Annual Report 2024
Things happening with KMB next in 2024
J.T. Collier Memorial Leadership $1000 Scholarship 2025 scholarship app is here! Print the pages out, follow the criteria, return application to P.O. Box 583 McAlester, 74502.
Keep McAlester Beautiful’s J.T. Collier Memorial Leadership Scholarship is named after our founder, J.T. Collier. It is awarded yearly in the spring.
Who is Keep McAlester Beautiful?
We are citizens, volunteers, business supporters, and partner organizations who contribute time, money, labor, and supplies to ensure that McAlester continues to fulfill its potential as a great place to live and work. We don’t have time to point fingers, we are busy rolling up our sleeves and getting to work.
Keep McAlester Beautiful (formerly Pride In McAlester) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with the goal of making McAlester, Oklahoma a cleaner, safer, and more beautiful place to live and work.
We have a volunteer opportunity every month, often on the second Saturday of every month. We paint structures and flagpoles, and fire hydrants, we plant flowers and trees, we pick up litter (we pick up a lot of litter!), and we are behind the big spring and wide cleanups that happen at the former National Guard Armory in April and October.
Keep McAlester Beautiful (KMB) has a monthly lunch meeting on the third Thursday at 12 noon. We currently meet in the side room at The Yardbird, 315 E. Choctaw Ave. Everyone is welcome. We talk about upcoming events and projects. Maybe you have a project you’d like to see completed!
Our board of directors meet the second Thursday of every month at 12 noon at the Fire Department Administration and Training located at 1016 E. South Ave. It too is open to the public.
You can find us on Facebook (Keep McAlester Beautiful), on Instagram (keepmcalesterbeautiful), on X or Twitter (@PrideinMac), and on TikTok (@keepmcalesterbeautiful)
An Easy Guide to Recycling in McAlester
Adopt A Block
You can volunteer to help clean an area of McAlester, say the block you live on! Team up with your family, club, church or business. There are more than 35 adopters right now in McAlester. We have pickers, gloves, vests, and trash bags to lend so you can clean your streets. There is no commitment of how much time you spend on your block. Consider doing it quarterly, or at least twice a year. We ask that you let us know when you have cleaned and take pictures so we can share. We will put up an Adopt A Block sign in your that looks similar to this…
Contact us today at kmb@keepmcalesterbeautiful.com or call 918-424-9988.
Adopt A Park
Keep McAlester Beautiful is excited to partner with the City of McAlester and the Parks and Recreation Department to launch Adopt-A-Park! Individuals, families, groups or businesses are welcome to choose one of the city’s 16 parks and public use areas. Volunteers can pick up litter, mow, weed eat, remove graffiti, report park hazards, sweep courts and pathways, pull weeds, care for the ecosystems and report illegal dumping, storm damage injured or dead animals and other hazards or help with major park restorations.
Parks available for adoption include:
Arvest Park (the newest park)
Buffalo Run Disc Golf Course
Archery Park
Central Bark Dog Park
Will Rogers Park
Leadership Park
Mullen Park
Hutchison Park
Connally Skate Park
Thunderbird Park
Jeff Lee Park
Pete Rosso Park
Hunter Park
Komar Park
Puterbaugh Park
Rotary Park
Chadick Park
email: kmb@keepmcalesterbeautiful.com today for more information! or call us, 918-424-9988
Pictured below are members of McAlester Schools Athletics cleaning their adopted park, Chadick. The athletes clean their park monthly!
