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Eunice Police Arrests

Eunice Police Arrests

Eunice Police Arrests report

Myra Miller
Monday, August 8, 2022
The following are arrests by Eunice Police. August 5 Jazzlyn Coniki Anderson, 27, 800 block of N. Latour, Ville Platte. Contempt of court. Aaronish Bellard, 24, 200 block of Boudreaux, Eunice. Theft, value less than $1,000, shoplifting. Kailee Jones, 22, 100 block of Bee, Eunice. Serving time.
Eunice Police Radio log

Eunice Police Radio log

Eunice Police Radio log

Myra Miller
Monday, August 8, 2022
The following are excerpts from the Eunice Police Department radio dispatch logs. Traffic stops are not normally included. August 5 05:22 Disturbance in the 400 block of Mathilda. 06:13 Caller advised of three young juveniles with a weapon in the alley on Corn.
News notes items

News notes items

News notes

Myra Miller
Monday, August 8, 2022
Food Farmacy open house set Friday The Eunice Community Garden will have a Food Farmacy open house from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. Friday at 2101 West Ash in Eunice, behind the DMV. There will be refreshments.
Eunice High School FFA students, Jasmine Vargas and Wesley Doucet were state winners and advance to compete on the national level. Vargas and Doucet were introduced at the St. Landry Parish School Board meeting on Thursday. At the meeting, from left, are agricultural teachers Brook Comeaux and Rebecca Berzas, and Vargas and Doucet. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Eunice High School FFA students, Jasmine Vargas and Wesley Doucet were state winners and advance to compete on the national level. Vargas and Doucet were introduced at the St. Landry Parish School Board meeting on Thursday. At the meeting, from left, are agricultural teachers Brook Comeaux and Rebecca Berzas, and Vargas and Doucet. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Eunice High FFA state winners

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 5, 2022
Eunice High School FFA students, Jasmine Vargas and Wesley Doucet were state winners and advance to compete on the national level. Vargas and Doucet were introduced at the St. Landry Parish School Board meeting on Thursday.
The Fête-Dieu du Teche begins at Leonville in 2019. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

The Fête-Dieu du Teche begins at Leonville in 2019. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

8th annual Fête-Dieu du Teche coincides with Eucharistic Revival

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 5, 2022
Fête-Dieu du Teche 2022, to take place Aug. 15, coincides with the three-year Eucharistic Revival underway in the United States. The intention for the all-day spiritual and cultural celebration will be for a Renaissance Eucharistique in Acadiana and beyond. The day begins at 8 a.m.
First United Methodist Church of Eunice welcomed a new pastor and assistant to the pastor this summer.

First United Methodist Church of Eunice welcomed a new pastor and assistant to the pastor this summer.

Pastor, assistant named at First United Methodist Church

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 5, 2022
First United Methodist Church of Eunice welcomed a new pastor and assistant to the pastor this summer. Dr. Warren Langford begins serving as pastor and his assistant is Mrs. Christy Brammer. Both also serve FUMC at Crowley and Ebeneezer Methodist Church.
Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell

Have we reached the point of no return?

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 5, 2022
This is an election year. But the issues this year are not about Democrats and Republicans. The big issue is whether this nation has degenerated to a point of no return -- a point where we risk destroying ourselves, before our enemies can destroy us.

Are these the good old days for reminiscing?

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 5, 2022
“Memories/Light the corners of my mind…” — as sung by Barbra Streisand. While grocery shopping with my mother in the 1970s, I enjoyed peeking at the “Golden Age” Sunday comics in “Good Old Days” magazine and developing an appreciation of the cartoon antics my father remembered from his boyhood.

Borealis Rex: ‘A good old soul bested’

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 5, 2022
The venerable old paddle-wheeler Borealis Rex was steaming as hard as it could to get from Cameron to Lake Charles when the big hurricane of 1918 caught up to it. Forty passengers were on board, plus two engineers, the pilot, a cook, and two deck hands.

Annual Zydeco Breakfast scheduled for Sept. 3

Rebecca Chaisson
Friday, August 5, 2022
The City of Opelousas, Zydeco Music Capital of the World, hosts the Annual Zydeco Breakfast from 9 to 11 a.m. Sept. 3 in downtown Opelousas on the St. Landry Parish Courthouse Square. Featured musicians are Jeffery Broussard and The Creole Cowboys.