Weald Workers News Today

Paris City Council on Tuesday awarded 12 nonprofit agencies a total $100,000 for the 2022-23 fiscal year after council members listened for more than an hour to agency representatives speak

Community leaders from across Lamar County came together Wednesday afternoon to put their heads together and work towards combating the problem of local poverty in the first of many meetings

For the past year, Weald Workers of Lamar County has been compiling a database of what areas in the city need the most attention, group founder Don Yarbrough said. Weald

Weald Workers of Lamar County, Paris, Texas, is a Texas registered and certified nonprofit organization for the purpose of maintaining pollution-free environments through land management, litter control, recycling efforts and improvements, landfill reduction, and education thereof. We target, not

Don Yarbrough is hard at work, in more ways than one. The progenitor of the Weald Workers of Lamar County not only is walking around picking up trash in an effort to clean up, he’s also making sure Weald Workers is OK on the backend, filing paperwork so it is registered as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the state and federal governments. “We’ve got a two-year business plan right now,” Yarbrough said, “and I’m doing all the budget stuff I need to do for grants.” Fo...

Don Yarbrough and Taisley Scroggin are on a mission to keep Paris trash-free. Yarbrough founded Weald Workers, an environmentally oriented group that focuses on removing trash around the city, and Scroggin works with him in an effort to not only help clean up the Paris community, but foster pride in their town. “Im excited about it. I want people to remember why we love Paris,” Scroggin said. Yarbrough formally organized the group in 2020 after years of picking up trash along the Trai...