NEW TRASH SERVICE COMING TO EVANGELINE PARISH - Bayou State Waste will begin taking over garbage collection for Evangeline Parish starting June 30. Evangeline Parish Solid Waste Director Pat Derouselle (left) and Bayou State owner Jake Lavergne (right) are shown with one of the cans that each household in the parish will receive as part of the new contract with the company. (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)
By: HEATHER BOGARD
Associate Editor
A new trash collection service contract with Bayou State will begin July 1. Bayou State, based in St. Landry Parish, will hold a five-year contract for trash collection in Evangeline Parish. Each of the parish’s 14,500 residences will receive one 96-gallon Toter trash can, which will soon start arriving.
Pat Derouselle, director of the Evangeline Parish So…
