Downtown Depot: Ashley Millerd
In Episode 61 of Downtown Depot, show host Austin Meek interviews Ashley Millerd, Executive Director of Keep Waco Beautiful.
Millerd gives insight into how she coordinates a volunteer workforce of 13,000 people and discusses two upcoming partnerships that will strengthen conservation efforts in downtown. Before that conversation, Meek welcomes Chef Corey McEntyre of Milo for "The Chef's Corner," a monthly segment that explores what's fresh in the Central Texas culinary world, and he shines the Small Business Spotlight, presented by American Bank, on Brotherwell Brewing in East Waco.
Inside the Episode:
0:37 - The Chef's Corner with Corey McEntyre
4:32 - The Small Business Spotlight: Brotherwell Brewing
8:09 - Ashely Millerd's Waco history
12:43 - Early iterations of Keep Waco Beautiful
14:10 - Miss Nellie's Pretty Place
16:33 - Current KWB initiatives
19:40 - Pokey O's partnership with KWB and Parks and Rec
23:43 - Private businesses helping out
25:19 - Glass recycling at Glass Phoenix