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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.

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H-E-B/KTB Green Bag Grant

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.

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Garbage is My Bag

By Vicki Gist
Thursday, July 09, 2009

Keep Sugar Land Beautiful in partnership with the City of Sugar Land, the Houston Galveston Area Council, and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality brought the nationally recognized "Garbage is My Bag" show to the public and private middle school sixth graders in Sugar Land on May 12 and May 13.

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TAGS: Clean, Education, Environmental, Recycling

Eco-Car Show

By Vicki Gist
Thursday, July 09, 2009

The Environmental Week activities hosted by Keep Sugar Land Beautiful and the City of Sugar Land included our second Eco-Car Show on Sunday, April 19 at Oyster Creek Park, from 3-6 p.m. The Eco-Car Show offered one stop shopping for an environmentally friendly automobile from several local car dealerships.

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2009 Trees Across Sugar Land

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By KSLB
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Trees Across Sugar Land is a fantastic opportunity for you to enjoy a crisp January morning in beautiful Sugar Land Memorial Park planting native saplings. All ages are welcome and are encouraged to participate.