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St. Landry Parish Sheriff arrests report

St. Landry Parish Sheriff arrests

Myra Miller

Monday, March 18, 2024

The following are arrests reported by the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office. Friday, March 15 Bobby Edwards, 47, 100 block of Thomas Lane, Washington. Domestic abuse battery, interfering with emergency communications. Arrested by St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office.

News notes items

News notes

Myra Miller

Monday, March 18, 2024

Belly Buddies Color Fun Run set April 13 There will be a Belly Buddies Color Fun Run in downtown Eunice from 10 a.m. until noon on April 13. All proceeds will go to Belly Buddies, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide food to Eunice’s most vulnerable students.

Jessie Lee Dietz

Myra Miller

Monday, March 18, 2024

It is with heavy hearts and great sadness that the family Jessie Lee Dietz announces his passing on, March 15, 2024, in the comfort of his home surrounded by his loving family at the age 68. A Celebration of Life in honor of Jessie will be held at 10 a.m.

Eunice Police Arrests

Eunice Police Arrests report

Myra Miller

Friday, March 15, 2024

The following are arrests by Eunice Police. Thursday, March 14 Tyler Kaough, 31, 1100 block of College Road, Eunice. DWI, domestic abuse with child endangerment.

Eunice Police Radio log

Myra Miller

Friday, March 15, 2024

The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. Thursday, March 14 6:52 a.m. Caller in the 300 block of South Martin Luther King said she would like to speak to an officer in reference to her car being broken into. 7:13 a.m.

Business Yard of the Month selected by the Bulb & Blossom Garden Club went to Ardoin’s Funeral Home located on West Laurel. Kim LeDoux Fontenot, manager, is pictured. The funeral home features flowering beds of multi-colored pansies, matuBusiness Yard of the Month selected by the Bulb & Blossom Garden Club went to Ardoin’s Funeral Home located on West Laurel. Kim LeDoux Fontenot, manager, is pictured. The funeral home features flowering beds of multi-colored pre pink azaleas, and bridal wreath shrubbery.

Bulb & Blossom gardens of the month

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, March 15, 2024

Bulb & Blossom gardens of the month. (Submitted photos)

Japanese magnolia flowers are extremely fragrant and make gorgeous cut flowers to bring in, arrange and enjoy. (Photo by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter)

Jane Japanese magnolia named Louisiana Super Plant for spring 2024

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, March 15, 2024

Japanese magnolias are completing their bloom and flushing out new, light green foliage. These beautiful trees are some of the first plants to signify that spring is just around the corner. With their pink-to-purple blooms, they’re one of the most strikingly beautiful trees.

Celeste Gomez, president of the Bulb & Blossom Garden Club, was the guest speaker Wednesday at the Eunice Rotary Club. Gomez introduced the club’s newest project, the Nature Trail Tree Marker Replacement project. From left, are Fran Guillory, chairman of the club’s beautification committee; Gomez, Donna Baltakis, vice president of the club and incoming president; and Ellis Daigle, President-Elect of the Eunice Rotary Club. (Photo by Myra Miller)

Garden Club replacing tree markers at Walking Park

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, March 15, 2024

The Bulb & Blossom Garden Club in Eunice was founded in 1948. The club was federated in 1950. As a federated club, the Eunice Bulb & Blossom Garden Club belongs to the Louisiana Garden Club Federation, and the Deep South Federation, and is a member of the National Garden Club.

Missing my Irish ancestors

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, March 15, 2024

Piglet! My Irish surname means piglet! Like millions of Americans, I’ve been poking into my heritage using ancestry sites, such as FamilySearch.com. That’s how I learned that “Purcell” is an occupational name of Norman origin for “swineherd.

Is your faith in UFOs shattered?

Rebecca Chaisson

Friday, March 15, 2024

Well, THOSE eagerly anticipated revelations certainly crashed and burned. You may recall last summer a former intelligence officer told Congress that Uncle Sam maintains a covert stockpile of downed alien spacecraft and corpses. (“Doesn’t he look unnatural?