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Easy ways to sprout seeds

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, March 31, 2023
Submitted by the Eunice Bulb and Blossom Garden Club An fun, easy, and inexpensive way to grow plants is to start them from seeds indoors. It increases the number of sprouts and give the young seedlings a head start on the growing season. Mason Jar – this method works better with larger seeds.
Nickie Toups, the administrator of Eunice Manor Nursing Home, was the guest speaker at Wednesday’s Rotary Club meeting. (Photo by Myra Miller)

Nickie Toups, the administrator of Eunice Manor Nursing Home, was the guest speaker at Wednesday’s Rotary Club meeting. (Photo by Myra Miller)

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Toups talks about long term care payment options

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, March 31, 2023
The topic of conversation at Wednesday’s Rotary Club meeting was Medicare and Medicaid. Nickie Toups, the administrator of Eunice Manor Nursing Home, was the guest speaker at Wednesday’s Rotary Club meeting. Toups talked about long term care in nursing homes.
Jim Patterson, interim president and CEO of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, spoke March 28 at the Grand Opera House about the upcoming Legislative Session and the October elections. (Photo by Steve Bandy/Crowley Post-Signal)

Jim Patterson, interim president and CEO of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, spoke March 28 at the Grand Opera House about the upcoming Legislative Session and the October elections. (Photo by Steve Bandy/Crowley Post-Signal)

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LABI eyes insurance, tax reform budget and education in session

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, March 31, 2023
(March 30) — Some good things can happen in the upcoming Legislative Session. Some good things can happen in the upcoming statewide elections. Unfortunately, because of the latter, officials with the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry are not very hopeful about the former.
From left, St. Landry Parish School Board President Joyce Haynes and Courtney Joiner, Board attorney, during the Executive Committee meeting on March 27. Joiner was discussing the procedure for hiring a new school superintendent. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

From left, St. Landry Parish School Board President Joyce Haynes and Courtney Joiner, Board attorney, during the Executive Committee meeting on March 27. Joiner was discussing the procedure for hiring a new school superintendent. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

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School Board to learn who superintendent applicants are this week

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, March 31, 2023
The St. Landry Parish School Board is to learn this week who has applied for the superintendent’s job. Courtney Joiner, the Board’s attorney, said he and the superintendent’s secretary will retrieve the applications from a post office box on Tuesday. Applications were due March 24.
St. Landry Parish School Board member Tiffany Nolan proposes a new school violence policy at a committee meeting. Also shown, seated, from left, are Courtney Joiner, Board attorney; Rod Sias, parish NAACP president; and Shaun Grantham, finance director. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

St. Landry Parish School Board member Tiffany Nolan proposes a new school violence policy at a committee meeting. Also shown, seated, from left, are Courtney Joiner, Board attorney; Rod Sias, parish NAACP president; and Shaun Grantham, finance director. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

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Do schools need a single policy on violence?

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, March 31, 2023
New St. Landry Parish School Board member Tiffany Nolan presented her version of a school violence policy, but it was shelved during an Executive Committee meeting on March 27. “I think it is something we need to address,” she said. “We are really facing some things here when it comes to violence.
Dwanetta Scott, supervisor of Child Welfare and Attendance for the St. Landry Parish School Board, at Monday’s Executive Committee meeting..

Dwanetta Scott, supervisor of Child Welfare and Attendance for the St. Landry Parish School Board, at Monday’s Executive Committee meeting..

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School health sites proposed in Eunice

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, March 31, 2023
The first of school health sites proposed for St. Landry Parish may open in Eunice. Health agencies are competing for grants to open sites in rural schools with the applications due April 15, according to Dwanetta Scott, supervisor of Child Welfare and Attendance for the St.

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March Madness budget

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, March 31, 2023
It was like March Madness and the elbows were out as the St. Landry Parish Council scrutinized Parish President Jessie Bellard’s 2023 budget. “It is a simple process,” Bellard said at the start of two-hour budget session on Wednesday. “The budget is the budget.
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Myra Miller
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Bulb & Blossom meeting set April 4 The Eunice Bulb and Blossom Garden Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday at the First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. A social will begin at 5:30 p.m. and at 6 p.m. the meeting will begin. Lynn Pavich will be a hostess of “Easter symbols and Native Lore.
Louisiana VFW State Commander Don Reber speaks at his homecoming celebration on Saturday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8971 in Eunice. About 170 VFW leaders and members from across the state participated in the event that honors the state commander. Seated from left, are Donnie Fontenot, Post 8971 commander, Mary Miller, Reber’s daughter, and Thuy Reber, the commander’s wife. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)

Louisiana VFW State Commander Don Reber speaks at his homecoming celebration on Saturday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8971 in Eunice. About 170 VFW leaders and members from across the state participated in the event that honors the state commander. Seated from left, are Donnie Fontenot, Post 8971 commander, Mary Miller, Reber’s daughter, and Thuy Reber, the commander’s wife. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)

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VFW celebrates Don Reber’s tenure as state commander

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Veterans of Foreign War leaders and members from Louisiana celebrated Don Reber’s tenure as state commander at a weekend celebration at Eunice Post 8971. The Commander Homecoming and Testimonial occurs at the commander’s home post.
The Acadia Parish Chamber of Commerce hosted the annual Legislative Breakfast, a forecast of the 2023 Legislative Session, March 23 at the Crowley Town Club. Among those on hand were, from left, Megan Duhon, Acadia Parish Chamber president and CEO; State Rep. John Stefanski, R-Crowley; State Sen Bob Hensgens, R-Gueydan; and State Rep. Phillip DeVillier, R-Eunice. (Photo by Steve Bandy/Crowley Post-Signal)

The Acadia Parish Chamber of Commerce hosted the annual Legislative Breakfast, a forecast of the 2023 Legislative Session, March 23 at the Crowley Town Club. Among those on hand were, from left, Megan Duhon, Acadia Parish Chamber president and CEO; State Rep. John Stefanski, R-Crowley; State Sen Bob Hensgens, R-Gueydan; and State Rep. Phillip DeVillier, R-Eunice. (Photo by Steve Bandy/Crowley Post-Signal)

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Acadiana legislators present session preview

Rebecca Chaisson
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Roads, violent crime, tax reform, pay raises for legislators – all that and more was touched upon during Thursday’s (March 23) Legislative Breakfast, hosted by the Acadia Parish Chamber of Commerce. Sen. Bob Hensgens, Rep. John Stefanski, and Rep.