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Power outage closes LSUE campus

Harlan Kirgan
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
LSU Eunice is closed on Wednesday, August 9 due to a campus wide power outage. The outage was caused after a transformer was hit early Wednesday morning during renovation work on Manuel Hall. All offices are closed until further notice.
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Myra Miller
Monday, August 7, 2023
Medicaid rep at Eunice Food Bank Wednesday Medicaid members, don’t risk losing your health coverage. There will be a Medicaid representative at the Eunice Food Bank from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday. The Food Bank is located at 2101 West Ash, in Eunice.

Voter registration drives in Eunice, Opelousas

Harlan Kirgan
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Voter registration drives are scheduled in Eunice and Opelousas. According to Byron Stelly, parish registrar of voters, voter registration will be available as well as making changes to registration, and absentee-by-mail voting. The deadline to register or make changes in-person is Sept.

Help your potted plants breathe

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, August 4, 2023
Plants do not breathe like humans do, but they still need oxygen. Photosynthesis is a process that turns carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and sugar, while plant respiration is a process that turns oxygen and sugar into energy.

Miss Eunice Pageant scheduled for Aug. 26

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, August 4, 2023
The Eunice Pageant Organization, along with the city of Eunice, will present a Miss Eunice Pageant on Saturday, Aug. 26 at the Northwest Community Center. There will be different age group categories offered for titles of Miss and Mister.

Burn ban issued for St. Landry Parish

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, August 4, 2023
Burn ban issued for St. Landry Parish St. Landry Parish Government has issued a burn ban in the parish effective immediately. The ban includes anything with an open flame that produces an ember. The wind can carry floating embers away from the original fire and start a spot fire.

We’ve never seen a summer like this

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, August 4, 2023
On Aug. 2, 1924, during a sweltering heat wave, Father W. J. Teurlings, then pastor of St. John’s Cathedral in Lafayette, issued a statement to the newspapers: “At the Cathedral a special Novena will be held for rain. … In view of the urgency of the need a large attendance is anticipated.

Acadia superintendent’s contract extended to 2024

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, August 4, 2023
With his current contract ending on the final day of 2023, Acadia Parish Superintendent Scott Richard once again asked the school board on Tuesday to extend his contract to Sept. 6, 2024, the date he would be retiring.

St. Landry Parish school district hit by cyber security threat

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, August 4, 2023
The St. Landry School Board became aware of a threat against its computer network on July 26. Although servers on its network were compromised, the district reported that student and employee information systems are hosted on an outside network.
The first Amy Olivia Guidry Memorial Scholarship was awarded during the White Coat Ceremony at LSUE on Thursday. Guidry was a LSUE nursing graduate and nurse at the Lafayette General Hospital emergency room who died in July 2021. From left, are Mae Simoneaux, LSUE program director; Skee and Brittany Smith; scholarship recipient, Taylor Doughty; Chelsie Blanchard, of Ochsner Hospital Lafayette; and Wendel and Vanda Guidry, of Church Point. Brittany Smith is Guidry’s sister and the Guidrys are her parents.

The first Amy Olivia Guidry Memorial Scholarship was awarded during the White Coat Ceremony at LSUE on Thursday. Guidry was a LSUE nursing graduate and nurse at the Lafayette General Hospital emergency room who died in July 2021. From left, are Mae Simoneaux, LSUE program director; Skee and Brittany Smith; scholarship recipient, Taylor Doughty; Chelsie Blanchard, of Ochsner Hospital Lafayette; and Wendel and Vanda Guidry, of Church Point. Brittany Smith is Guidry’s sister and the Guidrys are her parents.

LSUE nursing scholarship

Harlan Kirgan
Friday, August 4, 2023
The first Amy Olivia Guidry Memorial Scholarship was awarded during the White Coat Ceremony at LSUE on Thursday. Guidry was a LSUE nursing graduate and nurse at the Lafayette General Hospital emergency room who died in July 2021.