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THERE ARE REPORTS OF A MAJOR HOUSE FIRE IN CROWLEY THIS MORNING. THERE AREN’T ANY DETAILS NOW BUT IT APPEARS TO BE AT A RESIDENCE NEAR THE NORTHGATE APARTMENTS ON NORTH AVENUE I. ONE LISTENER SAID HE SAW FLAMES ROLLING OUT OF THE WINDOWS.
An Oakdale cemetery’s board president says the board has removed a whites-only provision that denied burial to a Black sheriff’s deputy. The change was made at an emergency meeting yesterday. Creig Vizena of Oaklin Springs Cemetery says he left the meeting feeling as if a weight had been lifted from him. He said earlier that he had been stunned and ashamed to learn that the family of Allen Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Darrell Semien had been told he could not be buried at the small cemetery near Oberlin because he was African American.
AN EFFORT BY TWO LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO PASS AN ORDINANCE ENFORCING A MASK MANDATE DOES NOT HAVE THE SUPPORT OF MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY. A LOCAL ADVOCATE OF THE MASK MANDATE, PETER GURISCO, SAYS HE MET WITH GUILLORY AND WAS TOLD THAT WHAT THEY ARE DOING NOW IS GOOD ENOUGH. GURISCO, WITH THE GROUP MASK UP Y’ALL, SAYS HE WILL PLEAD WITH BUSINESS, COMMUNITY AND ELECTED LEADERS TO PUSH THE MASK MANDATE. GUILLORY HAS NOT SAID WHETHER HE WOULD VETO THE ORDINANCE IF PASSED, BUT DID TELL KATC TV HE PUTS FAITH IN PEOPLE WAY MORE THAN THE GOVERNMENT.
A MONTH AFTER TWO MINERS WERE KILLED IN A SALT MINE, CARGILL IS PERMANENTLY SHUTTING DOWN ITS SALT PRODUCTION ON AVERY ISLAND. GERALD GRUENIG HAS MORE.
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Louisiana’s work to vaccinate nursing home residents and employees against COVID-19 is moving slowly. Data released Thursday from the state’s chief public health adviser indicates fewer than one-third of the doses set aside for the effort have been used and a slim percentage of workers at the facilities showing interest so far. Dr. Joe Kanter says 93,600 Moderna vaccine doses have been allocated to a program administered by CVS and Walgreens to vaccinate people who live and work at long-term care facilities. Only 28,000 have reached arms.
LOUISIANA HAD FIFTY MORE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO COVID-NINETEEN. THAT’S ACCORDING TO YESTERDAY’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.
TWO LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES WERE HONORED WITH LIFE SAVING MEDALS DURING A CEREMONY YESTERDAY AT THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE PUBLIC SAFETY COMPLEX. LIEUTENANT KERRY FALCON, WHO HAS TWENTY-TWO YEARS WITH THE DEPARTMENT, IS CREDITED WITH SAVING THE LIFE OF A GUNSHOT VICTIM LAST NOVEMBER. DEPUTY JEREMY PERCLE USED HIS KNOWLEDGE AS A FORMER FLIGHT PARAMEDIC TO SAVE THE LIFE OF A ONE-YEAR-OLD WHO WAS STRUCK BY A VEHICLE IN OCTOBER. BOTH DEPUTIES WERE COMMENDED BY SHERIFF MARK GARBER FOR THE EXEMPLARY WORK AND COMMITMENT TO SERVE AND PRESERVE LIFE IN LAFAYETTE PARISH.
THE LOVE OF CHRIST CHURCH ON WEST HUTCHINSON IN CROWLEY IS HOSTING A DRIVE THROUGH FOOD BOX GIVEAWAY ON TUESDAY. RESIDENTS ARE INVITED TO COME BY AND PICK UP A FOOD BOX BEGINNING AT NOON. THE BOX WILL BE PLACED IN THE VEHICLE WHILE THE DRIVER AND PASSENGERS STAY INSIDE. OFFICIALS WITH THE CHURCH SAY THEY PLAN MORE OF THESE EVENTS IN THE FUTURE.
