Let's celebrate the Blanco County and City of Blanco Sesquicentennial together by working together to cleanup and beautify our wonderful hometown!Keep Blanco Beautiful volunteers are busy making plans to "Make and Keep" Blanco Beautiful with The Great American Cleanup and Don't Mess with Texas Trash-Off, cleanup, fix-up, paint-up, and green-up. The GAC
begins on March 1 and ends on May 31. Our signature event is the Don't Mess with Texas Trash Off and River Cleanup on April 5.
This will be the 9th annual trash off and the 2nd annual river cleanup.
The City of Blanco partners with Keep Blanco Beautiful to help remove illegal junk cars from streets and yards. IESI provides six 30 yard dumpsters for the citizens of Blanco to be able to clean their property and volunteers help those who cannot move it themselves. They can haul their large items, such as furniture and appliances to the city yard on
Jones Rd. and dump them free between 8 a m and 12 p. m.
Families with their children, teachers with their students, and churches with their youth groups meet and take a section of town to pick up trash off of the city property and easements. The Boy Scouts, Ag students and
sports players volunteer for the river cleanup. This group is lead by Wayne and Martha Gosnell and James and Pam Whitworth. In 2007 we had more than 150 volunteers.
This has become a special annual event for Blanco. Volunteers receive T-Shirts and a chance to receive a gift basket. Please start planning to meet us on the courthouse lawn at 8 a. m. on April 5 for a busy day of making Blanco Beautiful. You can start signing up in March to volunteer. Lunch is always served after a morning of hard work.
The KBB volunteers plan to start our neighborhood program during the GAC. We hope to improve a piece of property with some repairs and a fresh coat of paint. We would like to encourage the property owners who
need to freshen up their homes use this time to do a face lift.
On a Tuesday morning KBB beautification workday Judy Dorsett and I picked up 300 cigarette butts in front of the Blanco City Hall, Oso's, and The Byars Building. Yesterday I watched two employees at the Blanco Bowling Cafe, take a cigarette break on the front entrance ramps. While I was watching they threw 3 cigarette butts onto the front parking area. It is time that we start our Cigarette Litter Prevention Program in Blanco. Everywhere you go there are so many cigarette butts tossed on the ground and they do not go away!
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