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The Eunice Food Bank needs you. The food bank supplies many families in Eunice and has recently grown to feeding more families.
The increase of families that located in Eunice are displaced from two hurricanes Laura and Delta, Mary Ann Guillory, director of the food bank, said, “The food bank has been helping these families also. Some are out of work, looking for jobs too.
According to Guillory, the food bank is providing an additional 10 to 12 people per week. The Eunice Food Bank serves over 300 families per month.

Renewal of a tax to maintain and operate the St. Landry Parish Jail is a critical issue for parish government, according to Parish President Jessie Bellard.
If the tax isn’t passed, the parish’s fund for roads, bridges and drainage will be emptied of nearly $700,000 to pay for jail maintenance and operations.
The election is Dec. 5.
Early voting continues Monday through Saturday. Voting will not be held on Thanksgiving or Friday.

Eunice Police Chief Randy Fon tenot is hoping a “confidential witness card” will make it easi- er for people to help police solve crimes.
The cards — the same size as business cards — are intended to make it safer for people to cooper- ate with police.
“What we’ve been having with all these shootings and some of the crime going on is people don’t want to talk to the police for vari- ous reasons,” he said in a talk at the Eunice Rotary Club meeting on Wednesday.