Beach cleanup restores Pipers Lagoon to natural glory
NANAIMO — How many times have you gone down to the beach or lake and found your perfect weekend getaway marred by trash lining the shoreline?
Kristi Woodall said it happens all too frequently, which is why she and 32 others spent their Sunday cleaning Pipers Lagoon in Nanaimo.
“I think people are looking for a beautiful place but are forgetting that to maintain beauty and sanctuary they have to be really careful. Or to remind their friends that the stuff which accidentally blows out of the car or a backpack, or that silly cigarette butt that gets flicked (needs to be picked up),” she said.
Woodall said the cleaning crew found several hundred cigarette butts, dog waste bags and fast food trash on the beach.