Reminder: NCBBA’s first Operation Beach Respect and Adopt-A-Highway event of 2022 will be held on Saturday, April 9
On Saturday, April 9, the North Carolina Beach Buggy Association (NCBBA) will once again launch its Operation Beach Respect program, where NCBBA members are stationed at every beach access ramp from Bodie Island to Ocracoke to hand out information packets and trash bags to beachgoers.
“This year, we intend to include Ramp 70 on Ocracoke Island,” stated Tom Brueckner, NCBBA Director, in a press release. “After a busy winter storm season, volunteers and their families are needed to ‘hit’ the beaches to do the actual combing of the beach, and load up their [4-wheel-drive vehicles] with rubbish.”
Celebrating its 38th year in 2022, Operation Beach Respect is held in conjunction with the organization’s Adopt-a-Highway program, also occurring on April 9, which targets the 2.5-mile stretch of roadway in between ORV Ramp 2 and the Marc Basnight Bridge.
For the Adopt-a-Highway clean-up, volunteers will meet at the ORV Ramp 4 parking lot at 7:30 a.m., where Director Carol Mowers will hand out grabbers, reflection vests, gloves, and garbage bags, and provide a route location assignment
All volunteers are welcome to join in the Adopt-a-Highway clean-up, while beachgoers on April 9 can expect to be greeted by an NCBBA member with valuable info, and a trash bag to patrol their stretch of sand.
“Our members will be stationed to hand out packets of information on the North Carolina Beach Buggy Association and the Cape Hatteras [National Seashore],” stated Brueckner. “Included in the packet is a large plastic garbage bag. We ask you to walk the beach in the area you park for the day, and fill it with any trash or debris found. Return your collection to the National Park Service trash cans at the ramp entrance as you leave.”
“Operation Beach Respect and Adopt-a-Highway is a great way to give back to our beach community, and a wonderful opportunity to meet new friends and renew old acquaintances.”
For more information on the corresponding clean-up events, as well as on the NCBBA, visit the organization’s website at https://www.ncbba.org/, or their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ncbba.
