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During the Evangeline Parish School Board’s meeting last Wednesday, the board approved entering into an agreement with the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office to provide a School Resource Officer for Evangeline Central School this school year.

Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Sulphur provided the setting for a lovely 6:30 p.m.

A number of people know the effort that Tim Fontenot has put out for the previous Tee Cotton Bowl and the monstrous renewal game coming up on September 1.

This past June was a pretty good month for sales tax collections throughout the parish, with only two municipalities or taxing bodies collecting less sales taxes than they did in June of 2016.

The Ville Platte Boys and Girls’ Club has partnered with the Evangeline Parish District Attorney’s Office through the Families in Need of Services Program. Over the last two years, FINS has sponsored 15 children to attend the Boys and Girls’ Club, Inc., and has sponsored mentoring projects.

In court last Thursday, Rufus Searile’s cyberstalking charge was upgraded from the misdemeanor to two felony grade offenses, which are non-consensual disclosure of a private image and video voyeurism.

I got the opportunity to go visit my youth group last Wednesday at church camp in Texas. The camp was amazing, and you could really feel that God was there.

• Members of the Louisiana Cotton Festival Association were informed that the 1981 Louisiana Cotton Festival is scheduled for Thursday, October 8th, through Sunday, October 11th.

Carmen and Everett Voisin of Milton celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary July 22, 2017.
Carmen, the former Carmen Smith of Ville Platte, and Everett were married in 1967 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ville Platte. Fr. Joseph Brennan officiated the ceremony.

If one is to get into the coaching profession, that person must be willing to sacrifice some things in order to be the best that you can be.