The Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission this week awarded $160,000 in Visitor Enterprise Grants to 20 Lafayette Parish civic, cultural and economic-development organizations at an awards luncheon held in, of all places, St. Martin Parish.
Recipients range from Acadian Village and Downtown Lafayette Unlimited to the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist and the Upper Lafayette Economic Foundation. LCVC has been awarding VE Grants since 1997; to date the commission has handed out more than $2.2 million. Grant recipients are designated via a committee review process. State Sen. Mike Michot, R-Lafayette, was on hand at the luncheon to distribute the grants.
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.
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