For the person who has everything, the gift of giving is a heartfelt alternative. The Community Foundation of Acadiana makes it easy to find a local non-profit or charity organization that is the perfect fit. The foundation’s Giving Back catalog features needs from 39 nonprofit organizations from throughout Acadiana and it mirrors the Community Foundation of Acadiana’s vision, to match donors with needs in the parishes it serves. Opportunities to support the organizations listed are varied. Donors can buy a tank of gas for a field trip to the Children’s Museum ($60), a fruit tree or two for a school garden ($50), or provide 5 days of shelter from domestic violence ($188). The catalogue has just been posted on line, which makes giving not only rewarding, but as easy as the click of a mouse. In this busy season, that’s a gift to the giver as well. For more information, call the Foundation’s offices at 266-2145.
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.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
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.
Plains Exploration and Production, the Houston company Flores has been running since 2002, is building a deepwater Gulf of Mexico warehouse and storage facility on Bernard Road in Broussard.
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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