Cash for Trash

FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for BACKPACK PROGRAM. Volunteers spent Saturday morning, November 14th, cleaning county roads as part of Solid Waste Management’s Cash for Trash program, earning $500 for the Backpack Program. The program sends home weekend food with over 300 needy children from our three elementary schools. To help our children, call: 859-792-8745. (L-R: Tom, Shari, Brenda, Jackie, Simon, Brad & Karla enjoy lunch at Smith’s Restaurant in Lancaster after road clean-up. Eighth volunteer, Leslie, not shown.)

Paint Lick Sportsman's Club cleans up Old Railroad Grade Road

Thank you PLSC members, for supporting The Anti-Litter/Beautification Campaign. Everyone wins...

Three faithful PLSC volunteers

At day’s end, on Saturday, June 13, 2009, friends and members of the Paint Lick Sportsman’s Club deposited 66 bags and 2 tires at the Garrard County Convenience Center from the roadside clean-up of Old Railroad Grade Road. Rising early, volunteers: Ron Adkins, Joe Brown, Ward Brown, Michael Guy, the Hatmaker Family (Boone, Jeff, Merry and Shade), Layne Hawley, Jacob Hughes, Mark Hurte, Deborah Messenger, Katie Rollins, and Linda Wardlow, walked along the fog shrouded roadside of Old Railroad Grade Road though dew-damp grass, poison ivy, and briars in search of the elusive household garbage temporarily “housed” amidst the roadside vegetation.

Upon initial collection, the group of 14 collected 43 bags of garbage along the 5.6 miles of roadway within just 3.5 labor-intensive hours. Refueling their energy levels on fresh fruit and bottles of chilled water, three volunteers (Katie Rollins, Ron Adkins, Deborah Messenger) continued the search into the early afternoon, working beyond the roadside into the ditch lines and along the pasture field fencing to collect an additional 23 bags of trash within just 1.5 miles of the Paint Lick Sportsman’s Club.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of this group of Garrard and Madison County volunteers, travelers along Old Railroad Grade Road will see a new look to the ole way! Submitted by Deborah Messenger, President of Paint Lick Sportsman's Club.

Band takes part in anti-litter campaign

Hats off to Garrard County High School Marching Band for their community spirit...

Over 40 marchers and parents showed their support Saturday, May 23rd, by cleaning up Narrow Gap Road and Dripping Springs Road. 47 trash bags filled with cans, bottles and fast food wrappers were collected. Working with Chris Thomason, the Solid Waste Coordinator for Garrard County, the marching band was able to make $500 through the Anti Litter/Beautify Garrard County Project. The fundraiser came at a perfect time. This fall they will be competing at Bands of America in Indianapolis. Submitted by Kim Hollis.

Anti-Litter/Beautification Campaign May 1st thru June 19th

It's very easy to take part in the campaign. Here's how it works...

From the very first year, the Garrard County PVA office has been a big supporter of our Anti-Litter/Beautification Campaign. They are pictured above after cleaning up a Lancaster street. Thank you PVA; and thank you to everyone who has and will join us in this countywide community project. Now for some information about this year's campaign...

Beautify Garrard County is excited to host Garrard County's third annual Anti-Litter/Beautification Campaign starting May 1st and ending Friday, June 19th, with The Party on the Square in downtown Lancaster, from 7-10 p.m.

The campaign promotes litter clean up and beautification in Garrard County; encourages personal commitment and community pride.

It’s easy to take part in the campaign and be eligible to win one of the great prizes to be given away at The Party on the Square: $100 cash, one nights stay at a Kentucky State Park Lodge of choice (four person occupancy), one Paint Lick Sportsman's Club membership or a gift from the Lancaster High Education Center.

Individuals/groups/organizations can participate by wearing green Campaign T-Shirts on Mondays and Casual Fridays during the campaign (see February 9th post: Campaign T-Shirts available at Linda's Custom Sports Apparel); and by doing something such as picking up litter on a sidewalk, cleaning up a roadside, a parking lot, a wilderness trail; helping someone in need with a special maintenance/painting/ cleaning/ landscaping project; adopting a public area and planting flowers or trees; starting to personally recycle or helping neighbors start by taking their recyclables to The Recycling Center, 400. S. Campbell St., Lancaster, ETC…

At The Party on the Square, write down on a piece of paper, in ten words or less, what you did and put this, along with your name, address and phone number into the designated entry box at The Solid Waste Booth in the library quadrant. Drawing will be at 9:00 p.m. (All persons entering contest must be at least six years of age and either live in or work in Garrard County.)

To make clean up easier, the county's Free Dump Days will be May 14-16 at the Convenience Center (see post April 5th post: Free Dump Days for details); if you'd like suggestions for road or specific area clean up, call Solid Waste Coordinator Chris Thomason at 859-792-3821 or 859-338-3233. If you are cleaning on public property, please ask coordinator about free garbage bags and pick-up.

We’d love to see pictures and hear about your campaign activities. Please e-mail pictures and summaries to beautifygarrard@gmail.com. Pictures become the property of Beautify Garrard County and may be published for publicity purposes.

For additional information please send e-mail to address above; or call Campaign Coordinator Karla Sefcak at 859-792-6704, or Solid Waste Coordinator.