Heal the Bay is leading April’s Earth Month festivities with cleanups and family activities this weekend at Venice Beach, the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, Malibu Creek and Compton Creek. ‘With the recent heavy rains in Southern California, this year’s Earth Day events are even more important than normal,’ said Heal the Bay Executive Director Dr. Mark Gold. ‘The intense downpours have left massive amounts of pollution and debris and we’re seeking community volunteers to help clean inland and beach waterways.’ Santa Monica-based Heal the Bay will kick off its Earth Month agenda with a cleanup at Venice Beach from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 16. Just a few miles north, Heal the Bay will present a special family-oriented Earth Month program at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium from 12:30 to 6 p.m. on April 16, 17, 23 and 24. Also on Saturday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Heal the Bay’s volunteers at Malibu Creek State Park will help restore the native plant life that keeps creek beds from being destroyed by rain and erosion. The final Earth Month event is an inland cleanup at Compton Creek on Saturday, April 30, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Located behind the Crystal Park Casino in Compton, the notoriously polluted Compton Creek flows alongside the 110 and 105 freeways and pours into the L.A. River. Cleaning up the creek is part of a $13 million Compton restoration project. The cleanup site is located behind the casino at 123 E. Artesia Blvd. (near the 91 freeway). For details on volunteering for the Compton Creek Cleanup or any of Heal the Bay’s Earth Month activities, call (800) HEAL-BAY, ext. 122.
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