Updated at 9:19 a.m., Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Coast Guardsmen today cleaning 'Ewa Beach area road
Advertiser Staff
KALAELOA — Crewmembers from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point are this morning cleaning up a stretch of Coral Sea Road, the two-lane road which runs from 'Ewa Beach to Barbers Point.As part of the Adopt-a-Highway program and in recognition of last weekend's Earth Day, crewmembers at the air station are volunteering their time to pick up trash and debris along the road. Air Station Barbers Point is the Coast Guard's base of operations for aerial search and rescue and law enforcement missions in Hawai'i and the Central Pacific.
About 200 Coast Guard members are assigned to Air Station Barbers Point, which features three HH-65 Dolphin helicopters and four C-130 long range aircraft. The Coast Guardsmen started at 8 a.m. and expect to wrap up at about noon.
