Local officials are cooperating in a drive to clean up the streets of our city and parish as part of the “Keep Louisiana Beautiful” initiative, urging teams to pull together in a big City/Parish Cleanup Day this Saturday, April 20.

Both Town Hall and the Police Jury have been working to round up teams that wish to take part in this cleanup competition, each team picking a particular city or parish road they’d like to see litter-free, bagging their efforts and taking the results to the Grove Street Recreation Center for a tabulation.

Team supplies will be available at the Police Jury Office in the Courthouse at 4 p.m. tomorrow, April 18.  Included will be gloves, trash bags and liability forms.  Only team leaders are needed for this pickup.  Organizers say the purpose of teams announcing their selected roads is to avoid overlap.  For safety reasons, state highways are not part of Saturday’s plan.

Cleanup Day will begin at 8 a.m. and continue until 11 a.m. when teams will then converge on the Grove Street Rec with their bags of litter where they will be tallied.  The Police Jury added that if teams pick up any heavy items like mattresses, sofas and furniture or appliances, those should be dropped off at the parish highway barn on Thomas Mill Road instead of the Rec.

Once the work is complete, the fun will begin when there will be hamburgers and door prizes at the recreation center beginning at 11.

Organizers say there is still time to get a Cleanup Day team involved.  All teams must have an adult sponsor.  For details, call 628-5824 or 628-3939.