News
While Tuesday’s election day secured winners in races for three seats on the Vermilion Parish School Board, another is going in to overtime.
Newly elected Erath Mayor Taylor Mencacci (left), and newly elected aldermen Jason Connor (middle) and Scott Bernard go over the voting totals that they track of during the election on Tuesday.
ERATH — Taylor Mencacci is a businessman, and he plans to run the town of Erath as a business.
Carl Toups
Carl Toups joined the race for Justice of the Peace in Ward 1 because he wanted to be able to help the people of his community.
Bob Hensgens
Bob Hensgens will be heading to the Louisiana Senate. The longtime Vermilion Parish Representative won the District 26 Senate Seat after Tuesday’s win over Jerry Gaspard and Jean Menard.
New Erath mayor Taylor Mencacci
The town of Erath will have a few new faces in city government.
Sports
There are four teams who will continue to play high school football on Week 11.
Kaplan, Vermilion Catholic, Erath and Gueydan all landed in the LHSAA playoffs, which begins on Friday.
The Gueydan football players wheel Lindsey Lounsberry to the sideline on Senior High.
GUEYDAN - “It was a very overwhelming feeling” says, Lindsey Lounsberry, sister of Gueydan High School senior Rob Lounsberry, known as ‘Lil Rob.’
Colin Broussard and the VC Eagles will be playing Central Catholic at home on Friday.
The Vermilion Catholic Eagles dropped two notches in the latest Division IV LHSAA Power Point Rankings despite winning on Friday.
For the second week in a row, the North Vermilion Patriots have a big game on Friday.
This week is the final week of the high school regular season, and some teams are on the bubble of making the high school playoffs.
Erath’s Elijah Mitchell is one of three running backs the Cajuns are using.
Photo from www.ragincajuns.com
By Bruce Brown
Lifestyle
Junior Auxiliary of Abbeville had a frightfully-fun time during Kaplan’s “Boo on the Boulevard”. Provisional members of the chapter voted to participate in this community event and donned their best Halloween costumes while handing out plenty of treats on Halloween night. Pictured participants are Nicole Bengtson, Kori Comeaux, Alexis Faulk, Falon Preyor, Emily Carrere, Angie Touchet, Hope Cleveland and Allie Hargrave. Learn more about JA of Abbeville of www.jaofabbeville.org.
LeBlanc Elementary School P.E. teacher, Julia Gisclair (center) was named Teacher of the Year. Presenting her with flowers were Principal Rachelle Brown and Assistant Principal Kristin Moore.
Mitchell Schexnyder, a fourth grade teacher
Kaplan Elementary’s Teacher of the Year. Presenting him with is plaque is (left) Andrea Ford, KES principal and Tracy Hargrave, assistant princpal.
Obits
DELCAMBRE – A Mass of Christian Burial will be conducted for Mr. Huey Paul Thomas, age 80, at 11:30 am Saturday, November 10, 2018 at our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church with Fr.
KAPLAN — Funeral services will be held at 1:00 PM on Saturday, November 10, 2018 at Vincent Funeral Home - Kaplan honoring the life of Garre Abshire, 64, who died Wednesday, November 7, 2018 in Kap
Vermilion Today
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