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Mission Beach Press Conference: Illegal Street Vending

Jun 10
4 min

Mission Beach Press Conference: Illegal Street Vending

Press release follows photos below. Contact for media: Larry Webb, President Mission Beach Town Council 858-405-2701 president@missionbeachtc.com MISSION BEACH TOWN COUNCIL CALLS PRESS CONFERENCE TO ADDRESS ILLEGAL STREET VENDING, INCREASE IN CRIME AND TO DEMAND THE CITY ENFORCE EXISTING CODE MISSION BEACH, Calif. (June 9, 2022) -- The Mission Beach Town Council will hold a community rally and press conference calling on the city of San Diego to begin enforcement of existing

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May Gray: Trash Picked Up By One Person In May 2022

Tony Felice

Jun 8
2 min

May Gray: Trash Picked Up By One Person In May 2022

The amount of trash cleaned up off Mission Beach for May is deceivingly lower than last month, but for a good reason. The month of May brought more planned beach cleanups by other organizations with a mission to help keep Mission Beach beautiful. We are so grateful; however, their pickup numbers are not reflected in ours, meaning May's numbers would most likely have been higher than April's. Regardless, we are incredibly thankful for their help! Seed4Greatness invited DTMB to

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Tony Felice

Jun 1
1 min

Bonfires: A Hot Topic

Cathy Ives weighs in on the topic of banning beach bonfires not in City fire rings. This, like so many things are ruined by those who cannot seem to follow the rules and care for their fellow human beings. Beach fires more often lead to trash and debris left behind along with burning embers in the ground. Too often we find broken bottles, left over food, trash and other food waste along with burning embers directly on the sand posing an environmental and a public health haza

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April 2022 Trash Picked Up By One Person

Tim SanFelice

May 11
1 min

April 2022 Trash Picked Up By One Person

It's an unfortunate trend to see our monthly trash pick-up numbers stay consistent. Approximately 17, 843 pieces of trash were picked up off of Mission Beach by just one of our volunteers for the month of April. This number doesn't include our April Beach Cleanup that brought in over 500 lbs of trash by 80 plus volunteers, or the trash picked up daily by our neighborhood residents. Our year-to-date total stands at nearly 60,000 pieces of trash. Why? It's simple, too many peop

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Beach & Bay Press: Keeping Mission Beach clean a daily challenge for residents.

Tony Felice

Apr 28
1 min

Beach & Bay Press: Keeping Mission Beach clean a daily challenge for residents.

On a gorgeous April 9 morning, dozens of volunteers including entire families recovered pounds and pounds of trash they’d collected to be weighed and ultimately disposed of or dispensed for the good of Mission Beach. “It was disappointing to find all the trash in a small area, all the different beer cans, cigarette butts, and sandwiches,” noted Marisa Kaprow of North PB, who joined the beach cleanup, co-sponsored by nonprofit Don’t Trash Mission Beach and the Mission Beach To

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April Community Beach Clean and Food Drive

Tony Felice

Mar 19
1 min

April Community Beach Clean and Food Drive

Community Event: The Mission Beach Town Council & Don't Trash Mission Beach present a Beach Cleanup and Food Drive to Support San Diego Food Bank. Come join us and bring your family and friends, or come out and make new friends! It's a fun way to give back to the planet and meet people who care as much as you do! What a great way to start out the weekend by helping keep our beaches and parks looking their best. We will have educational materials on so it is a great learning e

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Tony Felice

Oct 18, 2021
1 min

December 11 Beach Cleanup and Toy Drive

Community Event: The Mission Beach Town Council & Don't Trash Mission Beach present a Toy Drive benefiting Toys for Tots and Beach Cleanup. Come join us and bring your family and friends, or come out and make new friends! It's a fun way to give back to the planet and meet people who care as much as you do! What a great way to start out the weekend by helping keep our beaches and parks looking their best. We will have educational materials on so it is a great learning experien

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Tony Felice

Apr 16, 2021
1 min

Earth Day: Pacific Beach Cleanup

Let's celebrate our neighbors and help out for Earth Day! Let's Clean Up PB! To celebrate the 51st anniversary of Earth Day this April, we're joining Don't Trash PB for a Virtual Neighborhood Cleanup. Join in It's easy to participate: just choose your favorite PB location (we recommend the Diamond Street Slow Street) to pick up trash on April 24 from 9 am to 12 pm. Then tag @beautifulPB and @DontTrashPB on social media with a photo of you cleaning for a chance to win BPB swag

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Join us for our next Community Event March 13

Tony Felice

Feb 22, 2021
1 min

Join us for our next Community Event March 13

To register as a volunteer, click here. If you just wish to donate food, you can drive up to either location - we will have masked attendants curbside so you don't even have to get out of your car! If you do volunteer, please bring at least one non-perishable item with you! Also bring your business card, we will be giving away Don't Trash Mission Beach Tee Shirts! (No need to bring paper tickets issued by eventbrite with you, that's just a part of their reservation system, w

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San Diego Reader: The impact of Halloween in Mission Beach

Tony Felice

Nov 11, 2020
1 min

San Diego Reader: The impact of Halloween in Mission Beach

"I, along with others, are extremely angry over the lack of enforcement on Halloween; there were only two police cars at the parking lot at Belmont, and on the beach, there was a couple with an illegal fire, and nothing was done," said Cathy Ives of DontTrashMissionBeach.com. "There were 12 fires that I could see." Almost every day, Ives picks up litter on Mission Beach by the fire pits and the adjacent boardwalk between Belmont Park and the jetty a mile south. On November 6,

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NBC 7 covers our story about the increase in mask and glove trash on the beach.

Tony Felice

Oct 26, 2020
1 min

NBC 7 covers our story about the increase in mask and glove trash on the beach.

Our founders Cathy Ives and Tim and Tony Sanfelice talk about the increase in trash on the beach and their hopes that people are mindful of

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Thank you Telemundo for covering our story!

Tony Felice

Oct 26, 2020
1 min

Thank you Telemundo for covering our story!

A big thanks to volunteer Jessica Gressard for stepping in and being a spokesperson for www.donttrashmissionbeach.com to talk to Mar González of Telemundo about the increase in personal protection trash on the beach as a result of the pandemic. Please remember those disposable masks are plastic and just as harmful to sea life and the environment as are plastic bags. Here's a link to the full story: https://www.telemundo20.com/noticias/local/preocupa-miles-de-mascarillas-tirad

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Thank you to the Cannabis Industry for Helping Out!

Tony Felice

Oct 18, 2020
1 min

Thank you to the Cannabis Industry for Helping Out!

We are always THRILLED when we stumble on wonderful members of the San Diego community who organize beach cleanups! We are so grateful to Krystal from Canndescent, Hikei dispensary, HoneyOil, Riot Scene, Torrey Holistics and all the other Cannabis Businesses, friends and family who organized a beach cleanup here in Mission Beach. We are so grateful to you all and we wish you the very best that Karma can bring! If we have forgotten anyone just let us know! #donttrashmissionbea

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PRESS RELEASE: BEACH CLEANUP AND ART INSTALLATION

Tony Felice

Sep 5, 2020
4 min

PRESS RELEASE: BEACH CLEANUP AND ART INSTALLATION

Press Release: DON'T TRASH MISSION BEACH BEACH CLEANUP AND ART INSTALLATION September 12th - 7am - Belmont Park

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