Lynn Guidry will offer a presentation of his timeline of Lafayette Parish history at noon Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday at Cité des Arts on Vine Street downtown. An architect by vocation, former member of the Lafayette Parish Council and a native of Lafayette Parish, Guidry has become a sought-after speaker whose history of the parish is at once informative and engaging. The presentation begins at pre-colonial Louisiana and traces Lafayette history from its founding as Vermilionville in 1824 through the present, tracking both the population growth of the parish’s municipalities as well as the significant events that have helped shape our bustling community. The Independent Weekly has tapped Guidry’s knowledge for several stories on parish politics and history. We highly recommend attending the Cité des Art presentation.
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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