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Wednesday, September 28, 2016 THE LAFOURCHE GAZETTE
Rotary From 1-A
Cold beverages, desserts and other items are also available for purchase. The music and fun are an added bonus. Children 12 and under are free. This event is the Golden Meadow Rotary Club’s main fundraiser that helps to fund projects and scholarships they offer throughout the year. “All of the money we raise at the Boil Off goes back to the community,” said G.M. Rotary President Frank Boura. “We provide five scholarships to South Lafourche students who attend Nicholls State University. We work with local schools to get names of needy families so we can donate food baskets and toys at Christmas, we donated body cameras and ear pieces for local police departments, the list just goes on,” he said. The local service club meets weekly to map out projects and implement ways they can help in the community as well as through projects with Rotary International around the world. The Golden Meadow club is currently working on creating a soccer field in Golden Meadow, it services the basketball court, made a playground area, does Easter egg hunts for local schools, helps with disaster assistance and recently donated $1,000 of items to flood victims in Gonzales through a sister Rotary club. “We understand the community is hurting but we’re hoping to raise some money to continue helping others in our area through our projects – any amount helps. We hope people come out and have a good time for a great cause,” said Boura. Currently there are about eight boiling teams registered but there is still room for more. Anonymous judges will sample the shrimp from each team and first through third place winners will be award prizes. To register a team before Saturday, contact Frank at 985-665-1220. So get your appetites ready for some nice 21-25 sized shrimp, put on your dancing shoes and head on over to the Oakridge Park on Saturday to Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Orgeron From 1-A
“Coach Miles has done a tremendous job here and he’s been a great ambassador for our University, which makes this even more difficult,” LSU athletic director Joe Alleva said in a written statement. “However, it’s apparent in evaluating the program through the first month of the season that a change has to be made. “We have an obligation to our student-athletes to put them in the best position to have success on the football field each week. We have great confidence that coach Orgeron will do just that.” Miles, who replaced Nick Saban in 2005, went 114-34 at LSU, the secondmost victories in school history behind Charles McClendon’s 137 victories from 1962 to 1979. Orgeron says that as a Louisiana native, it’s “a dream” to have the opportunity to be LSU’s head coach. The 55-year-old Orgeron, who was formally introduced as Les Miles’ interim replacement on Monday, says he has no idea whether he’ll have the job past this season and isn’t saying whether he sees his opportunity as an audition to remain for the longer term. He says his only concern is the happiness of LSU players and seeing them win. Orgeron says he’s tapped current assistant Steve Ensminger, a former LSU quarterback, to replace offensive coordinator Cam Cameron. He says the offense will be “tweaked” to feature more spread formations. Orgeron, known by players as “Coach O,” is a Larose native, a South Lafourche High School graduate, and renowned recruiter. He was a head coach once before in the SEC with Mississippi, but never had a winning record there and was fired after three seasons. He fared better as interim head coach at Southern California in 2013, going 6-2 in place of Lane Kiffin, who’d been fired that season. Orgeron joined the LSU staff in 2015 as defensive line coach and has since added the title of re-
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cruiting coordinator to his list of duties. As a player, Orgeron was a four-year starter on the defensive line for Northwestern State, captaining the Demons as a senior. He received his bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Northwestern State in 1984. He starred in football, basketball and track at South Lafourche High School. He and his wife, Kelly, have 3 sons, Tyler, and twins Parker and Cody. Tyler is a member of the LSU football support staff, while twins Parker and Cody are in their first year as part of the McNeese State football team. “Coach O brings new energy. He is pumped up. I am excited to play for coach O,” center Ethan Pocic said. “It’s not easy. College football is a business. The best thing I can do is do whatever coach O asks us. He’s our coach now.” LSU’s first game under Orgeron is Saturday in Tiger Stadium against Missouri.
Grand Isle From 1-A
“We’ve got people (saying), ‘Are we going to have more severe rainstorms?’ We’re seeing that,” he said. “These are the tell-tales or symptoms of a warming climate, but the predominant driver is ... over thousands of years, the Mississippi River has built up the coast. These delta areas are abandoned. There’s a greatly reduced
Radio Daze, III - Enter Roy Vicknair Roy Anthony Vicknair was born in New Orleans on January 24, 1937, then moved to Houma and finally LaPlace where he died at 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 17, 2015 of complications caused by Parkinson’s disease. He was survived by his wife of 55 years, Linda, and daughters Ann, Judy and Diane, five grandchildren and one great grandchild. I want to acquaint you with my good friend before I tell our story. He retired in 1999 after 40 years in radio broadcasting on KLFT AM Golden Meadow, KTIB AM Thibodaux, and KHOM FM Houma. He was a member of many civic and social organizations, and in retirement he became a videographer covering weddings and other functions. I met Roy when he came to work at KLFT (later KLEB) in Golden Meadow in 1959 where my good friend “Cousan” Dudley Bernard was the “Voice of the Cajuns”. Radio stations are identified by letters prefixed with “W” east of the Mississippi and west with “K”. The others are at the whim of the owners, hence WWL, Loyola University, WNOE, former Louisiana Governor Jimmy Noe, KLFT, Leo and Florence Theriot, KLEB, Little Eagle Broadcasting, KHOM, Houma and KLRZ, Larose. (More information than you wanted.) In 1960 I negotiated a recording contract for my friend, former Columbia recording artist Vin Bruce whose major contract had been dropped in 1956 due to the exploding popularity of Rock and Roll music. Ville Platte Jin/Swallow label owner Floyd Soileau said, “That name is still very popular in South Louisiana and I could sure sell his records. Listen, Roy Vicknair recorded Joe Barry at KLFT before I sent you to Cosimo with him and I’m a Fool to Care, so maybe he would record Vin.”
amount of sediment coming down the river today because of dams and better farming practices. You’re seeing no new sediment being put into these areas.” A 2010 NOAA report said rising sea levels and sinking land could cause Grand Isle to flood as much as half a year by 2100. The report said between 2096 and 2100, sea level would rise by 2.7 feet. In 2014, NOAA reported Grand Isle had lost 1.32 inches of elevation to the Gulf of Mexico within five years. The agency released graphs this month showing a sea-level rise of about 9.05 mm a year on Grand Isle. Last week, NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey began reviewing southeast Louisiana. Osborn said Friday that he hoped the team would get to Grand Isle soon. South Lafourche Levee District General Manager Windell Curole said he often talks to Osborn and that NOAA’s work has helped the Levee District accurately determine water and land elevations. “If you’re going to live in south Louisiana, you have to pay close attention to subsidence issues,” Curole said. “We’ve seen that the bridge between Leeville and Golden Meadow has subsided one foot in 20 years. ... If you have a cake, the cake is subsidence and sea level rises to the icing. We’re building the levees higher and are paying close attention to that.” Although the South Lafourche Levee District doesn’t cover Grand Isle, the same concerns plague
Ervin “Vin” Bruce had practically given up music and was only playing in a local club. Roy and I had become friends and he agreed to engineer the session. Calling in many favors I gathered musicians Harry Anselmi, Luke Charpentier, Jr. and D.J. Collins on steel, lead and rhythm guitars respectively, Mack Cheramie on drums and Ebdon Barrios on electric bass. Harry and Mack were in the Vin Bruce trio and played at the Golden Meadow Town Club, better known as La Nige located next door to the Town Hall. Gene Rodrigue, a fellow musician and recording artist was just visiting. We met one night at the studio located on the second floor of the State Bank building in Golden Meadow. Roy set up a large mike to pick up the fiddle, drums, electric bass, rhythm guitar and Vin’s vocal and another mike to pick up Harry’s steel and Luke’s lead guitars. Roy moved mikes and musicians around for what seems like an hour and conducted sound checks from the glassed control room. Vin selected two songs he had written and recorded in Nashville but were never released. They were finally released in 2014 on the Columbia CD “Vin Bruce, A Cajun Legend”, which contained Vin’s entire catalog of Nashville sessions. The songs were “Le Daylasay” and “Ci Tout M’aime”, available online on Amazon and ITunes. We did not use an accordion which in West Louisiana bands were indispensable, but we had to establish at least a fiddle for the Cajun sound. Ernest Tubb and Bob Wills had made accordions obsolete since the 1930’s. They returned to the Lafayette area with the recordings of Ira Legendre. There had also been no fiddle players in bands in our area since the Guidry Brothers and Levy Bruce
Curole’s region and the island. This year, Curole said, the Larose floodgate has closed about 140 days. Wray said he can’t see the lost parts of Grand Isle being restored, although the island of about 1,400 people likely won’t become uninhabitable in his lifetime. “It really doesn’t take more than three days of a southeast wind, and it starts to stack up on this side of the bay,” he said. “It’s foreshadowing of which direction we’re headed.” Osborn said maintaining Louisiana’s only populated barrier island is a matter of cost.
“Half of New Orleans today is below sea level, and yet New Orleans functions OK. But it’s taken billions and billions of dollars to get it to be a viable community, and it’s going to cost a ton of money in the future,” he said. “What’s the investment that needs to be made to protect Grand Isle and keep it a viable community, and are the state, the parish and Grand Isle willing to spend that money?”
Mathews, LA – Potential transportation projects and public input was received Tuesday at the South Lafourche library in Galliano as the South Central Planning and Development Commission (SCPDC) held the second of three workshops to receive suggestions on how to improve transportation in the parish. Among the primary needs in the South Lafourche area is an access road from LA Highway 1 to LA Highway 3235 in Galliano so that a bridge can be built to connect to the South Lafourche Leonard Miller, Jr. Airport. “This access road is very important because it will improve commerce to the airport and allow it to grow,” said Councilman
Daniel Lorraine. “In addition, it will help with efforts to obtain the funds to build a new bridge to connect the airport to Highway 3235.” Data was presented on traffic counts for major highway in the parish and attendees then broke into groups to discuss ideas for the area. The data showed that Lafourche Parish is slightly above the nation average in people driving alone to work and well below the national average in using other transit to get to work. A public hearing for the Thibodaux area was held last week and one for the central Lafourche area will be held on Thursday at the governmental complex in Mathews at 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
(Vin’s father) in the late twenties. Gene Rodrigue came to our rescue. “I play a little, but only for a very short break or a take-off. I can’t sustain for entire songs,” he said. As producer/director I said, “Great Gene, that will do.” He did and it worked. The few seconds he played established us as a Cajun band, and just about that
time Roy was ready. From the control room we heard, “OK Fellows, Vin Bruce Leu Delaysay take one.” As Jackie Gleason often said, “And Away We Go!” After 28 takes we had the two in the can. More next week! Bye Now!
— Staff Writer Bridget Mire can be reached at 448-7639 or bridget.mire@dailycomet.com. Follow her on Twitter @bridget_mire.
Transportation ideas brought up at public meeting
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LAFOURCHE PARISH GOVERNMENT BOARD & COMMISSION VACANCIES Board
Vacancies
Residency Requirements
Commission for Women
4
Lafourche Parish resident
Drainage District No. 6
1
Resident or Representative for a corporation owning land within Drainage No. 6 district
Fifth Ward Gravity Drainage District No. 5
4
Property owner or representative of a corporation owning land in Ward 5
Fire Protection District No. 8-A
1
Property taxpayer residing in the boundaries of Fire Protection No. 8-A district
Fire Protection District No. 9
2
Property taxpayer residing in the boundaries of Fire Protection No. 9 district
Head Start Policy Council
1
Lafourche Parish resident who is familiar with resources and services for low-income children and families
Heroes Monument Commission
1
Commission Police Officer employed for a minimum of 5 years, qualified voter domiciled outside of Ward 10
Heroes Monument Commission
2
Fireman that has served for a minimum of five years, qualified voter domiciled outside of Ward 10
Heroes Monument Commission
1
Discharged veteran of a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces and qualified voter domiciled outside of Ward 10
Library Board of Control
1
Lafourche Parish Resident
Recreation District No. 1
5
Resident domiciled within Recreation No. 1 district
Recreation District No. 11
5
Resident domiciled within Recreation No. 11 district
Recreation District No. 2
5
Resident domiciled within Recreation No. 2 district
Recreation District No. 8
5
Resident domiciled within Recreation No. 8 district
Sewerage District No. 1
3
Resident residing in the boundaries of Sewerage No. 1 district
South Lafourche Beachfront Development District
1
Qualified voter and resident of District 1, 2, 3, or 4
South Lafourche Beachfront Development District
1
Qualified voter and resident of District 5, 6 or 7
Tourist Commission
1
Lafourche Parish resident of Ward 11
The deadline for these positions will be Monday, October 3, 2016 @ 9:00 AM Applications are available at 402 Green Street, Thibodaux, LA 70301 or downloaded from the Lafourche Parish Government website at www.lafourchegov.org/Board_Vacancies.aspx. Applications can be delivered to the attention of Kelli Toups at 402 Green Street, Thibodaux, LA 70301; or mailed to Kelli Toups, P.O. Drawer 5548, Thibodaux, LA 70302.