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Shriners Children’s Shreveport officially opened its newly upgraded therapeutic playground last week outside its facility at 3100 Samford Ave. in Shreveport.

For those of you who missed the Downtown Plant Swap Saturday, these photos should help rub it in. It was a wonderful event, and we thank all our vendors and plant lovers for coming out and having a day of "green" fun!

In recognition of National Safe Digging Month, CenterPoint Energy urges customers to call 811 before beginning projects that require digging to prevent damage to essential underground utilities and keep communities safe. With warmer weather, outdoor projects begin such as gardening, building a fence, installing a mailbox or installing a pool. Before beginning the work, customers should request that the approximate location of buried utilities be marked with paint or flags to prevent unintentional digging into an underground utility line. Private-owned lines, such as sprinklers or lines serving outdoor appliances, are not marked by the utility.

Shreveport will soon issue a contract for the demolition of Fairgrounds Field, the baseball stadium located at 2901 Pershing Blvd.

The city of Shreveport needs new garbage trucks, like in yesterday or, really, last year.

The Shreveport Architectural and Engineering Selection Committee (A/E Committee) reviews and makes recommendations to the Shreveport mayor for the selection of firms seeking to provide architectural, engineering, interior design, construction management, land surveying and landscape architecture services on Shreveport projects of maintenance, construction, and other public works.

The all-clear has been given at Benton High School and students are going back to class.

Last week, deputies with the Bossier Sheriff’s Office, Volunteers for Youth Justice and members of the Gingerbread House were on the steps of the Bossier Parish Courthouse for a ceremony honoring victims of child abuse in Louisiana.