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Another Successful KDCB Rivers Alive
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Oct 12, 2008, 12:20

The annual Keep Decatur County Beautiful Rivers Alive event just gets better each year.

The First Christian Church Team was on a pontoon boat while the Bainbridge High School Air Force JROTC worked the shoreline at the boat basin.

Groups and individuals worked on land and in the water. According to KDCB Director Suzanne Brandt, there were six boats in the water. This included individuals as well as teams from the Sheriff's Department and Citizens of Georgia Power.

The Wal-Mart Team made short work of Big Slough Landing with the number of team members. Both management and employees were hard at work. Their most interesting, and painful, find was a nest of bees.

Thanks to a lot of hard work and pre-planning from the KDCB Board Members and Executive Director Suzanne Brandt, the event was off without a hitch.

There were several family teams also representing various organizations.

 
Katie Monson spend the morning with Dad, Richard, working on Chason Park. Katie was representing the BHS Interact Club and also the BHS National Honor Society. Richard, Bainbridge Rotary.

Also representing Rotary was Majorie Mayfield with daughter Stephanie and Taylor Fabacher.

Horseshoe Bend was covered by the Bainbridge Kiwanis Club, the Bainbridge College Circle K Club and the Bainbridge High School Key Club.

The Bainbridge College LPN Club also returned this year to show there support in the fight against litter and to help keep our Rivers Alive.


Many teams had pre-registered and went directly to their work site with supplies they had already received from KDCB.

One team went back to work on a clean-up project that they started on a week earlier. Members of NYC were back at the Pine View Cemetery off College Avenue.

They got some needed help from the Laymen Brotherhood 2nd Chance Outreach Ministry.


Each team not only picked up the trash and litter but also kept records of what was collected. That information along with the weight of the trash collected is recorded to help in documenting the effect that of the KDCB campaign against littering has had on the community.