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The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs.

Bulb & Blossom meeting set Sept. 7
The Bulb and Blossom Garden Club of Eunice will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday inside the social hall of the First United Methodist Church located at 501 S. 5th St.

I come from a family of fighting men.

I face a huge responsibility this Labor Day weekend: I’ve been tasked with making my mother’s sacred potato salad recipe.

Local farmer Raymond and Tammy Fruge recently directed a $2,500 Bayer Fund America’s Farmers Grow Communities donation to St. Edmund Catholic School.
St. Edmund will use the funds to awards given to students at our Academic Pep Rally.

The amount of money that insurers expect to pay for the 2020 hurricanes continues to grow, albeit more slowly, as Louisiana gets further away from last year’s historic storm season, according to state Insurance Commissioner James Donelon.

Crews were out Wednesday cleaning the concrete portion of the drainage canal that begins south of Laurel Avenue at Nimitz Street, Eunice Mayor Scott Fontenot said the canal drains the U.S. 190 area.

Hurricane Ida slammed into southeast Louisiana on Sunday packing 155 mph winds that slowed into hellacious hours of destruction from Grand Isle north to Baton Rouge.

Eunice weathered Hurricane Ida without any reported significant damage.

St. Landry Parish President Jessie Bellard said, “We are prepared for the worst and hoping for the best” as Hurricane Ida approached.