BREAKING GROUND - (from left) Ronnie Landreneau, parish engineer; Faye Langley, Basile representative on the parish library board; Bill Fontenot, parish engineering firm; Sandra Salazar, parish library board; Mark Denette, Basile mayor; Rella Joseph, parish library board; Gaynell Coates, parish library board; Meg Placke, state library director; Wesley Saunders, asst. parish library manager; Sherry Bergeron, Basile library branch manager; and Suzie Lemoine, parish library co-manager.
By: DARREL LEJEUNE
LSN Editor
On Wednesday, July 31, at 10 a.m., the Basile community gathered for the ground-breaking ceremony of the new Basile branch of the Evangeline Parish Library. The event took place at the corner of East Stagg Avenue and North Ryan Street, a site recently acquired by the library board of control in the name of the Evangeline Parish Police Jury. The new location is jus…
