Steady foot traffic along Ocean Boulevard in the early evening hours on Friday before the thunderstorm was met by men in yellow polo shirts.
Those men are Gold Cap Ambassadors, a taxpayer funded program by the Myrtle Beach Downtown Alliance, and they were doing their job to keep the main drag of Ocean Boulevard between 9th and 16th Avenues clean.
Carrying plastic buckets and armed with trash pickers, the ambassadors made their way up and down Ocean Boulevard picking up food wrappers, napkins and cigarette butts…