Lifestyle

Putting the excitement into LSU-E

Every year since 1984, the Ville Platte Rotary Club has been providing financial support in terms of a Rotary scholarship that is available to students attending LSU in Eunice. During the club’s meeting Tuesday, Rotarian Dr. Willie Buller presented a check in the amount of $5,100.

Daring to achieve a drug free life

The Ville Platte Police Department hosted D.A.R.E graduation ceremonies recently for fifth grade students at Sacred Heart Elementary and James Stephens Montessori. The event opened with D.A.R.E.

Shooting to be cream of the crop

As they settled back into their new home of the Queen of All Saints Family Life Center, the members of the Ville Platte Rotary Club ended the month of January by hearing about the benefits of getting a yearly flu shot from Shane Darbonne, who is the director of the Wellness Center and the director...

Acadia Parish family enjoys playing Cajun music together

The adage of “a family that prays together stays together” has woven its way into common practice. A variation of “a family that plays Cajun music together stays together” has also been proven true by a family of Broussards from Lyons Point in Acadia Parish. Gerald Broussard, Sr.

La française meets le cadien

The culture of Southern France met the culture of South Louisiana as the two came together for a French Day Tuesday evening at Mamou Elementary. Cajun musicians Jamie Berzas, Christian McGee, and Mark Young provided musical entertainment during the program that was held in the school’s gymnasium.

An arboresque day at the park

After all the ice and snow from days before had melted, families from the surrounding areas made their way to the Louisiana State Arboretum for the annual observance of Arbor Day on a springlike day last Saturday.

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards is highlighted at a special VP Rotary meeting at the Arboretum

A scheduling conflict at the Family Life Center caused the meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club Tuesday to be moved to the place that was the focal point of the club’s previous meeting. Rotarians were treated to a picnic style lunch inside the classroom of the J.D.

Looking back: January 1962

January 4, 1962 • The new location of the Evangeline Parish Welfare Department, a matter of serious concern to the residents of Ville Platte and Evangeline Parish, was expected to be announced within a short time.

A perennial freeze

With the temperatures hovering below the freezing mark over the first days of the year, area residents are questioning how the winter weather will affect their plants and gardens.

Into the mission fields

For the last nine years, Winston LaFleur has been making a yearly trek to a little town that is in the mountainous country of Honduras. The purpose of the trip each year is to help in mission work. “It’s been something that I wanted to do all my life,” he said.