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The City of Jackson’s Solid Waste Division, Keep Mississippi Beautiful/PAL, and Keep Jackson Beautiful, Inc. are sponsoring the 2003 Environmental Camp. The camp seeks to raise environmental awareness in our local children through hands-on activities during this summer’s Environmental Camp.

During this fun-packed, informative three days, students will enjoy classroom activities teaching them about solid waste management and its effect on people, animals and the environment, nature trails, fishing, boating, a petting zoo and other hands-on activities. A camp t-shirt, lunch and snacks will be provided free of charge.

Some of the objectives of the camp are:

To promote environmental awareness; To help youth acquire knowledge, information and skills to assist in making informed, responsible decisions regarding solid waste management and its effect on people, animals and the environment; and To encourage waste reduction, recycling, composting and proper waste disposal.

Applications are now being accepted. For more information or to request an application, please call 960-1193.

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.