The Lafayette Council on Aging is holding a hot dog fundraiser next Wednesday to continue providing for Lafayette’s seniors.
The Lafayette Council on Aging, in order to combat cutbacks, is holding a hot dog fundraiser next Wednesday in Girard Park and is now accepting pre-sale orders.
The meals, which will be served from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., include a hot dog, cup of chili, chips, canned drink and a cookie for $6. Businesses that order eight or more hot dogs receive free delivery — anywhere in Lafayette. To order, call 262-5990 or fax information to 262-4106. The LCOA accepts cash, check or cards (with an additional fee).
The LCOA’s services include case management, a homemaking program, foster grandparent program, nutrition program, personal emergency response system and Meals on Wheels.
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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