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BATON ROUGE — As a new school year begins, the Louisiana Workforce Commission wants minors, along with their parents and employers, to be aware of the rules that apply to employment while school is in session.

The phone was ringing at Jake’s Snapper in Abbeville on Tuesday and on the other end of the line were residents who could not start their generators.
When the phone begins ringing off the hook with people worried about their generators, that only means one thing - there is a hurricane nearby.
“We had a generator come in this morning and we’re expecting three more later today,” Christian Hebert of Jake’s Snapper said. “I need to work on these generators first before the lawn mowers. They will need them more if that hurricane comes.”

With landfall of Hurricane Gustav at least six days away, now is the time residents in Vermilion Parish should be preparing for the storm.
Winds are 90 miles per hour and it is moving at 13 miles per hour. Hurricane force winds extend outward of 25 miles from the center.
Hurricane Gustav is predicted to have winds of 121 mile per hour when it enters the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday. Hurricane computers’ five-day forecast have Hurricane Gustav entering the Gulf of Mexico between the Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba.

The problem is not unique to Vermilion Parish or to Louisiana for that matter. Jail overcrowding has been an issue for law enforcement and governments for quite some time. Recently, the jail in Opelousas was ordered by the fire marshal to reduce the number of inmates because they were in violation of the fire code.
In the parish, the 150 bed jail facility owned and maintained by the Vermilion Parish Police Jury is always at capacity with an average of 35 inmates in overflow facilities around the state at any given time.

Paul Breaux was in the Abbeville police station Monday morning to get his .22 caliber pistol back after it had been stolen from his vehicle 28 years ago.
Breaux, from Kaplan, reported his .22-caliber Ruger pistol stolen to the Kaplan police on July 11, 1980. The pistol was under the seat of his truck because he was a farmer. While at the Kaplan hospital, someone took the gun.
Never thinking he would get it back, Breaux purchased a new one exactly like the one that was stolen weeks later.

Early last year the Louisiana Legislature approved the creation of the Abbeville Film and Visitor Commission and today that organization is working to become a presence in the Louisiana Film industry.
The latest meeting of the commission was a productive one with the finalization of the by-laws, the creation of an advisory committee, the appointment of Odile Secrest as Vice-Chairman and a new e-mail address where interested persons, entities or film companies can contact the commission directly.