C’EST BON
Maybe it’s something in the water. Fourth-graders at Eunice Elementary School nailed the mathematics portion of the dreaded Louisiana Education Assessment Program test, and we mean they really nailed it. One hundred percent of the students at Eunice Elementary scored basic or above on the LEAP in math. One hundred percent is every last one of them, in case math isn’t your thing. That’s far superior to the St. Landry Parish average for fourth-graders: 65 percent scored basic or above on LEAP math. Maybe this week’s entry should be under the heading, “C’est Extraordinaire.”
PAS BON
Its French name is Pont Breaux. But Breaux Bridge, a city so enamored of causeways over water that it named a city park “Parc des Ponts de Pont Breaux” (could you get in another pont there, buddy?), isn’t living up to its name. According to The Teche News, two of the three bridges over Bayou Teche in the city limits were suddenly and unexpectedly closed last week by the state Department of Transportation and Development due to safety concerns. The closures — first Bridge Street then Refinery Road — occurred with no warning from DOTD. Bridge Street may open this week. Refinery Road will take longer. Now, residents in Breaux Bridge have but one way of crossing the Teche: the East Mills Avenue (La. 94) bridge. For the time being, getting from here to there in the city of bridges is a major pain in the Teche.
COUILLON
Turn that frown upside down, John Lucas! This week’s couillon has reason to frown: He’s mugging for his mug shot taken about an hour after his wedding, according to The Times-Picayune. The Jefferson Parish resident, along with his brother and nephew, were cuffed on disturbing the peace and other charges just as the reception was getting under way. It all began when the nephew was “encouraged” by a police officer working security at the private hall to pull up his saggy pants. The lad’s dad, Lucas’ brother, told the cop to mind his own business. It got ugly from there. Said the nephew who precipitated the betrothal brouhaha, “They spent $1,500 on dance lessons, and they didn’t even get to dance.” So couillon. So, so couillon.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to offer shares of its stock to the public for the first time.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
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