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Unrestrained Gueydan Man Dies in Vermilion Parish Crash

Tue, 06/21/2022 - 10:31am

VERMILION PARISH – On June 20, 2022, shortly before 5 p.m., Louisiana State Police Troop I responded to a two-vehicle crash on Louisiana Highway 14 near Odilon Road in Vermilion Parish.
The crash claimed the life of 63-year-old Walter R. Meyer of Gueydan.
The preliminary investigation revealed Meyer was driving east on LA 14 in a 2002 GMC Sierra pickup following behind a 2019 Chevrolet Silverado pulling a trailer. The driver of the Silverado slowed and began making a left turn onto Odilon Road. Meyer’s Sierra collided with the rear of the trailer and began to rotate.

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Delcambre Mayor Pam Blakely talks about the use of golf carts on town streets during Monday’s meeting of the Board of Aldermen as city attorney Gabe Duhon listens. The town is comparing ordinances passed in other communities like Erath and Youngsville to consider its own ordinance allowing licensed drivers to use golf carts to travel around town. State law prohibits the use of off-road vehicles on state roads, meaning golf carts would not be allowed to cross La. 14 or La. 330, two major thoroughfares in the community

Golf cart ordinance delayed: Delcambre researching similar ordinances in other communities

Mon, 06/20/2022 - 11:24am

DELCAMBRE — An interested group of residents packed Monday’s meeting of the Delcambre Board of Aldermen to discuss a possible ordinance that would allow the use of golf carts on the town’s streets, but left with no resolution to the issue yet as the board tabled the matter until next month’s meeting after a lengthy discussion.

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Business and property owners in downtown can now apply for grants through the Louisiana Main Street Program.

Louisiana Main Street Restoration Grant opportunity now available

Mon, 06/20/2022 - 11:22am

Abbeville Main Street is soliciting Main Street Restoration Grant applications from downtown commercial building and/or business owners.
The Louisiana Main Street program offers grants ranging from $2,500 to $10,000. Grants are available for either interior or exterior building rehabilitation projects.

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Seventh Ward Elementary Physical Education teacher Leisa Lee points out some of the new blooms in the Abbeville school’s raised-bed vegetable garden. This spring marked the first time the school teamed up with the LSU AgCenter for a school garden project. (Photo by Derek Albert / LSU AgCenter)

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(Photo by Derek Albert / LSU AgCenter)
Vermilion Parish Family and Consumer Science Agent Anna Barras distributes vegetables as a healthy mid-morning snack for students at Seventh Ward Elementary in Abbeville. The students sampled the same types of produce that were growing nearby in the school’s vegetable garden.

7th Ward Elementary thrives with Ag Center’s school garden program

Thu, 06/16/2022 - 10:01am

The LSU AgCenter is instituting school garden programs across southwestern Louisiana to teach youngsters where their food comes from and how to make healthful choices in their daily lives.
Seventh Ward Elementary school in rural Vermilion Parish is surrounded by crawfish ponds and sugarcane fields. But the students may not relate the area’s commercial agriculture crops to the foods they eat daily.
School garden projects help students see exactly where their food comes from, said Anna Barras, a family and consumer sciences agent with the AgCenter in Vermilion Parish.

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The Sam Guarino Blacksmith Shop Museum is located at 304 S. State St. in Abbeville.

Non-profit Friends group created for Sam Guarino Blacksmith Shop

Thu, 06/16/2022 - 9:54am

In 2005, Sam Guarino’s family donated his blacksmith shop building the city of Abbeville, which relocated it to its current location on South State Street.
In the years since, the Sam Guarino Blacksmith Shop Museum has become an attraction for the city, highlighting the community’s strong Sicilian ties.
Plans are now in place to ensure that continues well into the future, with some help from its friends.

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