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By David Reynaud

Lutcher Mayor Patrick St. Pierre says the work currently underway to clean out and re-dig a drainage canal along the west side of Alexander and Lionel Washington streets in Lutcher should improve drainage substantially in the area.

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Lutcher Mayor Patrick St. Pierre would like to thank St. James Parish Sheriff Willy Martin, Jr. for donating this Dodge Durango to the Town of Lutcher.

The vehicle, which has been driven roughly 105,000 miles, was a detective’s vehicle and is in very good condition.

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As high winds and heavy rains came through the Town of Lutcher last Thursday morning, a service pole at the corner of Main Street and Exchange Alley was nearly blown over, which would have caused a very hazardous situation.

Thankfully, the pole across the street was anchored by a guide wire, which in turn helped to prevent the pole across the street from crashing to the street.

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By David ReynaudEdito

Last Saturday’s election was one for the history books as the first woman ever was elected to serve on the St. James Pa

rish Council. Vondra Etienne-Steib, who also happens to be an African-American, was elected to represent the residents of District 6 as she received 56 percent of the vote to win the election outright. Etienne-Steib, who is the Director of Special Education for the St. James Parish Public School System, beat Shea Stewart and incumbent Jarred Favorite, who was appointed by the Parish Council to serve on an interim basis until last Saturday’s election could be held.

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By Pam Folse Contributing Writer

The people we honor today provided wealth, privilege and opportunity for their owners and the descendants of those owners for generations while their own descendants were emancipated into Jim Crow, segregation and its persisting aftermath,” said Ingrid Palmquist of Maryland during the memorial service and marker dedication of the Bruslie Plantation and Monroe Plantation ceremonies. Shell Convent Refinery acquired the former site of the 20-acre, 147- year old Tezcuco Plantation after the antebellum mansion burned to the ground in May 2002

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The residents of the “Chateau St. James” Nursing Home had a surprise guest, “Mrs. Easter Bunny” on Monday, March 19, 2018. Mrs. Cheryl Louque, a member of The Catholic Daughters of the Americas, dressed in a Bunny Rabbit costume to lift every one’s spirits. The CDA members presented each resident a cloth towel, shaped like a

“Bunny Rabbit” with a Plastic Easter egg nestled in the center, that contained chocolate candy. Several desserts and drinks were served. Other CDA Members provided entertainment by playing Bingo with the “Chateau St. James” residents. Each winner received a prize.

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On Thursday, March 8, 2018 Danielle Taylor Joseph addressed the 4th- 6th grade girls at Gramercy Elementary School. The very energetic and enterprising Danielle Joseph spoke on the topic of “Dream Big”. Danielle emphasized to the girls on how important it is to dream big, set goals for yourself and to always believe in yourself. She reminisced on how she, too, sat in her elementary class and dreamed of owning her own dance studio and she would call it “Danielle’s Dance Academy”.

The girls were very excited to hear her personal story of how she was a Lutcher High School Periquette, Southern University Dancing Doll and a Honeybee for the former New Orlean’s Hornets. They were most amazed to learn she danced with the world famous Beyoncé

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By Pam Folse
Contributing Writer

Dr. Kimberly Johnson and her administrative team at Sixth Ward Elementary are quite busy making preparations for the arrival of new students.

With the reconfiguration of schools on the west bank, Sixth Ward will now become the middle school for all students on the west bank.

Since many of her anticipated students are expected to come from Vacherie Elementary, Jones, who has a doctorate in Educational Leadership from LSU, has been meeting with the principal there, Julie Waguespack.

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By Pam Folse &
Billy and Leslie
Worthington

The people of St. James Parish, to say the least, did a fantastic job of welcoming special guests Bill and Leslie Worthington last Wednesday.

The Worthington’s came here as a result of a rather ingenious Christmas present that Bill gave Leslie that involved ping pong balls representing the states, a list of the towns and cities in the state of Louisiana and a computer application that chose numbers at random. To make a long story short, of all the places in the United States, the Atlanta couple ended up in Hester, Louisiana.

After it was decided where they would go, Bill contacted News Examiner- Enterprise editor David Reynaud because he wanted to run a classified ad in the newspaper. Since he sometimes calls his wife Lester, he thought it would be fun to run an ad that said, “I love you from Lester to Hester.”

Some, but not all, St. James Parish registered voters will vote this Saturday, March 24th.

Voters in the St. James Parish Council’s 6th District will elect a permanent Councilman and voters in Lutcher and Gramercy will decide whether or not to approve a sales tax increase.

Concerning the Councilman’s race, only voters in District 6 will vote to permanently replace former Councilman Ken Brass, who was elected last year to serve as the District 58 member of the Louisiana House of Representatives

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