Ewe can cut the grass, save the environment, and enjoy an occasional lamb chop, if you play your cards right. The Bayou Teche town of Parks has been using sheep to keep the grass down around the water tower and water treatment pond for over 20 years. Low-tech maintenance being the new new thing, other municipalities might like to shear their costs as well. Unlike power mowers, which break down with age, the herd renews itself, and now Parks has an abundance of rams and lambs to sell. According to The Advocate, the village is accepting sealed bids on 15 sheep through 3 p.m. Friday. One would think Lafayette would be a natural for natural grass control. After all, our founder was named Jean Mouton. For information on placing a bid for the Parks sheep, call 845-4139.
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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