During coronavirus crisis, Long Beach’s event king Justin Rudd still determined to help, even while crowds he inspires can’t gather

Here’s one more thing the novel coronavirus outbreak has stopped: 250 consecutive months of beach cleanups around Long Beach.
And that hits Justin Rudd, the city’s self-styled king of events, oh so hard.
Normally surrounded by hundreds of volunteers, the organizer/activist/boundless-source-of-energy took about 45 minutes early Saturday morning to clean up Rosie’s Dog Beach.
By himself.
For the past 250 months — just shy of 21 years —  volunteers have joined Rud