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By J. Anfenson-Comeau
jamieenews@bellsouth.net

LSU Eunice will be taking an 8.9 percent budget slice for the 2009-2010 fiscal year, slightly more than half what had been planned for, Chancellor William “Bill” Nunez said last week.
“Thank goodness it’s over,” Nunez said. “This has been the most hellacious legislative session I’ve seen in the 13 years I’ve been here.”

By J. Anfenson-Comeau
jamieenews@bellsouth.net

The race to build a solar energy self-sufficient house is on, and the University of Louisiana-Lafayette will be one of only 20 schools across North America and Europe selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 Solar Decathlon, Associate Professor of Architecture Geoff Gjertson told Eunice Rotarians Wednesday.
ULL’s School of Architecture and Design’s entry, BeauSoleil, was designed by graduate students in the program to produce more energy than it uses.

By J. Anfenson-Comeau
jamieenews@bellsouth.net

Cairo may be almost 7,000 miles from Louisiana, but Eunice native Sheila Marcantel Ivory said she still finds little reminders of home while living in the capital of Egypt.
“I’ve made friends in Egypt who are from Erath, and some from Eunice. So we have our own little Cajun celebrations,” Ivory said.
Ivory, a 1990 graduate of Eunice High, recently visited her hometown with her family after spending a year living in Egypt.

The St. Landry Parish School Board on Thursday accepted the retirement notice of Glendale Elementary Principal Phyllis Ortego and voted to advertise for applicants to succeed her.
There was no discussion of what seems to be the pending departure of Eunice High Principal Margaret Leger.

Pay for a beginning teacher in St. Landry Parish increased to about $41,000 annually on Thursday, when the School Board gave all employees a $1,380 pay raise.

The alleged leader of a group of Mamou men who traumatized five children when they broke into the family car and beat their father is the subject of a police search.