Keep Victoria Beautiful Volunteers Awarded for Fall Sweep Efforts

What an incredible turnout to help our community! After spending the morning helping to pick up trash along Victoria’s roadways, one might be grateful for a cup of coffee and a foot massage.

During the Keep Victoria Beautiful Fall Sweep on Sept. 21, the team led by County Commissioner Jason Ohrt made a fitting discovery while picking up trash along Loop 463: a Keurig coffee machine and a foot massager.

There was no need to plug in the discarded devices, since The Salvation Army had already prepared coffee and donuts for the volunteers, and Chick-fil-A provided food after the cleanup—a well-earned reward for the 368 volunteers who had picked up 195 bags of trash and other debris along 24 miles of roadway.

The following awards were earned during the cleanup:

Most Trash Picked Up by a Team: the team led by City of Victoria Development Services Assistant Director Rick Madrid
Most Spirited: the 54-member Dow Chemical team
Most Unusual Item: the Keurig machine and foot massager found by Commissioner Ohrt’s team
Most Prized Item: The team led by Keep Victoria Beautiful Board Chair Meridith Byrd found a pair of glasses that had been lost by Municipal Court Operations Supervisor Maria Bell.

The honorees will be formally recognized during Keep Victoria Beautiful’s annual volunteer appreciation event in January.

What’s next

Keep Victoria Beautiful will host a neighborhood cleanup at 9 a.m. Nov. 9 in the southside neighborhood.

To sign up to be notified of future cleanups, visit www.victoriatx.gov/kvb.

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