CLEANEST CITY CONTEST
- BATON ROUGE 4/2/2024 -
Baton Rouge Garden Club hosted the Cleanest City District VI competition April 2 at the Downtown Development District office, 247 Florida St. in Baton Rouge. Representing Gardenettes, a Ponchatoula club, were Vicky Fannaly and Virginia Hawkins. They and the third judge Carolyn Todd are members of Belle Oaks Garden club as well. All clubs are members of District VI, Louisiana Garden Club Federation Inc., Deep South Garden Clubs Inc. and National Garden Club Inc. State judging will be held April 23 through May 3.
CLEANEST CITY CONTEST
- ST. GABRIEL 5/2/2017-
Margaret Bailey, Joanne Pugh, Anna Poland, Linda Finley, Mayor Lionel Johnson Jr., Assistant Bianca Stewart, Clara Earl, Jean Gilstrap, Dale Rieth, Cricket Ayala, Marilyn Wright, Vicky Fannaly
Joanne Pugh, Linda Finley, Mayor Lionel Johnson Jr., Jean Gilstrap, Clara Earl
LOUISIANA GARDEN CLUB FEDERATION, INC.
CLEANEST CITY CONTEST
The primary goal of the LGCF Cleanest City Contest is to become a litter free Louisiana. This contest by example can help accomplish this goal by bringing cities together with a common objective, to clean their communities. This contest started in 1958 and is over 50 years old. We were the first and are still the only State Garden Club organization in the United States to have such a contest. With the national awareness on “GOING GREEN” and environ-mental issues, it is hoped we will no longer have a litter problem. Education is the key to achieving our goal. By educating our children; and through them our adults, we can clean our state.
Cities are divided into 10 population categories in 8 Districts. This insures a town of 300 is not judged with a city of 100,000. A panel of three volunteer judges visit participating cities and rate them on cleanliness. This begins on the district level, in March or April. (There are too many entrants to judge them all at once.) The winners of the District contest scoring 90% or above then compete on the State level, beginning in April or May.
It is an honor to be here and to have you as a participant in the LGCF Cleanest City Contest. By entering this contest you are already a winner. We wish you good luck!
The LGCF State Cleanest City Chairman is Jean Gilstrap from Farmerville. The Judges are: Linda Finley, President Elect of the LGCF, from Lake Charles, Clara Earl, from Baton Rouge, and JoAnn Pugh, from Lafayette.