Community Volunteer Opportunity
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| Great American Cleanup |
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Don't Mess with Texas Trash-Off
Great American Cleanup
Don't forget our On-Line Auction from March 25th to April 3rd!
Saturday, April 4th 9:00 to 1:00
- Plan for a morning of community service on Saturday, April 4th Get registration and volunteer release formsRegister your group by fax or email registration before March 27thFill out volunteer release form for each participantand bring the day of the eventCome to City Hall parking lot 1945 E. Jackson, 75006 at 9:00 amGet your trash bags, gloves, t-shirts (we hope) and assigned area map or tell us where you want to cleanClean your assigned area and bring your trash back to City Hall to be counted - unless it is too large to move (get specific location for City to pick up)Give us your trash, get freebies from our sponsors, play an environmental game, have lunch and celebrate !If you want a Great American Cleanup patch, bring $2.00 per patch
In 2008 nationally, Great American Cleanup volunteers collected 86 million pounds of litter and debris; planted 107,000 trees and 48,000 gardens, xeriscapes and green spaces; cleaned 144,000 miles or roads, streets and highways; and diverted more than 189 million plastic (PET) bottles and more than 1.4 million scrap tires from the waste stream.
Last year, 2309 Keep Carrollton Beautiful volunteers spent 8,743 hours collecting 6,700 pounds of litter and debris from green belts, streets, parks, rivers and shorelines in Carrollton. We also had fun educating 2,000 participants.
Keep Carrollton Beautiful educates citizens about their responsibility in litter prevention; ways to reduce, reuse, recycle and rebuy; and properly manage waste materials. Keep Carrollton Beautiful also forms strategic partnerships with businesses, organizations and individuals to beautify and improve our community. Join us!
Great American Cleanup 2008 Wrap-Up
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| The Carrollton Evening Lions Club are great partners! And they can really cook some good hotdogs. | ||
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| Girl Scouts of America Troop 1348 are indispensible talet that we couldn't do without. They make it all run so smoothly | Boy Scouts of America Troop 114 really come in a make it all possible! Lots of energy in their group. | BLIA-YAD of Dallas joined us for the second year. |
Carrollton, We Really Cleanup Up!
On Saturday April 19th, Keep Carrollton Beautiful, with the help of it’s dedicated Board of Directors, the Carrollton Evening Lions Club, City of Carrollton and 300 volunteers - cleaned the whole community. If you were out for the beautiful day, you probably saw teams of volunteers picking up trash out in fields, green belts and along creeks and train tracks. The numbers aren’t in yet but they filled a half of a 30-yard dumpster!This was Keep Carrollton Beautiful’s fifth annual Great American Cleanup / Don’t’ Mess With Texas Trash-Off and the event awareness has been building steadily. The kids and their committed leaders from Girl Scout Troop 1348 and Boy Scout Troop 114 are veteran volunteers for this event; helping with the planning each year. Keep Carrollton Beautiful’s Teen Advisory Board members pitched in to bring community service organizations from both Hebron and Creekview.
Making “mass feeding” possible is the Carrollton Evening Lions Club. Swarms of gold vests could be seen carrying grills, cooking and passing out hot dogs to the hungry volunteers.
“Our in-kind donors make an event this large possible. Without Cadbury-Schweppes, Albertson, United Party Rental Center, Allied Waste Services, Frito-Lay, Tom Thumb and Trinity Medical Center, we would not be able to accommodate the trash and our volunteers,” said Sharon Goddard.
Environmental Educators provided games, specimens and demonstrations - informing everyone. Many were surprised to learn how long it takes to decompose everyday trash, like 75 years for disposable diapers, 10-12 years for cigarette butts, and NEVER for styrofoam.
The participants also learned about how they can create their own Backyard Wildlife Habitat to provide migration corridors for birds. Beneficial Aquatic bugs were on display. There were “found” natural specimens from the Elm Fork Nature Preserve. And a stormwater Enviro-Scape showed everyone how pesticide run-off from your yard can pollute creeks and lakes.
During the Great American Cleanup, Keep Carrollton Beautiful not only holds this event each year; but assists groups cleaning all 6 Adopt-A-Spots, schools with Earth Day Celebrations, and a Trinity River cleanup in Carrollton. This year many schools and neighborhood groups also cleaned.
“What we notice is that the railroads aren’t very good neighbors. They are responsible for trash along their own tracks, but that’s where we pick up the most,” said the Director.
The City of Carrollton is deciding how to fund Keep Carrollton Beautiful right now. Please let your City Council person know how important you think their programs are. Keep Carrollton Beautiful wants to continue to provide you with a place to plug into the community.
If you’d like to see how you can help or have a project in mind, go to www.KeepCarrolltonBeautiful.org or call 972.466.2121. Thank you to everyone who came out to the make the Great American Cleanup a great success!
Great American Cleanup 2007 Wrap-up
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We had some great volunteers | Kenty Elementary | Multi-Cultural Night |
Keep Carrollton Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup was a smashing success – counting only the reported events, Adopt-A-Spot, HOA and school cleanups – they collected almost 16,000 pounds of trash and debris and recycled 4,100 pounds of newspaper and drink containers! During the Great American Cleanup, 1013 volunteers spent 4669 hours cleaning Carrollton – volunteers really make a difference!
More than 500 participants at Kent Elementary’s Earth Day celebration stated the roll. Their PTA and Keep Carrollton Beautiful won State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Award grant to fund planting 600 flowers and a tree. Keep Carrollton Beautiful gave their contest winners t-shirts and prizes for their efforts.
The Great American Cleanup event netted 4000 pounds of litter and debris collected by 250 volunteers. The volunteers all received praise, t-shirts and lunch. A good morning spent working in the community for a great cause!
Adopt-A-Spot, Home Owners’ Associations and other schools held cleanups as well. Kent Elementary even had a Multi-Cultural Night to learn about different cultures, geography and environmental issues affecting other countries.
Intuit Inc. and Exponent HR brought Keep Carrollton Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup to a dramatic close by collecting 1600 gushy pounds of trash out of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River and surrounding McInnish Park. Intuit’s “We Care and Give Back” team have been partnering with Keep Carrollton Beautiful to clean the river for four years now. “These guys are so enthusiastic, we love helping them. And they spent 238 hours helping Carrollton. We really appreciate them,” said Sharon Goddard, founder of Keep Carrollton Beautiful.
Keep Carrollton Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup was a smashing success – counting only the reported events, Adopt-A-Spot, HOA and school cleanups – they collected almost 16,000 pounds of trash and debris and recycled 4,100 pounds of newspaper and drink containers! During the Great American Cleanup, 1013 volunteers spent 4669 hours cleaning Carrollton – volunteers really make a difference!
More than 500 participants at Kent Elementary’s Earth Day celebration stated the roll. Their PTA and Keep Carrollton Beautiful won State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Award grant to fund planting 600 flowers and a tree. Keep Carrollton Beautiful gave their contest winners t-shirts and prizes for their efforts.
The Great American Cleanup event netted 4000 pounds of litter and debris collected by 250 volunteers. The volunteers all received praise, t-shirts and lunch. A good morning spent working in the community for a great cause!
Adopt-A-Spot, Home Owners’ Associations and other schools held cleanups as well. Kent Elementary even had a Multi-Cultural Night to learn about different cultures, geography and environmental issues affecting other countries.
Intuit Inc. and Exponent HR brought Keep Carrollton Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup to a dramatic close by collecting 1600 gushy pounds of trash out of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River and surrounding McInnish Park. Intuit’s “We Care and Give Back” team have been partnering with Keep Carrollton Beautiful to clean the river for four years now. “These guys are so enthusiastic, we love helping them. And they spent 238 hours helping Carrollton. We really appreciate them,” said Sharon Goddard, founder of Keep Carrollton Beautiful.
