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Jimmie Dolan Pelloquin

BASILE~Our hearts are filled with sorrow as we announce the passing of Jimmie D. Pelloquin in the comfort of his home surrounded by his loving family at the age of 80. A Mass of Christian Burial will be Celebrated at 11:00 am on Monday, June 26, 2017 at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Basile.

Helen M. Wyble

Helen Merza Wyble, 99 years young, a native of Eunice, Louisiana and resident of Abbeville, Louisiana passed away on June 24, 2017. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 AM on Friday, June 30th, at St Anthony of Padua Catholic Church with Msgr. J. Robert Romero officiating.

News notes

Children’s choir rehearsals set The Eunice Community Children’s Choir will have rehearsals for the 2017 Summer concert at 6 p.m. June 30 and July 2 at the First Baptist Church, Eunice.

Sensory lab highlights role of taste in food science

Attendees of an event at the LSU AgCenter Sensory Services Lab listen as AgCenter food scientist Ashley Gutierrez, right, explains features of a kitchen during a tour of the Animal and Food Sciences Laboratories Building. The event was organized by Geaux Rouge and held on June 15.

From The Eunice News files

The following are from the June 1976 files of The Eunice News. Mrs. Virgie Marcantel was named Woman of the Year by the St. Thomas More Ladies Altar Society. She was pictured with the Rev. Harry Quick and Mrs. Silton Matt, president of the club.

House veteran says session was one of the wildest in his 35 years

Not much about the Louisiana legislature has changed since House Sergeant of Arms Clarence “Smoke” Russ began working at the Capitol in 1982, but the end of the last regular session was one to remember.

Deepwater Horizon oil spill grants fund critical coastal research

Enhancing sediment retention of diversions and improving flood-risk assessment are among the 13 studies recently funded through the first round of Louisiana’s RESTORE Act Center of Excellence grant process. LSU faculty lead eight of the 13 funded projects.

Morgan City man guility in massive theft scheme

A judge found Armond Duhon guilty of 221 counts of theft, two counts of money laundering and one count of racketeering for his role in helping to steal nearly $2 million from a Morgan City company.

America’s greatest threat — crony capitalism

As we celebrate another Independence Day with all our liberties and inalienable rights, it would also be prudent to consider the warnings that our Founding Fathers gave us. In 1787 Benjamin Franklin was asked if the new Constitution gave the country a monarchy or a republic?

The double murder of Otto Warmbier

We may never know what brutal torture and malign neglect American student Otto Warmbier suffered at the hands of North Korea’s dictatorship before losing his life this week at the age of 22. But it wasn’t the first time the free-spirited Ohio native died.