{"id":468665,"date":"2026-09-19T03:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T03:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468665\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T03:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T03:54:13","slug":"olympians-to-join-coastal-cleanup-at-9-long-beach-sites-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468665\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympians To Join Coastal Cleanup At 9 Long Beach Sites Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympians Head To Alamitos Beach <\/p>\n<p>The Alamitos Beach cleanup has an additional connection to Long Beach&#8217;s role in the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Ocean Conservancy is holding its flagship Los Angeles-area International Coastal Cleanup there, bringing members of Team USA Artistic Swimming and other Olympic and Paralympic <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanconservancy.org\/newsroom\/press-release\/2026\/09\/14\/long-beach-icc-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">representatives together<\/a> with hundreds of local volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Among those scheduled to participate is Anita Alvarez, an Olympic silver medalist with USA Artistic Swimming, along with two-time Olympian John Moffett, president of the Southern California chapter of the U.S. Olympians and Paralympians Alumni Association. Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson is also scheduled to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The location is particularly fitting: Alamitos Beach is scheduled to host Olympic beach volleyball and Paralympic blind football in 2028. The cleanup is part of Ocean Conservancy&#8217;s \u201cProtect Where We Play\u201d initiative, which uses athletes and major sporting events to encourage participation in ocean conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Ocean Conservancy says nearly 20 million volunteers have participated in its International Coastal Cleanup since 1986, removing more than 400 million pounds of trash worldwide. Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/ocean-conservancys-2026-international-coastal-cleanup-long-beach-ca-tickets-1996642955829\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alamitos Beach event<\/a> is free, but registration is requested. Cleanup materials will be provided, with T-shirts and reusable water bottles available while supplies last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympians Head To Alamitos Beach The Alamitos Beach cleanup has an additional connection to Long Beach&#8217;s role in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-468665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}