04-10-10 Special Called City Council Retreat Meeting

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nicole Stout Parks & Recreation Department City of La Porte 281.4 70.7275 Litter in La Porte We have a community-wide problem that continues to plague not only La Porte, but most all the towns and cities in Texas. The problem is LITTER. We have a major litter problem on our two major east-west thoroughfares, Fairmont Parkway and Spencer Highway. State Highway 146 is also heavily littered. Some of the litter is being deposited by those just "passing through" the city and some of it is wind-blown from other sites. Some of it is being deposited by our citizens, and it is everywhere you look around our city, from the biggest to the smallest street! Too often we have grown complacent and have not paid attention to our own actions as well as those of others, and our litter problem has grown. We're ready to turn the tables on Litter in La Porte. You may not know that La Porte is a "Keep Texas Beautiful" city. The La Porte Parks & Recreation Department is sponsoring a City-Wide "Don't Mess with TEXAS Trash-Off' on April 10th here in La Porte. The "Don't Mess with Texas Trash-Off' is the single largest one day cleanup event in the state and serves as Texas' signature event for the Great American Cleanup, the nation's largest community improvement program, held annually from March 1 through May 31. In 2009, more than 25,200 bags of trash were collected, totaling more than 158 tons of waste. Beginning at 8:30am at the Evelyn Kennedy Civic Center, located at 618 San Jacinto, Parks staff will begin registering groups who are interested in helping pick up. Each registered group will receive trash bags, bright Orange T-shirts to wear, and safety instructions (up to the first 200 persons). Then at 9:00am, the whistle will blow and everyone will head out to where they think the La Porte trash is. At 11:30-11:45am all the groups will return with their collections. The bags City of La Porte Parksandrec@laportetx.aov