Robbie Ray Frith
With injured person aboad, an Acadian Ambulance unit prepares to leave the scene. (Henri C. Bienvenu)
After 28 years at the top of the contemporary jazz genre and 19 hit albums, it’s official – The Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman have discovered the Fountain of Youth.
“The title of the album is a cool double entendre for me,” says Freeman, who launched the original lineup of the band with the ground-breaking Moonlighting in 1986.
Community Foundation of Louisiana is holding an Acadiana Mega Raffle fund-raising event which will have more than 1,000 prizes and a 1-in-30 chance of winning with the purchaser of one $100 ticket.
Artist rendering of new Evangeline Campus
The Louisiana Community and Technical College System Board of Supervisors will meet Monday, June 30, to select a site for the new $9.2 million Evangeline Campus of South Louisiana Community College.
A St. Martin Parish sheriff’s deputy, Crystal Alexander, has been indicted for second degree murder in the shooting death of her husband, Kendall Alexander, 34.
The grand jury returned a verdict Thursday afternoon.
ON THE JOB – Student “job shadowers” visiting St. Martin Hospital are (front from left) Tayler Gary, Amy Ho and Lyndsy Caillier, and (back from left) Heather Constantine, Tyranny Taylor (me), Kazi Rahman and Samantha Zenon.
St. Martin Hospital hosted students participating in the annual summer “job shadow” program sponsored by Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center (SWLAHEC).
BOARD MEMBERS (from left) Don “Tuffy” Resweber, Elsie Castille and Beth Guidroz accepted the $1,000 grant check from Walmart Giving. The funds will help the COA meals program.
At the June 18 regular monthly meeting of the St. Martin Council on Aging, board members accepted the resignation of Lynette Edwards, who was named COA executive director Feb. 3, 2014. Applications for her replacement are being accepted immediately. Deadline to submit a resume in a sealed envelope is 3 p.m.
Lt. Col. Terry Guidry
The St. Martin Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness is reaching out to the public through social media and civic clubs to get ready for the onslaught of hurricane season.
GIVING BACK – St. Martin Parish Councilman Dean Doré (from left), Parish President Guy Cormier and Councilman Meko Robin accept a $50,000 check from Pam Guidry and Todd Dugas of the Cecilia Youth Sports Association for improvements to Paul Angelle Park.
Cecilia Youth Sports Association, the area’s youth baseball program, presented Parish Government with a check for $50,000 toward new restrooms at Paul Angelle Park.
Todd Dugas, representing the organization, said the money was accumulated over a half-dozen years by pinching pennies.
STATE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT Col. Mike Edmonson acknowledges the many dignitaries present at the official opening of LSP’s Region II investigations office. Officeholders included Sheriff Ronny Theriot, Parish President Guy Cormier, Breaux Bridge Mayor Jack Dale Delhomme, state Sen. Fred Mills Jr., and several chiefs of police. (Ken Grissom)
The former St. Martin Sheriff’s Office substation at 437 W. Mills Ave. is now a field office for Louisiana State Police investigators operating around Acadiana.
ONCE UPON A TIME – Breaux Bridge Elementary School students Krislyn Joe (left) and Jayla Williams wait their turn as Jhnaia Menard reads a story to Henry, a certified therapy dog furnished by Lafayette Animal Aid. “Reading Buddy” was part of United Way of Acadiana’s annual Day of Action June 20. (Ken Grissom)
The United Way of Acadiana teamed up with a popular local summer enrichment program and several other organizations to bring a special day of education and recreational activities to about 220 kids here Friday, June 20.
THE COLD WATER CHALLENGE, in honor of the fallen firefighters, raised more than $300 on Saturday, June 14, sponsored by the Butte La Rose Vol. Fire Dept. at the first Butte La Rose Jambalaya cookoff and fishing tournament. Bud O‘Quinn of Breaux Bridge accepted the challenge and was doused with ice cold water.
(Sally Angelle)
Henri C. Bienvenu
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Jenna Conner in the State Calling Contest in Gueydan. There are no men’s and women’s divisions in the Louisiana State Duck and Goose Calling Contest.
The Gueydan Duck Festival is the proud host of the 45th annual Louisiana State Duck and Goose Calling Contest.
The contest will be held Sunday, Aug. 23, at the Gueydan Civic Center.
Charli, 9, mans the net for her "Paw Pete," Carl Peter Boggs of St. Martinville, a licensed charter captain in Grand Isle
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m., on Saturday, August 2, 2014, at Notre Dame Catholic Church in St.
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