Saturday, Nov. 16, beginning at 10 a.m., a $60,000 bronze sculpture of “Iron Mike” will be dedicated atop the existing Special Operations Monument in Veterans Park.
There are several other 60-plus-year-old lift-span bridges extant on Bayou Teche – one at Parks, for example. One at Loreauville. But the bridge everybody knows is the one here. Le pont de Pont Breaux.
More bad news for St. Martinville’s Early Doucet. The Third Circuit Court of Appeal here recently upheld a state district judge’s 2012 ruling that Doucet pay $7,500 a month in child support for the 9-year-old son he had with former girlfriend Sherrell Fontenette.
The middle of November was once one of the busiest times of the year in south Louisiana, the time when “the Cajun and other native trappers … are ready for their arduous labors,” as National Geographic reported in an article in 1930.
Funeral services will be held at 11 am, on Friday, November 8, 2013, at Pellerin Funeral Home Chapel in St. Martinville, for Saundra Ann Eastin, 75, who passed away on Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center.