Programs/Projects http://www.forabc.orgSun, 20 May 2012 21:22:16 GMTWed, 27 Apr 2011 19:54:36 GMTRefrigerator Magnetshttp://www.forabc.org/refrigerator-magnetsWed, 27 Apr 2011 05:00:00 GMTNormaLynne Paschall Stop by the office for your free 5 X 7 refrigerator magnet. This magnet is handy to have around as it lists various items and tells you where to recycle them.


Aluminum Cans - Habitat for Humanity 580-775-0719

Appliances - Ardmore Beautification Council 580-223-2285

- SORD 580-226-1276 ($10 per appliance with Freon)

Batteries - Battery Warehouse, Lowes, Button's Auto Electric

Cell Phones - Cell Phones for Life

Clothes - Check local churches

Computers & Parts - EDX 580-223-0484

Eyeglasses - Lions Club Members

Hazardous Wastes - Oklahoma DEQ 800-522-0206

Ink Cartridges - Ardmore Beautification Council, Staples

Iron & Metal - OK Iron & Metal

Newspaper - Ardmore Animal Care 580-223-7070

Pesticides (Ardmore) - Ardmore Water Pollution Control 580-220-2831

Plastic Bags - Loaves & Fishes, Wal-Mart

Recycling Drop-off Centers - City of Ardmore Operation Pride (Plastic bags, bottles, newspaper, aluminum, Christmas trees - no trash or household garbage)

-Michelin/MTC Credit Union (Cardboard, newspaper, plastic)

TV's - Staples ($10 per TV)

Tires - Local Tire Dealers, SORD

Wine Bottles - Main Street Wine Depot 580-223-4441 (Leave at back door)

Additional Information - Dispose of Cathode-ray tube (CRT) TV's, etc. Visit Earth 911 Type zip code in for drop-off recycling centers.

]]>http://www.forabc.org/refrigerator-magnetsAdopt a Spothttp://www.forabc.org/adoptSun, 17 Oct 2010 21:14:31 GMTNormaLynne Paschall Ardmore's Adopt-A-Spot allows businesses or individual citizens to be involved in caring for a designated area of our community - a neighborhood block, a park or a median. Click here to see photos.

The City of Ardmore and the Ardmore Beautification Council, jointly sponsor this program (see below.) The adopter will provide maintenance and litter pickup on a regular basis for their designated area. To become an adopter contact the Ardmore Beautification Council office - 223-2230.

TERMS AND AGREEMENTS

The ABC and the City of Ardmore recognize the need and the desirability of a cleaner, more beautiful community. Your participation is important to the success of this program. For your safety, it is necessary that any individual or group desiring to participate abide by the following rules and regulations and signify their intention to do so by signing this agreement.

  1. Participants agree to obey and abide by all laws and regulations relating to safety required by the City of Ardmore and/or the state of Oklahoma.

    1. Participants will be required to wear bright clothes while caring for their site and an orange safety vest

       
    2. All participants must be 21 years or older. If an individual or group, age 15-21, desires to participate in the Adopt-A-Program, adult sponsorship will be required.

       
    3. Participants will not possess or consume alcoholic beverages while at the Adopt-A- Program location.

       
    4. It is recommended that the participants attend a safety meeting. A copy of ab informational CD is free and available for you by calling 223-2230.

     
  2. It is understood the Adopt-A-Program participants will do the following on a regular and timely basis for as long as the agreement is in effect:

    1. Keep the designated area weed free (exempt if site is on a roadway or highway) 

       
    2. Keep the designated area litter free

       
    3. Inform the ABC office 223-2230 of any problems that might arise, i.e., vandalism, excessive trash, etc.

The planter bed on the east side of City Hall, 23 S. Washington, is an Adopt-A-Spot partnership between the City of Ardmore and ABC Trustees.



*Ardmore Beautification Council will provide trash bags, litter pickup sticks, orange safety vests and rubber gloves to participants.

*The City of Ardmore will provide a sign in the designated area with the adopter's name on it .

]]>http://www.forabc.org/adoptNew Projectshttp://www.forabc.org/new-projectsSun, 17 Oct 2010 21:13:53 GMTNormaLynne Paschall New opportunities, needing creative solutions provide an exciting challenge.
  • Ardmore Cemeteries Beautification Committee

    East entrance Rose Hill Cemetery


     
  • ODOT Grant - Exit #33 & I-35 fall planting 2008

     
  • Great American Cleanup - A Keep America Beautiful Program

     
  • Tiffany Plaza Front-entrance Xeriscape Plantings

     
  • ODOT/Carter County Litter Poster Contest

     
  • Travel - Coordinated trips may be available to the public

     
  • Click here to check Ongoing Projects

     
  • Click here to check Community Improvement Projects
]]>http://www.forabc.org/new-projectsCommunity Improvement Projecthttp://www.forabc.org/community-improvementSun, 17 Oct 2010 21:10:27 GMTNormaLynne Paschall The focus of the Ardmore Beautification Council is an attractive, clean community.

Planted hundreds of trees
Assisted with Noble
Stadium landscaping
Landscaped Exit #32 of I-35
  Directed oil tank removal on
W Broadway
Provided thousands of Daffodil bulbs to community
Coordinated the cleanup of BNSF rail overpass - Lake Murray Drive
Added ash receptacles 
to Ardmore Post 
Office hardscaping. 		  


  • Planted Crape Myrtle shrubs on Commerce St

  • Landscaped Exit #31 of I-35

  • Participated in the Memorial Park landscaping project

  • Planted over 35 acres of wildflowers

  • Click here to check Ongoing Projects

  • Click here to check New Projects
    • ]]>    http://www.forabc.org/community-improvement    Events: Great American Cleanuphttp://www.forabc.org/events-great-american-cleanupSun, 17 Oct 2010 20:08:39 GMTNormaLynne Paschall

    A community improvement program coordinated with Keep America Beautiful.

    Great American Cleanup

    Face masks being made at Earth 1st Expo
     

    New flowers and new curb
    edging added this spring. 

     

    Lake Murray underwater debris collected.
    Neighborwoods trees planted
    after Tree-care workshops were held  

    		Environmental reading project at
    Franklin Elementary School
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