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Sauble Beach Clean Up

Posted by garym on April 13, 2007 - 1:00pm
05/26/2007 - 9:00am
05/26/2007 - 12:00pm

A shoreline clean up of Sauble Beach has been organized for Saturday May 26, 2007 from 9:00am to 12 noon.

Permanent and seasonal residents, campers, students seeking community service hours and everyone who enjoys the beach are invited to join the Friends of Sauble Beach in this annual project.

Please meet at Sixth Street North
For more information contact Ian Miller 422-1011

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Do I smell a beach party?

Submitted by garym on April 13, 2007 - 1:04pm.

Hmmm ... dare I even ask if and what might there happen just after noon on that day? Should we bring bongos?

garym: ict evangelist - musician - whatever

thumb up

Submitted by wayne tanner on April 13, 2007 - 7:50pm.

Ah if it would be possible , as I like to plan ahead, (this is what seperates us from the animals according to my honey bunch) If there is a beach party goin on, which I fully endorse, could I get a ride home with someone????????

BTW this picture of a white male showed up to the left side of my screen and said here is Gary Murphy. People I know Gary Murphy and I know the picture displayed bears no resemblence to Gary Murphy. Please do not trust anything you see on the internet, I am not sure what scam he is running.
If you wish to see a picture of me however you may go to www.mruniversepicturesofpeoplewhoarerippedandknowit.com... take your pick of who you think I am.

argh wayne me boy

Submitted by bub on April 13, 2007 - 8:17pm.

dem golden bears be offerin a ride home..arghh...

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Two Things We Don't Clean Up

Submitted by Dodge on April 22, 2007 - 11:52pm.

Seeing as it is earth day I have a bit of a rant.

Can anyone guess how many cigarette butts get deposited on the beach on a summer Saturday? 10,000 is probably not out of line. Eighty people doing 25 cigarettes a day can leave 1000 butts so this is a conservative estimate. Raking turns them under the sand.

Which brings me to the second thing. All the plant material which washes onto the beach in a storm gets raked in. This would normall dry out and blow away leaving clean sand.

It is a myth that cigarette filters are biodegradable. It can take 15 years for the cellulose acetate (a plastic) to decay. Filters also hold toxic chemicals which they release.

Toxicity tests on Daphnia Magna (water fleas) indicate a 100% death rate in 48 hours soaking in a 2 gallon solution of distilled water and one cigarette butt.

I am not too concerned about pressure treated lumber these days. I think the biggest environmental damage is being done by discarding cigarette butts and raking the beach.

The visual impact of cigarette butts can also be considered environmental damage when you are dealing with a natural self cleaning sand system.

The sand could deal with the plant material if left alone but the butts are a different story. Time for the Friends to look at the problem.

Nothing like an old ex

Submitted by Ruftic on April 23, 2007 - 9:44pm.

Nothing like an old ex smoker eh
Dodge?
The resident love goddess and I
went for a walk on the beach today
and gathered stones for her art.
We did not see one cigarett butt!
Maybe a rant cause you can't?
Ruftic