Pulling together. “Soft hands” is a baseball term referring to a fielder’s ability to pluck hard-hits balls off the turf. Eunice High baseball players warming up together before Monday’s game against LaGrange appear to be testing those fingertips. From left are Jacob Fontenot, Kendall Sam, Mitchell Fuselier and Martin Simien.
Down come the old, up goes the new. Cleco workers replace older transmission lines with a new one along South Third Street. The line replace is part of an on-going upgrading of the utility’s delivery system in Eunice.
Blue Jays crush U-High’s Cubs. St. Edmund Trevor Hargroder slides in safe as University High third baseman Sean Daugherty makes the catch.
Drama debuts tonight. From left are Ernie Toepfer, Pharisee 1; Arien Harper, Woman; and David Harper, Jesus, rehearse for the Easter-season musical drama, “The New Covenant,” to be presented at 7 p.m. today and Monday at First Baptist Church. The public is invited. There is no admission charge and a nursery is provided.
Johnson wins coveted LifePoint honor. Tony Johnson, Director of Plant Operations, is Acadian Medical Center’s 2009 Mercy Award winner. The award is the highest employee honor bestowed by LifePoint Hospitals and is named after the late Scott Mercy, founding chairman and CEO.
Recognizing academic excellence. Acadian Medical Center Chief Nursing Officer Joyce Neville presents Dr. Chip Hebert, St. Edmund School Board and Scholastic Booster Club member a $1,000 donation during a pizza party for all schools Literary Rally winners. To Hebert’s right is Principal Beth Christ. The booster club recognizes and promotes academic achievement.
Tickets now on sale for Players’ “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Rehearsing for upcoming Eunice Player’s play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” are from left David McGee, Gabe Ortego, Deborah D. Ardoin, and Bonnie Pitre.
Eunice teams improve on the track. Anthony Powell attempts to clear the bar in the high jump Friday at the St. Landry Parish meet.
LSUE teams make history. LSUE sophomore Meredith Himel waits for a ground ball at first base earlier this season.
Can you see it? Birgette Mire pulls back limbs so that her friend Jesse Diket, a student at Tulane University, can get a clear picture of wild flowers growing at the Cajun Prairie in Eunice. The two took part in the Cajun Prairie Habitat Preservation Society’s tour of the 10-acre restored prairie on MLK Drive Saturday.
Signs of the season. Greater Eunice Ministerial Alliance president the Rev. Woody Gunnels of New Hope Fellowship holds signs that will be be placed in about 1,000 Eunice yards early Easter morning. The signs will be left up 50 days until Pentecost.