{"id":37660,"date":"2025-11-07T18:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/37660\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:46:10","slug":"city-of-jacksonville-seeking-volunteers-to-help-at-beach-cleanup-event-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/37660\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Jacksonville seeking volunteers to help at beach cleanup event Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. \u2013 The City of Jacksonville and Keep Jacksonville Beautiful will host a beach cleanup Saturday in Jacksonville Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Volunteers check-in will be at the Seawalk Pavilion. The cleanup will go from 8 to 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the city, the cleanup, formerly called the \u201cRight Whale Festival Cleanup,\u201d has been held for the past 16 years in conjunction with the migratory return of the North Atlantic Right Whale to Florida, which is its only known calving area in the southeastern United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Since its inception in 2009, the event has drawn nearly 2,000 volunteers, who have donated about 3,700 hours of their time to collect 18 tons of debris along beaches. The hourly volunteer value and cost savings to taxpayers during that period is about $93,000, according to the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The city said volunteers must be at least 18 years old or accompanied by an adult. Community service certificates will be available for participants who are interested in one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">For more information, call 904-255-8276.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. \u2013 The City of Jacksonville and Keep Jacksonville Beautiful will host a beach cleanup Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1563,116,2130,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-37660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-beach","11":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","12":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37660","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=37660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}