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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.


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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.


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.


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.


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By Vicki Gist
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Keep Sugar Land Beautiful was awarded two H-E-B/KTB Green Bag Grants in November. One grant was awarded to provide two KSLB Planet Earth Carts to local elementary schools. The second grant was awarded to establish recycling of PET plastic and aluminum cans at First Colony, Fort Settlement, and Sugar Land Middle Schools.