Keep Brazos Beautiful

1. Keep Brazos Beautiful

2. Executive Director
• Experience working for environmental
organizations.
•Two graduate degrees, one in journalism and the
other in leisure services, as well as a B.S. in
Environmental Studies.

3. KBB Interns & Volunteers

4. Board Members
Joe Patranella, President
Allison Brown, Vice President
Mary Joy Venuti, Secretary
Priscilla Garcia, Treasurer
Candilyn McLean
Ron Schmidt
Jared Birkhead, City of Bryan Representative
Venessa Garza, City of College Station Representative
Lloyd Wasserman, Brazos County Representative

5. Keep Brazos Beautiful
Our aim is to eliminate litter, minimize waste,
teach the importance of recycling, and improve
our community's appearance with the natural
beauty of trees, flowers, landscaping, and green
spaces.
Our programs center on education and
providing/coordinating volunteer opportunities.

6. Our Projects
Awards Celebration
Litter Tackle Box
Litter Index
Arbor Day
Great American Cleanup
Trash-Off
Campus Cleanups
Wildflower Seeds
Tree Sale
Litter Free Events

7. KBB Annual Awards Celebration & Luncheon
Celebrating our Local Environmental Heroes
September 23, 2015
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Hilton College Station
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: GRETCHEN RILEY, STAFF FORESTER AND PARTNERSHIP
COORDINATOR FOR
TEXAS A&M FOREST SERVICE

8. Wildflower Seeds
This month, approximately 8 acres (approx. 350,000 sq. ft) of
wildflower seed will be spread throughout the City of College
Station.
Community Enhancement Funding

9. Demonstration Garden
This Fiscal Year:
Irrigation Repairs
Clean-up of existing landscape beds
Pruning of rose bushes
Tree limbs
Pine Mulch
Planting of 8 flats of perennials directly adjacent to the intersection of Texas
Avenue and George Bush East
Upcoming Fiscal Year:
Soils, bed mixes, mulch
Plants (rose bushes/trees)
Additional irrigation
Community Enhancement Funding

10. Litter Tackle Box
Ongoing

11. Annual Crape Myrtle &
Shade Tree Sale
October 24, 2015

12. Arbor Day Celebration
Nov. 6, 2015

13. Texas Trash Off
Volunteers clean-up the streets of
downtown Bryan & College
Station for litter and other
eyesores.
Each year, KBB picks up
approximately 37,000lbs of trash
or over 1680 big black garbage
bags!
April 2016
Community Enhancement Funding

14. Great American Campus Clean-Ups
•Rock Prairie Elementary
•Southwood Valley Elementary
•Oakwood Intermediate
•Texas A&M University
March through May 2016

15. Brazos Valley Earth Day/Litter Free Event
Held each April in recognition of the national Earth Day
Celebration. Saturday, April 23, 2016
KBB’s role is to facilitate and coordinate all volunteer activities
Assisting with event set-up/take-down
Assisting Exhibitors
Litter Control & Cleanup
Parking Control
Public Information Booths
Recycling

16. Education
Youth Environmental Leadership League
Dr. Summer Odom
Dept. of Agricultural Leadership, Education, & Communications
Nature Talks

17. Other Projects
oTexas A&M Garden Club Richard Carter Park (Oct.24)
oCommunity Outreach (ongoing)
oColor Up Dark 5k (Oct. 2)
oRecycles Day (Nov. 15)

18. Contact Information
Keep Brazos Beautiful
213B South Main St.
Bryan, Texas 77803
(979) 775-3569
Executive Director: Raena Blumenthal
raena@keepbrazosbeautiful.org
keepbrazosbeautiful.org