Editorial

Keep Eunice Beautiful director thanks volunteers

On behalf of the Keep Eunice Beautiful Board and the City of Eunice, I want to thank you for doing your part during the statewide Love the Boot Week, April 18-24. Because of good folks like you we were a success! We had great coverage in the Eunice News and on KEUN.

Ask legislators to support suicide prevention lifeline

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As a volunteer and advocate with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, this month I am asking everyone to join us and demand #MoreForMentalHealth.

Book cited as inappropriate

Libraries all over Louisiana, and across the country, are no longer safe for children.

Don’t restrict information to what only government agencies want to deliver

Making government transparent is always going to be a work in progress. The Louisiana Press Association is at the forefront of providing public notices in a variety of formats, including online portals. But fundamental to the process is government making the information available.

Preserve Public Notice Requirement

Newspapers remain one of the cheapest ways to communicate and establish a reliable public record. Since the days of Benjamin Franklin, who was one the nation’s earliest printers, to today, the printed word on a piece of paper is the tried and true standard for a historic record.

Welcome to all, but loyalty to one

This information should be read by every person in the United States including our leaders in Washington D.C. “In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with...

Teachers make other professions possible

After encouraging some younger teachers of St. Landry parish not to leave for another Parish, I spoke to several others in and out of the parish and combined their remarks. Lets see if I’ve got this right.

Parents should serve on the school board

Recently during a TV interview, I watched several teachers from St. Landry Parish express their feelings about issues with the St. Landry Parish School Board. I was amazed at the courage they showed in revealing the truth about the problems they were forced to contend with every day.

Honor this leader by renaming Maple Ave.

What a great New Year’s present the motorists from surrounding areas, the city of Eunice (especially those of us living in the southwestern fourth of our fair city) are receiving! I’m talking about the almost completed re-surfacing of Maple Avenue, from Hwy. 13 west to the Acadia Parish line.

Tyrades!

Many of you just watched the late Darren McGavin as Ralphie’s father in the umpteenth rerun of 1983’s “A Christmas Story,” but we’re approaching the 50th anniversary of another iconic McGavin role.