Category: Gold Star Award

Broc Fischer has been a wonderful friend and supporter of Keep Chamblee Beautiful, since we first began our revitalization in 2015.

Most people around Chamblee know Broc as the Chamblee Chamber of Commerce President and owner of Fischer Funeral Care on Chamblee Dunwoody Road.

What most don’t know is that he came to all 4 of our clean-ups in 2015, provided most of the supplies, picked up more trash than anyone and always stayed until the very end.

He’s always offering to help, always willing to donate supplies and equipment and has even offered his business as a meeting place, if and when we outgrow sitting around a table at the Atlanta Chinatown Mall Food Court.

Broc also completely saved the day when it started raining before our Legacy Bench Ceremonies at Keswick Park. For lack of better planning, we called him 10 minutes beforehand and asked if he had a tent we could use. Within 7 minutes he was at the park setting up one of his tents. Totally saved the day for us!

THANK YOU Broc!

Crystal Lein is a paraprofessional at Huntley Hills elementary school and has been running the schools recycling programs and spearheading the school’s environmental efforts for over a decade. She has been fulfilling Keep Chamblee Beautiful’s mission long before we ever had a mission.

Her nickname around the school is The Lein Green Recycling Machine!

When Allison Hutchinson, 5th grade Montessori teacher at Huntley Hills, initially started recycling at the school, she and Crystal took everything recyclable home with them every day. They recycled paper, cans and even Styrofoam on their own, personal time, driving to drop-off centers.

The volume started to grow beyond what their cars could hold and even though DeKalb County started recycling, they wouldn’t pick-up from the school. That didn’t stop Crystal! She sought out private companies and negotiated contracts to ensure Huntley Hills Elementary School continued to recycle.  When Huntley Hills annexed into Chamblee she worked with our city’s Public Works department and now Chamblee is picking up the recycling.

Crystal often comes in early, works during her lunch hours and stays late – just to make sure everything gets recycling.  She truly leads by example.

More importantly than anything else, Crystal has been spearheading the Environmental Club and teaching the next generation of Chamblee residents and business owners the importance of conserving resources, recycling and caring for our planet. She is making a huge difference today and her work with the kids is going to make a huge difference in decades to come.
Congratulations and THANK YOU Crystal Lein!