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27 Feb

Monster Earthquake in Chile

I remember being awaken in the middle of the night and seeing my whole room shake up and down hearing things crashing down to the floor.Â Half-asleep, at first it took me a while to processÂ it thatÂ I was experiencing an...
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5 Jan

Heal the Bay No. 5 in “Top 7 Ways to Volunteer in SoCal for 2010”

Do you live in Southern California?Â Looking for ways to support your community?Â If you happen to live in L.A. County, check out this piece that ABC Channel 7 put together that featured the top 7 good cause organizations to...
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25 Oct

2012

On minutes 1:48 and 2:03 of this 2012 five-minute promo video, you see billboards of the Southern California nonprofit organization Heal the Bay crumbling down … sorry guys, I guess environmentalists don’t survive the Apocalypse (or is the Apocalypse being...
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24 Oct

Selfish in the Sea

Many Latino anglers that fish off of L.A. County piers support the creation of Marine Protected Areas. The opposition to creatingÂ Marine Protected Areas (MPA’s) off of Southern California’s coast has taken aÂ sinister turn: terrorizing and attacking Latino families. Â I have...
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20 May

Beach Report Card Press Conference May 20, 2009

So it’s that time of the year again, when Heal the Bay releases its annual “Beach Report Card” that grades California’s beaches from a scale of A to F.Â For this awesome occasion, I worked my ass off for almost...
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