“Don’t Trash Our Treasure” - Local10 News anchor/reporter Louis Aguirre recently brought his plastic pollution series to our area of Broward County, and... surprise! The plastic pollution problem remains as bad as you and I see everyday at the beach and along the Intracoastal Waterway. Fortunately for us, he had a chance to speak to our friend and fellow civic activist Catherine "Cat" Uden, someone who talks the talk and walks the walk when it comes to the environment and showing common sense. (Even while on her paddleboard.)

Local10 News anchor and reporter Louis Aguirre recently brought his “Don’t Trash Our Treasure” series to our area of Broward County, and... surprise! The plastic pollution problem remains as bad as you and I see every day at the beach and along the Intracoastal Waterway. 

See this screen grab I made of a recent tweet thread about our mutual concerns about the situation with respect to garbage and plastic pollution at Hollywood Beach, and when things are cleaned up:  https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1384609513366441987

Fortunately for Louis Aguirre and us, he had a chance to speak to our friend and fellow civic activist Catherine "Cat" Uden, someone whom as I've recounted several times on this blog, always talks the talk and walks the walk when it comes to the environment and showing common sense. 

(Even while on her paddleboard.)

And as we know to our eternal chagrin, disappointment, and anger, common sense is anything but common in South Florida. It is ever thus...

Louis Aguirre's tweet thread on this subject are at: https://twitter.com/LOUISAGUIRRE/status/1392835191845048321

https://www.instagram.com/p/COtUPinn0sZ/

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CO0-8NLnVv3/?hl=en

Thank you @louisaguirre at @local10news for your coverage on the plastic pollution crisis. Watch his series “Don’t trash our treasure” for an eye opening look at plastic pollution in Florida. Then take action PlasticFreeFL.org (Yes, that’s a sky lantern I’m holding. They are illegal in FL and can entangle marine life. Don’t release balloons or sky lanterns). Thanks Emily Robinson for the photos. 🌍 #breakfreefromplastic #riseaboveplastics #plasticfreeseas #plasticfree #marinedebris @oceana @oceana_in_florida @louiswplg #southflorida #florida #broward #browardcounty #wplglocal10 #daniabeach #hollywoodbeach #oceana #oceanaflorida #protectwhatyoulove

If you aren't able to see the video on Cat's second Instagram post above, please see it here at Channel 10's YouTube Channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdlc9ttP3aA

A transcript is at: https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/05/12/broward-beaches-are-suffering-and-plastic-is-top-culprit/

Local10 News, Miami, Florida
Broward beaches are suffering and plastic is top culprit
Louis Aguirre, Anchor/Reporter
Published: May 12, 2021 6:28 pm
Updated: May 12, 2021 11:28 pm

Dave

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Above, screenshot of Broward Schools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie, from a May 2012 Channel 10/WPLG-TV newscast on the necessary budget cuts and changes that he needed to institute throughout Broward to make the school administration more accurately reflect the smaller student population and need for paring the budget.

Important day of reckoning for Broward County Schools, taxpayers and parents is at hand: Wednesday's coming clash in Plantation between Broward County's eastern schools and western schools on boundaries -and which schools, if any, need to be CLOSED or consolidated due to costs and students leaving for charter schools; BCPS Public Hearings to Discuss 2013-2014 School Attendance Areas, Usage Recommendations

I received the following very important message this afternoon via email from the City of Hollywood that should be of more than passing interest to the residents, taxpayers and parents of Hollywood, Hallandale Beach, Dania Beach and other communities in eastern Broward County, who for so long have complained about the Broward School Board's expenditures flowing to the western part of the county that were growing in population, even as the eastern schools were being "neglected" from their point-of-view.

In Hallandale High's case, it not only was demonstrably true, but well-documented, as I've made perfectly clear in the past here on the blog, thanks to the diligent and thankless efforts of a few, including my hard-working friend, Catherine Kim Owens.

Well, that looming date for a battle over which Broward schools are doing well enough to be kept largely as they are, and which ones that are consistently under-performing, for so long, an academic question with a date far in the distance, seems to finally be at hand.
As all who follow education policy hereabouts must admit, many Broward schools are increasingly empty, since as of May of 2012, Broward Schools has lost 35,000 students in the past 5 years, many to private schools and Broward's charter schools.

It's Wednesday.

Don't doubt for a moment that some very unpopular lines may finally be drawn in the sand and made permanent.

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The Broward County School District has scheduled two public hearings to discuss 2013-2014 school attendance areas and school usage recommendations for all elementary, middle, high and combination schools. The District will hold the at the Plantation High School Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 and Wednesday, April 3, 2013.

WHO: Broward County School Board Members, Superintendent, 
          Demographics and Student Assignments Staff, District Staff, 
          Parents and Community

WHAT: Broward County Public Schools Public Hearings on
           2013-2014 School Attendance Areas and School Usage  
           Recommendations 

WHEN: Public Hearing I – Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 5:30 p.m.
           Public Hearing II – Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Plantation High School, Auditorium
             6901 NW 16th Street, Plantation 

The Superintendent’s final 2013-2014 school boundary recommendations based on community and School Board input can be viewed at the Demographics & Student Assignments website (http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/dsa). For additional information, contact Jill Young, director, Demographics & Student Assignments at 754.321.2480.