10-14-20
HOME AND BUSINESS OWNERS IN LAFAYETTE PARISH, WHOSE PROPERTY WAS DAMAGED BY HURRICANE DELTA, ARE REQUIRED TO APPLY FOR A BUILDING PERMIT TO MAKE REPAIRS. CAROLINE MARCELLO HAS MORE.
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VERMILLION PARISH SCHOOLS WILL BE CLOSED TODAY WITH B-DAY STUDENTS RESUMING CLASSES TOMORROW AND A-DAY STUDENTS REPORTING ON FRIDAY. ACADIA PARISH AND JEFF DAVIS PARISH SCHOOLS WILL REMAIN CLOSED THROUGH FRIDAY. MOST OF THE SCHOOLS IN OPELOUSAS ARE CLOSED TODAY EXCEPT THE MAGNET ACADEMY FOR CULTURE ARTS AND SLATS WILL BE OPEN. ALSO CANKTON AND GRAND COTEAU ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND SUNSET MIDDLE IN ST. LANDRY PARISH WILL REMAIN CLOSED.
CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY OFFICES AND FACILITIES WILL REOPEN TO THE PUBLIC TOMORROW FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE HURRICANE DELTA MADE LANDFALL ON FRIDAY. DUE TO STORM DAMAGE AND COVID-NINETEEN, SOME SERVICES MAY BE LIMITED. PARISH PARKS WILL BE REOPENING BUT LIMITED FACILITIES WILL BE AVAILABLE. CALCASIEU PARISH ANIMAL SERVICES AND ADOPTION CENTER SUFFERED DAMAGE FROM THE STORM, SO THEY ARE MEETING WITH RESIDENTS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.
POWER IS BEING RESTORED IN OPELOUSAS, WHICH WAS HIT HARD BY HURRICANE DELTA. ONE BUSINESS, CARY IRON WORKS, HAD THE ROOF COMPLETELY TORN OFF OF THEIR BUILDING, LEAVING AT LEAST TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN DAMAGE. A PREGNANT WOMAN HAD TWO TREES LAND ON HER HOME. MAYOR JULIUS ALSANDOR SAYS THE COMMUNITY WILL GET PAST THIS BUT THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO SHOW PATIENCE.
Louisiana state senators want to ensure a person’s pastor or priest can visit in the hospital, nursing home or assisted living facility during the current coronavirus pandemic or any future public health emergency. A bill by Republican Sen. Robert Mills would require Louisiana’s Health Department to create rules requiring inpatient health care facilities to allow members of the clergy to visit patients during such an emergency — if the patient asks for the visit. The health care facility would receive immunity from most civil lawsuits for injury or death if the clergy member gets infected. The Senate voted 34-0 Tuesday for the measure, sending it to the House for debate.
THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTED TEN MORE DEATHS IN THE STATE FROM COVID-NINETEEN YESTERDAY. THERE ARE SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO MORE CASES IN LOUISIANA. HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE DOWN SLIGHTLY, BY FOUR, AND THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY TWO.
ACADIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA EACH HAD ONE MORE DEATH. THEY WERE IN LAFAYETTE AND CALCASIEU PARISHES. THERE ARE EIGHTEEN NEW CASES IN ACADIANA, INCLUDING TEN IN EVANGELINE PARISH. SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA RECORDED TWENTY MORE. THERE WERE TWENTY-FOUR NEW CASES IN CALCASIEU PARISH BUT THREE SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA PARISHES HAD THEIR TOTAL NUMBERS ADJUSTED LOWER.
THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING A FATAL SHOOTING THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY EVENING IN AN APARTMENT LOCATED IN THE ONE HUNDRED BLOCK OF NORTH MARIGNY CIRCLE NEAR COLORADO STREET. THE GIRLFRIEND OF THE VICTIM TELLS KLFY TV THAT HE IS LOVELESS WILLIS. SHE SAYS HE WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD SO THE PERSON WHO SHOT HIM WANTED HIM DEAD. THE LAFAYETTE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS ASKING FOR WITNESSES TO COME FORWARD INCLUDING A WOMAN AND A MAN IN A COMPACT CAR WHO MAY HAVE BEEN THE LAST TO SEE THE VICTIM ALIVE.
