The Tri-County Cineplex and PRIDE invite you to the 7th annual Corbin Bypass Cleanup, Saturday, Oct. 1, from 9 am until 11 am. A private movie party — with free movies, Pepsi, popcorn and hotdogs — will be enjoyed by all volunteers immediately after the cleanup. All volunteers will receive a T-shirt for their […]
Nature will come to life for students across southern and eastern Kentucky during this school year, thanks to funding announced today by Eastern Kentucky PRIDE, Inc., the nonprofit organization that promotes environmental cleanup and education across the region. PRIDE awarded $135,525 in Environmental Education Contracts to 95 schools, nonprofit organizations and other […]
Americans are invited to volunteer to improve public lands on National Public Lands Day (NPLD) Saturday, Sept. 24. Clay County residents can receive free supplies for their NPLD projects on Sept. 24 and Friday, Sept. 23. (PRIDE is supporting NPLD activities on Friday to allow Clay County schools to participate.) […]
Sept. 17, 2011, marked the beginning of the end for five illegal dumps in the Daniel Boone National Forest near Manchester, thanks to a partnership between PRIDE, the U.S. Forest Service’s Redbird Ranger District and Clay County Fiscal Court. The Forest Service awarded a grant to PRIDE to manage the project and dispose of the […]
For creating a play to teach children about the environment, the Paintsville High School PRIDE Club won southern and eastern Kentucky’s PRIDE Environmental Education Project of the Month Award. PRIDE Club members wrote the play, entitled I Am the Earth, and performed it May 18 in the PHS cafeteria for an audience of 110 kindergarten […]
Clay Johnson, a sixth-grade student at Virgie Middle School, earned southern and eastern Kentucky’s PRIDE Volunteer of the Month Award. PRIDE honored Johnson for spearheading a cleanup project and organizing a PRIDE Club while he was a fifth-grader at G. F. Johnson Elementary School during the 2010-2011 school year. Johnson recruited his classmates to adopt […]
We invite all schools in the PRIDE region to participate in the 2011/2012 PRIDE T-shirt design contest. PRIDE wants to give your students the opportunity to create the PRIDE 2012 theme and design a T-shirt to use for the 2012 PRIDE Spring Cleanup events. This would be a fun activity to allow your students […]
