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MAJOR STEP TOWARDS PRESERVING RICHMOND SHORELINE FOREVER

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 20, 2010 Contact: Robert Cheasty, President, Citizens for East Shore Parks Patricia Jones, Executive Director, Citizens for East Shore Parks (510) 524–5000 (office) pjones@eastshorepark.org www.eastshorepark.org MAJOR STEP TOWARDS PRESERVING RICHMOND SHORELINE FOREVER Agreement secures $48–68 million for habitat restoration, park creation and trails Richmond, Calif. - A pioneering collaboration and Shoreline Protection Agreement ("Agreement") has been reached between local environmental organizations and the Guidiville Tribe, to preserve and restore miles of Richmond shoreline as parkland and open ...

NEW NAME FOR EAST BAY OPEN SPACE ORGANIZATION!

Albany – In order to better reflect the current focus of its work CESP, which formerly stood for Citizens for the Eastshore State Park, will now stand for Citizens for East Shore Parks. For decades, CESP worked actively with fellow community residents, with agencies, and with local and state representatives, to establish the Eastshore State Park. On December 6, 2002, that goal was successfully achieved. Since then, CESP has been working actively with park agencies, local representatives and organizations to ensure that the General Plan for the Eastshore State Park, which ensures the preservation of area wildlife, is properly implemented. We ...

Volunteers Clean-up Albany Shoreline on Earth Day

575 pounds of garbage and 53 pounds of recyclable materials! Volunteers came out on a perfect Bay Area sunny day to show their Albany shoreline some love by cleaning it up to celebrate Earth Day! Families, groups and children joined in the scavenger hunt for stuff and brought it proudly back to be weighed. We collected 575 pounds of garbage and 53 pounds of recyclable materials. We also had eight creek clean-up sites in Richmond and San Pablo where about 300 volunteers joined in and collected 4800 pounds of garbage and 200 pounds of recyclables. We thank all who made our clean-up a success! Sponsored by: CESP, the Watershed ...

CESP helps the City of Albany and the Watershed Project clean up the Albany Shoreline

Report from the Watershed Project: We had a wonderful Earth Day Clean Up and Celebration on Sunday April 19 at the Albany shoreline. A total of 135 participants, 82 adults and 53 kids picked up 415 pounds of trash and 62 pounds of recycling! Those are great numbers, considering that we asked participants to focus on plastic debris. Light weight plastic trash, including small bits and pieces, is the most prevalent form of debris and also the most harmful in the environment. Albany/Berkeley Girl Scout Troop 1815 and Cub Scout Troop 505 joined the event for their Earth Day service projects. Ms. Zmich’s third grade class at Cornell Elementary School ...