Three elementary students asking for bilingual street signs in Erath

ERATH - Three elementary students are trying to bring back bilingual street signs in Erath.
Emily Savant (a second-grader from LeBlanc Elementary), Knoah Hebert (a third-grader from Dozier Elementary), and Amelia Katie Leblanc (a second-grader from LeBlanc Elementary) attended the Erath Aldermen meeting asking the aldermen and Mayor Taylor Mencacci to look into putting back bilingual signs in the community of Erath.
The three students read statements in French to the aldermen and mayor requesting the return of bilingual street signs.
Mayor Mencacci thanked the students for the request and said the town would look into the cost of changing the street signs into French and English.
This will not be Erath’s first dealing with having bilingual street signs. During Erath Mayor Richard Dubois’s term 21 years ago, bilingual signs were installed throughout Erath thanks to New Brunswick, Canada.
Mayor Dubois and others took part in the Congres Mondial Acadien in 1994 and established a friendship with some Canadians in New Brunswick.
Erath also became the twin city of Bertrandville, Canada.
Around 1999, Jean Luc Chiasson, who worked and retired from the New Brunswick State Highway Department, visited Erath in 1999 and worked on getting the street signs made, and the New Brunswick Highway Department donated them to Erath.
Jean Luc Chiasson teamed up with the late Erath historian Robert Vincent and Erath attorney Warren Perrin to make the project happen.
The street signs and stop signs were written in French and English. However, signs on state highways had to remain in English.
Over the last 20 years, the bilingual signs slowly disappeared in Erath and were replaced with signs written in English.