Eunice Mardi Gras ‘picture perfect’

By Harlan Kirgan on Wednesday, March 2, 2022
5-day party occurs safely
  • Eunice Mardi Gras Captain Pat Frey holds a chicken out to the runners at North Bobcat Drive and Parish Road 6-325. Turn to pages 2, 6, 10 and 12 for more photos.
    Eunice Mardi Gras Captain Pat Frey holds a chicken out to the runners at North Bobcat Drive and Parish Road 6-325. Turn to pages 2, 6, 10 and 12 for more photos.
  • The crowd was building on Eunice’s 2nd Street as the music played and they waited for the parade. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)
    The crowd was building on Eunice’s 2nd Street as the music played and they waited for the parade. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)
    A blue sky with afternoon temperatures in the 70s blessed the Eunice Mardi Gras. “Today is just picture perfect. Look at the people having fun,” said Mayor Scott Fontenot as he looked over the crowd on 2nd Street at about 2 p.m. “It is clean,” he said of the street. “Everybody is using the trash cans!” Even though the pre-parade crowd seemed on the tidy side, the parade resulted ...

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