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Junior Auxiliary members Hollie Nelms, Megan Landry-Lalande, Laurie Hulin and Nealy Atkins made the presentation to the Boys & Girls Club. Abbeville Boys & Girls Club Director Whitney Chevalier (far left) thanked the JA for its involvement with the local Boys & Girls Club.

Junior Auxiliary of Abbeville presented the local Boys & Girls Club with canvas paintings from the kids put together to make one piece.

JA of Abbeville brings art to Boys & Girls Club

Mon, 09/18/2017 - 9:59am

Art can be appreciated on many different levels.
Members of the Boys & Girls Club Rodney Simon Unit in Abbeville have good reason to appreciate a new piece of art on display at the club...it’s their work.
As part of their annual “Artfully Yours” project, members of the Junior Auxiliary of Abbeville and community volunteers helped each of the kids at the club with various art projects.

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For more than 50 years, this building housed floats and floats were built in the building. In the next few weeks, it will be torn down.

Cattle Festival ends lease with float company; will tear down building in Abbeville

Mon, 09/18/2017 - 9:55am

It has been known as the building where floats are built and stored. In the next few weeks the old metallic yellow building near WalMart on Rodeo Road is going to be knocked down and the metal sold for scraps.
As for the floats, they are gone and no longer being housed or built in the building.
For more than 50 years, the building has been the location for float building and storage.

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Youngsville Woman Dies in Motorcycle Crash

Mon, 09/18/2017 - 9:36am

ST. MARTIN PARISH – Shortly after 6 p.m. on Sept. 16, Troopers from Louisiana State Police Troop I began investigating a single vehicle fatal crash on US 90 westbound near the St. Martin / Iberia parish line.
The crash claimed the life of 45-year-old Ruiella Carriere of Youngsville.

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Geese call Live Oak Farm home.

Vermilion Parish farm gets $500,000 grant to help protect land

Fri, 09/15/2017 - 9:57am

The Conservation Fund has been awarded $500,000 through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s (NFWF) Gulf Coast Conservation program to complete the first U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Land Easement project in Louisiana.

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Vermilion schools step up for victims of Hurricane Harvey

Fri, 09/15/2017 - 9:53am

Charles Dickens stated, that “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
As with schools around the district, Erath High, Erath Middle, Dozier Elementary, LeBlanc Elementary and Seventh Ward leaders, faculty members and students worked to lighten the burden and help Texas “Hurricane Harvey” victims.

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JA of Abbeville brings art to Boys & Girls Club

Cattle Festival ends lease with float company; will tear down building in Abbeville

Youngsville Woman Dies in Motorcycle Crash

Vermilion Parish farm gets $500,000 grant to help protect land

Vermilion schools step up for victims of Hurricane Harvey

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