The extended four day extravaganza begins this week and we’re very proud to be partners with Barefoot Wine and Bubbly again for the event! Come visit our booth at the Seafood and Wine Festival in Newport and get Barefoot! Last year we raised over $5,000 through the partnership for our water quality efforts, campaign work and local programming! If you are volunteering at the event you must participate in the OLCC training and receive your temporary servers permit if you are not already permitted or licensed by OLCC for pouring alcohol. Volunteer questions, email Beth, for the rest of you, we hope to see you at our booth again this year! Please remember to be careful and drink responsibly this weekend.

Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn of a New Era in Ocean Stewardship
www.ocean-frontiers.org

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

7:00-9:00pm (doors open 6:30pm)

Q & A to Follow

Special Guest First Lady Cylvia Hayes (invited)

$5 suggested donation (all ages)

Newport Performing Arts Center

Newport, Oregon

Big props to all who came out and supported the beach and highway cleanups over the past couple of weeks. Special thanks to Ryan Parker of OPRD for helping with the haul, recycling and disposal. Next cleanup will be on Sunday, February 26th from 11am-1pm at Agate Beach Wayside. Information and details on volunteering, contact Vince Pappalardo here!

Our first cleanup event of the year, hwy 101 from 10am-noon on January 21st – Join us at Moolack Beach parking lot!

Our second cleanup event of the year, in partnership with OCCC student govenment – South Beach on Jan 28th!

Volunteer – Contact Vince.Pappalardo@HP.com

Did you miss it the first two times? Join us for another community screening of Bag It! Try going a day without plastic.  Plastic is everywhere and infiltrates our lives in unimaginable and frightening ways.  In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow “everyman” Jeb Berrier, who is admittedly not a tree hugger, as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world.  What starts as a film about plastic bags evolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic and its effect on our waterways, oceans, and even our own bodies.  We see how our crazy-for-plastic world has finally caught up with us and what we can do about it.  Today.  Right now. Doors open at 1:45pm and the film will start by 2:15pm.

Big thanks to all who came out and helped dig out the dock debris from South Beach this past weekend. Special thanks to the Oregon Coast Community College Student Government and Oregon State Parks Beach Ranger Ryan Parker.

Did you miss it the first time? Join us for another community screening of Bag It! Try going a day without plastic.  Plastic is everywhere and infiltrates our lives in unimaginable and frightening ways.  In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow “everyman” Jeb Berrier, who is admittedly not a tree hugger, as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world.  What starts as a film about plastic bags evolves into a wholesale investigation into plastic and its effect on our waterways, oceans, and even our own bodies.  We see how our crazy-for-plastic world has finally caught up with us and what we can do about it.  Today.  Right now.

After a showing of over 50 activists and lots of great testimony from local citizens, businesses and members of the public, the Newport City Council motioned 5-2 to draft an ordinance to eliminate single use plastic checkout bags in the city of Newport. Thanks to all who have been supporting this effort and let’s keep it going! Contact newport@surfrider.org to get more involved and help support the campaign efforts as we move forward. Next up, another screening of Bag It, in case you missed it the first time around. We’ll be screening that on November 15, 6:30pm at the First Presbyterian Church in Newport. We hope to see you there!

Join us on October 17th and show your support. RSVP for the city council hearing ahead of time and get a Ban the Bag t-shirt. We need compelling testimony from you and especially our bushiness supporters! Haven’t signed our petition yet? Click below and show your support to help put an end to single use plastic checkout bags in Newport!

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