San Diegans rewarded with a bash for cleaning up trash

By Ed Joyce / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published June 19, 2006 at 9:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

It's the start of summer today and the warm weather has brought thousands of people to San Diego County beaches in the past week. Along with a lot of people, comes a lot of trash. KPBS Reporter Ed Joy

It's the start of summer today and the warm weather has brought thousands of people to San Diego County beaches in the past week. Along with a lot of people, comes a lot of trash. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyce has more.

While the day after July 4th is usually the trashiest day of the year on county
beaches, residents can lend a helping hand to clean two beach areas at six o'clock tonight.

Ken David with the local chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, says the non-profit group plans a couple of special events this evening.

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David: Instead of a regular beach cleanup on the weekend and a regular Surfrider meeting we're going to be going down to the beaches of Mission Beach and Oceanside and we're going to combine having a beach party with also a beach cleanup.

David says all cleanup supplies and refreshments are provided free. The Mission Beach event is at Belmont Park, with volunteers meeting on the grass at the south end of the parking lot. The Oceanside celebration and cleaning is on the south side of the Oceanside Pier, meeting on the grass by the parking lot and restrooms.

The San Diego County Fair is offering free fair tickets to the first 200 volunteers at each location. Ed Joyce, KPBS News.

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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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