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Keep St. Bernard Beautiful asks schools and residents to join 'Love the Boot Week' and a '250 challenge'
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Dennis Bradley, executive director of Keep Saint Bernard Beautiful, urged the board to help expand Love the Boot Week in April, described statewide participation and local growth, and issued a '250 challenge' asking groups or individuals to collect 250 pieces of litter during the campaign.
Dennis Bradley, executive director of Keep Saint Bernard Beautiful, presented to the St. Bernard Parish School Board on Feb. 10 about the organization's upcoming Love the Boot Week and broader anti-litter efforts.
Bradley said Love the Boot Week is the largest litter-removal project in Louisiana and shared statewide figures from last year (tens of thousands of participants across thousands of events). He described how the local affiliate has grown from roughly three events in its first year to about 15 last year and asked the board to help engage local schools and civic groups to expand participation in St. Bernard Parish.
Bradley proposed a '250 challenge'—encouraging individuals or teams to collect 250 pieces of litter during Love the Boot Week (the packet cited dates in April). He noted Keep Louisiana Beautiful provides free equipment for registered events (litter grabbers, bags, gloves) and emphasized registration and event support are available through lovethebootweek.com and the state affiliate. Bradley also previewed a later fall effort, 'Love Our Waterways,' focused on parish waterways.
Board members expressed support and asked staff to help disseminate materials to schools. Bradley credited local volunteers and noted that Keep Louisiana Beautiful operates out of the lieutenant governor’s office and partners with state-level efforts.
The presentation was informational; no formal action or funding decisions were recorded.
