2024 Keepin’ It Clean Community Member of the Year - Nathan Stuck
This year we are so very proud to be recognizing Nathan Stuck as the 2024 Keepin' it Clean Community of the Year!
Nathan’s engagement with Keep Athens Beautiful began over 6 years ago when he approached the Board about community litter issues. Without hesitation, Nathan applied to be a member of the Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful Board of Directors and hit the ground running. Under his leadership, Keep Athens Beautiful has made measurable strides in reducing litter, improving public spaces, and fostering a sense of shared responsibility for the community's appearance.
Nathan is a well-known figure in our community serving as the Adopt-A-Highway (AAH) leader for not one, but two AAH groups (B-Local Georgia and Westover Christmas). Nathan can be seen WEEKLY picking up litter on his daily walks and/or on Saturdays when he notices an area of town in need. We call these clean-ups “Down and Dirties” and Nathan single handedly completed 42 Down and Dirty clean-ups last year, collecting 293.5 bags of litter, 3 bags of recycling, and 4 tires! He banked 106.75 hours of community service while also participating in 18 local AAH clean-ups as well as litter clean-up across the state with other B – Corp Business that he recruited. And each year he dresses up as Santa in December and organizes the rest of the KACCB Board of Directors (his elves) to complete a litter clean-up for the holidays.
He has received multiple nominations as the Keepin’ It Clean Community Member of the Year, but we wanted to wait until his board term was done. He is going to be very missed. Nathan’s commitment to environmental and social causes, coupled with his leadership in business sustainability and community volunteerism, has made him a local super hero and inspiring environmental leader.
Past Community Members of the Year Winners:
- 2024 Nathan Stuck
- 2023 Toni Meadows
- 2022 Judy & Michael Goltzer
- 2021 Sara Clarke
- 2020 Cameron Winter
- 2019 Allen Jones
- 2018 Lewis Shropshire
- 2017 Ken Taylor
- 2016 Minnie Craddick
- 2015 Geoffrey Tull
- 2014 Josh Koons
- 2013 Dan Lorentz
- 2012 Matthew Epperson
- 2011 Jared Harper
- 2010 Thomas Gosnell
