The AGAPE Foundation, a new local
oil and gas industry charity, is hosting the first annual Cajun Palooza in downtown
Lafayette tomorrow. The concert, featuring Roddie Romero and the Hub City All
Stars, Richard Lebouef and Cracker Jackson, is a benefit for two-year-old Emma
Grace Breaux. The daughter of Ryan and Kelly Breaux of Breaux Bridge, Emma
Grace was born 12 weeks premature and diagnosed MRSA, which caused three
life-threatening aneurysms. The family is now raising funds through AGAPE to
defer costs for a surgical procedure to spare her foot from amputation. For
more on the Breaux’s story and to find out ways to help, visit http://agapefoundation.weebly.com.
Cajun Palooza runs from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. tomorrow afternoon at Parc
International.
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.