Not my normal Thursday night of homework… Last night I got invited to the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles to watch an LA Kings game in a box suite and hockey legend, Luc Robitaille gave me a Mercury Insurance Community Hero Award! Congratulations to all of the other award recipients and good luck to the Kings in the playoffs and thank you for partnering with me and the Anaheim Ducks for our annual Freeway Face Off Beach Clean Up.

This past Tuesday, we had our annual FREEWAY FACEOFF BEACH CLEAN UP with the Anaheim Ducks, LA Kings, Project3R and Mercury Insurance. We had a great turnout and we picked up 422 lbs of trash from Rosie’s Dog Beach in Long Beach, California. We recycled everything we could. Thank you so much to everyone that came out to volunteer! It makes me so happy to do this each year and it’s a lot of fun to partner with my favorite hockey teams and make a difference together.

The next night on Wednesday, was GREEN NIGHT at the Honda Center for the Anaheim Ducks game. The Project3R team collected recyclables outside the arena before the game from fans and the Ducks won in overtime against the Calgary Flames! Thank you Sarah and team for the hard work getting everything organized, Ally for the Jumbotron interview and DJ JoJo for letting me beat the drum to get the crowd going during the game! See you all next year!

Today I was honored to receive a Community Service Award from the Mission Viejo Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. I spoke at their September 2024 meeting and was excited to be asked back to receive the award.  #recyclelikeryan

Thanks for the interview ShoutOut SoCal!
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Orange County Register 12/23/24

Ryan Hickman — He founded Ryan’s Recycling when he was 7 years old. In the last several years, he’s been a finalist for Time’s Kid of the Year, a CNN Young Wonder and spoken to 23,000 kids at WE Day. The H&M clothing company highlighted him in its global role models campaign, he’s been in ads for Old Navy and Mack Trucks and he did a Got Milk commercial. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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We had a great turnout the last two weekends at our beach clean up events with Assemblywoman Diane Dixon and her office. We picked up a little under 200 lbs of trash between the two events. Thank you everyone who came out and helped make a difference!  See you at the next clean up! #maketheseatrashfree

Today (Sept 20) is California Surfing Day and Senator Janet Nguyen awarded some amazing people in the surf scene awards tonight. I was included for my beach clean ups I do every week. Thank you Senator Janet Nguyen and Assemblywoman Diane Dixon for the awards tonight! I’m very proud to get these awards and look forward to our future beach clean ups together.