Keep Crisp Beautiful - Cordele

502 S 2nd Street | P.O. Box 158
Cordele, GA 31010
Tel: (229) 273-1668 - Fax: (229) 273–5132
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.
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
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.
A copy of this brochure may be picked up in the Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce
Keep Crisp Beautiful Event Dates
January
Bring One for the Chipper
Williams Field
January 3rd
February
Litter Index Scan Begins
February 18th
Save the Books - Book Recycling Week
Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce Drive-Thru
9:00-11:00 AM
February 22nd-28th
March
March Beauty Spot of the Month
TBA once winner is contacted each month
March 12th
KAB Semi-Annual Report DUE
March 15th
Litter Index Scan DUE
March 18th
Spring County Wide Clean Up
Crisp County
March 21st
Great American Clean Up Kick-off
Crisp County Extension Office
March 24th
4:00 PM
April
April Beauty Spot of the Month
TBA once winner is contacted each month
April 2nd
4:00 PM
Adopt-A-Spot/Adopt-A-Highway Drive
All month
Spring Clothes Collection
Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce (Drive Thru)
April 11th
4:00 PM
9:00-11:00 AM
Earth Day
April 22nd
TBA
Crisp County Pre-K (Participating with National Vocational Technical Honor Society of SGTC)
Adopt-A-Highway/Spot & Roadside Clean Up Week April 27th - May 2nd
KCB Adopt-A-Highway Clean-up
(Park by Olde Inn)
May
May Beauty Spot of the Month
TBA once winner is contacted each month
Re-Pack Back-Pack Collection
Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce
April 30th
5:15 PM
May 7th
4:00 PM
May 18th-20th
All Day
June 4th
4:00 PM
KGB Spring Conference
TBA
June
June Beauty Spot of the Month
TBA once winner is contacted each month
Watermelon Decorating Contest
Flint River Pottery
June 16th
4:00-5:00 PM
Watermelon Festival Parade
June 27th
9:00 AM
July
July Beauty Spot of the Month
TBA once winner is contacted each month
TBA
4:00 PM
July 26th-August 8th
All Day
August 6th
4:00 PM
July 26th-August 8th
All Day
September 3rd
4:00 PM
September 19th
9:00-11:00 AM
October 1st
4:00 PM
Rivers Alive
Georgia Veterans State Park & Blue Hole
October 3rd
9:00-11:00 AM
Fall County Wide Clean Up Day
Crisp County
October 3rd
KAB Annual Reporting Period
KGB Awards Applications
Back to School Electronics Collection
Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce (Drive Thru)
August
August Beauty Spot of the Month
TBA once winner is contacted each month
Back to School Electronics Collection
Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce (Drive Thru)
September
September Beauty Spot of the Month
TBA once winner is contacted each month
Fall Executive Director’s Conference
Fall Clothes Collection
Cordele-Crisp Chamber of Commerce (Drive Thru)
October
October Beauty Spot of the Month
TBA once winner is contacted each month
November
November Beauty Spot of the Month
TBA once winner is contacted each month
November 5th
4:00 PM
Trashion Show
South Georgia Technical College
November 10th
10:00-11:00 AM
Recycling Fair
TBA
November 14th
9:00-11:00 AM
December 3rd
4:00 PM
December
December Beauty Spot of the Month
TBA once winner is contacted each month
Cordele Christmas Parade
2016 Pre-Planning
2016 KAB National Grant Applications
Catherine M. Harrell - Executive Director
Jannah Brown – Volunteer Coordinator
Rusty Walker – Intern
December 5th
6:00 PM