Lifestyle

New playground equipments

These two girls, directly in front, Chloe Gaspard, left, and Ana Thomas were among a few children at the new playground equipment at The Eunice Circle Park Thursday morning. The park is officially open to the public.

Camp Fuego at Acadian Baptist Center

Teenagers and their counselors from across the South are meeting at Acadian Baptist Center near Richard for a five day summer camps directed by Camp Fuego.

A tambourine craft at Story Time hour

Kennedy Johnwell, 6, gets a small bell ready to make a tambourine craft during Story Time hour Wednesday. Children’s Librarian Bobbie Bordelon read a storybook, “How Can You Dance?” by Rick Walton.

Bulb & Blossom Club Garden of the Month

The residence of Lorita Johnson at 1341 B&B Avenue was presented the Residential Garden of the Month marker. The landscaped flowering beds feature Knockout roses, azalea, camelias, Lilly of the Nile, angelonia, hosta, hydrangeas, begonias, petunias, Joseph’s coat ageratum and mom to grass.

Healthy Snack Night featured at 4-H University

By Karol Osborne BATON ROUGE — A team of 4-H members aiming to help teens learn to make healthier nutrition and fitness decisions staged a Healthy Snack Night event for more than 1,200 of their peers attending 4-H University held June 19-21 on the LSU campus.

Soil health, cover crops field sugarcane field day set

Rick Bogren, rbogren@agcenter.lsu.edu JEANERETTE — The LSU AgCenter has scheduled a soil health and cover crop workshop for July 26 in conjunction with a sugarcane field day for Iberia, St. Mary and Vermilion parishes.

Soil health, cover crops field sugarcane field day set

Rick Bogren, rbogren@agcenter.lsu.edu JEANERETTE — The LSU AgCenter has scheduled a soil health and cover crop workshop for July 26 in conjunction with a sugarcane field day for Iberia, St. Mary and Vermilion parishes.

A siamese twin cucumber

Jimmy Smith of Eunice stopped by the newspaper office to show off his “siamese twin cucumber as he called it.” Grown in his garden at home, he hadn’t seen one quite grown in this shape. Smith has kept count since May 6 of how many cucumbers he has picked, and his total is 546.

An ice cream social at Goodhope Place Apartments

Tenants at Goodhope Place Apartments beat the heat with an ice cream and cake birthday party held by the manager Cheryl Anderson. From left are tenants Gerrell Charles, Viola Dossman, Danny Godfrey, Sandra Rideau, Marie Scott, Richard McDaniels and Debra King.

LSU Ag horticulturist suggests how to deal with grass clippings

By Dan Gill LSU AgCenter Horticulturist As if mowing the lawn wasn’t trouble enough, dealing with and disposing of grass clippings is a major pain. Clumps of grass clippings left on the lawn are unsightly and yellow the grass beneath them.