Keep Waxahachie Beautiful

10/05/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new record! 🏆

On Saturday, 33 volunteers from Hill City Waxahachie church group cleared 1,220 pounds of trash, breaking the previous KWB cleanup record of 1,081.2 pounds set in 2024.

And they did it in POURING rain! 🌧️ Kids and adults spent 3½ hours cleaning trash from Waxahachie’s streets and waterways.

That brings KWB’s year-to-date total to 2,892 pounds. With another Cleanup Closet event and our citywide cleanup on November 14 still ahead, we’re on track to surpass 3,000 pounds this year for the first time in our organization’s history!

Thank you, Hill City Waxahachie, for all your hard work and one very wet, record-breaking Saturday!

09/29/2026

WOW! This was one for the record books! We presented the first Keep Waxahachie Beautiful composting grant to Clift Elementary.

If you haven’t been to Clift, they have an active garden club and a chicken club. We loved getting to check out the coop! Members of the Partners in Education board joined us to celebrate, too.

Three composting grants are still available. This first round is focused on programs that help schoolchildren learn, and community gardens with an educational component are also eligible. If you’re interested in applying, please contact the Parks and Recreation Department for an application.

We can’t wait to see what Clift’s students grow and learn with their new composters.

09/27/2026

09/24/2026

We might know a little something about the exciting things coming to the Clift Elementary garden today. 👀🌱

We’re excited to be part of the surprise and can’t wait to share more soon. And Chi Chi may just have a new garden project to supervise.

Good morning from the Clift garden and Chi Chi the school chicken! We have some really exciting news coming to our garden this week! Stay tuned…

09/17/2026

❤️ Saturday was a beautiful example of what community service can look like.

🇺🇸 55 volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spent their Saturday morning serving Waxahachie as part of the National 9/11 Day of Service.

🤝 Keep Waxahachie Beautiful partnered with the City of Waxahachie Code Compliance team to identify several properties where residents could use some extra help.

💪 The volunteers came ready to work! Kids, adults, and missionaries cleared brush and overgrowth, hauled debris, trimmed vegetation, and tackled projects that would have been difficult for residents to complete on their own. They even built a new set of stairs at one property where the previous stairs had rotted away. 🪚🔨

🚛 By the end of the cleanup, volunteers had cleared and hauled away 15 truckloads of material!

🌿 This was a new kind of cleanup for KWB, and we loved seeing so many volunteers willing to serve their neighbors in such a practical way.

🏡 Keeping Waxahachie beautiful can mean picking up litter along a creek or roadway, but it can also mean helping a neighbor care for a property that has become difficult to manage. Both make our community stronger. 💚

🙏 We are incredibly grateful to the 55 volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who chose to spend the National 9/11 Day of Service helping right here in Waxahachie, and to Code Compliance for partnering with KWB to help make this pilot project possible.

👥 Would your church, business, school, civic organization, or community group like to host a cleanup like this?

📩 Contact Keep Waxahachie Beautiful today! Groups interested in this type of service project will need to provide their own tools and equipment, including items such as gloves, pruning and yard tools, trucks, and trailers for hauling materials. KWB can help coordinate an opportunity to serve. 🌱

09/16/2026

🌿 September PIN Award Winner: Dr. Faustina Gallagher! 🦋

Keep Waxahachie Beautiful is proud to recognize Dr. Faustina Gallagher as this month’s PIN (Pride in Neighborhoods) Award recipient! 🌻

For Dr. Gallagher, gardening is much more than a hobby—it’s a labor of love and a way to connect with and give back to the natural world around her. She personally cares for every aspect of her yard and thoughtfully designs her gardens to provide a welcoming habitat for pollinators and wildlife. 🐝🦋🐦

Her yard features primarily native Texas perennials, including Turk’s Cap and lantana, complemented by zinnias for seasonal color. Water features in both her front and back yards provide beauty and tranquility while offering additional resources for birds—and even the occasional bunny! 🐇

And yes… there’s even a big toad living in her front water feature! 🐸💚

Dr. Gallagher shared, “To me, a beautiful yard is one that is alive with color, movement, and nature.” We couldn’t agree more!

Her garden is a wonderful example of how homeowners can use native plants, support pollinators, and create a little piece of nature right in their own yards. 🌱

Today, Parks & Recreation staff and a Keep Waxahachie Beautiful Board member stopped by to present Dr. Gallagher with a PIN Award yard sign, celebrating her beautiful and nature-friendly yard and her commitment to helping Keep Waxahachie Beautiful. 🌿🏡

Dr. Gallagher will also be presented with her PIN Award certificate and recognized during the September 21 City Council meeting. 👏

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Faustina Gallagher on this well-deserved recognition! 💚

08/04/2026

Keeping Waxahachie beautiful means caring for everyone who calls it home, including our four legged, feathered, and occasionally very tiny friends. 🌿

And some of Waxahachie’s tiniest residents are officially back where they belong. 💚

Heather, a permitted wildlife rehabilitator with 25 years of experience, recently released two litters of young opossums along one of our nature trails. After being rescued, cared for, and prepared for life on their own, these little ones were responsibly returned to a suitable natural habitat.

Heather has also released rehabilitated owls, raccoons, and other native wildlife along the trail. Each release is carefully handled by an experienced professional to give the animals their best chance at a healthy life in the wild.

07/20/2026

07/09/2026

She's here. 👀🍕
Introducing our Pizza of the Month, Hachie Roots!
Named by our very own Waxahachie Parks & Recreation this pizza features a:
Fig Jam & Crème Fraîche base
Fresh Arugula
House Blend Cheese
Mortadella
Balsamic Glaze
Try it as a lunch special while you work remote!

Available all month, don't sleep on it.
📍 Southern Roots Waco / Waxahachie / Killeen

07/07/2026

Not all cleanups go according to plan, but the team from Google proved that a good cleanup crew knows how to roll with the punches.

Or maybe in this case, the waves.

On Friday, 28 Google employees joined Keep Waxahachie Beautiful for what was originally planned as a kayak cleanup at Waxahachie Lake. After recent storms, the shoreline had collected a significant amount of trash and wood debris. Unfortunately, high winds made water access unsafe, so the group quickly shifted gears and focused their efforts along the shoreline at Spring Park.

And they made a huge impact.

Together, they removed 496 pounds of trash from our waterways, including 3 tires. They also hauled thousands of pounds of driftwood into organized piles, making it possible for our Parks Department to continue clearing the debris.

Google, thank you for your flexibility, hard work, and willingness to help Keep Waxahachie Beautiful.

If your family, office, church group, or organization would like to host a litter cleanup, we would love to help you get started.