Gulf Coast Bank attended the job fair in search of employees.
On Tuesday, over 35 hiring companies and resource providers lined the halls of St. Theresa Hall in Abbeville to assist Vermilion’s career-seeking residents find their dream jobs. The 5th Vermilion Parish Job Fair welcomed employers throughout Acadiana to get to know Vermilion’s home-grown talent.
UL Lafayette is planting the seeds for an outdoor classroom. The first step will be blanketing four acres along Coulee Mine with native plants, a campus urban prairie initiative supported by the CenterPoint Energy Foundation. Pictured, from left, are: Francisca Comeaux and Jeff Pike, CenterPoint Energy; Gretchen LaCombe Vanicor, UL Lafayette Office of Sustainability; Matt Smith, CenterPoint Energy; Andre Daugereaux, UL Lafayette Ecology Center; and Lisa Capone, UL Lafayette Office of Development.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is sowing the seeds for an outdoor classroom for learning and research about storm water runoff erosion management, native grasses and plants, bees and other pollinators, and soil quality.
For the second time in 72 years, the Cattle Festival in Abbeville will not happen.
Louisiana Cattle Festival President Francis Plaisance announced Thursday morning that the 72nd Annual Louisiana Cattle Festival would not be held at its regularly scheduled time in October.
Plaisance said he contacted all of the board members, and they all came to the same conclusion, that it is too dangerous to hold the Cattle Festival in October due to the virus.
“The risk is greater than the reward,” Plaisance said.
While Vermilion Parish didn’t increase its population as a whole, the “gateway” to the parish more than doubled its number of residents during the past 10 years.
After a delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, results of the 2020 U.S. Census have been released. Results showed the soon-to-be town of Maurice as the only municipality in the parish to show growth.
Overall, Vermilion Parish decreased by 1%. In ‘10, the parish had an official population of 57,959. Now, that number is 57,359.
In the picture are (left to right) Emily Savant, Knoah Hebert and Amelia Katie LeBlanc. They spoke to the Erath Aldermen and Mayor Taylor Mencacci asking for street signs to be in French and in English.
ERATH - Three elementary students are trying to bring back bilingual street signs in Erath.
Emily Savant (a second-grader from LeBlanc Elementary), Knoah Hebert (a third-grader from Dozier Elementary), and Amelia Katie Leblanc (a second-grader from LeBlanc Elementary) attended the Erath Aldermen meeting asking the aldermen and Mayor Taylor Mencacci to look into putting back bilingual signs in the community of Erath.
The three students read statements in French to the aldermen and mayor requesting the return of bilingual street signs.
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