Candy and Tim Elam (heart recipient), Mary (Zachary’s mom), Jamie and Geralyn Abshire, Zachary’s godparents and (front) Grayson and Gilson Elam.
When 18-year-old Zackary LeMaire perished following a 2012 automobile accident, his family was devastated.
In support of his wishes, the LeMaire’s donated the young man’s organs.
For the past few months, an unknown person(s) has been placing American flags at the grave sites of U.S. service veterans.
At first the American flags began to appear at the gravesites of veterans along the boulevard near the entrance of Woodlawn Cemetery. Then they began to pop up next to the headstones of other veterans in different areas of the cemetery.
With lawmakers working to plug holes in the state budget that takes effect July 1, a new amnesty program is on the move that could offer delinquent taxpayers much more in the way of waivers than originally projected.
Picha
David Picha, professor of horticulture in the School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, has been named director of LSU AgCenter International Programs.
Dr. Hisham Hegab, professor of mechanical, nanosystems and cyber engineering and a 1989 graduate of Louisiana Tech University, has been named the new dean of Louisiana Tech’s College of Engineering and Science.
