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KEEP FREMONT BEAUTIFUL! LITTER-ature
NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
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Bi-monthly Newsletter • www.keepfremontbeautiful.com • keepfremontbeautiful@gmail.com • 402-941-6122
March/April 2015 • Keep America Beautiful Affiliate
The new Keep Fremont Beautiful Billboard design features information on the NEBRASKA LITTER HOTLINE.
The billboard is located across the street from Greens Florist on Bell Street and is sponsored by Waste Connections of
Nebraska and Green Key II. The cute little girl driving the cardboard car is RaiLee, grand-daughter of KFB Executive
Director Sue Reyzlik.
Reyzlik recently explained – “I really enjoy making the props for the billboard designs. The pirate ship that I made
for the billboard at 22nd and Bell was pretty difficult but the car for this board was much easier to create and it’s
always fun to repurpose.” Reyzlik further explained the use of her grandchildren as models for the outdoor posters
– “My grandkids are adorable and they work cheap”.
We at Keep Fremont Beautiful hope that everyone will do their part to reduce littering. Put a litter bag in your car and
make sure you use it. If you see someone litter from their car, please report it – call 1- 877- NO LITTR (877- 665-4887).
Together, we can make Fremont a cleaner, healthier and more beautiful place in which to live!
Keep Fremont Beautiful Receives a Keep America Beautiful
Cigarette Litter Prevention Program Grant
Keep America Beautiful announced that Keep Fremont Beautiful is a recipient of a
$2,500.00 grant as one of 73 organizations receiving grants for the expanded 2015 CLPP
Grants Program.
Tobacco products, consisting mainly of cigarette butts, are the most littered item
in America, representing nearly 38 percent of all items littered, according to “Litter in
America,” KAB’s landmark study of litter and littering behavior.
Since the establishment of the CLPP, communities in 49 states and the District of
Columbia have implemented the program to reduce cigarette litter. For the second straight
year, KAB reported an average 48 percent reduction in cigarette litter in communities
implementing KAB’s CLPP. One-hundred seventeen communities that launched programs
in 2013 achieved an additional 34 percent reduction when measured again in 2014.
Keep Fremont Beautiful has participated in the CLPP a number of times and has placed
ash receptacles in the downtown area, at Midland University Campus, in local Parks and
at the entrances to public buildings. With the additional grant funds, KFB will be able to
purchase six more ash receptacles for installation in the downtown area.
Would you be willing to place an ash receptacle in front of your business? Would you
be willing to empty the receptacle on a regular basis? If your business is located in the
downtown area and you are willing to “host” a public ash receptacle, please contact Keep
Fremont Beautiful at 402-941-6122 or email KFB at keepfremontbeautiful@gmail.com.
Mission
It is the mission of Keep Fremont
Beautiful to improve everyone’s waste
handling practices and to engage
Fremont and Dodge County citizens to
take greater responsiblity for improving
the enviroment.
Anne Baumhover,
Chariman
Eileen Thornburg,
Vice-Chairman
Nan Pollack, Secretary
Amy Cone, Treasurer
Sue Reyzlik, Executive
Director
Cathi Sampson, Asst.
Program Director
KFB Board of Directors
Mike Christensen
Kevin Earileywine
Leland Foreman
Chad Fuchs
Marilyn Gordon
Steve Hespen
Kathy Kneifl
Jim Manhart
Linda Martinez
Dan Seder
Karol Theophilus
Libby Vance
Mark Vyhlidal
Sheri Wilberding
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APRIL 10-12, 2015 CITY
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KFB RECOGNITION
PROGRAM
Keep Fremont Beautiful
awards Certificates of
Appreciation to deserving
homeowners who
improve or maintain their
residential property in an
exemplary fashion. KFB
also presents a “Clean
Sweep Award” to those
Business Owners who
have displayed an “extra”
effort in improving
or maintaining their
property or who have
renovated “eyesore”
structures or properties.
Please nominate
deserving homeowners
or business owners.
Nomination forms are
available at the Parks
Department Office,
400 East Military
Ave. Or you may
email the nomination
information to
keepfremontbeautiful@
gmail.com
Please include the
name and address of
the deserving Fremonter
and a brief description of
my this property/owner
deserves the award.
EXCITING NEWS FOR TELEVISION RECYCLING
Best Buy is now accepting television sets for
recycling. There is no charge for this recycling
service, however, you do need to deliver your
television to a Best Buy store. Luckily Best Buy
stores are located conveniently in West Omaha.
The procedure for recycling a TV at Best Buy
isn’t complicated: You call the store on the day
you are planning to deliver your TV. When you
get to the store you park in front and go inside.
There should be someone who greets you at the
door and you tell them you have a television set
for recycling.
Nan Pollack (Longtime KFB Board Member)
recently took her old television set to Best Buy
and found the process pretty simple. She told
the greeter she had a television set in her car and he grabbed a cart and came out and
loaded the TV. She was on her way in no time at all. It doesn’t get much easier than that.
We at KFB recommend that you go online and check out the rules for the Best
Buy recycling program. For instance, Best Buy accepts 32” or less tube television sets,
projectors, Flat Panel, LCD, Plasma, LED 60” and less, as well as Portable TVs.
It is important to note that Best Buy will accept up to three items per household per
day. They will not accept Console TVs of any size, or Tube TVs or Monitors larger than
32”. Also on the NOT Accepted List – Front Projection (Big Screen), Rear Projection (DLP)
and Exposed Cathode Ray Tubes.
If you have any questions, call your nearest Best Buy Store.
ELECTRONIC RECYCLING AT THE FREMONT STAPLES STORE
The Staples Store in Fremont will accept a number of
electronic items for recycling with a limit of six items per
day per household at no charge. Accepted electronics
include Desktop Computers, Laptop Computers, Netbooks,
Tablets, Monitors (Both new and old styles – CRT and flat
panel).
Staples will also accept UPS – Battery Back-ups,
Computer Accessories such as: Mouse, Keyboard, PC
Speakers, Modem etc. Staples will not accept floor model
equipment such as the larger office copiers, however, they
will accept the desk top Printers, “All-in-Ones”, Copiers, Fax Machines, and Shredders.
GPS Devices, Re-chargeable Batteries, MP3’s, Digital Cameras and Cell Phones are also
accepted at no charge. Call Staples for more information concerning their free electronic
recycling service!
ALL METALS MARKET DROP SITE
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2015 • 9:00-11:30 A.M.
ILGENFRITZ PARKING LOT •LOCATED AT 4TH AND PARK AVE
(JUST SOUTH OF THE KAVICH PARKING RAMP)
PLEASE BRING YOUR: PIPES AND METAL TUBING •
*ALUMINUM DOORS & WINDOWS • CAR PARTS •
CAST IRON SINKS & TUBS • LAWNMOWERS •
CLEAN TIN CANS • BROKEN BICYCLES
PINNACLE BANK SPONSORS
COMMUNITY SHRED DAY
On Saturday, April 25th, Pinnacle Bank is offering an
opportunity to have your paper shredded. Just bring your
“Information Sensitive” office paper to the 23rd and Lincoln
Branch from 1:30 P.M. to 3:30 P.M. Paper Tiger Shredding will
have their paper shredding truck on hand to collect and destroy
your waste paper. The shredded paper will be recycled!
GROW BIG RED and KEEP YOUR
NEBRASKA COMMUNITY BEAUTIFUL!
We invite everyone in Fremont and the surrounding area to help
Keep Nebraska Beautiful by planting red flowers from border to border
all across our great state. “Grow Big Red” is a fun, beautification effort
to help make our communities more vibrant and welcoming. It’s also
a great way to show your Husker spirit!
Keep Fremont Beautiful will have a limited supply of red zinnia
seeds available for planting this spring. Call today – 402-941-6122 –
to reserve your free packet of Grow Big Red Zinnia Seeds.