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FASTER THAN EVER – Team Pont Breaux, overall winners of the Chitimacha 20, display their first-in-class medals. Shown are (from left) racer director Ray Pellerin (in back); host Jackie Junca, secretary-treasurer of the Chitimacha Tribal Council; paddlers Conrad, Carson and Peyton Pellerin, and Pat Guidry; and Rick Wimberley of PSC Industrial Services, a sponsor. (Ken Grissom)

‘Big boat’ first in Chitimacha 20

Tue, 05/17/2016 - 1:35pm Ken Grissom

Team Pont Breaux, consisting this year of teenage triplets Carson, Conrad and Peyton Pellerin and Pat Guidry in a four-man kayak, busted their record in the Chitimacha 20 Saturday by 5 minutes and 39 seconds.

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THEY RIDE ON SNAKE BAYOU’ reads the above quote in Chitimacha. The artwork adorns T-shirts worn by members of the tribe as they man their popular checkpoint during the fall Tour du Teche. “Teche” is how the word qukx sounded to French ears.

Race to the reservation Saturday

Tue, 05/10/2016 - 12:27pm Ken Grissom

The Chitimacha 20, a marathon for canoes, kayaks and other paddle craft, will be held Saturday, May 14.
The race is 20 miles from New Iberia City Park to the Chitimacha Tribal Reservation in Charenton.

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THE INSEPARABLES – Since Lola (left) died of a rare fungal parasite, Sam has not been himself. He sleeps a lot and doesn’t have much of an appetite. I hope he’s just depressed and not sick too. (Ken Grissom)

A good dog dies of rare 'swamp cancer'

Tue, 04/26/2016 - 2:50pm Ken Grissom

Lola, maybe the sweetest, certainly the smartest dog I’ve ever owned, died this month of pythiosis, also known as water mold infection or “swamp cancer.”
It’s a deadly fungal infection caused by a parasite, Pythium insidiosum, found in tropical and subtropical waters. She likely got it accompanying me into the Atchafalaya Basin.

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TOP TOP OF THE TECHE paddlers (from left) Brad Rex, Jimmy Guidry and Randy Hargroder, shown here before the 7.7-mile race down Bayou Teche from Leonville to Arnaudville.(Denise D’Abundo)

Multiman boat takes Top

Mon, 04/04/2016 - 10:39am Ken Grissom

Three-man boats dominated last Saturday’s Top of the Teche, a 7.7-mile race for paddlers on Bayou Teche from Leonville to Arnaudville.

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