"Tar balls started washing up on the sand this week in Seaside, Fla., a wealthy hamlet between Pensacola and Panama City where Dave Rauschkolb owns three waterfront restaurants and near where he lives, fishes and surfs. ...

Rauschkolb, 48, organized an effort dubbed "Hands Across the Sand." Activists in locations around the world plan to join hands and form human chains to symbolize barricades against oil spills and more oil drilling."

Anne C. Mulkern reports for Greenwire June 24, 2010. [2]