1-3-22
OUR KIDS WILL BE GOING BACK TO SCHOOL AT VARIOUS TIMES THIS WEEK. COVID CASES SEEM TO BE SURGING WITH THE NEW VARIANT REPORTLY BEING MORE EASILY SPREAD. EDUCATORS WORRY THAT STUDENTS RETURNING TO THE CLASSROOM MAY SEE A SPIKE IN INFECTIONS. ADD TO COVID WORRIES THE FLU HAS MADE A STRONG COME BACK THIS SEASON.
IT WAS NOT A HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR AIR TRAVELERS. 2022 PICKED UP WHERE THE OLD ONE LEFT OFF, WITH LOTS OF FRUSTRATION. THE TRACKING SERVICE FLIGHTAWARE SAID THAT SATURDAY WAS THE HIGHEST SINGLE DAY OF FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS SINCE JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS. AIRLINE PLACED THE BLAME ON STAFFING SHORTAGES BECAUSE OF INCREASING COVID 19 UNFECTIONS AMONG CREWS.
THE 2020 CENSUS DATA SHOWS THAT THE HISPANIC POPULATION IN LAFAYETTE PARISH IS BOOMIING. RESIDENTS WHO IDENTIFY AS HISPANIC NOW TOTAL NEARLY 16,000 WHICH IS NEARLY FIVE TIMES THE NUMBER THERE WERE 20 YEARS AGO. THE TOTAL POPULATION OF LAFAYETTE PARISH INCREASED BY 20,000 DURING THE PAST DECADE, ABOUT A THIRD OF THAT INCREASE CAME FROM GROWTH IN THE HISPANIC POPULATION.
SERIOUS GUMBO WEATHER HAS INVADED LOUISIANA. TEMPRATURES EARLY THIS MORNING ARE IN THE UPPER 20’S TO THE LOW 30’S. WHILE IT MAY NOT BE PIPE BUSTING COLD TENDER VEGATION IF NOT PROTECTED WILL LIKELY SUFFER. BUT BACK TO GUMBO THIS WEATHER WILL LIKELY PRODUCE AN ABUNDANCE OF THE VARIOUS TYPES OF GUMBO AND SOUPS IN OUR AREA
A HIT AND RUN EARLY SUNDAY MORNING ON THE EVANGELINE THRUWAY IN LAFAYETTE HAS CLAIMED THE LIFE OF AN OPELOUSAS WOMAN. RAVEN CHARLES WAS ATTEMPTING TO WALK ACROSS THE THRU WAY WHEN STRUCK BY A SOUTH BOUND VECHILE, WHICH DID NOT STOP, BUT CONTINUED SOUTHBROUND.
THE CHURCH COMMUNITY IS MOURNING THE LOSS OF LONG TIME CHURCH LEADER BISHOP ROY LH WINBUSH. BISHOP WINBUSH SERVED AS PASTOR OF THE GETHSEMANE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST IN LAFAYETTE FOR 65 YRS. HE IS THE PASTOR EMERITUS OF EMMANUEL OF THE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST IN OPELOUSAS, GETHSEMANE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST IN LAFAYETTE, AND THE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST IN CROWLEY. BISHOP WINBUSH WILL LIE IN STATE TOMORROW FROM 4PM UNTIL 7PM FOLLOWED BY THE LOCAL JURISDICTIONAL SERVICE. A NATIONAL SERVICE HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF BISHOP WINBUSH WILL BE HELD WEDNESDAY AT 10AM AT THE GETHSEMANE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST.
THE LATEST FIGURES ON THE COVID VIRUS HAVE BEEN RELEASED FOR LOUISIANA, TV 10’S SYLVIA MATERS HAS THAT STORY.
