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It takes a lot of people to pull off a safe and successful Coastal Cleanup Day.

Not only are we grateful for the volunteers who donated their Saturday morning to keeping trash out of the ocean, we also need to thank our indefatigable site captains. These folks hand out reusable supplies, ensure volunteers complete their waiver forms as well as weigh and report the amount of trash removed from each site.

Site captains also distribute “thank you” items such as Chipotle free entrée coupons and KIND bars (cheers to Chipotle Mexican Grill and KIND for supplying the awesome snacks!).

Overall, our countywide effort could not have been possible without support from the California Coastal Commission.

We also say a hearty thank you to the following sponsors: Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, Mattel, Union Bank, LandShark Lager, the City of Santa Monica, Ralphs, as well as Kaiser Permanente and the Vons Foundation.

In addition to being an advocate sponsor, Chase Bank even supplied lunch as well as a passel of eager volunteers at Will Rogers beach. Honda also coordinated volunteers and supplied lunch to those who came to clean in Torrance.

Volunteers from Mattel, LACarGuy, AT&T, Kaiser-South Bay and Hertz zealously removed trash from their favorite sites. Thank you for bringing your enthusiasm!

At the Santa Monica Pier, we’d like to thank Naam Yoga for getting us in a peaceful healing mood, as well as Rusty’s Surf Ranch for the post-cleanup refreshments.

And, Heal the Bay employees extend our thank yous to Eric Lomax and Kristi Tynan for massaging out the knots in our necks and shoulders on CCD Monday.

We would also like to recognize and thank Duke’s restaurant for hosting our first Lunch ‘n Learn of the school year as well as the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation for helping to bring out 65 title one 5th graders from Humphreys Avenue Elementary in East Los Angeles.