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Last week Lena Domingues Elliott celebrated her 100th birthday in Kula, Hawaii with her five children, Judy, Karen, Janis, Steve (VC class of 1971) and Joseph (VC class of 1981), daughter in law Margaret Elliott, grandchildren Gavin Elliott, Matt Hawk and Lauren Hawk.
Also present were Matt’s wife Carmela and their newborn son Arthur, and Lauren’s fiancé Michael Giuliana. Yet to arrive to celebrate are granddaughter Alexandra Wagner and wife Danielle Pershing and their daughter Josephine.

Despite it being a COVID-19 year, sales tax continues to show positive in Vermilion Parish, based on the March sales tax report.
The parish as a whole collected $4.4 million or $800,000 more than a year ago when COVID-19 first began.
On the year, sales tax is up by at least 11 percent and in some municipalties, it is higher.
The big three had an increase of 20 percent this past March.
The School Board, Police Jury and Sheriff’s Office all collected a total of $500,000 more in sales tax than a year ago.

Over the last nine months, one of the many issues new school superintendent Tommy Byler has had to deal with are fundraisers and non-faculty coaching policies.
Over the last couple of years, complaints have arisen on how schools have fundraisers and no proper documentation for the fundraisers. Byler tackled those questions and came up with a paper trail that documents everything, before and afterward, about the fundraiser.