Butte La Rose et Les Entourage

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Bonjour!

Remember? Gov. Kathleen Blanco, after Hurricane Katrina’s devastation, insisted the Super Dome get top priority and the Saints home games must go on. Voila et bien merci Cherè!

Mais chers, á fais beaucoup froid. It is our typical Mardi Gras season, cold and rainy. Pooyie!

Shirley Akers announced her next AARP meeting will be Feb. 18 at 6 p.m. at the Juvenile Detention Center in St. Martinville. Guest speaker will be a representative from the St. Agnes Health Care Rehab Center and they’re providing this meal. Thanks to Sheriff Ronny Theriot and staff for their help. Call 247-1014.

Butte La Rose Pontoon Bridge tender Doggay Berard and his sidekick Le Capitaine Mitch Miquet said after a few weeks of the water dropping, it’s back on the rise again. There is a lot of snow up north and when it melts – like the old saying goes, what goes up must come down, so it’s gonna come south.

Kate’s on the Butte in Butte La Rose is having a Gumbo Cookoff, Saturday, March 13. There will be a $20 entry fee. Start time is 9 a.m., pickup time is 2 p.m. Des prix vas ette donnier after the judging. Any kind of gumbo is accepted except NO seafood. All proceeds go to St. Jude. There will be premier, seconde et troisième place winners. You can stop by there for more information or call 228-1450. Bring your family. The levee across from Kate’s separates the east and west, and is good to climb over and look the camps along the water side. The top of the levee is not open to motor vehicle traffic and I do see people walking and biking on it. Y’all come pass un bon temp.

There are more new camps coming up between Butte La Rose and the pontoon bridge. Some camp owners sell out and the new owners give their camps un nouveau nom. Almost like the gold rush of the west long ago, many are almost scrambling to buy property out here to either camp or live. Some folks ride out here every weekend checking for camps for sale.

This is the place to spend peaceful weekends. Whatever you’ll pay for property out here at this time, don’t be thinking it’s too costly, because it could double in value sooner then you think, and have to pay more for it later.

The only horrible nightmare about this community for women – no shopping malls!

It’s amazing the attractive camps and homes that have been built from the community of Butte La Rose towards I-10 in the past several years that was once nothing but trees and swamp. I’m talking about both sides of that levee. Every dwelling looks different. The homes built here in recent years are required by law to be built above flood stage, so many are elevated on stilts. I like that, it’s interesting.

Gotta tell you though, the road is kind of rough to travel. But the scenery is a daring and wondrous curiosity.

At the end of that road at the I-10 Butte La Rose exit 121 is the Atchafalaya Basin Welcome Center. A must-see. They serve coffee and great hospitality and causer et blaguer au Francais avec Betty Laviolette and the crew of hosts.

We’ll have an election coming up March 27.

Amètie à tout. Got a story to share? Call me at 228-1714 or e-mail helenboudreaux@juno.com.

Cousine Hélène