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Regular Session, 2012 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 144
BY SENATOR PERRY
A RESOLUTION
To commend the city of Abbeville on being named the state winner in the Louisiana Garden
Club Federation's Cleanest City Contest.
WHEREAS, it is appropriate to commend the city of Abbeville on being named state
winner in the Cleanest City Contest, and for being such a great reflection on the state of
Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, in 1958, the Louisiana Garden Club Federation was first among
members of the National Garden Clubs, Inc., to sponsor a statewide Cleanest City Contest;
and
WHEREAS, the aim of the contest is to instill civic pride in the individual citizens
and thus improve the appearance of towns and cities; and
WHEREAS, each year the competition has become stronger, and the cities and towns
have achieved higher and higher standards of cleanliness; and
WHEREAS, each municipality that competes in the contest must be sponsored by
a garden club; and
WHEREAS, Abbeville has a garden club that is twenty members strong; and
WHEREAS, in 2012, Abbeville was awarded the distinguished designation of
Cleanest City by the Louisiana Garden Club Federation, Inc.; and
WHEREAS, it was a tremendous effort by everyone involved, which included a lot
of volunteers, city workers, local Girl and Boy Scouts, the Abbeville Garden Club, the Keep
Abbeville Beautiful initiative, the Cleanest City chairperson, Todd Travasos, the Vermilion
Parish Sheriff, Mike Couvillion, the Abbeville Police Chief, Tony Hardy, the Vermilion
Parish Police Jury, the mayor of Abbeville, Mark Piazza, the Abbeville city council Francis
Touchet, Frank Plaisance, Brady Broussard Jr., Louis Joe Hardy and Wayne Landry, and a
host of others.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend the city of Abbeville on being named state winner in the Cleanest
City Contest, and for being such a great reflection on the state of Louisiana. SR NO. 144 ENROLLED
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
Vermilion Parish Police Jury, the mayor of Abbeville, and the Abbeville Garden Club.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE