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Keep Waco Beautiful
Memberships!!!
Spring 2010 is here!!!! It is not too late to join KWB!
Please encourage your friends and family to join
in keeping Waco clean and beautiful!
Visit the
"Get
Involved"
page for a printable membership form or to sign
up
online!
And, remember the
10% discount at local nurseries!
Project Re-Directory
When your receive your new AT&T phone book
featuring America's 1st LEED certified
Chamber on the cover, be sure to recycle
your old phone book -- curbside if you're in
Waco and you have a bin or at any of the HEB
stores in Waco or Woodway. They'll have a
recycle bin outside, May 18th through June
18th.
LUXURY LANDSCAPE RAFFLE
WINNER!
Keep Waco Beautiful is
excited to announce that
Lori Fogelman is the winner
of our 2009
$5000 Lawn Makeover by
Fitzgerald Landscaping!
Congratulations, Lori !!!
A big thank you to everyone
who purchased tickets and
thanks again to Fitzgerald
Landscaping for helping us
make this year's raffle a
success!
Adopt-A-Spot Program
Keep Waco Beautiful's Adopt-A-Spot program
provides local businesses, civic
organizations. church groups, families and
other groups the opportunity to make an
impact on the cleanliness and appearance of
our community. By accepting the
responsibility of your adopted "spot", and
cleaning it 4 times per year, your group not
only increases community awareness of litter
issues and the impact of beautification
efforts, but also publicly demonstrates a
positive environmental practices, local
pride and community ownership. Each adopted
spot will be marked with an attractive metal
sign with your group's name on it.
Adopt-A-Spot/Street/Park is a voluntary program
to involve citizens in maintaining and
beautifying Waco. Anyone may participate by
pledging to maintain a "spot" for one year or
longer. Any "spot" (with the exception of
medians) within the city limits not currently
maintained, may be adopted, with special
attention to those places that appear neglected.
Follow these steps to
Adopt-Your-Spot:
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Call KWB at 750-5728 for
your contract, fill out the contract and
submit to Keep Waco Beautiful.
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Select a spot appropriate
to the capabilities and size of your
group. Choose a place where you see the
greatest need or close to your physical
location.
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Maintain your "spot" for
a minimum commitment of one year;
cleaning it at least once a quarter with
one cleanup date falling during the
Great American Cleanup (March 1st
through May 31st).
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Submit periodic very
short reports and photos of your group
(photos optional) to reflect your group
maintaining the "spot."
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Enjoy your beautiful "spot" often!
We look forward to joining with you to make Waco
litter free.
Your Business Can “ Adopt-A-Spot”
Too
Greater Waco Chamber of
Commerce
Receives Keep Texas Beautiful
Award
(Waco, Texas) – Keep Texas Beautiful
announced
the
Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce
as a first
place winner of the 2009
Civic
Organization Leadership Award
on Monday, March 23.
The honor recognizes the efforts of the
Chamber to enhance their community and
protect the Texas environment.
The Civic Organization Leadership
Award is one of nine categories in the Keep
Texas Beautiful Awards and recognizes
outstanding litter prevention,
beautification efforts, and sound
environmental practices by civic
organizations
Each year, Keep Texas Beautiful
acknowledges deserving senior citizens,
community groups, individuals, civic
organizations, media, government entities
and law enforcement officials for their
commitment to litter prevention and cleanup,
illegal dumping enforcement, education and
publicity of environmental issues and
community beautification.
The Chamber is being recognized
by KTB for construction of its new LEED
headquarters and for promoting good
environmental business practices in the
Central Texas community. KTB applauds
The Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce as an
organization that takes a leadership role in
creating a vital business community in the
Waco area that is actively reducing its
environmental footprint in the state.
Award winners will be recognized during the
42nd Annual Keep Texas Beautiful Conference,
June 8-11, 2009, in Houston. A full list of
winners and award descriptions can be found
at
www.ktb.org.
Keep Texas Beautiful ,
a statewide grassroots environmental and
community improvement nonprofit, strives to
educate and engage Texans to take
responsibility for improving their community
environment. KTB and its more than 360
affiliates, including local affiliate
Keep Waco Beautiful, work with
government, businesses, civic groups, and
volunteers to ensure that every Texan has
the opportunity to make Texas the cleanest,
most beautiful state in the nation. For
more information on programs and events,
call 1-800-CLEAN-TX or visit
www.ktb.org.
$5,000 LANDSCAPE
WINNER
Amanda Chasteen & her husband, Mark, are
last year’s
winners of the $5,000 Luxury Landscape. They
just signed on their first home, so the timing
was perfect! THANKS to Lawns,
Ltd. for this wonderful opportunity and to all who purchased tickets. Plan to try again next
year!
Well, it's
complete!! We are so incredibly excited,
happy, and grateful for this wonderful gift.
We will be sure to pass the word about Lawns
Ltd, Keep Waco Beautiful and this whole
amazing process! Our neighbors have already
commented that they want to get tickets for
a raffle like this one! They've also
commented that we're making them look bad
with our nice new front and back yard!
Thanks again!
Sincerely,
Amanda and
Mark Chasteen
RECYCLING RESULTS
Tire Amnesty Day—March
24—we collected 5,570 tires and filled 7 semi
trailers. Great job!
Computer Recycling Day—April
14—about 990 electronic items were donated. Not
bad for a first time!
Household Hazardous Waste Day—May
19—no total lbs. yet, but 664 cars participated.
Thanks to all who volunteered and donated
Ink Jet Cartridge and Cell Phone Recycling
Do
you have empty ink jet cartridges lying around
your home or office? Do you have an old cell
phone taking up space in a drawer but don’t know
what to do with it?
We
accept these items not only as part of a
recycling effort but KWB will also receive a
small amount for each cartridge or cell phone
collected. These funds will help KWB continue
to beautify Waco through our many programs and
projects. Call the KWB office and we will
gladly send you postage-paid envelopes that you
can use to mail your cartridges and cell
phones.
For
more information or questions about the program,
please call the KWB office. Donate your old
cell phones and help us as we participate in
Keep America Beautiful's WIPE OUT WIRELESS WASTE
Campaign!
HELP SAVE THE LANDFILL!
Keep Waco
Beautiful would like to recognize its
Lifetime Members!
Mrs. R.H. Baskin, Mrs. Pat Beard,
Mr. & Mrs. Hack Branch, Mr. & Mrs. R.S. Braswell
III, Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Brown, Mrs. Nancy Callan,
Cen-Tex Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Mrs.
George Chase, Pearl Christian, Martha Clowe, Tom
Collins, Mike & Shirley Cornett, Corwin Clinic,
Mr. & Mrs. Harold Cunningham. J.P. & Elinor
Davis, Diesel Power Supply Co., Mr. & Mrs. Henry
Dietz, Jim & Margaret Dolaway, Mrs. Walter
Dossett, Glenn Drennon, Mrs. Malcom Duncan, Mrs.
Leonard Genz, HEB, Harry & Janet Hornish, Mary
S. Howell, Beth & Edgar Jablonowski, Keep Texas
Beautiful, Stewart R. Kelly, Harold Kelly, Dr. &
Mrs. Chad Latino, Dr. Scott Livesay, McLennan
Community College, Don & Mary Beth McMahon, Dr.
& Mrs. Stephen L. Mark, Paul J. Meyer Family
Foundation, Dr. & Mrs. W. Gene Murff, Mrs. Jay
Naman, Eve & Joe Riley, Mrs. Gordon Rountree,
Mrs. Marshall Saunders, Scott & White Memorial
Hospital, Dr. & Mrs. James H. Scruggs, Mary
Louise Sigtenhorst, Mrs. Darrell Slette, Mrs. C.
Collom Smith, Mr. & Mrs. Cullen Smith, Goodhue
Smith, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Stribling, Mrs. Frances
Sturgis, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mrs.
Marilyn Wells, Ellen & Greg White, Mr. George
Cleveland Witt, Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Young
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