2008 Midlands Makeover Award Recipients

Most Innovative

First Place: City Year Columbia
Second Place: Sharpes Hill Crime Watch
Third Place: Eastminster Presbyterian Church CHAMPS

Best Use of Volunteers

First Place: Groves Home Association
Second Place: Greengate Subdivision Lakefront Owners Association
Third Place: Lexington High School Honor Society

Biggest Transformation

First Place: ESA Service Sorority, USC
Second Place: Inasmuch
Third Place: Dreher High School KMB Student Advisory Board

Neighborhood Association Prize (in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Columbia Council of Neighborhoods)

First Place: Upper Rockyford Lake Association
Second Place: College Place Community
Third Place: Earlewood Community Citizens Organization

Keep the Midlands Beautiful Thanks our Sponsors


Keep the Midlands Beautiful thanks the following businesses for contributing door prizes for the Midlands Makeover Awards Ceremony on May 15: Bose, Earth Fare, El Burrito, the Nickelodeon Theatre, Hip-Wa-Zee, Immaculate Consumption, and Hunter-Gatherer Brewery & Alehouse. Danos Pizza donated pizza for the event, and Earth Fare provided snack bars.