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TOMORROW NIGHT THE LAFAYETTE CITY PARISH COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER RAISING FEES AT THE HEYMANN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS AND THE FREM BOUSTANY CONVENTION CENTER.  COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR SHANEA NELSON SAYS THE FEES HAVEN’T INCREASED IN SOME TIME.  THE COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER INTRODUCING THE ORDINANCE THAT WOULD KEEP RENTAL FEES THE SAME, BUT INCREASE EQUIPMENT RENTAL, CONCESSIONS, SET UP AND STRIKE DOWN, AND PRODUCTION FEES.  CAJUNDOME DIRECTOR GREG DAVIS TELLS THE DAILY ADVERTISER THE RENTAL FEES THERE ARE UNDER REVIEW AND COULD GO UP IN THE FUTURE.

 

A FULL WEEKEND OF ACTIVITIES IN LAKE CHARLES TO COMMEMORATE MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY CULMINATES TODAY WITH A PARADE AND FAMILY FUN DAY.  THE PARADE BEGINS AT ELEVEN THIS MORNING AT THE MARTIN LUTHER KING CENTER ON NORTH SIMMONS STREET.  THE FAMILY FUN DAY FESTIVAL ALSO TAKES PLACE AT THE CENTER AND INCLUDES LIVE MUSIC AND A CELEBRITY GUMBO AND SAUCE PIQUANT COOK-OFF CONTEST.  THERE WILL ALSO BE HUNDREDS OF LOCAL VENDORS FEATURING ARTS AND CRAFTS, AS WELL AS CREOLE AND CAJUN FOODS.

 

CROWLEY POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A SUSPECT IN A DRIVE BY SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY.  JULIE DARCE REPORTS.

 

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Anti-smoking groups are touting the 10-year anniversary of Louisiana’s law banning smoking in restaurants, schools and workplaces.  The law, known as the Louisiana Smoke-Free Air Act, took effect in January 2007. It has exemptions that continue today for smoking in bars and casinos, but allowed local municipalities to enact tougher policies. The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living continues to seek a statewide ban on smoking in bars and casinos.

 

A Louisiana man, who was born in an Indonesian refugee camp, is asking a federal judge to immediately block enforcement of a state law that prevents him and other immigrants from getting married because they can’t produce birth certificates.

A court filing Friday by attorneys for Lafayette resident Viet “Victor” Anh Vo asks for a preliminary injunction that would allow him and others to obtain marriage licenses.  Vo’s suit claims the law violates his constitutional rights and discriminates against foreign-born people. Vo, a U.S. citizen, doesn’t have any official record of his 1985 birth.

A segregation-era high school for black students will reopen next month as a museum celebrating African-American history in St. Mary, Terrebonne, and Lafourche parishes.  The Courier reports that the Finding Our Roots African American Museum in Houma will be dedicated Feb. 4.  The 9 a.m. ceremony will be followed by a book fair and entertainment at the building once called The Academy. Galleries will focus on topics such as the Reconstruction era, slavery, segregation and the Civil Rights Movement.

 

A Louisiana State University sugar specialist says farmers set a record in 2016 for the amount of sugar per ton of cane harvested, but it’s not a record harvest.  The LSU AgCenter’s Kenneth Gravois (GRAV-wah) says mills produced nearly 1.6 million tons of sugar last year.  That’s up from 2015’s 1.4 million tons, but below the 2012 record of 1.7 million.  Each ton of sugar cane produced a record 246 pounds of sugar, beating the 2012 mark of 232 pounds per ton.