Posted on: August 9, 2022
PHOTO #1: Volunteers with the City of Victoria pose for a photo during the 2021 Fall Sweep.
PHOTO #2: Volunteers with the Victoria East High School baseball team pose for a photo during the 2021 Fall Sweep.
PHOTO #3: Volunteers with St. Joseph High School p...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: July 12, 2022
PHOTO: LyondellBasell leadership presented a $1,500 check to Keep Victoria Beautiful on June 23 at City Hall.
Keep Victoria Beautiful received a $1,500 donation from LyondellBasell to be used for beautification grants.
“We are thankful for LyondellBasell’s ...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: May 17, 2022
PHOTO #1: Students with Crossroads Business and Education Connection’s YOUth LEADership Conference place flowers in a hanging planter at Keep Victoria Beautiful’s headquarters on July 15, 2021. Keep Victoria Beautiful hosted the seventh-grade students for...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: May 10, 2022
PHOTO: Santa Rita Market received the Keep Victoria Beautiful Business Beautification Award for May. KVB officials plan to help even more property owners beautify their spaces with a new grant program.
Keep Victoria Beautiful is partnering with private don...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: March 22, 2022
PHOTO #1: About 160 volunteers attended the Silver City neighborhood cleanup hosted by Keep Victoria Beautiful on March 5. Community members collected 67 tons of brush and bulky trash and 215 tires at 41 residences during the cleanup.
PHOTO #2: Keep Victor...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: November 25, 2020
Keep Victoria Beautiful is seeking volunteers to help with the organization’s first community-led beautification event since its revival and integration with the City earlier this year.
“We’d like to host these types of events on a regular basis going forw...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: September 22, 2020
PHOTO: A Solid Waste truck collects residential recycling in Victoria.
Residents who are normally scheduled for trash, recycling and yard waste collection Monday will have an adjusted schedule this week only.
- Trash will be collected on Wednesday, ...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: August 31, 2020
PHOTO #1: The water tanks at Water Pumping Plant No. 3, located at Airline Road and Ben Jordan Street, recently were pressure-washed.
PHOTO #2: The water tanks at Water Pumping Plant No. 3, located at Airline Road and Ben Jordan Street, recently were dark-...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: August 24, 2020
PHOTO: City of Victoria Environmental and Beautification coordinator Tiffany Koenig and Victoria County Precinct 1 Constable Gary Smejkal appear in a promotional image for the “Tarp or Ticket” campaign, which encourages residents to properly secure garbag...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: July 13, 2020
PHOTO #1: From left, Councilman Rafael De La Garza III, City of Victoria Mayor Rawley McCoy and Environmental Services Director Darryl Lesak stand in front of the newly renovated “Welcome to Victoria” sign on Bloomington Highway.
PHOTO #2: The City of Vict...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: June 1, 2020
PHOTO: Keep Victoria Beautiful board chair Shannon Longoria stands May 22 outside the headquarters of the City’s Keep Victoria Beautiful program at the historic Hiller House, 3003 N. Vine St.
The City of Victoria Environmental Services revived its Keep Vic...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services
Posted on: May 15, 2020
Golden Crescent Habitat for Humanity provided breakfast to City of Victoria Solid Waste staff May 14 as a way of saying thank you for their hard work. Solid Waste staff has been working throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including during the “Stay Home – S...
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2020 - Spotlight - Environmental Services