Alternative Breakers Present Ideas to Bay County TDC

Briana Drake, the leader of the alternative spring break group from Michigan Tech, stood before the TDC Board of Directors Tuesday to present the students' ideas for keeping the beach clean.

By handing out trash bags to fellow students, our breakers discovered other students were welcoming to the idea and thankful for the trash bags. The students expressed that better preventive solutions could be implemented and that a majority of beach visitors would participate in keeping Panama City Beach clean.

Way to go Briana and the rest of the students from Michigan Tech!

They're Here to Work!

Some Spring Breakers are here to play, these 10 students from Michigan Tech are here to work!

If you see these alternative breakers on the beach passing out trash bags and encouraging fellow spring breakers to keep the beach clean, please welcome them!

What a Trek for Michigan Tech

Michigan Technological University students will drive almost 24 hours to visit Panama City Beach during Spring Break 2009 to help Keep the Beach Clean.

Anyone interested in joining in and working with these students, please contact me!

Thanks again to GetAwaytotheGulf.com and the Panama Cafe for their support of this project. It is not too late for other corporate or individual support!

Alternative Spring Break 2009

Thanks to Royal American Hospitality, we're housing alternative spring breakers again this year. And thanks to last year's participants, we have a better approach this year: prevention instead of cure. Our students will not be picking up trash. They will be handing out trash bags to fellow Spring Breakers, encouraging them to bag all their litter before it hits the sand or the water.

Stay tuned here for daily reports, starting in March!

The World's Most Beautiful Beaches!

This is, by far, the best place on earth on a September day like this one...

International Coastal Cleanup Day - This Saturday

Thanks to this online Newsherald Article, I know that I won't be able to sleep in this Saturday. Hope you'll join me.

Free Trip to Paradise this Saturday

Just meet us down on the beach at Pier Park this Saturday at 9 AM. For two solid hours, you'll be able to walk the world's most beautiful beaches, enjoying a true paradise on earth. Along the way, we'll pick up trash, but that will just enhance your experience. Organized by Bay Families with Dogs... let's go help!