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Community Garden open hour Tuesdays
The Eunice Community Garden’s open hour on Tuesday has been suspended until milder weather arrives, Patricia Brown, interim garden coordinator, said.
Keep up with it on Facebook or contact the garden at 337-580-1385.

Diocese raising $42.5M

Renovations to the LSUE Catholic Student Center are planned as part of the Lafayette Diocese’s $42.5 million Centennial Campaign: Building Our Future Together. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

The Diocese of Lafayette plans to raise $42.5 million during its Centennial Campaign: Building Our Future Together, a multifaceted fundraising initiative aimed to meet the needs of the Diocese.
The diocese observes its 100th anniversary in 2018.

Unchecked bureaucracy

An empty board room awaiting members of one of the 471 board, commissions and task force operating in Louisiana. (Photo by Justin DiCharia)

In Louisiana, there are hundreds of bureaucratic fiefdoms referred to as boards, commissions or task forces, for nearly everything — marriage and families, strawberry marketing, polygraphs, crawfish promotion, grandparents raising grandchildren, polysomnography (the record of a person’s sleep pat

Mopping up success

All Mops & Brushes owner Odell Veillon, right, looks on as his employee Mandy Deshotel twist the wire of the Magic Mop to hold the yarn in place. The next step involved in assembling the mop is to place the feral on and then attach the handle. (Gazette photo by Elizabeth West)

After 40 years of working in the oil field industry as a mud engineer, Odell Veillon discovered a way to make the grease disappear from your gumbo like magic.

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Sports

MAMOU – In an impressive showing, Mamou earned a sweep over Eunice Monday in the season opener for both teams.

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Karla Bellon, left, and Michelle Brown shop Saturday at Gossip Boutique during the annual Noel on The Prairie.

The 17th annual Noel on the Prairie held Saturday and Sunday in Eunice drew many pre-holiday shoppers with 32 Eunice merchants offering customers discounts and sales. Above are shoppers at Holly’s Hobbies. (Photos by Myra Miller)

Obituaries

Irice Ann Darbonne Lavergne passed away on Thursday November 17, 2016 at the age of 73.
Burial will be held at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Eunice.

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