This Friday, January 24th at 2 p.m., watch for another, albeit different, Key West parade. Waste Management will be parading a new dumpster look down Duval Street starting at Front Street, heading up Duval Street to South Street, from there it will head to the corner of South and Whitehead. We invite everyone to come out the Southernmost Point at 2:30 p.m. to see the new murals and meet the artists.

 Left to right: Joyce Dahlberg, Tanya Nalley, Diane Pittaro-Glorie, Dee Dee Green, Rick Worth, Theo Glorie, Stuart Tomlinson, Kathy Rice-Vanfleet 

This past weekend volunteers from the Mayor’s Beautification Committee painted eight murals on two dumpsters that will be placed at the Southernmost Point as part of a new program, Dumpsters in Paradise.

The volunteer group was led by Diane Pittaro-Glorie, owner and operator of Coffee Plantation on Caroline Street. Pittaro-Glorie is the first to apply for Dumpsters in Paradise mural program.  Local artist Rick Worth was among the volunteers who came out on Saturday to paint as well as, Theo Glorie, Dee Dee Green, Joyce Dahlberg, Tanya Nalley, Stuart Tomlinson, and Kathy Rice-Vanfleet.

Dumpsters in Paradise is a program for painting murals on dumpsters to add more beauty to Key West. If located in the HARC district, murals must be of tropical fauna or mark the historic significance of area it is located.

If you are interested in painting or sponsoring a dumpster to be painted, you can contact City Solid Waste Coordinator Dee Dee Green for an application at 305-809-3776 or [email protected]. The application process is free.

If approved the artist will be responsible for paint supplies and the City will arrange for Waste Management to have a clean dumpster delivered to a location for painting.

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