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Governor makes his case to use ‘rainy day’ fund L

Gov. John Bel Edwards Friday made his case for combining the state’s “rainy day” fund and spending cuts to fix a $304 million mid-year budget shortfall, warning lawmakers that funding reductions will be “deep” and “painful” no matter what.

Governor makes his case to use ‘rainy day’ fund L

Gov. John Bel Edwards Friday made his case for combining the state’s “rainy day” fund and spending cuts to fix a $304 million mid-year budget shortfall, warning lawmakers that funding reductions will be “deep” and “painful” no matter what.

Book tells a tale of humor, fate and war

There’s not much humor to be found in war, but occasionally a storyteller emerges to do just that. Don Bacque has written “A Walk in the Park: A Vietnam Comedy” and it tells his story of serving as a Green Beret in Vietnam in 1970.

Speaker at Right to Life March explains how to sway others to oppose abortion

Speaker at Eunice’s Right to Life March said volunteers become advocates for the unborn by creating dialogue with pro-choice advocates that balances truth and love, which helps them change their minds.

School chief to reorganize Central Office jobs

The St. Landry Parish School Board’s Central Office is on the verge of a reorganization in a plan presented by Superintendent Patrick Jenkins. “This reorganization will not cost the Board any additional funds,” Jenkins said. “The best case scenario is it will save us funds — over a $100,000.

Newsnotes

ACT prep class Acadia Parish Sheriff K.P. Gibson will hold a free ACT Prep Class on Feb. 4 for all interested high school students in Acadiana. The class will be held at the Sheriff’s Office, 1037 Capitol Avenue, in Crowley. Classes will begin at 8 a.m. and end about 2 p.m.

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Free child car seat installation Free installation of child car safety seats is being offered from 4 to 6 p.m. every Monday at Word Ministries, 1960 W. Laure Ave., Eunice. The seats will be installed by a nationally certified technicians.

History and a Gulf shipwreck

On Jan. 11, 1784, the Spanish ship El Cazador left Veracruz, Mexico, for New Orleans, under the command of Capt. Gabriel de Campos y Pineda. It was carrying 19 tons of newly minted silver coins.

A tale of two hospitals: No plan for vacant Moosa Hospital in Eunice

Ten years after the doctors, nurses and patients moved into a brand new hospital, Moosa Hospital remains vacant, boarded up and in a state of decay. Newton “Chip” Thibodeaux, chairman of the St.

From The Eunice News files

From the January 1999 files of The Eunice News. Elizabeth Reed Guillory, of Eunice, was presented the Martin Luther King award at the Liberty Theater as part of the Martin Luther King celebration. She was honored for her work with Parent’s Reach Out.