Anti-litter awareness campaign launched in Terrebonne

The Promote Parish Pride campaign is intended to raise anti-litter awareness and convey the message of individual responsibility through various school programs, business partnerships and campaign banners, says Linda Henderson, beautification... Litter-free Terrebonne” and show scenes of a litter-free south Louisiana. “The parish spends millions of dollars a year on things like cleaning litter out of drains and remedying flooding that's caused by littering. “The slogan is to depict everyone being responsible for picking up litter, not just the parish,” Henderson said. So we're trying to make the public more aware of the issues.

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She rides the zebra on her rare-disease crusade

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