Volunteers Comb Streets, Creeks for Trash
About 30 volunteers worked with Keep the Rez Beautiful to cleanup a dumpster load of trash from the streets and creeks of Rankin County. This was KRB’s first-ever kayak cleanup, and three volunteers brought kayaks to use to retrieve trash. The rest of the volunteers picked up trash on foot. The event was connected with… Continue reading Volunteers Comb Streets, Creeks for Trash ...
Ridgeland High Students Reeling in Recyclables
Ridgeland High School students are working with Keep Mississippi Beautiful and Keep the Rez Beautiful to compete in this year’s national Recycle-Bowl Competition. Keep America Beautiful, KRB’s parent organization, sponsors this event in which schools compete to gather the most recyclables. The winning school in Mississippi wins $1,000, and Ridgeland High School is vying for… ...
Info on our upcoming event for America Recycles Day
Keep the Rez Beautiful will be hosting America Recycles Day a little bit early – but we promise it’ll be a great event. We are holding a cleanup (both on foot and in kayak) as well as providing opportunities for people to drop off their recyclables. Our event will be held Nov. 5, and everyone… Continue reading Info on our upcoming event for America Recycles Day ...
KRB’s greening efforts covered by Rankin Ledger
Rankin Ledger covered Keep the Rez Beautiful’s plans to beautify a vacant site on Scenic Drive. Click here to read the article that printed Sept. 20. Right now, KRB is working with landscape architects to synthesize the different concepts developed by Rez-area residents. We hope to meet with the landscape architects in the next month… Continue reading KRB’s greening efforts ...
KRB Holds First-Ever Charrette
About 25 people gathered Saturday to help design concepts for a new green space proposed for Scenic Drive between the Turtle Creek and Forest Point subdivisions. The group was divided into three groups, each of which designed a potential concept for the park. Keep the Rez Beautiful was awarded a $2,000 grant for beautification, and… Continue reading KRB Holds First-Ever Charrette ...
Help Us Design a Park on Saturday
Keep the Rez Beautiful’s first major beautification effort will make its first big stride Saturday when the organization invites the public to help design a greenspace on Scenic Drive. KRB received a $2,000 grant from Keep America Beautiful for beautification. Because KRB believes in the importance of public participation, the organization has organized a public… Continue reading Help ...