BATON ROUGE GARDEN CLUB
 |
"Holidays Around The World"
Standard Flower Show
Sponsored by the Baton Rouge Garden Club
November 17, 2007
1:00 P.M. to 4 P.M.
Baton Rouge Garden Center
7950 Independence Blvd.
Baton Rouge, La.
Free and opened to the public.
Everyone is invited. |
Cleanest City Contest
On June 6, 2007 Sybil Colicchio, president of the Louisiana Federation of Garden Clubs, presented Mayor-President Kip Holden with the coveted State Cleanest City Winner Award in category G, for the largest Louisiana cities.
... Baton Rouge had already won the District Division competition in April when in May a panel of state judges toured the city on a prescribed route, through residential areas, past churches, schools, parks and recreation areas, cemeteries, vacant lots, business establishments and the public buildings of the downtown district.
The judges looked for evidence of a civic pride in the appearance of our community. They also examined a scrapbook of photographs and stories of cleanup activities throughout the year, indicating a true communitywide involvement.
This involvement included Keep Baton Rouge Beautiful, which organizes several cleanups each year and assists school groups and organizations with their own projects, business establishments that see to it that their parking lots and grounds are picked up,
Department of Public Works workers who continuously mow and pick up trash from roads and highways, and the street and sidewalk sweeping machines that clean up cigarette butts and other debris, the BREC crews that work at keeping all our parks picked up and mowed, and the city’s aggressive Operation Restore Pride program, which has removed abandoned cars, cleaned up several neighborhoods and fixed up many residences of the elderly, neighborhoods that stage their own cleanups and individuals who pick up assorted litter while walking their dogs.
Our city and its citizens are to be commended. Yes, litter can be an ongoing problem, but working together we can keep Baton Rouge attractive and clean.
JoAnn L. Fryling, Cleanest City chairwoman
Baton Rouge Garden Club
July 5, 2007 |
|
|