WELCOME! You are receiving this newsletter as a KMB member, friend, volunteer or supporter to stay updated on KMB news, events, and volunteer opportunities. YOU make KMB activities possible, and through your actions every day, you help keep our community clean, green, and beautiful. THANK YOU! (photo below by Kenny Nobles' Photography) #welovewherewelive

RIVERS ALIVE! Oct. 21

Barrington Park / Altamaha River CLEANUP

KEEP MCINTOSH BEAUTIFUL WILL BE HERE! FIND US! WE'LLHAVE LOTS OF INFO AND FUN GIVEAWAYS!

DARIEN FALL FESTIVAL 2023! SATURDAY, NOV.4.

The Darien Lions Club will be hosting the annual Fall Festival this year! Join us as we celebrate fall and the beginning of the holiday season. The Classic Coastal Cruisers Car Show and Doggie Day Parade as well as many arts & crafts vendors, food trucks, activities for the kids (young & old), face painting, live music on Broad Street with Annie Akins and then Cole Turner and then the Ft Stewart 3rd I.D. Orchestra will be playing on the waterfront. Bounce houses and so much more!! ADMISSION IS FREE! 

MCINTOSH COMMUNITY Nov. 18

ANNUAL RECYCLING EVENT

Keep McIntosh Beautiful is sponsoring the annual Community Recycling Event on Saturday, November 18, from 9 AM – 1 PM behind the McIntosh Middle School at 500 Greene Street, Darien, GA. 

- We will be COLLECTING:

----Electronics of all kinds

----Flat Screen TVs (no tube TVs)

----Ink cartridges

----Household Goods

----Scrap Metal & Appliances

----CFL Light Bulbs & Fluorescent Tubes (up to 4' ONLY)

----Batteries

All services are FREE! Our partners for this event are Southern Metals Recycling, McIntosh County Schools, Sensible Recycling (see details below of what is accepted and what’s not), and Waste Management. 

Assistance will be available for unloading items and materials from vehicles.  Each participant will also receive an updated McIntosh County Recycling Guide, listing where a wide variety of items and materials can be taken for reuse or recycling in our area. Still have questions? director@keepmcintoshbeautiful.com or call 912-289-1083. Will post more details as we get them.

We'll be giving away FREE live OAK seedlings at

Darien's Second Saturday Jan.13! Come get you one!

Mark your calendars! Our annual OYSTER ROAST & BBQ FUNDRAISER is Feb. 10! Tickets on sale soon...

The MEMBER/VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION

& OPEN HOUSE was a HUGE SUCCESS!

THANK YOU to everyone that came out to the Saltwater Fishing Club in Shellman Bluff Sept. 28 for our MEMBER/VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION & OPEN HOUSE! Working Together for a Clean, Green, Beautiful Darien and McIntosh County!

Great FOOD! The Board of Directors absolutely outdid themselves! A big THANKS to Jackie Cox Mull for helping from start to finish! CONGRATULATIONS to our “Adopt-A Highway, Park or Spot” Volunteer Rockstar of the Year Andy Shaul with the Belvedere Island Plantation neighborhood! Thanks to our friends UGA Extension/4-H McIntosh County for coming out with loads of info! Guests were blown away by the UPCYCLED ART created by Joan Nichols’ McIntosh Middle School art students!

Thanks!

Tracy Sanford

Executive Director

TAKE THE #BERECYCLED PLEDGE!