BEAUMONT – The Texas Department of Transportation is celebrating 30 years of Don’t Mess With Texas, and it’s inviting Southeast Texas to celebrate Friday, September 9, at the Travel Information Center (1708 IH 10 W, Orange) 2-4pm.

Activities will include:

• Rope the Trash Cow
• Grab the Bull by the Horns, Rope that Trash Can on Your Way By!
• For the LOVE of TEXAS, Pick Up Your Trash! – (folding litter bags to fit in your pocket or purse)
• Photo ops with celebrity cutouts, George Strait & Mathew McConaughey
• Prize wheel
• Skits about littering from the Big Thicket Outlaws

Approximately 435 million pieces of visible litter accumulate on Texas roadways each year with tobacco trash being the most common form of litter found. For more litter facts, visit DontMessWithTexas.org.