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Next Saturday, May 19th, Surfrider Foundation-Long Beach Chapter will be tabling at the home of Chelsea Mosher & Joshua Frank(526 E. 8th St.) as part of the Long Beach Water Department’s Garden Tour of L2G Homes. This is one of the homes where we have helped to create an Ocean Friendly Garden. Anyone interested in helping with tabling, please contact me. The event is 10am-2pm. For more information about the Lawn-to-Garden tour, visit www.lblawntogarden.com.
If you want to join the Long Beach Chapter Executive Committee, send your name to Emiko by June 1. To simplify the paperwork on our end, there will be no last minute write-ins on the ballot. For Surfrider members, we will have food and drinks so come by to vote, and mingle with the fellow Surfrider members! Members of the Surfrider Foundation~Long Beach Chapter and other friends & neighbors joined together to assist with the transformation of a grass yard into a garden of native, drought tolerant plants. Utilizing the principles of CPR, this garden will Conserve water by Preventing run-off and Retaining water in the planted area. Anyone in the LB area interested in assistance with converting their yard can contact the Chapter at ofg@lbsurfrider.org. Watch the video below and you can see more images here. Learn by doing, turning a typical lawn into an Ocean Friendly Garden (OFG)! We will be removing any remaining turf grass the host missed, contouring the yard to create plant beds, adjusting the irrigation system, plus installing native and climate-appropriate plants. Lite food and drinks will be provided.
Date: March 3 (prep day) and March 10 (planting day), 9 am-1 pm RSVP to: rschaffner@gmail.com – it helps us plan for tools, work crew leaders and food
Our focus this year is:
General Meeting The Long Beach Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation will hold a presentation about what Surfrider is and the ongoing efforts to Sink the Breakwater. This will be followed by a screening of the new movie “Know Your H2O,” about our water cycle. For more information call 562-252-6173 or check out the Surfrider web page at www.lbsurfrider.org. For more on the location see http://longbeachpizza.com/ Recycle your packing foam from the holidays at the Aquarium of the Pacific on Jan. 14 from 9:30am – 4:00pm. Check out Waste to Waves for more information on the event. We hope to see you there! Not the kind of CPR you were expecting though. In an effort to reduce harmful runoff from the land, into the ocean The Surfrider Foundation designed a global program called Ocean Friendly Gardens. The Long Beach Chapter, with the assistance of Paul Herzog, OFG Program Coordinator, has transformed several gardens in the city based on the principals of CPR, Conservation, Permeability and Retention and here’s the latest evidence of what happened when volunteers, city officials and Surfrider worked together on Josh and Chelseas garden . On December 4th over thirty Long Beach Surfrider volunteers gathered to celebrate their efforts to make their community a better place. Emiko Innes, Chairperson of the Chapter welcomed everyone with a slide show of the years activities and an inspirational clip from the recent TED conference which puncuated the importance of ‘movements’. Nancy Hastings, Southern California Field Organizer for the Surfrider Global said a few words of thanks after which awards were given, stories were shared and great food was enjoyed.
Huge thanks to The Local Spot at Pacific Coast Highway and Loynes for hosting the event. They are a local family with a local eatery and it was a perfect example of the community coming together for a common cause….through local efforts great global movements are born. Please consider The Local Spot as your first stop for great food and don’t forget to tell them that Surfrider sent ya!
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