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Bulb & Blossom meeting set Tuesday
The Bulb & Blossom Garden Club of Eunice will hold its next meeting at 5:30 p.m. March 5 at the home of Fran Guillory.

Bulb members ready for spring

During the February meeting of the Bulb & Blossom Garden Club, members expressed their yearning for spring by adorning hats of various shapes and sizes with assorted flowers and butterflies.

It was a rice plan to save us from The Bomb

In the middle 1950s, when the Cold War was at its hottest and we were being drilled on how to survive when the Commies dropped The Bomb on us, an LSU scientist said he’d found just the thing to save us.
Rice hulls.

St. Landry Parish marriage licenses

The following people obtained marriage licenses at the St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court Office, Opelousas.
Thursday, Feb. 22
Gregory Dumes of Greta and Monica Lavette Greene of Sunset.

St. Landry Parish civil cases

The following are civil cases filed in the 27th Judicial Court District, Opelousas.
Thursday, Feb. 22
State of Louisiana vs John Lee Ellis II, application for warrant of seizure.

LSUE women’s basketball team burger fundraiser

There was a barbecue burger fundraiser sale to benefit the LSUE Women’s Basketball team. The luncheon fundraiser was held at the VFW Hall on Bobcat Drive on Feb. 21.

Belly Buddies to help feed kids

Belly Buddies, a program to fight childhood hunger, has been in existence for almost 10 years in Eunice and is seeking to expand.

Bellard lauds parish government progress

In an annual meeting, St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard delivered a report on parish government’s progress in the past year.

News notes

Bulb & Blossom meeting set Tuesday
The Bulb & Blossom Garden Club of Eunice will hold its next meeting at 5:30 p.m. March 5 at the home of Fran Guillory.