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• Angels blown out by Houston Astros, who clinch AL West

  22-09-2019 23:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Angels relief pitcher Jake Jewell, right, backs off the mound as Houston Astros’ Aledmys Diaz, back left, rounds the bases after hitting a three-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)
  Houston Astros’ George Springer, right, celebrates his solo home run off Los Angeles Angels relief pitcher Jose Suarez with Jose Altuve during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, in
  
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• La Mirada native Chase De Leo caught in Ducks’ numbers crunch

  22-09-2019 23:46 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE — Chase De Leo’s story should be a familiar one by now. La Mirada born and raised. Grows up a Ducks fan. Regular visitor to Honda Center. Plays locally before moving on to the junior-level WHL. Makes his mark and his drafted by the Winnipeg Jets, who then trade him to the Ducks.
  Dream come true, right?
  Yes and no.
  De Leo is one of a number of players caught in a numbers crunch. The Ducks have an abundance of talented young forwards in their system, an embarrassment of riches o
  
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• Kole Calhoun enters what could be the final week of his Angels career

  22-09-2019 21:30 via ocregister.com
  
  HOUSTON — As Kole Calhoun heads into the final week of the season, he is aware that it may also be his final week with the only franchise he’s ever known.
  For now, he’s trying not to think about it.
  “I am just trying to go out and play,” Calhoun said this weekend. “I can’t control it. It is what it is. Obviously I’d love to be here. This is home for me and really all I know in this game. This organization has meant everything to me. We’ll see
  
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• A glimmer of hope for California taxpayers

  22-09-2019 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  California’s 2019 legislative session recently came to a merciful end. Despite the fact that the Legislature passed dozens of bills assaulting basic economic rights, it could have been far worse for taxpayers. Indeed, in remarkably good news, the most dangerous threat to Proposition 13 was defeated.
  Proposition 13 has been called the third rail of California politics. Touch it, and the electric shock risks ending your political career. However, few have been as virulent in their hatred of
  
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• What’s next for USC? Top-25 battle with Washington

  22-09-2019 20:31 via ocregister.com
  
  No. 21 USC (3-1, 2-0 in Pac-12) at No. 17 Washington (3-1, 0-1)
  When: 12:30 p.m. PT Saturday
  Where: Husky Stadium (Seattle)
  Watch/listen: Fox/AM 790
  USC update: Starting QB Kedon Slovis’ status is up in the air as he’ll likely go through the concussion protocol this week and will need time to determine if he can play. If not, backup Matt Fink proved in the win over Utah he’s capable of holding down the fort with a 351-yard, three-touchdown performance. … W
  
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• Celebrating Batman’s 80th birthday, fans (and a few villains, too) dash through the streets of Los Angeles

  22-09-2019 19:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Batman and Captain America walk toward the start line of the Batman Inaugural 5K from the Batman fan experience on Batman’s 80th Anniversary at Grand Park on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
  The start of the Batman Inaugural 5K run on Batman’s 80th Anniversary at Grand Park on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume ins
  
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• Top-20 final standings from South Coast boys water polo tournament

  22-09-2019 18:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Final standings from the South Coast boys water polo tournament:
  1.Harvard-Westlake
  2. Newport Harbor
  3. Huntington Beach
  4. Mater Dei
  5. Loyola
  6. Santa Margarita
  7. The Bishop’s
  8. Oaks Christian
  9. Corona del Mar
  10. Orange Lutheran
  11. Laguna Beach
  12. Palos Verdes
  13. Foothilll
  14. Campolindo
  15. San Clemente
  16. San Ramon Valley
  17. Long Beach Wilson
  18. Dana Hills
  19. Los Alamitos
  20. Servite
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• Top-10 final standings from South Coast boys water polo tournament

  22-09-2019 18:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Final standings from the South Coast boys water polo tournament:
  1.Harvard-Westlake
  2. Newport Harbor
  3. Huntington Beach
  4. Mater Dei
  5. Loyola
  6. Santa Margarita
  7. The Bishop’s
  8. Oaks Christian
  9. Corona del Mar
  10. Orange Lutheran
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• Pickup driver dies in crash into fire hydrant in Orange

  22-09-2019 18:30 via ocregister.com
  
  ORANGE – A driver was killed in Orange early Sunday morning when a pickup truck crashed into a fire hydrant and then a pole, police said.
  The single-vehicle crash occurred at 2:30 a.m. in the area of North Tustin Street and East Vanowen Avenue, creating a geyser and street flooding.
  The driver, who was alone in the truck, was pronounced dead at the scene, said Orange Police Lt. Aaron Towner.
  A motorist died after a pickup truck crashed into a fire hydrant in Orange on Sunday morning. (Phot
  
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• Recipes: For a healthy Rosh Hashanah, highlight fruit

  22-09-2019 18:01 via ocregister.com
  
  “Have a happy and sweet new year” is a traditional greeting for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which begins on Sunday evening, Sept. 29. The holiday celebration commences with apple wedges dipped in honey to start the year on a sweet note.
  As the dinner progresses, the sweet theme continues. In our family, a popular main course is a sweet stew called tzimmes.
  Every Rosh Hashanah, when I was growing up, my mother, who was born in Poland, prepared this Ashkenazi (eastern and centr
  
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• UCI wildfire researchers devise method for better predicting the spread of blazes

  22-09-2019 17:27 via ocregister.com
  
  What if Paradise residents had received evacuation orders an hour before fast-moving flames reached their town? Could more people have escaped last November’s deadliest wildfire in California history?
  We may never know the answer. But sooner than later, fire officials should be able to predict with better accuracy just how and where nascent blazes will spread.
  UC Irvine announced this week that researchers have developed a more efficient technique for tracking fires. The team of scientists
  
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• Random acts of cruelty in a land of prosperity

  22-09-2019 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  I was in New York last week to bury my stepfather, John DeFeo, who died on Sept. 11, just a few days after his 89th birthday. John was a salt-of-the-earth kind of guy, born at home at the dawn of the Great Depression.
  He lived his entire life within a five mile radius of the house on Maryland Avenue. An upholsterer by profession but a fixer and joiner by temperament, John DeFeo served his community in fraternal organizations like the Elks, Knights of Columbus, Sons of Italy and Cancer Care. But
  
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• After teen kills parents, paralyzes brother, remaining siblings survive with love

  22-09-2019 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Some families tear apart over imagined slights, others over very real offenses. Yet through it all, most manage to forgive, bond, grow together.
  Still, there are few families that could stay intact after what happened one night at a home in San Juan Capistrano.
  This year marks the fifth anniversary of the horror that saw a teenage son attempt to shoot one of his sisters in the dark, wound and paralyze his then 8-year-old brother and kill his mother and father.
  In total, Ashton Sachs shot his mot
  
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• Some birth tourism operators prosecuted, others still woo pregnant women to Southern California

  22-09-2019 15:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Dongyuan Li already had a child, born in China, but she wanted her next baby to be an American citizen.
  So about six years ago she traveled to the United States through a tour package that arranged for her housing, meals and hospital stay. She delivered twins. And she was so impressed with the business model that she stayed on to make money off it, teaming up with the owner to turn “You Win USA Vacation Resort” into a thriving player in the growing industry known as birth tourism.
  On
  
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• Laguna Beach’s Logan Brooks loses a shoe, but still finishes sixth in Woodbridge Classic sweepstakes race

  22-09-2019 09:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowCORONA — Logan Brooks of Laguna Beach lost a shoe about a mile into the Bob Day Sweepstakes Race, the premier event of the Woodbridge Cross Country Classic on Saturday night at the SilverLakes Sports Complex.
  But even running with one shoe in a race that featured some of the nation’s top runners, Brooks was unfazed, and he went on to finish in sixth place, setting a personal best of 14 minutes, 24
  
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• UCLA upsets Washington State in high-scoring Pac-12 opener

  22-09-2019 08:52 via ocregister.com
  
  PULLMAN, Wash. – That is one way to end a losing streak.
  UCLA roared back from a 32-point deficit in the second half, and Dorian Thompson-Robinson’s 15-yard touchdown pass to Demetric Felton with a minute left lifted the Bruins to a wild 67-63 victory over No. 19 Washington State at Martin Stadium on Saturday.
  The game was the Pac-12 Conference opener for both teams, and the outcome did not seem in doubt when WSU built a 49-17 lead in the third quarter. Instead, the Bruins staged a c
  
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• Galaxy continues late-season playoff charge with win over Montreal

  22-09-2019 08:01 via ocregister.com
  
  CARSON >> It wasn’t the seven goals like last week’s win over Sporting Kansas City, but Saturday’s result works for the Galaxy.
  Uriel Antuna scored the winning goal in the 50th minute to lift the Galaxy to a 2-1 win over the Montreal Impact in front of 25,482 at Dignity Health Sports Park.
  The win continues the Galaxy’s (15-13-3) late-season move up the Western Conference standings. The Galaxy entered the weekend in fifth place and now is up to third on 48 points wi
  
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• Whicker: U.S. soccer might be getting a Blessing from LAFC someday

  22-09-2019 07:50 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Latif Blessing grew up in Nankese, a village in southern Ghana that numbers about 5,000 people and about 10,000 eyes that were trained on the World Cup in 2010.
  That was the year the national team, the Black Stars, got to the quarterfinals. A small West African country became one of the eight most successful soccer nations in the wide, wide world.
  “We had one TV in the village,” Blessing said. “Everyone would come see the game. But you had to take a shower b
  
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• LAFC’s Carlos Vela scores a late goal to tie Toronto

  22-09-2019 07:36 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles >> The month of September has not been kind to the Los Angeles Football Club.
  LAFC (19-5-8, 65 points) is still looking to return to its winning ways after the club’s 1-1 tie to Toronto F.C. (13-10-10, 46 points) on Saturday night pushed its winless streak to five matches, keeping the team from clinching the Major League Soccer Supporter’s Shield this weekend.
  Carlos Vela scored the tying goal in stoppage time.
  “I think we all recognize that the first half was
  
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• Dodgers’ offense held in check, Rockies finally win in LA

  22-09-2019 06:34 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are still waiting.
  Like the rest of the crowd at Dodger Stadium Saturday night, they had every right to expect the Dodgers’ offense to erupt and ruin another visit to Los Angeles for the Colorado Rockies.
  After all, the Rockies had lost 12 consecutive games at Dodger Stadium (matching the longest losing streak by any visitor to the ballpark) — a stretch that included the historic ‘Rookie Walkoff Weekend’ earlier this seaso
  
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• UCLA freshman Sean Rhyan starts on offensive line against Washington State

  22-09-2019 06:17 via ocregister.com
  
  PULLMAN, Wash. – When UCLA left tackle Sean Rhyan stepped in to start last weekend against Oklahoma, he became the first Bruin freshman to start at the position since 2012 and one of only eight freshmen nationwide to start on the offensive line.
  Rhyan is one of 43 true freshmen at UCLA, and the Bruins have an additional 21 redshirt freshmen on Chip Kelly’s roster. The 64 first-year players – out of 120 allowed on the roster – are the most in the nation.
  Rhyan started agai
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday (9-21-19)

  22-09-2019 05:09 via ocregister.com
  
  Scores and stats for the Orange County games on Saturday, Sept. 21.
  FOOTBALL SCORES & STATS
  BOYS WATER POLO
  SOUTH COAST TOURNAMENT
  Campolindo 11, San Clemente 10
  Orange Lutheran 12, Palos Verdes 11 (OT)
  Foothill 8, Campolindo 6
  Championship
  Harvard-Westlake 11, Newport Harbor 7
  Goals: (HW) Shipman 3, Stothart 2, Avakian 2. (NH) B. Liechty 3, Love 2.
  Saves: (HW) N. Krutonog 8. (NH) Jackson 9.
  Third-place match
  Huntington Beach 12, Mater Dei 9
  Goals: (HB) Haddad 3, Lee 3. (MD) Rossi 4, Kaneko
  
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• Harvard-Westlake sinks short-handed Newport Harbor to win South Coast Tournament

  22-09-2019 04:59 via ocregister.com
  
  NEWPORT BEACH — Newport Harbor’s boys water polo rivalry with Harvard-Westlake looked a bit more challenging than normal for the Sailors on Saturday.
  They faced the reigning CIF-SS Division 1 champion in the finals of the South Coast Tournament without their two best perimeter shooters — seniors Makoto Kenney (broken finger) and Tommy Kennedy (sore back) — available to unleash their wicked shots.
  Orange County’s top-ranked team still sprinted forward but Harvard-Wes
  
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• David Fletcher’s big night helps Angels delay Astros party

  22-09-2019 04:46 via ocregister.com
  
  HOUSTON — David Fletcher has proved something to his manager this season.
  After Fletcher hit a homer among his three hits and made a spectacular defensive play in the Angels’ 8-4 victory over the Houston Astros on Saturday night, Brad Ausmus said it’s been an eye-opening season for the infielder.
  “I think going into the season we kind of viewed David Fletcher as a utility guy,” the Angels manager said. “He’s clearly proven he can play on an everyday basi
  
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• Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says Joe Kelly still not feeling “great with his body”

  22-09-2019 04:34 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Early in September, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said reliever Joe Kelly was dealing with “a minor leg issue” that was making it difficult for him to repeat his delivery.
  At the time, Roberts said the issue was not a “red flag” that caused a great deal of concern heading down the stretch. With one week left in the regular season, though, Roberts said the issue has not gone away and he would try to “stay away” from pitching Kelly this week.
  
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• Orange County football: Week 4’s receiving leaders

  22-09-2019 04:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowWEEK 4: RECEIVING LEADERS  | Weekly leaders published each Saturday. | Season leaders published each Monday.NAME, SCHOOL
  YDS
  REC.
  TD
  Kenner, St. Margaret’s
  188
  13
  4
  Zimmerman, Irvine
  167
  11
  0
  Marton, Capistrano Valley Christian
  158
  3
  3
  Anderson, Fountain Valley
  156
  8
  4
  Steward, Brea Olinda
  151
  8
  2
  Caine Savage, Western
  140
  4
  2
  Cal, Sunny Hills
  135
  5
  1
  Barkate, St. Margaret’s
  119
  10
  2
  Jauregui,
  
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• Rams try to slow Browns’ rise in a plot worthy of prime time

  22-09-2019 03:18 via ocregister.com
  
  CLEVELAND — The coach is new, an innovator on offense. The quarterback is a No. 1 draft choice seasoned by a year in the league. The defense is improved, if not yet dependable. Expectations are high for a return to glory by a once-great football franchise.
  That’s the Rams two years ago.
  It’s the enemy Sunday night.
  When the Rams face the Cleveland Browns in a nationally televised game at FirstEnergy Stadium, it will be the NFL’s new power against the NFL’s next powe
  
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• Alexander: USC and UCLA can’t afford to miss on next athletic director hires

  22-09-2019 02:54 via ocregister.com
  
  So you think you could be an athletic director, eh? It might be wise to hold on to that resumé for a bit, because not just anybody can, or should, fill the two major openings in our midst.
  They are, of course, at the universities that are – like it or not – the flagship schools of the Pac-12. USC and UCLA are based in the largest city on the West Coast, and theirs are the names that college football and men’s basketball fans in other parts of the country first think of w
  
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• Sparks hope Game 3 home game vs. Sun keeps season alive

  22-09-2019 02:17 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — What SoCal native Layshia Clarendon likes about her Connecticut Sun squad that’s one victory from ending the L.A. Sparks’ season is that its young core hasn’t been around the block enough times to realize how intimidating its semifinal opponent should be.
  “They’re a little bit still on the younger side, and with the youth comes a fearlessness,” said the 28-year-old former San Bernardino Cajon High School star, who is recovering from an ankl
  
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• Gymnast Riley McCusker to miss World Championships due to ailment related to overtraining

  22-09-2019 02:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Riley McCusker, one of America’s top gymnasts, will miss the World Championships next month because of a muscle ailment frequently linked to overtraining.
  McCusker, 18, a member of the U.S. squad that won team title at last year’s  World Championships, pulled out of  this weekend’s USA Gymnastics Worlds selection camp because of rhabdomyolysis, a syndrome  where muscle tissue is damaged because of injury or over exertion and can lead to kidney damage.
  McCusker&rs
  
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• National Dance Day brings a world of styles to Costa Mesa

  22-09-2019 02:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Hundreds of dancers, in styles ranging from modern to tap to ballet folklorico, showed off their moves for free Saturday afternoon at the Julianne & George Argyros Plaza at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa as part of National Dance Day.
  Dance teacher Amanda Cobb encourages Braeden Delaney, 8, of Huntington Beach who is in the School of Dance and Music for Children with Disabilities. They were at the 10th annual National Dance Day in Costa Mesa, CA on Saturday September 21, 20
  
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• Long Beach makes it official: It’s the Billie Jean King Main Library now

  22-09-2019 02:02 via ocregister.com
  
  By Josh Rosen, Contributing writer
  Almost 100 years after the ratification of the 19th amendment, the Billie Jean King Main Library opened to the public on Saturday, Sept. 21, with tremendous fanfare — and no shortage of people to fill it.
  The crowd was excited to celebrate the grand opening of the new Billie Jean King Main Library, a 92,500-square-foot LEED Gold-certified building that includes space for about 300,000 books. The new facility also offers a Family Learning Center, the Cente
  
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• Property and democracy: Joel Kotkin

  22-09-2019 02:00 via ocregister.com
  
  To understand how American democracy has worked, and why its future may be limited, it’s critical to look at the issue of property. From early on, the country’s republican institutions have rested on the notion of dispersed ownership of land — a striking departure from the realities of feudal Europe, east Asia or the Middle East.
  From Jefferson and Madison’s republic of yeoman farmers to the suburban homeowners of the postwar era, the notion of dispersed property ownershi
  
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• UCLA football live updates vs. Washington State in Pac-12 opener in Pullman

  22-09-2019 01:17 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA football is on the road this weekend in Pullman, hoping to upset 19th-ranked Washington State in the first meeting between the two teams since 2016.
  The Cougars have won the last two meetings but the Bruins lead the all-time series with a 40-20-1 record.
  Washington State leads the nation in passing offense (1,428 yards) and fumble recoveries (seven).
  The Bruins have lost the last 10 games against ranked opponents with the last victory coming against No. 18 Utah in 2015. Washington State is
  
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• Mark Langston ‘resting comfortably’ after terrifying scene in Angels broadcast booth

  22-09-2019 01:17 via ocregister.com
  
  HOUSTON — As Mark Langston spent Saturday resting comfortably and undergoing tests in a Houston hospital, his partner was still shaken over what he’d seen the night before.
  Terry Smith, the Angels radio play-by-play announcer, said that he believed when Langston passed out in the booth, the outcome of his heart-related emergency could have been much worse.
  “I can tell you this, in all certainty, they shocked him back to life,” Smith said. “If this happened in his ho
  
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• Democratic presidential candidates descend on Iowa for steak, beer and politics

  22-09-2019 01:05 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and THOMAS BEAUMONT
  DES MOINES, Iowa — With marching bands, drum lines, hundreds of yard signs and at least one fire truck, Democratic presidential candidates made a colorful and often loud pitch to Iowa Democrats at the Steak Fry fundraiser in Des Moines on Saturday.
  The event, a fundraiser for the Polk County Democratic Party and one of the biggest remaining opportunities for candidates to flex their organizing muscles in Iowa before the caucuses, comes as a number of
  
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• President Trump shines a light on California’s disgraceful homeless problem

  22-09-2019 00:22 via ocregister.com
  
  With signature bluntness, President Trump addressed the issue of homelessness while visiting California last week.
  “The people of San Francisco are fed up and the people of Los Angeles are fed up,” he said.
  Tens of millions of Trump-denouncing Californians had exactly the same thought at exactly the same moment: “Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
  It’s amazing the Earth wasn’t knocked off its axis by the sheer psychic force of it.
  And that was the kick
  
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• The coast is clear as volunteers help out for California Coastal Cleanup Day

  22-09-2019 00:16 via ocregister.com
  
  They set out with a common goal: to spruce up the coast, parks and waterways, removing as much trash as possible.
  Thousands of volunteers throughout the state spent their morning Saturday, Sept. 21, getting their hands dirty for California Coastal Cleanup Day, marking the 35th year for the event. It is also part of a global effort that coincides with International Cleanup Day.
  Jordan Peterson leans over to pick up trash in Trabuco Creek as a little more than a dozen people gathered at Descanso P
  
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