Sherri Palmer

Young-at-Heart Award Honoree, 2016

The Young-at-Heart Award is presented annually by the CYP Club to community leaders who support our vision of engaging the next generation and who approach life with a youthful zeal.

Sherri Palmer is Program Manager for Keep Columbus Beautiful, a City of Columbus community improvement program and a national affiliate of Keep America Beautiful. She has worked tirelessly to help clean up our city parks, highways, neighborhoods, and streets for nearly 40 years.

Palmer’s drive and motivation to improve the communities of Columbus have shaped her passion for everything beautiful from “KickButt Columbus,” a citywide clean-up program that she created and has worked tirelessly to perfect – with the help of 500 volunteers – to beautify city highway ramps and surrounding areas while bringing people closer together to “Plant Pride on Parsons,” an award winning community greening partnership developed to assist revitalization of the historic Parsons commercial corridor by abating litter and graffiti and creating a botanical gallery of hand-painted flowering containers and nature-scape murals. No matter where she has been, Palmer is constantly maintaining the beauty of the city of Columbus.