{"id":316213,"date":"2026-06-22T22:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316213\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T22:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:59:12","slug":"volunteers-team-up-to-haul-trash-from-miami-river-in-local-initiative-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316213\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers team up to haul trash from Miami River in local initiative &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; Several volunteers came together to create a cleaner community in South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the \u201cI Clean Because I Care\u201d initiative launched by Miami-Dade Commissioner Marleine Bastien, residents joined forces Monday morning to clean up Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The group picked up trash bags and hauled away broken tree limbs by the Miami River.<\/p>\n<p>Bastien, who led the cleanup efforts, describe the initiative as a call to action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis initiative, \u2018I Clean Because I Care,\u2019 is about shared responsibility, community unity, community engagement and community pride. The community feels pride, they feel ownership to the district, the community and the importance of keeping it clean,\u201d said Bastien.<\/p>\n<p>The program, which was initially launched in April, includes several Miami-Dade organizations partnering together to keep district two clean.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; Several volunteers came together to create a cleaner community in South Florida. As part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-316213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}