Seacliff State Beach in the coastal Santa Cruz County community of Aptos will be the site of a cleanup event this week after being battered so badly by winter storms that President Joe Biden toured the beach last month, state park officials said.

The Feb. 18 cleanup is the latest improvement effort planned by public agencies and supporters of the beach, which is known for its fishing pier and concrete ship, the SS Palo Alto.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.