Keep Calhoun Gordon Beautiful

A big thank you to some of our KCGB members who helped w**d and mulch at the City Park. Amber Nagle, Amanda Tate, Jennifer Beason, Lisa McKinney and Beth Vaughn. Also to Angie Childers and Kathleen Shirley.

Lukas Michels, Jill Michels, Nicklas Michels, BJ Robinson, Ginger Walraven, Gay Ann Talley, William Stiffen, and Bruce Potts joined in for our scheduled Adopt-A-Mile event for Rockbridge Community Church.
This event partnered with our annual “Serve The City” events for 2024.
The corridor of Curtis Parkway from Walgreen’s to Krystal was picked up.
Twelve bags of trash and debris were removed from the road way.
Great job Rockbridge Community Church- Calhoun!!

Enjoy the pictures from our event.

If you or your organization is interested in Adopt-A-Mile, contact Judy Peterson at
Cell: 770-881-2710
Email: [email protected]
Website:
www.KeepCalhounGordonBeautiful.org/adoptamile

Let’s give a big shout out to our newest family to join adopt a mile. 👏👏👏👏👏
The Noble family lives on Pittman Road, Ranger and have committed to keep their community clean!
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

If your family or organization want to join the Adopt-A-Mile program, contact us and we will walk you through the process.

Mark your calendars for our 6th Golf Tournament fundraiser on Wednesday, September 11! Brochures going out and online registration beginning soon.

Volunteers from North Georgia EMC provided their time for Adopt—Mile at Union Grove and Highway 53. They picked up trash and items on both sides of Union Grove Road from Buccee’s to the Highway 41 intersection. Several members of the clean up team were repeat volunteers. Great Job NGEMC!!
All are to be commended!
**See the bicycle removed from the right of way.**

The six volunteers collected 11 bags of litter , a bicycle 🚴, and other unusual
Items. We are always grateful for
Kevin Baggett’s leadership in our
Organization and in our community along with those great people who give their time and energy to help solve our litter problems.
Please help by putting Litter in its place.

2024 Adopt A Mile Stats/Update:
From January to June of this year, our partners (and KCGB) picked up 10,290 lbs of litter from roadsides, streams, and ditches. Recent clean ups include Adventist Conference Center, Calhoun Womans Club, Synovus Bank, NGNB, Rock Bridge Community Church and Ridgeview Trail.
We are off to a very good year!
Our special thanks to those who give up their weekends, evenings, after work hours and sometimes more, to promote these selfless acts of stewardship. We can make a difference, when we work together. GREAT JOB!!!
If your community, family, or business want to join our Adopt A Mile efforts, please message us or contact Judy Peterson via email:
[email protected]

Rockbridge Community Church- Calhoun completed their rescheduled Adoption-A-Mile Event on Saturday June 1, 2024.
Curtis Parkway was cleared of litter and debris. The group started at Krystal and finished at Walgreen’s on Red Bud Road.
17 bags of trash and a couple of interesting items were collected during the clean-up.
Enjoy the pictures of their work…especially the last two pictures.😂😂

Please support Adopt-A-Mile efforts in out community. If your organization is interested, contact Judy Peterson via email: [email protected]
Or call 770-881-2710 for details.

KCGB spent the morning sprucing up the garden at the library and adding plants to the butterfly garden. Thank you to the volunteers and the support of Lacey Fuquea of the Downtown Development Authority.

Ridge View neighborhood partners held a Sunday morning stewardship clean up today - 5/19 with 9 volunteers.
They collected 6 large bags of litter over a period of 2 hrs.
We greatly value the work Ridge View community is doing to help solve the litter problem.

Keep Calhoun Gordon Beautiful offers a scholarship for students who volunteer at our events and who demonstrate a commitment to environmental sustainability and community greening.
This year, it is our pleasure to award scholarships to 3 outstanding Calhoun High School students:
A***n Patel
Milan Kafle
Steven Guzman

Another great day planting at the City Park. Thank you to all the volunteers. Thank you for the partnership with the City of Calhoun and thank you for the donations of plants from Gordon Central!

It’s Spring Recycle time!!
Saturday May 4th at Rockbridge Community Church.
Sponsored by Keep Calhoun Gordon Beautiful and a host of supporters. Support our sponsors whenever possible.

This past Sunday, April 28, 2024, The Calhoun Woman’s Club participated in their scheduled Adopt-A-Mile event.
Excellent work ladies!!
If your organization is interested in adopting a section of roadway, contact us and we will provide the details.

It's time to recycle those hard-to-handle things around the house! On May 4th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Rock Bridge Community Church on Curtis Parkway, we will offer lots of recycling opportunities and more! We'll be collecting batteries, electronics, plastics, Haz Mat and Haz Waste, Athletic Shoes, and Tires. We'll also be shredding paper onsite and collecting food and eye glasses for people in need. Want to give blood? Let us know. See our website for details at https://www.keepcalhoungordonbeautiful.org/events/spring-recycling-event

These wonderful ladies from Synovus Bank spent their Earth Day cleaning the roadside of Bud Hardy Road. Thank you, Nancy Parker and crew, for your dedication to the adopt a mile program and your commitment to a cleaner county.
Please do your part - join us and become an adopt a mile partner.

Mark your calendars!!

May 4th
10:00am to 2:00pm
Rockbridge Community Church- Calhoun.
905 Curtis Parkway

On Monday April 1st, the Keep Calhoun Gordon Beautiful organization and students from Calhoun High School’s Environmental Science classes teamed up to clean up Lovers Lane Road for our bi-monthly Adopt A Mile event.
KCGB has adopted the near three mile stretch of roadway.
Thank you to all of the participants Monday.
Anyone interested in having their neighborhood, club, church, or business join the Adopt A Mile effort, simply comment here, message, or email us with your interest and a representative will reach out to you.

Keep Calhoun Gordon Beautiful is participating and donating baskets for The Harris Arts Center and Women’s Club annual events. Please support each community organization this spring.

On 3/20/2024, Linemen from NGEMC's Calhoun office came out during the morning to pick up litter on Union Grove Rd. The crew picked up 23 bags of litter as well as a large pile of metal and cloth roadway debris. Thank you for a great job and for providing the time to keep Calhoun and Gordon County beautiful.

Rockbridge Community Church- Calhoun performed their first Adopt-A-Mile event for 2024.
Curtis Parkway was cleaned from Krystal- Highway 53 to Walgreen’s at Red Bud Road. 27 bags of trash were collected along with numerous car parts. Plastic front end of a car, four hub caps (none matched), fan belt parts, and brake pads.

Great work!! Thank you.

Georgia-Cumberland Academy Students Team Up to Clean Up A group of high school students took time to make a difference in the community this week, working to clean up litter.

We still have free trees left at the Keep Calhoun Gordon Beautiful Arbor Day event. Here until 12!

Help us spread the word about our scholarships to young people in the Calhoun/Gordon County area. The deadline to apply is April 10 this year.

Scholarship — Keep Calhoun Gordon Beautiful Keep Calhoun Gordon Beautiful will award up to four $500 annual scholarships to students from Gordon County who have demonstrated exceptional dedication to environmental sustainability and community beautification, and who plan to continue their studies or join the workforce in these areas. Educator

UPDATE: 1/22/24 @ 11:30am

Here is a listing of trees that will be available for ARBOR DAY:

Ohio Buckeye
River Burch
Eastern Red Bud
Red Osier Dogwood
Honey Locust
Sweet Gum
Sweet Bay Magnolia
American Plum
Yellow Poplar
Virginia Pine
Crepe Myrtle
Swamp Chestnut Oak

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Arbor Day 2024
February 17th 2024
8:30am-12:30pm

Reading “All the Way to the Ocean”
January 9, 2024
Today, despite delays and winds, and lots of rain, our group of dedicated volunteers met at Sonoraville Elementary School to read to roughly 100 third graders. It was a delightful morning, with so many questions and conversations about litter, recycling, repurposing, and then there were several topics that weren’t on the lesson plan.
Third graders are delightful.
A special thanks goes to Billie Jean Erwin (Calhoun Womans Club), Beth Cole (Mohawk), and Denise Rustad. Kevin Baggett and Margaret Boyd would have been there had it not been for the change in start times for the day. We are nearing the end of this project with a visit to Belwood Elementary Thursday of this week. Our final stop will be a visit to COBLE Elementary in the next week.

Thank you all for making this project possible with your encouragement, financial support, and especially your willingness to volunteer.
When the readings are completed, we will have reached 810 third graders.

https://youtube.com/?si=97t4feHDpelHvhly

This is amazing!
I hope everyone will pause before dropping trash out of a car window or off a boat moving forward.

The Ocean Cleanup - YouTube The Ocean Cleanup's mission is to develop and scale technologies to rid the oceans of plastic.Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans primar...

One of our newer members, The Oothcalooga Masonic Lodge held their first clean up today, at 38 degrees.
They cleaned their mile on Oothcalooga and Beamer Road for a total of 21 bags of litter. There were 8 volunteers who participated. Great work Daniel Bennett and team !

Thanks and Happy New Year 🎊

Merry Christmas from Keep Calhoun Gordon Beautiful!

Merry Christmas from KCGB!!