SF COASTAL CLEAN UP DAY -- SEPTEMBER 20, 2008
Help Where Help is Needed!

California Coastal Clean Up Day 2007 was the largest Clean Up day in the history of the event for both California and San Francisco, but we only scratched the surface of a serious marine debris problem that disportionately affects our city's eastern shoreline.

- 70% of 14,000 lbs. of trash was picked up on the East side of San Francisco
- 80% of 2,500 volunteers cleaned up on the West side of San Francisco

Please help us by encouraging your family and friends to volunteer at San Francisco's most impacted places. We are here to assist you in finding a place that needs that extra help.

Together we can create a cleaner and more beautiful city for everyone.

Contact LEJ Outreach Coordinator Elsa Calvillo to volunteer.

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SUPPORT CANDLESTICK POINT -- IT'S NOT OVER!
Contact Mark Leno and Carole Migden

We celebrated in May when the budget revisions came out and we knew that Candlestick's gates would stay open--thank you to everyone who signed petitions, wrote to your legislators, and came with us to Sacramento.

But even though the Governor has "saved" the parks and Candlestick is no longer threatened with closure, the restoration project still needs $5 million in Proposition 84 funds, which were earmarked by the taxpayers for the state parks. This funding got derailed while Candlestick languished on the closure list, and now we need to make sure it gets into the final budget.

LEJ Youth have been propagating literally tens of thousands of plants at our Candlestick nursery to ramp up for this vital shoreline project, addressing acute contamination from industrial and military pollution. Without the promised state funding--which has already been matched by $11.5 million in pledges from public and private sources--the work cannot even begin and years of effort at the nursery will remain fruitless.

If you live in Mark Leno's Assembly district or Carole Migden's Senate district, please contact them to say thank you for taking a leadership role in closing the gap, and encourage both legislators to continue their efforts to make our dream of a healthy shoreline into a reality.