Grace Jordan
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Adopt a Road volunteers are important. The Adopt a Road data that is received each year is reported to environmental agencies and to our own parent affiliate Keep America Beautiful. Not only are volunteers cleaning up their spot in the world, but they are also contributing to data that can help determine ways in which…
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As a STEM partner KBB presented “Erosion Classes” to help meet standard: S5E1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to identify surface features on the Earth caused by constructive and/or destructive processes. a. Construct an argument supported by scientific evidence to identify surface features (examples could include deltas, sand dunes, mountains, volcanoes) as being caused by…
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Keep Bartow Beautiful delivered a total of seven Slim Jim 23-gallon recycling bins, fifteen 32 gallon round recycling bins, and ninety-two desk side recycling bins to multiple schools (High school– Cass, Adairsville, and Woodland, Middle Schools– Woodland, & Elementary Schools– Allatoona, Cloverleaf, Euharlee, Mission Road, Taylorsville, and White). Each school received posters to display in…
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On June 12, 2026, Keep Rome Floyd Beautiful (Hannah Bagley), Citizens of GA Power- Plant Bowen (Tari Whiteman), & KBB Staff (Katie Martin & Gracie Jordan) conducted a river cleanup and land cleanup at Neels Landing. There were a total of 50 volunteers who worked for a total of 200 hours. The “water team” began…
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On June 5, 2026 Anheuser-Busch hosted their World Environment Day Event. The event started at 7:30AM and concluded at 3:00PM. At the event there was a bounce house, sno cone truck, and fire trucks. During the day they had speakers teaching on various topics (Tellus Museum science demo & “Animals Around the World” interactive wildlife…
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In the 2025-2026 school year there was a total of 136,470 pounds of recyclable materials collected at the county and city schools. The full-time enrollment numbers for both county and city schools was equal to 17,913. The average amount of recycled material pounds per student reached 7.6 pounds, over both county and city school systems.…
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The City of Emerson held a Great American Cleanup event in the spring of 2026 (Saturday May 2, 2026). Registration was at Emerson City Hall. The cleanup began at 9:00 am and concluded at 11:00 pm. The downtown group had 17 volunteers (volunteer hours 17×2= 34 total hours). The volunteers removed a total of 45…
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City of Adairsville hosted a cleanup on April 25, 2026. The volunteers cleaned up parts of King Street, Railroad Street, Poplar Springs, Lacey Road, Main Street, West George, and Hall Station. Volunteers arrived at 9 am in Logtown for sign-in and concluded at 12 pm. After volunteers completed the cleanup, lunch was provided by the…
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On April 24, 2026 Keep Bartow Beautiful hosted their third annual Volunteer Appreciation Picnic. We had volunteers from various groups attend such as, Bartow County Master Gardener’s, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Town of Taylorsville, City of Emerson, Adairsville High School JROTC, Red Top Middle School, Allatoona Elementary School, Lake Allatoona Association, & Adopt-a-Road participants.…
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On April 13, 2026 (Katie Martin, Gracie Jordan, Lynn Frye, Steve Zuber, & Sandra Howell ) had a work day at Shakespeare Garden. The volunteers cleaned up the garden by weeding, mulching, & pruning. Each volunteer put in 2 hours of volunteer time totaling 10 hours of volunteer time. On April 16, 2026 (Katie Martin,…
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