During Keep Louisiana Beautiful’s Love the Boot Week, happening April 20-28, 2024, Coca-Cola will fund the recycling of plastic bottles and aluminum cans for litter cleanup events happening in 13 parishes. Love the Boot Week is Louisiana’s largest litter removal and beautification effort held during Earth Week, with events organized by businesses, non-profits, schools, governments, and families in all 64 parishes.

The New Year started out strong at Woodlands Conservancy with numerous habitat improvements underway at Woodlands Preserve. Funding from the EPA, CPRA, TC Energy, and Chevron Oronite over the past several months, has allowed our staff to clear fallen trees and invasive species, to make room for our restoration efforts. At the end of last year, we received 5,000 seedlings to plant in those areas targeted for restoration. Thanks to support from the Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation, Woodlands Conservancy will be planting 14,560 seedlings and trees over the next three years, creating better nutritional habitat for wildlife while improving the forest’s ability to absorb storm water.

March 9, 1924 - December 24, 2012 Happy 100th Birthday, Mom! Oh Mom, if only we could talk to you Put our arms around you tight Light 100 candles on your cake My goodness, what a lovely sight! But of course we cannot do that For you have gone away You have been with God awhile now We know you just couldn’t stay. Our thoughts go back so many years As a small child in your care You loves us, I know you did So many lessons that you shared.

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Resting in the hands of our local community members is the future of our valuable natural resources and the decisions that are made to conserve, enhance and sustain the integrity of soil, water and air quality in Plaquemines Parish. Conservation of our resources cannot be achieved by one group, government agency or the individual -it takes cooperative conservation.

Recently elected Plaquemines Parish state representative Jacob Braud has been busy during the opening months of his term. In total, he has filed nine pieces of legislation to address some of the parish’s most important issues.

Beginning with today’s edition of The Plaquemines Gazette, you might notice a change with a slightly reduced page size. We hope you do notice the improved color throughout the publication as we have moved to a modern printing facility with increased capabilities.