CROWLEY - With $17.5 million in American Rescue Plan funding earmarked for tourism, Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser told Main Street officials from across the state to expect continued support from the state.
DURALDE - Bishop Douglas Deshotel recently announced that Reverend D. Blaine Clement has been appointed as Pastor of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Duralde for a period of six years as of July 5, 2021. This is in addition to his current assignment at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Chataignier.
If you’re out and about and suddenly find yourself hungry for beignets, it might be because you’ve encountered the new sound hitting the parish. The Evangeline Parish Jazz Ensemble, which began in 2020 but was put on hold for a year because of the pandemic, has begun performing the Crescent City sound. The ensemble was created by Clinton Jones, Jimi Bergeron, and John Havard, and features students from several schools in Evangeline Parish.
For 47 years now, the Cursillo Retreat Center in Prairie Rhonde has been hosting a men’s weekend retreat on Pentecost weekend. As an act of penance and prayer for the success of the retreat, men who have previously made the retreat start walking to the center from seven different cities in the state. All of the groups converge in Mallet before proceeding together to the center’s chapel for the retreat’s closing Mass.
Whether Warren Spahn was on the mound or in World War II trenches, his opponents agreed that no one was tougher. Spahn’s 363 career wins are the most of any left-hander (he won 75 games after his 40th birthday), and he dominated during the modern post-1920 era, an exceptional achievement since he didn’t win his first game until age 25.
Just in time for what promises to be another busy season, the National Hurricane Center reports that last year’s summer that already will be long remembered was even worse than we thought. The center updated its data on Hurricane Zeta, the record-breaking fifth named storm to strike Louisiana in 2020.
China is claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “full of lies and disinformation.” That’s not necessarily untrue most of the time. But in this case Pelosi is being blasted by Communist China’s loudest mouthpieces because she’s actually done the right thing – almost.
A healthy lifestyle is a top priority for many people especially now in the time of the coronavirus. At recent meetings, the Rotary Club of Ville Platte heard about several different options for maintaining that way of life.
The Evangeline Head Start program is usually funded with a federal grant awarded to the Evangeline Community Action Agency (ECAA). Every five years, the ECAA applies for the $1.8 million grant to operate Head Start. Recently, ECAA was informed that Washington, D.C. went with the international organization Save the Children to receive the grant, meaning ECAA will no longer be the umbrella for Head Start.
The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following recent bookings into the parish jail. Arrested were the following persons: • Kira Lynn Ogonowski, 36, Mamou, was arrested on May 25, 2021, by the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office for failure to appear for court.