More evidence is bubbling up that contraction in the oil patch is having a negative impact on the local industry. Houston-based Tesco Corporation, an oil-services company with an office in Lafayette, distributed a letter Friday to employees announcing unpaid furloughs for most workers, according to a source close to the local operation. Furloughs are essentially involuntary time off given to employees as a cost-cutting measure. No one at the local office on Moss Street wanted to discuss the furlough program. A message left at the company’s corporate office also was not returned this morning.
According to the company’s Web site, Tesco employs more than 1,600 people in 23 countries. The company’s research, engineering and manufacturing units are headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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.
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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