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Keep Sugar Land Beautiful salutes Amerex Energy Services as a Trees Across Sugar Land Partner

By Vicki Gist
Friday, April 15, 2011

Amerex Energy Services supported Trees Across Sugar Land by donating and planting five 30 gallon native hardwoods in partnership with Keep Sugar Land Beautiful and the City of Sugar Land. On March 23, Amerex employees rolled up their sleeves and spent the afternoon planting the beautiful elm, live oak, and cypress trees in Pawms Spring Dog Park located in Sugar Land Memorial Park. For more information on Amerex, please visit www.amerexenergyservices.com.

KSLB and Amerex Tree Planting

Amerex Energy Services employees (L-R): Bucky Walton, Sarah Thomas, Matt Fair, John Dickey, Ngoc Tran, Brandi Peck, Steve Moore, Laina Crow, Anna Quinn, Larry Allen, Chris Maltba, Chris Schneider, Erik Swiler

TAGS: Trees

KSLB Wins Prestigious State Award

By Vicki Gist
Monday, August 02, 2010

Keep Texas Beautiful recently awarded Keep Sugar Land Beautiful a 2010 Governor's Community Achievement Award. KSLB was one of only ten communities to receive this highly competitive annual award for outstanding achievement in environmental and community improvement. The grant provides $290,000 from the Texas Department of Transportation for a landscape project in the City of Sugar Land along a local state right-of-way.

TAGS: Grant

"Eco-tainment" in Local Schools

By Vicki Gist
Monday, August 02, 2010

In May, KSLB and the City of Sugar Land partnered to present two highly entertaining environmental education programs in local public and private schools. Water, Water Everywhere, a comical show about water quality issues featuring Jack Golden, reached over 2000 students and 90 teachers. With the help of H-GAC grant funding, Steve Trash's magical mix of illusion, comedy, and ecology entertained and impacted over 3,100 students and 140 teachers.

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TAGS: Education, Environmental

KSLB Receives UPS Grant

By Vicki Gist
Monday, August 02, 2010

Keep Sugar Land Beautiful recently won a $10,000 UPS Foundation Community Improvement Grant to provide six Planet Earth Carts to local schools. The Planet Earth Cart is an environmental education resource that includes books, games, DVD's, and hands on activities. The UPS grant was given to only 16 Keep America Beautiful affiliates across the nation. The award supports organizations with outstanding litter prevention, waste reduction, recycling, beautification and community greening programs.

TAGS: Education, Grant, Planet Earth Cart, Recycling

Telfair donates $4,000 to Keep Sugar Land Beautiful for Arbor Day

By Vicki Gist
Friday, July 10, 2009

Kiva Mann, TelfairLife Coordinator for Newland Communities’ 2,018-acre Telfair master-planned community, presented a $4,000 donation to Keep Sugar Land Beautiful Executive Director Vicki Gist and Margaret Hall Spencer, president of the board for KSLB. The donation was part of a community-wide celebration held on National Arbor Day, April 24. Fifth-graders from Cornerstone Elementary School in Telfair made speeches about the environmental importance of planting trees, and each student took home a live oak sapling donated by Houston Landscape Unlimited. The event ended with the students helping to plant a live oak tree across from their school. It was the third annual Arbor Day celebration at Telfair, located at U.S. 59 South and University Blvd.