Why is the City Lake closed Sunday?

When the city’s Facebook page posted that the City Lake would be closed Sunday for a film production, the result was more than 12,000 views, Mayor Scott Fontenot said.
And the speculation was the production had something to do with the 15- car train derailment at the site in May 2000.
“The excitement was building up and people don’t even know what it is,” Fontenot said.
The derailment speculation wasn’t even close.
Fontenot said he and Willie Burson, of The Eunice Superette, were talking while cooking at a booster club meeting.
One topic of the talk was Jamie Bergeron and the Kickin’ Cajuns and Bergeron’s Internet TV show, “Jamie Bergeron’s Rockin’ House Party,” he said.
“He was telling me how they were going to do a big boucherie for Jamie’s show,” Fontenot said.
The mayor saw it as an opportunity to showcase the city and offered the City Lake.
Burson, who knows a thing or two about boucheries because he has done more than a few, said, “This is a way for him to showcase what we do, what Eunice Superette does, what he does and what us country folk cooking in the backyard do.”
Sunday’s event will be family and friends, Burson said.
The City Lake will be closed to the public for the event.
“He is coming out there with his producer, his film crew and that’s going to be one of his episodes,” Burson said.
The cooking show is on Facebook and Youtube, he said.
“He already has three episodes out,” Burson said of the “Rockin’ House Party” show.
Bergeron has a line of sauce and all-purpose seasonings sold at the Superette. They are marketed as Registered Coonass or RCA.
The products are low in salt, Burson said.
The show is about everyday country cooking, he said.
About a dozen dishes will be prepared and documented at the boucherie, he said.