City of Columbus, GA KCB Earth Notes, 7 Jul 2023

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From YouTube: KCBC News - Community Cleanup

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Keep Columbus Beautiful Commission along with their sponsors spent a day cleaning up the great community of Chester Avenue Park in the Beallwood area.

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We love the Earth, it is our planet, we love the Earth, it is.

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Mayor of the city of Columbus, he came out today to support um we're just so happy he's here we have our Reese, our recycling rabbit mascot, that's out here, just having a good time. We have kids here we're having a great time mayor. Thank you for being here so much and you want to say a few words. Oh.

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Yeah I, just what a great great day, I mean first time, I met Reese, so this is really cool and I'm I'm excited to be out here at Charlie, Hall Park, and you know it's just incredible. The way this city pulls together. This is in celebration of Earth day, but really it's a mobilization of people who care about the community, so I just can't say enough about all the different organizations that are here today, helping out uh it's just it. Just it looks incredible.

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The amount of trash they've picked up along the side of the roads urge you to do. Your part call keep Columbus beautiful, get Lisa or Karen on the on the phone and set up a pickup and a cleanup in your area.

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Thank you so much for being here and it's not going to stop. We have volunteers that are coming back, they're, going to be doing some more painting and sanding of the benches, so it's been a great day, Earth Day 2023. Thank you we'll be back.

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Thank you. We are here today at the Charlie, Hill Recreation and Park. It's a great day. We got a lot going on. We have a special guest here today and she is a long time resident of the Bellwood area. Please tell everybody who's watching. What's your name, my.

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Name is Clementine Cochran and I'm, a member of Bellwood area network development.

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How long have you been in the Bellwood neighborhood area? Well, I'm, 77., so you're a lifelong resident? That is so wonderful. How do you feel about today? What's going on we're celebrating Earth Day, um we got all different organizations and groups out here, cleaning up and um just trying to beautify and we've planted trees. How does this make you feel this.

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Makes me feel wonderful that someone still know that we exist, and we want to thank you for coming up here and all the many volunteers are young and old and everyone so and yes, thank you. Yes, thank you for being here.

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We're glad to be here- and this won't be our last time. Thank you. So please come back. Okay! Thank you! So much for having us we're back and we are with clean energy Columbus and we have the executive director tell everybody your name, Louisa Childs. She is one of my environmental partners and we're so happy to have her and some of her members here today tell us how you feel about um celebrating Earth Day 2023 with us. We've had tree planning, we've done they're doing some cleanup efforts around here we got lunch.

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Coming so say what.

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We are having the best time and I just want to thank keep Columbus beautiful and Miss Lisa Thomas cuts for inviting us all out here. Today, we've got some of our members. We are celebrating keeping the earth clean and clean energy Columbus, and it has been a fantastic day all coming together.

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Thank you so much and clean energy Columbus is a partner with Columbus Consolidated Government keep Columbus beautiful working together and we are doing great things and a lot of stuff coming up. We are making Columbus Georgia the greenest city in the south. That's our goal and on the count of three Earth Day 2023 one two, three Earth Day 2023. we're out. We are back and we have David Houser with Pratt and Whitney. We're so glad him and his team could be out here today um celebrating Earth 2023. We have had um tree planting.

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We've had cleanup going on he's they're just coming back in about to have some great lunch sponsored by Chester's. Tell us. How do you feel about helping out today and giving back to the community.

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I love, it I mean it's really good to be able to help help with the community pick up trash make our Parks cleaner, more enjoyable for people to use and just give back, give back. I mean it's. It's great, I love doing this kind of stuff.

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Thank you um and Pratt and wooden is they are a sponsor of keep Columbus beautiful. So we are proud to have them here today. Not only do they put up the funds, they bring out the labor to help and pitch in, and that's a good thing all about pitching. In um any last words, anybody else in the crew want to say.

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um It's just been so great to see everybody just come together, and you know the community and everyone just coming together as one it's great to be involved in that. Thank you. Yes,.

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It was a joy to be here and thank y'all for the hospitality and helping us get everything done.

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Great awesome we'll be back in just a few minutes. Thank you. I'm.

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Lauren money with Columbus Botanical, Garden and you're watching kcbc news.

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We are back and we are here with our food sponsor for today, Mr Trent Chester. Thank you. So much for all you do for keep Columbus beautiful. You haven't just thought. You've been doing this for years, helping out and it's Earth Day 2023 we've had tree planned again. I have to keep saying that we've had cleanup going on. We've had um washing of the benches all sorts of things, helping to clean up this um Park Charlie Hill Park and the Bellwood Neighborhood Mr trentchester.

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How do you feel about just helping out for such a great cause? So.

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At least we always down at Chester BBQ, we always I'm happy to help keep Columbus beautiful. Whenever you call upon us we're happy I'm, sir.

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I appreciate it so much and I'm pretty sure we you we've had a long partnership and it will continue. Thank you so much again.

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She's, the winner or a foreign.

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We are back, we are here still celebrating Earth Day 2023, and we have a special group of people right here. This is the gamutaw Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa, Alpha, sorority and railroad chapter that are here celebrating with us today and we have our yli girls. um They planted trees today had a great time and I am going to be speaking now with Jasmine. Tell us a little bit. Why about why Earth, Day and celebrating and um commemorating is so important to you. Well.

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Earth Day is important because it is our responsibility to make sure that we keep the Earth in good condition, not just for us now, but for the future, so which is really important as to why we try to also encourage the youth to learn about Earth day as well.

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And that is awesome. Each year, Earth Day has grown so much and it's so important over 1 billion people are celebrating here today and we wanted to make sure we do our part right here in Columbus Georgia. Anything else you want to add any of the young. Ladies y'all want to say anything have y'all enjoyed um planting trees. Today yesterday.

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Was very fun uh planned. The trees was a wonderful experience. It was fun to get outside um experience. Nature help rebuild the community, it was a very fun fun experience. Everything is very important.

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It especially in the spring, because a lot of bugs come out, and especially ladybugs and I like ladybugs. This is the best day ever to sell celebrate nature. This should be a second that we should celebrate nature. Okay,.

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Okay, thank you and I have an important member, um then I'm gonna say something real quickly. She is what, in our sorority, it's called a golden Sora. That means she has over 50 years of community service and making the world a better place. We have Sandra Allison, most of you out. There probably know her but say something real, quick to the community. This is a great activity and I'm glad to see so many people out supporting it. Thank you. Okay and I'm gonna do something real um put somebody on the spot.

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She is the Songbird for our sorority, so just sing something about Earth Day, real quick for us. This is Mrs Karen, Jakes foreign, it's all about fun and having a good time. So you she knows come on. Give us something. He's.

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Got The Whole World in His Hands He's, Got, The, Whole, Wide World in His, Hands He's, Got, The, Whole World in His, Hands He's, Got, The, Whole World in His, Hands.

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