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After dining at Dragos one evening, the already talented Jill Jansa looked at the large oyster shell left from the oysters she and her husband Alex just enjoyed and decided to use them for her art.
“The shells were such nice shapes that I thought I’d try to paint a crawfish on it,” Jansa said. “The crawfish turned out so well, so from there, I just started experimenting, and now I’m confident that I can fit pretty much anything on an oyster shell.”

The call came into the Abbeville Fire Department around 9:50 a.m. on a Tuesday. On the other end of the line was a woman crying. She was in a bind, and she needed the help of the fire department. They delivered.
Sonia Perez Cessac was in Abbeville for the funeral of her mother-in-law, Patricia Cessac. She is married to Phillip, one of Patricia’s three sons.
Darby and Greene Funeral Home and Cremation Service in New Iberia passed Mrs. Cessac through St. Theresa Church in Abbeville and then buried her at St. Paul’s Cemetery in Abbeville.

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s research and development expenditures last year set a record at $164 million.
The total marks an “incredible” 165% increase in R&D spending at UL Lafayette in seven years, Dr. Joseph Savoie announced Wednesday during the annual State of the University address.
“We’ve had banner years throughout the past decade – and it looks like we’ll need to invest in bigger banners, because we’ve done it again,” the University president said.