Hurricane Ike, currently a Category 2 storm, is predicted to make landfall Saturday around Galveston, Texas, according to the National Hurricane Center. Because of the potential for storm surges of six to eight feet, which could cause flooding, lower Cameron Parish in Louisiana is under an mandatory evacuation order. People in low lying parts of Calcasieu Parish are being advised to seek shelter as well. Lake Charles Mayor Randy Roach has arranged for buses to transport all residents of the parishes who need rides and to take them all to the same shelter in north Louisiana.
Hurricane Rita devastated Cameron in September 2005, and the parish is still struggling to get back on its feet. Residents of Holly Beach, which was leveled by Rita, were boarding up their homes on Wednesday, preparing to leave today.
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.
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