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Beach Sweep River Sweep 2011
A tremendous success.
Our thanks to all the
volunteers and
sponsoring organizations
including the Town of
Edisto Beach; FRESPACE;Edisto Beach State Park;the Piggly Wiggly; & Edisto Watersports.
2012 Beach River Sweep will be Sept. 15, 2012
(left) Holly Rizer and her mom helped with Sept. Beach Sweep/River Sweep. Then Holly took the trash they'd picked up and turned it into art at the Charleston Co. School of theArts.
The bird is made of a recycled bottle wrapped in layers on soda cans. Feathers were cut from soda cans curled and layered on. The beak is made of paper towel rolls and the bird is completed with bottle top eyes and forks for legs.
For more information contact Ida Tipton
843-869-4422 or e mail
edistoprice@aol.com
To read pre-event article in Press and Standard
click here |
News item - Styrofoam Recycling
You can recycle solid styrofoam packing, as well as
styrofoam "worms" at the Pack & Mail store
behind Walgreens on the corner of Folly Rd. & Camp Rd.
They have a grinder that will make small pieces of solid blocks
of styrofoam. 9-6 M-F and 9-3 Sat.
Help keep styrofoam out of the landfill.
Bess Kellett Watson volunteer coordinator for SC DNR (rt) accepts the new Troy-bilt tools donated by the Troy-bilt corporation through Edisto Pride for the volunteers who do maintenance at Botany Bay WMA
Wallace Gregory, an active Botany volunteer (center) looks on as Bud Skidmore an Edisto Pride Board member and volunteer, makes the presentation.
March 2011 |
Read the article from the Edisto News |
 
Working to Prevent Litter
Edisto Pride is made up of Edisto Island businesses, individuals from the community, and governmental agencies who believe litter can be prevented. Our approach is to educate the public, particularly our
youth, and to instill a sense of community pride in everyone who lives on or visits our island. |
Francine Morrison, the Jane Edwards administrative secretary and President of Keep Edisto Beautiful, applied for a $4,000 Palmetto Pride Grant designed to get elementary, middle, and/or high school students involved in activities that will educate them and their communities about the importance of keeping their state clean and attractive, while promoting in the next generation a sense of pride in the community. |
"That it's not just a place to throw a piece of trash down and someone won't know about it. That our everyday life depends on how we take care of the outdoors."
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2011 Great American Clean Up
March 19, 2011 - See Below Pictures
2012 Great American Clean Up Will Be
March 31, 2012
15 Roads cleaned, Wyndham cleaned, Big Bay Creek cleaned, over 60 volunteers and 106 bags of litter
collected. Largest group - 9 kayakers from Edisto Watersports. The family of the t-shirt contest winner - Jesse Haydel family had 7 in their group. The volunteers at Botany cleaned up Botany Road one of the most picturesque on Edisto.
By any measure it was a tremendous success!
Jane Edwards participates in both Keep Edisto Beautiful's clean up - the Great American Cleanup - in the spring
and the Beach/River Sweep in the fall. Francine felt that the best way to tell our tourist visitors how much the rural nature and scenic beauty of
Edisto Island means to the students was a message to "Please Don't Litter"introducing the 17 miles of the Edisto Island National Scenic
Byway. EIPA (the Edisto Island Preservation Alliance) thanks Palmetto Pride and Jane Edwards Community School for the Byway sign and the message
it features
to keep our clean and beautiful environment.
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