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2002 KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AWARDS AFFILIATE AWARDS A: 30,000 AND UNDER First Place - Keep Scottsbluff-Gering Beautiful, Scottsbluff, NE B: 30,001 TO 75,000 First Place - Keep Smyrna Beautiful, Inc., Smyrna, GA Second Place - Keep Sugar Land Beautiful, Sugar Land, TX Distinguished Service Citation - Keep Rio Rancho Beautiful, Rio Rancho, NM C: 75,001 TO 150,000 First Place - Angelina Beautiful/Clean, Inc., Lufkin, TX Second Place - Keep Waco Beautiful, Inc., Waco, TX Distinguished Service Citation - Keep Roswell Beautiful, Roswell, GA D: 150,001 TO 500,000 First Place - Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, Cincinnati, OH Second Place - Keep Sandy Springs- North Fulton Beautiful, Atlanta, GA E: 500,001 AND ABOVE First Place - Memphis City Beautiful Commission, Memphis, TN Second Place - Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful, Inc., Milwaukee, WI NATIONAL AWARDS FOR BEAUTIFICATION AND COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT BUSINESS/PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS First Place - Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX GOVERNMENT AGENCIES First Place - Keep Columbus Beautiful, Columbus, OH Second Place - Morrow Police Department P.R.O.U.D. Program Submitted by City of Morrow- P.R.O.U.D. Program, Morrow, GA Distinguished Service Citation - Keep Alamogordo Beautiful, Alamogordo, NM NONPROFIT, CIVIC AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS First Place - Prince William Clean Community Council, Prince William, VA Second Place - Keep Indianapolis Beautiful PIE Phase I and II Submitted by Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc., Indianapolis, IN Distinguished Service Citation - The Loop Group Submitted by Keep Marietta Beautiful, Marietta, GA YOUTH GROUPS/SCHOOLS First Place - Cooper Elementary Ecology Club Submitted by William Mason Cooper Elementary School, Hampton, VA NATIONAL AWARDS FOR LITTER PREVENTION BUSINESS/PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS First Place - Alabama Power Submitted by Keep Etowah Beautiful, Inc., Gadsden, AL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES First Place - Hampton Clean City Commission, Hampton, VA Second Place - Keep Columbus Beautiful, Columbus, OH Distinguished Service Citation - Mississippi Department of Transportation, Jackson, MS NONPROFIT, CIVIC AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS First Place - St. John’s Clean And Beautiful, St. John’s, NF, Canada Second Place - Adopt-A-Trail Georgia Native Plant Society Submitted by Keep Cobb Beautiful, Marietta, GA YOUTH GROUPS/SCHOOLS First Place - Wise Primary School, Wise, VA NATIONAL AWARDS FOR WASTE MINIMIZATION BUSINESS/PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS First Place - Virco Mfg. Corporation- Conway Division, Conway, AR Second Place - BASF Corporation, Freeport, TX Distinguished Service Citation - Target Corporation, River Falls, WI GOVERNMENT AGENCIES First Place - Captain M.S. Boensel Submitted by: Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL Second Place - Electronics Recycling Program Submitted by Frederick County Public Works, Winchester, VA NONPROFIT, CIVIC AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS First Place - Keep Mobile Beautiful, Inc., Mobile, AL Second Place - Keep Nebraska Beautiful, Lincoln, NE YOUTH GROUPS/SCHOOLS First Place - Leon H. Sablatura Middle School K.I.P.P.E.R.S., Pearland, TX INNOVATION AWARDS PARTNERSHIP FINALIST Canada Post Partnership - St. John’s Clean And Beautiful, St. John’s, NF, Canada The Wartville Wizard Partnership - Memphis City Beautiful Commission, Memphis, TN EcoGarden Partnership - Norfolk Environmental Commission, Norfolk, VA C.A.R.E.S. Partnership - The Glen Cove Beautification Commission, Glen Cove, NY Winner - Canada Post Partnership - St. John’s Clean And Beautiful, St. John’s, NF, Canada PROGRAM FINALIST Art of Recycling - Keep McMinn Beautiful, Athens, TN Read for the Environment Month - St. John’s Clean And Beautiful, St. John’s, NF, Canada Cell Phone Recycling - Keep Sandy Springs-North Fulton Beautiful, Atlanta, GA GumBusters Program - Keep Oak Park Beautiful, Oak Park, IL Winner - Art of Recycling - Keep McMinn Beautiful, Athens, TN MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON AWARD Rachel L. Cooper, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Indianapolis, IN IRON EYES CODY AWARD Jim Steele, Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful, Inc., GA THE ROGERS AWARDS LOCAL TELEVISION ADVERTISING First Place - Conserva el Encanto, Inc., Puerto Rico Second Place - Keep Jacksonville Beautiful, Jacksonville, FL Honorable Mention - Keep Covington/Newton Beautiful, Covington, GA STATE AND LOCAL RADIO ADVERTISING First Place - Keep Texas Beautiful Second Place - Keep Mobile Beautiful, Mobile, AL Honorable Mention - Keep Tennessee Beautiful STATEWIDE TELEVISION ADVERTISING First Place - Keep South Carolina Beautiful/Palmetto Pride Second Place - Keep Texas Beautiful Honorable Mention - Conserva el Encanto, Inc., Puerto Rico Honorable Mention - Keep Georgia Beautiful GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP AWARDS OUTSTANDING SPONSOR SUPPORT Hancock County Commissioners Special Projects, Findlay, OH Keep Akron Beautiful, Akron, OH Keep Islip Clean, Inc., Islip, NY Keep Knoxville Beautiful, Knoxville, TN Keep Nebraska Beautiful, Lincoln, NE Keep North Platte/Lincoln County Beautiful, North Platte, NE Keep Rio Rancho Beautiful, Rio Rancho, NM Keep Wickliffe Beautiful, Wickliffe, OH Lorain County Beautiful, Elyria, OH Shreveport Green, Shreveport, LA BEST DOCUMENTED CLEANUP Keep Tennessee Beautiful, Memphis, TN US STATE DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION PARTNERSHIP AWARDS Georgia Department of Transportation Nominated by Keep Georgia Beautiful Mississippi Department of Transportation Nominated by Keep Mississippi Beautiful/People Against Litter South Carolina Department of Transportation Nominated by Keep South Carolina Beautiful/Palmetto Pride Tennessee Department of Transportation Nominated by Keep Tennessee Beautiful Texas Department of Transportation Nominated by Keep Texas Beautiful WILLIAM B. NASH AWARD Keep Williamson Beautiful, Franklin TN PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARD Gwen Emick, Keep Louisiana Beautiful Cecile Carson, Keep Texas Beautiful page 10 keep america beautiful — NETWORK NEWS — spring 2003
VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT IRON EYES CODY AWARD Jim Steele (left) received the Iron Eyes Cody Award from Keep America Beautiful President Ray Empson. Jim Steele, chairman of Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful, GA, is the recipient of the 2002 Iron Eyes Cody Award, in recognition of his decades of commitment to environmental education for youth and adults, and his leadership role in increasing public awareness about activities that preserve and enhance natural resources and minimize waste. Steele’s work stretches back 35 years, when as a young engineering graduate he first built schools using state of the art practices to minimize erosion, reduce waste, conserve water and use building materials wisely. In the 1970s he saw the need for environmental education in his community, and so formed Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful (GC&B) with other concerned citizens. For decades, Steele’s tireless involvement and positive influence on GC&B’s Citizens Advisory Board has helped GC&B become a regional and national leader in providing grassroots environmental solutions. His goals for educating his community are based on sound science. Steele has helped educate more than one million citizens about conserving natural resources, waste management, and water and air quality issues. He developed the Clean Schools program to educate all 190,000 students and 10,000 faculty on ways to keep schools clean. Steele was also instrumental in implementing Keep America Beautiful’s Waste in Place and Waste: A Hidden Resource curricula in each of Gwinnett’s 87 county schools. Through this effort, the eighth class of students has graduated after completing 13 years of comprehensive environmental education. As school system’s director of public safety, he has led the county-wide effort to establish a Graffiti Hurts coalition. Steele spearheaded the effort to design and construct the Recycling Bank of Gwinnett. Currently, more than 120 community groups, 13,000 individuals and 60 businesses use the bank. This recycling facility has grown from a 2,000 square foot center to a 20,000 square foot, 100 ton per day intermediate processing center for recyclables. It is a state and national model for recycling facilities and is the seventh largest recycling facility in Metro Atlanta. Steele believes in involving volunteers and saving tax dollars. He led the effort to develop and implement a comprehensive solid waste management plan for Gwinnett’s 600,000 citizens. Because of his work, the county saved $250,000. His leadership in litter prevention programs also resulted in a sustained 70 percent or better reduction of litter in major areas. During the past 12 months his efforts have involved more than 195,000 volunteers and returned more than $30 in benefits to citizens for every $1 invested by county government. Jim Steele has served as chairman of GC&B since 1989, and has received many accolades while he helps Keep America Beautiful’s presence grow. In 1990, he was awarded Keep America Beautiful’s first Chairman of the Year Award, and in 1998 he received the Keep Georgia Beautiful Man of the Year Award. Steele donates his time to help other communities develop their own Keep America Beautiful affiliate programs. He helped found the Metro Atlanta Keep America Beautiful Partnership, which includes 16 affiliates. “Jim Steele’s leadership ability has made a dramatic difference in the environmental practices of thousands of young people and adults,” said KAB President G. Raymond Empson. “Like Iron Eyes Cody, he is an example of the power of an individual to be a catalyst for change.” The Iron Eyes Cody Award was named in honor of Keep America Beautiful’s landmark public awareness campaign of the 1970s, “People Start Pollution. People Can Stop It,” which features the iconic face and tear of Iron Eyes Cody and is credited with awakening the environmental consciousness of an entire generation. This award honors outstanding men for their leadership in raising public awareness of the importance of litter prevention, community beautification and improvement, responsible solid waste management, and preserving and enhancing natural resources and public lands. MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON AWARD The recipient of the 2002 Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Award is Rachel L. Cooper, for her tireless years of work in beautification and anti-litter initiatives that have helped make her community grow and prosper as a safer and more beautiful place to live. Cooper first became involved with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful (KIB) in 1996, through the Glad Bag-a-Thon, the precursor to the Great American Cleanup, and then Project 180 IPL Revive-a-Neighborhood. As president of the South East Community Organization (SECO), a volunteer post, she and SECO each year plant a new garden or beautify a new spot. These include median beautification at two major intersections, a children’s garden, and beautification of the baseball park where her summer baseball teams play. This year SECO beautified the entrance to Capitol City Metals, an automobile shredding business whose property had been looked at unfavorably by some in the community. Cooper decided that partnering and relationship-building would benefit the community more than fighting, and so with help from the company, KIB and local volunteers, she led the beautification of the property entrance by planting trees, shrubs, flowers and a brick wall enclosing the raised beds. SECO has truly flourished under Cooper’s direction. When she first became president, the organization had $37.50 in the bank and very little community support. With her leadership and fund-raising skill, they now bring in enough funds to support eight teams of 17 children each in a summer baseball league, as well as a crew of up to 35 youth who work each summer at house painting, grass cutting for the elderly, and weekly trash cleanups. SECO also plans anywhere from 12 to 20 cleanup events through the Great American Cleanup TM . Cooper hosts a “community dumpster” for heavy trash items provided by the Department of Public Works. Twice a year she hosts a mobile transfer station in which the city supplies a trash truck, dumpster and truck with mechanical claw for very heavy items. At this time residents can drop off anything they wish at no charge; both Cooper and the Department of Public Works believe this keeps many of these items from ending up in illegal dumpsites. Keep America Beautiful President Ray Empson (left), Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Award winner Rachel Cooper (center) and former Keep Indianapolis Beautiful President Greg Fennig (right). In addition to these busy activities, Cooper still finds time to serve as a crime watch block captain, as she has for the past 15 years. Since 1994, she has been instrumental in the removal of 48 drug houses in her community. She is also an active volunteer member of the Southside Community Court, which puts community work service offenders back into the community where they committed their crime. “Rachel Cooper’s ability to draw people together to accomplish environmental goals is remarkable,” said G. Raymond Empson, President of Keep America Beautiful. “She has taught by leadership and example the dramatic change that one inspired person can bring.” keep america beautiful — NETWORK NEWS — spring 2003 page 11
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