A century old oak, slated for the ax by the Department of Transportation and Development, has been spared. Dubbed Mr. Al, this member of the Live Oak Society stood in the way of a proposed service road along U.S. 90, near Freyou Road in Iberia Parish. Members of the New Iberia Optimist Club, along with the oak’s immediate neighbor, Kelli Peltier, banded together to petition the state to reroute the road rather than bulldoze the oak. While DOTD nixed a new road alignment, citing costs, they decided to simply dead end the road on either side of the oak. Call it a service road to nowhere, or the route to a destination oak. Either way, Mr. Al, and all the squirrels, mockingbirds, banana spiders and earthworms that inhabit his ecosystem, say thanks.
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.
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.
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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.
A century old oak, slated for the ax by the Department of Transportation and Development, has been spared. Dubbed Mr. Al, this member of the Live Oak Society stood in the way of a proposed service road along U.S. 90, near Freyou Road in Iberia Parish. Members of the New Iberia Optimist Club, along with the oak’s immediate neighbor, Kelli Peltier, banded together to petition the state to reroute the road rather than bulldoze the oak. While DOTD nixed a new road alignment, citing costs, they decided to simply dead end the road on either side of the oak. Call it a service road to nowhere, or the route to a destination oak. Either way, Mr. Al, and all the squirrels, mockingbirds, banana spiders and earthworms that inhabit his ecosystem, say thanks.
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