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Then a student at Roland Park Country Day School, the precocious teen was splitting each week between Baltimore and New York where the show was filmed. Her father, Douglas List, worked as management consultant in both cities. | Then a student at Roland Park Country Day School, the precocious teen was splitting each week between Baltimore and New York where the show was filmed. Her father, Douglas List, worked as management consultant in both cities. | ||
List appeared on the CBS soap opera for three years during which she continued to be a cover girl for publications like "Bridal Guide" and "Your PROM" while doing guest shots on series like "Smallville."</html> | List appeared on the CBS soap opera for three years during which she continued to be a cover girl for publications like "Bridal Guide" and "Your PROM" while doing guest shots on series like "Smallville."</html> | ||
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| + | == Hundreds turn out for Bonita Springs' Annual Coastal Cleanup == | ||
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| + | <html>Dianne Korkosz walks Bonita Springs’ Bonita beach every morning. Along her way, she invariable ends up stopping to pick up some trash. Last Saturday morning she was at it again. But on this particular morning, she had help- lots of help. | ||
| + | Around 450 volunteers came out to help with this year’s Bonita Beach Cleanup. For three hours, they scoured the beaches and coastal mangroves, picking up everything from beer cans and bottle caps to cigarette butts. | ||
| + | While cigarette butts are always the most commonly found item at the cleanup, this year there were markedly less butts on the beach. Last year volunteers picked up 19 pounds of cigarette butts out of the sand and this year they only collected four. With a similar number of volunteers combing the beach, city officials hope this means that beachgoers are becoming more thoughtful about their butt disposal. | ||
| + | The total amount of trash collected was down over last year too—with volunteers picking up just 738 pounds to last year’s 1,000 pounds. This year, however, there was a spike in discarded recyclables with volunteers collecting 71 pounds to last year’s 45. | ||
| + | Korkosz brought a lot of those recyclables in. | ||
| + | “I found a ton of beer cans behind the shelters, there’s a ton of them back there, a lot I couldn’t even reach,” she said. She added that a passerby had told her that the shelters are technically in Collier, not Lee County, but she didn’t care. “I’m still going to pick it up, it doesn’t matter what county it is.” | ||
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| + | “I found my first thing, it’s a cigarette butt! Take a picture of it!” squealed one excited Girl Scout. | ||
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| + | While the Bonita Beach Cleanup is a great cause and always results in a better, cleaner beach, perhaps the most unique thing about this annual event is the diversity of volunteers it brings out. From Cub Scouts to college kids,[http://www.publicprivateopportunities.com/activity/p/36957/ NFL Week 3 Power Rankings CBS DC], love for our beaches seems to transcend all differences. | ||
| + | Even city officials and city employees were out in force. | ||
| + | Working the volunteer check-in table was Bonita City Manager Carl Schwing. Handing out trash bags and gloves was Director of Development Services, Arleen Hunter. Communications Director Laura Taylor oversaw the event, while four members of the city council—including Mayor Ben L. Nelson Jr. helped. | ||
| + | “It was really fantastic to have all of their support,” said Taylor who organized the cleanup this year. “A lot of them had worked a really long week; had worked late on one thing or another every night during the week, but they still asked me Friday, ‘do you guys need help tomorrow?’ That they came out, especially early on a Saturday morning, it’s really nice.” | ||
| + | And it’s especially nice considering the beach is technically Lee County property. | ||
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| + | “And we can’t say enough nice things about our sponsors,” added District 1 Councilman Stephen McIntosh. “We really couldn’t do this without them.” | ||
| + | Since the first year of this event, virtually the same group of sponsors has supported the cleanup effort. Each year Nelson Marine trucks can be spotted trolling Bonita Beach Road, picking up bags of trash from volunteers. And many volunteers have learned to come early for the free breakfast from Doc’s Beach House restaurant and to stay late for the free ice cream from Royal Scoop. | ||
| + | But it isn’t the free food that brings out the volunteers. While some come out simply to help—like Kerrie Cantwell, who moved to the area just three weeks ago and couldn’t wait to get involved—others pitch in with the hope of helping their children understand the consequences of littering. | ||
| + | “My son, he asked me, why do people litter when it’s so easy to pick it up?” said Sheila Ercolani who was there with her six-year-old son Anthony. | ||
| + | Proving he’d more than learned the lesson for the day, when asked why picking up trash was important, the six year old answered sagely, “Because if we don’t do it the animals will die.”</html> | ||
