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This 116,000 kilowatt steam turbine power unit, costing $11 million, and known as Unit 6 more than doubled the capacity of Cleco’s Coughlin Power Station on Bayou Cocodrie. This installation boosted Cleco’s system-wide capacity to 316,00 kilowatts.(Gazette file photo)

This 116,000 kilowatt steam turbine power unit, costing $11 million, and known as Unit 6 more than doubled the capacity of Cleco’s Coughlin Power Station on Bayou Cocodrie. This installation boosted Cleco’s system-wide capacity to 316,00 kilowatts.(Gazette file photo)

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Looking Back: Recalling events of January/February 1961

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Monday, January 5, 2026
By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor Today, we take a look back to January and February 1961. •Cleco completed its sixth power installation, which was located at St. Landry in Ward Five in Eavngeline Parish. T •Eighth grade student Elaine Pitre was named Junior Miss Chataignier.
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Minister’s Corner: Resolve to be committed

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Monday, January 5, 2026
By: DR. BRIAN DORE’ Member of the Ville Platte Ministerial Alliance We struggle as witnesses for Christ to make Jesus known to mankind, and we are elated when someone gives their heart to Christ. But, too many times, I have seen people start serving the Lord with everything they have.
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Heritage Manor News: Care for UTIs

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Monday, January 5, 2026
(Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by Patricia Duplechin, resident activity director at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Ville Platte. This column runs every Sunday in The Gazette.
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Minister’s Corner: The source of our joy

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Monday, December 29, 2025
By: DR. BRIAN DORE’ Member of the Ville Platte Ministerial Alliance In Luke 2:8-11 (KJV), we read, “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
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Heritage Manor News: Happy New Year

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Monday, December 29, 2025
(Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by Patricia Duplechin, resident activity director at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Ville Platte. This column runs every Sunday in The Gazette.) Happy New Year to all of you from all of us at Heritage Manor.
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Minister’s Corner: The importance of our relationship with the living Word

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Monday, December 22, 2025
By: DR. BRIAN DORE’ Member of the Ville Platte Ministerial Alliance In the 13th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, we find that Jesus spoke to the multitudes. He used the parable of the sower and stressed the importance of the soil upon which the seed fell.
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Heritage Manor News: Merry Christmas to all

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Monday, December 22, 2025
(Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by Patricia Duplechin, resident activity director at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Ville Platte. This column runs every Sunday in The Gazette.) We wish each and everyone a very Merry Christmas from all of us at Heritage Manor.
New signage was installed at the native Plant Heritage Garden (shown on top) in December 2000, along with an Acadian architecture-style storage shed. The shed was constructed by groundskeepers Bob Gassman, Donald Reinert and Billy Rose (shown being worked on in the bottom photo). (Gazette archive photos)

New signage was installed at the native Plant Heritage Garden (shown on top) in December 2000, along with an Acadian architecture-style storage shed. The shed was constructed by groundskeepers Bob Gassman, Donald Reinert and Billy Rose (shown being worked on in the bottom photo). (Gazette archive photos)

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Monday, December 15, 2025
By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor Today, we take a look back to the first holiday season of the 2000s by recalling the events of December 2000. •Weber Lee “Bee” Deshotel retired after 32 years as Evangeline Parish Tax Assessor.
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Minister’s Corner: The gift of free will

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Monday, December 15, 2025
By: DR. BRIAN DORE’ Member of the Ville Platte Ministerial Alliance The Apostle Paul, in Romans 7:14-20 (KJV) wrote: “For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
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Heritage Manor News: Christmas cheer and caroling

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Monday, December 15, 2025
(Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by Patricia Duplechin, resident activity director at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Ville Platte. This column runs every Sunday in The Gazette.
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