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Eunice Recreation Cheer Camp Clinic

The Eunice Recreation Complex sponsored a Cheer Camp Clinic this week at the Northwest Center. High school spirit team leaders from Eunice High and St. Edmund were on hand leading young girls all aspects of cheering. From left, are, Jolie Frey, Bailey Guillory and Aeris Banks.

Know these garden don’ts

By Dan Gill LSU AgCenter Horticulturist Although we try to do the best we can to properly take care of our landscapes, we seem to commonly make a few mistakes. But they’re easily avoided as long as you are aware of the proper way to do things.

A Louisiana actress ‘Lady T’ pays a visit to Eunice

Lady Toussaint Duchess, or as she fondly calls herself, “Lady T,” paid a visit to Eunice on July 13. Lady T, a Ponchatoula native, has made a name for herself in the entertainment business.

Charles Drew High Class of 1963 celebrates 54th reunion

The Charles Drew High School class of 1963 recently gathered at the Southeast Neighborhood Center in Eunice to celebrate their 54th class reunion. The theme for the event was “Cowboys and Cowgirls making a Difference.

Tenants at Goodhope Place enjoy July luncheon

Tenants at Goodhope Place Apartments were treated to a Fourth of July luncheon given by the complex. The menu consisted of barbeque hamburgers, hot dogs, chips and a drink.

Registration dates, open house posted at Eunice schools

Open houses, registration dates and time at Eunice schools are listed below. Open house at Highland Elementary will be Aug. 3 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Early registration for kindergarten-fourth grades will be held July 31 from 9 until 11 a.m. inside the school’s cafeteria.

Jackie Callier at the Liberty Saturday

The “Rendez-vous des Cajuns” Cajun Music Radio & TV show Saturday at the Liberty Center at 6 p.m. will feature a performance by Jackie Callier, Ivy Dugas & The Cajun Cousins. Show starts at 6 p.m. The Liberty opens at 4 p.m. Tickets are $5 for adults, and children ages 7 to 12 are $3.

Chicken soup and the common cold

Chicken soup seems to soothe cold symptoms. However, after reading the following, courtesy of Newspaper Metro, some people come down with colds more than once a year. Myself, colds normally attack my system in the winter months. When I do suffer with a cold, I love to eat hot chicken soup.

Menard, Fontenot announce engagement

Harold and Belinda Menard of Eunice are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Hannah Menard, to Beau Fontenot, son of Carla Fontenot and the late Shad Fontenot of Eunice. Miss Menard is the granddaughter of the late Frank and Hazel Bordelon.

Please Say Please StoryTime hour at library

Alexis Douget, a seventh-grader at Richard Elementary, was the guest reader Wednesday during Storytime hour. She read a storybook, “Please say Please,” by Magrery Cuyler. Children created a penguin as their craft, ate cookies as their snack, and won door prizes of a tool box bath squirts.