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Mamou council approves audit report

After hearing from CPAs Burton Kolder and Brian Joubert, The Mamou Town Council approved the financial audit report for 2020 during the board’s July 14, meeting.

EPSO Arrests

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following recent bookings into the parish jail. Arrested were the following persons:

MARY ARDOIN FORET

Mary Ardoin Foret passed away peacefully on July 13, 2021, in McComb, Mississippi.

Edwin Washington Edwards

Louisiana’s 50th governor, Edwin Washington Edwards, was born on August 7, 1927, and passed from this world on July 12, 2021. He was one month shy of his 94th birthday.

JOSEPH EDWARD “WOOD” B. FONTENOT

VILLE PLATTE - Memorial interment for Joseph Edward “Wood” B, Fontenot, 81, was held at 10 a.m. on Monday, July 12, 2021, at Belaire Cove Chapel cemetery in Belaire Cove. Mr.

GARY O. LANDRENEAU

VILLE PLATTE – Funeral services were held at a 2 p.m.