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Earth Shine hosts Community Cleanup events across the Central Coast. Join us at our next event!

Earth Shine is a group that meets every Second Saturday of the month in a community on the Central Coast to pick up litter on streets, creeks, trails, and open spaces. We also host a monthly Third Saturday event at the River Walk in Paso Robles. We provide everything you'll need to make a difference including grabbers, bags, safety vests and gloves.

10/13/2026

10 years, 235 events, 275,000 pounds of litter picked up and kept out of our local creeks, rivers and oceans. That’s what we celebrated at our 10th Anniversary Celebration this past weekend. And what a celebration it was thanks to the hard work of some pretty amazing individuals.

First off, we have to thank nciaffiliates for the use of their amazing garden area and the Silva Family (Rosanna and Chaz) for setting up games for the kids and helping throughout the event.

We also have to thank our Boardmembers: Chairperson Chad Wittstrom for grilling the Tri-tip and bread to perfection and Secretary Renée Bailey and Treasurer Dana La Curan for preparing plates for all our wonderful volunteers, sponsors, and supporters who came out to celebrate with us. And to a few volunteers from our Shandon team, Julianne Starks and Kate Twisselman, for making and serving some amazingly delicious desserts.

We also can’t forget to thank the rest of our board members both past and present that have helped us get to this milestone: Jim Espinoza, Lauren Gimer, Alexis and Daniel Hays, Mari Sullivan-Weidner, Thomas Weidner, and Gabrielle Fletes. Your dedication to this organization helped to shape and mold us and we couldn’t be more thankful for your service.

Next we’d like to thank a few of our sponsors and partners whose support has been fundamental in our success:

Wittstrom Hay Sales & Trucking, Villa Del Rio Apartments, bankofamerica, camparealestategroup, The City of Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County, pasofoodcoop, Sierra Honey Farm, All Signs and Graphics, The Ritchey Family, Charles Bourbeau. You have all had a hand in giving us the strength to serve the Central Coast and we are forever grateful.

Finally, here’s a few of the volunteers and supporters we were able to celebrate: Therese and Chuck Baucher, Carol Thayer, Tim Zimmerman, Jill Souza, Michelle Torres-Grant, Eileen Rogers, Jim Campa, Nancy Jambor, Colin Jones, Heidi Crawford, Andrew Allen, Lorena Hernandez, Leslie Erentreich, Shini Alfaro-Erentreich, Diego Alfaro, Beau McGill, Ben Lima and the Silva Family (Zachary, Cash, Leah, and Amelia) thank you for all your hard work these past 10 years helping us shine.

There are many more volunteers to thank but 1,400 names would take up way too much space here, so to all of you: thank you!

10/03/2026

We’re a bit late in getting this post up, but better late than never, right? A few weekends ago we participated in the Creeks to Coast Cleanup Day alongside our friends with the City of Paso Robles. We covered the Salinas River from Larry Moore Park to 13th Street Bridge and collected 45 bags of litter for a total of 900 pounds. 45 volunteers showed up to lend a hand and we’ve got to say the River Walk and Salinas River are looking beautiful these days thanks to all the hard work of these industrious folks.

Thanks to Kim Porter, Stormwater Manager for the City of Paso Robles, and our very own Ryan Metz for coordinating the day’s event. And now for a very long list of thank yous, here we go: Thank you to members of The Key Club (Manuel Meza, Aldo Flores, Bernardo Flores, Felipe Ventura, Vaughn Hanson, Joaquin Perez, Paige Lewis, Kaelynn Anguiano, Melissa Suarez, and Julia Ribiero dos Santos), James Campa, Daniel Harris, Rumi Paredes, The Silva Family (Rosanna, Chas, Roxanna, Leah, Zachary, Amelia, and Cash), Josh Aronsohn, Tim Zimmerman, Dana La Curan, Laurie McPherson, Michael Hollinger, Kristin Hollinger, Frederica Howell, Carolyn Huddleston, Leon Anthony, Marilu Gomez, Rae Hoffman, Amy Martinez, Philip Lombardo, Melissa Green, Jim Green, Arlo Bland, Mike Busby, Amara East, Monika Binderi, Mike Lafo, Carrie Lafo, Harold Williams, and Alyssa Wilcox for showing up to make a difference in our community. Working together we truly can make a lasting change in our local environment and we couldn’t do what we do without you.

If you’d like to join our volunteers we host a Community Cleanup every Third Saturday of the month at the River Walk. Join us on Saturday, October 17th from 10am until noon behind Wendy’s (141 Niblick Rd). We provide everything you’ll need and we’ll even serve free pizza and refreshments after the event. What a treat!

Hope to see soon!:

09/19/2026

Good morning, Central Coast!today is Creeks to Coast day across the county and we’ll be participating at The River Walk behind Wendy’s (141 Niblick Rd) from 9am until noon. Join our volunteers as we continue our efforts to help this scenic trail/habitat look its best.

Hope to see you soon!

09/14/2026

This past Saturday we headed to Santa Maria for our monthly Second Saturday cleanup day. We met at Preisker Park and immediately noticed over 100 volunteers showing up for Serve Santa Maria, a great initiative in the community that brings together churches, businesses, and organizations to work on several projects throughout town including landscaping at Preisker Park. It was a pretty amazing sight to see, and a few even joined us in our cleanup efforts. It sure is great to see a community working together to help build a brighter future. Great job, Serve Santa Maria!!

Our volunteers headed to West Main Street and picked up 5 bags of litter for a total of over 50 pounds. Thank you to Renée Bailey for being our beacon for the day’s event and to Lorena Hernandez, Chloe Smith, volunteers from Tau Beta Pi-Cal Poly: Nathan Hansen, Amanda Mui, and Cole LaRoche (tbpcalpoly), as well as Justin Chavez, Kayla Neal, and Delvina Traga from Serve Santa Maria for all their hard work.

This was our final south county event of the year and our next Second Saturday event will take place in San Miguel on Saturday, November 14th from 10am to noon at the San Miguel Park. We’ll be serving free tacos and refreshments to all our amazing volunteers after the event.

If you’re looking to volunteer sooner than that we’ll be participating in the county-wide Creeks to Coast Cleanup on Saturday, September 19th. Join us at our usual meetup spot behind Wendy’s (141 Niblick Rd, Paso Robles) at 9am. We’ll be working until noon and meeting up with our partners at the City of Paso Robles at Larry Moore Park (141 Niblick Rd) afterward for free pizza and refreshments.

There are plenty of places to volunteer at this Saturday. We encourage you all to look up opportunities at Ecoslo.com/creeks-to-coast to see where you can make a difference.

Let’s Pick it Up!!!

09/12/2026

Good morning, Santa Maria! We’re all set up and ready to shine here at Preisker Park (330 Hidden Pines Rd). We’ll be heading out into the community to pick up litter in areas of need. Join us from 10am until noon as we help Santa Maria look its best.

Hope to see you soon!

08/19/2026

Today we’d like to recognize a pretty amazing accomplishment. Renée Bailey has volunteered at Earth Shine events 100 times! Wow! If you’ve been to an Earth Shine event, odds are you’ve met Renée. She’s funny, super positive, and ready to get you signed in for the day’s work as Beacon for our events. If you’re running late, don’t worry! Renée will be there to guide you to where our group is working for the day. Want to know when our next event is or what we do? Just ask Renée!

In addition to serving as our Beacon at our events, Renée also helps us flyer for upcoming events, hand out free bags during our annual Cayucos 4th of July Beach Walk, table with us at special events, and recently has even been sitting in at our Board Meetings.

In fact, she’s made such a great contribution during our Board Meetings she was just voted in as our brand new Secretary! Congratulations, Renée!

We can’t thank you enough for what you’ve done to help this organization thrive. Your dedication to our mission is so appreciated and the Central Coast is so much cleaner for all the hard work you put in. Here’s to your next 100 volunteer events!

We hope you will all join us in congratulating Renée on this accomplishment and thank her for her service!

08/17/2026

This past Saturday we had another wonderful day spent at The River Walk in Paso Robles. Our volunteers picked up 20 bags of litter for a total of over 200 pounds. We couldn’t have asked for better weather and better volunteers and the River Walk is looking beautiful!

Thank you to Renée Bailey for being our beacon for the day’s event and to Tim Zimmerman, Lydia Francis (Paso Food Cooperative), Ryan Metz, Shawn Metzler, Omar Severiano-Rojo, Angela Harris, and Laurie McPherson for all your hard work during the event.

And thanks to Villa Del Rio Apartments, Sierra Honey Farm, Paso Food Cooperative, stifelfinancial, and Wittstrom Hay Sales & Trucking for their sponsorship of these monthly events. Thank you for your support of a more beautiful Paso Robles.

Next month on Saturday, September 19th, we’ll once again be back here at The River Walk (141 Niblick Rd, behind Wendy’s) as part of the Creeks to Coast Cleanup Day from 9am until noon. The City of Paso Robles will also be hosting an event at Larry Moore Park (155 Riverbank Ln) at the same time and then we’ll all join up at Larry Moore Park for pizza and refreshments. This yearly event is a great way to help keep the Salinas River looking beautiful before the rains come in the Fall and Winter. Hope to see you there!

And if you’re looking to volunteer with us before then, join us at Preisker Park in Santa Maria (330 Hidden Pines Way) on Saturday, September 12th from 10am until noon. We’ll be heading out into the community to pick up litter in a few areas that could use a little TLC.

Thanks for following along as we work to help communities from San Miguel to Santa Maria shine each and every month!

Address

1221 Vine Street
Paso Robles, CA
93446

Telephone

(805) 591-4691

Website

http://Www.earthshineorg.com/

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