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Beautify Bunnell 2025 brought together city staff members and community volunteers.
A single cigarette butt seems harmless. But it's rarely just one.
That becomes evident when a heavy rain comes, and cigarette butts end up in the stormwater system.
"You can have one spot with thousands of cigarette butts," said Bunnell Infrastructure Director Dustin Vost, who is also a Flagler Palm Coast High School grad and former U.S. Marine. "Next rain we get, that butt washes out to Crescent Lake and pollutes our water."
Vost joined Mayor Catherine Robinson, about a dozen city staff members and about two dozen more community volunteers on Jan. 25, at the annual Beautify Bunnell event, hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Volunteers were given gloves, garbage bags and grabbers and scoured the neighborhood from bounded by the following streets: Moody, Palmetto, Magnolia and State (U.S. 1).
The event was designed to bring the community together and provide education, Project Coordinator Jessica Sheeler said.
"It's a big deal to keep our streets clean," Robinson said. "We are near the elementary school, and the kids walk by here every day. We want to keep it clean and safe for them."
All told, the volunteers collected about 30 bags of garbage.
