Ville Platte faith community honors Martin Luther King
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A balloon release takes place during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Celebration held Monday, January 17, in Ville Platte. Among those pictured are Ville Platte Mayor Jennifer Vidrine, Assistant District Attorney Betsy Jackson and her mother, Beatrice, and Brian and Katrina Ardoin . (Gazette photo by Tony Marks) -
Reverend Darwan Lazard of Ninth Baptist Church (left) reads a plaque being presented to Brother Eldridge Thomas (right) in memory of his late wife, Barbara. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)
The words from Micah Chapter 6, Verse 8, “You have been told, O mortal, what is good, and what the LORD requires of you: Only to do justice and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God,” served as the theme of this year’s Evangeline Parish Martin Luther King Jr. Committee’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Celebration.
The event, held Monday, January 17, at Ville Platte’s Gloria…
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