California’s annual Coastal Cleanup Day is more than a month away, but volunteer positions are already available. Coastal Cleanup Day was founded in 1985 by the California Coastal Commission to pick up the plastic debris that was flowing into the ocean. Its inaugural year saw 2,500 participants, and it had blossomed to more than 50,000 […]
Benicia Teen Center provides fun adolescent activites, volunteer experience
On Jan. 22, the Kyle Hyland Foundation raised enough money to open up the Benicia Teen Center, a designated teens-only zone that’s hard to come by in small towns like Benicia. The foundation, created in honor of Kyle Hyland, a Benicia High School junior who died by suicide when he was 16 years old, […]
City honors volunteers’ commitment
Larry Whitney is the Ronny Rice Volunteer of the Year, the Benicia City Council, led by Mayor Elizabeth Patterson, proclaimed this week. For the past four years, Whitney has been the coordinator of the Benicia Emergency Response Team, an all-volunteer organization that has reached a membership of 422 and has trained hundreds more in the […]