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1-28-21

STATE OFFICIALS SAY OVER TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY COULD LOSE THEIR JOBS IN LOUISIANA.  GERALD GRUENIG EXPLAINS.

 

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TWO SISTERS IN OAKDALE WERE TOLD THAT THEY COULDN’T GET A PLOT FOR THEIR FATHER AT THE OAKLIN SPRING CEMETARY BECAUSE IT IS A WHITES ONLY CEMETARY.  THE EMPLOYEE SHOWED MADISON AND SHAYLA SIMIEN A CONTRACT FROM THE NINETEEN FIFTIES WHICH SPELLED OUT THAT THEY ONLY TOOK THE REMAINS OF WHITE HUMAN BEINGS.  THE CEMETARY’S BOARD PRESIDENT CRAIG VIZENA SAYS HE’S ASHAMED OF WHAT HAPPENED AND THE CONTRACT WILL BE FIXED.  THE EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN FIRED AND THE FAMILY WAS OFFERED A PLOT BUT DECLINED.

 

THE EUNICE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE SAYS THEY HAVE FOUND SEVERAL COUNTERFEIT MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTION STICKERS ON VEHICLES IN THE AREA.  THOSE FOUND HAVING A COUNTERFIET STICKER COULD BE FINED UP TO FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND BE GIVEN UP TO SIX MONTHS IN JAIL.  THEY SAY THE FAKE STICKERS ARE EASY TO SPOT BECAUSE THEY ARE MADE FROM PAPER AND THE NUMBERS FADE.  THE EUNICE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE IS WORKING WITH STATE POLICE TO FIND THE MAKERS OF THE STICKERS.

 

TWO LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE REVIVING EFFORTS TO CREATE A LOCAL MASK MANDATE.  LAST JULY GLENN LAZARD ASKED MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY TO GIVE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ON A MASK MANDATE, BUT GUILLORY DECLINED CALLING IT A VIOLATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS.  LAZARD SAYS THEY HAVE TO DO MORE TO STOP THE SPREAD OF COVID-NINETEEN AND POINTED TO LAST WEEK’S NINE-POINT-EIGHT PERCENT POSITIVITY RATE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH, WHICH IS THE MOST OF ANY ACADIANA PARISH.  LAZARD AND NANETTE COOK ARE WORKING TO CALL AN EMERGENCY MEETING TO BRING THE ORDINANCE BEFORE THE COUNCIL.

 

LOUISIANA HAD FIFTY MORE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-NINETEEN.  THAT’S ACCORDING TO TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  HOSPITALIZATIONS WERE DOWN BY THIRTY-FIVE WHILE THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS ROSE BY THREE.  THE STATE HAD ONE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED SEVENTY-FOUR NEW CASES, WHICH PUTS THE TOTAL ABOVE THREE HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND.

 

ACADIANA HAD SIX MORE COVID-NINETEEN DEATHS, INCLUDING TWO EACH IN EVANGELINE AND VERMILLION PARISHES, AND ONE EACH IN ST. MARTIN AND ST. MARY PARISHES.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAD FIVE MORE DEATHS….THREE IN CALCASIEU PARISH AND ONE EACH IN ALLEN AND CAMERON PARISHES.  THERE WERE TWO HUNDRED TWELVE NEW CONFIRMED COVID-NINETEEN CASES IN ACADIANA INCLUDING NINETY-THREE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH.  SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA REPORTED NINETY-EIGHT NEW CASES, ALMOST ALL IN CALCASIEU PARISH, WHICH HAD SEVENTY-FOUR.

 

A group opposed to experiments on animals says the University of Louisiana Lafayette should be fined $30,000 because heat stroke apparently killed three research monkeys on the same day last summer. Michael Budkie of the Ohio-based nonprofit Stop Animal Exploitation Now says negligence and poor handling caused the deaths at the University’s New Iberia Research Center. The university said staffers at the center used standard measures in the afternoons to help the animals stay cool. It said they could not have anticipated the deaths and are taking additional measures.

 

YESTERDAY THOMAS KLOSS WAS SITTING IN HIS LIVING ROOM AT HIS HOME ON PLAZA VILLAGE DRIVE IN LAFAYETTE WHEN A CAR CAME CRASHING INTO THE ROOM, NARROWLY MISSING HIM.  WHEN HE GOT UP TO TRY AND MAKE SENSE OF WHAT HAPPENED, THE DRIVER QUICKLY BACKED OUT AND SPED OFF LEAVING TIRE TRACKS AND BRICKS FROM HIS HOME STREWN ALONG THE STREET.  LAFAYETTE POLICE ARE TRYING TO FIND THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE, WHICH IS BELIEVED TO BE AN OLDER MODEL SATURN VUE.  KLOSS SAYS HE MAY HAVE TO MOVE INTO A HOTEL FOR A FEW MONTHS BECAUSE THE DRIVER CAUSED SO MUCH DAMAGE TO HIS HOME.