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Concert goers will hear country and salsa music as Pier Plaza Presents

wraps up its concert season this weekend.

Country artist Travis Parker, with his fiddle, performs at 1 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 29, and Kevin Banford, “the cowboy crooner,” follows

Parker at 2:30 p.m. Banford will be playing with the Bakersfield Boys.

Ricardo Lernvo and Makina Loka will perform original Afro-Cuban Salsa

music at 1 p.m. Sunday Sept. 30.

All concerts are free. Pier Plaza is adjacent to the Huntington Beach

Pier, at Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway in Downtown Huntington

Beach.

Call (714) 374-1657 for more information.

Bolsa Chica wetlands get a boost

The Bolsa Chica Conservancy recently received a $7,500 grant from a

group of Boeing employees who have formed a charitable organization,

called the Employees Community Fund of Boeing California.

“[The grant] is significant because it comes from the [Employees

Community Fund], fellow members of the community,” said Adrianne

Morrison, executive director of the Bolsa Chica Conservancy.

The grant money will be used primarily for wetlands research programs,

which are presented to students visiting the conservancy’s interpretive

center.

The money was given to the Bolsa Chica Conservatory, because that is

where employees who donated the money wished it to go,

said executive director of the fund, Beverly Hoskinson.

“The focus is to give grants in areas where employees live,” she said.

Many of those Boeing employees also work at the conservatory,

Hoskinson added.

The Boeing Employees Community Fund of Boeing California is a

nonprofit, charitable organization comprised of 17,000 Boeing employees

from throughout California.

The employee community fund has donated to the Bolsa Chica Conservancy

since 1997.

Help clean the wetlands

Volunteers are encouraged to come out for Bolsa Chica Conservancy

Service Day Saturday Sept. 29 to clean up the wetlands.

“It’s a time to tidy up the reserve and get ready for the migratory

birds coming back for winter,” said Adrianne Morrison, executive director

of the Bolsa Chica Conservancy.

Volunteers will help clean up trash from 9 a.m. to noon.

Volunteers should meet at 9 a.m. at the bridge one mile south of

Warner Avenue on Pacific Coast Highway.