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Great American Cleanup April 3, 2010
Don't Mess With Texas Trash-Off
Once again, our GCISD students pitched in to make our community Greener and Cleaner making a total of 283 Youth and Adult volunteers! They donated 897 hours capturing 10,250 pounds of litter!
Top School Performance included:
1st Place - Dove Elementary
2nd Place - Grapevine High
3rd Place - Colleyville Heritage High
Honorable Mention - Northlake College
Many thanks to all the volunteers and youth of our community who have made a difference.
Registration for Don't Mess with Texas Cleanup. 
After some fruit they are ready to pick up trash.
Gathering trash along Hwy 26.
San Francisco Chronicle, Mon., April 13, 1981! Trash lives a long time.
Ray Harris recovers a wheelchair which was put to good use.
Kat takes the overload.
Lake Grapevine Runners and Walkers (LGRAW) clean-up the lakeshore and trails. L-R- Mary Keefe, Laurie, John Bush, Kelly (K2)
Richards, Mike Bassano, Ray Harris, Kat Sparks, Randa Foster, Josh Loewen.
One of the many styrofoam blocks retrieved from the lake by Randy Wolf.
Cleaning up along the highway.
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Lakeshore Cleanup March 6, 2010
The Rowing for Rubbish event was a great success with 69 volunteers cleaning the shoreline in kayaks, waders and by foot. Many bottles, cans, plastic items, styrofoam, debris and tires were collected.
A huge thank you to the organizers and volunteers who participated in this shoreline project.
Tires out of the lake. Tim Hamilton
Good job! Event Chair Rich Reece, Samantha Cloud, Dave Orphey,
John Rumbelow
Youth volunteers: Nicole Sauro, Jake Ragsdale, Myah Warren, Britni Horner, Mitch Allen, TiffanyTiliaros, Coleten Davis, Trevor Nugen, Mary Potts, Kelsey Stewart, Kristina Nolte, Kelly Harris, Brian Becker, leader Sandy Cavanaugh.
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Trash & Treasures Community Clean- Up
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Our school children and their families have proven themselves once again!
Following are the school participation results:
1st Place - Dove Elementary
2nd Place - Grapevine Middle School
3rd Place - Grapevine Elementary
4th Place - Heritage Elementary
Other schools in attendance included Cannon, Silverlake, GHS, Glenhope, CHHS, OC Taylor, Timberline, Johnson Elementary and Winfree Academy. Volunteer groups came from Irving, Carrollton and Haltom City and worked alongside of Grapevine citizens. The Trash & Treasure was well received and 8 out of 10 treasures were found.
Though the lake and creeks were flooding, Saturday was a great success. We had many new volunteers participating and we cleaned up areas we had not reached before,
In all, there were 331 volunteers, 50% were youth
873.5 hours were worked and 320 bags of litter were removed from our parks, waterways and streets.
A big thank you to all the volunteers for their successful efforts!
Volunteer Scouts
Cleaning the shoreline
Lots of Trash
Ambucs serve picnic
Lucky volunteer
More Trash & Treasure Event pictures
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CITY RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS AWARD
GOVERNOR'S COMMUNITY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The City of Grapevine received a prestigious state environmental award- one of the most celebrated annual environmental and community improvement awards in Texas. Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) announced Grapevine as one of nine winners of the 2009 Governor's Community Achievement Award (GCAA) for outstanding community improvement.
The awards are presented in nine population categories to communities that have the best grassroots environmental programs in the state. The efforts of the communities to involve citizens, businesses, schools, local government and youth to keep their city, county or region beautiful will earn them a share of $1 million in money designated for landscaping along state-maintained highways from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Grapevine will receive $130,000 during the 42nd Annual Keep Texas Beautiful Conference in Houston on June 11th.
Winners were chosen based on their achievements in seven environmental and community improvement areas: Community leadership and coordination, education, public awareness, litter prevention and clean-up, illegal dumping enforcement, beautification and property improvement, and solid waste management.
Keep Texas Beautiful Conference in Houston June 11, 2009
At the Grapevine City Council Meeting Tuesday, July 7, 2009 beginning at 7:30 P.M., the GCAA award was announced with a review of the prize. The award represents an outstanding achievement by the local government, businesses and citizens of Grapevine.
GRACE Community Garden
The vegetable garden for GRACE clients was recently blessed and planted by many supporters. Volunteers who enjoy gardening are needed to weed, water, plant and harvest the garden. Varied and flexible dates and times are available for 1-2 hr shifts. For information please contact
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or by calling 817-410-3490. 
Phi Theta Kappa- Honors in Action Project
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 in Grapevine at Rockledge Park. More than 500 members and advisors participated in Action Academy and onsite clean-up project held in partnership with Keep America Beautiful and its' affiliate Keep Grapevine Beautiful as a part of Operation Green, the Society's International Service Program. The Group concentrated their efforts on cleaning and painting the Grapevine Rockledge Park facility. Members of KGVB and GVPARD extend their greatest appreciation to this outstanding team of volunteers whose accomplishments were awesome.
Phi Theta Kappa - website with live coverage of the event.
Grapevine Spillway receives fresh coat of paint.
Clean-up March 7,2009
Our sincere thanks to all the incredible volunteers who made this happen. Special appreciation goes to the high school students who were a major force to be reckoned with! Grapevine is such a clean, beautiful and incredible City because of volunteer people like you. KGVB looks forward to working again with all the volunteers. It was their pleasure.
Results for the Great American Clean-Up on 3/7/09
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438 volunteers (52% youth)
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11 out of 12 project sites completed- 3 boat ramps/railings painted. 1 erosion wall rebuilt, 1 beach refurbishment, shoreline from Meadowmere to Sand Bass Point cleaned, 1 illegal dump site cleared, trails from Parr Park to Bear Creek cleaned, disc golf course cleaned & trash cans painted.
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Hundreds of pounds of electronics, cartridges, sneakers and crocs recycled.
Congratulations to Dove Elementary for winning the outstanding school attendance trophy.
School Voluntary Participation:
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Dove Elementary: 102
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Colleyville Heritage High: 54
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Grapevine High: 38
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Silverlake Elementary: 31
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Heritage Elementary: 22
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Grapevine Middle: 15
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Johnson Elementary: 12
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Timberline Elementary: 8
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Cannon Elementary: 7
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Colleyville Elementary: 6
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Faith Christian: 4
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Cross Timbers Middle: 4
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Heritage Middle: 2
KGVB Electronic Recycling Event
A very successful event was held Saturday, January 10, 2009 by KGVB in partnership with Sam's Club and Goodwill Industries in the Sam's Club parking lot, SH 114.
Residents from several area zip codes in 522 vehicles dropped off free 94,780 pounds (47.39 tons) of TV's, computers, monitors and assorted electronic equipment.
A huge thank you to twelve KGVB volunteers along with the Goodwill Industries personel and representatives from Sam's Club who braved the cold and loaded the trucks.
Governor's Community Achievement Award
October 2007 - August 2008
Project Type:
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Community Wide Clean Up and Flood Recovery
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Flood Recovery
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Waterway Clean Up - Big Bear Creek
- Great American Clean Up
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HHW Event ( Household Hazardous Waste Collection)
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Outdoor Classroom maintenance
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Dove Loop - shoreline clean up
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Best Buy Recycling Event
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Grapefest
Year Round Volunteerism:
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KGVB Webmaster
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GCISD Green Team
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Adopt a Road
Total Volunteers - 1860.
Average Cost Avoidance (City of Grapevine): $60,821 based on youth @ $5.85, adult @ $19.51, average @ $12.68
Total GCAA Score: 94.67 points out of a possible 100. Congratulations to all the volunteers who brought this honor to Grapevine.
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2008 Take Pride in America National Award
Sabre Holdings Travelocity Division and The City of Grapevine Parks & Recreation Department
Outstanding Public Private Partnership
Grapevine, TX
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Keep Grapevine Beautiful Community CleanUp
A huge thank you to all the volunteers who participated in the KGVB Community Clean Up on Saturday, November 1, 2008.
The Clean Up and Recycling results are an outstanding contribution for Grapevine. Time & monetary value to the City:
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Event attendance - 488
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Clean Up volunteers - 453 = 321 students / 132 adults
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KGVB team volunteers - 35 = 2 students / 33 adults
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Volunteer hours worked - 1119.5
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Value of volunteers - $13,550
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323 youth working 643 hrs @ $6.35 = $4083
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165 adults working 476 hrs @ $19.89 hr. = $9467.
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School campuses in attendance - 19
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Pounds of trash - 11,700
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Miles of lake / creek cleaned - 32
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Citizen recycling electronics & shoes - 104 car
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Pounds recycled - 13,000 in electronics, 500 in tires, 113 in sneakers, 20 in Crocs.
School Participation
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Dove - 90 - Winner of the highest attendance trophy-
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Congratulations.
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Heritage Elementary - 62
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Grapevine Middle - 35
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Grapevine Elementary - 30
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Timberline - 18
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Silverlake - 16
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Winfree Academy - 14
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GHS - 12
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Cannon - 12
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Holy Trinity - 8
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Colleyville Elementary - 5
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CTMS - 5
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CHHS - 5
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Glenhope - 4
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Barbara Gordon - 2
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OCT, Durham, Eubanks - 1 each
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