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Day Reflections – April 22
Written by SurfWriter Girls Sunny
Magdaug and Patti Kishel
Sunny
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The electricity in the air on Sunday made up for the fact
that it was an overcast day. All the kids were excited to fill up their beach
cleanup bags with trash and make Seal Beach even more beautiful than it already
is.
The Surfrider Foundation Huntington Beach/Seal Beach
Chapter was out in full force manning the information booths and serving Java
Jaws Coffee.
Event sponsor Kohl’s volunteers turned the beach into a sea
of purple with their Kohl’s Cares purple T-shirts. In addition to helping clean
the beach, Kohl’s announced that it was donating $30,000 to the Surfrider Foundation.
Among the other sponsors were: Wells Fargo, Whole Foods, Shaklee,
Up, Up and Away Kites, and Aquarium of Pacific.
Surf artists Robb Havassey and Nathan Gibbs showed up,
too. Havassey donated original artworks and a surfboard he designed that
celebrates native culture and the environment.
Gibbs donated artworks and his environmental book The Betrayal of Man.
The Originalities band kept the music going and lots of
people were stopping by to see the Ocean
Friendly Garden that Greg Goran set up.
And, at the end of the day everyone was trying to get Chapter
Chairperson Tony Soriano into the Coral Reef dunk tank…but he was too fast to catch.
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