Connie Garrett and Louisiana Red will play at the Liberty Center at 7 p.m. Friday to help raise funds for the Experience Louisiana Festival.
The concert is sponsored by Eunice Rotary Club, LSUE Performing Arts Series and the City of Eunice.
The nameplates are staying in place for many St. Landry Parish elected officials as qualifying for the Oct. 24 election closed Thursday with no opponents surfacing.
Sheriff Bobby Guidroz is unopposed. Parish President Bill Fontenot is headed toward a second term.
A group of zebras eat corn and roam the field during a recent afternoon on the farmland that rests behind Mike Lafleur’s home in Vidrine. Lafleur has owned and raised zebras since 1996 and two of his zebras are expecting to give birth sometime in October. Lafleur has also owned camels, monkeys and wolves over the years. (Gazette photo by Raymond Partsch III)
The sound of a car horn, and the repeated pushing of his door bell, awakened Mike Lafleur from his sleep in the middle of the night.
It’s harvest time and that brings to mind the approaching 2015 Roberts Cove Germanfest planned for Oct. 3 and 4 on the St. Leo IV Catholic Church grounds in Roberts Cove.
Terry Matte
Commander Terry Matte of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8971 announced the kick-off of the 73rd year of the VFW and its Ladies Auxiliary Patriot’s Pen competition.
