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• Remembering Ricky Rees
  
  The veteran police officer remembered by friends for his large and small acts of kindness will be laid to rest Wednesday.
• Zachary Barker takes helm of the Opportunity Machine
  
  Zachary Barker continues making waves in Lafayette’s business scene, mostly recently being named director of the Opportunity Machine.
• Shakin' at the Shack
  
  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.
• Lafayette’s ‘sinking ship’ is cash flow positive
  
  “We’ve crossed that magic threshold,” LUS Director Terry Huval says.
• Child porn nets deMahy 2 years in prison
  
  Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.

in case you missed it

• COOL TOWN 2013
  
  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 curious compact
  
  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.
• Pooyie 2012
  
  It's good, it's bad and it's just plain crazy.
• Saving Saturday Night
  
  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.
• Posthaste vs. HART FORTENBERY
  
  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.