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Please join us for an exclusive evening of comedy on Friday, September 28, 2007, 6:30 p.m. at the Silver Legacy Resort and Casino's Catch A Rising Star. Tickets are $20 per person and include two great acts of comedy, appetizers, and participation in our silent auction, which will include roundtrip airfare tickets to anywhere US Airways flies, including Hawaii and Alaska, courtesy of US Airways along with other great items.

To purchase tickets call KTMB at 775.851.5185 or the Silver Legacy Box Office at 1-800.MUST.SEE. Proceeds from this event will benefit KTMB's many programs such as Adopt-A-Park, Christmas Tree and Phone Book Recycling, educational workshops, Adopt-A-Spot, Neighborhood, Open Space, and River Cleanups.

The 10th Annual Truckee River Clean Up is set for Saturday, September 29, 2007 from 9 – noon. Volunteers are needed at various sites along the river for everything from trail building to general trash pick up. Last year over 300 volunteers pulled 13 tons of trash from the river and stenciled 60 storm drains to keep future dumping out of the river. Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful is working in partnership with Nevada Eco-Net, City of Reno, City of Sparks, Washoe County, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern Nevada and the with support of the Community Foundation and the Truckee River Fund to find even more volunteers for this year’s event. Click here for more information or click here to volunteer!

On July 24, volunteers helped survey the Truckee Meadows for litter during the annual Litter Index. The results indicated that while the overall cleanliness of the Truckee Meadows and its surrounding areas has slightly decreased, neighborhood areas continue to get cleaner. The litter index is a national initiative of Keep America Beautiful that provides a starting point for the litter prevention process.

To learn more and to see how clean your area is, visit www.ktmb.org.

KTMB would like to recognize those that are dedicated to creating a cleaner, more beautiful region through roadside litter cleanup. Adopters and sponsors that conducted summer quarter cleanups include: Allstate Insurance: Stan & Tenesa Mentzer, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Desert Research Institute, Faith Bible Church, Family and Friends of Doug Waugaman, Families of Wingfield Springs, GameTech International, Girl Scout Troop #392, Hidden Valley Homeowners Association, Holy Cross Catholic Community, Intuit: We Care and Give Back Program, Ironworkers Local 118, Jim Smith & Family, Leadership Reno/Sparks Alumni Association, Liberty Realty: Matt Kofsky, McCaffrey Family, Miller Heiman, Nevada Wilderness Project, Reno Host Lions Club, Reno Lawn & Landscape, Sierra Nevada Job Corps, Signature Landscapes, Spanish Springs High School Key Club, Spanish Springs Presbyterian Church, The Sprinkle Family, State Farm: Laurie Brazier, and Youth 2 Give.

To schedule your fall cleanup or to share pictures from a previous cleanup, contact the KTMB office at 775.851.5185 or email maia@beautiful.reno.nv.us. Post cleanup reports are the only way we can track cleanups, so please make sure they get to the KTMB office.

If you lost your post-cleanup report, please download one at www.ktmb.org/spot.htm and send it in.

Please note: adopters are required to clean their spots at least three times per year.

Marcus Liem, Program and Community Relations Director, will be leaving as of September 14th. He will become the Communications Director at the Nevada Disability Advocacy and Law Center. If you get a chance, please congratulate him on his new position. He will be greatly missed by all of us that have had an opportunity to work with him. Maia Dickerson has been promoted to Program Director as of September 17th. Katie Palani, former Program Assistant, is now the Public Information Specialist at the Catholic Community Services of Northern Nevada. As a result of Katie's departure we will be hiring a new part-time Program Assistant.

Donations by community members like you are what keep all of our great programs going. KTMB is a 501(c)3 non-profit and all donations are tax-deductible by using our tax-exempt #88-0254957. The following are just a few ways you can give to KTMB:

• Visit JustGive.org to make a secure online donation
• Give through the mail to P.O. Box 4712 Reno, NV 89510.
• Become a member of the Scolari’s Friendship Fund, by going to Customer Service and adding KTMB (#1990) as your Friendship Fund recipient. Every time you use your Preferred Value Card, Scolari’s donates a portion of their profits to us.
• Make GoodSearch your search engine. Go to www.goodsearch.com type in Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful in the “Who do you GoodSearch for” box, and click verify. Every time you do a search one cent will go to us.
• Buy New Belgium Beer! A percentage of profits of the New Belgium Brewing Company, makers of Fat Tire beer, go towards nonprofits in Nevada including KTMB.