Keep Polk Beautiful’s annual report focuses on education, cleanup efforts in 2015‐16
An annual report form Keep Polk Beautiful released at the end of June shows progress on the cleanup and education front in Polk County.
According to Vance Voinche, the executive director of the organization, Keep Polk Beautiful has been busy within the Polk School District providing future generations of Polk County leaders with a clear focus on eradicating trash.
The report comes as the organization begins preparations for the rest of the year, including their annual Rivers Alive cleanup set for Saturday, Sept. 24 from 9 a.m. to noon at Seaborn Jones Park in Rockmart.
Among those areas that Keep Polk Beautiful (KPB) included in their annual report of accomplishments were:
• KPB, Cedartown High Key Club, and Rockmart High science students presented the Eight Annual Wartville Wizard anti littering programs to approx 500 Polk School third grad- ers.
• KPB participated in the Cedartown Kiwanis Club Health Fair presenting recycling solutions to 350 fifth grade students.
• KPB provided recycling solutions to the Junior Service League of Cedartown Arts Festival, the Polk County Chamber of Commerce Home Spun Festival, and Cedartown High School Athletics.
• KPB sponsored a Code Enforcement Workshop against littering for county and municipal governments.
• KPB sponsored a successful electronic equipment recycling in Rockmart and Cedartown,
• KPB provided supplies to the City of Rockmart for their city wide municipal cleanup in April 2016.
• KPB provided participated with the City of Cedartown and the Polk County Sheriff’s Department in a city wide graffiti paint over.
KPB has met with the Polk County Manager and Commissioners to resolve problems with finding recycling companies for plastics and electronics.
• KPB and County representatives concluded in May 2016 their 9th annual Litter Index Survey observing littering problems in Polk County. Conclusions were that Polk County citizens are more deligent in observing problems of littering.
• KPB presented programs to eight civic organizations, 4 municipal commissions, numerous youth groups, 7 community articles to the
Standard-Journal, county newspaper, and 10 interviews with WGAA Radio Station on recycling and anti-littering programs in Polk County.
• KPB’s Great American Cleanup and Rivers Alive were postponed from a one day county wide community cleanup in the Fall of 2015 to multiple individual projects in 2016 due to bad weather.
• The Polk County Commissioners and Management, Cedartown High Key Club, Rockmart High Science students, Polk 4-H,Polk Boy Scouts of America, the Cedartown Junior Service League, Cedartown and Rockmart Kiwanis Clubs, Polk County Rotary Georgia Power, Walmarts of Cedartown and Rockmart, the municipalites of Polk County, the Polk County School Administration, the Polk County Extension Agency, and multiple supportive contributors for KPB anti-littering programs.