Lifestyle

Take care of your holiday plants

We use a variety of decorative plants to dress up our homes during the holidays. Poinsettias, holiday cactuses and living Christmas trees, in particular, play an important part in decking the halls. How well you care for them once you get them home has a lot to do with how long they stay attractive.

Holiday baking season arrives

Who doesn’t enjoy chocolate chip cookies? This variety cookie is my favorite. The holiday season is here and I’m sure many of you are making plans to bake. The following, courtesy of Newspaper Metro, gives a Double Chocolate Chip cookie recipe.

How well does your boat float?

Arien Harper’s first grade class at Eunice Elementary performed a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) activity before the Thanksgiving holidays. Students made the Mayflower that could hold approximately 100 people.

Eunice High food drive senior project

Eunice High School seniors Josh Youngblood, left, Hannah Jack, Jaden Brasseaux, and Ian George are with volunteers of the Eunice Food Bank. For their senior project, the seniors held a canned good drive contest at EHS to collect items for the food bank.

Anti-bullying speakers at Eunice Elementary

Eunice Elementary recently invited guest speakers to speak about bullying to third and fourth graders. Among the guests were City Judge Terry Hoychick and Police Chief Randy Fontenot. (Submitted Photo)

Top AR students at Eunice Elementary

At the weekly Flag Pole ceremony, Eunice Elementary recognized its readers who worked hard at their Accelerated Reading goals.

2018 ‘Get It Growing’ calendar

By Kyle Peveto, kpeveto@agcenter.lsu.edu BATON ROUGE — Louisiana gardeners in need of motivation to get in the dirt and “get it growing” only need to look to their calendars.

Birth Announcements

Kallie Jack Halen Jack and Caitlin Huval of Eunice announce the birth of their daughter, Kallie Mae Jack, born at Acadian Medical Center on Nov. 19 weighing 6 pounds and 14.8 ounces. Maternal grandparents are Beau and Keesha Huval of Eunice. Paternal grandparents are Jessie and Nora Jack of Eunice.

Cajun Christmas with Steve Riley at Liberty Saturday

The “Rendez-vous des Cajuns” Cajun Music Radio & TV show Saturday at the Liberty Center at 6 p.m. will feature a Special Christmas Show performance by Steve Riley & Mamou Playboys. Show starts at 6 p.m. The Liberty opens at 4 p.m. Tickets $15 for advanced. Tickets, call 789-1538. Starting at 10 a.

Class Act Student of the Week

This week’s Student of the Week is Ariana Guillory, a sixth grader at Central Middle School. Her mother is Tomeka Guillory. If you had to live in another part of the world, where would you want to live and why? I would like to live in Los Angeles, California, because it is always sunny.