Events
Bring One for the Chipper
On Saturday January 4, 2003 from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m., Keep Sandy Springs North Fulton Beautiful will once again be offering the annual Christmas Tree Exchange at three locations. You can bring your tree to either of two Home Depot stores, 5950 State Bridge in Duluth or 6400 Peachtree Dunwoody in Sandy Springs. As always, the Schmalz Recycling Center will be accepting trees. All three of the locations will be offering a seedling in exchange for your Christmas tree. The trees will be chipped into mulch and used for public beautification projects, and is available free to Sandy Springs and North Fulton residents. As part of a statewide effort to reuse Christmas trees, Keep Georgia Beautiful and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs has joined with corporate sponsors The Home Depot, WXIA TV and The Davey Tree Expert Company to sponsor the 12th annual 'Bring One for the Chipper' program.
Earth Day
This year we partnered with Big Trees Forest Preserve and EPA to celebrate Earth Day. We provided trash containers and bins to collect recyclables. We displayed at a booth during the festival offering Keep America Beautiful literature and we also awarded the Water Drop Badge to participating Girl Scouts. We created an interactive childrenŐs art project demonstrating water conservation. We also celebrated Earth Day with 2500 students from 10 private and public schools by decorating brown grocery bags with environmental beautification messages. Whole Foods Market was our partner and provided the bags for the students. They were displayed in their store for a week and were used to pack groceries on Earth Day Weekend. Over 2,500 customers were able to read an important environmental message and learn more about taking individual responsibility.
Arbor Day
Keep Sandy Springs-North Fulton Beautiful celebrates Arbor Day annually through tree planting education programs at North Fulton schools and with a community event held on or near Georgia's Arbor Day, the third Friday in February each year. Our Community Arbor Day celebration typically includes a proclamation reading by a Fulton County elected official, brief presentations by urban forestry professionals, and community tree planting involving participants of all ages.
Our "Terrific Trees" tree planting education programs has been generously supported for the past four years through the Georgia Forestry Commission's Urban and Community Forestry Assistance program. Trees Sandy Springs is a community initiative and companion program, designed to reverse the decline of tree cover and increase appreciation for the benefits of trees in an urban environment, which is supported in part by funding from Fulton County.