On Saturday May 8, volunteers cleaned the Lavallette Bay Beach, heard an outstanding talk on starting your own butterfly garden, and purchased native plants.

On Saturday, May 8, about thirty-five volunteers helped out in the annual Save Barnegat Bay cleanup of the Lavallette Bay Beach. Lots of trash was hauled out. In addition, we are making real progress on reducing the presence of asphalt and concrete on the bay beach. The quantity found was much less than in years past.

We also enjoyed an outstanding half hour talk by Island Beach naturalist Diane Bennett on how to start your own butterfly garden. About a dozen people enjoyed this talk at the gazebo.

And we had some native plants (cranberry bushes) on sale at bargain prices.

This event is open to the public. We hope to add some interesting features next year.

A BIG THANK YOU to the Lavallette Department of Public Works for their help, and to these volunteers who signed in:

Aileen Barow
Larry Bolanowski
Bobbie Brown
Dave Brown
Lil Buirkle
Len & Georgia Calderaro
Connie Carraeo
Judy & Fred Heim
Donna Knight
Jamie Kuhn
Taylor Kuhn
Susie Kuhn
Walter Lacicero
Joanne Lacicero
John Lacicero
Christian Lacicero
Salvatore LaClarlato
Robert Lamb
Karen Lamb
Peter Larionoff
Louis Ligouri
Donna Morra
Chris Parlow
Jim & Kay Sinnott
Ryan Stevens
Craig Suchodolski
Britta Wenzel
Anita Zalom
Nick Zaccaria
Rosangela Zaccaria
Audrey Zylinski
Bill Zylinski