From the July 2007 files of The Eunice News.
Tornadoes runners-up in Pony District tourney. Eunice boys fall to Ville Platte in finals; Crowley champs of coach-pitch Sectional tourney.
Local hunters bring home trophies from Texas. Pictured, from left, are John McCrory, Sonny Broussard, Wayne Rabalais, Kevin Richard, Michael Guillory, Jr., and Doug Guillory, along with Kris Moreau, not pictured, bagged 26 game animals during a recent hunting trip at Mountain Home, Texas.
And the walls came tumbling down. E.B. Feucht & Sons machinery gathers up rubble from one of the piles that are all that remain of the former nursing home buildings on Nile Street. Feucht began cleaning and clearing the property for Southern Breeze last week. The developer plans to build a 42-unit low-income seniors apartment complex on the site.
Enjoying a Happy Days snack break. Pictured from left Layne Miller and Katherine Sittig, both 5 years old, enjoyed St. Anthony’s Happy Days vacation bible school program at the Jeanmard Center. They are having a snack of cookies and cold punch.
Outstanding Support Personnel of the Year. Brenda Stelly, a Title I Paraprofessional at Glendale Elementary, recently received the St. Landry Parish Outstanding Support Personnel of the Year.
Oilers blast Rayne, 8-2. Wednesday evening doubleheader against Opelousas Indians decides district standing. Infielders Wesley Richard, Jacque Fruge, and Brett Baldwin hold meet on the mound with pitcher Austin Young during Tuesday’s game.
Baltakis returns with new insight. Time in Czech Republic provides opportunity to widen perspective. Anthony and Donna Balktakis made new friends- in this case mimes posing as statues of British World War I soldiers-during the six months they spent in Eastern Europe on a Fulbright scholarship.
Miss LSUE Alicia Ardoin of Mamou, seated in above photo, is accounted for as the school searches for all former title holders to attend a special event at September’s Homecoming Day. Others from left are Jill Andrepont of Church Point, first runner up; Angela Johnson of Kinder, second runner up; Adrienne Jordan of Eunice, third runner up; and Lisa Attales of Ville Platte, fourth runner up.
Fiddler On The Roof. The Eunice Player’s Theatre presents the summer musical, “Fiddler on The Roof,” book by Joseph Stein and music and lyrics by Jerry Brock and Sheldon Harnick. The blockbuster musical is directed by Debi L. Crawford and stars Darrel LeJeune and Holly M. Bell. “Fiddler on the Roof,” opened Wednesday and will continue through Saturday, July 28 nd Thursday, Aug. 2, through Saturday, Aug. 4 with curtain at 7 p.m. On Sunday, July 29, and Aug. 5, there will be a 2 p.m. matinee.