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United Way / Vermilion Vita Volunteers are sponsoring “SUPER TAX DAYS”, by preparing FREE Income Tax Returns in Abbeville for low-income individuals, on Saturday Feb. 13, 2021 at the Event Center 1905 Veterans Memorial Drive 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. and on Wednesdays at the Vermilion Council on Aging,1928 Graceland Ave.
Vermilion Vita Volunteers are trained by the IRS and can file federal and state returns electronically. For an appointment call (337)893-2563, and due to COVID-19, please wear a mask. Special thanks to our sponsors, City of Abbeville, Walmart, Piazza Office Supply, Vermilion Council on Aging, Councilwoman Terry Broussard, and Gulf Coast Bank.

Since the day he announced for President in 2015, Donald Trump has been treated horribly by his media and political opponents, both in the Republican and Democratic parties. No political candidate has ever received such terrible media coverage or such abuse from political insiders.
Despite the unfair onslaught, he was elected President in 2016. Of course, his enemies were just beginning as the Russia hoax led to a two-year, $35 million Special Counsel investigation led by partisan Democratic attorneys. It was followed by an impeachment over bogus charges involving a perfectly acceptable phone call with the Ukrainian President.
He was mercilessly criticized after the arrival of the China virus for not doing enough to keep Americans safe. Of course, such condemnation was ridiculous as the President spearheaded the development of multiple vaccines. Within nine months of the beginning of the pandemic, Americans were receiving vaccines. This response was extraordinary and worthy of praise, but, instead, he was blamed for the virus deaths.
Democrats used the pandemic to both denounce Trump and insist on massive mail-in voting. This paved the way for Joe Biden to be elected President of the United States. The more President Trump fought the election results with lawsuits and calls for investigation, the more Democrats became infuriated.
Trump supporters were also upset that the President’s claims of electoral fraud were not taken more seriously by the courts. On January 6, 2021, a massive outpouring of supporters converged on Washington D.C. to express their admiration for President Trump.
On January 6, the President delivered his standard stump speech calling for his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” Never once did he advocate violence.
Sadly, on that day, security at the U.S. Capitol was breached and a throng of people entered the building. There were incidents of violence, vandalism, and theft. Most tragically, five people died in the assault including a U.S. Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick and U.S. Air Force veteran and Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt.
To compound the tragedy, Democrats used the event to score political points. The President was quickly impeached with the support of ten Republicans. He was given zero opportunities to mount a defense or present any evidence. Now Democrats are ready to start an impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, even though Donald Trump is no longer President of the United States.
This sham is typical of how Democrats operate and how President Trump has been treated since he became a presidential candidate.
Interestingly, since the protests of January 6, President Trump has been unusually quiet. In the last two weeks of his term, he made very few speeches. He has also been totally removed from social media as the “Big Tech” giants ludicrously claim there is concern Trump’s social media posts will lead to additional violence.
As this show trial begins in the “Kangaroo Court” known as the U.S. Senate, it is necessary for President Trump to begin to fight back against these outrageous charges. While President Trump did not incite violence, a number of Democrats in Congress have made statements that are clearly incendiary. Of course, as is typical in the double standard of today’s political world, no action was taken against these Democrats.
Even after leaving the White House, Donald Trump has been horribly mistreated. No President has ever been impeached twice or after they have left office. This is really being done by Democrats to prevent Donald Trump from running for the presidency in 2024.
They are fearful of Trump because he continually exposes their agenda and tells the truth. So, Democrats are determined to penalize Donald Trump in every way imaginable. Along with impeachment, Trump may be the subject of additional lawsuits and criminal and civil charges from partisan prosecutors like the New York Attorney General.
In a recent interview, President Biden recommended that the impeachment trial move forward. This is not surprising, for Biden never misses an opportunity to condemn President Trump. He also uses the Trump administration’s policies as a rationale for the historic flurry of executive orders and actions in his first few weeks in office.
Biden is also recommending that President Trump no longer receive intelligence briefings. He claims that the President does not need to receive them and may reveal national security secrets. This unprecedented move is just another example of the unfair treatment Trump receives. In contrast, even though he disliked President Barack Obama and his harmful liberal policies, Trump never stripped him of his intelligence briefings.
As President, Trump constantly tried to reach out to Democrats and his Republican opponents. He wanted to unify the nation. In fact, he appointed moderate Republicans to several key posts in his administration. He believed it was a way to expand his political base and foster unity. Unfortunately, these moves were met with leaks, outright betrayal, and opposition to his “American First” agenda.
Biden does not even bother with unity and shows zero interest in working with Republicans. He is pursuing a very progressive agenda and making hyper partisan cabinet appointments. The contrast to President Trump could not be more striking.
As these actions begin to truly harm our country, President Trump should start to speak out once again. He has nothing to apologize for regarding his activities on January 6. Trump should find a pro-free speech social media outlet and begin expressing his opinions on the issues of the day. He should grant interviews and announce a series of public events.
President Trump needs to defend his administration and its tremendous successes from the onslaught of negative media coverage and political attacks from Democrats and Republicans, like Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY), who regularly disparage his record.
As he once again engages the biased press and the disgraceful Deep State, President Trump has a decision to make. He needs to either take control of the GOP or form a new political party. Either way, his decision will be strongly supported by his 74 million+ voters.

Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jeff@ringsidepolitics.com

Health Department: 378 vaccine providers in all 64 parishes will receive COVID vaccine this week
Baton Rouge, La. (February 8, 2021) — This week, 378 vaccine providers across the state will receive very limited doses of COVID vaccine. These providers — including 112 chain pharmacies, 127 independent pharmacies, 52 hospitals, 15 community health centers (including 13 federally qualified health centers, or FQHCs), 6 rural health clinics (RHCs), 28 public health providers and 38 other healthcare sites — represent all nine public health regions and 64 parishes of the state.
LDH has published the list of participating providers, along with their locations and contact information, on its website: covidvaccine.la.gov. In addition, residents can call 211 to find a vaccine provider near them.
Future distribution is dependent on vaccine made available to the state, among other factors. To stress, there is no guarantee that providers receiving vaccine this week will receive vaccine in the future.
These vaccines will be available only for the following populations in Phase 1B, Tier 1:
Persons 65 and older
Dialysis providers and patients
Ambulatory and outpatient providers and staff
Behavioral health providers and staff
Urgent care clinic providers and staff
Community care providers and staff
Dental providers and staff
Professional home care providers (including hospice workers) and home care recipients (including older and younger people with disabilities over the age of 16 who receive community or home-based care, as well as clients of home health agencies)
Interpreters and Support Service Providers (SSPs) working in community and clinic-based settings, and clients who are both deaf and blind
Health-related support personnel (lab staff, mortuary staff who have contact with corpses, pharmacy staff)
Schools of allied health students, residents and staff
Participating providers must make available vaccine available to anyone who is eligible. Failure to do so will inform future decisions about distribution.
Eligible residents must contact a participating provider and make an appointment with them. Patients who arrive without an appointment will not be vaccinated. LDH cannot make appointments for patients; only providers can.
Patients should receive their second doses of the COVID vaccine at the same location where they received their first dose. Second-dose appointments should be made during the administration of the first dose.
The Louisiana Department of Health is coordinating the COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort in Louisiana. As more vaccines become available from the CDC, more individuals and groups will be offered a vaccination. We want everyone to have the opportunity to get vaccinated against COVID. We are confident that COVID-19 vaccines will be a critical tool in ultimately ending the pandemic.

October 24, 1936 ~ February 7, 2021

KAPLAN — A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 1:00 PM on Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church honoring the life of Betty Broussard, 84, who died Sunday, February 7, 2021. She will be laid to rest at Pecan Island Community Cemetery.
Betty, best known to others as mom, momma, granny, or Aunt Betty leaves behind a dysfunctional family that she was very proud of. She never met a stranger and was renowned in Vermilion parish for her kindness, her compassion, and mostly - her cooking. She enjoyed feeding others and they enjoyed eating. She had the uncanny ability to cook anything and make it taste good.
She always told you the truth even if it wasn’t what you wanted to hear. Her famous words “if you like it, I like it”, “whatever”, or “it is what it is, cher”, always let you know when something or someone wasn’t her favorite idea. She was genuine ~ always genuine.
Her extensive vocabulary was more than highly proficient, and while never documented, we are all certain that her mean scrabble games taught all us how to spell and how to use a dictionary. And to be clear - she won most of the time.
Her words of encouragement, wisdom, and sometimes comfort, kept us in line, taught us the “school of hard knocks” and gave us something to pass down to our children.
Everyone always knew where you stood with her. She liked you or she didn’t, it was black or white. As her children we are still trying to figure out which one it was for us (we know she loved us).
She will be sorely missed by all who knew her, not because of her cooking, or painting of oyster shells, not because of the scrabble and card games, or the hand-written birthday and Christmas cards. She will be remembered for her tenacity, wit, charm, grace (when pertinent) and undying love and care for people. She will be missed because she was good… a good mom, a good granny, good sister, good aunt, and a good friend. That is what people don’t forget. In one way or another she helped to mold the people that we are and we will always remember that. We love you.
She is survived by her son, Randal Broussard and his wife, Yvonne of Maurice; her daughter, Sandra B. Feucht and her special friend, Pat of Lafayette; her eight grandchildren; her 12 great grandchildren; her three sisters, Emma Perry of Lafayette, Ellen Rose Marceaux of Kaplan and Faye Broussard of Abbeville; and her brother, Roland “T-Bud” Perry of Alabama.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Broussard; her daughter, Phyllis “Coon” Broussard; and her parents, Hebrard Perry and the former Avie Vaughn.
The family would like to send a special thanks to Hospice of Acadiana.
The family requests that visiting hours be observed at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church, 600 N. Church Avenue, on Tuesday, February 9, 2021 from 9:00 AM until the time of the services at 1:00 PM with a rosary being prayed at 12:30 PM.
In lieu of flowers the family asked that donations be made to Hospice of Acadiana.
All funeral arrangements are being conducted by Vincent Funeral Home of Kaplan, (337) 643-7276 [Service Information 225-5276]. Condolences may be sent to the Broussard family at www.vincentfuneralhome.net.