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Specific information on
recycling, litter prevention
educational presentations,
beautification or
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Keep Loup
Basin
Beautiful
c/o Linda Studnicka
Linda.Studnicka@rcdnet.net
Ord, NE 68862
Phone: (308) 728-3393
Fax: (308) 728-3903 |
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Keep Loup Basin
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www.kab.org/cleansweepusa
Help to Recycle, Play the Can-It
Game
http://www.elmersgluecrew.com/
Save the bottles. Save the sticks. Save the planet
Elmer’s Glue Crew Recycling Program is a fun, hands-on way
to teach about recycling. As a program member, you’ll have
access to plenty of helpful recycling-related curriculum and
fun projects to keep your kids excited about recycling.
Best of all, you and your students also have the opportunity
to win hundreds of great prizes, including Elmer’s products
and more!

You can help Your Schools
Win Jackets and $1,000
“Return the Warmth” is a plastic bottle (PET) recycling
contest that closes the loop on recycling during the Great
American Cleanup March 31 through May 31. The plastic
bottles can be made into fleece jackets for children across
the country. You are invited to join us in the goal of
removing 80 million plastic bottles nation-wide from the
environment with this contest.
Some of the elementary schools enrolled in this contest are:
Arcadia, Ansley, Arnold, Burwell, Broken Bow, Callaway,
Greeley-Wolbach, both in Greeley and Wolbach, Ord, Sargent,
Sandhills at Halsey, Spalding Academy, St. Paul and Loup
County.
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The top 100 winning schools
will each receive a minimum of 250 fleece jackets
made from PET recycled material.
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The top 50 collecting
schools will receive $1,000 SAM’S CLUB®
gift card grants.
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Last year 3 schools in
Nebraska won jackets and grants!
Just take your soda bottles to
your local recycling trailer to help your local school win
this contest. The entire community can help collect
bottles.
The sponsors are AQUAFINA®,
PEPSI®, SAM’S CLUB®, KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL,
and KEEP LOUP BASIN BEAUTIFUL!!!
call Keep Loup Basin Beautiful
at 308-728-3393 for more information.
Keep
Loup Basin Beautiful has again been awarded a Troy-Bilt
Chipper Shredder to be used to promote the Great American
Cleanup, March 1 through May 31, 2008.
This is a heavy duty 3 in 1 machine that
will get rid of debris by chipping, shredding and vacuuming
it up. It will make mulch from 1 ½ inch branches. It will be
given away to any community, school, church, club
organization, youth or adult group (large or small) that has
the most successful documented beautification/
clean-up/improvement project during the Keep America
Beautiful Great American Cleanup. Winners will be judged on
documentation, volunteers’ effort, and total impact of the
project.
This project could be an individual school
or church yard, park, abandon city block, river or lake
shore, any public property or even a whole community.
The contest will held from March 1, 2007
through May 31, 2007. Glad trash bags will be provided. We
also have banners, and posters for advertising the event and
recruiting volunteers. Supplies will be available after
March 1. If you live outside Valley County, arrangements
can be made to deliver the supplies to you. Stop by the
office and take a look at the Troy Bilt.
If you are interested, contact Linda
Studnicka at 308-728-3393 to sign up.

Help Us "Wipe Out Wireless Waste"
"Wipe Out
Wireless Waste" is a campaign to recycle used
wireless phones and generate proceeds for local community
improvement and revitalization projects through Keep Loup Basin
Beautiful.
With more than 200 million wireless
subscribers in the U.S. today, the need to keep used wireless
phones out of local landfills is more important than ever. The
"Wipe Out Wireless Waste"
campaign makes it easy for anyone to recycle their mobile phone
equipment, and in turn provides funding that supports diverse
hands-on stewardship activities such as cleanups of public
lands, educational programs, and recycling activities.
Easy Instructions:
1. Call 308-728-3393, leave a
message for Linda.
2. A postage free package for one phone or package label for
more than one will be sent to you. This includes your
accessories such as chargers and batteries!
Thank You!
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Current News
THE LOUP BASIN RC&D IS AWARDED $32,165.00 GRANT FROM NDEQ
The
Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality has announced that
the Loup Basin RC&D will be awarded $32,165.00 for Public
Education for Litter Reduction for 2008. Altogether, the state
received requests for over $2.3 million. A total of $1,600,000
was awarded to 68 projects throughout Nebraska.
The grant program provides funds
annually to Nebraska projects of environmental public education,
cleanups and recycling. The funds awarded to the Loup Basin
RC&D will be used through the Keep Loup Basin Beautiful
organization to promote litter reduction and recycling in the
nine counties of Blaine, Custer, Garfield, Greeley, Howard,
Loup, Sherman, Valley, and Wheeler.
The Keep Loup Basin Beautiful
organization has educational programs available for both
children and adults. You may call Linda at the Loup Basin RC&D
at 308-728-3393 to schedule a presentation. Currently, the
organization is also involved with used cell phone recycling,
and cigarette butt litter reduction education. They will be
promoting the Great American Cleanup through Keep America
Beautiful in March.
“These grant funded projects
provide innovative ways to educate the public about litter
reduction and recycling and will reduce the amount of materials
sent to Nebraska’s landfills,” said Mike Linder, Director of
NDEQ.
Call the Loup Basin RC&D
308-728-3393 for more information.
News Release
On January 16,
2008, the Loup Basin RC&D/Keep Loup Basin Beautiful presented
the program “Reduce-Reuse-Recycle” (environmental education),
and “Walter the Walleye” (how to avoid H2O pollution), to the
pre-school through 4th grades at Greeley Wolbach Elementary
School in Greeley. The younger students were read a story,” The
Day the Trash Came Out To Play”, sang songs and played games.
The older students were shown environmental stewardship Power
Points and played the “Walter” interactive CD game.
This presentation
is aimed at educating students to help them understand the
importance of litter reduction and recycling, and the important
of keeping Nebraska H2O unpolluted. A packet outlining
additional environmental projects, and the “Walter” interactive
CD game were given to each teacher, so that they may continue
this education during their regular classes. Most of the
teachers’ material was supplied by Keep America Beautiful. The
program staff is funded through the Nebraska Department of
Environmental Quality.
A special thank you
to the local Affiliated Foods Stores for the donations that made
it possible to purchased the activity books that each student
received during the presentation. If you are interesting in
having this program brought to your grade or middle school, or
in volunteering to help us with this project, call Linda at Keep
Loup Basin Beautiful, 308-728-3393.
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