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Myra Miller
Monday, August 29, 2022
Bulb & Blossom meeting set Sept. 6 The Eunice Bulb and Blossom Garden Club will hold a meeting at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 6 with a social and business meeting. The meeting will be held at Jacquelyn Love’s home at 1351 Clanton in Eunice. Members are asked to save plastic milk cartons for an upcoming craft.
Janice Carol Mann

Janice Carol Mann

Janice Carol Mann

Myra Miller
Monday, August 29, 2022
EUNICE–It is with great sadness that the family of Janice Carol Mann announces her passing on Thursday, August 25, 2022 at Savoy Care Center in Mamou at the age of 82. Services will be held at a later date.
Vincent Henry Fontenot Sr.

Vincent Henry Fontenot Sr.

Vincent Henry Fontenot Sr.

Myra Miller
Monday, August 29, 2022
Vincent Henry Fontenot, Sr. passed away on Thursday, August 25, 2022 at the age of 74. A Graveside Service was held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 27, 2022 at Miller Cemetery with Deacon Gary Gaudin officiating.
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West Nile cases surface

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
The Louisiana Department of Health’s (LDH) Office of Public Health (OPH) has confirmed one human case of the potentially deadly neuroinvasive West Nile disease in Acadiana (Region 4). This is the first reported case in Acadiana since 2018.
Swamp milkweed (A. incarnata) is an excellent native milkweed for monarch butterflies. (Photos by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter)

Swamp milkweed (A. incarnata) is an excellent native milkweed for monarch butterflies. (Photos by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter)

Monarch mayday: Send in the natives

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
The monarch butterfly has been listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature on its Red List of Threatened Species.
A check for $4,650 from the Eunice Rotary Club was presented to the Eunice Community Health Center at the club’s meeting on Wednesday. The money is from the Eunice Rotary Zydeco Triathlon held in April. Accepting the check on behalf of the clinic was Alisa Ardoin, right. Also shown, from left, are Rotarians Coby Clavier and Pat Dossman. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

A check for $4,650 from the Eunice Rotary Club was presented to the Eunice Community Health Center at the club’s meeting on Wednesday. The money is from the Eunice Rotary Zydeco Triathlon held in April. Accepting the check on behalf of the clinic was Alisa Ardoin, right. Also shown, from left, are Rotarians Coby Clavier and Pat Dossman. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Rotary donation to Eunice Community Health Center

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
A check for $4,650 from the Eunice Rotary Club was presented to the Eunice Community Health Center at the club’s meeting on Wednesday. The money is from the Eunice Rotary Zydeco Triathlon held in April. Accepting the check on behalf of the clinic was Alisa Ardoin, right.

St Landry Crime Stoppers seeks tips to Eunice shooting

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
St. Landry Crime Stoppers is paying up to $2,500 for information about a shooting that wounded a 17-year-old female. At about 5:45 a.m. on Aug. 22, Eunice Police responded to calls from neighbors hearing gunshots in the area of South 12th and Eddie streets.
The Rev. Mitch Guidry, center, processes into Our Lady, Queen of All Saints Church. Also pictured are Deacon Chuck Ortego (left) and Deacon Ben Soileau (right). (Photo by Tony Marks/Ville Platte Gazette)

The Rev. Mitch Guidry, center, processes into Our Lady, Queen of All Saints Church. Also pictured are Deacon Chuck Ortego (left) and Deacon Ben Soileau (right). (Photo by Tony Marks/Ville Platte Gazette)

Jesuit friend inspired Ville Platte priest

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
Stories of growing up together in Church Point and entering the seminary together were shared as the Rev. Mark Thibodeaux, SJ, delivered the homily during an anniversary Mass for his friend, the Rev. Mitch Guidry, pastor of Our Lady, Queen of All Saints Church in Ville Platte.

Fantasy football’s reality check

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
One must be hooked on the NFL (check), entranced by football wagering (check), and champing at the bit for the season to begin (check) to join a fantasy draft that can take as long as two months to complete (oy).

Princess Di: Has it really been 25 years?

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 26, 2022
Believe it or not, August 31 is the 25th anniversary of the traffic accident that robbed the world of the effervescent Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana was a distant, distant cousin (my great-great grandfather Tyree married Mary Ann Spencer a century before I was born).