by starfish on September 14, 2008
September 20th 2008
This year’s International Coastal Cleanup will be held September 20th. But this is more than a one-day event it’s a year-round movement. The ocean is essential to the health of everything on our planet. But harmful impacts like climate change and overfishing are taking its toll. The International Coastal Cleanup provides a direct tangible way to make a difference. Trash in the ocean kills countless seabirds, marine mammals and sea turtles each year through ingestion and entanglement. The International Coastal Cleanup brings awareness and action to one of the largest problems we face. The 2007 International Coastal Cleanup Data Report is a global snapshot of the hazardous effects of trash in the ocean.
Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup is the world’s largest volunteer event of its kind. Last year, 378,000 volunteers from 76 countries and 45 states cleared six million pounds of trash from oceans and waterways and recorded every piece of trash collected.
All Scout Troops, Youth Church Groups, School groups and concerned citizens are encouraged to come out and join in. The beaches to be included will be as follows: Round Island Oceanside, 2200 Highway A1A, Sebastian Inlet – Southside, 14251 NW A1A, Golden Sands Beach, 10350 N A1A, JayCee Beach and South Beach.
Pelican Island Audubon Society asks everyone to please come out and volunteer a little of your time and effort to clean-up our beaches! Any questions regarding the clean-up can be directed to the PIAS office at 772-567-3520 or piaudubon@bellsouth.net
Tell a friend about the coastal cleanup.
by starfish on April 30, 2008
The days of ”Zero Beach,” as the town was dubbed during more staid times, seem to have passed with a flurry of building that has hit Vero Beach in the aftermath of two serious hurricanes in 2004. The Miami Herald recently ran a feature on Vero Beach, noting that upgrades include recent expansions to the Riverside Theatre, which hosts performances and speakers like businessman Steve Forbes and comedian Paula Poundstone, and Vero Beach Museum of Art, currently hosting an exhibition of portraits by John Singer Sargent, Alex Katz and other American artists.
When music icon Gloria Estefan purchased and remodeled her first hotel outside Miami-Dade County, she bypassed trendy haunts and the forever-regal Palm Beach in favor of quieter, less well-known Vero Beach. Her 94-room Costa D’ Este Beach Resort is slated to open by early summer.
Yet this seaside town is still a cozy village where hotels are about the only towers allowed. People come not because it’s anything like the rest of Florida, but because it isn’t.
Vero ”is like Florida used to be” said recent visitor Dawn Hirsch of West Palm Beach.
Meticulously tended flower beds edge Ocean Drive, where upscale shops sit just steps from the beach. Live oaks shelter homes and businesses fronted by long grassy carpets. The town has a staunch, timeless feel about it — much as it must have when Waldo Sexton built his famously funky Driftwood Resort here in 1935.
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by starfish on March 17, 2008
Vero Beach — zip code 32960 — isn’t going anywhere. It may even be reincarnated as someone else’s Spring Training base. Next year, it likely will at least host some country’s pre-World Baseball Classic workouts.
But it’s farewell to Dodgertown. Barring an unforeseen construction glitch in their Glendale, Ariz., destination, “Dem Bums” will draw the Dodgertown shades with Monday afternoon’s exhibition tilt against the Houston Astros.
Dodgertown is its own oxymoron. Charming, obsolete. Scenic, blighted. Comfortable, inconvenient. Hate to leave, love to go.
It has been the crib for generations of Dodgers players, and generations of Brooklyn and Los Angeles fans who have flocked to see them at this redeveloped vacant World War II naval air base. But it’s time for them all to come out from behind the Oz curtain and join the real world. It’s time to run after the parade that has passed them by, in that new $80 million Cactus League complex they will share with the Chicago White Sox.
Time to pull the covers. But, oh, what a storybook place it was.
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