Each year a handful of women is inducted into the Louisiana Center for Women and Government’s Hall of Fame. And later this month, Cherry Fisher May, The Ind’s publisher, will be recognized alongside the hall-of-famers with the Blue Ribbon Award. This honor is bestowed upon a person, group or organization that has shown extraordinary effort or achievement in raising the public’s awareness of issues or problems concerning women or government.
The Louisiana Center for Women and Government was established in 1991 and is headquartered at Nicholls State University. It encourages and promotes the leadership of women by providing resources and non-partisan support through educational workshops, training seminars and outreach programs. With more than 600 members from eight regions across the state, the center promotes women in government and public service, acknowledges achievements of women and teaches all citizens about the importance of public service and responsible citizenship.
The 2009 ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, March 28, at the New Orleans Hilton Riverside, beginning at 10:30 a.m. followed by the lunch and awards presentation at noon. The keynote address will be delivered by the politically divided – yet matrimonially united – James Carville and Mary Matalin, two of the nation’s most respected political consultants. Hall of Famee inductees include Phyllis Mayo, special assistant to Gov. Bobby Jindal; Anne Milling, founder of Women of the Storm; Lily B. Moskal, founder of Success Seminars; and Rosemary Ewing, a well-known preservationist. The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Mildred Fossier, New Orleans’ first female city director. For additional details, including ticket information, call the center at (985) 448-4770.
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.
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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