On February 5, the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office was given a donation of $1,500.00 from Boardwalk/Texas Gas Pipeline Company towards the purchase of new 700 mhz portable radios.
JD Bank presented a $500 donation to Savoy Medical Center for the 16th annual Mardi Gras Social, which was held at La Cabon on Monday, February 12.
With sunny skies overhead, the annual Mamou Courir de Mardi Gras took place on Tuesday, February 13. In the top photo, the Mardi Gras riders approach Oberlin Road near the home of Wanda Verrette.
The 18th annual Swamp Pop Reunion Dance was held on Monday, February 12, at the Ville Platte Civic Center. The evening began with an open house at the Louisiana Swamp Pop Museum.
Following the donation of a drone from Kinder Morgan, the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office began its training for the new device and put it in the air for the first time on Monday, January 29.
Roy Motors gave $1,500 to Sacred Heart towards a religious project on the elementary campus. The project will be an outdoor rosary for the school’s teachers and students to enjoy.
Frigid weather moved into the Evangeline Parish area beginning on Monday, January 15, with wintry precipitation and multiple winter hazards including dangerous temperatures and wind chills that rem
Despite temperatures hovering around the freezing mark, parish residents turned out to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Ville Platte as The Evangeline Parish Martin Luther King Jr.
A donation was recently made from the Boggy Bayou Festival Association to the Prairie Manor Nursing Home.
Christmas fun continued in Evangeline Parish as parades rolled through Turkey Creek and Mamou.