Shreveport Police Department
PO Box P • Shreveport, LA 71161 • 318/673-6932 • Fax: 318/673-6933
www.ci.shreveport.la.us/dept/police/spdnews
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: Jan. 29, 2002
Contact: Kacee Hargrave, Public Information Officer
318/673-6932
Mardi Gras safety press conference tomorrow
Police Chief Jim Roberts and Mayor Keith Hightower will host a press conference to discuss the new parade route and parade safety at this year’s Mardi Gras parades.
The first Mardi Gras parade sponsored the Krewe of Centaur begins at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Clyde Fant Parkway and Lake Street downtown.
The parade will proceed in the southbound lanes on Clyde Fant, crossing under the Shreveport-Barksdale bridge. The route will then turn right onto Shreveport Barksdale Highway and then left on East Kings Highway. It ends at Preston Avenue.
The press conference will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, in the Police Chief’s Conference Room, located on the first floor of the Shreveport Police Department.
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