Ducks Unlimted teams up with state in coastal restoration
The state and Ducks Unlimited are partnering in a 2,500 acre coastal marsh restoration project in Cameron and Calcasieu Parishes, Gov. Bobby Jindal announced yesterday. The project, to build terraces in the Black Lake and West Hackberry marshes, will counteract destructive wave action and saltwater intrusion caused by Hurricanes Rita and Ike, that has made open water out of the brackish marshes. The $3.2 million project was developed, says 2008 DU state chairman Armand Schwing of New Iberia, when members of the state office of coastal protection came to the private organization for input. “The governor’s office is keenly aware that Ducks Unlimited has seven decades of history in doing conservation work,” says Schwing. The state brought some seed money to the table, DU came back with a plan that pinpointed the area, then raised private funds and identified a matching federal grant through the North American Wetland Conservation Act, says Schwing. “It was a way to leverage the state’s money to do a much larger project,” Schwing added.
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.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
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.
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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