Everyone is invited to participate with the Girl Scouts of America (Honor Association of Girl Scout Diamonds of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas) and the Cities of Texarkana to Keep Texarkana Beautiful and recycle your Christmas tree.

Please bring your Christmas tree to one of our six locations between December 26 and January 6 and two additional locations on January 3rd. Throughout the initial collection period you may drop your tree in one of the six areas marked with a banner that says Texarkana Water Utilities – Christmas Tree Recycling Site and is enclosed with bright orange safety fencing at:

1. Farmer’s Market, Jefferson Avenue and East 9th Street, Texarkana, Arkansas
2. Wright Patman Water Treatment Plant, 2700 New Boston Road, Texarkana, Texas
3. Ed Worrell Park on East 35th Street and Don Bearden Drive, Texarkana, Arkansas
4. Texarkana Water Utility main office at West 9th Street and Olive Street, Texarkana, Texas
5. Field just east of Trinity Baptist Church at Trinity Blvd and Arkansas State Hwy 245, Texarkana, Arkansas
6. South Regional Compost Site, 4000 South State Line, Texarkana, Texas

You may also bring your Christmas tree to Spring Lake Park or Grady T. Wallace Park between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on January 3, 2009. Girl Scouts will be present at these sites and offer a 40lb bag of TWU compost for each tree brought for recycling (one bag per person).

All trees will be taken by Waste Management or TWU personnel to the South Regional Compost Site and recycled into usable compost. In the Spring Girl Scouts will plant one tree in the community for each Christmas tree brought to the eight sites.

Recycle, Help Keep Texarkana Beautiful.

PLEASE, no artificial trees.

The Cities of Texarkana, Bowie County, and Miller County have instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System - an ultra high-speed telephone communication service for emergency notifications. This system allows us to telephone all or targeted areas of the city or county in case of an emergency situation that requires immediate action (such as a boil-water notice, missing child or evacuation notices). The system is capable of dialing 60,000 phone numbers per hour. It then delivers our recorded message to a live person or an answering machine, making three attempts to connect to any number.