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KSB's 2020 SPRING CLEAN UP
Keep Salado Beautiful Kicks Off Annual Don’t Mess With Texas Trash-Off
to Transform Public Spaces into Beautiful Places in Salado
Lions, Masons, Rotary, Salado ISD and the Community Partner with Keep Salado Beautiful to Engage and Educate Volunteers to Improve Their Community’s Environment
to Transform Public Spaces into Beautiful Places in Salado
Lions, Masons, Rotary, Salado ISD and the Community Partner with Keep Salado Beautiful to Engage and Educate Volunteers to Improve Their Community’s Environment
Keep Salado Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep Texas Beautiful, which brings people together to build and sustain vibrant communities, will again sponsor the Salado Spring Clean-up Day, Saturday, March 21, 2020 in conjunction with the Don’t Mess With Texas Trash Off.
Keep Salado Beautiful, working with community organizations has sponsored these spring events for the last eleven years. “What needs to be done at home, also needs to be done in the public spaces of our Village,” said Lisa Nix, coordinator of KSB. We have photos of creek clean outs, garden cleanups, and mounds of trash bags. Lots have been cleared, trees trimmed, flowers planted; the list is endless.
Our volunteers make such a difference for our Village and this year, with Main Street construction, we need to make every effort to make our Village “Welcome Sign” apparent.
Please join us at the Civic Center on Saturday March 21, at 8:30 am. You may select your location. Materials will be provided. We encourage all Adopt-A-Spot sponsors to cleanup up their locations and report their results as part of this effort. Information will be available for anyone interested in becoming an Adopt-A-Spot sponsor.
Keep Salado Beautiful is grateful to the community partners and benefactors that help us create and maintain the gardens in town. Come and join us as we give Salado a spring cleaning that will give us all a lift.
Keep Salado Beautiful, working with community organizations has sponsored these spring events for the last eleven years. “What needs to be done at home, also needs to be done in the public spaces of our Village,” said Lisa Nix, coordinator of KSB. We have photos of creek clean outs, garden cleanups, and mounds of trash bags. Lots have been cleared, trees trimmed, flowers planted; the list is endless.
Our volunteers make such a difference for our Village and this year, with Main Street construction, we need to make every effort to make our Village “Welcome Sign” apparent.
Please join us at the Civic Center on Saturday March 21, at 8:30 am. You may select your location. Materials will be provided. We encourage all Adopt-A-Spot sponsors to cleanup up their locations and report their results as part of this effort. Information will be available for anyone interested in becoming an Adopt-A-Spot sponsor.
Keep Salado Beautiful is grateful to the community partners and benefactors that help us create and maintain the gardens in town. Come and join us as we give Salado a spring cleaning that will give us all a lift.
Pace Park Clean-Up Project
Pace Park Clean-Up Project:
On June 1, 2019 from 11:00 – 1:00 KSB and Salado volunteers gathered to clean up litter and flood damage in Pace Park following recent storms. 12 volunteers (2 of whom were Scouts) worked for 3 hours each and cleared 20 pounds of trash/debris and 5 pounds of recyclables, and began the process of clearing the swimming area.
Also, the Village crew came in during this time and moved out the trees that had been uprooted during the flooding.
The Village plans include:
Salado's Main Street Historic Green Bridge Improvements:
July 2019 - Salado's Green Bridge Improvements - KSB is collaborating Terra Living and the The Nature Co. of Salado to create a permaculture food forest. This will be the 1st in Bell County!! Follow us on Facebook for details!! #ksbcreekandgardens #terraliving #thenaturecompanyofsalado
Historic College Hill Additions:
July 2019 - Curious people want to know, “What is that plant?”
New Recycling Bins - Salado Junior High:
KSB provided new recycling bins to the Salado Junior High AVID Program. Students in the AVID Program will collect items on the campus and take them to the campus recycling area monthly. The students are modeling good citizenship and helping the environment.
On June 1, 2019 from 11:00 – 1:00 KSB and Salado volunteers gathered to clean up litter and flood damage in Pace Park following recent storms. 12 volunteers (2 of whom were Scouts) worked for 3 hours each and cleared 20 pounds of trash/debris and 5 pounds of recyclables, and began the process of clearing the swimming area.
Also, the Village crew came in during this time and moved out the trees that had been uprooted during the flooding.
The Village plans include:
- increase parking,
- adding signs that establish rules and provide information,
- clean an area across from the springs for public use
- apply for a grant to develop trails, improve bathrooms and the pavilion.
Salado's Main Street Historic Green Bridge Improvements:
July 2019 - Salado's Green Bridge Improvements - KSB is collaborating Terra Living and the The Nature Co. of Salado to create a permaculture food forest. This will be the 1st in Bell County!! Follow us on Facebook for details!! #ksbcreekandgardens #terraliving #thenaturecompanyofsalado
Historic College Hill Additions:
July 2019 - Curious people want to know, “What is that plant?”
- KSB is working side by side with the Salado Museum and College Park to add native plant markers to the flower beds on College Hill.
New Recycling Bins - Salado Junior High:
KSB provided new recycling bins to the Salado Junior High AVID Program. Students in the AVID Program will collect items on the campus and take them to the campus recycling area monthly. The students are modeling good citizenship and helping the environment.
