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Dates Set for Large Item Roundup and Citywide Garage Sale!
We are now heading into the fall season, and with that comes thoughts of fall cleaning……and Keep Whitehouse Beautiful is here to help! With two events, the Large Item Round up and the Citywide Garage Sale, we are going to help you to REDUCE, REUSE, and RECYCLE!
Items dropped off at the last Large Item Roundup in March 2011
The Whitehouse Large Item Roundup, formerly known as Clean Whitehouse Day, is scheduled for Saturday, October 22nd from 8:00am – 12:00pm at the Whitehouse Recycle Center. This is a twice yearly event sponsored by the City of Whitehouse and Keep Whitehouse Beautiful. According to Event Coordinator Eddie Ray, this event pulls in more unwanted items each year. “This is a great time to go through your house and find those items that are unsuitable for regular garbage pickup or recycling. Broken bikes and toys, old grills, rusted metal, mattresses and appliances are some of the more popular items we see”, states Ms. Ray. Tires are welcome too, for a $2 disposal fee. Yard waste, construction debris, paints and chemicals are NOT ALLOWED.
A Boy Scout troop participating in the Citywide Garage Sale in 2009
The Whitehouse Citywide Garage Sale is scheduled for Saturday, November 5th and just like last year, we hope to have numerous households and organizations holding garage sales. We will be blasting the date through media and the internet and if you are wanting to hold a sale that day, please send an e-mail to info@keepwhitehousebeautiful.com. We will add you to the list and start compiling a downloadable map for shoppers to help them navigate through Whitehouse the day of the sale. And keep checking back to this site regularly for updated information!
Keep Whitehouse Beautiful Awarded Governor’s Community Achievement Award for 2011
Keep Whitehouse Beautiful volunteer Angela Klein presents the certificate of award for the 2011 GCAA at the July 2011 Whitehouse City Council meeting. From left: Mike Peterson, City Manager; Angela Klein; Mayor Danny Hogden
Keep Texas Beautiful has awarded Keep Whitehouse Beautiful the 2011 Governor’s Community Achievement Award (GCAA) in the category of population size 5,000 to 9,000. Per the report compiled by Keep Texas Beautiful: “In 2010, members of Keep Whitehouse Beautiful, together with local citizens, volunteered a total of 3,747 hours to community projects, and participated in 15 community events over the course of last year, reaching over 5,000 citizens. They also had direct contact with approximately 2,000 elementary students. Every school in Whitehouse participated in a recycling program last year, collecting everything from paper, cardboard and aluminum to ink jet and toner cartridges. KWB is active on five of six WISD campuses, and has taken the lead in working with educators to teach environmental, litter prevention and recycling lessons to all grades. Examples include: more than 350 first graders participating in a litter abatement and nature appreciation day, during which they completed booklets about littering and received a litter bag and a pencil; more than 330 third graders discussing why we recycle and creating Christmas ornaments from homemade paper embedded with phlox seeds; and nearly 370 sixth graders researching the advantages and disadvantages of various energy sources and testing objects at home to gauge their energy use. The local YMCA joined the action in 2010 as well, offering for the first time a six-week gardener program for their upper elementary summer campers. It was a huge success!
The KTB award for sustained excellence from 2009-2011
When the 2010 Don’t Mess with Texas Trash-Off rolled around, Whitehouse residents were ready to dive right in. Over 300 citizens – from Boy Scouts and school groups to church members, business people and city leaders – cleared 43.25 miles of roadway, collecting more than 7,000 pounds of litter in the process. The semi-annual Whitehouse’s Large Item Roundup was equally successful, netting 80 appliances, 27,000 pounds of scrap metal and 75 tires.
The local recycling center worked overtime as well last year. Staffed by only a city supervisor, community service workers served as the center’s workforce. They provided 1,108 hours of labor at no cost to the city, accepting and processing more than 255,000 pounds of recyclables, including 78,000 pounds of cardboard, more than 18,500 pounds of plastic, nearly 6,000 pounds of steel cans and over 150,000 pounds of paper. In a time of statewide budget cuts, Whitehouse pocketed more than $8,500 thanks to its efforts. With its environmental achievements acting as a beacon for the entire region, the city of Whitehouse is most certainly delivering on its goal of creating a healthier, more modern city.”
Thank you to Keep Texas Beautiful for its incredible leadership to all the local affiliates throughout the state. Go to the link below to view the page on the KTB site about Keep Whitehouse Beautiful and to view a slideshow of pictures from Whitehouse.
Pictures from Earth Day at Camp Tyler – April 17, 2011
Keep Whitehouse Beautiful had a booth at the East Texas Earth Day Celebration at Camp Tyler on Sunday, April 17, 2011. Information was handed out about recycling, composting and general litter prevention, as well as a plastic recycling game for the children.
KWB in Action at Schools – Recycling
Keep Whitehouse Beautiful President Debbie Shafer met with Brown Elementary pre-schoolers at New Canaan Church on Monday, April 4th to teach about recycling. They were so excited to learn, they looked for the recycling number on the packages from their lunches afterwards!
Focus on: RECYCLING
The Whitehouse Recycle Center
With the New Year come many important resolutions ….. exercise more, lose some weight, stop smoking. We at Keep Whitehouse Beautiful would like you to think about adding one more item to your New Year’s resolution list: Recycle. If you already recycle, GREAT! Ask yourself what items you recycle and then see if there are there other items you can begin recycling!
And if you don’t recycle ….. this is your year to START! You don’t need to start recycling everything ….. maybe just one or two items, like newspapers and plastic bottles. Our Recycle Center in Whitehouse is a tremendous asset to our community! You pull up to the center and drive thru, while the staff and volunteers empty your items for you.
The Recycle Center is located off of Railroad Avenue, just south of FM 346 (across from City Park). You can drop off recyclable items on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month, from 8am until 11:30am, and every Wednesday from 7am to 10am, then 3:30pm to 5pm.
This household uses a trio of colored bins for their recycle items
They will take the following items for recycling: Paper, cardboard, plastics – #1 and #2, and steel & aluminum cans . (Go to the Recycling Page on our website to get a more detailed description of items)
Items ready to be sorted in the recycle containers
So make it a GREAT New Year and help out the earth and our community! Remember, REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE!
