It’s two down, and ten to go.
In the past two weeks, Shreveport Property Standards and Public Works crews conducted sweeps in designated areas of Ingleside and Highland. This effort, along with volunteers, is part of Mayor Arceneaux's Block by Block Initiative to attack Shreveport blight.
Property Standards and Public Works lead the effort to help citizens clean up their neighborhoods. Together, they hauled off trash, old appliances, tires, dead trees/bushes, discarded building materials, dead animals and junk.
The temperatures were brutal, with only sporadic rainfall to lessen the heat index. One can expect the same for the rest of the summer and early fall. Thankfully, all involved get this fourth of July week off with no planned sweeps.
In the Ingleside designated area, 6 tons of trash/debris was collected along with 225 old tires.
In the Highland designated area, 1,800 (yes, one thousand eight hundred) tons of trash/debris was collected and 35 old tires.
Hats off to all who planned, assisted, and took part in these sweeps. These hard labors have made an immediate impact in those areas.
One can only hope that these efforts will lead to more neighborhood pride and less blight of this nature. Let's hope that outsiders not living in these areas don't view clean areas as receptacles for their junk.