502 S 2nd Street P.O. Box 158 Cordele, GA Tel: (229) Fax: (229)

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1 502 S 2nd Street P.O. Box 158 Cordele, GA Tel: (229) Fax: (229) Keep Crisp Beautiful is a non-profit organization of the Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce and is comprised of volunteers, dedicated to working in our community to provide education about environmental issues, to attract business and tourism, and to improve the health of our community. Keep Crisp Beautiful is committed to making Cordele and Crisp County a beautiful place in which to live, to raise our families, and to visit. The duties of Keep Crisp Beautiful: Promote public interest in the general improvement of the environment. Study, investigate and develops plans for improving the health, sanitation, safety and cleanliness of the City of Cordele and Crisp County Advise and recommend plans for a cleaner community. Initiate, plan, direct, coordinate and execute programs that include litter control and recycling in conjunction with the citizens, governments, businesses and industries within the City of Cordele and Crisp County. Maintain the Keep America Beautiful System in our community.

2 Keep Crisp Beautiful Board Bodrey, Kari South Georgia Technical College Colson, Willie Fore, Marty Crisp-Dooly Forestry Griffin, Niki Cordele Garden Club Harrell, Catherine Keep Crisp Beautiful Helms, Todd Woodard s Nursery Mitchell, Monica Downtown Business Organization McGirt, Brandon City of Cordele Simmons, Monica Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce Waters, Marcus Crisp County Power Commission Wells, Chip Wells Hardware Programs of Keep Crisp Beautiful Adopt-A-Spot/ Adopt-A-Highway Program Adopt-A-Highway/ Adopt-A-Spot Programs enlists citizen volunteers' help to remove litter from state roadsides while saving taxpayer dollars. Adopt-A-Highway is a DOT program whereas Adopt-A-Spot is a litter prevention and beautification program of Keep Crisp Beautiful. A Spot can be your neighborhood, your schoolyard, a vacant lot, a traffic circle, or any Spot that you are interested in keeping litter-free. It is up to you! Maintenance of your Spot or highway requires a commitment from you. The benefits to you and others include the beauty added to the area, the positive impact on our community, and a personalized recognition! Anyone can adopt Churches, Businesses, Non-Profits, or Community Organizations! Cigarette Litter Prevention Program The Cigarette Litter Prevention Program addresses the issue by integrating four proven approaches: encouraging enforcement of litter laws that include cigarette litter; raising awareness about the issue using public service messages; placing ash receptacles at transition points such as entrances to public buildings; and distributing pocket ashtrays to adult smokers. Education Waste, and how we choose to handle it, affects our world's environment -- that's YOUR environment, everything that surrounds you including the air, water, land, plants, and man-made things. And since by now you probably know that you need a healthy environment for your own health and happiness, you can understand why effective waste management is so important to YOU and everyone else. The waste we create has to be

3 carefully controlled, to be sure that it does not harm your environment and your health. KCB strives to protect that environment and educate children and adults alike in taking pride and protecting this community. Beauty Spot of the Month Each month, a committee chooses a yard or business from the community at random as the Beauty Spot of the Month for Keep Crisp Beautiful. The winner receives a certificate and has a sign placed in the designated beauty spot throughout the month. Recycling In 2009 KCB began an electronics recycling site in conjunction with Wells Hardware! This expanded in to the collection that is now in the drive thru at the Chamber. Please recycling list below.

4 A copy of this brochure may be picked up in the Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce

5 Keep Crisp Beautiful Event Dates January Bring One for the Chipper January 3 rd 9:00-11:00 AM Williams Field February Litter Index Scan Begins Save the Books - Book Recycling Week Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce Drive-Thru February 18 th February 22 nd -28 th March March Beauty Spot of the Month March 12 th 4:00 PM KAB Semi-Annual Report DUE Litter Index Scan DUE Spring County Wide Clean Up Crisp County March 15th March 18 th March 21 st Great American Clean Up Kick-off March 24th 4:00 PM Crisp County Extension Office April April Beauty Spot of the Month April 2 nd 4:00 PM Adopt-A-Spot/Adopt-A-Highway Drive All month Spring Clothes Collection April 11 th 9:00-11:00 AM Earth Day April 22 nd TBA Crisp County Pre-K (Participating with National Vocational Technical Honor Society of SGTC) Adopt-A-Highway/Spot & Roadside Clean Up Week April 27 th - May 2 nd KCB Adopt-A-Highway Clean-up April 30 th 5:15 PM (Park by Olde Inn) May May Beauty Spot of the Month May 7 th 4:00 PM Re-Pack Back-Pack Collection May 18 th -20 th All Day Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce KGB Spring Conference TBA June June Beauty Spot of the Month June 4 th 4:00 PM

6 Watermelon Decorating Contest June 16 th 4:00-5:00 PM Flint River Pottery Watermelon Festival Parade June 27 th 9:00 AM July July Beauty Spot of the Month TBA 4:00 PM KAB Annual Reporting Period KGB Awards Applications Back to School Electronics Collection July 26 th -August 8 th All Day August August Beauty Spot of the Month August 6 th 4:00 PM Back to School Electronics Collection July 26 th-august 8th All Day September September Beauty Spot of the Month September 3 rd 4:00 PM Fall Executive Director s Conference Fall Clothes Collection September 19 th 9:00-11:00 AM October October Beauty Spot of the Month October 1 st 4:00 PM Rivers Alive October 3 rd 9:00-11:00 AM Georgia Veterans State Park & Blue Hole Fall County Wide Clean Up Day Crisp County October 3 rd November November Beauty Spot of the Month November 5 th 4:00 PM Trashion Show November 10 th 10:00-11:00 AM South Georgia Technical College Recycling Fair November 14 th 9:00-11:00 AM TBA December December Beauty Spot of the Month December 3 rd 4:00 PM

7 Cordele Christmas Parade December 5 th 6:00 PM 2016 Pre-Planning 2016 KAB National Grant Applications Catherine M. Harrell - Executive Director Jannah Brown Volunteer Coordinator Rusty Walker Intern