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Christ and chicken
By Billy Turner It would be incredibly easy but not very sensible for a religion columnist to ignore the top issue of the week for many. It is a difficult subject at best, a divisive subject at wo...
Aug 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Plus ça change
More than a third of the nation's oysters come from Louisiana waters and I think the oyster promotion people are dead right when they proclaim, "The Louisiana oyster. There's nothing quite like it....
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V12 program kept school open
During World War II, Joel Fletcher, president of Southwestern Louisiana Institute (UL today), was forced to consider closing the school as more and more young men left the campus to go off to war. ...
Jul 29, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
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This bottle from the late 1890’s is embossed, “Dead Stuck for Bugs” and depicts a large bug with a long hat pin through it. That would have done it.
Mosquitoes have always been a pain in Eunice (Remembering When-Georgie Manuel)
All the recent rains not only brought out the mushrooms but we are being given notice to expect an influx of mosquitoes. We are asked to drain off all standing water where they might breed. There i...
Jul 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Second chances
By Billy Turner This week I come bearing questions that have stumped many in history’s wake. 1) Does one sin (call it mistake if you will) negate a lifetime of good? 2) Does the degree of sin (ca...
Jul 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Second chances
By Billy Turner This week I come bearing questions that have stumped many in history’s wake. 1) Does one sin (call it mistake if you will) negate a lifetime of good? 2) Does the degree of sin (ca...
Jul 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fabacher influential rice farmer
Roberts Cove is known as the home of a substantial settlement of German emigres who helped to create the commercial rice industry in southwest Louisiana. But they were not the only Germans to settl...
Jul 22, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
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Duson brothers were pioneer builders
C. C. (Curley) Duson and his brother, William W. Duson, would likely be remembered in Acadiana even if they hadn't been colorful characters. They founded four towns--Crowley, Iota, Eunice, and Mamo...
Jul 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 39 39 recommendations | email to a friend
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Getting smarter?
By Billy Turner On the Fourth of July, our air conditioning unit (which by the way is an air cooling system not a conditioning system so why do we call it that kind of thing?) did more conditionin...
Jul 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Many uses for Moss (Remembering When-Georgie Manuel Column)
In the process of Spring cleaning, albeit in the middle of July, it came to mind that flipping a mattress these days is a lot easier than it used to be. You had to haul the old moss mattress outsid...
Jul 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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The old guy and the man in pajamas
By Jim Butler Actually the guy in his pajamas, his butt hanging out, was right. The one blocking his way at the Walmart door is old. That realization is perhaps all that caused the older one to p...
Jul 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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'God, are you sure?'
By Billy Turner This morning, I step into a pulpit in Eunice for the first time. I’m as excited as a hungry man who just found 20 dollars on the ground outside a Wendy’s. I will preach three times...
Jul 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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