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DELCAMBRE – A Mass of Christian Burial celebrating the life of Everse Joseph “EJ” Segura will be held at 10:00 am Friday, October 2, 2020 at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church. Fr. Buddy Breaux will be the celebrant. Following the mass, Mr. E J will be laid to rest with his wife at Our Lady of the Lake Mausoleum.
A gathering of family and friends will be held at Evangeline Funeral Home in Delcambre on Thursday from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm, with the Rosary being prayed at 7:00 pm led by the Knights of Columbus. The funeral home will reopen Friday at 8:00 am until 9:30 am. The family kindly asks that guests wear a mask and follow social distancing guidelines.
A native and lifelong resident of Delcambre, Mr. Segura passed away on Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at 8:00 am at Maison du Monde in Abbeville. He was 87.
EJ, as he was known by family and friends, was a 1951 graduate of Delcambre High School. He, like his father, was a commercial shrimper and loved his work, and was honored to serve as Shrimp Festival King. Outside of shrimping, he was a faithful parishioner of Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church, and the Knights of Columbus, Woodmen of the World and the St. Augustine Society. One of his favorite pastimes was working in his yard. Above all, Mr. EJ was most proud of his family and loved them dearly. He leaves a legacy of love and kindness that will live on in the hearts of all who knew and loved him.
Mr. Segura is survived by his children, Angela S. Viator and husband Paul of Delcambre; Ricky Segura and wife Kathie of New Iberia; Carla S. Quintana of Delcambre; and Tony Segura and wife Yvonne of Kingwood, TX; thirteen grandchildren, Amy McGee; Sara Dorsey; Rebecca Baker; Jennifer Gautreaux; Nicholas Segura; Michelle Wyman; Patrick Segura; Coby Segura; Jake Quintana; Kristi Quintana; Nichole Augustine; Aaron Segura and Sharon Bevan; twenty Great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren. He is also survived by one brother, Loua Segura of Delcambre and one sister, Diane Schofy of Kaplan.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Gloria Choate Segura; parents, Hazard and Mayva Armand Segura; one sister, Vivian St. Pierre and one great granddaughter, Autumn Simon.
Serving as pallbearers are Coby Segura, Jake Quintana, Alex Segura, Dylan Creasman, Russell Bevan and Wesley Gautreaux.
Family and friends may share memories and condolences by visiting Mr. Segura’s memorial page at www.evangelinefuneralhome.com
Evangeline Funeral Home of Delcambre is in charge of arrangements.

The Vermilion Parish Police Jury (VPPJ) recently received notice of available funding assistance through the FEMA Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) Grant Program for the mitigation of properties exposed to a high risk of flooding.
The FMA application period opens on Sept. 30, 2020.
On behalf of the parish citizens, the Vermilion Parish Police Jury will develop a grant application to include eligible properties. This is a voluntary participation opportunity.
The FMA grant offers two mitigation options of either Elevation or Acquisition (buy-out).
If an eligible property is included in an awarded application, the homeowner may be responsible for a 10 percent cost-share of the Total Project Cost. To be considered eligible to participate in the grant application development process, the property must meet two main criteria:
• A current flood insurance policy that went into effect prior to 9/30/20
• At least two flood insurance claims of more than $1,000 were paid by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) within any rolling 10-year period, since 1978
If you feel that your property may meet this criteria and, you would like to learn more details about the FMA grant program and application process, please join us on October 1, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. at the Vermilion Parish County Agent Office, located at 1105 W. Port Street, Abbeville, LA.
The police jury requests that you bring supporting documentation to show that you meet the criteria to participate, such as a current flood insurance declaration page and flood claim history of the property.
If you are unable to attend the meeting and would like more information, you may contact the Grant Managers, Cherie LeCompte and Andie Czajkowski, at 337-232-0777.
The application packets will be available for pick up at the Vermilion Parish Police Jury Office at 100 N. State Street, Suite 200, Abbeville, LA and for download at vppj.org.

This article first appeared in Louisiana Football Magazine. VC quarterback Drew Lege was featured on the cover of the magazine.

by Jace LeJeune

After the 2018 season, J.T. Lege was coming off one of the best football careers at Vermilion Catholic High School. J.T. was so good that he inspired his younger brother Drew Lege to immediately follow his footsteps at the quarterback position, although he got his start in fifth grade at Mount Carmel.
“My brother has always been a big influence in my life,” Drew Lege said. “He did an awesome job helping me learn the game and is the main reason I am at where I am today.”
It did not take long for Eagles fans to move on from J.T. as Drew immediately was an impact player for the Eagles. Over the last three seasons, Drew has risen to the occasion, becoming one of the best quarterbacks in the Lafayette area.
“Right now, I’m happy with how our team has performed the past few years,” Lege said. “Although, we, of course, wanted to make it a little further, we still had some great years. Personally, though, I’m just about 3,600 yards from passing for 10,000 career yards, which I hope to maybe close in on this year.”
The fourth-year veteran Vermilion Catholic quarterback will have his chance to put a dent into 10,000 yards, especially with the addition of former St. Thomas More High School assistant coach Broc Prejean, who helped the Cougars become one of the most efficient and explosive passing attacks in the country.
“Coach Prejean comes from a winning program from St. Thomas More, who runs a similar offense to ours, so he is just adding on to our arsenal that will help us out this year,” Lege said. “He is an awesome man who has made a connection with all of our players since day one.”
Not only Coach Prejean is coming in with the right offensive philosophy, but he also has the best quarterback to run his offense at the high school level. Because of that, there has not been much of a learning curve in practice even during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Luckily, as a quarterback, nothing much has changed for me,” Lege said. “I don’t have any contact usually at practice, and Coach Broc started to let me wear my shoulder pads to get used to throwing with them on again.”
According to Lege, the work ethic both the coaches and players have shown deserving of playing out a high school football season for the state of Louisiana.
“I really think some of these college guys are saying it best,” Lege said. “The game of football is something that we players care about so much, and I can’t imagine losing it, especially for my senior year. It has been an escape from reality for some people and has kept others out of trouble. I believe there will be no positives that come out of taking the game out of our lives. It will only affect us, players, in the wrong ways, which is something that none of us want to happen.”
What the 6-2, 200-pound quarterback wants to happen is having more positive results from the recruiting process right now, which is another reason he wants another chance to show what he can do his senior season.
“Recruiting hasn’t been easy for me recently because of the virus, and I haven’t been receiving much attention,” Lege said. “It’s hard not being able to go to different camps and show what I have to offer. I think personally, though, I am a coachable player who loves the game and is eager to learn even more about it.”
As of right now, the All-District and All-State quarterback has one college that has pulled the trigger and has offered him, which is the Yale Bulldogs.
“There’s a special connection for me to the school and Coach Lett, who was my recruiter since it was my first offer and was such a surreal moment for me,” Lege said.
Louisiana Football Magazine’s Lee Brecheen believes in Lege as much as anyone else by selecting him to be one of 20 players represented on the South Louisiana Football Magazine edition cover.
“It’s an honor to be chosen to be put on the cover,” Lege said. “I know it’s not easy getting on there, so I’m happy to be apart of it.”
To prove his worth of being on the cover and being one of the best quarterbacks in the state of Louisiana, the younger Lege is hoping that experience will guide him to having his best season ever.
“This now being my technically fourth year of players, I feel like I just understand the game so much more,” Lege said. “Understanding defenses has also helped me know where I should or want to go with the ball on almost every play before the ball is even snapped.”

America has been for many years the beacon of freedom and hope for the world, and there are three key reasons for this exceptionalism: The Constitution, Capitalism and Religion. Our Constitution is the supreme law of the land and was designed to protect the moral foundation that all men are created equal with unalienable Rights from God, and its unique separation of powers allowing its citizens the Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is like no other in the world. Capitalism, a political economic system based on private property rights and free markets, has created more widespread wealth than the world has ever seen before—and like magnets, draws hordes of immigrants and refugees hoping for a better life. The glue that holds everything together, however, is the third pillar--God and religious freedom. History has shown us that both our Constitution and Capitalism are designed only for a moral and religious people; absent specific ethical and religious values in the hearts and minds of the people, neither the Constitution nor Capitalism can function properly. This is a critical sentence; read it twice!
History has also shown us that no political economic system last forever. The nineteenth century was one of the bloodiest centuries in history, and the world had seen first the fall of national socialism during the wars between 1914 to 1945, and then the fall of communist socialism in 1989. Eastern Europe and the Third World was grasping for a new political economic system to adopt, when Pope John Paul II issued his encyclical Centesimus Annus in 1991 which professed the benefits of “Capitalism rightly understood.” The Pope had come to understand the American meaning of liberty as an “ordered liberty,” and favored Capitalism because it “was a structure based on a free political system, a free economy, and a culture of liberty—which recognizes the fundamental role of business, the market, private property and free human creativity.” He had concluded that capitalist virtues and institutions, whatever their faults, are the best available protection for democracy.
The American political economic system is now almost 250 years old now—and if history is any indication, its life span should be coming to an end. However, one should never count America down and out. In general, our citizens are a moral and religious people—and now we need to make sure our children grow up to be a moral and religious people. Putting God back in our schools would be a good place to start.

Steve Gardes is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) with over 40 years of public accounting experience.