Miami, FL
Join thousands of Miami-Dade residents this weekend to clean up our coasts
NORTH BAY VILLAGE, Fla. – This Saturday, the spotlight will shine bright on shorelines, beaches and waterways all over the world as thousands of volunteers roll up their sleeves for International Coastal Cleanup Day.
Miami-Dade County boasts the third-largest of these global cleanup efforts, thanks to two South Florida residents who saw the problem and resolved to grow this important mission of protecting our most valuable resource.
Married power couple environmentalists Dave Doebler and Dara Schoenwald are the co-founders of the organization VolunteerCleanup.org, a website they both created to amplify neighborhood cleanups happing all over Miami-Dade after noticing the endless flow of litter polluting our bay.
“Every Sunday, I would just go paddling in Biscayne Bay, and I would just notice all this trash,” Doebler reflected.
Added Schoenwald: “And I just see his kayak, and it is loaded down and strapped down with all kinds of plastic. And my first thought was, like, we either need to get him a bigger boat or a lot more help.”
That’s how Volunteer Cleanup was born. The website went live in 2014 and since then, South Florida has stepped up big time. From its inception, the heart of the mission has always been the restoration and protection of Biscayne Bay.
In fact, right before our interview, the Don’t Trash Our Treasure team found Doebler and Schoenwald diligently scooping up plastic bits from their North Bay Village backyard as a hungry manatee and her calf munched on some seagrass that had floated to the surface mixed in with those toxic ingredients.
“This is why we do this,” Doebler said as he fished out the litter. “We’ve got this glorious gem, and it’s on life support right now. It’s in really, really poor shape.”
Over the past 10 years, Doebler and Schoenwald have helped launch over 100 clean-up non-profits like Clean Miami Beach and Clean This Beach Up. Together, these 100 non-profits have recruited over 35,000 volunteers who collectively have picked up over 800,000 pounds of debris from South Florida neighborhoods and shorelines.
“Since 2020, we’ve removed over 20 thousand pounds from (the MacArthur Causeway) alone,” said Clean This Beach Up Founder MJ Algarra.
Said Doebler: “We’ve got people who are leading one cleanup a month…we’ve got people who are leading a cleanup every single week. Some have started nonprofits because of it, but it all starts with attending their very first cleanup.”
Like the more than 70 clean-ups Doebler and Schoenwald have helped organize for this year’s International Coastal Cleanup Day. The worldwide effort was launched by the Ocean Conservancy back in 1986 to remove trash from our beaches and waterways.
It’s a mission that Doebler and Schoenwald have supersized locally since they took over coordination of the Miami-Dade ICC clean-ups in 2014.
“We’re just super proud of how it’s grown,” said Schoenwald. “You know, over the 10 years, from those 20 or so cleanups to a massive movement of 70 and all of the partners that we’ve been able to include. When they spend the time picking it up, something is going to shift that hopefully makes them make different decisions.”
“It provides an eye-opening experience where people can see firsthand just how much trash is in here,” Doebler reflected.
Decisions we make as consumers, reducing or eliminating single-use plastics whenever we can, realizing that every choice we make leaves a footprint.
“Plastics you can see, and once you see it you can’t unsee it,” said Doebler. “Almost everybody will attend another cleanup…almost everybody will say that they will reduce single-use plastics.”
And you might be surprised just how good it makes you feel.
“People say that was a lot of fun, and that always surprises me that people enjoy the experience of picking up trash,” said Schoenwald. “But I think it gives people a good feeling that they’re learning something and that they’re participating actively in the betterment of our environment.”
Since the first International Coastal Cleanup Day 38 years ago, more than 18 million volunteers have collected more than 380 million pounds of trash.
This year will be the largest ever in Miami-Dade County, with 70 clean-ups happening from Greynolds Park down to Homestead that can host up to 5,000 volunteers. If you’d like to be one of them, visit the Volunteer Cleanup website to sign up.
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An investigation is underway at a northwest Miami-Dade apartment complex after the sheriff’s office said a man was shot by his girlfriend after a “heated dispute” early Wednesday morning.
Few details have been released, but the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said the incident took place at an apartment complex located off Northwest 7th Avenue.
The sheriff’s office said that a man became involved in a “heated dispute” with his girlfriend, and she shot him in the right arm.
He was rushed to a hospital by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue in critical condition.
The woman is in custody.
The identities of those who were involved have not yet been released.
No other information was available.
Game date, time and location: Tuesday, Mar. 3, 7:30 p.m. EST, Kaseya Center, Miami, Florida
TV: FanDuel Sports Network Sun, YES Network (Brooklyn)
Radio: 104.3 FM (Miami/Ft. Lauderdale), ESPN 106.3 FM, (West Palm Beach), FOX Sports Radio 105.9 FM (Ft. Myers/Naples), 1450 AM (Suart), 97.7 FM (Florida Keys), WAQI 710 AM (Spanish-language broadcast, South Florida), WFAN 101.9 FM/660 AM (Brooklyn)
VITALS: The Miami Heat (32-29) and Brooklyn Nets (15-45) meet for the second of three regular season matchups. Earlier this season, Miami recorded a, 106-95, win in Brooklyn on December 18 and has now won four of the last five overall against the Nets.
It also marks the first of consecutive games against Brooklyn with the teams facing each other again on Thursday. The Heat are 83-61 all-time versus the Nets during the regular season, including 44-26 in home games and 39-35 in road games.
PROJECTED STARTERS
HEAT
G Davion Mitchell
G Tyler Herro
C Bam Adebayo
F Pelle Larsson
F Andrew Wiggins
NETS
G Nolan Traore
G Terance Mann
C Nic Claxton
F Michael Porter Jr.
F Noah Clowney
INJURY REPORT
HEAT
Davion Mitchell: Questionable – Shoulder
Norman Powell: Out – Groin
Nikola Jovic: Out – Back
Trevor Keels: Available – G League
Jahmir Young: Available – G League
Vlad Goldin: Available – G League
Terry Rozier: Out – Not with team
NETS
Nic Claxton: Probable – Thumb
Egor Demin: Out – Foot
QUOTABLE
Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra: “Regardless of the scheme is, I always go back to that, it’s just about committing to doing hard things. We were really moving in the zone, taking away airspace and scrambling to challenge shots at the rim. In a lot of these losses in the last month we’ve just been giving up shots at the rim and threes.”
For more Miami Heat information and conversation, check out Off The Floor.
Alexander Toledo is a contributor to Miami Heat On SI and producer/co-host of the Five on the Floor podcast, covering the Heat and NBA. He can be reached at Twitter: @tropicalblanket
ORLANDO, Fla. — Lionel Messi scored twice in a four-goal second half, defender Telasco Segovia added a goal and two assists and defending champion Inter Miami CF rallied to beat Orlando City SC 4-2 on Sunday night, winning for the first time at Inter&Co Stadium.
Messi took a pass from Segovia and scored in the 57th minute to tie it 2-2, and Segovia scored unassisted in the 85th for the lead. Messi put the finishing touch on the victory when he scored off a free kick in the 90th.
“The victory belongs exclusively to the players,” Miami coach Javier Mascherano said after the game. “In the second half, they were a championship team. There were no tactics, nothing like that. There was heart, courage, possession, resilience, commitment. I think the team came out because they were champions last year.
“In the end, the players showed it. This victory is theirs.”
Messi’s first two goals of the season give him 52 in his first 55 regular-season MLS matches — 51 of them in his past 49 appearances. It also brought the reigning MLS MVP to 898 career goals scored, including 672 for Barcelona and 115 for Argentina.
“He’s the best player to ever play this sport. He’s a leader, and as a leader, he inspires others, but he also often needs to be inspired himself,” Mascherano said of Messi. “When he was driving forward, he had more attacking options, and with so many opportunities, he clearly has the ability to create chances like no one else, and that’s what allowed us to turn the game around.”
Marco Pašalić took a pass from Iván Angulo and scored in the 18th minute to give Orlando City a 1-0 lead. Pašalić has scored in four straight matches against Inter Miami.
Defender Griffin Dorsey set up Martín Ojeda for a goal six minutes later for a 2-0 advantage that stood through halftime.
Inter Miami cut it to 2-1 four minutes into the second half on Mateo Silvetti’s first career goal. Defenders Segovia and Facundo Mura had assists as the 20-year-old forward found the net in his fifth career appearance.
Segovia had eight goals and six assists as a rookie last season, while Mura collected his first assist in his first season.
Dayne St. Clair, the reigning goalkeeper of the year, turned away three shots — all in the second half of his second start with Inter Miami, but let in a soft goal for Orlando’s first.
Maxime Crépeau had four saves in his second start for Orlando City.
Teenager Colin Guske, 19, will miss Orlando City’s next match after the rookie picked up two yellow cards in his first start — the second one led to his exit in the 88th minute.
Inter Miami, which had never won in its previous nine trips to Orlando, was coming off a 3-0 road loss to LAFC.
Orlando City swept Inter Miami during the regular season last year and leads the all-time series 8-7-4.
Inter Miami plays D.C. United on Saturday at Audi Field. Orlando City is also on the road with a match against New York City FC.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this recap.
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