Environment

Thousands To Clean California Beaches Saturday

By Ed Joyce / Reporter

Published September 18, 2009 at 11:52 AM PDT

This story was published more than 14 years ago.

More Than 8,000 Volunteers Sign-Up In San Diego County

Thousands of volunteers are expected to scour the coast and inland waterways Saturday in San Diego County. It's all part of the 25th anniversary of California Coastal Cleanup Day.

Thousands of volunteers are expected to scour the coast and inland waterways Saturday) in San Diego County. It's all part of the 25th anniversary of California Coastal Cleanup Day.

Volunteers will be picking up trash and other debris at more than 80 locations in San Diego County.

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Alicia Glassco, who is with San Diego Coastkeeper, said at least 8,000 people have signed up to volunteer.

"We have so many interested people and so many areas that need trash collection we've gone up into, further back into the watershed to the areas that really have high volumes of debris," Glassco said. "So we're getting further inland and we're get more and more volunteers every year."

Glassco said during last year's cleanup volunteers collected 160,000 pounds of trash in San Diego County alone.

Sailors from Naval Base Coronado got a jumpstart on the cleanup.

They picked up trash today from the edge of the beach adjacent to the Silver Strand Training Complex between Imperial Beach and Coronado.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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