G r e at Ame r i can C leanup // 2009 Re port
hours, KTB now has a durable, storage facility that houses all of the supplies used to keep Tularosa clean and beautiful.
The Great American Cleanup Restores Residential and Community Buildings Susan Flores, executive director of Keep Tularosa (N.M.) Beautiful, best articulated the mission of the Great American Cleanup when she explained the significance of a shed her community helped to construct. She noted, “Our community is so small that any project that we do is a tremendous asset to our citizens and they are very appreciative of it.” The shed will be used to store supplies for beautification and cleanup activities in Tularosa, and the surrounding community. Keep Tularosa Beautiful (KTB) received gloves, tools, equipment, trash bags and a number of other in-kind donation items that the organization needed to conduct beautification and cleanup activities. Unfortunately, KTB did not have a place to store these goods. Because a donation from local VFW Post 7686 and countless volunteer
“ Our community is so small that any project that we do is a tremendous asset to our citizens and they are very appreciative of it.”
During the 2009 Great American Cleanup alone, a remarkable 1,800 residential and commercial buildings were painted, renovated or built. All of the construction varied in scale and size—truly embodying the broad spectrum of Great American Cleanup projects.
Graffiti Removal Key Focus of Great American Cleanup Volunteers spent hours covering up graffiti in Asheville, N.C. with the help of Asheville Greenworks. Individuals of all ages came out to eradicate graffiti at nine major sites as well as many smaller sites throughout the community. As a side benefit, volunteers became much more aware of the impact of graffiti vandalism. As one volunteer noted, “I’d never even noticed it (graffiti) before! I think I’ll see graffiti differently now.” In total, Asheville Greenworks covered up 50 sites. Keep Western New York Beautiful has continued to carry out a successful graffiti abatement program during the Great American Cleanup and throughout the year. In 2009, the organization removed graffiti from 44 sites. As Keep Western New York Beautiful Executive Director Jim Pavel said about mobilizing volunteers, “It’s about getting people
S u san F lo r e s, Executive Director of Keep Tularosa (N.M.) Beautiful
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