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UL Lafayette nursing students have installed a community refrigerator in Maurice, La., that provides free perishables essential to the health and well-being of people who lack access to them. Students, from left, are Payton Miller, Mackenzie Lynd, Zahria Lloyd and Carrington Neveaux. Photo credit: UL Lafayette College of Nursing & Health Sciences

Feeding Vermilion: UL Lafayette nursing students serve up nutrition with community fridge in Maurice

Fri, 03/31/2023 - 9:20am

MAURICE — Residents of Maurice who are in need of fresh fruit and vegetables, produce, eggs, milk and other perishables essential to their health and well-being can search for them inside a new community refrigerator.
That’s thanks to a group of students enrolled in Nursing 340, a community health course at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The course brings second-semester juniors in the College of Nursing & Health Sciences out of typical clinical settings and into communities. Students conduct research and assessments that inform service-learning projects.

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Sylvia Putnam recently made a donation to help the city of Abbeville complete its renovation project on the tennis courts at A.A. Comeaux Park. Taking part in a photo are city officials and members of the tennis play community (Left to right): North Vermilion Tennis team, Whitney Myers, North Vermilion Tennis Coach Scott Myers, City Public Works Director Chris Gautreaux, Tennis Player Reba Broussard, Councilman Brady Broussard Jr, Abbeville High Tennis Coach Francis Leblanc, Honoree Sylvia Putnam, Mayor Roslyn White, Pickle Ball Player Kirk Wesson, Tennis/Pickle Ball Player Janell Duhon.

Putnam’s love for tennis: Abbeville resident donates personal money to help finish tennis courts in A.A. Comeaux Park

Thu, 03/30/2023 - 9:15am

Sylvia Putnam is a longtime Abbeville resident.
She is also an avid tennis fan.
Through a generous donation, Putnam has helped to make tennis more enjoyable for everyone in the city that she calls home.
Putnam donated funds to the city to help complete the renovation of the tennis courts at A.A. Comeaux Park. Last year, the city council approved around $200,000 for the renovation. Putnam’s donation helped finalize the project.
“I have played tennis all my life,” Putnam said. “It is such a wonderful sport.”

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Rep. Blake Miguez

Miguez decides not to run for District 49 Representative seat

Thu, 03/30/2023 - 9:12am

District 49 will be voting for a new state representative for the October election in 2023.
This month, current District 49 representative Blake Miguez officially announced he will be running for Senate District 22 currently held by Sen. Fred Mills.
District 22 consists of Iberia, St. Martin and Lafayette parishes.
Mills can not seek reelection because of term limits.
Miguez, who is from Jeanerette, has been the state rep for two terms and still had another term left to serve. His final day as a state rep in District 49 will be Dec. 31, 2023.

St. Landry Sheriff: Drug bust is deadly, historic

Wed, 03/29/2023 - 10:20am

ST. LANDRY PARISH — The 5.2 pounds of fentanyl seized in a drug bust in Sunset is enough to kill 1,250,000 people, according to St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz.
The fentanyl was discovered in the arrest of Benjamin I. Pittman, 43, of the 200 block of Rue Destin, Sunset, on March 23.
“This is, by far, the most significant and largest fentanyl confiscation and also the most elaborate pill manufacturing operation in the history of St. Landry Parish,” Guidroz stated in a news release on Monday.

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