KIB Partners with Girl Scouts for Service Project Event Celebrates Girl Scouts of America’s 110th Birthday
March 12 marked the 110 anniversary of the Girl Scouts of the USA, and the organization celebrated this occasion through service projects across the country. Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) was chosen as one of the community partners to host an event to clean up the area near the Rock Island Road Bike... - March 19, 2022
KIB Partners with CHRIST Church Irving’s "516 Students" Youth Group Group Conducts Cleanup and Makes Birdhouses
CHRIST Church Irving’s “516 Students” youth group recently partnered with Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) for two service projects. Youth and mentors from the church’s student ministry program collected 80 pounds of trash and recyclables to cleanup a neighborhood near Irving... - March 11, 2022
KIB Partners with Abbott Laboratories for Tree Planting Volunteers Replant Trees Damaged by Winter Storms
If you stroll along O’Connor Road just north of Highway 183, you are sure to notice a welcome greenery addition to the path. On March 2, Abbott Laboratories employees partnered with Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) and the City of Irving Urban Forestry Team to plant 21 trees, a mix of cedar elm,... - March 10, 2022
Keep Irving Beautiful to Host Don’t Mess with Texas Trash-Off April 2
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) invites the public to participate in the “Don’t Mess with Texas Trash-Off,” our state’s signature event of the “Great American Cleanup,” the nation’s largest community improvement program. Irving’s event is scheduled for 9... - March 02, 2022
Keep Irving Beautiful Brings Valentine’s Day Joy to Seniors Volunteers Write 643 Cards for Nursing Home Residents
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) followed their holiday card campaign with a similar project for Valentine’s Day. KIB invited community members to make or write cards for residents of local nursing homes. A total of 524 community members donated 643 cards. This represented 545 volunteer hours and... - February 23, 2022
KIB Partners with Cistercian for MLK Day Service Project
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) partnered with Cistercian Preparatory School for a Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day service project on Jan. 17 at the City of Irving Tree Farm. The City of Irving’s Urban Forestry Team guided the group of 81, which included students, teachers, and parents, to add... - January 21, 2022
Keep Irving Beautiful Holiday Card Project a Success Volunteers Write 535 Cards and Letters for Nursing Home Residents
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) recently conducted a card and letter writing campaign with the goal of bringing some holiday cheer to local nursing home residents. What started as an idea from Irving Girl Scouts, grew into a project that involved 170 community members writing a total of 535 holiday... - December 16, 2021
KIB Partners with Flowserve for Service Project Group Conducts Cleanup at Bird’s Fort Trail Park
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) recently partnered with the Flowserve Corporation for a cleanup project at Bird’s Fort Trail Park, part of Irving’s Campion Trail System. On Oct. 26, five employee volunteers met at the park for an afternoon of service, part of the company’s global... - October 30, 2021
KIB Partners with Vizient for Annual Community Day Group Paints at Fritz Park Petting Farm
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) recently partnered with Irving-based Vizient, Inc. for their annual “Community Day” project. On Oct. 12, 23 employee volunteers met at the Fritz Park Petting Farm for a morning of service in painting the large animal enclosure. These volunteers, armed with... - October 23, 2021
KIB Partners with Local Non-Profit Mission Tomorrow & Lowe’s for Beautification Project 100 Trees Planted at Cimarron Park
On Oct. 12, Cimarron Park was filled with activity as 41 volunteers teamed with the City of Irving Urban Forestry team to plant 100 trees along the walking trails. The project is a partnership between Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB), Mission Tomorrow, Lowe’s, Volunteer Now and the City of Irving... - October 16, 2021
KIB Celebrates 30th Annual Trash Bash - 350 Volunteers Participate at T.W. Richardson Grove
T.W. Richardson Grove Park was the site of the Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) 30th Annual Trash Bash, the organization’s signature cleanup event. A total of 350 volunteers gathered at the park Sept. 25, with a focus of stopping litter from reaching the nearby Elm Fork of the Trinity River. The... - October 01, 2021
Set Your Cameras: Irving Fall Photo Contest Begins Oct. 1 -Top 3 Winners Receive Prizes
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) and the Irving Archives and Museum invite the public to show how beautiful Irving is by participating in the Fall Photo Contest from Oct. 1 through Nov. 1. To participate, entries must meet the following requirements: · Photographs must be locations within the... - October 01, 2021
KIB Partners with Lively Adult Day Therapeutic Program Group Paints Birdhouses at Irving Museum’s Spark Lab
On Sept. 16, 10 members of the Lively Pointe Adult Day Therapeutic Program partnered with Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) at the Irving Archives and Museum (IAM) “Spark Lab” to paint birdhouses. Prior to the event, volunteers from Christ Church assembled the birdhouses from kits donated by... - September 23, 2021
KIB to Celebrate 30th Annual Trash Bash - Volunteers Invited to Register Online or Participate Remotely
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) will celebrate the 30th annual Trash Bash on Saturday, Sept 25 at T.W. Richardson Grove Park, 333 E. Interstate Highway 635, from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers will focus their efforts on the Northern Campion Trails and surrounding area, with the goal of keeping litter from... - September 03, 2021
Keep Irving Beautiful Partners with Girl Scout Troops at Spark!Lab Scouts Build Birdhouses and Explore Museum
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) enjoys partnerships with a variety of organizations and city departments. KIB’s most recent collaboration was with the City of Irving’s Archives and Museum and Irving Girl Scout Troops 1810 and 6458. Eight scouts and four adult family members gathered at the... - August 13, 2021
Keep Irving Beautiful Present Annual Awards Local Community Members Honored at Ceremony
The annual Mayor and Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) Awards ceremony was held on August 2 in the First Baptist Church of Irving Fellowship Hall. Guests were treated to the beautiful sound of harp music as they entered the room, provided by the talented Becky Scherschell. Volunteers Elouise McMillian,... - August 06, 2021
Chuck E. Cheese Partners with KIB for Juneteenth Project; Group Gives Back at Running Bear Park
Irving-based CEC Entertainment, the nationally recognized leader in family entertainment and dining with its Chuck E. Cheese, Peter Piper Pizza, and delivery-only Pasqually's Pizza & Wings brands, recently reached out to Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) to help facilitate a day of service for their... - July 17, 2021
KIB Helps Nexstar and CW33 Celebrate Founder’s Day Group Conducts Cleanup at T.W. Richardson Grove Park
Keep Irving Beautiful partnered with Nexstar Media Group, Inc., America’s largest local television company, and the company’s Dallas television station, KDAF-TV (CW33) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the company with an event called “Founder’s Day of... - July 01, 2021
KIB Teams with Singley Academy Theatre Department Group Performs Environmental Skit at Cimarron Recreation Center
Cimarron Park Recreation Center was a flurry of activity on June 11, as Singley Academy theatre students and their director joined Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) for a lively presentation of an environmental mascot skit. The thespians took on the roles of KIB mascot Kirby the Toucan, Buddy the Blue... - June 18, 2021
Drug Enforcement Administration Dallas Office Employees Volunteer with Keep Irving Beautiful Group Conducts Cleanup at Bird’s Fort Trail Park
The Dallas office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently partnered with Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) for a service project at Bird’s Fort Trail Park, 5756 Riverside Dr. Ten employee volunteers gathered at the park, which is part of Irving’s Campion Trail, on April 20. - May 20, 2021
Star Park Las Colinas Teams with KIB for Beautification Project Group Paints at Fritz Park Petting Farm
Star Park Las Colinas, a new Lincoln Property Company apartment community, recently partnered with Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) for a beautification project. On May 6, four employees met KIB staff at Fritz Park in Irving to paint at the Petting Farm. The enthusiastic group added a fresh coat of... - May 12, 2021
Keep Irving Beautiful Recognized as Gold Star Affiliate by Keep Texas Beautiful 70 Texas Communities Honored for Their Exceptional Community Improvement Efforts
Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB), a statewide grassroots environmental and community improvement nonprofit organization, recently named Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) a Gold Star Affiliate, a designation granted to 70 affiliates of KTB’s nearly 300 affiliates. Gold Star Affliate is the highest... - May 05, 2021
KIB Hosts Hybrid "Don’t Mess with Texas Trash-Off" Cleanup 104 Volunteers Participate in Person and Virtually
Trinity View Park was the site for Keep Irving Beautiful’s (KIB) annual spring cleanup event, the "Don’t mess with Texas Trash-Off," part of the state’s signature event for the national Great American Cleanup initiative. On April 10, volunteers arrived early, according... - April 22, 2021
Acosta Cares Volunteers with Keep Irving Beautiful Group Plants 25 Trees at Running Bear Park
The walking trail at Running Bear Park now is lined with more trees, thanks to the recent efforts of volunteers from the Acosta Cares team, a group of employees from Acosta Sales and Marketing and Mosaic Sales Solutions. On April 6, eight Acosta Cares volunteers partnered with Keep Irving Beautiful... - April 10, 2021
Girl Scouts Participate in Spring Break Service Project with Keep Irving Beautiful Troops 1810, 6458 Clean at Rock Island Trail
What do Irving Girl Scout Troops do during spring break? They find a way to be of service to the community. Members of Troops 6458 and 1810 joined with Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) for a cleanup March 17 near the Rock Island Road Bike and Pedestrian Trail. The troops participated in a similar... - March 24, 2021
Keep Irving Beautiful Earns Keep America Beautiful’s President’s Circle Award Recognition
Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit organization, has presented Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) with its 2020 President’s Circle Award. The President’s Circle Award recognizes exemplary performance by certified affiliates of Keep America... - March 18, 2021
Irving Girl Scout Troops 6458, 1810, Join Keep Irving Beautiful Conduct Group Cleanup at Rock Island Trail
Members of Irving Girl Scout Troops 6458 and 1810 started their weekend early by participating in a cleanup project with Keep Irving Beautiful Feb. 5. The scouts and two adult sponsors met at the KIB office after school, then headed to the new Rock Island Road Bike and Pedestrian Trail. Observing... - February 14, 2021
Kimley-Horn Employees Volunteer with Keep Irving Beautiful Group Kicks Off 2021 with Bird’s Fort Trail Park Cleanup Project
Employees from the Irving office of Kimley-Horn started 2021 by volunteering with Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) Jan. 15 in a company-wide service day. Kimley-Horn, one of the nation’s leading planning and design consulting firms, begins each year with its annual company “Kickoff.”... - January 27, 2021
Keep Irving Beautiful Takes America Recycles Day to Social Media - Volunteers Display Innovative Creations
America Recycles Day (ARD), celebrated annually on Nov. 15, is a nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting recycling in the United States. It is a Keep America Beautiful (KAB) program, and as the local KAB affiliate, Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) is one of hundreds of similar organizations... - November 22, 2020
Acosta Cares Volunteers Plant Trees with KIB, Parks Department Group Adds 25 Trees to West Library Grounds
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) planned for 2020 to be the “Year of the Tree” in Irving. With the help of numerous corporate sponsors, dedicated volunteers, and the Parks Arbor Team, KIB made its goal a reality. The latest tree planting event took ran Nov. 10 at West Irving Library. The... - November 19, 2020
Young Men’s Service League Teams with Keep Irving Beautiful Irving Hawks Chapter; Completes Service Projects
The Young Men’s Service League (YMSL) is a national organization whose members are mothers and their high school-age sons. The group’s mission is to assist, serve and support those who are in need in the community, develop leadership skills and promote mother-son relationships. Locally,... - November 07, 2020
KIB Volunteers Continue Service Projects Dawoodi Bohras, All Things Made New, Make 22 No-Sew Blankets
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) volunteers are staying active by participating in projects they can accomplish without gathering in large groups. One example is KIB’s No-Sew Blanket Project, where volunteers work individually, in small groups or as families. Recently, 18 members of the Dawoodi... - October 23, 2020
Acosta/Mosaic Joins KIB, Parks Department to Plant Trees Service Project at Bird’s Fort Trail
Acosta Cares volunteers, Acosta Marketing employees, as well as employees from Mosaic Sales Solutions joined Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) and the City of Irving Parks and Recreation arbor team Oct. 9 to plant native trees at Bird’s Fort Trail. The group of five volunteers provided twelve hours... - October 16, 2020
KIB Celebrates 29th Annual Trash Bash via Social Media; Volunteers Participate in #IrvingTrashBash
The Trash Bash is typically the largest volunteer event of the year for Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB), with hundreds of people gathering in one location for a cleanup. The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated some changes to that plan, but did not stop the 29th annual event from proceeding. The event... - October 03, 2020
Keep Irving Beautiful Honored by STAR-North Texas Virtual Awards Ceremony Held Aug. 13
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) recently was recognized by the State of Texas Alliance for Recycling (STAR) North Texas Chapter with Honorable Mention in the “Outstanding Public Outreach Program” category. A virtual awards ceremony was held Aug. 13 to honor the award winners in all... - August 15, 2020
Keep Irving Beautiful Presents Annual Awards - Local Community Members Honored in Virtual Ceremony
The Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) annual Mayor and KIB Awards event was held virtually and streamed on YouTube Premiere Aug. 3. Irving Community Television Network (ICTN) edited videos of all the winners and presented a finished product, which was as close to the live event as possible. Mayor... - August 07, 2020
Keep Irving Beautiful, Aquatics Staff Work Together; Groups Team Up to Paint Senter Pool Fencing
Summers for Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) are usually filled with projects where they work with a variety of volunteers from corporate, faith, civic or youth groups. This year the KIB staff has stayed busy by adjusting their schedules to a new parameter and working with City of Irving staff instead... - July 26, 2020
Keep Irving Beautiful, Local Girl Scouts Work Together Scouts, Parents Paint City Central Receiving Building
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) welcomed its first group of volunteers in several weeks to participate in a beautification project on May 27 and June 19. Members of Girl Scout Troop 6458 became the first volunteers to join KIB in a service project since the COVID-19 disaster mandates. In the first... - July 01, 2020
Local Girl Scout Troops, Student and Keep Irving Beautiful Make No-Sew Blankets
Members of Irving-based Girl Scout Troops 6458, 2871 and a University of Dallas (UD) student participated in the Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) “No-Sew Blanket Project.” Following social distance guidelines, KIB provided blanket kits for the volunteers to take home and complete. As an... - May 28, 2020
Keep Irving Beautiful Recognized as Gold Star Affiliate by Keep Texas Beautiful - 57 Texas Communities Honored for Their Exceptional Community Improvement Efforts
Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) recently named Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) a Gold Star Affiliate, a designation granted to 57 affiliates of KTB’s nearly 300 affiliates. Since 2004, KTB’s Gold Star Affiliate recognition rewards communities who have gone above and beyond the... - April 16, 2020
Baha’i Community of Irving Volunteers with Keep Irving Beautiful Members Make 18 No-Sew Blankets
The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’i Faith of Irving is the most recent group to participate in the Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) “No-Sew Blanket Project.” Eight Baha’i Faith volunteers worked in different locations to make eighteen blankets, for a combined 40 hours of service. - April 11, 2020
Keep Irving Beautiful Mascots Visit Irving’s Heritage Senior Center
On March 7, Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) mascots Kirby the Toucan, Buddy the Blue Bag and Litterbug visited Irving’s Heritage Senior Center, 200 S. Jefferson St. The mascot trio performed an educational skit about the benefits of recycling and taking care of our environment. The Heritage... - March 13, 2020
UPS Employees Update Paint at Irving’s Senter Park Recreation Center
Employees from the United Parcel Service (UPS) Red River District partnered with Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) to add a fresh coat of paint inside the Senter Park Recreation Center, 901 S. Senter Road. The group of nine volunteers spent a total of 31.5 service hours painting columns, a wall in the... - March 08, 2020
Whole Foods Market Volunteers with Keep Irving Beautiful Beautification Project at Senter East
Employee volunteers from the Irving Whole Foods Market joined Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) for a beautification project Feb. 20. Joined by a student from the North Lake College Service Learning program, the group painted the hallway and kitchen of the Senter East Community Building, giving sixteen... - February 26, 2020
Keep Irving Beautiful Hosts Volunteer Opportunity at Emerge 2020 Conference Volunteers from Religious Conference Management Association Craft No-Sew Blankets
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) hosted a volunteer opportunity during the Religious Conference Management Association (RCMA) Feb. 4 at the Irving Convention Center, 500 W. Las Colinas Blvd. During the RCMA Emerge 2020 conference, KIB partnered with the Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau to assist... - February 09, 2020
Keep Irving Beautiful Visits Heritage Senior Center
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) staff discussed recycling and public cleaning Jan. 24 at the Heritage Senior Center, 200 S. Jefferson St. KIB staff gave guests recycling gifts to use at home that included reusable shopping bags, blue recycling bags, recycled books, jar grippers made from recycled... - February 01, 2020
Keep Irving Beautiful, Shake Shack Volunteers Held Beautification Project
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday was designated as a national day of service in 1994, inspiring people to make a difference in the community. That was the case with employee volunteers from Shake Shack, one of the new additions to Irving’s restaurant landscape, which partnered with Keep... - January 23, 2020
Keep Irving Beautiful, College Students, Host Beautification Project; Volunteers Paint Senter East Building
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) and North Lake College volunteers completed a beautification project Jan. 10 at the Senter East Building, 228 Chamberlain St. Six volunteers painted the building that will used for a variety of recreational activities throughout the year. The City of Irving’s... - January 18, 2020
Keep Irving Beautiful, Calvary Church Partner for Beautification Project Volunteers Plant Trees at Sam Houston Trail
Those who were walking dogs, riding bicycles or hiking at Sam Houston Trail on Dec. 14 likely noticed peculiar activity at the meadow: an enthusiastic group of volunteers, who were planting trees under the guidance of the City of Irving Parks and Recreation Department. Members of the Calvary Church... - December 19, 2019
Keep Irving Beautiful, Irving YMCA Seniors Partner for America Recycles Day
Keep Irving Beautiful (KIB) staff and a group of senior citizens gathered at the Irving Family YMCA on Nov. 21 for the annual America Recycles Day celebratory breakfast. America Recycles Day (ARD) is a nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting recycling in the United States. It is a KIB... - December 04, 2019