Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:45 a.m. River Oaks Catering & Event Center
Each Year ABiz profiles up to 10 women who are currently involved in their professions (business, politics, education, non-profits and other professionals) plus a small group of Trailblazers who are retired or semi-retired and helped pave the way for succeeding generations of women to achieve their career goals. This is the 13th year for this inspiring event that attracts more than 350 women each year. It is the premier event for women of influence in Acadiana. Nominations for this year’s awards maybe submitted by e-mail to
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. Please include WWMB Award in the subject line. Submit via FAX to 337.983.0150 or by mail to 551 Jefferson Street, Lafayette, LA 70501.
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.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
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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