Thursday Travel Ticker: Save the whales

Help protect the ocean and get a free ticket to the Aquarium of the Pacific in return, at its 10^th annual street cleanup March 10, a Saturday. Participants will clean up streets in downtown Long Beach, and pick up trash before it can flow to the Pacific. In exchange for a full bag of trash, volunteers will receive a ticket to the aquarium, a $24.95 value. Participants will gather at 10 a.m. at Cesar Chavez Park, 401 Golden Ave., Long Beach. For info: (562) 590-3100 or click here . . . . A Tribute to the Music of Johnny Cash returns to the Ventura County Fairgrounds, June 16. In addition to the music, get a rush of Father’s Day weekend good feelings by checking out the personal collection of Johnny’s daughter Cindy, who lives in Ventura. For info, go to www.roadshowrevival.com . . . . Extreme Thing Sports and Music Festival, which drew 25,000 people last year, takes place March 31, at Desert Breeze Park in Las Vegas. Tickets are $17 in advance and $20 on the day of the show. For info, go to www.extremething.com . . . . The latest return date for singer Celine Dion, who has had to cancel Vegas shows because of throat inflammation, is June 9 . . . . Spring training visitors to Arizona can present their game stub and receive 25% off a round of golf at ASU Karsten Golf Course in Tempe. For info: (480) 921-8070 . . . . Park Hyatt Aviara Resort in Carlsbad will hold a day celebrating the culinary adventures of the farm-to-table movement March 24. The day includes a farm visit and a cooking class on how to make jam . . . . Disney Cruise Line’s newest ship, the 4,000-passenger Disney Fantasy, will be christened in New York on Thursday, then sail to its new home in Port Canaveral, Fla. The Fantasy will sail on seven-night Caribbean cruises starting March 31 . . . . Airline passenger traffic at John Wayne Airport decreased slightly in January over the year before. This year, the airport served 636,573 passengers in January, a decrease of 0.026%, or 169 passengers over 2011 . . . . The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says lumber, boats and other debris ripped from Japanese coastal towns by tsunamis last year have spread across 3,000 miles of the north Pacific, and could wash ashore this winter on remote islands north of Hawaii . . . . Travel quote of the day: “Travels develop your mind, if you have one, of course.” (G. Chesterton)