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You Can Make A Difference
Eco Camp
Keep Athens Beautiful and East Texas Arboretum host an ECO Camp for children
in Kindergarten thru 4th grade. Children spend five mornings learning about
litter, recycling, conserving water and much more.
2011 Eco-Camp Photos
Eco Camp Photos
Poster Contests
Keep Athens Beautiful partners with Athens ISD and hosts poster contest for
Recycling, Graffiti Hurts and Arbor Day.
2010 Recycling Day Poster Contest
2009 Recycling Day Poster Contest
Operation Clean Sweep
Is held the second Saturday of the month. It is a program set through the court
to have a group of probationers do community service where they pick up trash.
Volunteers from the Board of directors work with this group each month.
Graffiti Hurts
Graffiti Hurts is a program from Keep America Beautiful and is taught in the
sixth grade. The Graffiti HurtsŪ Program is dedicated to raising awareness about the harmful
effects of graffiti vandalism on communities.
At the heart of the Graffiti HurtsŪ Program are four goals:
- Educate citizens about the importance of graffiti prevention and abatement.
- Provide communities with tools and resources to respond to graffiti
vandalism.
- Help foster partnerships that will encourage involvement from all members of
the community in addressing graffiti vandalism.
- Help communities establish anti-graffiti programs that get results, creating
healthier, safer, and more livable communities.
*2011 Graffiti Hurts Photos
*2010 Graffiti Hurts Photos
*2009 Poster Contest
& Winners
Waste In Place
Keep America Beautiful educational resources for teachers and their students
provide a balanced perspective of waste and the options for its management in
clear and user-friendly formats.
The classroom curriculum supplement Waste in Place, for grades K-6, builds
critical thinking, processing, and problem-solving skills through imaginative,
hands-on lessons. Lessons can be taught individually or in sequence. The
curriculum supplement contains 33 lesson plans on many diverse subjects,
including litter prevention, waste reduction, recycling, landfills, and much
more.
Keep Athens Beautiful hosted a Waste In Place workshop for Athens ISD in June
2007 (see photo).
Little People's Litter Party
The Little People's Litter Party is held each year in the spring at the Annex for Pre-K students. KAB Volunteers perform skits about the different types of litter bugs. Afterward, the children get to pick up trash which has been scattered around the area for that purpose.
*2011 Litter Party Photos
*2010 Litter Party Photos
*2009 Litter Party Photos
KAB & AMS Litter Skits
Keep Athens Beautiful and the Athens Middle School Theatre Arts class teamed up to perform skits and songs about littering for the children of South Athens Elementary. The songs and skits taught children about litter and recycling.
*2010 AMS Litter skits photos
Arbor Day
Keep Athens Beautiful partners with Athens ISD and hosts a poster contest for
Arbor Day, as well as planting a tree.
*2011 Arbor Day Photos
*2010 Arbor Day Photos
*2009 Arbor Day Photos & Poster Contest Winner
Program Pictures page 1
Program Pictures page 2, Arbor Day
Program Pictures page 3, Little People's Litter Party
Program Pictures page 4, Eco Camp
Program Pictures page 4A, Eco Camp 2011
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