Letter: Eunice hosts regional Keep Louisiana Beautiful meeting

On May 17, Keep Eunice Beautiful was proud to host a regional meeting of Keep Louisiana Beautiful at LSUE. Board training was the purpose of this meeting as well as an opportunity for affiliates in the region to share ideas and concerns. Keep Louisiana Beautiful affiliates from nine parishes were in attendance.
On behalf of the Keep Eunice Beautiful board members, I would like to thank our Parish President, Bill Fontenot, and our Mayor Scott Fontenot for welcoming our guests and for supplying the morning and afternoon refreshments. It is so important to the mission of Keep Eunice Beautiful that we have governmental support for the work we do. Additionally, we would like to thank LSUE Chancellor Kim Russell, for giving us such a wonderful meeting space to host these guests from around the state, Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management, Jarrett Phillips for welcoming our guests, and the many LSUE staff who helped in setting up the meeting space.
Keep Eunice Beautiful is an affiliate of Keep Louisiana Beautiful and Keep America Beautiful. KEB has won the Keep America Beautiful President’s Circle Award for three years in a row for it’s work during the year to combat litter, encourage recycling, city-wide beautification projects, cigarette litter prevention, as well as educational and awareness events. $40 million in taxpayer dollars are spent each year on litter removal in Louisiana. 81 percent of litter is intentional. Motorists contribute more than 50 percent of all litter, and 16 percent comes from trucks with improperly covered loads. Litter is costly and preventable. Everyone knows that litter is harmful to the environment. Keep Eunice Beautiful wants to create a litter-free city but we can’t do it alone. Everyone has to do their part to improve our community’s appearance and preserve Louisiana’s natural beauty. Together, we can make a better place for the people that live here and those that come to visit.
Thank you again to all who helped us host this important regional meeting.
Donna Baltakis
Director
Keep Eunice Beautiful

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