Looking for local exotics like pine cone ginger or hummingbird magnets such as fire spike? These aren’t your run-of-the-mill nursery plants. Fortunately, Lafayette’s master gardeners love to share the bounty of their green thumbs, and tomorrow, at the Ira Nelson Horticulture Center, they will host their annual fall plant sale. From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., the master gardeners will be there to pass along tips, garden lore, help shoppers choose the best varieties for sun or shade and just generally chat about plants, as over-the-fence neighbors love to do. There’s a gardener’s garage sale, and a raffle of unusual plant-filled containers. The fall plant sale comes at just the right moment for south Louisiana gardeners to get back into the yard after the heat of summer. And don’t let a little rain stop you. After all, the plants love it. The Ira Nelson Horticulture Center is located at 2206 Johnston St., right next to Blackham Coliseum.
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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