New and Exciting

 

BRAND NEW FARMERS MARKET IN VILLA RICA

"Market at the Mill"

Opening Day Wednesday, June 30th

Every Wednesday through September

4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Sponsored by the Villa Rica Downtown Development Authority
at the new outdoor amphitheater at the Mill in the heart of downtown Villa Rica

Local farmers only. Fruits, vegetables, plants, herbs, flowers, eggs, homemade baked goods, jellies and jams and honey and cooking demonstrations, too.

This market is designed to support local, small scale farmers and gardeners with extra produce to sell.

 If you are interested in being a vendor at The Market at The Mill, contact Market Manager, Rhonda Case, for all the details at 404-499-4255 or rhondacase0421@yahoo.com. The cost to participate is only $10 per day. As an added bonus, the Downtown Development Authority will provide your tent. You may also visit www.villarica-mainstreet.com for a vendor application and other information.

 

Cultural Arts Center

Carrollton Cultural Arts Center is in need of items for their “Recycle Art Camps” for children.  They can take  items  you and I see no value in and just throw it away  to create some awesome art projects for these children.

Examples of donated items they are using this week:


Old notebooks, folders, binders, etc ,Wire baskets ,Old CD’s ,Paper towel and tissue - empty rolls ,Old or unwanted gift wrapping paper or tissue paper ,Egg cartons ,Yogurt cups ,Cool Whip containers ,Plastic or Styrofoam vegetable/fruit trays ,Shoe boxes ,Buttons ,Scrap pieces of cloth / material ,Yarn ,Spray paint ,Odd and End pieces of craft kits ,Any arts & craft paint, glue dots, glitter glue, etc ,Crayons ,Construction paper ,Flower pots – clay or other ,Flower trays – plastic or cardboard ,Flower vases ,Baby food jars ,Baby Wipe plastic containers And the list goes on and on.  They can create something out of just about anything.

You can drop your (CLEAN)items off at the Cultural Arts Center at the front desk

Community Supported Agriculture
 
Visit their indoor market stand:
 401 Rome St. Carrollton, Ga (Located 1 block north of Carrollton Square behind the Cotton Mill Farmers Market location)

Hours
Tuesday & Friday 10:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Thursday 10:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Saturday 8:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Learn more about CSA programs and visit our on-line market:
www.farmersfreshca.com (770) 633-6261

Georgia Pastured Poultry Consumer Survey
We need to hear the voice of consumers that they want local, sustainably chicken, raised on Georgia pastures.  Georgia Organics is gathering data to substantiate consumer demand as part of a grant from Farm Aid as we work with farmers to explore poultry processing options for Georgia.  Voice your support by participating in our short survey at this link!
www.surveymonkey.com/s/ML228YR

Coming to Carroll County in August...

Does the appearance of our roadsides bother you? Have you ran across a dumpsite that no one seems to notice? Do you wish someone would get "down & dirty" and do something to clean them up? Keep Carroll Beautiful wants to help.

        If you know of a roadside or area that needs to be picked up, please email our office at jacqueline@keepcarrollbeautiful.org and let us know. Would you like to volunteer to help clean up a certain area? Beginning in August, we will have volunteers going out one evening or on a saturday morning a month to hit targeted areas around Carroll County. For more information call us at: 678-890-2361

Earth Day Contest at UWG. Demonstrating the best use of recycled materials.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our E-Recycling event. We collected over 36,000 lbs. bringing our total to date to over 400,000 lbs. A special thank you to our sponsors:

       

Andrea Walker Mulkey with Love Not Litter

Congratulations to Love not Litter and Andrea Walker for winning two Awards from the University of West Georgia. The two Awards were UWG Outstanding Community Award AND the Outstanding Small Organization of the Year!

PRESS RELEASE

Green Starts Here

 

Carrollton, GA – (March 8, 2010) – This weekend marked the opening of the Great American Cleanup in Carroll County and hundreds of volunteers were out in full force to make a difference in our community.  Keep Carroll Beautiful and it’s UWG litter lugging group, “Love Not Litter” organized roadside cleanups in various parts of CarrollCounty. Volunteers were busy both Friday and Saturday picking up along miles of roadways. Over eighty bags of trash, a half a dozen tires and a barrel were among the loot collected.

“If each family or business in the County would come out and just pick up the trash along their own road frontage, we could all make a difference in the appearance of our County,” said Keep Carroll Executive Director Jacqueline C. Dost. “We have lots of exciting things going on right now and our roadsides could use a little spring cleaning. With more and more visitors coming to our county and preparations underway for Mayfest, we all want CarrollCounty to be a place that they will want to return to. An added benefit is that people are less likely to throw trash out in an area that is nice and clean.’’

Several church youth groups also got into the action on Saturday afternoon as part of their community service for the weekend event known as “DNow”.   They added several hundred bags to those already collected, making a major dent in the trash along Burns Road and Cedar Street for example.

All of the supplies needed were provided by Keep Carroll Beautiful, including bags, pickup sticks, gloves and vests as part of the Great American Cleanup. In 2009, over 3 million volunteers and participants and 1000 grass roots organizations like Keep Carroll Beautiful contributed over 5.2 million volunteer efforts to the Great American Cleanup. In the state of Georgia, for example, every county held at least one registered cleanup event. KCB was successful in recruiting neighboring counties of Heard and Haralson to participate, in spite of the fact that they do not have a certified Keep America Beautiful affiliate there.

Other benefits for some volunteers included qualification for the Disney “Give a day, Get a day program” and some quality family bonding time. One family was overheard saying “it sure makes you look differently at that candy bar wrapper you just dropped and in the past, may have just left on the ground.”

Keep Carroll Beautiful has many other events planned over the next few months, including our annual Spring E-Recycling event on April 17, Earth Day events throughout the week of April 18-24, KCB Annual public meeting on April 26 and a booth at Mayfest on May 1st.A complete list of upcoming events is available on our website: www.keepcarrollbeautiful.org.

Keep Carroll Beautiful is the local certified Keep America Beautiful affiliate and March 1 – May 31 marks KAB’s annual great American Clean-up.

For additional information about future litter lugs , please contact Jacqueline Dost, Executive Director, Keep Carroll Beautiful, 200 Northside Drive, Carrollton, GA, 30117. 678-890-2361. www.keepcarrollbeautiful.org                                    Or email: jacqueline@ keepcarrollbeautiful.org.

 

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CHANGES TO CITY OF CARROLLTON CURBSIDE RECYCLE PROGRAM

(Carrollton, Ga.– August 31, 2009) – Beginning on Monday, August 31, 2009, the City of Carrollton will assume the duties of collecting the curbside recycling. This means that the recycling truck will follow your regular trash truck and be emptied at the same time. As well, it is requested that citizens no longer put any glass in the blue bins to be recycled. This ban on glass is temporary while a solution is worked out. Citizens will be alerted once the contamination issue is rectified. Thank you to all participants in the recycling program. Together you diverted over 700 tons of recycling from the landfill in the first year of the program. If you have any further questions, please call Keep Carroll Beautiful at 678-890-2361 or email Jacqueline@keepcarrollbeautiful.org


 

KEEP CARROLL BEAUTIFUL IS RECIPIENT OF MISSION OFFERING

Vacation Bible School Support(Carrollton, Ga.– July 06, 2009) – The annual theme for the 2009 Community Vacation Bible School  was “Discovery Canyon – Explore the Wonders of the World”. In the spirit of stewardship of the earth, the local charity designated as the recipient for the mission offering for the week was Keep Carroll Beautiful. Students who attended the classes, held over five days at Carrollton Presbyterian Church, were encouraged to bring supplies to help with the local “Adopt-A-Road program administered by Keep Carroll Beautiful.  Cash offerings were also accepted.
“On behalf of the Board of Directors for Keep Carroll Beautiful, we are grateful to be a part of this effort to encourage young people to be good stewards of our environment,”
said Jacqueline C. Dost, executive director of Keep Carroll Beautiful. “The donations of gloves, bags and hand sanitizer will stock our shelves as we continue to grow our Adopt-A-Road efforts throughout Carroll County”
The Community Vacation Bible School is held during the third week of June each year and is a partnership between Carrollton Presbyterian Church, Grace Lutheran Church, St. Andrew United Methodist Church and St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church.
 

 

PRESS RELEASE--Southwire Wins Keep Carroll Beautiful Award

 

Recognized for Eco-Friendly Practices
 
            Being “green” isn’t always easy, but Southwire has taken great strides to streamline business practices to better the environment. As a result, the Keep Carroll Beautiful program of Carrollton, Georgia, honored Southwire with its annual Environmental Excellence award in December. The award recognizes Southwire’s overall commitment to the environment, its efforts to become a zero-landfill company and assistance with beautification projects in the community. “Keep Carroll Beautiful chose Southwire for the Environmental Excellence award because we know the company is committed to making sure Carroll County is not just a great community to be part of, but also a clean environment to live in,” said Jacqueline Dost, executive director of Keep Carroll Beautiful.
            Programs like the semi-annual Electronics Recycling Day, a partnership with Keep Carroll Beautiful, demonstrate Southwire’s progress toward growing green. Last October’s event amassed over a staggering 31,000 pounds of electronics donated for recycling. “Southwire strives to be an environmental leader within the communities in which it operates, and we consider this award to be an indication of our efforts,” said Denise Quarles, the vice president of environmental affairs for Southwire. “However, we recognize that our work has only just begun, and our success to this point is only worthy if it can be sustained. Southwire gladly accepts the continuing challenge of reducing out environmental footprint even as we grow.”
            In addition to efforts in Carroll County, Southwire maintains a positive force for sustainability across the nation. For example, the Long Beach Growing Green Committee beautified its local neighborhood through a clean-up event last March, and Southwire continues its ongoing efforts at the California customer service center with its hybrid delivery truck. “It’s been though the hard work of our employees that we have been able to steer Southwire towards a greener course,” said Quarles.

Citation: "Southwire Wins Keep Carroll Beautiful Award." Inside Southwire 5.1 (2010). Print.

 

Environmental Excellence award for 2008

On December 2, 2008 Keep Carroll Beautiful presented Steve Gradick and Duane Sohl with its Environmental Excellence award for 2008.

Gradick Communications has been instrumental in the creation of and support for “Green Minutes”. These 60 second radio spots feature a 10 sec intro and outro of a local sponsor as well as 40 seconds of environmental education. They were launched on Earth Day, 2008 and topics covered so far include Green power, the plastic island and recycling.

Duane Sohl, KCB Board Member and account executive for Gradick Communications created the concept for “Green Minutes” to continue the mission of Keep Carroll Beautiful: to engage the citizens of Carroll County in taking responsibility for improving our community environment. Green Minutes also serve as a fundraiser for Keep Carroll Beautiful.

“This award belongs not only to me, but also to the production staff and everyone else at Gradick Communications that makes programs like this successful” commented Steve Gradick upon receiving his award.

 

CARROLL COUNTY'S Convenience Centers

Owned and operated by the Carroll County Board of Commissioners for the convenience of residents of Carroll County.

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Bring One for the Chipper


Nowhere to take those old live christmas trees every year? Keep Carroll Beautiful recycles live trees every January after the Holiday season in Carrollton and Villa Rica.

City Of Carrollton's CURBSIDE RECYCLING PROGRAM

On the day of your regularly scheduled trash pick-up, please take your blue bin down to the curb by 7.00 a.m.

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