SorcererMickey
November 9th, 2004, 22:52
350 Disney VoluntEars clean beach
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Nov 6, 10:34 PM
BY LINDA JUMP
FLORIDA TODAY
CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE -- More than 350 workers from Walt Disney World spent the morning cleaning seven miles of normally unspoiled beach Saturday, finding unusual trash and learning a lesson or two along the way.
The group, instantly recognizable in bright yellow "volunt-EARS" T-shirts, filled a dump truck with junk while joking about needing Disney theme park Fast Passes for thelunch line.
Shay Black, a 25-year-old from Houston in the company's college program, found "tons of Styrofoam and glass bottles" along the dunes.
The volunteers arrived in nine buses, then spread out to pick up everything from mundane cigarette butts to a shotgun shell, found by Barbara Salas, an animal keeper at Animal Kingdom.
Muhammad Nasir, a New Jersey native who works in food service at EPCOT, and his group found part of a sofa.
But there was more to the day than simple cleaning.
"I used it for team building," explained Songpol "Max" Eaimsirakul, a food manager who brought 30 employees to the beach, some of whom were scheduled to work their regular jobs back at EPCOT until midnight. "I wanted to do something for the community."
Angeline Aguayo-Campos, a volunteer coordinator with Disney, said company workers last year volunteered more than 181,000 hours. The coastal cleanup in 2003 drew 265 volunteers who collected 2,560 pounds of debris.
The coastal cleanup was done at Canaveral National Seashore for the second year, in conjunction with the Ocean Conservancy and Keep Brevard Beautiful.
Richard Crovitz, a maintenance worker at the shore, said their effort "helps a great deal. There is a lot of stuff still from the hurricanes, and we'd get to it eventually, but now it's clean."
http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/newsgraphics/110704jump.jpg
Nov 6, 10:34 PM
BY LINDA JUMP
FLORIDA TODAY
CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE -- More than 350 workers from Walt Disney World spent the morning cleaning seven miles of normally unspoiled beach Saturday, finding unusual trash and learning a lesson or two along the way.
The group, instantly recognizable in bright yellow "volunt-EARS" T-shirts, filled a dump truck with junk while joking about needing Disney theme park Fast Passes for thelunch line.
Shay Black, a 25-year-old from Houston in the company's college program, found "tons of Styrofoam and glass bottles" along the dunes.
The volunteers arrived in nine buses, then spread out to pick up everything from mundane cigarette butts to a shotgun shell, found by Barbara Salas, an animal keeper at Animal Kingdom.
Muhammad Nasir, a New Jersey native who works in food service at EPCOT, and his group found part of a sofa.
But there was more to the day than simple cleaning.
"I used it for team building," explained Songpol "Max" Eaimsirakul, a food manager who brought 30 employees to the beach, some of whom were scheduled to work their regular jobs back at EPCOT until midnight. "I wanted to do something for the community."
Angeline Aguayo-Campos, a volunteer coordinator with Disney, said company workers last year volunteered more than 181,000 hours. The coastal cleanup in 2003 drew 265 volunteers who collected 2,560 pounds of debris.
The coastal cleanup was done at Canaveral National Seashore for the second year, in conjunction with the Ocean Conservancy and Keep Brevard Beautiful.
Richard Crovitz, a maintenance worker at the shore, said their effort "helps a great deal. There is a lot of stuff still from the hurricanes, and we'd get to it eventually, but now it's clean."