From the June 2006 files of The Eunice News.
The Courtyard at Nick’s and Matthew Vidrine were first-place winners in the Louisiana Main Street annual awards program. Nick’s won for best adaptive re-use of a building and Vidrine was volunteer of the year.
The St. Landry Parish Council selected the Daily World as its official journal without discussion and disregarded a lower bid from The Eunice News.
The Daily World, of Opelousas, bid $5.60 per column inch. The Eunice News bid was $4 column inch.
Listening to a description of Charleston, South Carolina, fire that killed nine firefighters are, seated from left, Eunice firefighters Capt. Brett Fontenot, Capt. Garrett DaVille, operator Chase Brown, Capt. Blake Smith and Capt. Jeremy Faulkner. Eunice firefighter Many Sandoval, operator, is standing in the background. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)
For three days about 100 firefighters attended a leadership conference at LSUE last week learning about safety.
Some of the lessons are hard-earned.
Andrew Hundley
Andrew Hundley, who was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of 14-year-old Terri Elizabeth Pitre of Eunice in 1997, walked out of the Baton Rouge State Police Barracks after being released on June 9.
The Eunice News won 10 awards including six first-place awards in the Louisiana Press Association’s annual newspaper competition.
The awards were announced during Saturday’s awards luncheon in Lake Charles.
