Keen, president of the Parent-
             Teacher Association, said that parents or
             .he sc hool's 1,50() studems should report to
             their child's homeroorn class.
                 The school chorus and band will
             @.,Uertain in the courtyart but because of
                 size of the student body, there will be
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             rv) general assembly program for The
             Parents, Mrs. Keen said.
             Huguenot campaign
                 The Mayor's Teenage Volunteers will
             7articipate in a national beach cleanup
             Campaign today by attacking the sand at
             Huguenot Park on HeeksLher Drive.
                 The teenagem will be at wo6 cleining
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                        L.ocalt'joiNsta-de'. W` 10de
                        Cie' anup' of. beach 6's'.
                                                                   en empty condiment packages, four:
                        ByCATHYCHESTNUT
                        News-Press Staff Writer                    paper bags, 10 cardboard cartons, I I
                                                                   paper cups and some newspaper, all
                           With bags of trash slung over           within a three-yard area.
                        their shoulders, hundreds of beach-            All together, 5,000 pounds of 0
                        combers looking like tropical Santa        trash werepicked up at Fort Myers:
                        Clauses on Saturday were leaving           Beach, said Sharon Oxley, the exec-
                        nothing behind them but a snow- t.;%-Ptive director of.Keep Lee County:
                        white trail.                               Beautiful.
                           About 500 Lee County school c'hil-             think it's been,abigsucces at@
                        dren, families, and others spent,,. thl$ location," she said.
                        three hours Saturday picking up lit-                    estimated Saturday af-,*
                        ter along area beaches during the 4th      ternoon that about .10,000 pounds'
                        Annual Coastal Cleanup, a statewide        were picked up from Fort Myers
                        effort.                                    Beach, Sanibel, Pine. Island, Estero
                           At Fort Myers Beach, some bush-         and Bonita. Georgia ieppesen, work- i
                        es'near a public parking corner on         Ing with the Collier County cleanup,
                        Palm Avenue and Estero Boulevard,          said., 2,183 pounds of, garbage was
                        yielded one used diaper, a pair of ',.,@icked up there.
                        discarded pants, three plastic wrap-           Last year 16,000      pounds weres
                        pers, two milk jugs, 15 drinking cup       picked up In Lee and Collier.
                        lids, seven cigarette butts, 13 cups, 18       People In Sanibel, for example;
                        Stro
                               Siv n lucturana @tinc 97 al@cv
                                  "' "o.., _.J. -_     - ft.-      F1%.ftVU up 111UL,11 lVab uub Yral Luau f
                        bottles, three chunks of glass, an
                        aluminum can, two wads of foil, sev-                  See CLEANUP, page 2C


                                                                     From page 1C
                                     Cleanup
                                                                                                                                                                                                               k
                                  they did last. Last year,    volunteers     she said.                                       The day is part of a national effort     fort one'of    his trademar       wor -
                                  reaped 5,380 pounds of coastal litter,         Nonetheless, some strange, aban-         coordinated by the. Center for Ma-           days," In Which he ppe@ds days-work-
                                  but Saturday, only 2,187 pounds were        doned items surfaced, including. a          rine. Conservation, which reported         :.ingatvaribusjo'bs., ': -, .. ;_ .. - . I
                                  gathered by about 100 volunteers,           whole toilet a mattress and a water         that Florida led the nation last year            Besides keeping beaches clean,
                                  said Renee Si.---,oneaux, of Care and       heater.                                     in participation. Last year, 15,000          @volunteers said, It's Important to pick
                                  Rehabilitation of Wildlife.                    Although this was the fourth an-      .  volunteers picked up 200 tons of de-         up fishing lines that entangle birds
                                     A mere five pounds were plucked          nual statewide cleanup, Pilot Club          bris, ranging from 467 miles of fish-        and small animals and to remove
                                  from Captiva Island.                        international  *of Fort Myers Beach         Ing line to hundreds of discarded            plastic bags that can be Ingested by
                                     "Either people are making less           members said they have been doing           condoms, participants and trash              seaanimals.               up, Pilot Club
                                  trash or high tides could have taken it     it for five years now. Before It be-        picked up, along 911 coastalmiles.               Following the clean
                                  out," Simoneaux said. "I think per-,        came so popular, the women's serv-              Meanwhile, Martinez's Demo-              members served hot dogs and cold
                                  haps people are just paying more            ice used to organize local groups.          craitic gubernatorial challenger, for-       drinks to the 12 busloads of elemen-.
                                  attention."                                     Elsewhere in the state, U.S. Envi-      mer U.S. Sen. Lawton Chiles, helped          tary children. -
                                     Oxley agreed. "We seem to think          ronmental Protection Agency ad-             pick up trash along Daytona Beach.               Eleven-kear-old Scott Raider, 8:...
                                  there was less out there this year,         ministrator William Reily joined            Both candidates have touted their            5th grade student at Lehigh Elemen-,,-
                                  hopefully because of awareness,'.           Gov. Bob Martinez to pick up cans           environmental records in a state in          tary, said this Is the second year he's
                                                                              and pieces of Styrofoam on a spoil          which pollsters say environment is a         . helped out.
                                                                              island In Biscayne Bay. Martinez pro-       leading priority of most voters.                 "It's. fun and it's helping 'your.
                                                                              claimed Sept. 22 Coastal Cleanup                U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla.,            envIronment,9   'I Raider
                                                                              Day  .and urged Floridians to show          probably led the day's political par-        shouldn't litter. it ruins'your water..,,,
                                                                              their concern for the state's environ-      ticipants in getting down and dirij in       and air."The Associated Press, C.On-.,,.
                                                                              ment.                                       the cleanup. Graham made the ef-             tributedtothisreport




                   Polit.ipla                       . ns       j  N oin             cons' tituents. in -pleanup-....
                   By DAN SEWELL                                  Meanwhile,     Martinez's Demo-            Foreign. volunteers joined stu-            Among those participating
                                                              cratic gubernatorial challenger,           dents in the cleanup at the Gulf           were nine* volunteers from Hol-
                   Associated Press                           former U.S. Sen. Lawton Chiles,            Islands National Seashore in the           land, Germa    .ny, France and En-
                       MIAMI -. With         a    brilliant   helped pick up trash along Dayto-          Florida Panhandle. "                       gland, who are. spending three .
                   .blazing sun above and       plenty. oi    na Beach. Both can      'didates have          They hit the beaches at Fort           weeks at the Gulf Islands through
                   trash below, Floridians, including         touted their environmental . re-           Pickens, Santa Rosa and Ok       'aloosa   Sept. 29 at an international work
                   politicians putting their best envi-       cords'in.a state in which pollsters        areas on Santa Rosa Island, Naval          camp.
                   ronmental foot forward, on Satur-          say..environment'is a leading pri-         Live Oaks area in Gulf Breeze and              They pay their own way to the
                   day cleaned beaches for the fourth         ority of most voters.                      Perdido Key area west of Pensa-            United States and the -National
                   annual Coastal Cleanup Day.                    U.S. Rep. Dante Fascell of Mi-         cola near the Alabama-Flotida              Park Service provides tents and
                       U.S. Environmental Protection          ami boated    'to the Key Largo Na-        state line.                                food.
                   Agency administrator William               tional Marine Sanctuary for the
                   Reily joined Gov. Bob Martinez to          cleanup./
                   pick up cans and pieces,of Styro-              U.S. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla.,
                   foam on a spoil island in Biscayne         probably led the day's. political
                   Bay.Martinez proclaimed Sept. 22           paIrticipants in getting down and
                   Coastal Cleanup Day,and urged.             /dirty in the cleanup. - Graham
                   Floridians to show their concern           made the effort one of his trade-
                   for the state's environment..        . -   mark ."workdays," in which he
                       The day is part of a national          spends days working at various,
                   effort coordinated by the Center           jobs-
                   for Marine Conservation '*11.1fich             Wearing -T-shirt, short- and a
                   reported that Florida led      the na-     baseball hat against the sun, Gra-
                   tion last year in participation. Last      ham used "sweat and plastic
                   year, 15,000 volunteers picked up          bags" for his 244th workday near
                   200 tons of debris, ranging from           the Gandy Bridge at Tampa Bay.                                                                                            q.
                   467 miles of -fishing line to hun-             Thirty-five to 40 sites were tar-
                   dreds of discarded conc@.,..,tns, par-     geted in the Tampa Bay area for
                   ticipants . and trash picked up,           the volunteer cleanup drive.
                   along 911 coastal miles.                       Graham joined some 400 vol-
                       Nationally, and in Puerto Rico         unteers who waded into the surf
                   Canada and Mexico, about, 65,ood           and patrolled the beach for debris.
                   people participated last. year, the            Besides keeping beaches clean,
                   center said.                               volunteers said, it's important to
                       "Florida's. beaches are vitally        pick up fishing lines that entangle
                   important to our state, and all Flo_       birds and small animals and to re-
                   ridiahs. should do their part to           move plastic bags that can be
                   keep bur beaches safe and clean            ingested by sea animals.
                   Martinez said. "Our efforts today              "When Florida was a smaller
                   and every day will make sure that          place,people -were of the mindset
                   our beaches can continue to be             that the beach was      ' everybody's
                   enjoyed for generations to come."          garbage can with an unlimited ca-
                     F Martinez, in jeans and checked         pacity to absorb whatever they
                   shirt, found most of the trash was.        threw into it," Graham said.
                   already accounted for by a group           "Florida's coastline is defined by
                   of teen volunteers by the time he          its beaches just like some areas of
                   arrived. His entourage, :which             the country are defined by their
                   came by Florida Marine Patrol              mountains. Just by not dumping
                   boat from Key Biscayne, included           bags of trash out of boats will help,
                   his wife, Mary Jane, Reily and             polite and thoughtful things to do.
                   presidential son Jeb      'Bush and        will help tremendously to protect
                   Secret Service agents.                     our coast."


Big turnout
expected for
beach cleanup

		By Garry Matlow

  Organizers are looking for a big turnout Saturday
morning when volunteers collect and catalog trash
along Volusia County beaches during the annual Flori-
da Coastal Cleanup.
  "The volunteers are coming, they're calling," said
Rita Alexander-Block. "We're as excited as can be."
  The event begins at 9 a.m. and runs until noon.
Southeast Volusia staging areas are the Flagler Avenue
and 27th Avenue beach parking lots and Canaveral Na-
tional Seashore.
  Alexander-Block said volunteers can show up any-
time during those three hours, and can help out as long
as hey are able. "If they can just stay for 20 minutes,
that's fine," she said.
  Last year some 200 volunteers walked Southeast Vo-
lusia beaches and collected more than a ton of debris,
including an athletic supporter, a steering wheel, sy-
ringes, a broom and a full can of beer.
  But 84 percent of the haul was plastics and
polystyrene foam, which pose a danger to sea turtles
and marine life who become entangled in fishing lines
or mistake plastic bags for food.
  Part of the nationwide cleanup effort, sponsored by
the Center for Marine Conservation, involves cata-
loging trash by tpe with the statistics being used to
educate the public and lobby governments for new reg-
				See Beach/Page 5A

From page 1A

Beach

ulations.
  The volunteers also will collect information used by
the center to pinpoint sources of trash and prosecute vi-
olators, For example, garbage with labels from foreign
countries, cruise lines or commerical fishing vessels
will be given to the Coast Guard as evidence to put vio-
lators on notice and prosecute where possible.
  The more mundane items also will serve a purpose.
"We will be recycling everything we can," Alexan-
der-Block said, noting that in past years Scout troops
have benefited from the recyclable aluminum, plastic
and glass that was collected.
  As an extra incentive, she said, Center for Marine
Conservation hats will be presented to workers who
find the out-of-the-ordinary items.
  Alexander-Block said that this year, for the first
time, the beach cleanup also willb e taking place on the
Daytona Beach side of the inlet. In previous years Hali-
fax area groups assisted with efforts at Canaveral Na-
tional Seashore.
  Statewide, some 14,500 volunteers participated last
year and a Center for Marine Conservation spokesman
said more are expected this year because of a gorwing
environmental awareness among Floridians.
  'No question about it," said Alexander-Block in
agreement. "It's just incredible how many more people
are becoming aware of our fragile ecosystem."
  For more information on the cleanup effort, call
Alexander-Block of Greenpeace International at 427-
9420, Rhonda Donahoo-Gumto of the South Volusai
Sea Turtle Society at 423-4529 or Sandra Hines of
Canaveral National Seashore at 428-3384.
























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                                                     Record turnout expected+
                                                     for'. I Sept.               22 @:beach                     cleanup
                                                        This year's Beach Clean up is ex-         nation-aW California-min beach
                                                     pected to be the biggest yet, with Flor-     clean up participants.
                                                     ida'sphapter of the Center for Marine           Over 27 states are participating this
                                                     .Conservation marshalling forces to          ye ,ar with-an 'expected turriout-of over
                                                     meet ah informal challenge from              100,000 people. Contact the Zone , ., i
                                                     CMCs California group. Florida               Captamin your.area for details on how
                                                     needs@to field some 20,000 volunteers        you or your organization can help....
                                                     this September 22 in order to lead ft           It's a day at the beach!


Volunteers pick up where trash left off

By Kristy Goodfellow
Staff Writer

     AHHHHH! The beaches are 
beautiful once again.
     About 400 volunteers donned
gardening gloves and mosquito
repellent to collect trash on
Collier County's beaches and at
the Rookery Bay estuary Saturday
as part of the Florida Coastline
Cleanup.
     "I'm impressed with the num-
ber of different groups and the
number of people involved," said
Georgia Jeppesen organizer of the
Collier Cleanup. "It's incredible
the amount of community sup-
port."
     Jeppeson helped organize
groups from Barrion Collier High
School, Naples High School and
Edison Community College at
Rookery Bay Saturday.

We should help clean it up because we're
going to be living here>'
      Ann Walsh, Naples marine biology student

She said, "I wanted the stu-
dents to be aware of this pristine
area."
     The students dragged them-
selves out of bed early on a Satur-
day morning for the 9 a.m.
cleanup for many reasons.
     Frances Turner, an ECC stu-
dent, joked that she was there to
do her civic duty and get some
extra credit.
     But she added that she came 
because Jeppesen told her class
that if they collect enough gar-
bage from one source, they will
show the statistics to the company
that produces the garbage.
     Jeppesen said they hope the
company will want to improve its
image on preserving the environ-
ment and will do something about
the problem.
     A company might just print
"Please Dispose of Waste Prop-
erly" on the side of a can or it
might contribute money toward
educating young people about
environmental problems, she said.
     About 20 students from Barron
Collier came out for the cleanup
as part of the first of 15 commu-
nity service projects they will be
participating in this year.
     "This is part of Barron
Collier's program to help the com-
munity out in thanks for the schol-
arships," said Tim Duncan,
student body president.
     Junior class president,
Christina Dukes, said that the stu-
dents are trying to give something
back to the community.
     Naples High marine biology
student Ann Walsh simply said she
was there, "because I care."
     "We should help clean it up be-
cause we're going to be living
here," Walsh said.
     Jeppesen said that last year
331 volunteers covered 51 miles of
beach. Statewide 14,000 volun-
teers scoured 900 miles of beach
and collected and classified 200
tons of garbage.
     This year, Jeppesen said, more
people volunteered to help in the
cleanup. How many tons of trash
were collected won't be known
unitl a count can be completed.











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                                                            IS
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                                                                    Coastal cleanup program
                                                                    part of Bay area effort
                                                                 By KEN K    NIGHT                        Inc. plant. The fertilizer company
                                                                 Tribune Staff Writer                     was sponsoring the local cleanup on
                                                                   . GIBSONTON - Trudy Kensin-            the Alafia.
                                                                 ger loves the Alafia River. She has          "I try to think of ways to make
                                                                 lived on its southern bank for two       people clean up," said the Wiscon-
                                                                 years.                                   sin native who moved to Florida
                                                                    S
                                                                          hen she and h                   three years ago with her husband,
                                                                     o  w                 er husband,
                                                                 Jeff, took to the river with a fishing   Art. They bought a 30-foot pontoon
                                                                 net and garbage bags Saturday, it        boat a few months ago.
                                                                 was like cleaning their yard.               IA mallard duck slipped below
                                                                    "We just like to keep the river       the tranquil waters and six brown
                                                                 natural so the wildlife can live with    'pelicans, perched on pilings In the
                                                                 the human beings," said Kensinger,       Alafia, eyed the cleanup crews as
                                                                 an environmentalist and a member         they worked their way along the
                                                                 of Citizens for the Alafia River         river picking up cans, Styrofoarn
                                                                 Preservation (CARP). _                   floats, paper bags, plastic bags,
                                                                    The Kensingers and as many as         clothing, cartons, car batteries, tires
                                                                 30 other people! motored along the       and plastic six-pack rings, which
                                                                 Alafla River Saturday morning,           can be dangerous to turtles, birds
                                                                 cleaning up the shoreline as a part      and fish.
                                                                 of Tampa Bay Day.                          . "If they get their heads stuck in
                                                                    The annual coastal cleanup is         them, it's a slow death," said Gerald
                                                                 sponsored by the Center for Marine       Johnson, assistant manager of the
                                                                 Conservation, the Tampa Bay Re.          Tampa Bay Sanctuary National Au-
                                                                 glonal Planning Council and the          dubon Society. Johnson and a crew
                                                                 Southwest Florida Water Manage-          spent most of the morning cleaning
                                                                 ment District.                           up Bird Island.
                                                                    Cleanup crews dotted the Alafia           "There is an incredible amount
                                                     .,zr        from Interstate 75 to Bird Island, a     of garbage for such a little island,"
                                                                 bird estuary in Hillsborough Bay.        yelled Dan Diaz of CARP as he and
                                                     <_          They snagged everything from plas-       the Kensingers cleaned a toe of
                                                                 tic toys to old tires on rims.           land jutting out into the river near
                                                                    Yvonne Vistain of Gibsonton           the U.S. Highway 41 bridge. "You
                                                                 started picking up garbage even be-      can't walk 10 feet without finding
                                                                 fore climbing into her pontoon boat.     something."
                                                                    "I do this wherever I go," Vis-           Within five minutes, the trio col-
                                                                 tain said after picking up an empty      lected 2@j bags of trash.
                                                                 wine cooler.bottle at Williams Park,       . Keasinger said CARP members
                                                                 which is at the foot of the Doyle E. already are making plans to clean
                                                                                      P of
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                                                                 Carlton Bridge and the Gardinier up the river again in the spring.









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                        Volunteers to Clean Up Beaches
                                                                                      were plastics such as cups, straws and bags, said
                                          By RYAN TUTAK                               Kathy Zeller, vice president for Wildlife Inc., which
                                                StafrWriter                           will coordinate the cleanup in Sarasota County and in
                           More than 700 volunteers from southwest Florida            Manatee County with Manatee's Parks and Recre-
                        will comb public beaches, parks and offshore waters           ation department.
                        Saturday morning to -pick up trash that organizers               Marine animals often mistake the    *plastics for food
                        say points to the need for better laws to protect             and then die after eating it, -and sea bir&'often get
                        marine life.                                                  tangled in monofilament fishing.string and nets and
                           The event, the largest single-day beach cleanup in         may die from strangulation, Zeller said. Last year 500
                        Florida, is part of the fourth annual National Coastal        miles of monofilament fishing line was collected in the
                        Cleanup Day from 9 to 12 a.m.                                 cleanup.
                           Last year volunteers collected more than 400,000              Florida's Coastal Cleanup Day last year resulted in
                        pounds of trash in Florida, more than in any other            a state law that bans the release of balloons on state
                        state, said Heidi Lovett, statewide coordinator of the        beaches, food, Zeller said.
                        event for the Center for Marine Conservation, a non-             Participants in this year's cleanup have their sights    i
                        profit organization.                                          on three more laws, Zeller said.
                           The immediate goal of the cleanup is to call atten-           They hope to strengthen a state law banning the
                        tion to the amount of garbage and dramatize t1ae              intentional disposal of fishing line and nets in the
                        extent of litter on beaches and in the water.                 water; to modify an international law to prevent
                           "It' gets the message across that we don't want            offshore dumping of plastic in the Gulf of Mexico; and
                        garbage on our beach and affecting the marine life,"          to introduce a local law that would ban plastic straws,
                        Lovett said. "The hope is to teach people that drop-          on public beaches, she said.
                        ping debris bn beaches is not wise and that we pollute           About 400 people in Manatee County will pick up
                        the coastal area when we do that."                            trash along 37 miles of beach, including the Anna
                           More than 65 percent of the trash collected last year      Maria area and Palma Sola Causeway, Zeller said.











                                              ;
                                                        AYBREAK.
                                                'D

                                                  ENGLEWOOD.

                                                BEACH CLEA_NUP,SATURDAY1,..11.
                                                  Calling all beach,buddies! Join the Englewo'odt'-
                                                Branch.  of the American Littoral Society from,[email protected]
                                                ami to ri6on,.on Saturday, Sept. 22, to help clean'-,,.
                                                Up the coast of debris on Florida's annu     al,Coastal
                                                CieanupDay.
                                                   Data cards and supplies will be distributed froin
                                                specific points along the shore. Tile Jaycees, the
                                                4-H, and nianv clubs froni the high school will be
                                                oil the
                                                        Joh. VOILIMM-1; will incet at Englewood
                                                Public Beach at 9 a.m. If ),oil are interested in
                                                being a "beach buddv- call the ALS at 474-5180.
                                                This is it statewide e(fort, so your hard work will
                                                be documented.


FOURTH ANNUAL FLORIDA
BEACH CLEANUP PLANNED

By Sarah Demshar
Staff Writer

  Calling all Englewood area "beach bud-
dies!" It's Beach Cleanup time again!
  The Englewood Branch of the American
Litioral Society (ALS), coordinator of the
Center for Marine Conservation's (CMC)
fourth annual Florida Coastal Cleanup, is
looking for volunteers to help collect trash
from area beaches on Saturday, Sept 22nd.
  Englewood volunteers will be collecting
trash from bayside and Gulf beaches along
Manasota Key including the Englewood
Public Beach, Stump Pass Beach, Blind
Pass Beach, Manasosta Key Beach and
Sandpiper Key. Volunteers will meet at 9
a.m. at Englewood Beach and the cleanup
will be held from 9 a.m. to noon. Volun-
teers are advised to bring a pair of gloves,
liquid refreshments, wetable shoes and to
wear proper beach attire. CMC is providing 
all data cards, plastic bags and other
supplies ALS officials said.
     The second beach cleanup held this year
in Englewood, volunteers willbe collecting
trash for recycling and other proper dis-
posal along with providing valuable data
for CMC's National Marine Database -- data
which determines the types and sources of
trash injuring wildlife and destroying our
beaches and estuaries.
     According to Heidi Lovett, coordinator of
the statewide Florida Coastal Cleanup,
"Floridian are very serious about the
marine debris problem. They are reporting

	Plase see CLEANUP, 7A


Englewood Times

Cleanup
From Page 1A

cruiseline dumping violations to
our St. Petersbur office and the
Coast Guard, and are urging new
local laws to curtail the use of
disposable plastic and polystyrene
(Styrofoam) containers in their
communities, all to help keep
Florida's beaches, mangroves,
reefs and estuaries clean of un-
wanted debris."
     "last year," Lovett said,
14,632 volunteers picked up
more than 200 tons of debris along
911 miles of beaches." Lovett
added that Flordia has the second
largest coastline in the U.S. --
second only to Alaska. "We are
only cleaning one-tenth of our
coastline," Lovett said, "We have
nearly 9,000 miles because of our
many islands."
     Lovett said that this year, volun-
teers will be using a revised data
card that emphasizes the identifi-
cation of sources of debris and has
expanded its list to include mili-
tary, oil/gas, shipping/freight or
fishing companies' identification
an/or addresses. All information,
Lovett explained, will be for-
warded to the U.S. Coast Guard to
be used as evidence to put viol-
ators on notice and to prosecute,
where possible. Any person con-
victed of disposing plastic trash
anywhere at sea, or other kinds of
trash too close to shore, may be
fined $25,000 or imprisoned, she
added.
     According to Lovett, Florida's
Coastal Celanup always recycles as
muchof the collected debris as
possible --- emphasizing that recy-
cled trash would not end up on the
coast. "This year we will send all
the monofiliment fishing line to
Berkley in Iowa," Lovett said.
"They are a manufacturer of fish-
ing tackle." This is the first time
that the fishing line has been
recycled, she noted.

     At last year's Coastal Cleanup,
volunteers collected over 190
miles of monofilament line. The
plastic fishing line and other 
plastics are extremely dangerous
to marine life. "Thousands of


				PAGE 7A

seabirds, sea turtles, small whales,
dolphins, fish and manatees that
frequent Florida waters and
coastal areas have been killed by
either entanglement or through
ingestion of pieces of plastic."
Lovett said.
     Nationally, CMC's Coastal
Cleanups wre held in 25 U.S.
states and territories, Canada and
Mexico. More than 65,000 volun-
teers cleaned 3,000 miles of
coastline and 850 tons of debris
were collected. CMC is the leading
organization dedicated solely to
the protectionof marine wildlife
and their habitats.














                                                                                                                                    Healthful Victim
                                                                                                                                              Fisheries experts told the-
                                                                                                                                              P.S. Congress that grow-
                                                                                                                                              ing demand for swordfish,
                                                                                                                                    atastyseatoodfavoredbytheheafth-
                                                                                                                                    conscious, is decimating the spe-
                                                                                                                                    cies. William Fox, assistant adryinis-
                                                                                                                                    trator of the National Oceanic and
                                                                                                                                    Atmospheric Administration, said
                                                                                                                                    that "the resource is clearly over-
                                                                                                                                    fished, and the situation has be-
                                                                                                                                    come significantly worse during the
                                                                                                                                    past five years.." Protecting sword-
                                                                                           -7-














                                                                                                                                              Y.1
                            California, Law Spells Out Plans to right Oil spills.
                            f ,         LwAngem Mmft                     cleanup plan in the nation.                  an additional tax of 25 cents           ioi  to appoint a state oil-spill "czar" or
                                                                            The statute,.which takes-effect           each barrel of oil.                 -        response administrator to set up a
                              SACRAMENTO               Saying    that    immediately, is a direct result of             In the event of a spill      the state'    detailed comprehensive plan for
                            "anounce of prevention woul -1 cer-          the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska         would be given unlimited authority           the safe transportation,of oil along
                            tainly be worth a barrel of spilled          last year and the British Petroleum          to borrow additional funds for               California's coastline. :
                            crude oil," California Gov. @ George         tanker spill off Huntington Beach,           cleanup' operations. The money                  These steps are expected to in-
                            Deukmejian signed into law Satur-            Calif., in February                          would have to be repaid by the. oil          clude.:surptise inspections of tank-
                            iday the most comprehensive                     The law will @;" a $100 mil-              companies.              .,  I                ers and terminals, up-to-date safety
                            offshore. oil-spill prevention and           lion cleanup fund to be financed by            The governor is given the power            plans for refine  'ries, use of radar for
                                                                                                                                                                   tanker traffic, and requiring tug-
                                                                                                                                                                 I boat escorts in hazardous waters.






                        Volunteers to Clean Up Beaches
                                                                                       were plastics such as CUPS, Straws and bags,. said
                                           By RYAN TUTAK                               Kathy Zeller, vice president for Wildlife Inc., Which
                                                 Staff Writer                          will coordinate the cleanup in Sarasota Countyand in
                           More than 700 volunteers from southwest Florida             Manatee County with Manatee's Parks. and Recre-
                        will comb public beaches, parks and offshore waters            ation department.
                        Saturd  ay. ii@orning to pick up trash that organizers           Marine animals often mistake the, plastics for food
                        say points to the need for better laws, to protect             and then die after eating it, -and sea birds often get
                        marine life.                                                   tangled in monofilament fishing string and nets and
                           The event, the largest single-day beach cleanup in          may die from strangulation, Zeller said. Last year 500
                        Florida, is part of the fourth annual National Coastal         miles of monofilament fishing line was collected in the
                        Cleanup Day from 9 to 12 a.m.                                  cleanup.
                           Last year volunteers collected more than 400,000              Florida's Coastal Cleanup Day last year resulted in
                        pounds of trash in Florida, more than in any other             a state law that bans the release of balloons on state
                        state, said Heidi Lovett, statewide coordinator of the         beaches, food, Zeller said.
                        event for the Center for Marine Conservation, a non-             Participants in this year's cleanup have their sights
                        profit organization.                                           on three more laws, Zeller said.
                           The immediate goalof the cleanup is to Call atten-            They hope to strengthen a state law banning the
                        tion to the amount of garbage and dramatize tile               intentional disposal of fishing line and nets in the
                        extent of litter oD beaches and in the water.                  water; to modify an international law to prevent
                           "It gets the message across that we don't want              offshore dumping of plastic in the Gulf of Mexico; and
                        garbage on our beach and affecting the marine life,"           to introduce a local law that would ban plastic straws
                        Lovett said. "The hope is to teach people that drop-           on public beaches, she said.
                        ping debris  'bn beaches is not wise and that we pollute         About 400 people in Manatee County will pick up
                        the coastal area when we do that."                             trash along 37 miles of beach, including the Anna
                           .More than 65 percent of the trash collected last year      Maria area and Palma Sola Causeway, Zeller said.





                                              .''.D.A.Y BREAK
                                                  ENGLE W- 0 OD'-

                                                              CLEANUP SATURDAY                      !!A!
                                                   Calling all beach. buddies!J oin the Englewoo
                                                 Branch of,the American Littoral Society from 9'
                                                 a.m to noon, on Saturday',: Sept. 22,*,t(j help clea@@'
                                                 up the co@st of debris on Florida'sannual Coastal...'
                                                 Cleanup Day.
                                                   Data cards and supplies Nvill be distributed from
                                                 specific J)oi nts along the shore. Tile Jaycees, the
                                                 4-1-1, and many clubs from the high school will be
                                                 oil t lie jot). Volunteers will ineet at Englewood.
                                                 Public Beach at 9 a.in. If YOU are interested in
                                                 being a ''beach buddy" call the ALS at. 474-5180.
                                                 This is a statewide effort, SO VOU1' liard work will
                                                 be documented.


Beach cleanups play major role
in legislation on marine litter

By Marilyn Hoeckel

  It's beach cleanup time again!
Although the national beach cleanup
will not take place until Sept. 22 of
this year, many states are conducting
spring cleanup events, and Florida is
among them.
  Boca Grande's cleanup will take
place this Saturday, April 28.
Volunteers are needed! Come to the
Theatre Mall parking lot at 8:30 a.m.
and be a part of Boca Grande's
cleanup effort.
  The Center for Marine
Conservation, the sponsor of the
natinal beach cleanups, has com-
piled statistics about the 198
National Beach Cleanup held last fall.
  here are a few of the national
statistics"
     Beach cleanups were held in 25
U.S. states and territories, Canada
and MExico;

     More than 65,000 people partici-
pated;

     Nearly 3,000 miles of coastline
were cleaned up; and

     850 tons of debris were collected.

Here are the Florida statistics:

     14,904 volunteers participated-
the most of any state. (California had
the next largest number of partici-
pants, with 10,077 people coming out.)

     911 miles of beaches wre
cleaned up;
  
     Almost 200 tons of trash was col-
lected; and

     Volunteers collected 467 miles of
monofilament fishing line. (Fishing
line is deadly to marine birds and
mammals, who become entangled in
it and die slowly from starvation and
dehydration.)
  And here are the Boca Grande
statistics:

   15 people participated, far fewer
that participated in the previous
springs's cleanup, for which more than
60 people came out.

   11 miles of beach and bay shore-
line were cleaned up; and

   About 630 pounds of trash was 
bagged.

  As important as the trash removed
during cleanups is the information
gathered at the same time.
  During beach cleanups, information
about the types and amounts of trash
picked up is collected on official,
standardized data cards supplied by
the Center for Marine Conservation
(CMC), the sponsor of the national
cleanups.
   CMS takes this information back to
the source of the marine trash and
encourages possible contributors to
the problem to become part of the
solution.
  In addition to identifying specific
sources of marine debris, information
from beach cleanup data provides
real numbers to illustrate the magni-
tude of the problem.
  As a result of this kind of informa-
tion extractin, legislators across the
country are coming to the conclusion
that marine debris is more than a lit-
ter problem and are enacting laws to
eliminate the problems that trash in
the oceans causes to wildlife.
  Be a part of this worthwhile effort!
Give a hand Saturday!





                                                            Beach clean-up.
                                                            is this weekend

                                                            By SARAH DEMSHAR
                                                            Staff Writer

                                                            Attention     all beach buddies! This Saturday,
                                                            April 27th, will be Manasota Key Beach Clean-up
                                                            time again in Englewood.
                                                            Sponsored by the         ` Englewood Branch of the
                                                            American Littoral Society (ALS), the semi-annual
                                                            clean-up will be held from 9 a.M. to noon, and all
                                                            those interested in continuing the Earth Week
                                                            celebration are urged to join in this local en-
                                                            vironmental effort.
                                                            According to Sydney Crampton, coordinator for.
                                                            the ALS, the beaches targeted for clean-up are
                                                            Manasota Key.,        Beach, Blind Pass Beach,
                                                            Englewood Public. Beach, and. Stump Pass Beach.
                                                            "This is a special project for our area," Crampton
                                                            said, "and is being held in concordance with Earth
                                                            Week. People are geared-up for the spring
                                                            cleanup, she added.
                                                            Joining the ALS, members of the Lemon Bay
                                                            Conservancy, 'Englewood Ham Radio Operators
                                                            (EARS), Lemon Bay High School's Environmen-
                                                            tal Club and R.O.T.C., several Veteran's groups,
                                                            and all concerned residents will don their tennis                   
                                                                         Please see(BEACH, 11 A

                                          BEACH		Sun-Times  4-25-90
							From Page 1A

							shoes and gloves, and collect		beach clean-ups a year, due to
							trash from the coastal areas for	the heavy use of the are's
							the three-hour clean-up along		beaches and waters.  Crampton
							seven miles of beaches and		said that all recyclable items
							bayfront.					collected will be donated to local
							  Data cards will be given to		recycling groups.
							each volunteer, "crampton said.	  In last year's spring clean-up,
							Rangers from Oscar Shearer		volunteers collected 270 tons of
							State Park will help in the		debris and nearly 190 miles of
							state-owned Stump Pass area.		monofilament.  The plastic fish-
							Free garbage bags, drinks, and	ing line is dangerous to sea birds
							a native gum tree will be given	and sea turtles, which can easily
							to volunteers, according to		become entangled in it.  Other
							Crampton.  Volunteers will		items, such as ballons and
							gather at the North Pavillion of	plastic six-pack holders are also
							Englewood Public Beach, at 9		a menace to wildlife.
							a.m.						  A brown bag lunch Beach
							  Although there is a statewide	Clean-up meeting is scheduled at 
							Coastal Celan-up in September		the ALS today, Wednesday, from
							Englewood area residents have		noon to 1 p.m.  Volunteers are
							traditionally conducted two		invited to attend, or call 474-5180
													for more information.	
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                                                   Al -70


               Raw: sewage
               still pouring'.
               into ocean                                                                                           4A41
                  WEST PALM BEACH (AP)
               Thousands of tourists stayed off the
               beaches and boaters avoided the In-
               tracoastal Waterway as millions of
               gallons of raw sewage continued'to
               pour Into the water Saturday, health'
               officials said.
                  About 50 miles of beaches, from_
               Jupiter In north Palm Beach County,
               south to Pompano Beach _ In,                            Sewaae Continues to Flow lfito'w4er
               Broward County, remained c'.1osed
               as workers used jackhammers to
                                                                         V.@. SM                  H (API@
               break up 40 cubic yards of cement                         VVE I FADVIL      BEAC           I         Beaches ffirther south      were al-     sure sucked a manhole cover onto
               that had been poured around the.'                       Thousands of tourists stayed off          lowed to stay open in a         decision    the pipe.
               pipe Thursday in an unsuccessful a    .t-               the beaches and      boaters avoided      that balanced public health con-               The utility sent the excess sew-
                                                                       the Intracoastal Waterway as raw          cerns against "the convenience of           age into the only available outlets -
               tempt to seal the leak.                                 sewage from a broken pipe contin-         the public, including the tourist           the ocean, the Intracoastal             d
                  "We're closing the beaches be-                                                                                                                                                 an
               cause we have three quarters of a                       ued to pour into the water Satur-         industry and the economy of the             canals. Beaches will remain closed
               million gallons of raw sewage gone'                     day, officials said.                      county," said Frank Gargiulo, di-           until water samples come up nega-
                                                                         About 25 miles of beaches, from         rector of engineering for the Palm          tive for contamination, officials
               out the Palm Beach inlet, said                          Jupiter south to Boynton Beach in         Beach County Health Unit.                   said.
               James Howell, director of the Palm                      Palm Beach County, remained                  Health. Unit director James                 More than 3 million gallons 6f
               Beach County Health Unit,                               closed Saturday night as workers          Howell said workers wouldn't be             raw sewage a day continued to be-'
                  Hamblen said workers wouldn't.                       used jackhammers to break up 40           afile to repair the break until Sun-        dumped into the ocean a mile"
               be able to repair the break, until,                     cubic yards of concrete that had          day at the earliest. The 42-inch            offshore from Palm Beach, 750,000 J'
               Sunday at the earliest. The 42-inch,                    been poured around the pipe               concrete pipe - one of three major          gallons a day continued to be,:
               concrete pipe - one of three major:                     Thursday in an unsuccessful at-           pipes leading to the county's treat-        pumped into the Intracoastal@:
               pipes leading to the county's treat-                    tempt to seal the Wednesday night         ment plant -. split open after a            Waterway in West Palm Beach, of-,
               ment plant - split open after a                         leak.                                     valve blew and the resulting pres-          ficials said.
               valve blew and the resulting pres-.
               sure sucked a manhole cover onto
               the pipe.
                  The utility sent the excesssew7,@.
               age into the only available outlets
               - the ocean, the Intracoastal and
               canals. Beaches will remain closed@
               until water samples come up nega,,"@
               live for contamination, offioatil
               said.










                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                        A
                             ENVIRONMENT

                           INFORMATION AND ISSUES SHAPING EARTH CONSCIOUSNESS
                                                                                              THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1990
                            EARTH NOTES/BY ANITA MANNING
                            Thousands Will
                            hit the beaches
                            to gather trash
                                 You may have more than the usual
                            company if you head for the shore this fall.
                            More than 100,000 volunteers in 25 coastal
                            states will be on beaches this month and next
                            counting trash. They'll pick it up and have it
                            hauled away while they're at it.
                                 Its an oper-ation. called National Beach
                            Cleanup, part of the Washington, D.C.-based
                            Center for Maxine Conservation's Clean
                            Ocean Campaign, which gathers data on
                            beach litter, tabulates it and passes it along to
                            government policy makers. The goal: To
                            identify both the source of oceanfront dump-
                            ing and the scope of the problem.
                                 Last year's beach cleanup involved
                            65,000 volunteers who collected and cata-
                            logued 3 million pieces of trash, weighing 861
                            tons, from 3,000 miles of beach. Included in
                            the haul: 164,141 cigarette butts, 135,352 glass
                            bottles and 106,301 foam cups.
                                 Sound like fun? If you Eve in a coastal
                            state, check at a local 7-Eleven      store for
                            details or call 800-262-2532.
 

										The Sea June Star - Sunday, September 22, 19

						U.S. holds cleanup day
						for trash-strewn beaches

						Litter runs from dead birds to cocaine

														Hening was disgusted by the low turnout
						The Associated Press                      	of surfer volunteers.
						  Thousand of beachgoers, including
						politicians anxious to put their best envi-	"There are more mothers here from
						ronmental foot forward, searched for		East LA than surfers. "Hening lamented
						trash instead of sun, surf and fun during		"They are in favor of this but the big
						Saturday's national coastal cleanup.		question is, are they going to walk up and
						down the beach for an hour? They still
						  Under driving rain in New Jersey and		haven't gotten away from the 'Beach
						the blaring Florida sun, volunteers froun		Blanket Bingo' mentality."
						broken glass; crack vials, dead birds,
						batteries, hair rollers and tons of plastic	  Volunteers were hard to come by in
						and cigarette butts.					Virginia, where military workers who
														had formed the bulk of volunteers for
						  "I can't believe we're finding dead		past cleanups were preoccupied with the
						birds on this beach." said Liz Nickel, 56,	crisis in the Persian Gulf.
						as she worked along the coast of Santa
						Monica, Calif.  "I live here.  My daughter	  "Sixty-five percent of our volunteers
						grew up here. Since 1964 this was our		have been from the military. Now many
						favorite beach. It's too sad for me to		of them are either deployed overseas or
						come down here now. It's disgusting."		involved in supporting the troops," said
														Robert K. Dean, a local environmental
						  Coastal Cleanup Day is an end-of-			activist and an organizer of the states
						summer national event coordinated by	 	cleanup.
						the Center for Marina Conservation in St.		  He said 6,700 volunteers picked up
						Petersburg, Fla.						more than 60 tons of trash during a Clean-
														the Bay Day in June, but only 2,000 had
						  In Florida, politicians were out in force	volunteered for Saturday's effort.
						to show their support for the environ-			
						ment. Gov. Bob Martinez and his Demo-		  The cleanup produced some surprises
						cratic challenger, former Sen. Lawton		among the tons of disposable cups and
														cans and plastic six-pack rings round on
						  "When Florida was a smaller place,		the nation's beaches.
						people were of the mind-set that the
						beach was everybody's garbage can with		  in South Carolina, where the cleanup
						an unlimited capacity to absorb whatever		was held a week early on Sept. 15 to
						they threw into it," said Sen. Bob Gra-		accommodate the tide schedule, a voluo-
						ham, D-Fla. who wore a T-shirt, shorts		teer at Edisto Beach found a bag of white
						and a baseball hat as he helped clean up		powder with a razor blade.
						the Tampa Bay coast. "Florida's coast-			
						line is defined by its beaches just like		  "The police officer said it was about
						some areas of the country are defined by		$300 to $400 in cocaine," said cleanup
						their mountains."						coordinator Norman Fox.


						  In Texas. a 3.9 million gallon oil spill in	  Rainy, cold weather did not deter
						the Gulf of Mexico in June and a 700,000		volunteers in New Jersey.  The 1,000
						gallon spill in the Houston Ship Channel		pounds of garbage collected by volun-
						in July helped rouse volunteers.  Alice		teers at beaches in Keansburg included
						Law of Clean Galveston, coordinating the		crack vials, syringes, cigarette filters and
						Galveston cleanup, said she expected up		broken glass, according to Andrew
						to 4,000 volunteers this year, compared		willner of the American Littoral Society.
						with less than 3,200 last year.			  A cleanup effort in nearby Sandy Hook
														was reacheduled for Sunday due to the
						  Celebrity soaked Malibu in California		rain, but organizers saw a silver lining in
														the clouds.
						          								                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  rain. but                                                                                                                                                   Celebrity-soaked 





                              Beach cleanup nets record
                                                                 ATLANTA     100,000 participants.
                                                          EPA staff report    Nearly 40,000 volunteers including
                              T
                                    HE EPA GULF OF Mexico Pro-               federal agencies, the oil and gas indus-
                                    gram Office last month announced         try, private conservation groups, local
                                   record results for the beach clean-       govemments, leaders from Gulf of
                               - up that took place last September.          Mexico ports and the commercial and
                                The goal this year was to recruit            recreational fishing industries joined
                              25,000 volunteers to cover approxi-            citizens from the five Gulf states to ad-
                              mately 1,000 miles of the Gulf's U.S.          dress the issue of marine debris.
                              coastline. The goal was exceeded by             In conjunction with the Gulf of Mex-
                                                                             ico Program, "The Children's Alliance
                                                                             for Protection of the Environment"
                                                                             (CAPE) spearheaded a program of
                                                                             40,000 young volunteers participating
                                                                             in a wider Caribbean area beach clean-
                                                                             up.
                                                                              Volunteers recorded data on the trash
                                                                             collected for inclusion in the National
                                                                             Marine Data Base located at the Center
                                                                             for Marine Conservation in Washing-
                                                                             ton, D.C. The following listing repre-
                                                                             sents the results for each state:

                                                                               State     Volunteers Tons       Miles

                                                                             Alabarna         2,618       37       62
                                                                             Florida         10,164     134      710
                                                                             Louisiana        6,450     '125     296
                                                                             Mississippi      1,865       22     110
                                                                             lum             15,822     232      lu
                                                                             Totals          36,918     551     1,363

                                                                              Several tons of collected trash were
                                                                             recycled. Texas, for example, recy-
                                                                             cled 19 tons of plastic.
                                                                              In addition to the figures of trash
                                                                             collected and recycled, petitions were
                                                                             gathered to encourage Special Area
                                                                             Designation (SAD) of the Gulf of
                                                                             Mexico under the provisions of an in-
                                                                             temational treaty (Annex V of the In-
                                                                             ternational Convention for the Preven-
                                                                             tion of Pollution from Ships). The
                                                                             petitions signed bycitizens from the
                                                                             Gulf states were presented to Admiral
                                                                             Kime, head of the U.S. Coast Guard.w



                                                                                          STAff PHOTO THOMAS BENDER
                                                         Gilbert Solley, 69, does his part Saturday in the coastal cleanup around Palma Sola Say.
                                                         Volunteer Comb Beaches
                                                         In Search of a Little. Litter
                                                                                                                    bottles, Styroam cups and cigarette butts d
                                                                         By PAULA PARK                              the three-hour cleanup. Last year, only 167
                                                                          staff Writ.                          participated in the cleanup in Manatee.
                                                          Twelve-year-old Chris Dale, dragging a giant                But getting rid of litter that can harm sea turtles
                                                         glastic bag of garbage, teetered on one of the             and wading birds was only one goal ofthe cleanup
                                                         oulders lining Cortez Beach on Saturday until he                           unized -locally by the county Park#
                                                                                                                                
                                                         finally fell off and nicked his big toe.                   ratirg. Department and a private environ-
                                                          But as he stuck a bandage on the      cut Chris mid       mental group called Wildlife hie-, based in Manatee
                                                         he did not mind hurting his too because he was             County.
                                                         working for a worthwhile cause: Manatee County's             The effort was part of a nationwide campaign to
                                                         third annual coastal cleanup. -      I                 clean the nation's beaches that was sponsored by
                                                          "It was worth it to clean up the beach " said             the Center for Marine Conservation in Washing-
                                                         Chris, a sixth-grader at W.D. Sugg Middle hool.           ton, D.C.
                                                         "If I wasn't here, Id just be sitting at home, on the        The Manatee campaigners kept an inventory of
                                                         couch. Besides, my mom told me to come."                   how much and what kind of trash they picked up,
                                                          Chris was one of about 450 county resident a who           said Kathy Zeller, vice president of Wildlifi I=
                                                         scoured 22 miles of county beaches for old cang            Confinued on 14A
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                   National. Beach
                   Cleanup Gets
                   Mixed, Reviews".
                        By The Associated Press             Me rtinez and his Democratic chal-
                                                        lenger, former Sen. Lawton Chiles,
                   Thousands of beach goers, includ-     hit the beaches to gather trash.
                   ing many a politician anxious to       "When Florida was a smaller
                   put his or her best environmental    place, people were of the mind-set .
                   foot forward, searched for trash in- that the beach was everybody's gar-
                   dead of sun, surf and fun during     bage can with an unfited capaci-
                   Saturday's national coastal          ty to absorb whatvaver IWI--Y- therew
                   cleanup.                             into it," said Democratic Sen. Bob
                   Under driving rain in New Jer-       Graham, who wore a T-shirt,
                   sey and the blazing Florida sun,     shorts and a baseball cap as he
                   volunteers found broken glass,       helped clean up the shore near                 
                   crack vials, dead birds, batteries,  Tampa Bay. "Florida's coastline is        
                   hair rollers and tons of plastic and defined by its beaches just like
                   cigarette butte.                     some areas of the country are de-
                   I can't believe we're finding,       formed by their mountains."
                   dead birds on this beach," said Liz    In Texas, a 3.9-million-gallon oil
                   Nickel, 56, as she worked along the  spill in the Gulf of Mexico in June
                   coast of Santa Monica, Calif. "I live and a 700,000-gallon spill in the
                   here. My daughter grew up here.      Houston Ship Channel in July
                   Since 1964, this was our favorite    helped rouse volunteers. Alice Law
                   beach. It's too sad for me to come   of Clean Galveston, coordinating
                                                                                                                                                                A
                   'down here now. It's disgusting."    the Galveston cleanup, said she 01-
                                                                                                           
                   Coastal Cleanup Day is a nation-     pected up to 4,000 volunteers this
                   al end-of-summer event coordinat-    year, compared with less than
                                                                                                            
                    by the Center for Marine Con-    3,200 last year.
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                      in Cab-
                   tion in St. Petersburg.           Celebrity-soaked Mah                                                                                                                                                                                 And in Florida, politicians were     flornia, where beachgoers lie d                                                                   
                   out in force to show their support   to look up at the Stan in the day-                                                                 
                   for the environment Gov. Bob         time, was crowded
                                                                               with cleanup
                                                        volunteers. But at Surfrider Beach,       
                                                        environmental activist Glenn Hen
                   'I     can't believe
                   can                                  ing was disgusted by the low turn-
                                                        out of surfer volunteers.
                   we refinding                          "There are more mothers here
                                                        from East L.A. than surfers,' Hen-      
                   Wead birds on this                   ing lamented. "They are in favor of
                                                                                                                           
                                                        this but the big question is: Are
                                                                                                                                                                                                   they going to walk up and down the
                   .beach. I live here.                                                                                                                       
                                                        beach 'for an hour? They still h
                   My daughter grew                     ven't gotten away from 
                                                        Blanket Bingo' mentality.
                                                          Volunteers were hard to come by
                   UP here. Since                       in Virginia, where military work-        Louis Valentin, a volunteer from New York City, rolls a discarded tire offe beach
                   1964, this was                       ere, who had formed the bulk of          about 60 people helped clean up the beach during a nationwide waterfront cleanup 
                                                        volunteers for past cleanups, were
                                                                pied with the crisis in the
                   ourfavorite beach.                         Gulf.                            June, but only 2,000 volunteered
                                                          
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                                                                                 ~                                                        ~                                                    ing was disgusted ~low
                ~                                                       out of surfer volunteers.
                                                                ~e                          me,
                                                                                more mot~                                                                       ~                                                    from East L.A. than surfers,'! Hen,'-,
                                                                       ented. ~in favor of
                                                   is,        ing
                           b~                                                                         ~1pn
                                                              ~ b~~                                                                           to         ~2pt~      ~        ~          =Van hour? They still h~                h      1                                                           d.~                                                ven't gotten away from the 'Beach
                ~rew
                                                              Blanket Bingo' mentality."
                                                                Volunteers were hard to come           by
                      here. Since                             in V~   military work-       ~      a'                                                                                                                                                  AP LASE~                                                                                                                       n~rom. N~y, rolls a discarded tire ~e~e~~psp~ steady r~,
                                                                   ~                                                                   ~                                                    ~    formed the bulk of                                                                                                                                                                                                    V
                1964, this was                                volunteers for past cleanupe, were            ~le helped clean up the beach during a nationwide waterfront cleanup effort.
                                                              ~ with the crisis in the
                ~e beach.                                 an                                      June, but 'only 2,000 volunteered                                                                                                            syringes~2per~1p'
                                                                "Sixty~of ~    for Saturday's effort~         ~ actually~                                                         ken -glass. according to Andrew
                A ~psadfor me                             teers have been from the military~  The cleanup produced some ~                                                                                                  'Wil~the American          I~                                                        said Robert ~al envi~m among the tons of disposable!                                                                                                          Society.
                to co~                           roh~t ~pg~   cup- ~                               will wash ~                    up.                                              A cleanup effort in nearby Sandy
                                                              er of the state cleanup. "N~        in South Car~he                                                                                                              Hook was r~d for today
                ~ -it ~                   many of them are either deployed              cleanup was held a week early, on                                                                            CLEANUP vo~           ~                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           due to the rain, but o~~                                                    overseas or involved, in ~       Sep~modate the tide                                                                                                             a silver lining ~1p@ ~  ~                                the troops." ~                whe~olunteer at ~       about    ~  in cocaine,"       volunteers in New Jersey. The                    "The rein is actually good be~                                                  He said 6,700 volunteers picked             Beach found a bag of white powder              said cleanup coordinator Norman                1,000 pounds of garbage ~ed             cause it will wash more trash up,"
                           CALIFORNIA                         up more than 60 tons            of trash      with a razor blade.                            Fox.                                           by volunteers at beaches in                    said Susan Fairing of Clean
                                                              during    a Clean-th~  Day     in      ~ o~ri~          ~Liny, cold weather did not deter          Keansburg      included. ~ ~,          ~                                                                                                                                               it   was.



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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     I D~                                                                                                                                                                                                             r       B e~l~t~                                                                                                                                                           50 Chi                             In f~                                                                                                                                                                                                                       dean.,
                                                                                                                                                                                     ~ 1A                              About 1~s ~e~ pick
                                                                                                                                                              The re~sent-to the Center for Marine                    u~ at pickup sites on Anna Maria                ~                                                                                                                                                Conservation in St. Petersburg and then to Wash-                     Island, along Palma Sola Bay and on Snead Island
                                                                                                                                                                       where they will be used to back~            and haul them to du~ Compton said.
                                                                                                                                                              ing~                                                                                                                                                  tougher state and federal laws to protectthe envi~    Volunteers in boats took bags to several am
                                                                                                                                                              ronment, Zeiler said.                                                                                                        sags,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   barrier islands, including Rattlesnake, `Pas
                                                                                                                                                                  For instance, statistics ~nups have                 ~ce ~s, as well as to a spoil
                                                                                                                                                              been used ~hree years to help                        key off the ti of P~~     .~1pL
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ~                                                                                                                                                drives for federal laws to prevent ships from dump.                   On the keys, the volunteers searched for garbage
                                                                                                                                                              ing their wastes in oceans and, gulfs~               through mangrove shoots sticking up through the
                                                                                                                                                              Keeler. a Manatee Community College biology
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   sand.
                                                                                                                                                              professor who brought 29 of his students to the                       People cleaning Passage Key also released three
                                                                                                                                                              cleanup Saturday.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   pelicans entangled in fishing lines, Zeiler said.
                                                       4                                                                                                          As a result of the cleanup campaigns, the Florida:               : Near every bit of m~p~1p@an be
                                                                                                                                                              ~assed a statute last November prohi~   =to animals and fish, and the Campaigners
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   %found plenty of such                                 ~l~                                                                                                                                                    biting the releasing of balloons into the air. The
                                                                                                                                                              law was passed after lobbyists presented statistics                  odd.
                                                                                                                                  j
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ~iaper~          ~pbag of
                                                                                                                                                              showing that deflated balloons are often found in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ~                                                    A                                                                                               the lungs of dead birds and tu~d.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ~aid Keeler. "What's that doing              t~                                                                                                                                                         The animals suck the- balloons into the lungs,                   beach?"
                                                                                                                                                              and cannot cough them up, she said. Bits of plastic ~~ Community COI
                                                                            ~                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         said he found "about 2 billion ~~                                                     ~                                                                                      can also strangle birds, Zeiler said. ~~         Bill Bolas,
                                                                                                                                                              bird. will feed the deadly plastic to their young. h~butt-"
                                                                                                                                                              said.                                                                 One of ~p'~nny ~y,~      ~                                                                                                                                                                                                                         found mounds of garbage next to.              Cor~                                                                                                                                                         Zeiler said she hopes that during t~ps~the ~f 22~                                                                                                                                                             tive session, the Florida Legislature will ban th
                                                                                                ~                                             use ~ine. Birds often use that line to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   trash cam
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ~                                                                                                                                                   build their nests                                                       It's          ~                                                                                                                                                                               the~ed in it. Zell
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ~                                                                                                                                                            said.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ~                              debr~~                                                                                                                                                     ~1png bi~is so                                        at the sometimes
                                                                          ~                                                                       ~                          im rtant to.
                                                                                                                                                              the county that the Manatee Parks              d C~~                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ~                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ~                                                                                                                                                 Department contributed ~                                                                                                                                                                                            $1~         m~                                                                                                                                                rials to the e~t,~                       of
                                                                                                                                                                           'the'.
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Mann-
                                                                                                                                   i ~~                                                                                                                                                ~dump~                             said.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       ~s~                                                                                                                                                                                      clean  ~                                           pack holders ~8~~,~                                                                                           -~           Fishing line and plastic six~                                                                                                                                                                                                                             ~                                                                                           ~                                                          a                                                                ~






                                                                                                                                                been used d          th put thres Yom to help                    off the tip of Perico Island, Compton @W&
                                                                                                                                                              uring a
                                                                                                                                                dri                                                       1.  1-On the keys, the volunteers searched for gar(i4e
                                                                                                                                                  ves for federal laws to prevent ships from dump-
                                                                                                                                                                                                              through mana- shoots sticking up through the
                                                                                                                                                ing their wastes in oceans and.'gulf1s, said Carl
                                                                                                                                                Keeler@ *a Manatee Community CO                    107
                                                                                                                                                                                                        a
                                                                                                                                                                                                               People cleaning Passage Ke
                                                                                                                                                                                                bi I          sand.
                                                                                                                                                professor who brought 29 of his stu           to to                                              also released three
                                                                                                                                                cleanu                                                        pelicans entangled in fishing lines, Zeller said.
                                                                                                                                                       p
                                                                                                                                                  As a       t Of
                                                     Z.
                                                                                                                                                                 the cleanup campaigns, the                    Near
                                                                                                                                                                                                 Florida                         it of manmade packaging can be
                                                                                                                                                Legislature passed a statute last November prohi-             h=t=O and fish, and the 6ainpaign"111
                                                                                                                                                biting the releasing of balloons into the air. The,           found plenty-of Such mckaging, Saturilsy _VAdW
                                                                                                                                                law was passed after lobbyists presented statistics           "Wd.
                                                                                                                                                Showing that deflated bell.. are, often fd in                   "we, found, diaperg ',_;'16adq
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                d'- and.a'bag of-,
                                                                                                                                                                                                              fertili-    aid Keeler. 1%niat's that doing on the
                                                                                                                                                the hings of dead birds and turtles, Zeller said.
                                                                                                                                                  The animals suck the balloons into the hings,
                                                                                                                                                                                                              beach?"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                Another Manatee Community College prof@w.
                                                                                                                                                and cannot cough them up, she saidL Bit4i f lastic
                                                                                                                                                can also Strangle birds, Zeller wdL O= =9                     Bill B018S. mid he found "about 2 billion dgarette
                                                                                                                                                birds will food the deadly plastic to the, youM she           'butt,"
                                                                                                                                                add.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                One of Keelers students, Penny Veseay,,19,'of
                                                                                                                                                                                                              the 5200 block of 22nd Avenue Week 4mid. she
                                                                                                                                                  Zeller Said she hopes that during the nea
                                                                                                                                                tive session, the Florida Legislature will            the     found mounde of garbage next to the Corties
                                                                                                                                                                                                ban
                                                                                                                                                                                                              trash cans.
                                                                                                                                                use of fine fishing line. Birds often use that line
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 .It's dispa
                                                                                                                                                build their nests - then get entangi                                                     said.
                                                                                                                                                                                         ad in it, Zeller                    ding,     a
                                                                                                                                                Said.
                                                                                                                Zt                                                                                              Although     Vessey and others       wrinkled their,
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Ift   at the sometimes        .
                                                                                                                                                  Protecting birds and animals to so im                                                 rotting debris an the oosst,@;
                                                                                                                                                                                             portent to
                                                                                                                                                the county that the Manatee Parks and Recreation              they  said that cleaning the     beaches would help
                                                                                                                               q                Pepartment                                          mate-
                                                                                                                                                                                                              them away the sun and sand even mom in the
                                                                                                                                                              contributed $1,500 in labor and                 future.
                                                                                                                                                rials to the effort, said Dave Compton, mi
                                                                                                                                                                                               anager of        "it
                                                                                                                                                                                       anagement lent               ma       y@oufielgo4'!Bolessai&,....'-@'-'..
                                                                                                                                                parks for the county. Waste M                                   "It also -ak you enjoy a shower lateri".           I'm
               Fishing line and plastic six-pack holders are se              rated into a plasticbeg for recycli                                dumpstere to help out, Compton said.                                                 2_Y_1d      inageep',
                                                                          pa                                           ng.                        Compton said the beach cleanup will help county             Khald Rhodes, a 4
                                                                                                                                                workers   do a better job of keeping the beaches              from  Sarasota.



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                The debris includes plastic bottles,'and plastic bagi.                                                                            Jeff Genter and Carolyn Kapperinwher sort through debris Wrday at Palma Sola
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Dorothy Katrein of Englewood studies a tangle of fishing line Saturday as she joins in the
cleanup at Englewood Beach.

Volunteers Clean Beaches
For Nature and Themselves
									them, "Stefanisin said.
        By JAMES ROLAND						  "People need to be aware of the dangers," Ca-
	   Staff Writer						tansee said. Everybody that unles the beach needs
  Visitors to the beaches in Englewood and the		to help."
rest of Charlotte County apparently smoke a lot of	  On Saturday, help came in the form of about 125
cigarettes.								volunteers on Manasota Kay and about 350 people
  That's the consensus of the volunteers who		cleaning up the other coastal areas of Charlotte
participated in the Southwest Florida portion of	County, according to Kathy Hollinger, who helped
Saturday's state and national Coastal Cleanup.		organize the county wide effort.
  "We must have picked up 5,000 cigarette butts,"	  "We had an absolutely woulderful turnout, with
said Englewood resident Kathleen Stefanisin.		people from 3 months to 80, "Hollinger said, "We
  She and her sister, Shirley Catanese, also from	found a really bad area around Coral Creek in
Englewood, spent the morning picking up litter at	Placida.  We found tires, construction insulation,
Englewood Public BEach.  It was the second year		fish nets and a horrible odor of dead marine life.
that the sisters have helped sweep the beaches free	They picked up 1,200 pounds of garbage and
of cane, bottles, fishing line - and cigarette butts.	there's still a lot out there.  It almost needs to be
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                                                                   Jackie Gleeson weighs herself and the trash she co: Ilected @6turday-at En*glewo:o'd Beach. She
                                                                   weighed herseff before she started, and the ciifferer@',l is the Weight of the trash.


Beach Volunteers Get the Trash
			
									federal laws to restrict ships from dumping their
       Continued from 1A					wastes in the water, said Carl Keeler, a Manatee
dredged,"								Community College biology professior who brought
  Hollinger said that at least 3,456 pounds of trash	29 of his students to the Manatee cleanup.
was picked up on the county's shores. The load		  As a result of the cleanup campaigns, the Florida
included 643 pounds from Manasota Key, part of		Legislature passed a statute last November prohi-
which is in Sarasota County. Some reports from		hiting the releasing of balloons into the air. The
Charlotte County cleanup groups had not been		law was passed after lobbyists presented statistics
turned in by Saturday afternoon, however, so the	showing that deflated ballons are often found in
total is expected to go much higher, Hollinger said,	the lungs of dead birds and turtles, Zeller said.
  Sydney Crampton, who organized the Engle-		  The animals suck the ballons into the lungs and
wood and south Sarasota County effort, was also		cannot cough them up, she said.
pleased with response from the community.			  Zeller said she hopes that at the next session, the
  "We had an excellent turnout, about 125 peo-		Legislature will ban the use of the fine fishing line.
ple," said Crampton.  "I think it's growing every	Birds often use that line to build their nests, and
year."								then get entangled in it, Zeller said.
  The Coastal Cleanup, a statewide and nation-		  But not everyone was out Saturday just to help
wide cleanup effort, was established by the Center	the environment.  About 30 students from the
for Marine Conservation, a Washington, D.C. or		Students Toward Environmental Participation
ganization dedicated to protecting marine life. Pre-	(STEP) Club at Charlotte High School saw a
vious Florida cleanups have recycled an estimated	reward at the end of a hot morning of woark.
15 tons of debris and provided information used to	  By participating in the Coastal Cleanup club
develop tougher pollution-control legislation, ac-	members earned an opportunity to go on a week-
cording to the organization.					end field trip at the Cayo Costa State Recreation
  During the 1989 cleanup in Florida 14,632 vol-	Area next weekend.
unteers picked up 200 tons of debris and 467 miles	  "It will be the first trip of the year," said student
of monofilament fishing line.  Sixty-five percent of	Amy Hosp, who helped clean up the area around
the debris consisted of items made of plastic.		the Gilchrist Bridge in Charlotte Harbor.  It was
Fishing line and other plastic items endanger sea	worth it.  We had fun. We found underwear and
birds and other marine life that ingest or become	seat covers. I think six times."
entangled in them.						  At the north end of Mansota Key, Leman Bay
  Volunteers kept an inventory of how much and		High School students JoAnn-Schrank and Joe
what kind of trash they picked up saturday, said	Amaral volunteered to earn community services
Kathy Zeller, vice president of Wildlife Inc, and	points as members of school's Junior ROTC pro-
environmental group that helped organize the		gram.
cleanup effort in Manatee County. The results will	  While they didn't find much litter, they said they
be sent to the Center for Marine Conservation		were happy to do their part.
office in St. Petersburg and then to Washington,	  "I thought it was a decent thing to do since I use
where they will be used to bolster efforts to enact	the beach a lot," maral said.
tougher state and federal laws to protect the envi-
ronment, Zeller said.
  For instance, beach cleanup statistics have been	  Staff Writers Paula Park and Ryan Tdak con-
used during the past three years to help a drive for	tributed to this report.







Members of the Lemon Bay High School Environmental Club help rid Englewood Beach of
trash Saturday during the Coastal Cleanup.



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                    Beach crew,[email protected].                                            Wer
                    dollars amid theAebris

                    By Cory Jo Lancaster                      "It was a pretty typical cleanup,
                    OF THE SENTINEL STAFF                   except for the money," said The-
                                                            rese Nelsen, a Boardwalk cleanup                                          1.@, %,eng@
                                                            supervisor helped by her 8-year-
                     INDULANTIC - Volunteers in             old daughter, Alex. "I've never            4
                    the fourth annual beach cleanup         heard of that happening."
                    were talking  about the money -           Organized by the Center for Ma-
                    not the trash r- found Saturday         rine Conservation, which    is based
                    near the Indialantic Boardwalk.         in St. Petersburg, the cleanups re-
                     The volunteers joined thou-            move debris from the beaches, in-
                    sands of people cleaning up coasts      eluding fishing lines that entangle
                    around the nation. The partici.         birds and plastic bags that can be
                    pants laboring under Florida's          swallowed by sea animals. Volun-
                                                            teers collect information that i
                    blazing sun included Gov, Bob
                                                            used by the center to find the
                    Martinez in Miami and his chal-
                                                            sources of trash and prosecute vio-
                    lenger in the governor's race
                                                            lators.
                    Lawton Chiles, in Daytona Beach.
                     Along Brevard County's south-            The  cleanups also produce odd
                    ern beaches, there was good news        discoveries.                              71
                    mixed in with the garbage. One            In Melbourne Beach, a volun-
                    boy- found $51 - two wet and            teer found a dashboard from a                               TOM MEDLEYISENTINEL
                    sandy $20 bills, a $10 bill and a $1    Mercedes-Benz automobile with
                    bill - in the sand near the India-      the steering wheel on the right          Rita Mexander Block helps weigh
                    lantic Boardwalk. Nearby, another       side. In this country, steering          trash picked up by volunteers as
                    group found $11, and another dis-       wheels are on the left.                  Rhonda Donahoo Gumto tallies
                    covered $7. In Melbourne Beach, a                                                up the totals in Now Smyrna
                    volunteer reported finding $8.               Please see BEACHES, B-5             Beach on Saturday.




                                                                             The Orlando Sentinel, Sunday. September 23, i9w     S-5

                                                                                                  helped rouse volunts-*n. Celebri-
                Politicians join                                 effort                           ty-soaked Malibu in California,
                                                                                                  where beachgoers fie.down to look
                                                                                                  up at the stars in the daytime, was
                                                                                                  crowded with cleanup volunteers.
                to      clean up                        beaches                                   But at California's Surfrider
                                                                                                  Beach, environmental activist
                SUCHES from B-1                         from 467 miles of fishing line to         Glenn Hening was disgusted by
                                                                                                  the low turnout of surfer volun-
                                                        hundreds of discarded condoms.            teers.
                  "I don't know where that thing        Nationally, and in Puerto Rico,           "There are more mothers heav
                came from," said Randy Parkin.          Canada and Mexico, about 65,000           frorn East LA than surfers," Hen-
                son, an oceanography professor at       people participated last year, ac-        ing lamented. "They are in favor
                Florida Institute of Technology in      cording to the conservation cen-          of this, but the big question is, are
                Melbourne who has been analyz-          ter.                                      they going to walk up and down
                ing the trash found in Brevard            U.S. Sen. Bob Graham probably           the beach for an hour? They still
                County. "That must have been the        led the day's political participants      haven't gotten away from the
                most unusual item ever found."          in getting down and dirty in the          Beach Blanket Bingo mentality.-
                  Elsewhere, former U,S. Sen.           cleanup. Graham made the effort           Volunteers were hard to come
                Lawton Chiles joined hund               one of his trademark "workdays "          b - Virginia, where military
                Volusia County volunteers i  reds of    during which he :spends da@s              y in
                ing up trash in the Dayton   n pick-    working at various jobs.                  workers who had formed the bulk
                                            a Beach                                               Of volunteers for past cleanups
                area. And Environmental Protec-           Wearing a T-shirt, shorts and a         were Preoccupied with the crisis
                tion Agency administrator William       baseball hat against the sun, Gra-        in the Persian Gulf.
                Reilly and Gov. Bob Martinez            ham used "sweat and plastic               "SiXtY-five Percent of our volun.
                picked up cans and pieces of plas-      bags" for his 244th workday near          teers have been from the military.
                tic foam on a spoil island in Bis.      the Gandy Bridge over Tampa               Now many of them are either de-
                cayne Bay.                              Bay.                                      ployed overseas or involved in
                 Florida led the nation in partici-      In Texas, a 3.9 million-gallon oil       supporting the troops," said Rob.
                pation on beach-cleanup day last        spill in the Gulf of Mexico in June       ert K Dean, a local environmental
                year - 15,000 volunteers picked         and a 700,000-gallon spill in the         activist and an organizer of the
                up 200 tons of debris, ranging          Houston Ship Channel in July              state cleanup.









                                 Big          -turnout                                                                                                                    5A
                                 expected for                                                                     From page 1 A
                                                                                                                  Beach
                                                                                                                  utaUons.
                                 beach cleanup                                                                       The volunteers also will collect information used by
                                                                                                                  the center to pinpoint sources of trash and prosecute vi-
                                                  BY GARRY MATLOW                                                 olators. For example, garbage with labels from foreign
                                                                                                                  countries. cruise tints or commercial fishing vessels
                                 Organizers are looking for a big LUMOUt Saturday                                 will be given to the Coast Guard as evidence to put Yio-
                                 morning when volunteers collect and catalog trash                                lators on notice and prosecute where possible.
                                 ilong Volusia County beaches during the annual Flori-              4;@              The more mundane items also will serve a purpose.
                                 da Coastal Cleanup.                                                q,               "We will be recycling everything we can," Alexan:
                                 "De volunteers are cbming, they're calling," said                                der-Block said. noting that in past years Scout troops
                                 KiLa Alexander-Block. "We're as excited as can be. -               `%,           have benefited from the recyclable aluminum, plastic
                                 The event begins at 9 a.m. and runs until noon                     C6            and glass that was collected.
                                 Southeast Volusis staging area are the Flagler Avenue'                              As an extra incentive, she said, Center for Marine
                                 ..nd 27Lh Avenue beach parking lots and Canaveral Na.                            Conservation hats will be presented to workers who
                                 tional Seashore.                                                                 find the out-of-the-ordinary items.
                                 Alexander-Block said volunteers can show up any-                                    Alexander-Block said that this year, for the first
                                 ime during those three hours, and can help out as long                           time, the beach cleanup also will be taking place on the
                                 is they are able. "If they can just sta for 20 minutes,                          Daytona Beach side of the inlet. In previous years Hali-
                                 fiat's fine," she said.              . y                                         fax area groups assisted with efforts at Canaveral Na-
                                 L04 -)*& MO.aW volunteers walked Southeast V@-                                   tional Seashore.
                                 isia br-aches and collected more' than -a ton of debris.                            Statewide, some 14,500 volunteers participated last
                                 ncluding an athletic supporter, a steering wheel, sy-                            year and a Center for Marine Conservation spokesman
                                 iiiges@ a broom and a full can of beer.                                          said more are expected this year because of a growing
                                 But 84 percent of the haul was plastics                                          environmental awareness among Floridians.
                                 OlystYrene foam, which pose a danger to sea turtles                                 "No question about it," said Alexander-Block in
                                 nd marine life who become entangled in fishing lines                             agreement. "It's just incredible how many more people
                                 .r mistake plastic bags for food.                                                am becoming aware of our fragile ecosystem."
                                 Part of the nationwide cleanup effOM sponsored by                                   For more information on the cleanup effort, call
                                 IC Center for Marine Conservation, involves caUi_                                Alexander-Block of Greenpeace International at 427-
                                 oging trash by type with the statistics being used to                            9420, Rhonda Donahoo-Gumto of the South Volusia
                                 Jucate the public and lobby governments for new reg-                             Sea Turtle Society at 423-5629 or Sandra Ffines of
                                                                  See B08CWPage 5A                                Canaveral National Seashore at 428-3384.
                                                  Bye ye, bea.....                                                   litter
                                                    NEW S            A BEACH - Volun.               tras    They also will collect data for
                                                  teers will take to the beaches today to           CMC's National Marine Database on
                                                  clean UP after litterbugs.                        the types and sources of trash that
                                                    Volunteer trash collectors will gath.           harms wildlife, beaches and estuaries.
                                                  er at the beach at Flagler and 27th                 A spokesman at Canaveral National
                                                  avenues and at Canaveral National                 Seashore said about 150 People -in.
                                                  Seashore as Part of a statewide effort            cluding two area schools - have said
                                                  to clean Up the beaches this morning              they will participate there.
                                                  from 9 to noon.                                    To participate at the Seashore, take
                                                    Recyclable materials will be re.                S.R. AIA seven miles south of New
                                                  cycled.                                           Smyrna Beach and go to the park's
                                                    The Florida Coastal Cleanu day is               information center. To participate at
                                                  Part of a national effort Sport    p red by       New Smyrna Beach, go to the parking
                                                  the Center for Marine Con so                      lot at the Flagler Avenue beach ap.
                                                  in Washington, D.C.                servation      proach and the 27th Avenue beach ap-
                                                    This is the fourth year of the clean-           Proach.
                                                  up in Florida. Last year about                     Trash bags will be Supplied. Partici.
                                                                                         15,000     pants will be assigned to specific
                                                  volunteers Picked Up 395,440 Pounds               areas of the beach.
                                                  of trash from 91, miles of Florida
                                                  coastline.                                         Volunteers will be asked to dress
                                                    About 20,000 voluntee                           for the beach and wear shoes to pro-
                                                                     b
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                                                                                rs are ex-          tect their feet and gloves to protect
                                                  Pected to Participate this year.                  their hands. It's recommended that
                                                    Volunteers will collect more than               Participants take drinking water.









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     Sunday, September 23, 1990                                                       THE PORT ST. LUCIE NEWS                                                   City desk - 871-5520 01



                                                                                                              7
                                                                                                                       10,
                                  Shore enough5..
                                                                                                                 1%
                                                                                                                                               t
                                                                                                                                                  4
                                  beach cleanup
                                  a tidy success.

                                  By Andl Schabo
                                  oi the News staff

                                    There might have been more volunteers than trash
                                  in Martin and St. Lucie counties Saturday as people
                                  flocked to area beaches and waterw:iys to help clean
                                  the Treasure Coast.                                                            4,
                                    More than 600 volunteers in St. Lucie County and
                                                                                                                   ...........
                                  as many as 2,000 in Martin joined the cleanup effort,
                                  which was completed by noon.
                                    "I thit* it's a general trend. For the past two or
                                  three years there seems to be less trash," said Gary
                                  Guertin, spokesman for the Florida Oceanographic
                                  Society, a co-sponsor of the event.                                                                          '41
                                    Nancy Sailer of the Stuart-Martin County
                                  Chamber of Commercc said her group was surprised
                                  to find little trash in the parks around town.
                                    "The parkswere not that dirty. It seems the people                                            Photogrephor: JIM URICK
                                  in the city have been keeping them clean," Sailer said.  Melissa McCoy,     10, Bryan   Geunbaum, 9, and Tif-
                                  The group found the most trash in waterways, she         fany Paul, 12, foreground, all of Jensen Beach,
                                  said.                                                    were among many volunteers who combed the
                                                                                           vegetation at Stuart Beach on Saturday in search
                                                       Please see CLEANUP on B2            of trash.
                                                                                       LOCAL


CLEANUP

CONTINUED FROM B1						izations involved, it will take time
								for all the statistics to be collected,
Guertin said the less trash that is			said Guertin.
found, the more he knows the pro-			  Last year more than 900 volun-
gram is working.						teers picked up 13,770 prounds of
  "A lot of people seem to think			refuse on Martin County beaches.
that if you collect less trash, the ac-		  The cleanup was part of a
tivity was not a successful. But it's		statewide effort sponsored by the
not the tonnage of trash collected			Center for Marine Conservation.
but the awareness and the educa-			  Judy Gersony of Jensen Beach
tion the cleanup provides," he			received a firsthand lesson on how
said.								harmful trash is on area wildlife.
  The educational value of the day			  While cleaning a spoil island in
was what brought Brandy Monk, a			Martin County, Gersony and her
student at Port St. Lucie High			group rescued two birds.  A king-
School, to the cleanup.					fisher that had swallowed a hook
  "We're here as part of our lea-			was taken to the Treaure Coast
dership class," said Monk.  "we			Wildlife Hospital.  The second, a
get points for doing community			pelican, had to be untangled from
service.  And it's our responsibility		a mass of fishing line.
to keep our community clean."				  "It was terrible - it was
  In St. Lucie County, 10 miles of			wrapped across both wings and
beach were cleaned.  On South				both legs.  It took us 10 minutes
Hutchinson Island, 6,425 pounds			just to untangle him," Gersony
of non-recyclable trash was col-			said.
lected.							  Michelle Coutant of Stuart was
  Pat Ernest, organizer of the St.			a first-time volunteer.  She worked
Lucie effort, said more would be			at Stuart Beach organizing volun-
added to that figure after trash col-		teers and sorting trash.
lected at Pepper Park on North			  The most encouraging thing
Hutchinson Island is weighed.				about the day for her was the in-
  Martin County statistics for the			volvement of students.
number of volunteers and amount			  "We got great participation
of trash collected won't be avail-			from the schools, "Coutaat said.
able until later this week.				  Coutant said she beleves getting
  For the first time in Martin			youngsters involved will keep con-
County, the effort spread west of			cern for the environment from be-
the beaches to local roads and wa-			coming a passing phase.
terways.  The oceanographic so-			  "They're teaching this to the lit-
ciety, which traditionally sponsors			tle kids in school now.  It's second
the event, was joined by five Mar-			nature to them," she said.  "It's
tin County chambers of commerce			harder for us because we had to
in sponsoring the cleanup.				learn about conservation as
  Becuase of the number of organ-


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                                            Beach Buddie are talking trash                                                                                                 

                            Kathleen Chapman-                                                                                                                             
                            Beach Bay News
                                                                                                                                             
                               Saturday, Sept.22,is the day,
                                                                                                                                                                                                               that anyone in Bay County can
                            "Be a Beach Buddy" by joining
                            in the Florida Coastal Cleanup                                                                                                                                                                                The cleanup is sponsored by
                                                                                                                                      
                            the Center for Marine Conser
                                                                                                                  
                            vation and is being coordinated
                            locally by Lisa eppner, a CMG
                            
                               oluter.
                               In Bay County, cleanup-will
                            take place on Shell Island, St..
                            Andrew State Recreation Area
                            Beach Drive, Tyndall Air Force.
                            Base, and an area near           the
                            ,Hathaway Bridge.
                                                                                                                                                                                   
                               Volunteers, working, in
                            groups ofthree will collect trash
                            .in one bag and items to be re-
                            .cycled in another. Information
                            about what is found will be re-
                            corded qona data card provided
                            by the CMC.
                               .On Shell Island, cleanupwill                                                                     
                                                                                                                                  
                            include both the gulf and bay
                            sides. The U.S. Fish. and Wild-
                            life Service employees have vor"       Li Keppn         - is, orgnizing    the Beach       Cleanup      in Bay     County.      (Ph Ioto by Kathleen
                            unteered to handle the' bay side
                               According to Fisheries biological    hapinan
                                                             Will
                            gist, Loma Patrick,Ahey                 :AT&T and Southern Bell area
                            also help to haul trash in theit,     workcenters.
                            boats from the island to St. An'        :    The cleanup. at Tyhdir
                            drew park for weigh-in and sort Jorce Base is being organized by
                            ing. Frank Goodwin,captain of         Bob Bates and Neill Hunter of
                            the Kitty gawk',, -has - donated the Tyndall Department of
                            the use ofhis 30-passenger a NaturaI Resources. 'They have
                            to'carry other volunteers to the., invited students from Ruther-
                            island., -.
                                                           ford High School as well as other
                               Shelly Du.Puyi who has vol interested persons to meet at,
                            untered to captain the effort at       The Tyndal YachtClub at                            SLI Andrew  State Recreatiow               Bates said they plan to. work
                            Area, will set uphopt the.          on -the.* NCO beach and the
                            ibelte dicvics.the               Tyn
                                                                         dall portio.of Shell Island
                                  re
                            end of the parking lot above the        "If we have enougli-volunises@
                            kiddie pool. Volunteers can sign,:      we;   may                          oil
                            up at 8 a.m.                            Crooked Island, to.e,he.sai
                               They Will be given bags and The                 id in
                            data cards and will clean along: bags,  pamphlti.
                            the shoreline. In addition, v `,materials and
                            unteers from Hydrospace Dive            unteers.
                            Shop will bclude, underwater.:               Keppner.,repo
                                                                                    car
                            cleanup at the jetties as part of.      CMC data cards                 b
                            their dive activities for the day,      improved nee            t
                                                                                      dez;
                               On Beach Drive, the' sector          are easie
                            captain is Ron Houser with Bay k the categofies                better.,              
                            County Audubon Society. His             vided.
                                                                                                 
                                                                                            
                            center of operations will be in            Data from 10q9489, 88
                            Asbell Park beside Lake Caro-          plastics comprised 640 percen 
                            line. Sign up is at 7.30 a.m. and       trash collected in Floridaia
                            cleanup will cover a 1, 0 mile         year's cleanup. These-it mi
                            area from Bayside Inn -to               ten cause the death. of, marin-
                            Frankford Avenue.                       mammals and birds,who
                               Telephone Pioneers, led by           take them for.floo
                            Mike Lockwood, have volun-                   Dumping of plasti 
                            teered to pick up trash on the          has been prohibited signi
                            west side of.Hathaway Bridge.           31, 1988 by a world treaty...
                            Lockwood expects from 12 to 20          vessels,' from': roads
                            volunteers. Notices of the proj-
                            ect have been posted at both            a. Beach, 
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                                                                                                                 Beach


                                                                                                                 tankers,". must comply. with.-
                                                                                                                 these regulations. Information
                                                                                                                 from data cards helps to identify
                                                                                                                 lawbreakers.
                                                                                                                   Keppner recommended'that
                                                                                                                 all volunteers wear gloves, hats,
                                                                                                                 sunglasses, comfortable shoes,
                                                                                                                 and lightweight clothing.
                                                                                                                                   to picking    UP
                                                                                                                 trash, participants will keep
                                                                                                                 watch for any marine animals-
                                                                                                                 that mayhave become victims of
                                                                                                                 dumping., Last year, Bay
                                                                                                                 County volunteers rescued a
                                                                                                                 Laughing Gull that had a fish
                                                                                                                 book, with, monofilament line
                                                                                                                 still attached, through its wing.',*
                                                                                                                    Aluminum and 'glass items
                                                                                                                 will 'be recycled locally. Bill'
                                                                                                                 Hudson, Bay-County recycling-
                                                                                                                 coordinator, will provide final
                                                                                                                 collection of these items. State.
                                                                                                                 wide, plastic fishing line and net
                                                                                                                 will be. recycled by Berkley
                                                                                                                 Manufacturing
                                                                                                                    Pepsi Cola is donating       soft
                                                                                                                 drinks to the volunteers.
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                                                                                                                                                                       J
                                                                                                                                                                           @T,
                       Volunteer beachcombers
                       clean.up area coastline
                           By DENISE O'TOOLE                  this is the first time   the sea and
                       While more than 500 volunteers         sky cooperated with their plans.
                                                                "It's always been either          too
                       combed the coastline of Volusia
                                                                                                                               7
                       and Flagler counties in Saturday's     rough or stormy," said underwa                        . -@, II ;,
                                                                                                  ter
                       scorching sun picking up at least      zone captain Don Serobusek of Or-
                       two tons of trash, about a dozen       mOnd Beach.
                       worked to remove hazardous ocean         High-rise    condominiums
                                                                                                were            X Aar'
                       debris in a much cooler sett;-ig       barely visible on the eastern hori-
                       @underwater about 10 miles off         zon as Ed Best, wearing full scu
                                                                                                  ba
                                                              gear. popped up out of the water
                       shore.
                       The occasion was the fourth an.        with a handful of monofilament
                       nual National Coastal Cleanup          fishing line he just cut from the ar-
                       sponsored by the Center for Ma.        tificial reef below. He and his col-
                       rine Conservation. The local divers    leagues collected several pounds of                                                      News-iournai photo bv Lisa Parker
                       and beach policers were among an       the fishing line, which often traps      Turtle   patrol members        are  among     volunteers bagging beach
                       ekimated 15,000 in the state and       fish, turtles and and other sea          trash Saturday in Ponce Inlet.
                       !Pps of thousands in the country to    creatures that feed off the thriving
                       Jpin in the event. Volunteers not      reef. Only time limits prevented         miles of fishing line collected in        should help to clean up the
                       qnly removed debris from the           them from removing more.                 the water and on the shorelines           beach@q and thi-q wmild haln th
                       beach, they took much of it to recy-     "You could stay down there as          will be recycled. Aluminum cans-          fish to live."
                       Oing centers and forwarded infor-      long as you wanted to taking line        and glass have been recycled since          Ranger Hines reported trash col-
                       tion about what they found to          off- There's miles of it," said Mark     the event's inception. Miss Devlin        lected from the seashore included
                       re CMC.                                Krodel, who piloted one of four          pointed out that this year, large         items from Greece, the U.S.S.R.,
                       I One of the more disturbing dis-      boats on the cleanup expedition.         numbers of glass containers were          Czechoslovakia, Italy and Canada.
                       doveries here was three unmarked         The reef was created in 1980 by        found in areas of the beach where         However, the beach attracted for.
                       $5-gallon drums found at Canave-       sinking the ship Mindanao, a 440-        they are prohibited.                      eign volunteers as well.
                       rial National Seashore, said Donna     foot-long, 62-foot-wide Liberty ship.      On Canaveral National Seashore,           "We visit New Smyrna Beach
                       0evIin, a CMC associate biologist.     The accumulation of line and other       for example, 109 pounds of the to-        every September," said Vicente Ji.
                       Two of the drums were broken;          fishing paraphernalia was a testa-       tal *808 pounds of trash collected        menez of Caracas, Venezuela, who
                       One was intact, according to notes     ment to the reers popularity as a        was glass, she said. The national         worked with his son. "The beaches
                       led by the zone captain, Ranger        fishing spot. Other items found          seashore was one of three collec.         are wonderful, the people are all
                       andra Hines. The contents and          were bricks and a 38-millimeter          tion sites in Southeast Volusia           warm and friendly, so I and my
                       rigin of the drums were unknown        gun cartridge, which will be re-         County that attracted a combined          son Fernando felt it was our duty
                       aturday, Miss Devlin said.             cycled, in a way.                        250 volunteers. Many were stu-            to help today to clean the
                       The local divers, members of Or-         -Wben you sort that stuff out, I'd     dents, including 6-year-old Jerrard       beaches."
                       rhond Anchor Chasers, have tried       like to get that lead back if I can.     Hanson.                                    In the area from Daytona Beach
                       fQ clean fishing 4e from Liberty       My dad'i a reloader," Best shouted         "All @his plastic stuff can kill the    Shores so?4th to Ponce Inlet, about
                       ,@kf on the day of the, national       from the ivater.                         fishes @,Yid turtles," Jerrard said.      200 volunteers brought 696 pounds
                       leanup each year since 1987, but         This year, for the first time, the     "My t6acher told us everyone                                   SEE CLEAN/ X













                                                                              tween 1,3W and 1,400 pounds of          volunteered this  year as last year
                                            Clean                             litter were collected on 16 miles of    "We hope someday to come down
                                                                              shoreline. About 100 volunteers         here and not have anything to pick.
                                      CONTINUED FROM 1C                       represented a wide range of ages        up," said Rita Alexander-Block, an.
                                                                              and backgrounds, from retirees to       employee of Greenpeace Interns--
                                      of trash to three collection sta-       schoolchildren.                         tional and a Southeast Volusia,
                                      tions, reported zone captain Beth         Bayer estimated 400 pounds of         zone captain.
                                      Libert of Volusia County Turtle Pa-     recyclable material was collected.        The cleanup also served as a
                                      trol. Tallies of trash collected on     Other beach debris included car         campaigning opportunity for candi-
                                      Daytona Beach and brought to            and boat parts, plastic oil con-        dates for the governor's seat in
                                      Lighthouse Point Park in Ponce In*      tainers, a dead turtle and a dead       Florida. a state in which pollsters
                                      let were not available Saturday.        shark. .                                say the environment is a leading
                                        Earlier in the week, zone captain       information sent to CMC after         priority of most voters.
                                      Maria Viviano, of Sons of the           previous cleanups has resulted in         While Democratic gubernatorial
                                      Beaches, a group often critical the     various law changes, including a        candidate Lawton Chiles helped-
                                      way the county handles beach op-        statewide ban on release of lighter-    pick up trash in Daytona Beach, in..
                                      erations, predicted a good turnout.     than-air balloons and bans on plas-     cumbent Republican Gov. Bob
                                      "The Sons of the Beaches are            tic straws at beach concession          Martinez did the same on a spoil
                                      working with the county Beach De-       stands in some communities. Orga-       island in Biscayne Bay.
                                      partment on this, so it must be im-     nizers said, though, the annual
                                      portant," she said.                     cleanup's raising of public aware-
                                        In Flagler County, zone captain       ness may be its greatest achieve-           Statf writers Deborah Johnson
                                      Dennis Bayer, of Flagler Conserva.      ment.                                       and Mark Miller contributed to
                                      tion Association, estimated be-           Nearly twice as many Volusians            this report.





                      Volunteers
                                                                                                                %
                      clean up
                      beaches

                             BY MARK 1. JOHNSON

                        More than 770 pounds of trash
                      was removed from New Smyrna's
                      beaches S@L"y 11" to              volun-
                      Leers=c paLCin             the   annual
                                    W I  g
                      Flori              earr-up.
                        According to event coordinator,
                      Rita Alexander-Block, 87 volunteers
                      spent their Sawday morning scour-
                                                                                                                               V
                      ing the 10-miles of beaches picking
                      up the litter left behind by thought-
                      less beach-goers.
                        Ile New Smyrna Beach group
                      gathered a LOW of 777 pounds of
                      trash, including 46 pounds of alu-
                      minum, 68 pounds, of glass, 663
                      pounds of paper and plastics and I'k                                                             . .....
                                 ishing line.
                      ounces of f                                                                                     01
                        One participant even found $5 in
                                                                                1-j.           0@s
                      the sand.
                        In talking to some of the people
                      participating in the clean-up. it                                                                                  -------  j
                      seems the central theme of the event                                                              PHOTO BY MARK L JOHNSON-
                      was to help preserve one of our most     JEREMY DECKER, 9, of New Smyrna Beach was just one
                      valuable resources.                      of the dozens, of volunteers who descended on New
                        "We use the beach, so we decid-        Smyrna beaches Saturday during the Florida Coastal
                      ed to come over here and help clean
                                    Seg Bgachlpage 5A          Clean-up.
                                                               Sm







                                                            fort to clean up the twaches on all         The event help the center gather
                 From page I A                              coasts and drew people from all            information as to what kind of trash
                                                            walks of life. Even Florida's guber-       can be found on the beaches. It uses
                 Beach                                      natorial candidates, Lawton Chiles         this information to attempt and track
                                                            and Gov. Bob Martinez, got sand in         down the source of the debris and
                              Barbara yerkeS of Or.         'their shoes to participate in the         prosecute those people who are
                 it up," said                               evont. Chiles helped clean up along        dumping it.
                 ange City.                                 Daytona's beaches, while Martinez            The effort -also lends a helping
                   "Living on the beach I think we          traveled to Miami to lend a hand.          hand to the wildlife which use the
                 should all participate," added New                                  -up is spon-      oceans and shorelines as their
                 Smyrna Beach resident Pat Cham-               The Coastal Clean
                 bers.    ,   ,                             sored and organized bY the Center          homes. Plastics and fishing lines
                   The New Smyrna Beach event               for Marine ConservaLion in St. Pe-         have been proven to cause deaths in
                 was part of a state and national ef-       tersburg.                                  birds and endangered sea turtles.






                                          Beach buddies find
                                          it's a plastic world
                                                 BY GARRY MATLOFV                              "That's too much," she said.
                                                                                               "Plastics do not degrade - I
                                                -al organizers hope the only                   don't care what they tell you.
                                             Lac                                                                                                                                                 
                                          plastic   they find on Southeast                     They break down into smaller
                                          Volusia   beaches during the Sept.                   particles and that could be more
                                          22 Florida Coastal Cleanup are                       dangerous to animals."
                                          the bai in which they put debris.                   The danger comes from items
                                          They know, however, that will                        such as plastic bags floating out
                                          not be the case.                                     to sea - or being dumped from
                                             During last year's cleanup.                       passing.ships - where they a-
                                          volunteers statewide collected                       semble part of the natural envi-
                                          200 tons of trash and 467 miles                      ronmenl.
                                          of monorilameni fishing line in                      "Sea turtles die from ingesting
                                          three hours. Of that total, 64.8                     plastic bags," Alexander-Block
                                          percent was plastics and                             said. "They look just like jelly-
                                          polystyrene foam.                                    fish. which is their favroite
                                             In Volusia County, 84 percent                     food."
                                          of the haul was plastics, accord-                    Turtles and birds also become
                                          in& to Rita Alexander-Block, a                       entangled in fishing line,         in
                                                                                                                           cusmg
                                          Greenpeace International sea tur-                    them injury and death. According
                                          LIC campaigner.                                      to the Center for Marine Conser-                                                      PHOTO IV GUM UATLOW
                                             ..We just outdid everybody,"                      vation, national sponsor of the            RITA ALEXANDER-BLOCK tells Klwanls
                                          she told New Smyrna Beach Ki-                        Sept. 22 cleanup, whales turtles
                                          wanis Club members Wednes-                           and at least 50 species of sea            Club members the hazards of plastic to
                                          day.                                                      See CleanuplPage 6A                  marine life.



From page 1A
Cleanup


birds are known to mistake plastic
items for food.
  Alexander-Block said the clenup
aims to do more than ust remove
litter from the beach. "We're there
not just to pick up the trash, but to
document the trash, "she said.
  Those statistics are used to edu-
cate the public and lobby for new
regulations.  For example, the inter-
national marien treaty in 1989
banned the dumping of plastic by
ships at sea, and in Florida the Leg-
islature banned the release ofmore
than 10 lighter-than-air ballons at a
time.
  The cleanup effort has picked up
several corporate sponsors since the 
first event nine years ago.  For ex-
ample, Glad Wrap and Bags has to-
nated trash bags and faber-Castell
has donated pencils.  For the first
time this year, Berkley, a manufac-
turer of fishing line and tackle sup-
plies, plans to recycle all monofila-
ment fishing line collected.
  The Florida Coastal Cleanup will
be from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday,
Sept. 22.  Southeast Volusia staging
areas will be the Flagler Avenue and
27th Avenue parking losts in New
Smyrna Beach and the Canaveral
National Seashore information cen-
ter.  Volunteers should bring gloves,
hat, sunscreen and appropriate shoes
or sneakers.
  For more information, call Rita
Alexander-Block at 427-9420,
Rhonda Donahoo-Gumio at 423-
5629 or Canaverl National
Seashore Ranger Sandra Hines at 
428-3384.













                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
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                                                                         Veterans of past cleanups said              Kathy           Zeller,       another finished their work at noon.
                         CLEAN                          From B- I more garbage was left on the                     countywide coordinator, said                   "We have become a throw-away
                                                                      beaches and drifted with tides in-           crews cleaning up Passage Key society. Most people don't even
                            Statewide coordinators from               to mangroves this year than in.              rescued three pelicans trapped in            think what they're doing, it's be-
                         the Center for Marine Conserva-              earlier years - an unhappy sign              fishing  'line.                            ..come such a habit," Smith said. '!I
                         elon could not be reached Satur-             of Manatee County's. continued                 The scary moment was when                  think it's sad. - . . . The trash is
                         4ay to learn how much garbage                growth  -                                    an unidentified worker sprucing              coming back faster than before.' -
                         was picked up across Florida, one               "The overriding 'comment is               up Leffis Key across from Coqui-               Cleanup volunteer Nick Karas,
                              15 states conducting beach              there are not enough people (C01-            na Beach came face-to-face with a            36, of 7016 1 Ith Ave. N.W., owner
                         le-aning campaigns Saturday.                 lecting garbage) and there is too            rattlesnake. The worker was not              of a roofing company, said he had
                          : Richard Renninger, 55, of           720   much garbage," said Sarah Mitch-             bitten and the snake was un-                 fun and felt good about helping
                         2pth St. W., Bradenton, kept            his  ell, 32, of 1510 Fifth St. W., Pal-          harmed.                                      clean Palma Sola Causeway.
                         16-foot boat on shore and helped             metto, - coordinator           at      the     Larry Smith, 39, of 816 69th                 Karas said he intends to return
                         cl6in Warners Bayou East across              Warners Bayou East site.                     Ave. W., director of the Wildlife            for the 1991 cleanup. He hopes to
                         from the 59th Street Boat Ramp...               "But'there are six kids working           Rescue Service in Bradenton, said            have nothing to do.
                          "        'is the boatiamp I always                                                                                                      ."I want to walk up and down
                          1, -This                                    out here', which I think is a really         he was sad because litter piles up
                         46, so     this is the area that I           good sign," she said. .'If they are          almost asjast as volunteers re-              here the next time and not am
                         wanted    to clean," he said. -I got         picking it up today, they won't be                e it Indeed, the Palma Sola             anything but beach," he said.
                                                                                                                   mov .
                         thwe or four bags (full of . gar-            the ones throwing it tomorrow.               -Causeway was looking trashy only            "Yeah, it's probably just a
                         bete); That's not a whole lot, but              Gail 'Straight, one of 'seven             hours after Smith and 45 others              dream."
                         it helps."                                   countywide cleanup coordinators,
                           Volunteers and cleanup coordi-             said preliminary reports of the fa-
                         nators said bottles, cans,         plastic   vorite hang-out for     -littering slobs
                         and paper were the most common               was Emerson Point on Snead Is-
                         fifids, but there were some pecu-            land.
                         liar trash pickups,too. Renninger               "It's   really disgusting           out
                         fou`nd a wooden -croquet ball in             there," she said.."Every. fouror
                         the mangroves. Others found a                rive minutes they've had bags
                         rusty metal mailbox, a wooden                filled. There's lots and lots of
                         clothes chest, bed springs,. tam-            glass bottles there."
                         Pon applicators, car headlights                 There were both uplifting'and
                         and a washing machine tub.                   scary mome    .rits.











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                                  oluntee'r'beachcombers
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                              clean up area coastline
                                                                     this is the first time the sea and
                                  By DENISE O'TOOLE
                              :While more than          volunteers   sky cooperatedwith their plans.
                                                  50or
                              combed the coastline of Volusia.          "It's always been either          too
                              ahd Flagler' counties in Saturday's    rough or stormy," said underwater
                              scorching sun picking up at least      zone captain Don Serobusek of Or-
                              v                                      mond Beach
                              ,@o tons of.trash, about-a dozen
                              worked to remove hazardous ocean          High-rise -condominiums:       Were
                              &bris in a much cooler setting         barely visible on'the eastern     hori-
                              0
                               nderwater about 10 miles off          zon as EdBest, wearing full scuba
                              u
                              sore-                                  gear, popped up out of the water
                                                                     with a handful of monofilament
                               he occasion was the fourth an-
                                                                     fishing line he just cut from the ar-
                              ua.  National Coastal Cleanup
                              sbonsored bv the Center for Ma-        tificial reef below. He and his col-
                              4ne Conservation. The local divers     leagues collected several pounds of                                                        News-icurnal photo by Lisa Parker
                              and beach policers were among an       the fishing line, which often traps       Turtle   patrol members        Are   among     volunteers bagging beach
                              Otimated 15,000 in the state and       fish, turtles and and other sea           trash Saturday in Ponce Inlet.
                              @Pps of thousands in the country to    creatures that feed off the thriving
                              Jpin in the event. Volunteers not      reef. Only time limits prevented          miles of fishing line collected      in   should help to clean up the
                              .qnly removed debris from the          them from removing more.                  the water and on the shorelines           beaches and this would help the
                              beach, they took much of it to recy-      "You could stay down there as          will be recycled. Aluminum cans           fish to live."
                              qling centers and forwarded infor-     long as you wanted to taking line         and glass have been recycled since          Ranger Hines repo    .rted traIsh wl-
                              mation about what they found to        off. There's miles of it," said Mark      the event's inception.' Miss Devlin       lected from the seashore included
                              the CMC.                               Krodel, who piloted one of four           pointed out that this year, large         Jtems from Greece, the. U.S.S.R.,
                              On@ of@ the more disturbing dis-       boats on the cleanup expedition.          numbers of glass containers were          Czechoslovakia, Italy and Canada.
                              M
                              overies here was three unmarked          'The reef was created in 1980 by        found in areas of the beach where         However, the beach Attracted for-
                               allon drums found at Canave-          sinking the ship Mindanao, a 440-         they are prohibited.      .' .       .    eign volunteers as well.
                              al National Seashore, said Donna       foot-long, 62-foot-wide Liberty ship.       On Canaveral National Seashore,           "We visit, New Smyrna Beach
                              ;evlin, a CMC associate biologist.     The accumulation of line and other        fbr example, 109 pounds of the to-        'every September," said Vicente Ji-
                              Two of the drums were broken;          fishing paraphernalia was a testa-        tal 808 pounds of trash collected         -menez of Caracas, Venezuela, who
                              4ne was intact, according to notes     ment to the reefs Opularity as a.         was glass, she said. The national         @ worked with his son. "The beaches
                              filed by the zone captain, Ranger      fishing spot. Other items found           seashore was one of three collec- are wonderful, the people are all
                              Sandra Hines. The contents and         were bricks , and a 38-millimeter         tiod sites in Southeast Volusia           .-.warm and friendly, so I and my
                              .gin of the drums were unknown         gun cartridge, which will be re-          County that attracted a.combined          son Fernando felt it was our duty
                              'aturday, Miss Devlin said.            cycled, in a way.
                                                                                                               250 volunteers. Many - were stu-          to help today to clean the
                              .The local divers, members of Or-         "When you sort that stuff out, I'd     dents, including 6-year-61d Jerrard       beaches."
                              nond Anchor Chasers, have tried        like to get that lead back if I can.      Hanson.                                     In the area from Daytona Beach
                              Q clean fishing line from Liberty      My dad'sp reloader," Best shouted           "All khis plastic stuff can kill the    Shores sotath to Ponce Inlet, about
                              leef on the day of the. national       from thewater.                            fishes khd turtles," Jerrard said.        200 volunteers brought 696 pounds
                              cleanup'each year since 1987, but         This year, for the. first time, the    "My teacher told us everyone                                   SEE, CLEAN/.3C












                                                    C1                                 tween 1,300 and    1,400 pounds of       volunteered this year as last Year.,
                                                                                                                                                                down,
                                              Ei           ean                         litter were collected on, 18'rnUes of    "We hope someday to,.@come
                                                                                       s
                                                                                       h li        About    100 volunteers      here and not have anything to pick@
                                                                                         ore ne.
                                              CONTINUED -F    .Ad.M''IC                represented a wide range of ages         up," said Rita Alexander-Block, an"
                                                                                       and backgrounds. from retirees to        employee of Greenpeace Interna-,
                                              of trash to'three -collection sta-       schoolchildren,                          tional and a Southeast Volusia;
                                              tio ns, reported zone captain     Beth.    Bayer estimated,400 pounds        of   zone captain.
                                              Libert of Volusta County Turtle Pa-      recyclable material was    ' collected.    The. cleanup also served as        61
                                              trol. Tallies of trash collected on      Other beach debris included car          campaigning opportunity for candi-_
                                              Daytona Beach and brought to             and boat parts,: plastic oil con-        dates for the governor's seat H1
                                              Lighthouse Point Park in Ponce In.       tainers, a dead turtle and a dead        Florida, a state in which,pollsteii
                                              let were not available Saturday.         shark.                                   say the environment is'a leading
                                                Earlier In the week, zone Captain        Information sent to CMC after          priority of most voters.
                                              Maria Viviano, of Sons, of 'the          P@evious cleanups has resulted in          While Democratic gubernatorial,
                                              Beaches, a group often critical the      various law changes, including a         candidate Lawton Chiles helpe(f-
                                              way the county handles beach op-         statewide ban on release of lighter-     pick up trash in Daytona Beach, in:
                                              erations, predicted a good turnout.      than-air balloons a nd bans on plas-     cumbent Republican Gov. Bov'
                                              "The Sons of the Beaches are             tic straws at beach concession-          Martinez did the same on a @$Pofl
                                              working with the county Beach De-        stands in some communities. Orga-        island in Biscayne Bay.
                                              partment on this, so it must be im-      nizers said, though, the annual
                                              portant," she said                       cleanups raising of public awam
                                                In Flagler County, zone captain        ness may be. its greatest achieve-           Staff writers Deborah     Johnson-
                                              Dennis Bayer, of Flagler Conserva-,      ment.                                        and,:Mark Miller contribu  te'd to.-
                                              tion Association, estimated be-            Nearly twice as many Volusians             this report.











                                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                               




                                                                                                                           

















                                                                                                                                                Tribune photograph by TPOO L CHAPPEL
                                                  Students      from    Hillsbarough Community             College       litter from   the  share of Upper Tampa Bay. A large
                                                  joined hundreds       of other volunteers at the         Courtney      number of     crab traps and other trash were hauled
                                                  Campbell causeway Saturday. to help clear trash and                    away from the area.


                                                                                                                                                                    "'A
                                                  Trash-bashers
                                                                                                              
                                                  hit beaches
                                                                                                                                                                                   
                                      (I          By MIKE COPELAND
                                                  and GEOFFREY MOHAN
                                                  Tribune Staff Writers

                                                     All of the trash picked off Florida's beaches Set-
                                                  urday morning was out of place.                                                    
                                                     Like a couch, chairs, a baby rattle. "Even a tol-
                                                  let;' giggled 8-year-old Carisse. Relmink of Tampa,
                                                  who joined her parents and thousands of other vol-
                                                  unteers for the fourth annual Coastal Cleanup Day
                                                     The day was part of a national effort coordlnate
                                                  by the Center for Marine Conservation, which ire-
                                                  ported that Florida led the nation last you In partic-
                                                  pation, with 15,000 volunteers picking up 200 1
                                                  debris along Oil coastal miles.
                                                     Politicos mixed with thousands of environment I
                                                  ly conscious trash-bashers throughout Florida, where
                                                  pollsters say the environment Is a priority of most
                                                  voters.
                                                                                 Environmental Prote-
                                                     .William Reilly, the U.S.
                                                  tion-Agency administrator, and Gov. Bob Martinez
                                                  picked up cans and other trash on a spoil Island In
                                                  Biscayne Bay, while Martinez's Democratic guiberna,
                                                  torial challenger, former U.S. Son. Lawton Chilaii,
                                                  helped pick up trash along Daytona.Beach,
                                                     In full U.& senatorial splendor - with red, will
                                                                                                           Its
                                                  and blue shorts - Bob Graham signed up for the
                                                  cleanup near the Gandy Bridge but skipped over a
                                                  table with a petition to support a treaty restricting
                                                  ocean dumping                                                                                           Tribume pl@
                                                     Graham mid the treaty pre-empts state shipping           Volunteers     fill up  trash   bags    full of litter  Saturday on the
                                                                                                           I  Tampa side of the Gandy Bridge. The ores has been used for
                                                                                See CROWDS, Page 7B           years as a Illegal dump.
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    mber 23, 1990


                                                             -st
    lufi- teef's" scour.' ate.,                                                                orefine to de ar-
    rs - a lot of crab markers - and a baby           good,  and, obviously,one day a year isn't             "We saved three horseshoe crabs. They                "We 
    attle, said Danny Spencer of St. Peters-.        going to doit                                    were   tangled in fishing line." said Meekin         thought w
    urg, who helped clean near Weedon Is-                 One  function of  the cleanup   project, In    Buschmann,      I, a member of Students for.       clean up,"
                                                  addition to simply     tidying up,   Is to raise    Social -Responsibility at Ridgewood High             the state
     "That's the biggest thing we found, old          public awareness that Florida         waterways     School.                                              Regulation
    oolers and Styrofoarn cups, stuff that            form a "fraglie system that needs respect,"             Buschmann' was among an estimated                     "When
    esn't deteriorate," said George Hall, who        Walkinshaw said.                                    530 Pasco volunteers who collected about             pretty clea
    sed a canoe to get. to nearby Mud Island.             The  worst environmental trash offend-         350 bags of trash at Anclote River Park             -team'sta
    We found a tire with a rim and everything.        ers are plastics, particularly fishing line         North, Greet   Key Beach, Nick's Park"In           they foun
    o wouldn't believe the junk people lose,        and the rings that hold together six-packs of       Port Richey, the Port Richey Recreation              bris and a
    r throw away."                                    canned beverage he said.                            area'and the Belcher Mine area in Hudson,            grovds.
     John Walkinshaw, spokesman for the                   "It breaks your heart to see a sea crea- said Jean Knight county cleanup coordina-                      "I won
    uthwest Florida Water Management Dis-            ture In agony because It's tangled up In line       tor.
                                                                                                                                                               assume It'l
    Ict, said trash seemed less omnipresent           or just can't -eat because It's beak is stuck In        Not everyone confined their labor           to   -"Somebody
    an before, partly because of the lasting          a, set of plastic rings."                           beaches close to home. Karen and Dave
    tects of coastal cleanups over past years.            Volunteers at Green Key Beach In Pas-           Zell of Brandon traveled to Pinellas County             -Staff W'
     "Certainly, there Is still a lot of trash out    co County managed to rescue a few of those          to help clean up John R. Bonner           Nature     bune wire
    e, he said. "Obviously, any trash is not       animals.                                            Park In Largo.                                       port.
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  Litter foes pitch in for Tampa Bay                                                                                                                               a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A  H volmt                                                                                                                                                        spent their bra                                                                                                                                                            heat, fatigue and dirt                                                                                                                                                                    for the sake of a cleaner
                                                                                                                                                                    shoreline.

                                                                                                                                                                    By CAROL A. MARS    IN
                                                                                                                                                                    and TERESA BURNEY
                                                                                                                                                                    Times Staff Writers


                                                                                                                                                                       It                                                                                                                                                      the arwater Marine S                                                                                                                                                       ence Center.
                                                                                                                                                                       Volunteer Terri Douglas stoo    d  o                                                                                                                                                      the bumper of ath                                                                                                                                                      group into wets and drys                                                                                                                                                                    who would bet whi]                                                                                                                                                      collecting trash and those who pre
                                                                                                                                                                    feffed to keep their tennis shoes dry
                                                                                                                                                                       Then she fanning ou                                                                                                                                                      onto. the beaches the man
                                                                                                                                                                    groves to collect debris in plastic bag:
                                                                                                                                                                    that came. from. packages marke                                                                                                                                                      "Ideal for recycling.                                                                                                                                                         Many groups were assigned abou-
                                                                                                                                                                    a mile of. shore clean.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           e to that it
                                                                                                                                                                    a mile.- For those, of you who don't
                                                                                                                                                                    when you go,. it's
                                                                                                                                                                    mile," Ms. Douglas said.                                                                                                                                                                  From Tarpon Spain
                                                                                                                                                                    Harbor to' Fort De Soto Park an(
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                                                                                                                                                                    Madeira Beach, hundreds of volun
                                                                                                                                                                    teers walked miles of Pinellas Count                                                                                                                        nme                                                                                                                                                             coastline Saturday to collect trash
  p.John ine biology class at  School                                                                   The Tampa Bay Da
                                                                                                 n other area residents near -the eastern point of Fort                               sparrk on Saturday as part of Tampa Say Day cleanup. From left, Talbhumbley, Tommousa and                                       of a statewide effort to rid Florida'.,
   load their trash on the back of a pickup buck.                                                                                                                 Please see LITTER Page 









                                                                                                      People n  eed to learn to dispose of, their trash in
                               Utter , from Page I                                                                                                                       J
                                                                                                 trash can , instead of in the environment," said Dan,
                               beaches of ugly and harmful debris.                               who scoured the coast at Fort De Soto Park with
                                   Volunteers found the predictable: plastic soda can            other members of the Seminole Vocational Education-
                               holders, straws, potato chip bags, beer bottles, paper            al Center's chapter of Future Farmers of America.
                               nipkins,. h .uge chunks of plastic foam, diapers, candy               Dan was one of about 250 people - Boy Scouts                       (L
                               wrappers, monofilament fishing line, cardboard boxes              Girl Scouts., high school and college students, ROT@.
                                                                                                 members -- who came to the county park Saturday
                               and empty suntan lotion containers.
                                   And they found the unpredictable: thong sandals,              morning for the cleanup.
                               boat parts, an iron rod, oil filters and car parts, a neon            ."I think it's particularly heartening to see so many
                               light tube' a large wooden spool a grated-cheese                  young people involved, wanting to make a difference,
                               dispenser' @@d a rusty lounge chair'                              willing to work hard - because it's hard working in
                               .   At Collection centers, volunteers sifted through              the sun," said Joyce King of Largo, vice president of
                               the garbage and separated it into containers for                  the St. PetersburgAudubon Society.
                               recycling. Green glass went in one bin, brown glass in                Jerri Bohard, cleanup zone captain for the Pinellas
                               another. Volunteers took notes on what was found, so              beaches, also was pleased with the turnout. She had
                               they can report to local officials how best to combat             expected almost twice as many people as last year.
                               littering.                                                            Last year, between 800 and 900 people volun-
                                   Michael and B. J. Shaub's discovery won't make it             teered in her zone. This year, -the early counts were
                               into any report, but the boys were excited enough to              indicating there could have beenas many as 1,500.
                               display their find to visitors at the East Beach in Fort          .   Volunteers weren't only on the white sandy
                               De Soto Park. The two brothers found a small brown                beaches. Many waded in the mud among the man-
                               box turtle.                                                       groves along causeways and took boats out to spoil
                                   Actually,* they nearly ran over it'while their                islands, two areas where trash tends to end up.
                               mother was parking her car.                                           Ann Mackey was digging -into the mangroves
                                   "I'm going to read about it in the encyclopedia to            along the Clearwater Memorial Causeway for trash.
                               see what it does," said B. J., 10.                                But that's nothing new for her.
                                   "I want to see what the babies look like."                        "I five here, and I walk this area every chance F
                                   He and Michael, 9, learned at North Shore Ele-                get," the Island Estates resident said.
                               mentary School that box turtles have shells that open                 "I never come out without a little trash bag. It's so
                               and close -   'and Pat their new pet is female because            pretty,'and I get so upset with the carelessness and
                               it has brown eyes.                                                the not caring.7
                                   The children who picked up trash learned other                    But she usually picks up trash alone.
                               things as well. For Dan Reynolds, it was that "people                 :'It's just good to be out with a crowd," she sai
                               are slobs."--'                                                         'Now I know that other people care, too."











                  BOCA BEACON - September 14,1990
                                                It's beach cleanup time again.'.
                                                B MARILYN HOECKEL
                                                  y
                                                  On Saturday, Sept. 22, volunteers
                                                will be combing Florida's beaches to
                                                remove ugly and harmful litter left by
                                                careless beachgoers and boaters.
                                                  The statewide effort, in its fourth
                                                year, is sponsored by the Center for
                                                Marine Conservation.
                                                  Heidi Lovett, of the Center', said of
                                                last September's cleanup, "it was a
                                                huge success, and set new records
                                                for volunteer participation. Nearly
                                                15,000 volunteers cleaned 911 miles
                                                of coast and collected about :200 tons
                                                of debris. This was'the largest single
                                                cleanup anywhere in the world sur-                                                      ......
                                                passing the record      set in Flori@a in.
                                                1988.*
                                                  About .20 people cleaned up                      You can help prevent this kind of
                                                Gasparilla Island last September.                  tragedy. Over 600 miles of fishing
                                                They picked up 18 bags of trash from               line was recovered in last fall's
                                                about 11 miles of the island's shore-              cleanup. It kills by entangling birds
                                                line. That's over three tons of, trash.            and animals.
                                                  The statewide beach cleanups are
                                                much more than annual litter collec-               long-term management recommenda-
                                                tion campaigns. Volunteers fill.but                tions to the state government.
                                                "data cards" on which the types and                  Local sponsors        . for- this  ' fall's
                                                amounts of trash are carefully noted.              cleanup are: The Boca Beacon and
                                                The data is then. sent to the Center for           BIPS (Barrier Island Parks Society),
                                                Marine Conservation and entered into               for Gasparillaand Don Pedro islands;
                                                a statewide data base.                             the@Florida Parks Service, for the'bar
                                                  This information is used to:                     rier Jsland parks; the. Charlotte @Sun -
                                                  - provide information on where. litter           Her  Iald, for.the.:Gas-p-a-rilla@-a6d"66ral-
                                                "hot spots" ar6-in Florida;                        Creek. *.,.Fishing Piers;:@@,-a:n;&Ahe
                                                  - assess sources of marine debris                American Littoral. Society'And:.,the
                                                collected;                                         Lemon         Bay- High',,",       .-.,School
                                                   particularly assess the quantity of             Environmental Club.
                                                monofila ment fishing line and discard-              Gasparilla islanders are fnvifedlto
                                                ed/lost fishing                                    participate in this irn06etaht':@elf6@L.
                                                                 nets (deadly to marine
                                                animals and birds);                                Meet at the* p@arking lot across rom
                                                  - focus public  .attention on the envi7          Hudson's Grocery on Park Ave. at
                                                ronmental problems posed by marine                 8:30 a.m. sharp Saturday, Sept. 22.':
                                                debris;and                                           Trash bags, data cards and pencils
                                                   produce a report which provides                 will be provided.


Surfing entrepreneurs commit company to environment
														disposed of properly, it can
								by Elizabeth Skelton			really be a problem, "said Ian-
								  Tony Iannarone and Mark		narone. "If the industry's not
								Reichenstein may seem like		going to do anything about it,
								typical college students with a	we can do our part to keep it
								foundness for surfing. But don't	(ocean safe."
								be fooled by outward appear-		  Doing their part is donating a
								ances.					percentage of their profits to
								  Though Iannarone and			the Center for Marine Conser-
								Reichenstein are indeed colelge	vation (CMC), a national non-
								students, they are also			profit membership organization
								entrepreneurs who have com-		dedicated to protecting marine
								bined their love of surfing with	wildlife and their habitats, and
								a concern for the environment		preserving coastal and ocean
								to launch the Clean Ocean		resources.
								Surfboard line.				  "Right now, we're donating 8
								  The two roommates said that		percent of of our profit margin,"
								their business venture was not	said Iannarone. "Once we get
								financially motivated.  Their		going we're going to donate 3 to
								main cause was to be help ease	5 percent on a semi-annual
								some of the environmental		basis. That amount will actu-
								problems the surfing industry		ally be larger than what we're
								creates.					giving now after we get going."
								  "That was the main backing		  Currently, their donation is
								behind the boards," said		earmarked to benefit the
								Reichenstein. "We wanted to		Florida Coastal Cleanup,
								try and start a trend in the 		CMC's annual event - held
								surfing industry where its		this past weekend - to clean
								responsible for its actions."		the beaches and shorelines.
								  According to Iannarone and		"Before he ever started Clean
								Reichenstein, ages 22 and 21		Ocean, Tony was planning on
								respectively, the rosin and foam	giving a percentage of gross
								used to make surfboards in haz-	receipts to an environmental
								ardous to oceans. "If it's not	See Surf on page 4
							


   Tony lannarone and Mark Reichenstein have committed a percentage of their Company's profits to aiding          
   the coastal environment.                                                               (Photo by Diane Uhley) ardous to oceans. "If it's not
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                                                                      lannarone and Reichenstein,           school.,
                              group,", said Heidi Lovett of          r@both New Jersey natives, said,         Iannarone teare'd he wouldn't
                                                                     'they have sold 30 of the 40           be in school if Clean Ocean
                              CMC's St.Petersburg office-.           .:
                              'His portion to us is for the          .:surfboards shaped by local           Surfboards didn't succeed. "I
                              coastal cleanup. Besides his           surfboard shaper Howard Tan-           borrowed $3,000 from my col-
                              donations, he's been real help-        ner.                                   lege money to start this,* he
                                                                     . Locally, the surfboards are          laughed.
                              ful by distributing materials
                              (brochures, posters) for us.'          sold at South Coast Surf Shop            He and partner Reichenstein
                                The environmental base of            on Mayport Road, owned by              said that Clean Ocean Surf-
                              Clean Ocean Surfboards was a           Reichenstein. He is taking a           board sales are growing at
                              strong selling point for Ian-          break from classes at Jack-            steady pace, "so that we don't
                              narone and Reichenstein when           sonville University (JU) this          have to borrow or run into a
                              they began traveling to surf           semester to devote more time'          debt ratio".
                              shops along the East Coast six         to his business.                         Iannarone said he's been
                              months ago with the first 12             lannarone, a marketing               researching the surfboard mar.
                              prototypes of their product.           senior at JU, said that his edu-       kets in France and Spain for
                                "Most people really liked the        cation was an asset when he            the future.
                              name and the idea of helping           :was forming Clean Ocean Surf-         @ "Right now, we just want to
                              the environment," said Ian             boards., "My education helped.         supply consumers with quality,
                              narone. "They- were also satis-        quite a bit'. I,took'a business-       high performance products that,
                              fled with the performance of           class right after we started!          let them expiess themselves,"
                              the product."                          that hag really helped me              he said. "We want to do our
                                Performance was another              understand the concepts of.            part to insure that our children
                              aspect that Iannarone and              financing much better than L           have oceans to swim in and fish
                              Reichenstein, who have surfed          would have without being in            to catch.'
                              for 22 years collectively, were
                              concerned with when designing
                              their surfboards.
                                'We were just kind of sick of
                              the way the surfing industry
                              was taking advantage of the
                              buying public," said Reichen-
                              stein. ."You pay a lot for the big
                              names, but those companies
                              are providing the public with a
                              low quality product. Right now,
                              the average cost of a big name
                              board is around $325 to $425."
                              He said that an avid surfer will
                              need to replace surfboards,
                              annually.
                                Clean Ocean Surfboards
                              retail for $295 to $345. They..
                              are currently being sold in surf-
                              shops in New Jersey, Virginia
                              and Florida.


Coast-to-coast cleanup
Lend a hand in the three-
hour cleanup of America's
coasts and you won't just
be making beaches more 
beautiful, you'll be col-
lecting valuable data.
The Center for Marine
Conservation, which coor-
dinates the annual cleanup,
uses the trash-collection data
to go after polluters.  Last
year, 65,000 people collected 860 tons of trash.
This year's cleanup will take place Saturday, Sep-
tember 22 in most states; for information, contract the
Center at (202)429-5609 on the East Coast or (415)
391-6204 on the West Coast.

In history's footsteps Ellis Island, the site where
over twelve million immigrants first set foot in America,
opens an Immigration Museum this month, after a pains-
taking six-year renovation of the Beaux Arts main building.

september

A renovated Ellis Island reopens as
the museum of Immigration.

      names of individuals or families who immigrated
through any U.S. port of entry are being inscribed on the
American Immigrant Wall of Honor; for a $100 donation,
     can still add a name in time for the 1992 Centennial.
    act the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., at
   2)883-1986.

The roots of freedom Most of us don't remember much of
what we learned about the Civil War, yet its echoes still rever-
berate.  The Civil War, an epic documentary on PBS this
     offers an insightful examination of what began as
a conflict over states' rights and ended as a strug-
gle to define the meaning of freedom in our coun-
try.  The acclaimed series will fun five consecutive
nights - September 23 through 27.  Check local list-
ings for times.

The grand dame of mystery Agatha Christie
mysteries have sold some two billion copies worldwide,
and her cunning plots continue to enjoy a wide audience.
To mark the one hundredth anniversary of her birth on
September 15, Berkley Books is reissuing all her novels,

Murder maven Agatha 
Christie celebrates a
centennial

along with the Agatha
Christie Compaion, by
Dennis Sanders and
Len Lovalo ($12.95).

Their picks for the best of Christie:  The
Murder of Roger
Ackroyd, the ABC
Murders, Five Little
Pigs and A Murder Is 
Announced.

Bali high Batik and the sarong are just two of
Indonesia's cultural contributions; celebrate all the
riches of this exotic island culture at the Festival of
Indonesia, traveling throughout the U.S. this fall and
next year.  The Festival starts this month with a gala
performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.,
The Sculpture of Indonesia exhibit at the National Gallery
and the Court Arts of Indonesia at the Asia Society Galler-
ies in New York.  It will include film, dance and music
performances, and textile, photography and art exhib-
its in more than forty other cities.

Do your heart good.  Most women assume
heart disease is something they don't have to
worry about, but, in fact, it is the leading cause
of death among women.  On Thursday, Sep-
tember 13, hospitals across the country will
participate in CountDown USA:  The Na-
tional HEart Check, a screening for the
risk factors associated with ehart disease.
Get your blood pressure and cholesterol lev-
els checked for $5 or less.  To find the loca-
tion nearest you, call (800)468-6842.


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