26 Oct, 2009
Over 1,000 Celebrate Save Our Beach 10th Anniversary
Posted by: Beach Reporter In: beaches| california| events
Kim and Steve Masoner celebrated the 10th anniversary of Save Our Beach with a party recently in which over 1,000 people attended. It’s been 10 years since two people started a grassroots movement to clean up their local beaches. Kim and Steve Masoner of Save Our Beach, initially began picking up trash from the beaches near their home. Growing momentum, they then rounded up help to clean up the beaches, even while they both had full time jobs and careers. Usually one weekend per month, they’ve set up a tent and held a beach cleanup (at the parking lot at Ocean and 1st St. in Seal Beach, volunteering their time to make a difference. Through 10 years since they first began, their cleanups have grown to include schools, corporations and individuals. Children can get credits through their schools for pitching in, corporations can list their volunteer hours served, and individuals get satisfaction in knowing that they are also helping out.
These two dynamos aren’t strangers to success. Kim Masoner served as the Seal Beach Chamber of Commerce director and built the Seal Beach Sand Castle event into one of the largest, most successful beach events in Southern California. Kim and Steve also launched the first Huntington Beach Sand Castle Festival, which included a giant sand sculpture and rave reviews. Their passion for the beaches shows. Dedication, hard work, creative marketing and simple grassroots word-of-mouth have all been a part of the success of Save our Beach, which is a nonprofit organization.
Do you want to become a part of this green movement? Visit saveourbeach.org, or call Kim at (562) 884-6764.
In September 2009 California Coastal Day Cleanup celebrated its 25th anniversary with over 75,000 volunteers picking up over one million pounds of trash throughout California. If you are unable to pick up trash at a beach near you, there are many things you can do to help stop the flow of trash at beaches and in the ocean. Efforts include reducing the amount of soap you use to wash your car, throwing away your trash in trash cans, recycling, reducing household toxins, and eating sustainable seafood.
