Miami-Dade
Coastal Cleanup
Saturday, September 15th
In addition to hundreds of other volunteers, Miami Brickell Rotary, South Miami Rotary, Miami Rotary and the Miami Interact Club joined the throngs that showed up at Matheson Hammock Park on Saturday morning to clean up the trash that litters the mangroves after a summer of storms trashes the shoreline.
A dozen Coral Gables Rotarians and friends showed up looking for trash and treasures. We stuffed 10 - 30 gallon garbage bags full of "little pieces of plastic" which seemed to be the bulk of the trash we found this year. A few shoes, some cans and bottles but mostly those awful little pieces of trash that the turtles and other creatures think are food.
Mailys Ooghe, our Rotary Youth Exchange student was on hand to help - and she was willing to go way back into the underbrush to get the bigger items that were stuck there. The mosquitoes had a good time with her - fresh meat from France!
President Walter was there, Liz Silverman (she brought some terrific "pickers" that we used to get the bags out of the roots) and two of her friends from the Miami Ski Club, Rodney Langer, Carol Alexander and her daughter, Deena Bell-Llwellyn, Sally B., and Andrea Stone were also there slopping through the mud and muck to keep the bayfront pristine.
Of course the real reason that we do this is so we can all go to Scotty's Landing for lunch and libations immediately after all our hard work! It was a beautiful Saturday and we had a lot of fun doing something good for our community. What more can you ask for? Service Above Self.
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