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Best Buy employees help in Lehigh cleanup

By Staff | Nov 17, 2009

Keep Lehigh Acres Beautiful (KLAB) recently awarded a “Neat Street Award” to employees of Best Buy Store No. 1508, located in The Forum at Colonial Blvd. and I-75. The award was presented in recognition of the voluntary community service effort by store employees in recent Lehigh street clean ups.

Store employees also provided a $1,000 contribution to Keep Lehigh Acres Beautiful. The monetary donation by Best Buy is part of a corporate program called Tag Team.

Best Buy’s TAG Team program rewards employee community service hours by making a donation to charitable organizations where employee community service hours are performed.

In all, some 14 Best Buy employees contributed 64 hours of service helping clear road and canal right of ways of debris.

“It’s a wonderful project, we were glad to help. We had fun meeting people in the neighborhood and helping out,” said Glenda Rush, a Best Buy employee.

Keep Lehigh Acres Beautiful was formed in 2006 to fight illegal dumping, rid Lehigh streets of nuisance road signs, promote clean streets and raise environmental awareness.

Recently, KLAB has been working with the Lehigh Acres Weed and Seed project sub committees to organize neighborhood cleanup activities. In 2009 four neighborhood cleanups removed 9.6 tons of debris from Lehigh neighborhoods and road right-of- ways.