Dr. Harold Travasos
Dr. Harold Travasos, World War II Veteran, has been selected 2018 Louisiana Cattle Festival Veteran of the Year.
The Cattle Festival will take place Oct. 10-14.
Here are the recent hires and retirements in the Vermilion Parish school system.Paul Hebert, the acting superintendent, approved the appointments and resignations.
Appointments
Toasting at the Great Gatsby Gala were members of the Beard Congregational Church Committee: (left to right) Denise Everett, Schelly Lewis, Ethel Ambrose, Mary Morrison, Samantha January, Dana Comeaux and Andrea Dozier.
On Saturday close to 200 people stepped back into the 1920s to raise money for a church that is more than 100 years old.
The first ever Great Gasby Gala was held at the Erath Community Center. Based on the amount of people who attended, it was a success.
The event took place as a fund rasier to raise money to repair the Beard Congregational Church on Granger Street in Erath.
The church has been closed for years and the building is in need of repairs because of its age.
Anna Guidry
Dr. Dexter Gary
Dr. Joe Kite
Luther Herpin
Neal Guidry
Ted Simon
Kaplan High School is excited to announce the inaugural class to be inducted into the newly formed Athletic Hall of Fame.
The six influential figures who were selected from Kaplan High School’s athletic history that will make up the school’s inaugural class of its Athletic Hall of Fame include:
•Dr. Dexter Gary - A 1959 graduate. Played KHS football and LSU football. Was named Citizen of the Year and served in the Army Medical Corp.
•Luther Herpin - A 1962 graduate and played football and track in high school and was the captain of the McNesse football team.
Photo by Bruce Schultz/LSU AgCenter
Water is pumped onto a rice field that will be used for crawfish. Mark
Shirley, an agent with the LSU AgCenter and Louisiana Sea Grant, recommends
crawfish producers wait for cooler temperatures before flooding their fields.
It’s almost time to flood crawfish ponds and get started on another season, said Mark Shirley, aquaculture specialist with the LSU AgCenter and Louisiana Sea Grant. But he recommends that farmers wait a few more weeks when temperatures moderate a bit before beginning to flood.
“When the lows at night dip into the 60s and the highs are no longer in the 90s, then it’s time to raise the water level and get the brood stock out of the burrows to drop their young and populate the pond,” he said. “This usually happens in the first couple of weeks in October.”
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