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SAMARITAN’S PURSE HAS SET UP OPERATIONS AT CROSSROADS CHURCH IN LAFAYETTE AND ASSISTANT PROGRAM MANAGER CHRISTOPHER LOUIS SAYS THEY PLAN ON BEING HERE UNTIL OCTOBER 29TH. HE TELLS THE DAILY ADVERTISER THAT THEY’RE MAIN OBJECTIVE IS TO PROVIDE SPIRITUAL HELP TO HOMEOWNERS WHILE HELPING CLEAN OUT THEIR HOMES FROM THE DISASTER. HE SAYS ONE HUNDRED TO 150 VOLUNTEERS ARE EXPECTED TO ASSIST HOMEOWNERS. PEOPLE CAN VOLUNTEER BY GOING TO THE SAMARITAN’S PURSE WEBSITE AND SIGNING UP OR GO TO CROSSROADS CHURCH BEFORE ONE OF THE ORIENTATION SESSIONS, WHICH HAPPEN AT 7:30 A-M AND 12:30 P-M MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
THE CAREY BAPTIST ASSOCIATION HAS BEEN ORGANIZING FLOOD RELIEF EFFORTS IN WELSH. CHAPLAIN TOM WAITES TELLS KPLC TV THAT VOLUNTEERS BEGIN WORKING AT 7:30 A-M AND END AT FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON, AND THEY WON’T STOP WORKING UNTIL EVERY HOME IS HELPED. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE OR HELP IN THE WELSH AREA, CONTACT FIRST BAPTIST IN LAKE CHARLES. THE GROUP PLANS ON EXPANDING THEIR WORK IN JENNINGS AND CROWLEY, WHERE THERE ARE REPORTEDLY ONE THOUSAND HOMES DAMAGED.
FEMA WILL OPEN TWO NEW DISASTER RECOVERY CENTERS, ONE IN ST. MARTIN PARISH AND THE OTHER IN IBERIA PARISH. JULIE DARCE HAS MORE.
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The federal government says that, for the first time, it’s broadcasting an oil and gas lease sale live on the internet. The sale today offers all 23.8 million acres available for drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast. At earlier sales, an official from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management read bids to oil company representatives and others in a Superdome ballroom in New Orleans. A bureau spokeswoman has said protests that disrupted a lease sale in March played a part in the change.
TWO 18-YEAR-OLDS WERE ARRESTED YESTERDAY FOR BURGLARIZING THREE LAFAYETTE SCHOOLS AND CAUSING ABOUT NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF DAMAGE. EVERETTE BROUSSARD AND SAMUEL CARTER ARE ACCUSED OF ENTERING S-J MONTGOMERY ELEMENTARY, L-J ALLEMAN AND LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHOOL EARLY SUNDAY AND DAMAGING PROPERTY, INCLUDING ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND INSTRUMENTS. THEY EACH FACE FOUR COUNTS OF SIMPLE BURGLARY AND ONE COUNT OF SIMPLE CRIMINAL DAMAGE. THEY REMAINED IN THE LAFAYETTE PARISH JAIL TUESDAY AFTERNOON AS BOND HAD NOT BEEN SET.
The Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. has agreed to sell its Westlake property for about $134.5 million to a New Mexico developer. If the deal is approved by the Louisiana Gaming Control Board, Kicks Entertainment — an entity of Laguna Development Corp. — is planning some improvements to the site. Multiple news outlets report (http://bit.ly/2beNNkW ; http://bit.ly/2bjVN6a ) Laguna plans to retain all of the nearly 1,000 employees. Isle of Capri Chief Executive Officer Eric Hausler says the sale is expected to close in late fiscal 2017 to early fiscal 2018.
AN ARNAUDVILLE MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH A FATAL BOATING ACCIDENT IN JUNE. DESMOND DAVIS CRASHED A BOAT HE WAS DRIVING INTO A BRIDGE ON SPILLWAY LEVY ROAD OFF OF HIGHWAY 190 ON JUNE 16TH. DAVIS WAS RESCUED BUT A PASSENGER IN HIS BOAT, ANOTHER MAN FROM ARNAUDVILLE, WAS LATER FOUND DEAD. DAVIS HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE AND OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED.
The release of 2016 ACT college readiness scores shows relatively few Louisiana students are meeting benchmarks indicating readiness for college-level science, math and reading studies. Fifty-nine percent meet the English benchmark, but only 35 percent reached the reading benchmark; 26 percent hit the math benchmark; 27 percent, the science benchmark. The average composite score on the ACT test has edged up in Louisiana, from 19.4 in 2015 to 19.5 this year. The state says Louisiana’s composite score has edged up three consecutive years, while the national average has dropped.
