Katie Reggie, Denis Reggie, Elizabeth Ardell, Victoria Reggie Kennedy and Curren Raclin
Gail Abshire, Dr. Joe Savoie and Gerald Abshire
Dr. Joe Savoie, Dan Hare, Erik Boustany, Charles Melancon, Denis Reggie and Darren Guidry
United Way of Acadiana Annual Spirit of Giving Celebration was held in early December at the home of Daryl and Laura Byrd. The annual event celebrates the generosity and support of Leadership Givers. Individually, Leadership Givers members donate at least $1,000 to United Way of Acadiana, and collectively this special group has given $1 million to United Way of Acadiana. UW is still looking for holiday volunteers, so if you are in the mood to spread a little cheer and goodwill this holiday season, volunteer some of your time to helping those less fortunate. To find out how you can help, contact Keler Williams at 337-706-1234.
The UL Alumni Association recently held its annual Outstanding Alumni Presentation and Reception at the Alumni Center. Awards were presented to Congressman Charlie Melancon, who was accompanied by his wife Peachy. Congressman Charles W. Boustany Jr. also was selected as an outstanding alumnus but was unable to attend; his son Eric accepted the award on his behalf. Also honored was acclaimed photographer Denis Reggie, whose sister, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, widow of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, attended the reception, as did numerous local and state officials.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
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.
Episcopal School of Acadiana’s Dr. Joshua Caffery, chair of the school’s English Department, is headed to Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress as the latest winner of the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.
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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