Jan and I want to wish everyone a very

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  What a year Keep Mississippi Beautiful has had, working with all of our wonderful affiliates and partners across the state. Thank you to our amazing board of directors. We want to thank Sean McCarthy for hosting our December board meeting at Toyota, in Blue Springs, and also welcome Hal Miller, Mississippi Trucking Association, to our Board of Directors.

KMB Board Members and staff toured Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi, Inc., after the December board meeting.

Santa came early to Keep Mississippi Beautiful: Keep America Beautiful just announced: our very own Jan Richardson, won the prestigious Sue Smith Professional Leadership Award and Latasha Millis, Keep Mendenhall Beautiful, won the Innovation Award for her Dixie National Wagon Train Ride Cleanup. Keep Mississippi Beautiful will be bringing home two State Agency Partnership Awards: one with the Mississippi Ag & Forestry Museum and one with MDOT. Congratulations to our award winners!! These awards will be presented at the Keep America Beautiful National Conference in February.

Great American Cleanup State Kickoff proposals have been accepted and our winner has been awarded: Keep the Rez Beautiful will be our host site for the spring 2024 Keep Mississippi Beautiful Great American Cleanup State Kickoff.  We are looking forward to working with Jeanine May and her team. 

Again, many thanks to our friends at Van Zyverdens in Meridian, for providing flower bulbs to share. This spring, Mississippi communities will be beautiful, with all the daffodils and tulips blooming across our state.  

Be on the lookout for our new media blitz with Telelsouth – it will be kicking off in January. Please, let’s make Mississippi Clean and Green!

I want to wish everyone a very Merry and safe Christmas and Happy New Year.

Sarah