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Love Where You Live
How Gadsden County is Helping you Love Where You Live
Gadsden County is working with our cities, community and civic groups and neighbors—people like you—to help keep our county clean and litter-free. We want you to love where you live, and one of the most basic things we can all do is to help keep our surroundings beautiful. That’s why we are revving up our county-wide programs for recycling, litter control, and volunteer opportunities such as Adopt-a-Road and Community Cleanups.
And that’s not who we are. Gadsden County is so naturally beautiful – with our rolling hills and rich farmlands to our serene lakes and fine rivers—we want to embrace this beauty, not spoil it. We know you love where you live, and we know how much pleasure we all take in welcoming our friends and families to our beautiful, historic county to enjoy it the way we do.
What is Adopt-a-Road? Adopt-a-Road is a program that empowers volunteer groups to keep their neighborhoods litter-free one street at a time. Residents volunteer to remove litter from an adopted street in their city four times a year for one year. (Streets are half-a-mile long or more.) Gadsden County provides organizational help, cleanup supplies, free disposal and recognition signs displaying the name of the group. A Group Leader coordinates cleanups between the group and the County. Adopt-a-Road is a collaboration between Gadsden County, participating cities and volunteer groups.
Adopt a RoadIs there a neighborhood where you live or work that needs cleaning? A nearby intersection? #LoveWhereYouLive is a community cleanup program where volunteers clean where they live. Our goal is to equip our community champions with resources to love where they live or work by organizing clean ups throughout the year.
Register your community for a Clean Up!
Gadsden County Commissioner Brenda Holt and The Friendship Primitive Baptist Church Community Helpers to Host a Love Where You Live Community Trash Round-Up Day
- Date: 09/14/2024 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Location: Friendship Primitive Baptist Church
5775 Ben Bostic Road
Quincy, Florida 32351
GADSDEN COUNTY COMMISSIONER BRENDA HOLT AND THE FRIENDSHIP PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH COMMUNITY HELPERS TO HOST A
LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE COMMUNITY TRASH ROUND-UP DAY
GADSDEN COUNTY, Fla -On Saturday, September 14, at 8 a.m., Gadsden County Board of County Commissioner Brenda Holt and the Friendship Primitive Baptist Church Community Helpers will host a Love Where You Live Community Trash Round-Up day. Volunteers will clean up the Friendship Community as part of the County’s Love Where You Live Keep Gadsden County Beautiful Campaign. The Love Where You Live Campaign was created by the Gadsden County Board of County Commissioners to engage the community in reducing litter and pollution in the County.
Cleaning supplies, including t-shirts, gloves, a safety vest, trash bags, and a trash picker, will be provided to volunteers and can be picked up at Friendship Primitive Baptist Church starting at 8 a.m.
“God knows that Gadsden County is an amazing place to live,” said Elder Willie Gaines, Pastor of the Friendship Primitive Baptist Church. “The Friendship Community is part of Gadsden County, and we want to be proud of where we live and to do that, we as a community must do better at cleaning up after ourselves and putting litter in the trash can and not on the ground.”
Residents interested in participating in the Friendship Community can sign up and register for a t-shirt by clicking on the following link: Friendship Community Trash Round-Up.
The cleanup will be held:
8 a.m. to noon
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Friendship Primitive Baptist Church
5775 Ben Bostic Road
Quincy
Participants will receive a free lunch at noon at the church.
“I would like to thank Pastor Gaines and the Friendship PB Church Helpers for loving where they live enough to want to keep it litter-free,” Commissioner Holt said. “The backbone of District Four is the many churches in this area. We worship. We congregate. We learn, and we love where we live. Please join us in the Friendship community at the community trash round-up on September 14.”
When it comes to picking up litter, some Gadsden County residents might say: “I just don’t know where to start.” We already have that figured out. Residents can start in their neighborhood. We encourage everyone to spend 20 minutes a week to help keep Gadsden County beautiful.”
For those who would rather be responsible for the same stretch of roadway every year, the County’s “Adopt a Road” program is a perfect fit. Gadsden County Public Works Department will assign a stretch of road to an organization or group, print your organization’s name on a sign for free, and even give public recognition for the area they keep clean. All volunteers have to do is leave the bags of litter they collect next to the Adopt-a-Road sign, and The Public Works Department will come pick it up! The Adopt-a-Road Program is a perfect fit for churches, businesses, and service organizations looking to serve their community.
For more information on ‘Love Where You Live,” visit Love Where You Live or contact the Public Information Department at media@gadsdencountyfl.com or call 850-875-8671.
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