Stocking up on fresh Gulf seafood is on everyone’s minds these days, and the town of Delcambre has just made it a lot easier.
A new internet marketing Web site, www.portofdelcambre.com allows potential customers to sign up for emails detailing when shrimp boats are coming back to port. The email will include info on what each boat has on board — shrimp, crabs, fish — and what time the boat is expected to dock. Customers meet the boat dockside and buy directly from the shrimpers.
The Web site was one of the ideas born out of the wreckage of Hurricane Rita, five years ago. The irony escapes no one that the new crisis in the Gulf offers as great a threat to the livelihood of shrimpers as falling shrimp prices, high diesel costs, imported shrimp and hurricanes. For the moment, Louisiana waters closed to fishing extend from the easternmost tip of the state to Pointe au Fer in St. Mary Parish, with the exception of the waterways around Grand Isle.
That means Vermilion Bay, Atchafalaya Bay and the waters to the west are still open for Acadiana’s fishing and shrimping fleet. Shrimpers are out, trying to make as much money as they can in the face of the uncertainty of the growing oil spill. It’s a good time to support our local seafood industry and at the same time, stock your freezer for whatever is to come.
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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