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DELCAMBRE — The Delcambre Board of Aldermen is still getting no resolution to the faulty customer water shutoff valves installed when upgrading water meters and pipes for residents a couple of years ago.

It is no secret that Vermilion Parish has some old school buildings. When you have buildings that average 50 years old, things break and need to be repaired.
The oldest school is Indian Bayou Elementary, which began as a high school around 1949, making it 74 years old.
Recently, Assistant Superintendent Marc Turner and a group of school system employees visited all 20 schools in search of what is needed to be repaired or replaced at each school.

Louisiana District 4 Public Service Commissioner Mike Francis, whose district includes this area, attended a recent Vermilion Parish Police Jury meeting to talk about providing better electricity power to the residents of Pecan Island and along the coastline.
Francis, who started an oil field trucking company in Vermilion Parish in Intracoastal City in the 1970s, educated the police jurors that Cameron Parish is preparing to spend $340 million to harden the electrical system. They want to make it withstand a hurricane.