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Keep Morehouse Beautiful entered into a cooperative endeavor with Keep Louisiana Beautiful on Jan. 26. As the recipients of a $10,000 reimbursement grant, KMB plans to use the money to complete two much needed projects.
Five thousand dollars will go the city to complete the Huck Finn Days project.
“This money will help us finish painting the fence at East Madison Park,” said KMB Executive Director Vicki Carpenter. “The Beekman 4-H Club and KMB volunteers have helped paint it in the past but we weren’t making any progress. We had used paint brushes and rollers. This year we’ll use spray paint and finish it.”
The other $5,000 of the grant will go to the Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office to help law enforcement in overtime litter patrols.
“Deputies will patrol for illegal dumpsites and littering,” Carpenter said.
Carpenter said they received the $10,000 grant last year. She said $3,000 of the money helped find illegal dumpsites in the parish. The other $7,000 went toward surveillance camera to find people dumping trash illegally.
Sheriff Mike Tubbs said efforts to control litter in the parish are a taken “very seriously” by his department. The grant money has allowed him to operate a trailer for roadside litter clean-up throughout most of the year.
“Sometimes people ask, ‘Don’t we have more important things to do?’ But the litter goes right back to the quality of life,” he said. “So we try to stay on top of that. And we try to incorporate some [anti-litter] education in our schools.”
Carpenter said the city of Bastrop will pay for the projects up front and be reimbursed for them upon completion.
“As soon as we finish everything and send in the final report we’ll receive the grant,” Carpenter said. “We have to have everything done by May 31.”
Keep Morehouse Beautiful entered into a cooperative endeavor with Keep Louisiana Beautiful on Jan. 26. As the recipients of a $10,000 reimbursement grant, KMB plans to use the money to complete two much needed projects.
Five thousand dollars will go the city to complete the Huck Finn Days project.
“This money will help us finish painting the fence at East Madison Park,” said KMB Executive Director Vicki Carpenter. “The Beekman 4-H Club and KMB volunteers have helped paint it in the past but we weren’t making any progress. We had used paint brushes and rollers. This year we’ll use spray paint and finish it.”
The other $5,000 of the grant will go to the Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office to help law enforcement in overtime litter patrols.
“Deputies will patrol for illegal dumpsites and littering,” Carpenter said.
Carpenter said they received the $10,000 grant last year. She said $3,000 of the money helped find illegal dumpsites in the parish. The other $7,000 went toward surveillance camera to find people dumping trash illegally.
Sheriff Mike Tubbs said efforts to control litter in the parish are a taken “very seriously” by his department. The grant money has allowed him to operate a trailer for roadside litter clean-up throughout most of the year.
“Sometimes people ask, ‘Don’t we have more important things to do?’ But the litter goes right back to the quality of life,” he said. “So we try to stay on top of that. And we try to incorporate some [anti-litter] education in our schools.”
Carpenter said the city of Bastrop will pay for the projects up front and be reimbursed for them upon completion.
“As soon as we finish everything and send in the final report we’ll receive the grant,” Carpenter said. “We have to have everything done by May 31.”
