The newly-formed group Lafayette Citizens for Barack Obama is planning a meet-up
this Sunday at Keith’s Ballroom from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Robert Guercio, a local
downtown bar owner, and Mike Stagg, an IT consultant and Democratic party
activist are organizing the event as a way for local supporters of the Democratic
presidential nominee to connect. Obama campaign field organizer Dawn Collins will be in town for the meeting to help the group to sign up volunteers and
organize future events. “This is what we hope will be the beginning of a
movement in Lafayette,”
Guercio says.
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.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
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.
The newly-formed group Lafayette Citizens for Barack Obama is planning a meet-up
this Sunday at Keith’s Ballroom from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Robert Guercio, a local
downtown bar owner, and Mike Stagg, an IT consultant and Democratic party
activist are organizing the event as a way for local supporters of the Democratic
presidential nominee to connect. Obama campaign field organizer Dawn Collins will be in town for the meeting to help the group to sign up volunteers and
organize future events. “This is what we hope will be the beginning of a
movement in Lafayette,”
Guercio says.
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