The Louisiana Technology Council, formed in New Orleans in 1994, will be holding its first Lafayette event tomorrow at the LITE Center. The organization has recently been seeking greater expansion and networking throughout the state. Tomorrow’s event, which is being held in conjunction with TechSouth, LITE, UL Lafayette and Lafayette Consolidated Government, is titled “Moving Technology Forward in Lafayette" and runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Entry is free for LTC members and $10 for non-members. Guests will be invited to tour the LITE Center, share their ideas on promoting the state’s technology community and gather information on programs and other LTC events. Bizzuka is the presenting sponsor for the inaugural Lafayette event. For more info, visit the LTC’s event Web site.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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