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CROWLEY – The Board of Directors of the Crowley Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce the selection of Mr. Michael G. Francis as the 2008 Business Person of the Year. Mr. Francis is the President and Owner of Francis Drilling Fluids, Ltd.

CHURCH POINT – With hosts of family and friends in attendance, one hundred twenty-three young men and women were graduated from Notre Dame High School of Acadia Parish on Friday, May 16, 2008. The graduates began their honored day with an 8:30 a.m.

CROWLEY – Graduation ceremonies took place Friday evening at Northside Assembly of God’s Acadiana Cathedral for the class of 2008 at Northside Christian School.

Breaux Bridge — City engineer Calvin Courville of Domingue Szabo & Associates, Inc., of Lafayette, released a priority list of streets to be fixed with $3 million borrowed by the city.

Teche News reader Mel Albert saw three Apache helicopters, loaded for bear, land in a field behind his house in Catahoula last Thursday, May 15.

Please see "Fishing with Laurette" in SPORTS.

By Laurette Mequet

Fishing in Henderson is still great for the bream in the woods, on the mounds (where the line of trees are and are covered with water right now).

South Padre Island, Texas — Dan McKain, a regular contributor to The Teche News, died here Saturday, May 17, doing what he loved to do.

Saturday, May 24

9:00 AM - Game 1: Western Oklahoma St. (52-10) vs. Lenoir CC (48-9)

Noon - Game 2: Grand Rapids CC (25-22) vs. Monroe CC (38-13)

3:00 PM - Game 3: Elgin CC ( 31-14) vs. Longview CC (35-25)

May 16

7:23 a.m. Drive-off, Murphy USA.

8:09 a.m. Vehicle in ditch, Lewis.

8:11 a.m. Same vehicle out of ditch and into another, Lewis & MacArthur.

8:15 a.m. Hit and run victim, pedestrian suspected to have been hit by above vehicle, AMC ER.