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Brittney Short, 16, gets help up the side of the canal from Emily Sniffen, 15, right, as they and other cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick up garbage from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff

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Brittney Short, 16, gets help up the side of the canal from Emily Sniffen, 15, right, as they and other cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick up garbage from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff

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  • Brittney Short, 16, gets help up the side of the canal from Emily Sniffen, 15, right, as they and other cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick up garbage from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Brittney Short, 16, and other cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick up garbage from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Aly Ottas, 15, right, screams as she drops the rubber from a tire after seeing what she thought was a leach stuck to it. Ottas and other cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School picked up garbage from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School take a quick break from picking up garbage from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • A large inflatable crayon sticks out from Amelia DeCoil's garbage bag as she and her twin sister, Amanda, left, and other cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School take a quick break from picking up garbage from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Brittney Short, 16, puts a bear bottle in to a plastic bag as she and other cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick up garbage from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Zac Mollberg, 5, left, Sierra Brown, 14, right, and cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick garbage up from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Sierra Brown, 14, right, writes down what type of trash is found as she and other cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick garbage up from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Junior varsity and varsity cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School clean trash up from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Junior varsity and varsity cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School clean trash up from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Junior varsity and varsity cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick up trash from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Brittney Short, 16, left, and Lily Dempsey, 15, along with other cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High Schoo,l pick up trash from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Junior varsity and varsity cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick up trash from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Junior varsity and varsity cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick up trash from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • A pile of garbage waits to be picked up at the Vanderbilt Beach Road beach head on Saturday. The garbage was picked up by volunteers as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Junior varsity and varsity cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick up trash from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Junior varsity and varsity cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick up trash from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Junior varsity and varsity cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School pick up trash from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • Cheerleaders from Palmetto Ridge High School take a quick break from picking up garbage from the Cocohatchee Canal along Immokalee Road on Saturday morning as part of a coastal cleanup put together by Keep Collier Beautiful. The cheerleaders and other Palmetto Ridge students cleaned a five mile stretch of the canal between Wilson Road and Collier Blvd. Volunteers also picked up debris at Delnor Wiggins Pass, Vanderbilt Beach, Lowdermilk Park, the Naples Pier, Clam Pass Park, Rookery Bay, Tiger Tail Beach, 951 Golden Gate Canal, Isle of Capri, Barefoot Beach, Naples Bay, and Gulf Shores Marina. Lexey Swall/Staff

From Barefoot Beach to the Ten Thousand Islands, hundreds of Southwest Floridians spent Saturday morning at the beach — with a garbage bag in hand. A county-wide effort organized by Keep Collier Beautiful, “Coastal Clean-up,” brought volunteers together to comb for trash large and small.

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