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The Vermilion Parish Police Jury is getting out of the commercial dumpster business in 90 days.
On Monday, the police jury voted 11-3 to get out of the commercial dumpster business.
For years, the police jury has been providing dumpsters for businesses and charging them a flat fee per month. The police jury had grab trucks to empty the dumpsters and then bring the trash to the parish landfill.
Over the last few years, the police jury has been losing an average of $100,000 a year and filling up the landfill at a fast rate.

One of Louisiana’s natural resource treasures is the abundance of waterways in the state. Meandering bayous, streams, rivers, coastal marshes and tidal creeks help make up the diversity of waterways in the Sportsman’s Paradise.
That’s why 50 years ago the Louisiana Legislature created the Louisiana Natural and Scenic Rivers System. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) administers the Scenic Rivers system, in which there are approximately 80 streams or stream segments thereof, constituting an estimated 3,100 miles of the state’s streams, rivers and bayous.

When the Vermilion Chamber of Commerce began, the Roaring Twenties were just getting underway.
One century later, the Chamber remains a resounding voice for Vermilion Parish.
Members from around the parish gathered Thursday night to reflect on 100 years during a Centennial Celebration and Awards Banquet held at Magdalen Place in Abbeville.
“You only get to celebrate 100 once,” said Megan Landry-Lalande, who will serve as the Centennial President in 2020.