An event in celebration of the International Year of the Reef, organized by the Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawai`i. 

Volunteers are needed to help clear marine debris from the Kahuku coastline on Thursday 4th September, 2:45pm - 5:15pm. Volunteers are also needed to help with the following:  set up 1:30pm - 2:30pm, check in desk/support crew 2:30pm - 5:15pm, pack up at 5:15pm - 6pm, gate/parking attendant/s 1:30pm - 5:15pm, transporting debris in pick up trucks.  Please call 393 2168 if you can help with any of these positions or if you have a pick-up truck and can assist.

To register for the beach clean-up, please phone 393 2168 by Tuesday September 2nd.  Directions and parking information will be given to registered participants. Please bring your own water container, a bucket, clipboard & pen, and wear hat, sunscreen and sturdy walking shoes.  Rakes and sand sifters are also useful to bring if you have them.  Bags and gloves will be provided. A prize drawing will take place at the end of the clean-up.  To be elegible for the prize drawing, participants must register for the clean-up and be present at the drawing which will take place at the end of the clean-up.  Prizes include:  David Helvarg’s book “50 Ways to Save the Ocean”, International Year of the Reef t-shirts, B.E.A.C.H. reusable shopping bags, EcoUsable water bottles, Kale’s Natural Foods gift basket.

Participants include:  Roz Savage, Blue Frontier Campaign, JUNK crew, Algalita Marine Research Foundation and B.E.A.C.H. This event is being sponsored by Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawai`i, Blue Frontier Campaign, EcoUsable, Kale’s Natural Foods. Mahalo to James Campbell Company, City and County of Honolulu.

For more information, please visit the B.E.A.C.H website: www.b-e-a-c-h.org