C’EST BON
We’re ragin’ for some Cajuns. Two bright spots in the UL Lafayette sports firmament got the props they deserve last weekend in the Superdome when they were honored as the state’s top male and female amateur athletes for 2008. Former Cajun super-star running back Tyrell Fenroy and stand-out Lady Cajun pitcher Ashley Brignac left the dome with the annual Corbett Award, presented by the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame. Fenroy finished at UL in 2008 as the leading rusher in Louisiana college football history, one of only seven rushers in NCAA history to gain at least 1,000 yards each of his four seasons. Brignac, as a doe-eyed freshman, led the softball team to the College World Series last year. Now if a deserving Fenroy can hook on with an NFL team, this story will be complete.
PAS BON
An ugly track record for vandals in Lafayette got uglier recently. Persons unknown — teenage boys, presumably, or 20-something physical therapists — scaled the fence at Northside High Viking Stadium and went on a tear, literally. The vandals hopped aboard a forklift, which was on site (with the key in the ignition) as part of an upgrade to the track, and tore up said track. They then proceeded to drive said forklift through the fence, abandon it, and then break into a school building and ransack the joint. Twenty-five thousand dollars in damages later, it’s a safe bet these persons unknown didn’t get much education when school was in session.
COUILLON
What numbskull leaves the keys in the ignition of a forklift parked outside a high school?! Hello? Can you say vandal magnet? Why not just leave the machine idling near a big, flashing marquee: FORKLIFT WITH KEY IN IGNITION! MUST GO! We’re certain it was an honest oversight, Mr. Forklift Operating Couillon Guy, but when that oversight leads to a 40th of a million dollars in damage, it’s a costly one. When you leave the job site and remove your hard hat, put your thinking cap on, buddy.
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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