Lifestyle

From backyards to tropical rain forests, trees around the world provide life’s necessities.
Trees clean our air and filter water, provide habitat for wildlife, connect communities, and support our health and well-being.
Abbeville Garden Club and Keep Abbeville Beautiful are working together, planting trees throughout our community to provide a safer local environment. Selecting the right location, locally sourcing native trees and using proper planting methods is key to a successful planting.

Markie Nichole Suire, of Kaplan, LA and Jacob Ryan Andrus of Maurice, LA were united in marriage on Friday, December 3, 2021 at St. Alphonsus Church in Maurice, LA. Officiating the 6:30 p.m. ceremony was Father Paul Bienvenu.
Markie is the daughter of Charles and Nickie Toups of Erath, LA and Mark Suire and his wife Lori of Gueydan, LA. She is the granddaughter of Danny and Margaret Prejean of Kaplan, LA, step-grandparents Wiltz and Nancy Toups of Erath, LA and the late Hubert and Belle Suire of Gueydan, LA.

As a small reminder to be grateful and stay positive, Tammy Nunez and her daughter Jordan decided to expand their business after Tammy began burning candles and dedicating prayers for those she felt the need to.
She said since times had been trying for many in the age of COVID, she found herself creating a personal prayer space with her candles.
“Eventually, many requested prayer candles,” Tammy said, “so that’s how these candles began.