Re: “Holiday weekend marked by calm,” Beacon, July 10, page 1.
While our nation celebrated its birthday, Pacific Beach got a surprise present in the form of cleaner streets. The hard-working volunteers who always show up on the 5th of July spent the morning picking up trash off the streets. There was virtually nothing for them to clean up on the beaches. We all knew there would be less crime and fewer public safety problems this year; that’s a no-brainer. The alcohol-free beach rule did exactly what it was designed to do; it gave us our beaches back. Of course, we expected less trash left behind on the sand. But nobody predicted such a dramatic decrease, as the usual mountains of garbage weren’t even molehills this year.
My sincerest thanks to the people who gave up their time on a beautiful Saturday morning to help clean up our streets.