More Litter cleaning !!

Hey there guys! Group leader Blaine Valadez and family were at it again this weekend. Friday Evening for a short amount of time and Saturday they cleaned litter around the Point Defiance Park around Owen Beach area for a total of 8 hours!! All bundled up and having a great time! We weighed the trash afterward for a total of 15.5 lbs! Great job team :)  Pics to come!!

Community Service Litter Cleaning!!

Our own leader Blaine Valadez, and his got outside to do some litter cleaning on November 9th and 10th in the Graham area along Meridian Street E! After about six hours of cleaning each day, we weighed the litter collected and it totaled over 20lbs! Great job team. Pics to come sooN!

Have a Happy Holiday from CBG

We're looking forward to cleaning up litter with you in 2012. Thank you all our volunteers from clean ups in 2011, we can't wait to continue our efforts to make our community a better place.

Ranger Steve keeps Chambers Creek Clean

Hey everyone,

When we arrived at Chambers Creek all the trash had been collected, thanks to Ranger Steve! If you've been to Chambers Creek on a sunny day, you might have encountered a unique guy named Steve, he's dedicated his personal time for 20+ YEARS collecting trash left behind by recreational visitors in the Canyon. He's brought his boat, countless times to load up the piles of trash bags accumulated from the last weekend surge of partiers.
Ranger Steve is a humble guy, but we know he really deserves recognition. Without Steve, Chambers Creek would have been over-run with trash long ago. We need more people like him, that really care about this location. Chambers Creek was identified as the most environmentally  sensitive area within the Chambers Creek properties. Hundreds of youth in the area enjoy beautiful area each year, yet lack of recreational infacstucture is causing the natural habitat distress. We know it this location needs care, Ranger Steve's efforts have helped battle the trash problem for years but he could sure use some help~! During the winter, we will be cleaning trails with Steve every Thursday we can and hope other creek lovers can help out. Thank you Steve for all your efforts, you truly make this great natural location as well as popular skimboarding spot a better place.

Our litter cleaning totals so far~

Date	Location Of CBG Clean Up	Combined Volunteer Hours	Pounds of Litter Collected
06/25/11	Titlow Beach/Park, Tacoma, WA	16hrs	23lbs
07/30/11	Chambers Creek Canyon, University Place, WA	16hrs	60lbs
08/27/01	Owen Beach at Point Defiance, Tacoma, WA	20hrs	25lbs
09/03/11	Titlow Beach/Park, Tacoma, WA	15hrs	29lbs
09/03/11	Chambers Creek Canyon, University Place, WA	TBD	TBD
Totals:		67 Volunteer Hours Donated!	137lbs Collected in 2011!

Titlow Park is looking more Tidy!

Hey again, 
We had a great time cleaning up Titlow Park in Tacoma, Washington yesterday, collecting 29lbs of litter! It was a very sunny and warm day, we really enjoyed getting out in the sun and cleaning up this area. Titlow seems to be pretty severely littered every time we visit. The amount of littered trash in the area seemed to be the same as when we had our very FIRST cleaning party there back in June this year. We cleaned up many containers stuffed in the rocks and bushes. There was an ALARMING amount of animal droppings just left along the side of the concrete path running parallel with the railroad tracks, Gross! Cigarette butts, cigarette butts, and more cigarette butts, EVERYWHERE. We had some great help cleaning though, thank you Alex and Yanina who came from Seattle to help us clean and enjoy the day.

 

See you Next week at Chambers Creek Saturday September 10th at 11am!

Helping Clean Tacoma Waterfront today, Titlow Saturday!

Hey everyone,
We've been getting some awesome mentions online for our efforts, Thank you! We're going to head over to help out TODAY with the First Annual Tacoma Waterfront Cleanup by Citizens for a Healthy Bay. It starts at 12 today, for event details click the Facebook event Page Below:

CHB - First Annual Tacoma Waterfront Cleanup

Also,  below are our totals since May 2011, we're Trying to reach our goal of 2000lbs of trash collected in 2011!

CLEAN BEACH GROUP 

LITTER CLEANING DATA

Date	Location Of CBG Clean Up	Volunteer Hours	Pounds of Litter Collected
06/25/11	Titlow Beach/Park, Tacoma, WA	16	23lbs
07/30/11	Chambers Creek Canyon, University Place, WA	16	60lbs
8/27/11	Owen Beach at Point Defiance, Tacoma, WA	20	25lbs
	Totals:	52 Volunteer Hours !	108 lbs Litter Collected!