Ron Chiles, president of the Green Pastures Progressive Community Association, is being honored in the Keep Oklahoma Beautiful (KOB) "Volunteer Spotlight" during August.
Since 2001, Ron has been leading a group of approximately 40 volunteers from Green Pastures during the Oklahoma City Beautiful "Litter Blitz". Each Spring, the group Ron organizes collects on average - 130 bags of trash across 150 square miles. Taking into account that an average bag of litter weighs 20 pounds, Ron and his volunteers have collected 23,400 pounds of litter over the past 9 years. “Ron is always upbeat and undaunted by the size of the project in front of him,” remarked OKC Beautiful Program Manager Nicki Largent.
In addition to the group's litter pickup activities, they also aided in the removal of 36 illegal dumpsites. In 2008, this group of highly motivated volunteers conducted a tire cleanup campaign that resulted in 3,000 tires being collected for recycling.
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Volunteers from the Green Pastures Progressive Community Association during the 2010 Great American Cleanup