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If you’re from Louisiana and you have a federal issue regarding water — whether it be the stuff you drink, the stuff that stinks, the stuff that flooded your living room or the stuff that’s eating Louisiana alive — then you need to slate a visit with third term Congressman Garret Graves.
He engineered many of Louisiana’s modern coastal restoration and protection laws, and, as a staffer, had a hand in gradating federal recovery policy that was geared specifically to our state.

Families are invited to a children’s Mardi Gras run – “Courir des Enfants” – that is set for Monday, March 4, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Breaux Bridge.
Children parade with their families through the streets, with the children decked out in Mardi Gras costumes, singing and playing Cajun music on fiddles, guitars and percussion, while “begging” for and receiving gumbo ingredients from homes along Washington Street skirting Bayou Teche.
The children chase and catch a chicken along the parade route and share gumbo and dancing afterwards at TCA, located at 210 E. Bridge Street.

Janice Jones, BS, MBA, has been named chief financial officer for Mercy Regional Medical Center, of Ville Platte, and Acadian Medical Center, of Eunice.
Calvin Green, chief executive officer at Mercy Regional Medical Center, along with Kevin Frank, chief executive officer at Acadian Medical Center, announced Jones’ appointment to the CFO role.
Jones has been with Mercy and Acadian for 15 years.