Kennebunk Portside Rotary - Press Releases - Goose Rocks Beach Clean Up

Kennebunk Portside Rotary took time Saturday, October 4, to clean up Goose Rocks Beach, Maine. Rotary members, along with family members and friends, have been participated in the annual Maine Coast Week Beach Clean Up. This year’s group included 16 volunteers who removed over 450 pounds of trash from 3 miles of beach. Items such as discarded plastic bags, food wrappers, pieces of foam buoys, rope, and cigarette butts are removed from the beach, and tallied. This documentation is sent to the Maine Coastal Program and on to the International Ocean Conservancy. Portside Rotary Club participants had an enjoyable time at the beach, perform a community service, and be a part of an effort that, in 2007, removed more than six million pounds of debris from over 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide.

Portside Rotary club members with family and friends joining in ready to tackle the beach for cleanup – Ron Karalus, Karen Schlegel, Alan Shepard, Dick Mason, President Peggy Belanger, Ki and Bill Lefler, Harvey Flashen, Charlie Coleman, Ted Trainer, Dave Jourdan, and Wayne Manchester.

Portside Rotary club members with bags of trash from their collection along the beach, mostly rope, cigarette butts, and misc. plastics and food wrappers. A great day to stroll the beach. We are proud of how clean our beach is and glad to participate to keep it beautiful.