Palmetto Pride Newsletter #21


November 3, 2010


Tree Grant Pickup
On October 13, PalmettoPride awarded 2945 trees to 25 Tree Grant recipients from across the state.
Visit our Grant Center for the current schedule, qualifications and applications for all of PalmettoPride’s grants.

PalmettoPride is offering three new creative education contests for South Carolina students: t-shirt design contest, recycled art contest and film-making contest.
Please visit our website for more information.

PalmettoPride provides cleanup supplies year round. If your organization or group would like supplies, please call
877-725-7733.

Sumter National Forest
On October 23rd, 27 volunteers met in Chester County to clean up Sumter National Forest.  We’d like to thank the volunteers who cleaned up 1460lbs of trash, as well as, Chester County for supplying roll-off containers and Wal-Mart of Chester for donating bottled water.
Illegal dumping continues to be a problem in many areas of our National Forests and we are determined to prevent it through education, enforcement, awareness and pickup. Please visit www.palmettopride.org/getinvolved.asp for more volunteer opportunities.
Thank You MUSC Volunteers

PalmettoPride and Keep Charleston Beautiful would like to recognize the Physicians Assistant Studies group from MUSC. A group of around 30 students from MUSC came out and spent 2 hours in pluffmud and marsh grass to help remove over 20 bags of litter from a local marsh along the Charleston Harbor.
The group was also able to remove a tire that was stuck in the mud and some large chunks of plastic piping. Even though some of the volunteers were knee deep in stinky marsh mud, they never stopped smiling and answering questions from on-looking tourists that were walking through Waterfront Park.
Volunteer for America Recycles Day
“I Recycle” is the theme of Keep America Beautiful’s 2010 America Recycles Day (ARD), which takes place on November 15. Event organizers will proudly declare “I Recycle. Do you?” at events throughout November, designed to educate, motivate and inspire individuals to recycle more while encouraging their friends and families to do the same.
If you would like to participate in America Recycles Day, volunteer or recycle with these local groups.
10,000 Villages/City of Greenville 11/13
Beaufort County 10/30
Chesterfield County Thru 12/31
City of Columbia 11/15
City of Greenville 11/20
City of Laurens 11/15
Clarendon County 11/2 – 11/12
Clemson University 11/8
Gold Hill Elementary School (Tega Cay) 11/12
Horry County Solid Waste Authority 11/13
Keep Dorchester County Beautiful 10/29 – 11/19
Keep Florence Beautiful 10/16
Keep Greenville County Beautiful 10/25 – 11/19
Keep York County Beautiful 11/11 -11/12
Lexington County 111/3 -11/29
Longleaf Middle School 11/15
North Myrtle Beach High School 11/15
Oakview Earth Savers Club 11/9 – 11/15
Richland County 11/13
SC Army National Guard 11/15
SEA _ Student Environmental Association 11/16
Spartanburg County Public Works
York County SW Colletion & Recycling 11/15
Springfield LLC 11/15
University of South Carolina 11/8 – 11/15
York County Schools ARD 10/11 – 11/15
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Special thanks to all of our PalmettoPride Partners...