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PiThe Camerlon oParisht 5¢ November 9, 2006 Vol. 50--No. 5 Cameron, La. 70631 THE FOUNDATION IS being prepared for the new South Cameron Memorial Hospital. The Lower Cameron Hospital Service District has received the first $1.2 million install- ment of $16 million in FEMA funds allocated to rebuild the hospital. (Photo by Cyndi Sellers.) Hospital financed Representative Charles W. vided to construct a new facility under five feet of static flood Boustany, Jr. announced that to meet current federal, state, water. The interior was also the U.S. Department of and local codes and standards. gutted by ocean salt water Homeland Security’s Federal “I am very pleased that the storm surge and all exterior Emergency Management Department of Homeland walls were breached and struc- Agency (FEMA) has awarded Security has awarded this fund- turally damaged. $14,548,645 to the Lower ing to the Lower Cameron All mechanical, electrical, Cameron Hospital Service Hospital Service District,” said and structural systems were District - South Cameron Boustany. destroyed by the flooding and Memorial Hospital. Hurricane Rita submerged the corrosive effects of the salt The funding has been pro- the main building’s interior water inundation. THE PUBLIC is invited to the dedication of Oak Grove Baptist Church and Parsonage, Saturday, November 11. A meal will be served at noon, and the dedication service will begin at 2 p.m. Several former pastors will be in attendance, according to the present pastor Rev. Jay VanHorn. For more information, call 542-4731. Jury going home By CYNDI SELLERS the assembly that there has Broussard presented the pri- not been and will be no dis- ority list for the proposed Tarpons The Cameron Parish cussion on moving the parish Cameron Square governmen- Fur Festival Police Jury took decisive seat out of Cameron, saying tal center, and jurors unani- actions Monday night to "We are here tonight to for- mously voted to proceed to begin return all parish offices to the mulate a plan to come back." immediately with develop- parish seat, first in temporary That plan includes enter- ment of the Police Jury office Pageants to playoffs buildings, then in a new office ing into the Cheniere Pilot building. Initially designed to Cookbook is building. Plan for early tax payment. be moved to the west side of Juror Sonny McGee told Jurors voted to "opt in" to the the court house, the Police be in L. C. planned The South Cameron plan and authorized bond Jury offices will instead be Tarpons finished their 2006 attorney Jay Delafield to pro- rebuilt on the original site. A campaign with a 6-4, 3-2 ceed with the bond issue pro- move from the original loca- Plans for the pageants to Orders for the 50th anniversary Louisiana Fur record and earned a home Cameron gram which will provide the tion would have delayed the be held in conjunction with playoff game with St Jury with between $6.8 and process, requiring application the 2007 Louisiana Fur & and Wildlife Festival Cookbook are now being Fredrick’s out of Monroe at $10.9 million dollars, depend- to FEMA for an "improved Wildlife Festival have been Barbe stadium Friday night voters favor ing on whether the School project." announced. taken. The Festival and cookbook at 7 p.m. Board opts in or out. While the new building is This year’s festival will be The Tarpons grabbed the To speed the process of being designed and ground a one day event set for were cancelled last year due Boustany to Hurricane Rita. This year 12th seed while the Warriors rebuilding, a "combined work prepared, the parish Saturday Jan. 13 in Cameron. were seeded 21st. St approach" was adopted, offices currently located in the Festival will be a one day Cameron Parish voters However due to the loss of Fredricks is in district 1-2A which allows the parish to Grand Lake will be moved to event on Saturday, Jan. 13 in favored incumbent Charles the Cameron Elementary with Oakgrove, Grambling, receive early tax payment Cameron. On a vote of 4-3, Cameron. Boustany Jr. in his re-election auditorium in Hurricane Rita, Cedar Creek, and Bernice. while waiting for the issuance split along north-south geo- The 2007 Cookbook will be bid to the 7th Congressional the Fur Festival pageants will The Warriors own wins over of the bonds. Funds will be graphic lines, the Jury voted out prior to Christmas and District seat Tuesday. be held in Lake Charles . Lasalle, Loyola, Delhi made available through a to proceed with plans to set will be hard bound. It will fea- Boustany, a Republican, The Deb, Teen, Junior, and Charter, Bernice, and a forfeit Payment in Lieu of Tax agree- up temporary offices in ture photos of previous festi- who was elected to his second Miss Cameron Parish victory over Delhi. ment which will provide an Cameron in a manner which vals. term, got 1,190 votes or 81 Pageants will be held immediate injection of cash to causes the least amount of The book will focus on percent of the those cast in Saturday, Jan. 6 at the Rosa jump start the rebuilding disruption to the staff. recipes from previous cook- Cameron Parish. Democratic Heart Theatre in the Lake process. books as many parish resi- Grants are challenger Mike Stagg got Cont. on Page 4. Charles Civic Center. These Parish Planner Ernie pageants will begin at 12 noon dents lost their books from 281 votes, or 19 percent. with the Fur Queen pageant previous years in the hurri- available Boustany was re-elected. set for 7 p.m. cane. Voter turnout was 1,515. Except for the Fur Queen Pre-publication orders for Cameron Parish voters Hackberry dinners told pageant, all contestants must the cookbook should be for groups approved all of the constitu- be attending Cameron Parish mailed to the La. Fur & tional amendments with the schools at the time of the Wildlife Festival, P. O. Box The Cameron Lions Club exception of No. 8 which Several out-of-state Thursday, Nov. 23, a pageant. 19, Cameron, La. 70631. is accepting applications for failed by a vote of 621 for to churches which have assisted Thanksgiving dinner will be Entrants in the Fur Queen Books are $25 plus $3 grants to support youth 729 against. This amendment with recovery efforts in served at noon by Angel Fire Pageant will each represent a shipping if they are to be groups of the Lower Cameron provides for a new school dis- Hackberry following Baptist Church of Angel Fire, Louisiana fur producing mailed. Books may also be Parish area. trict in the Baton Rouge area. Hurricane Rita last year will New Mexico. parish. picked up at the Pageant on Any sponsor of a youth It and the seven other amend- sponsor dinners for area resi- Persons planning to attend The winner of the Miss Jan. 6 or at the Festival on group which has been ments passed statewide. dents this month. are asked to pre-register at Cameron Parish Pageant will Jan. 13. adversely impacted by There were no local items On Saturday, Nov. 18 Brown’s Food Center in receive a trip to the National Hurricane Rita may contact on the Cameron Parish ballot. beginning at 2:30 p.m. a com- Hackberry. Outdoors Festival in any Cameron Lions Club munity dinner and celebra- For more information on Maryland in February. member for further informa- tion will be held at the both events call the The new Fur Queen will Council on tion, or call Carl Broussard, Hackberry community center Hackberry Baptist Church, receive a trip to the Mardi 775-5316 or Jennifer Jones, hosted by the Cornerstone 762-4448; Molly Spicer, 912- Gras Ball in Washington in Aging to meet 494-5563. Church and sister churches of 8081 or Susy Alford, 842- February. The Cameron Lions Club Livermore, Calif. Attendees 2667. Ages for the groups are: The Cameron Council on will meet in Cameron in the are asked to bring a desert. Everyone is invited to Deb Miss, 10-12; Teen Miss, Aging Advisory Board and future and invites all inter- On Thanksgiving Day, attend both events. 13-14; Junior Miss, 15-16; and Board of Directors will meet ested parties to attend. For Miss Cameron, 17-22. Girls on Dec. 4, at noon at the further information contact must be the respective ages as Grand Lake Firemen Center. Carl Broussard. of Jan. 1, 2007. The meetings for 2007 will Pageant applications are be on March 26, May 29, Aug. available at all Cameron 27 and Oct. 29. All meetings Parish schools. Applications will be held a noon at the can also be secured by calling Grand Lake Firemen Center. Lena Hebert, 370-9103, or The public is invited to Debbie Duhon, 249-1400. attend all meetings. Marty Haggard Merle’s son to perform at H’berry Marty Haggard, son of country music legend, Merle DUKE ENERGY Gas Transmission representatives Haggard, will present a free Keith Champagne, Area Supervisor, and Telesha Christian concert at the First Bertrand, Area Analyst II, made a recent $2,500 donation Baptist Church of Hackberry to Rockefeller State Wildlife Refuge, Grand Chenier, at 6 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 11. Louisiana from the Duke Energy Foundation. Mr. Guthrie Haggard and his wife Perry, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries heads Marty Haggard Music Program Manager at Rockefeller Refuge explained that Ministry of Doyline. Hurricane Rita and years of boat traffic caused erosion He spent some time on the along a canal south of the Refuge office.