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McNeese State University conferred degrees on 703 graduates during two ceremonies for the university’s 160th commencement on Friday, May 12, in McNeese’s Legacy Center.
The ceremony for the colleges of agricultural sciences, liberal arts and science, engineering and mathematics were held at 9 a.m. and for the Burton College of Education and colleges of business and nursing and health professions at 1:30 p.m.

Graduates from Vermilion Parish

ABBEVILLE

Ronnie D. Cormier, Master of Science in Health and Human Performance

Abbeville’s Daylily and Garden Show will visit us this Saturday.
Daylilies may be the most carefree of all flowering perennials. The plants grow quickly and are long lived. They thrive in almost any type of soil, will grow in sun or part shade, and are rarely troubled by insect pests or disease. Daylilies are known for their toughness, but their colorful and abundant flowers are also dazzling.

Three North Vermilion High School teenagers are lucky to be alive after a Jeep they were traveling in went off the road, came to a stop, and then caught fire.
According to the driver’s parent, her son was traveling on Kurt Road, east of the Maurice City limits and was about to negotiate a curve. When on the curve, a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction looked to be in the lane of the Jeep.
The driver of the Jeep had to avoid the vehicle and, at the same time, hit a pothole, veered off the road, hit a ditch and came to a stop.