{"id":52398,"date":"2025-11-19T07:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52398\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:46:41","slug":"gandy-beach-cleanup-83-degrees-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52398\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandy Beach cleanup \u2013 83 Degrees Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gandybeach1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30724\"  \/>Photos by Carole Devillers<\/p>\n<p>On the third Saturday of every month, Keep Pinellas Beautiful, a nonprofit organization with a mission to conserve and beautify the natural environment, organizes a community beach cleanup at Gandy Beach in St. Petersburg. In November, 50 community volunteers came out to help out cleaning the shoreline and scenic mangroves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/keeppinellaschair.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30725\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"  \/>Carole Devillers<\/p>\n<p>Keep Pinellas Beautiful Operations Manager Paul Mitchell gives the volunteers instructions before they disperse across more than a mile of beach along Gandy Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/keeppinellaswelcomestandard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30726\"  \/>Carole Devillers<\/p>\n<p>The Welcome Standard, a concierge firm for hiring teams bringing talent to Tampa Bay, was also at the cleanup.\u00a0Founder Tori Smith welcomed volunteers with iced coffee and encouraging words.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/keeppinellasvolunteers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30728\"  \/>Carole Devillers<\/p>\n<p>A popular spot for fishing, swimming, and partying, St Petersburg\u2019s Gandy Beach is also a vital ecosystem to preserve. It is lined with lush mangroves and home to wildlife.\u00a0 Supplied with gloves, trash bags, and pick-up tools, volunteers spent Saturday morning collecting debris and trash from the beach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/keeppinellasplastic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30733\"  \/>Carole Devillers<\/p>\n<p>A volunteer picks up plastic litter that could endanger the local wildlife and marine life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gandycleanupbirds.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30731\"  \/>Carole Devillers<\/p>\n<p>Gandy Beach is a stopover for migrating and wintering shorebirds such as these marbled godwits foraging by the shoreline, as well as black-skimmers, American oystercatchers, and terns.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/keeppinellas-volunteersolo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30732\"  \/>Carole Devillers<\/p>\n<p>The beach cleanup brings the community together for a meaningful cause and raises awareness of the natural beauty surrounding us. Protecting this ecosystem is crucial for us today and for the benefit of future generations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/keeppinellastrash.jpg\" data-id=\"30736\" data-link=\"https:\/\/83degreesmedia.com\/?attachment_id=30736\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/keeppinellastrash.jpg\" class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-slider__image wp-image-30736\"  \/>Carole Devillers<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/keeppinellastrash2.jpg\" data-id=\"30737\" data-link=\"https:\/\/83degreesmedia.com\/?attachment_id=30737\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/keeppinellastrash2.jpg\" class=\"wp-block-getwid-images-slider__image wp-image-30737\"  \/>Carole Devillers<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers return to the Keep Pinellas Beautiful station with full trash bags that will be dumped into a mobile dumpster. Over the years, the monthly cleanup at Gandy Beach has had a substantial impact on the environmental health of the community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/keeppinellaslast-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30739\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Focused on litter prevention, waste reduction, conservation, and beautification, Keep Pinellas Beautiful\u2019s cleanup events receive support from many sponsors. Through education and engagement, the volunteered-based nonprofit organization has developed valuable partnerships that strengthen conservation and beautification efforts across Pinellas County.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpbcares.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keep Pinellas Beautiful<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos by Carole Devillers On the third Saturday of every month, Keep Pinellas Beautiful, a nonprofit organization with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-52398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52398","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=52398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}