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Seniors Rachel Bui and Phuong Duong are good friends at Abbeville High School. They told each other they each made a 35 on the ACT and both are going to LSU next semester.

35: Two Abbeville High seniors just missed getting perfect ACT score by one point

Tue, 02/11/2020 - 11:12am

Rachel Bui and Phuong Duong are two Abbeville High School Seniors who missed making a perfect score on the ACT by one point.
Both made 35s.
A 36 is a perfect ACT score. Out of the 1.8 million students who take the test each year, only 3,700 make a perfect score.
The number increases to 15,000 students, who made 35s. That is less than one percent.
Despite the great accomplishment by Bui and Duong, few of their friends even know they made 35s.
Abbeville High Principal Dr. Janet Guerrini, in her first year at AHS, recently learned of their accomplishments.

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OPELOUSAS MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO BURNING 3 BAPTIST CHURCHES IN ST. LANDRY PARISH

Tue, 02/11/2020 - 9:29am

LAFAYETTE — U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Holden Matthews, 22, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Lafayette to intentionally setting fire to three Baptist churches because of the religious character of those buildings. Specifically, Matthews pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the Church Arson Prevention Act—one count for each church—as well as one count of using fire to commit a federal felony. The fires, which Matthews set over a ten-day period in March and April of 2019, completely destroyed each of the church buildings.

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QSA contract with Abbeville discussed

Tue, 02/11/2020 - 9:13am

Hoping to find some stability and jump-start its youth recreation program, the City of Abbeville signed a three-year contract with Quality Sports Authority (QSA) in early 2017, and the city is now looking at a possible renewal.
As part of the agreement, the city paid QSA, the non-profit organization based in Erath, $75,000 each year to handle baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, tennis and any other sport approved for boys and girls by the city council.

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Police cars blocked off streets near the school.

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Police meet by Erath city hall .

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Buses were waiting for the students.

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Students were moved to the Community Center in Erath while the schools were checked for a bomb.

All clear given to Erath schools

Fri, 02/07/2020 - 11:06am

UPDATE: The ALL CLEAR has been given in all schools in Erath.
Officials will begin the process of getting students back to their classes

Public Information Officer Drew David with the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office is reporting that their office is assisting the Erath Police Department with an alleged bomb threat within the city limits of Erath.
The Sheriff's Office made one sweep of the schools and could not find any bomb. They are conducting a second sweep of the schools as of 11 a.m.

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This is a sculpture on display at North Vermilion High School. These look like a pile of real shoes that the students are collecting. It is actually shoes made of plaster and card board that represent those who died in the Holocaust.

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These look like real shoes but they are made of plaster and card board and are on display at North Vermilion High School.

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There are 150 pairs of shoes made of plaster and card board stacked against the wall in the main hall at North Vermilion High School.

Shoe sculpture at North Vermilion remembers the Holocaust victims

Fri, 02/07/2020 - 9:47am

Walk into North Vermilion High School, and you will see a bunch of shoes stacked up against the wall. It looks like North Vermilion has a shoe drive. But if you go closer to the shoes, you will learn they are not real shoes.
Instead, the shoes are made of plaster and cardboard and painted to look like real shoes. The reason they are there is that they are part of a sculpture created by the four art classes at North Vermilion. The sculpture will be on display by the office for the next couple of weeks.

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