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Anglers Club, others volunteer at annual beach clean-up
By Carlos Alvarado
The South Texan |
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Texas A&M-Kingsville’s Anglers Extreme Fishing Club members and other TAMUK students volunteered at the 13th Annual Billy Sandifer Big Shell Clean-up that collectecd 1,000 pounds of trash, Saturday, March 8.
Overall, 38 TAMUK students participated in the clean-up event. Some of the most common waste were balloons, motor oil bottles and hypodermic needles.
Because of the diverging currents the seashore became a waste disposal site.
Billy Sandifer founder of the Big Shell Clean-up, wanted to help the community.
Sandifer is a Corpus Christi environmentalist.
Other TAMUK organizations involved that helped were The Guitar club, Middle Eastern club, American Medical Student Association (AMSA), and Sigma Lambda Beta.
The day began with a meeting in front of the Memorial Student Union Building (MSUB) at 5:40 a.m. The students then drove to the seashore.
Upon arrival at the beach clean-up site ,the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) gave each student a t-shirt, gloves, and trash bags. The CCA drove up and down the shore delivering trash bags and monitoring the students to make sure they were safe.
“The Guitar club heard about the event and we wanted to do community service and be at the beach at the same time,” Patrick Desmond senior English major and president of the club, said.
“The most shocking thing I saw was a beached decomposed dolphin carcass during the clean-up, but I was amazed about how dedicated the students and community was throughout the event,” Desmond said.
Over the past 13 years, the more than 2,500 volunteers have removed more than 1 million pounds of trash from Big Shell Beach, located on the National Seashore adjacent to Malaquite Beach on the Padre Island Gulf of Mexico Seashore.