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Volunteer of the Month Category

Owsley County youth groups are region’s top volunteers

Warrens Chapel United Methodist Church Youth Group and Booneville United Methodist Church Youth Group accepted their PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award

Two Owsley County youth groups shared southern and eastern Kentucky’s PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award for December 2013. The youth groups of Warrens Chapel United Methodist Church and Booneville United Methodist Church earned the award for their volunteer effort during the PRIDE Spring Cleanup in April. They filled 139 trash bags with the litter […]

Wolfe County teen is region’s top volunteer

PRIDE Volunteer of the Month John Henson (front), Eula Gibson (grandmother), Wolfe County Judge-Executive Dennis Brooks, Wolfe County Solid Waste Coordinator Ashley Bowman, PRIDE Field Representative Mark Davis

Wolfe County’s John Henson has earned southern and eastern Kentucky’s PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award. Henson, who is 18 years old, has volunteered to pick up litter in Wolfe County for years. Most recently, he volunteered for PRIDE Spring Cleanup Month in April 2013. Henson also became involved with the Wolfe County Recycling Hub […]

Bottom Fork Cleanup Coalition takes care of its Letcher County community

Bottom Fork Cleanup Coalition, Letcher County

A group of Letcher County citizens has been recognized for teaming up to keep their community clean. The Bottom Fork Cleanup Coalition, led by Nathan Polly, earned the PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award for October 2013. The award is given monthly to one person or group in a 42-county region of southern and eastern […]

Jimmy Rose helps Congreesman Rogers honor Boy Scout Troop 90

Jimmy Rose, Troop Leader Charles Boggs, Congressman Hal Rogers, and Boy Scout Troop 90 of Perry County

On Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, Congressman Hal Rogers announced that Boy Scout Troop 90 from Perry County had earned the PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award.“Boy Scout Troop 90 has been dedicated to cleaning up around Perry County for several years,” said Perry County PRIDE Coordinator Rosa Couch, who nominated the troop for the award. […]

Jackson County’s Masonic Lodges win PRIDE award

Jackson County Masonic Lodges accept PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award

PRIDE has honored the four Masonic Lodges of Jackson County for being good stewards of the county’s magnificent landscape for a decade.The Pond Fork, RH Johnson, New Zion and Indian Creek Masonic Lodges won the PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award for August 2013. The four lodges have volunteered to pick up litter during the […]

Frenchburg Job Corps wins PRIDE volunteerism award

Frenchburg Job Corps accepts PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award for July 2013

For giving Menifee County an old-fashioned spring cleaning, the Frenchburg Job Corps won southern and eastern Kentucky’s PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award.A team of 23 students and staff members picked up litter at Botts Elementary School, Broke Leg Falls and Menifee County […]

Upper Chloe Improvement Club spring cleans in Pike County

Congressman Hal Rogers with members of the Upper Chloe Creek Improvement Club

Upper Chloe Creek in Pike County is a beautiful place, and the people who live there make sure it stays that way.Since 1980, residents have joined forces as the Upper Chloe Improvement Club. Every spring, they volunteer to clean and beautify the roads and creeks in the area. Kenneth and Gerrie Kinder organize the club’s […]

Somerset’s Bobby Clue is PRIDE Volunteer of the Month

Bobby Clue accepted the PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award from PRIDE’s Tammie Wilson.

Bobby Clue, Executive Director of the Somerset-Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce, has been honored for his leadership in recruiting volunteers for the annual PRIDE Clean Sweep of US 27.Clue received the PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award during the volunteer appreciation luncheon at the fifth annual Clean Sweep, which was held April 16 and drew […]

Dale Hollow Spring Cleanup champions are region’s top volunteers

Mark Brewington and Patty Brendel accepted their plaques for the PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award at the Dale Hollow Spring Cleanup on March 23.

Patty Brendel and Mark Brewington were honored at the Dale Hollow Spring Cleanup on March 23 for their leadership in organizing the event and for promoting recycling.They received the PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award from Eastern Kentucky PRIDE, a nonprofit organization with the mission of promoting environmental cleanup and education across 42 counties of […]

2013 Spring Cleanup T-shirt designed by Whitley City 3rd-grader

Congressman Hal Rogers congratulated Casey Joe Stephens for designing the 2013 PRIDE Spring Cleanup T-shirt

  Casey Joe Stephens, a third-grade student at Whitley City Elementary School, was surprised today to learn he won a region-wide contest to design the 2013 PRIDE Spring Cleanup T-shirt — which will be given to thousands of volunteers across 42 counties of southern and eastern Kentucky in April. Stephens, who is […]

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