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On October 27th, 2007 650 volunteers from 17 Greater Cincinnati communities collected 15,000 pounds of trash, planted 13,500 flowers and perennials and distributed 500 trees during Keep Cincinnati Beautiful's Make a Difference Day.
***If you would like to be part of it for the 2008 event, call us 352-4380 or email us. We always need volunteers, sponsors, media and community leaders to make it possible!***
Make a Difference Day is the nation's largest day of citizen volunteerism. As part of Make a Difference Day, Keep Cincinnati Beautiful sponsored cleanup and beautification events throughout the city today.
Tri-State volunteers beautified parks and recreation areas, installed painted panels on abandoned buildings, picked up litter in Halloween costumes, removed scrap tires, and planted thousands of flowers.
Saturday Highlights included:
- As part of the Neighborhood Enhancement Program (NEP) in Northside, Keep Cincinnati Beautiful, BlockWatch 45223, Notre Dame Mission Volunteer AmeriCorps, and Northside Community Council beautified several previously blighted areas and installed original painted panels on boarded up buildings. Research shows that community art promotes a clean and safe environment.
- 100 UC, XU and other volunteers worked with KCB and the Cincinnati Park Board planting 4,000 trees and other perennials at the corner of Martin Luther King Dr and Vine St.
- 120 volunteers mulched and pruned trees at the Presidential Grove in Eden Park. Fall Releaf volunteers distributed 500 trees provided by Duke Energy to help change the quality of air in Cincinnati.
Keep Cincinnati Beautiful would like to thank the following local groups for their support: The Cincinnati Park Board, H.J. Benken Florist & Greenhouse, Duke Energy, BlockWatch 45223, AmeriCorps, Northside Community Council, Mount Notre Dame HS, Moeller HS, Purcell Marian HS, JobCorps Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati, Xavier University Women's Soccer Team, InReturn, Mercy Hospital, and The Cincinnati Zoo.
