Dr. Karen Bell
Keep Liberty Beautiful
Cowabunga, Keep Liberty Beautiful volunteers are the best! Like, our Liberty County communities are so legit. I’m so psyched about honoring our volunteers on May 24!
If it sounds like I am back in 1980, then you are totally correct. Keep Liberty Beautiful is going back to when it all started! We are celebrating our bodacious volunteers in a Totally ’80s Fashion. During the past 40 years, Keep Liberty Beautiful has had much to celebrate! We are hosting our annual volunteer celebration on Wednesday, May 24.
Volunteers are an essential part of programs like Keep Liberty Beautiful. We are happy to give them the recognition that they deserve. Our volunteers and community partners are invited to join us for a 1980s celebration on Wednesday, May 24. We want you to book it down to the La Quinta Inn from 5–7 p.m. It is a time of fun and fellowship to thank our volunteers for their hard work this year. Volunteers are unique creatures. The dictionary defines a volunteer as “a person who donates his or her time or efforts for a cause or organization without being paid,” which is true. Still, there is so much more to volunteers than whether they are receiving money for what they do. They create change, hope, and positive differences for our community. Volunteers believe that their actions can make a difference. Volunteers are also much more about doing things rather than talking about change. You also really don’t find too many complainers in groups of volunteers. This is very rad!
By the end of June, around 2,000 volunteers will have pitched in, to start or continue to plant gardens and trees! They have participated in events for recycling. Our KLB volunteers also help in our schools and community to learn how to make our environment healthier for all of us and join in the never-ending fight against litter. About 200 schools, churches, organizations, youth programs, municipalities, and businesses have worked together at events around our county to make our little corner of the world here in Liberty County a cleaner and brighter place to live and visit.
The Keep Liberty Beautiful program is all about volunteers. They are the heart of what we do, and I am so stoked to be a part of it every day. Anyone can be a volunteer. You may think you don’t have the time, but you would be wrong. Our volunteers are some of the busiest people in our community. Time is not the factor that generates people to volunteer. To quote Elizabeth Andrew, another person who comes up with memorable things to say, “Volunteers don’t necessarily have the time. They have the heart.” KLB volunteers, like all volunteers, “make” the time to make a difference because they have the heart for it.
If you volunteered this year, I hope that you will be able to come to the appreciation. For more information or RSVP, contact us at (912) 8804888 or at klcb@libertycountyga. com. All volunteers are welcome at KLB, and every second and fourth Friday is our volunteer opportunity at the office. Our volunteer appreciation is a great event to learn more about our volunteer opportunities and the beautiful people that make things happen.
Thank you, Liberty County, for supporting Keep Liberty Beautiful another year!