Emily McGraw, an eighth grader at Our Lady of Fatima School, will represent the Acadiana area in May during the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Emily took top honors at the Kiwanis Club of Lafayette/Kiwanis Club of Acadiana 2012 Regional Spelling Bee this past Saturday at the Diocese of Lafayette. Students from eight parishes competed in three bees based on age.
Luke Guidry, a fourth grader at Fatima won the 3rd-4th grade bee. Taking the top prize in the 5th-6th grade spelling bee was Kaitlyn Daigle, a fifth grader at Prairie Elementary School.
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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