HMMS winter Adopt-A-Beach pickup!
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HMMS winter Adopt-A-Beach pickup!
Hey all you beach combers, er, “Beach Guardians,” believe it or not it is just about time for our winter Adopt-A-Beach cleanup!
If you recall, HMMS has a commitment to pick up trash three times annually on the beautiful stretch of gulf coast beach fronting Galveston Island State Park, located about 8 miles west of 61st Street on Galveston Island. In addition to the mandated dates for statewide pickups in September and April, we have a winter pickup, with optional date of our choosing. We had tentatively selected the weekend of January 23-24th as just about halfway in between the mandated dates. I think I am safe in saying that those of us who participated in the statewide pickup last September had a fun time, followed by a very nice lunch at Mario’s Ristorante on 61st St of the island.
Weather permitting, we would like to meet in the same Galveston Island State Park parking lot as last time, at about 1:30 PM on Sunday, January 24th, so that we can be in action on the beach by 2:00 PM. We should allow up to three hours for our pickup but, if it is cold and windy, we can cut that short or take breaks to warm up.
If the weather forecast is really ominous, we will postpone, probably to the same time on the following Saturday, January 30th. We will post a final decision based on weather by 9:00 AM on the morning of the scheduled pickup, on both hmms.org and metroplexmini.org. However, as long as the forecast is for at least 50 degrees on the island by 3:00 PM, without rain, we will plan on proceeding.
There are picnic grills on site and we might bring charcoal to have a small fire for warming us up and “S’mores” fixings and, if the club will spring for it, a canister of hot Starbucks coffee. We also will bring MoTW bottled water.
Our primary pickup targets are cans, plastic, styrofoam and paper trash, and other man made objects… nothing too heavy to lift. (Some of us may have gone a bit overboard last time.) There are barrels along the beach every few hundred feet for our trash bags. We have pickup sticks, as well as gloves, trash bags, pencils and survey forms to record our findings which have been provided by the state. The person with the oddest finding, as voted by those present, will win a prize!
After we are done, for those who have worked up an appetite, we can return to Mario’s for a nice Italian dinner before heading home. Sorry, no buffet served on weekends
To give us a head count, please take part in one of the polls that are part of the posts on hmms.org and metroplexmini.org
We hope you can join us for this worthwhile community service project!
JC Scooper
If you recall, HMMS has a commitment to pick up trash three times annually on the beautiful stretch of gulf coast beach fronting Galveston Island State Park, located about 8 miles west of 61st Street on Galveston Island. In addition to the mandated dates for statewide pickups in September and April, we have a winter pickup, with optional date of our choosing. We had tentatively selected the weekend of January 23-24th as just about halfway in between the mandated dates. I think I am safe in saying that those of us who participated in the statewide pickup last September had a fun time, followed by a very nice lunch at Mario’s Ristorante on 61st St of the island.
Weather permitting, we would like to meet in the same Galveston Island State Park parking lot as last time, at about 1:30 PM on Sunday, January 24th, so that we can be in action on the beach by 2:00 PM. We should allow up to three hours for our pickup but, if it is cold and windy, we can cut that short or take breaks to warm up.
If the weather forecast is really ominous, we will postpone, probably to the same time on the following Saturday, January 30th. We will post a final decision based on weather by 9:00 AM on the morning of the scheduled pickup, on both hmms.org and metroplexmini.org. However, as long as the forecast is for at least 50 degrees on the island by 3:00 PM, without rain, we will plan on proceeding.
There are picnic grills on site and we might bring charcoal to have a small fire for warming us up and “S’mores” fixings and, if the club will spring for it, a canister of hot Starbucks coffee. We also will bring MoTW bottled water.
Our primary pickup targets are cans, plastic, styrofoam and paper trash, and other man made objects… nothing too heavy to lift. (Some of us may have gone a bit overboard last time.) There are barrels along the beach every few hundred feet for our trash bags. We have pickup sticks, as well as gloves, trash bags, pencils and survey forms to record our findings which have been provided by the state. The person with the oddest finding, as voted by those present, will win a prize!
After we are done, for those who have worked up an appetite, we can return to Mario’s for a nice Italian dinner before heading home. Sorry, no buffet served on weekends
To give us a head count, please take part in one of the polls that are part of the posts on hmms.org and metroplexmini.org
We hope you can join us for this worthwhile community service project!
JC Scooper
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