KIB - Beautiful Moments

KIB - Beautiful Moments

For 40 years, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful has been creating and maintaining urban green spaces for the benefit of all. Every Friday afternoon at 4:44, through the end of August, 90.1 WFYI profiles one of these places with the “Beautiful Moment” series.

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Beautiful Moment: Trees
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Beautiful Moment: Trees
August 26, 2016

IPS School 109 is located on East Raymond. Vacant grounds that were once simply an expanse...

Beautiful Moment: Oaks Academy
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Beautiful Moment: Oaks Academy
August 19, 2016

At the Oaks Academy at 23rd and Park, school leaders imagined an outdoor space enriching the...

Beautiful Moment: KIB Headquarters
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Beautiful Moment: KIB Headquarters
August 12, 2016

When Keep Indianapolis Beautiful needed a new home, it chose the intersection of Fletcher and...

Beautiful Moment: Vibrant Corridors
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Beautiful Moment: Vibrant Corridors
August 5, 2016

Once gray, dark highway underpasses today are bright custom connections that help people feel...

Beautiful Moment: Lynhurst
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Beautiful Moment: Lynhurst
August 5, 2016

In a neighborhood full of veterans and active duty military, educator Chris Moore believed...

Beautiful Moment: Ransom Place
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Beautiful Moment: Ransom Place
July 23, 2016

Downtown, Historic Ransom Place sits at the cross section of tremendous change and a powerful...

Beautiful Moment: Community Baptist
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Beautiful Moment: Community Baptist
July 23, 2016

At Community Missionary Baptist Church, Rev. Ward had a problem. Across the street from his...

Beautiful Moment: Greenspace and Crime
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Beautiful Moment: Greenspace and Crime
July 15, 2016

On the city's near eastside, a visionary pastor had a novel idea. What if green spaces could...

Beautiful Moment: Youth Tree Team
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Beautiful Moment: Youth Tree Team
July 1, 2016

KIB's Youth Tree Team is giving Indy's youth meaningful jobs, and nurturing tomorrow's green...

Beautiful Moment: Fall Creek
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Beautiful Moment: Fall Creek
June 16, 2016

Along Fall Creek, from the State Fairgrounds to Ivy Tech's campus, neighbors have been working...

Beautiful Moment: Vitamin "G"
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Beautiful Moment: Vitamin "G"
June 16, 2016

The simple act of planting a garden, a tree, or creating a park can have a myriad of benefits...

Beautiful Moment: Purpose Park
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Beautiful Moment: Purpose Park
June 10, 2016

With Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Danny Marquez imagined a different landscape on North Holmes....

Beautiful Moment: Benedict Inn
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Beautiful Moment: Benedict Inn
June 10, 2016

With the help of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, what was once a parking lot is now a profound...

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