Keep Nacogdoches  Beautiful

2008 Forest Awareness Tour 

Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful is a volunteer organization with the mission: 

To enhance our community by encouraging individual responsibility.

We rely on volunteers to accomplish our core issues (see below). We also rely on donations to fund our events and programs (see a description on the events/programs page).

Adding a dollar to your water bill as well as your annual donation to KNB helps support these programs.

Our Core Issues:

• Litter prevention
• Waste reduction / recycling
• Beautification / community improvement
• Urban Forestry

How You Can Be Involved:

Volunteers needed for upcoming festivals, projects and events:

1. Blueberry Festival June 14, 2008

contact KNB to volunteer: info@keepnacbeautiful.org (936) 560-5624

 Receive a discount coupon for a HDTV converter box from the

Federal Government

Did you know with the conversion of televisions to high-definition and without a conversion box, your television will no longer work unless you have cable or satellite service. Most of these televisions will end up in our landfill where they can seep toxic chemicals into our soil and surrounding ground water. Many televisions contain mercury and lead. Just 1/70th of a teaspoon of mercury can contaminate a 20-acre lake and make its fish unfit to eat. Please be sure recycle your old television and encourage the television manufacturers to take back their old products. For more information Visit the Take Back My T.V. web-site

To learn more about the Digital Television Transition visit the U.S. EPA web-site 

Catalog Choice – Eliminate Waste and Save Natural Resources

Each year, 19 billion catalogs are mailed to American consumers. Catalog Choice is a free service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox. Use it to reduce your mailbox clutter, while helping save natural resources. Your participation benefits merchants, lowering their cost of distribution and helping them better target their market.  Also, your participation as a member of the Catalog Choice community will collectively make a huge positive impact on the environment, as together we reduce the energy consumed, the carbon emissions, and the lost forests resulting from the current annual production and discarding of billions of paper catalogs.

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What's New?

Upcoming Events:

1. Saturday May 10: Farmer's Market  
2. Saturday June 14: Blueberry Festival Volunteers needed. The Blueberry Festival is a very popular festival with around 13,000 people attending. Your help is greatly needed! Girl Scout/Boy Scout Troops, civic groups and individuals are encouraged to volunteer to help keep this festival a litter-free event.

McDonald's Restaurant Receives KNB Landscape Leadership Award 

Pictured left to right: John Boyette, KNB Board President, Eric Breidenthal, McDonald’s manager and Buzz Dutton KNB Executive Coordinator

McDonald’s restaurant located at 1717 North St. has been awarded the Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful Landscape Leadership award. McDonald’s restaurant is being recognized for replacing their store sign with a monument sign that sits lower to the ground, and in turn enhances the visual character of the community and complements the surroundings of North Street.

 “McDonald’s is exhibiting leadership in this community by showing other businesses that signs don’t have to be big and gaudy to draw customers, said Buzz Dutton, Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful executive coordinator. In fact, according to Troy Schuster, supervisor for the local McDonald’s Restaurants, the McDonald’s restaurant has seen an increase in business since replacing their sign.

“Taking care of customers and having a clean store is more important than having a big sign,” said Mr. Schuster.

According to the Scenic America web-site, “The charm and appearance of commercial districts plays an important part in a community’s image.  Signs say a lot about a place, yet all too often a community’s image is blighted by on-premise signs that are too large, too tall, too numerous or poorly located.  On-premise signs can help encourage citizens and business owners to work together to improve and revitalize local appearance. Appealing signs that are compatible with local character contribute to a neighborhood or downtown, cultivating local pride and inviting travelers to stop.”

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2008 Nacogdoches County Arbor Day Poster Contest winner:

 1st place : Lindsey Farrell (center)