9-10-25
THE FOUNDER OF KAJN AND FAMILY VISION TV WENT HOME TO BE WITH THE LORD YESTERDAY AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY-SEVEN. BARRY THOMPSON SPENT HIS WHOLE CAREER IN RADIO STARTING AT KSIG, THEN MOVING TO KVOL. HE WENT ON TO BE CO-OWNER OF KSMB. GOD INTERVENED IN HIS LIFE, CALLING HIM TO START A CHRISTIAN RADIO STATION. BROTHER BARRY TOLD SEVERAL STORIES OVER THE YEARS OF HOW GOD HAD OPENED DOORS, REMOVED OBSTACLES AND HE RECEIVED HELP FROM MANY OTHERS. KAJN WAS LAUNCHED IN NINETEEN SEVENTY-SEVEN AS A HUNDRED-THOUSAND-WATT RADIO STATION, BROADCASTING THROUGHOUT SOUTH LOUISIANA. HE KEPT A HAND IN THE OPERATIONS OF THE STATION RIGHT UP UNTIL THE END. THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD SATURDAY MORNING AT ELEVEN AT NORTHSIDE ASSEMBLY OF GOD IN CROWLEY WITH VISITATION FRIDAY NIGHT FROM SIX TO EIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING FROM EIGHT-THIRTY TIL THE START OF THE FUNERAL. IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR THE AGAPE WAY OF LOUISIANA AT KAJN-DOT-COM.
LAFAYETTE CONSOLIDATED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS INTRODUCED A PROPOSED NEW DRAINAGE PROJECT AT A PUBLIC MEETING LAST NIGHT. ITS AIM IS TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FLOODING IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE, THE U-L CAMPUS AND THE FREETOWN AREA. A NEW TRUNK LINE WOULD BE PUT UNDER JOHNSTON STREET TO REPLACE THE CURRENT DRAINAGE LINES, WHICH ARE ABOUT ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER RACHEL GODEAUX SAYS THEY HOPE TO SECURE FUNDING FOR THE PROJECT BY NEXT YEAR WITH CONSTRUCTION POTENTIALLY BEGINNING IN TWENTY-TWENTY-SEVEN.
MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE WORK IS UNDERWAY TO HELP ADDRESS THE WATER ISSUES PLAGUING SAINT MARTINVILLE OVER THE YEARS. THE CITY SECURED FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS IN STATE FUNDS AFTER CONSOLIDATING WITH THE WATER DISTRICT IN CATAHOULA. UPGRADES INCLUDE THE RENOVATION OF THE WATER TOWER ON DENBAS STREET, NEW WATER METERS AND THE INSTALLATION OF ISOLATION VALVES, SO THAT, WHEN THERE’S A LEAK IN A CERTAIN AREA, WATER WILL NOT NEED TO BE SHUT OFF TO THE ENTIRE CITY. CONSTRUCTION IS EXPECTED TO LAST TWELVE TO EIGHTEEN MONTHS.
STATE POLICE HAVE DETERMINED THE TYPE OF VEHICLE USED IN A HIT-AND-RUN THAT TOOK THE LIFE OF FIFTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD BONNIE FONTENOT OF JENNINGS. INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE IT WAS AN OLDER MODEL FORD F-ONE-FIFTY THAT WAS PAINTED PACIFIC GREEN METALLIC. THEY SUSPECT THAT IT WOULD HAVE FRONT END DAMAGE AND IT COULD FREQUENT THE JEFF DAVIS PARISH AREA. TROOPERS HAVE CONFIRMED THROUGH FORENSIC ANALYSIS THAT FONTENOT WAS STRUCK BY THE VEHICLE SOMETIME BETWEEN AUGUST TWENTY-SECOND AND TWENTY-SEVENTH, WHICH IS THE DATE HER BODY WAS FOUND IN THE MEDIAN BETWEEN I-TEN AND HIGHWAY ONE SIXTY-FIVE.
A FEDERAL WARRANT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A LAFAYETTE MAN WANTED FOR POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD MOSES HERNANDEZ IS WHITE, FIVE-NINE, ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-POUNDS, WITH DISTINCTIVE TATOOS AND HE’S KNOWN TO WEAR A CAMOFLAUGE CAP WITH A RED BILL. HE WAS LAST SEEN RIDING A BLACK BICYCLE WITH A HORNED SKULL AND A LIGHT ON THE HANDLEBARS. ANYONE WHO KNOWS THE LOCATION OF HERNANDEZ IS URGED TO CALL ONE EIGHT HUNDRED-CALL-FBI OR CALL LOCAL AUTHORITIES AT NINE-ONE-ONE.
THE NEW DONALD GARDNER STADIUM IN OPELOUSAS WILL HOST ITS FIRST FOOTBALL GAME ON OCTOBER TENTH. SUPERINTENDENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION CHRIS RIDEAU SAYS IT WILL BE NINETY TO NINETY-FIVE PERCENT COMPLETE BY THE LAST THURSDAY OF THIS MONTH. THE FOCUS IS ON FINISHING THE STANDS, PARKING LOT AND INSTALLING THE LIGHTING TO ENSURE IT’S READY FOR A NIGHT GAME. THE STADIUM IS EXPECTED TO BE A HUB FOR LOCAL SPORTS AND EVENTS.
ON MONDAY, A SAINT MARTINVILLE MAN WAS ARRESTED AFTER LEADING POLICE ON A CHASE THROUGH SAINT MARTIN, LAFAYETTE AND IBERIA PARISHES. TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD BRANDON KEITH HAVILAND REFUSED TO PULL OVER AFTER RUNNING A STOP SIGN IN BREAUX BRIDGE AND THE CHASE ENDED WHEN HE CRASHED HIS VEHICLE AT SUGAR OAKS ROAD AND BLUE HAVEN DRIVE IN IBERIA PARISH. DURING THE CHASE, HAVILAND ALLEGEDLY ATTEMPTED TO RAM A DEPUTY’S VEHICLE AND FIRED SEVERAL ROUNDS AT IT. HAVILAND WAS A SUSPECT IN A DISTURBANCE THE DAY BEFORE AT A RESIDENCE ON HEBERT AVENUE IN BREAUX BRIDGE THAT INVOLVED AN UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY.
