Final stretch for Leukemia/Lymphoma Society fundraiser
The candidates are motivated by honoring local children who are battling blood cancers, and this year’s honorees were announced at the drive kick-off party in March. Boy of the Year is Caleb LeBlanc, the 8-year-old son of Allison and Blair LeBlanc and a student at Green T. Lindon Elementary. Girl of the Year is 9-year-old Makenzi Rose Meaux, daughter of Julie Bourgeois and Michael Meaux and a third grader at Cankton Elementary. Teen of the Year is Eleanor Serrett, the 16-year-old daughter of Randall and Paula Serrett of Breaux Bridge and a junior at Teurlings High School.
You can read more about these amazing children here or donate to one of this year’s candidates, including Chris Catalanotto, Gwen Cook, Jenny Musumeche, Jonathan Little, Joshua Venable, Marla Ratzlaff, Michael Saab, Nancy Van Eaton Broussard, Nathan Leblanc, Sharlene Chiasson, Susan Theall, Theresa LeBleau Broussard and Vera Matt.
Tickets are also available on the Web site for Friday night’s event for $25 each. Doors open at 6 p.m.
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.
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.
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.
You can read more about these amazing children here or donate to one of this year’s candidates, including Chris Catalanotto, Gwen Cook, Jenny Musumeche, Jonathan Little, Joshua Venable, Marla Ratzlaff, Michael Saab, Nancy Van Eaton Broussard, Nathan Leblanc, Sharlene Chiasson, Susan Theall, Theresa LeBleau Broussard and Vera Matt.
Subscribe to this comment's feed