{"id":1893,"date":"2026-06-01T10:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:56:49","slug":"2026-volunteer-picnic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/2026-volunteer-picnic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Volunteer Appreciation Picnic | April 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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&#8217;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, &amp; Adopt-a-Road participants. The picnic started at 5:30 pm and concluded at 7:30 pm. At the picnic, food was provided from Nagels Bagels and various awards were presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep Bartow Beautiful gave out awards to volunteers which included Green Thumb Award, Recycling Partners, Great American Cleanup certificates, Friend of KBB, &amp; Adopt-a-Road certificates. There were a total of 55 total volunteers that attended the picnic. Volunteers received t-shirts, gloves, hats, water bottle holder, lip balm\/sunscreen, pens, &amp; notepads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/05\/DSC_0019-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Group photo of Adairsville High JROTC\" class=\"wp-image-1897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/05\/DSC_0019-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/05\/DSC_0019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/05\/DSC_0019-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/05\/DSC_0019-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/files\/2026\/05\/DSC_0019.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Adairsville High JROTC accepting their Great American Cleanup certificate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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, &amp; Adopt-a-Road participants. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project-summaries","tag-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/kbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}