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7-8-20

LAFAYETTE MAYOR PRESIDENT JOSH GUILLORY SAYS HE’S NOT AT THE POINT THAT HE WILL ISSUE AN ORDER REQUIRING LAFAYETTE RESIDENTS TO WEAR FACE MASKS IN PUBLIC.  CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS GLENN LAZARD AND NANETTE COOK URGED GUILLORY TO ISSUE AN ORDER TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC.  GUILLORY RESPONDED THAT HE IS VERY RETICENT TO DO THAT BECAUSE IT IS INFRINGING ON THE LIBERTY OF RESIDENTS.  HE SAYS IF HE DOES IT, IT MUST BE JUSTIFIED, AND HE’S NOT AT THAT POINT.

 

THE NUMBER OF COVID-NINETEEN PATIENTS WHO HAVE BEEN HOSPITALIZED IN LOUISIANA HAS RISEN ABOVE ONE THOUSAND.  TODAY’S REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH INCLUDES SIXTY-ONE ADDITIONAL PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED.  THERE ARE NEARLY TWO THOUSAND MORE CORONAVIRUS CASES PUSHING THE TOTAL PAST SIXTY-EIGHT THOUSAND.  THE NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN IS TWENTY-THREE, BRINGING THE TOTAL TO THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN.

 

ACADIANA HAD FOUR MORE DEATHS.  THERE ARE TWO MORE IN IBERIA PARISH AND ONE EACH IN ACADIA AND ST. MARY PARISHES.  THE TOTAL IS TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT.  THERE ARE AN ADDITIONAL TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE CORONAVIRUS CASES.  THAT PUTS THE TOTAL ABOVE EIGHT THOUSAND FOR ACADIANA.  LAFAYETTE PARISH HAS REACHED THREE THOUSAND.

 

FOR FIVE DAYS IN A ROW, SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HAS HAD NO DEATHS FROM COVID-NINETEEN.  THE TOTAL REMAINS AT EIGHTY-EIGHT.  THERE ARE ALMOST TWO HUNDRED NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES, INCLUDING ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN IN CALCASIEU PARISH.  THE TOTAL IS NOW THREE THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN.

 

SOME PARISH OFFICIALS ARE MAKING SURE STUDENTS WILL HAVE RELIABLE INTERNET AT HOME FOR VIRTUAL LEARNING.  SYLVIA MASTERS HAS MORE.

 

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The chairman of the state Senate’s education committee wants Louisiana’s public schools to cancel student athletics for the fall semester because of the risks of the coronavirus outbreak. Baton Rouge Sen. Cleo Fields’s request comes amid the resurgence of the state’s coronavirus outbreak. Fields sent letters to the heads of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Louisiana School Boards Association, calling for the suspension of athletic events as a safety precaution.

 

LAST NIGHT THE WELSH TOWN COUNCIL VOTED TO RENAME THE PAVILION AT RICHMOND PARK.  IT WILL NOW BE KNOWN AS THE CORA MAE GORDAN VITAL MEMORIAL PAVILION.  A RESIDENT, MICHAEL PRUDHOMME, GATHERED MORE THAN TWELVE-HUNDRED SIGNATURES ON A PETITION FOR THE RENAMING.  PRUDHOMME SAYS VITAL, A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF WELSH AND AN EDUCATOR,  WAS A LOCAL HERO, KNOWN FOR WRITING EULOGIES AND VOLUNTEERING AT LOCAL CHURCHES AND TEACHING.

 

CROWLEY POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A SHOOTING DEATH THAT HAPPENED LATE LAST NIGHT.  SHOTS WERE FIRED IN THE FIVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF WEST EIGHTH STREET AT AROUND ELEVEN P-M AND, WHEN POLICE ARRIVED, THEY FOUND A BLACK MALE WITH TWO GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE UPPER TORSO.  RESIDENTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD SAY THAT THEY HEARD VOICES JUST BEFORE THE SHOOTING.  ANYBODY THAT HAS INFORMATION THAT CAN HELP POLICE WITH THEIR INVESTIGATION IS ASKED TO CALL ACADIA PARISH CRIMESTOPPERS AT 789-TIPS.