All you have to do is head over to city library at 8am to pick up all the supplies you need for the cleanup.  You can cleanup any location in Longview.  Need ideas of where to cleanup?  Just let us know that morning and we’ll point you in the right direction.  When you return with your supplies, be sure and let us know how many bags of trash you were able to pick up.  We’ll feed you and give you a Keep Longview Beautiful recycling grocery bag as a thank you. 

You can pre-register by calling Mary Jane at 903-237-1390 or email mburnett@longviewtexas.gov.

Register onsite at 8:00am at the city library.  We’ve got your litter grabbers, gloves, orange vest, and even a bite to eat.

Need more information?  903-237-1390 or 902-212-4klb

See you there!

SAVE THE DATE!
Next Citywide cleanup is October 6th, 2012

This Friday, September 24, Keep Longview Beautiful volunteers will be planting fall flowers and putting up scarecrows along Tyler and Fredonia streets in downtown Longview. 

Thank you to all of the sponsors of the Adopt A Downtown Corner project!
*Longview South Rotary

*First Baptist Church

*LeTourneau University

*Ben & Anita March

*Computerland of East Texas

*East Texans Against Lawsuit Abuse

*Walmart (sponsored 2 corners)

*Longview Daybreak Kiwanis

*Stifel Nicolaus & Co., Inc. 

Reservations are $50 each.  Limited table sponsorships available. 

The event is February 9, 2013 at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts from 7:00pm-10:00pm.

IT’S GOING TO BE A SWEET TIME! 

To determine what sites to survey, a map of Longview was divided into six equal sections, and ten locations per section were randomly selected for measurement.  Every section saw an improvement in average score from last year, with the most significant improvement coming from section one which includes Westdale at Highway 80, 1845 at Birdsong, and the Elderville area at Interstate 20. This section scored an average of 2.1 in 2009 and 2008 but improved this year to 1.5.
“We use these results to help us determine exactly where to concentrate our efforts in future citywide cleanup events,” said KLB President Ben March. “These numbers are exciting but we know our work is not done.”
Litter Index volunteers also noted a few areas that had excessive littering even though those areas were not part of the index.  Of particular note were Richardson street at the railroad track as well as the area around the creek at Wal Street.
The volunteers scored the exact locations used in the last four litter indexes. The locations include a mix of residential, commercial, industrial and rural areas. Each site is ranked on a numeric scale from 1 to 4; a score of “1” means there is no litter, “2” that it is slightly littered, “3” it is littered and “4” it is extremely littered. Once the survey is complete the scores are averaged to determine the City’s overall score.
Keep Longview Beautiful has been a 501(C)3 non-profit organization since 1979, and our mission is to engage the Longview community to take greater responsibility for improving their environment. By focusing on litter abatement, solid waste reduction and beautification we can all make the greater Longview area a cleaner, healthier, safer and more beautiful place in which to live, work and play.

“The litter index tells us which areas of Longview we need to target during our future citywide cleanups,” said KLB President Ben March.

To determine what sites to survey, a map of Longview was divided into six equal sections, and ten locations per section were randomly selected for measurement. The locations include a mix of residential, commercial, industrial and rural areas. The volunteers will be re-scoring the exact locations used in the last three litter indexes.

Volunteers judge locations according to KAB guidelines on a numeric scale from 1 to 4. A score of “1” means there is no litter, “2” that it is slightly littered, “3” it is littered and “4” it is extremely littered. All of the scores are averaged to determine Longview’s litter score, which decreased from 2.1 in 2006 to 1.48 in 2009.

Keep Longview Beautiful has been a 501(C)3 non-profit organization since 1979, and our mission is to engage the Longview community to take greater responsibility for improving their environment. By focusing on litter abatement, solid waste reduction and beautification we can all make the greater Longview area a cleaner, healthier, safer and more beautiful place in which to live, work and play.

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