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On Saturday, June 3, the Louisiana Cattle Festival & Fair Association hosted a new, unique event to kick off the 2023 festival season while staying true to the Association’s core purpose of celebrating the cattle industry.
The annual “Brand the Barn” event highlighted a longstanding tradition for many cattle producers and ranchers, called branding, but with a new twist of permanently burning individual brands into the Louisiana Cattle Festival-owned venue, The Red Barn, in Abbeville.

Harvest Time Church will no longer exist after 44 years on Wildcat Drive in Abbeville. The new name of the church and school is Our Savior’s Church.
The Meridional recently learned that the entire five acres and all the buildings, including the school, were donated to Our Savior’s Church, a regional church in Acadiana.
Our Savior’s Church already has six churches throughout Acadiana, including two in Lafayette, one in Youngsville, Church Point, Broussard and New Iberia.
Pastor Jacob Aranza is the lead pastor at the Abbeville church.

The Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Narcotic and Municipal Task Force arrested Paige Romero (D.O.B. 9-24-1997), a cook, at the parish jail.
According to Sheriff Mike Couvillon, agents received information about the cook bringing in contraband consisting of cigarettes suspected synthetic marijuana and suspected methamphetamine.
The information also implicated an outside vendor delivery person and other civilians.