Highland Elementary was granted a Dollar General Foundation Youth Literacy Grant in the amount of $3,000. The grant was written by Viola Bellard, instructional lab facilitator, and Neysa Miller, fourth-grade English, language art teacher. (Photo Submitted)
Purchasing the first ticket for the 2016 International Rice Festival Queen’s Ball and Honoree Cocktail Party was Jill Signorelli, left, with Southwind Senior Living Suites. Selling the ticket to Signorelli is Suzy Webb, chairwoman for the social. The event will take place on Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Rice Festival Building. (Photo Submitted)
CROWLEY – Rice Festival Honoree, Charles “Chuck” W. Abell Jr., and 2015 Rice Festival Queen Camille Quebodeaux will be honored at the 80th International Rice Festival Queen’s Ball and Honoree Cocktail Party as announced by Elisabeth LeLeux, festival president.
Richlyn Prather
This week’s Student of the Week is Richlyn Prather, a senior at Eunice High School. Her parents are Jerrod and Brandi Prather.
If you had to live in another part of the world, where would you want to live and why? I would like to live in Alaska to see the Northern Lights.
Phil Pham, an undergraduate admissions counselor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette paid a visit to St. Edmund High seniors on Sept. 2. Pham talked to the group about admissions process and criteria, campus life, campus organizations, scholarships, Fafsa, Tops, majors and college programs.
St. Francis School student Emily Zaunbrecher, right, participated in the Summer Sheep Show held in Crowley at the Rice Arena during the month of August. Emily Zaunbrecher, a member of the St. Francis 4-H Club placed second in showmanship and first in her division.
