Lifestyle

(Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by Kim Deville, Evangeline Parish 4-H Youth Development Extension Agent)

Velma Davis of Ville Platte attended the National Association of University Women - South Central Section 57th South Central Sectional Conference June 16-18 in Houston, Texas.

The engagement of Miss Britney Clair Johnson to Richard Matthew Herboldsheimer, the son of Maurice and Elizabeth Herboldsheimer of Lawtell, has been announced by her parents, David and Tammy Johnson of Ville Platte.

A school program designed to help students with disabilities learn valuable job training skills and earn a high school diploma will be in place in the parish this school year.

The race was on down Schultz Road near Iota on a recent hot summer night.
J.P. Ward, of Jennings, said, “I bet we’re going to smoke ya’ll.”
Jacob Zaunbrecher, of Iota, said, “We’ll see about that.”

NATCHITOCHES – Nine hundred forty-eight Northwestern State University students were named to the Honor List for the Spring 2016 semester. Students on the Honor List must be enrolled full-time at Northwestern State and have a grade point average of between 3.0 and 3.49.

The 24th Annual Smoked
Meat Festival youth royalty was selected during the pageant held Thursday, June 23 at the Northside Civic Center. Winners and the runners-up were announcedas follows:

Zoe Anne Courville, Alison Renee Blood and Jacqueline Shiloh-Gradnigo all took home queen titles in the Smoked Meat Festival Pageants on Sunday.
Blood, the 20-year-old daughter of Marsha and Jimbo Blood of Ville Platte, was named Miss Smoked Meat.

The Louisiana Smoked Meat Festival will feature two guest speakers this year.

Lost Bayou Ramblers are returning to the Le Festival de la Viande Boucaneè.