Organization / Group

Thanks to the NAPS “skeleton” crew for a successful pre-Halloween Adopt-A-Highway pickup, removing lots of trash, recycling, and dangerous tree limbs from TS Michael.

The Holy Family Homeschoolers learned about tire recycling, landfill gas, leachate treatment and recycling during their trip to Frederick County’s Regional Landfill.

Caught in the Act were a group of United Way Day of Caring volunteers from Winchester First UMC who made Frederick County greener.

50 volunteers and 6 boats participated in the 2018 NAPS Creek Cleanup, ridding boatloads of trash and recycling from Chesapeake Bay waters near the mouth of the Great Wicomico River in Northumberland County. Visit NAPSva.org for more information (and a slideshow) – and volunteer for next year’s cleanup!

Wonderful/dedicated volunteers spending their Saturday morning planting living shoreline grass!

Our CHILL (Communities Helping Improve Local Lives) team devised a plan to clean up an area behind the high school to deter drug activity, improve the walkway between NAPA Auto Parts and Burger King, and to beautify that area of the community. It has been an ongoing project to clean up and clear out the pathway between the high school and Burger King which has become known as an area that allows for illegal drug activity and risky behaviors. CHILL members along with Shannon Wray and Jeff Kenzie from Seven Oaks Landscaping Company worked several hours on Saturday, June 16th to finish the project. They cleared liter and debris in the area, cleared trees and undergrowth surrounding the path that was in place to open up the visibility, replaced the old path with a newer and safer path, and tremendously improved the visibility in that area.

A while back, Keep Hopewell Beautiful installed two “Keep Hopewell Beautiful” signs (with NO use of Hopewell tax dollars) on Weston Circle in order to make the neighborhood more beautiful. We also planted nearly 100 daffodils around the dogwood trees to compliment the signs. Within the past couple of weeks, an anonymous resident placed a lovely flower pot in front of each sign.

Thank you to whoever did this! We with Keep Hopewell Beautiful really appreciate it! Drive by and check it out, this is community pride!

In celebration of Earth Day and to be good neighbors in our community, the staff of the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission and the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization did a quick 1-hr cleanup around our office parking lot, along the roadway, and around the drainage waterway behind our building. It is amazing how much litter we collected in such a short time. Top items collected: cigarette butts, food wrappers, cigarette butts, styrofoam…oh, and did we mention cigarette butts? This was the second year for this annual cleanup initiative.

Proud Richmond area Muslims happily and eagerly picked up trash along the North Trail.

Pictured, several members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association Richmond. The group brought 16 volunteers.

Providence RECenter was thrilled and honored to welcome the Lambda Kappa Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc., sorority to our grounds this Spring in conjunction with their Educational and Charitable Foundation’s National Impact Day Project. Almost 40 volunteers selflessly gave their time and service to restore, refresh and renew the grounds of Providence RECenter. Their herculean efforts were in honor of the sorority’s National Impact Day on May 20th, although this dedicated group prepared and worked hard leading up to this day as well. In addition to providing all of the labor, Sorority members visited the site multiple times to best assess the needs and inspected the current condition of the landscaping. They took it upon themselves to go beyond the initial tasks at hand and began brainstorming about how to best make their impact within a modest budget. After looking at the existing planters lining the entrance, they researched refurbishing them, and sourced out the appropriate sorority volunteers to add that to their growing task list. After their chapter meeting, the group generously offered to not only supply materials needed for the refurbishments, but to donate all of the necessary mulch and flowers for the beautification project.
Highlights of the project included refurbishing the entrance around the RECenter, trimming the hedges, mulching, refurbishing, including staining and repairing the existing planters, creating a bed area and planting flowers around the entrance sign, cleaning the sitting areas and planting flowers in the planter beds. Upon completion, the RECenter’s exterior was glowing. Among the comments received were,
“We thought those planters were new!” (when the Front Desk staff informed the patron that they had been refurbished, not replaced)
“The front entrance looks especially lovely today. Did you hire a landscaping service?”
“Providence looks beautiful!”
“Thank you for removing that dead bush!!”
Providence Staff cannot begin to show their appreciation enough for all of the love and attention received. Thank you, Alpha Kappa Alpha!