Posted on: May 17, 2022
PHOTO #1: Students with Crossroads Business and Education Connection’s YOUth LEADership Conference place flowers in a hanging planter at Keep Victoria Beautiful’s headquarters on July 15, 2021. Keep Victoria Beautiful hosted the seventh-grade students for...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: May 10, 2022
Keep Victoria Beautiful volunteers took part in a record-setting cleanup Earth Day weekend—and they found some interesting things along the way.
City of Victoria Community Appearance Manager Christy Youker announced awards for the cleanup at the M...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: May 10, 2022
PHOTO: Santa Rita Market received the Keep Victoria Beautiful Business Beautification Award for May. KVB officials plan to help even more property owners beautify their spaces with a new grant program.
Keep Victoria Beautiful is partnering with private don...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: April 26, 2022
Young community members pose for a photo April 23 before the citywide Earth Day weekend cleanup hosted by Keep Victoria Beautiful. During the event, 230 volunteers picked up 139 bags of trash (along with other bulky items) at eight sites along public high...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: March 22, 2022
PHOTO #1: About 160 volunteers attended the Silver City neighborhood cleanup hosted by Keep Victoria Beautiful on March 5. Community members collected 67 tons of brush and bulky trash and 215 tires at 41 residences during the cleanup.
PHOTO #2: Keep Victor...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: March 8, 2022
Community members pose for a group photo March 5 before the Silver City neighborhood cleanup hosted by Keep Victoria Beautiful. About 160 volunteers helped residents move brush and bulky trash to their curbs during the cleanup. The City of Victoria Enviro...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: February 1, 2022
PHOTO #1: A concept rendering shows the proposed design for new landscaping on Loop 463 near Navarro Street.
If you happen to be driving in the area of Navarro and the Loop next week, you’ll likely see TxDOT contractor crews scoping out the site of a bloss...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: August 4, 2021
PHOTO #1: Keep Victoria Beautiful staff and Frost Bank executives and employees pose for a photo Aug. 3 at Frost Bank, 7602 N. Navarro St., with KVB’s Business Beautification Award traveling sign. Frost Bank received the Business Beautification Award for ...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: August 3, 2021
PHOTO #1: Residents gather cleaning supplies July 17 at Lone Tree Creek Park at the start of a cleanup hosted by Keep Victoria Beautiful.
PHOTO #2: Residents pick up trash July 17 at Lone Tree Creek Park during a cleanup hosted by Keep Victoria Beautiful.
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: July 9, 2021
Vela Farms, 221 S. Main St., received the Keep Victoria Beautiful Business Beautification Award for the month of July. The award is given monthly to recognize businesses that help to beautify the Victoria community through property upkeep, landscaping and...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: May 25, 2021
PHOTO #1: A concept rendering shows the proposed design for new landscaping on Loop 463 near Navarro Street.
PHOTO #2: An upcoming TxDOT beautification project on Loop 463 will extend from 0.02 miles west of U.S. Highway 77 (Navarro Street) to 0.7 miles ea...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: November 25, 2020
Keep Victoria Beautiful is seeking volunteers to help with the organization’s first community-led beautification event since its revival and integration with the City earlier this year.
“We’d like to host these types of events on a regular basis going forw...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: September 22, 2020
PHOTO: A Solid Waste truck collects residential recycling in Victoria.
Residents who are normally scheduled for trash, recycling and yard waste collection Monday will have an adjusted schedule this week only.
- Trash will be collected on Wednesday, ...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: August 31, 2020
PHOTO #1: The water tanks at Water Pumping Plant No. 3, located at Airline Road and Ben Jordan Street, recently were pressure-washed.
PHOTO #2: The water tanks at Water Pumping Plant No. 3, located at Airline Road and Ben Jordan Street, recently were dark-...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: August 24, 2020
PHOTO: City of Victoria Environmental and Beautification coordinator Tiffany Koenig and Victoria County Precinct 1 Constable Gary Smejkal appear in a promotional image for the “Tarp or Ticket” campaign, which encourages residents to properly secure garbag...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: July 13, 2020
PHOTO #1: From left, Councilman Rafael De La Garza III, City of Victoria Mayor Rawley McCoy and Environmental Services Director Darryl Lesak stand in front of the newly renovated “Welcome to Victoria” sign on Bloomington Highway.
PHOTO #2: The City of Vict...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: June 1, 2020
PHOTO: Keep Victoria Beautiful board chair Shannon Longoria stands May 22 outside the headquarters of the City’s Keep Victoria Beautiful program at the historic Hiller House, 3003 N. Vine St.
The City of Victoria Environmental Services revived its Keep Vic...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: May 15, 2020
Golden Crescent Habitat for Humanity provided breakfast to City of Victoria Solid Waste staff May 14 as a way of saying thank you for their hard work. Solid Waste staff has been working throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including during the “Stay Home – S...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services