18th Annual Keep Manatee Beautiful Golf Tournament

January 24th, 2012 by Jim

Friday, May 18, 2012

Tara Golf & Country Club

6602 Drewry’s Bluff
Bradenton, FL 34203
941-758-7961
www.taragcc.com

 Attire: Collared shirt, no denim, soft spikes only
Format: Four-Person, Best-Ball Scramble
Deadline for Entry: May 4, 2012
Entry Fee includes: Greens fee, cart, range balls, team photo, goody bag, lunch buffet and awards presentation

Contests include

  • Low Gross & Runner-Up
  • Low Net & Runner-Up
  • Closest to the Pin/Longest Drive Men’s & Women’s
  • Putting Contest
  • Dice Roll & Golf Ball Drop to Win Trip for Four to St. Andrews, Scotland – buy tickets at www.Anna MariaRotary.org

Golf Tournament Schedule

11:00 a.m. – Registration Begins, Lunch Buffet, Complimentary Range Balls, Buy Mulligans/Raffle Tickets, Putt for Prizes
12:30 p.m. – Golf Ball Drop to Win Trip for Four to St. Andrews, Scotland – buy tickets at www.Anna MariaRotary.org
1:00 p.m. – Shotgun Start & Contests, Team Photos on Hole #9
5:00 p.m. – Awards with Snacks, Cash Bar, Raffle Prizes

Registration Information

To register for play or to be a sponsor, by May 4, 2012  please complete the Golf Entry Form Brochure 2012 and make payment on our website or by mail to:

Keep Manatee Beautiful, Inc.
P.O. Box 14426
Bradenton, FL 34280

Procedes make visible envioronmental enhancements

Keep Manatee Beautiful, a nonprofit organization and local affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, is dedicated to promoting community awareness and involvement in litter prevention, recycling and beautification throughout Manatee County.

Keep Manatee Beautiful’s team of 6,308 volunteers is making visible improvements to the environmental quality of Manatee County’s public spaces – planting trees and landscaping, creating and enhancing parks, ridding litter from roads, shores and neighborhoods, removing graffiti and providing pollution prevention education to bus users, motorists, beach goers, boaters and anglers.

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Golf Ball Drop

January 24th, 2012 by Jim

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Become a Golf Tournament Sponsor

January 24th, 2012 by Jim

Help Keep Manatee Beautiful a nonprofit organization dedicated to litter prevention, beautification and environmental improvement throughout Manatee County, by becoming a sponsor for the 18th Annual Keep Manatee Beautiful Golf Tournament

Event Sponsor….$1,500
Includes 2 foursome fees, logo in advance ads, your banner at lunch & awards, logo on event banner, Tee & Green Signage (2 signs)

Concession Carts Signage Sponsor….$1,000
Includes 1 foursome fee, logo in advance ads, name on concession carts, name on event banner

Golf Hole Sponsor….$600
Includes 1 foursome fee, name on event banner, Tee & Green Signage (2 signs)

Tee or Green Sponsor….$500
Includes 1 foursome fee, name on event banner, Tee or Green Sign (1 sign)

Mulligan Stick Sponsor….$350
Includes advertisement on each stick’s flag distributed to each foursome

Tee, Green or Golf Contest (Closest to the Pin, Longest Drive, Putting Contest) Signage Sponsor….$250
Includes 1 sign at location & name on event, banner (no foursome included)

Keep Manatee Beautiful Federal Tax ID #65-0250760. A copy of the official registration SC-08994 and financial information may be obtained from the Division of Consumer Services by calling toll free within the state (800) 435-7532. Registration does not imply endorsement, approval or recommendation by the state. Keep Manatee Beautiful retains 100 percent of the contributions received for its nonprofit purposes.

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Thanks to our 2011 Teams & Sponsors

January 16th, 2012 by Jim

Free Form Category

1st Place
Team: Bayshore High School Nat. Art Honor Society
Sponsor: Rusty & Ingrid McClellan
Sculpture: Visit to Grandma’s

Runner-up
Team: Braden River High School Key Club
Sponsor: Kiwanis of Lakewood Ranch
Sculpture: Mount Toy Story

Holiday Category

1st Place
Team: Bradenton Christian High School Art Department
Sponsor: Waste Pro
Sculpture: Island of Sandy Toys
Runner-up
Team: Manatee High School Anchor Club Team 1
Sponsor: Manatee High School Anchor Club
Sculpture: Waiting for Santa

Nautical Category

1st Place
Team: Manatee School for the Arts
Sponsor: Linda Evans Photography & The Anna Maria Islander
Sculpture: Fish are Friends not Food

Runner-up
Team: Manatee High School Anchor Club Team 2
Sponsor: Bradenton Lions Club & Metro

Medallion Awards – Team & Sponsor

  • Ad-VANCE Talent Solutions, Ad-VANCE Talent Solutions – Pearls & Girls
  • Braden River Middle School, NJHS Waste Services of Florida, Inc. – Togetherness
  • King Middle School Environmental Club, King Middle School Env. Club & Mosaic – OctoKing
  • Lincoln Middle School Student Council, John Neal Homes – A Lincoln Christmas
  • Manatee High School Art Club/Dept., Waste Pro – Chillin
  • Southeast High School Key Clu,b Mosaic – The Key to Service
  • Southeast High School VPA Academy, Florida Power & Light Company – Cornucopia
  • SCF Earth Club & Phi Theta Kappa, Sarasota Bay Estuary Program – Educating the Planet
  • Palmetto High School The Tigers, Waste Management – Tiger

Special thanks to our Sponsors

2011 SandBlast sponsors

 

 

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2011 Awards Celebration

January 3rd, 2012 by Jim

Keep Manatee Beautiful, the local Keep America Beautiful affiliate, annually honors the outstanding efforts of citizens involved in enhancing Manatee County’s communities. The following schools, businesses, governmental agencies, neighborhoods, organizations and citizens received 2011 awards for demonstrating leadership by surpassing the norm in litter cleanup and prevention, beautification, and minimizing the impacts of waste to enhance Manatee County.

Program Volunteer Awards

  • Adopt-A-Highway – Kiwanis Club of Cortez & Manatee School for the Arts
  • Adopt-A-Road – Palmetto High School Interact Club & Southeast High School Seminole Pride
  • Adopt-A-Shore – Kurt & Kim Phillips & Surfrider Suncoast Chapter
  • Storm Drain Marking – De Soto Boys & Girls Club

Leave Your Mark – Keep America Beautiful Schools of the Year

  • Elementary School – Rowlett Elementary School
  • Middle School – Braden River Middle School
  • High School – Manatee High School

Public Service Awards

  • Outstanding Personal Contribution – Shannon DeGaetano & Esther & Lawrence Ricker
  • Business & Industry, Small Businesses – 1 Stop Landscaping, Air & Energy, Bunker Hill Vineyard & Winery, Environmental Biotech International, Fawley Bryant Architects & Living Out East Magazine
  • Business & Industry, Large Businesses – Arrow Environmental Services, Energy & Sustainability Consultants, Flowers Baking Company, Pittsburg Pirates, St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, Turner Tree & Landscape, Waste Pro & Willis A. Smith Construction
  • Community Organizations – Manatee County Community Action Team & Palma Sola Park Association
  • Media – Bradenton Herald, Bright House Networks & The Bradenton Times
  • Government Partnership – Manatee County Government
  • Law Enforcement – City of Bradenton Code Enforcement Division
  • Youth Volunteers – Manatee High School Key Club

 Recycling Awards

  • Small Business – Royal Palm Car Wash & Turner Tree & Landscape
  • Large Businesses – Pittsburg Pirates & Bradenton Marauders & School District of Manatee County Adult Organization El Rancho Village
  • Individual – Tracey Dodge of Nolan Middle School

Landscape Awards

  • Small Business – Royal Palm Car Wash
  • Large Business – Mosaic for Bunker Hill Community Park
  • Public Open Space – Manatee County Natural Resources for Robinson Preserve
  • Public Building – King Middle School
  • Neighborhood Community – The Crossings
  • Multi-Family Community – Capetown Village

 Emerald Sponsors

Platinum Sponsor

Bronze Sponsors

Ad-VANCE Talent Solutions
Dieter’s Sod Service
Florida Power & Light Co.
Tropicana

Download a PDF of the Awards Ad Recipients 2011

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Don’t Top Trees

January 2nd, 2012 by Jim

Never cut main branches back to stubs. The sight of topped trees is all to common in the communities and along the roadways of America – trunks with stubby limbs standing naked in the landscape, trees stripped of all dignity and grace.

Trees are often topped because they grow into utility wires, interfere with views or solar collectors, or simply grow so large that they worry the landowner. But as one arborist has said, “Topping is the absolute worst thing you can do for the health of your tree.”

Why not to top: 8 good reasons

  1. Starvation: Topping removes so much of the tree’s leafy crown that it dangerously reduces the tree’s food-making ability.
  2. Shock: By removing the protective cover of the tree’s canopy, bark tissue is exposed to the direct rays of the sun. The resulted scalding can cause the tree’s death.
  3. Insect and Disease: The exposed ends of topped limbs are highly vulnerable to insect invasion or decay fungi spores.
  4. Weak Limbs: New branches that grow from stubbed limbs are weakly attached and more liable to break from snow or ice weight.
  5. Rapid New Growth: Instead of controlling the height and spread of the tree, topping has the opposite effect. New branches are more numerous and often grow higher than before.
  6. Tree Death: Some tree species can’t tolerate major branch loss and still survive. At best, they remain weak and disease-prone.
  7. Ugliness: A topped tree is a disfigured tree. Even with new growth, it never regains the grace and character of its species.
  8. Cost: The true cost of topping is often hidden – lower property values, expense of removal and replacement if the tree dies.

Proper pruning – the alternative to topping

When a decision is made to reduce the size of an older tree, it can be topped, or it can be pruned properly. Although the speed of and nature of regrowth will depend on species and local factors, any comparison between irresponsible topping and competent pruning will be dramatic.

  • Year 1: The topped tree is an ugly stub and a remnant of a once lovely tree. If pruned properly, the tree’s size is reduced but form and beauty are retained.
  • Year 3: Vigorous sprouts have sprung out of the topped tree in large numbers and are growing with abnormal rapidity. The pruned tree adds growth, but it does so more slowly and distributes it more normally.
  • Year 6: In a relatively short time, the topped tree is as tall – and far bushier and more dangerous – than it was to begin with. The properly pruned tree is safer, more beautiful, and its size is better controlled.

Article from the Tree City USA Bulletin of the National Arbor Day Foundation. Download and post a copy of the Don’t Top Trees article.

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