Port Charlotte, FL
The Waste Management “Think Green” Grant also helped Azusa Beautiful volunteers plant 20 trees along 9th Street and Pasadena Avenue in Azusa, Calif. The grant also helped support Zero Trash Laguna Beach’s “1st Saturday” event, a community cleanup event in the city of Laguna, Calif. Adopt-A-Neighbor Food & Outreach also received a grant that helped support its food bank and the cleanup of a mobile home area, which included the removal of large bulky items. On April 12, Waste Management presented the City of High Point, N.C., with its “Think Green” GAC Grant. The grant was used to plant 18 trees in a median that had previously been barren for many years. Keep High Point Beautiful along with the Burnshill Neighborhood Association, an organization that has historically provided maintenance for the area, participated in the cleanup and planting effort in this area. In nearby Columbia, S.C., Keep the Midlands Beautiful worked in partnership with the City of Columbia to complete a beautification project of the Martin Luther King Park. The Waste Management “Think Green” GAC Grant helped to complete the construction of a bridge at the park. Keep Oklahoma Beautiful along with Waste Management, LG Electronics, Keep America Beautiful and the City of Oklahoma City hosted an eCycling event that offered free e-waste recycling to all Oklahomans. Keep Charlotte(Fla.) Beautiful utilized its “Think Green” grant to complete two separate projects. The first project was a beautification and educational project at the Girl Scout House in celebration of its 100th anniversary. Volunteers planted native species around the house, installed a rain barrel painted by one of the troops and made an environmental educational cart, which was filled with books, games and activities for the troops to use. The project was completed in early May and is still being enjoyed by the local Girl Scouts. The second project was a community garden in the Parkside Community, an area that is under revitalization. Keep Charlotte Beautiful partnered
azusa, CA
Lake Clarke Shores, FL
with the Charlotte County Family Services Center, Team Port Charlotte, and a Boy Scout working on his Eagle Scout badge. The grant also provided a storage shed for the community garden at the Charlotte South County Park. Also in Florida, Waste Management supported Keep Clay Beautiful’s St. Johns River Cleanup and encouraged attendees at Clay County Agricultural Fair to recycle. Keep Palm Beach County Beautiful completed two projects with the help of its “Think Green” GAC Grant. Volunteers gathered in the Town of Juno Beach to plant 2,555 sea oats on the beach and collect 400 pounds of litter. The grant also helped repair a boat ramp in the Town of Lake Clarke Shores that will allow boaters to access Lake Clarke. In addition to the ramp, the grant helped fund the installation of recycling receptacles at the lake. Keep Marietta (Ga.) Beautiful engaged community members and local service groups to transform a portion of an overgrown and unused playground at the Head Start School into a community and school garden.
marieTta, ga
Keep it Moving in Detroit hosted a community banquet at the Mount Cavalry Baptist Church. The guest speaker at the event was Bettie Mencheck from the Department of Education and the Master of Ceremonies was Brian Conaway of Waste Management, Southeast Michigan and Ohio. The following morning, Keep It Moving kicked off its community cleanup at Pingree Park. Keep Our Coast Beautiful and Harrison County Beautification in Gulfport, Miss., worked together on their annual “Bring It!” household waste collection. Their “Think Green” GAC Grant helped them place Big Belly solar compacting trash containers in downtown Gulfport.
15