Photos

Swamp Pop Reunion is held

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. In the top photo, Charles Mann (seated on the right) is presented with a commemorative T-Shirt while at the museum.

Drone training begins

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.

Donation is received

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. The project has been planned for over a year.

Frozen weather hits parish

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 remained in effect until Wednesday, January 17.

Parish committee honors Martin Luther King Jr

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. Foundation Committee hosted the annual memorial celebration on Monday, January 15.

Boggy Bayou Festival makes donation

A donation was recently made from the Boggy Bayou Festival Association to the Prairie Manor Nursing Home. A check in the amount $17 thousand for the purchase a whirlpool tub for the residents was made. Every year the festival donates proceeds to the nursing home from the annual festival.

Christmas parades roll through Turkey Creek and Mamou

Christmas fun continued in Evangeline Parish as parades rolled through Turkey Creek and Mamou. Pictured in the left photo are members of Lake Cove Baptist Church as they ride in the Turkey Creek parade, on Saturday, December 9, in a candy land themed trailer with a Nativity scene in the front.

Christmas celebrations begin in the parish

Christmas events in Evangeline Parish got underway on Saturday, December 2, with the annual parade in Pine Prairie. Other events over the weekend included celebrations in Chataignier and Ville Platte.

Mamou High School cuts ribbon

With the installation complete of air conditioning in the Mamou High School gymnasium, a ribbon cutting was held on Tuesday, December 5.

Parish basketball tournament begins

The Evangeline Parish Basketball Tournament began on Wednesday, November 29, in Basile with the Sacred Heart Lady Trojans playing the host Lady Bearcats. The Sacred Heart Trojans then played the Bearcats, and the first day concluded with a pair of games between Mamou and Pine Prairie.