Seal Beach Daily

To celebrate Kids’ Ocean Day and in anticipation of World Oceans Day, Coastkeepers gathered students from eight inland Orange County elementary schools for a special beach clean up at Bolsa Chica last week. Kim Masoner of Save Our Beach was there with other Seal Beach volunteers and writes: “Coastkeepers held one hour assemblies at each of the inland schools that participated in Kids’ Ocean Day, teaching them that anything that is in the gutter at their homes goes into a catch basin and travels through a storm drain that goes to a riverbed and eventually ends up in the ocean. We were amazed how much the kids remembered from the assemblies once they got to the beach. … These kids will never forget this day.”

About 750 students from schools in Anaheim, Garden Grove, Orange and Santa Ana participated in the 16th annual Kids’ Ocean Day event on June 4, according to the Orange County Register. The United Nations declared June 8 as World Ocean Day last year, making today the first official Oceans Day. The day has been celebrated unofficially since 1992, according to the UN.

Wired Magazine has a cool, kid-friendly list of things to do to celebrate the day. Learn more about the day at The Ocean Project.

Of course, every day is Ocean Day for members of Seal Beach’s Save Our Beach and the group’s founder Kim Masoner says she takes pride in the fact that members do good work beyond Seal Beach. In the photo above, taken from the air at the June 4 Coastkeepers beach clean up event, Kim is at the top left corner of the “R” in TRASH, John Drysdale it the first person at the top of the “T,” Carol Groppel is the last person on the “E” in ME, Kim Shearer and Julie Konowitz were at the bottom of the “M.” Photo courtesy Orange County Coastkeepers.