NEIGHBORHOODS
Business
conversation
starts here
PROMOTIONAL COVER. ACTUAL COVER MAY VARY.
Produced by
Indian River Magazine Inc.
and the Florida Small Business
Development Center at
Indian River State College.
Publishes fall, winter,
spring and summer.
Book your space today
Call 516.721.0848 or email
Lisa Crawford at lisa@indianrivermag.com
www.tcbusiness.com
308 Ave. A, Fort Pierce, FL 34950
www.indianrivermagazine.com
The Blizzard family grabs litter from the Monterrey Lane area. Amber Blizzard
said a sign about Adopt-a-Street caught her eye and caused her to call
the city about volunteering. They go out monthly.
A TEACHING MOMENT
For the last nine months, the family has enjoyed the
monthly outings.
“My kids are so happy to be involved,” she says. “It’s a
great feeling as a parent to know you are teaching your kids
something important. We talk about a lot of things, like not
throwing stuff on the road that will end up in the river or the
ocean, and about turtles getting caught in plastic.
“It breaks my heart to see what people do,” Blizzard says.
“When you are picking up you get a different perspective.
There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing someone throw
something on the ground when there is a trash can 10 feet
away.”
The Blizzard family works from SW Monterrey Lane,
covering four or five blocks totaling a mile one way. They
usually pick up 60 to 80 pieces of recycling material and two
13-gallon bags of trash.
TONS OF TRASH
Adopt-a-Street has 154 groups totaling 1,038 volunteers,
says Georgette Beck, coordinator of special projects for Keep
Port St. Lucie Beautiful. In the past five years, the entire
Adopt-a-Street program collected more than 211,000 pounds
of trash that took the volunteers about 20,000 hours to collect,
if you count the hours each man, woman and child puts in
during that time.
The city hosted an appreciation breakfast earlier this year, >>
24 Port St. Lucie Magazine
/www.tcbusiness.com
/www.tcbusiness.com
/www.indianrivermagazine.com
link
