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Jail Tax Passes Sen. Cloud Eunice to host honored No. 2 Karr by business in Class 4-A group quarterfinals Page 2 Page 6 The Eunice News VOL. 116 NO. 98 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2020 $1.00 Multiple shots fired on North 2nd Jail By Harlan Kirgan Editor Eunice Police are in- vestigating multiple shots tax fired on North 2nd Street Tuesday. According to the Eunice Police radio dispatch log, police were dispatched to the scene at 10:23 p.m. in passes the area of 1st and 2nd streets. “We do have suspects,” By Harlan Kirgan Eunice Police Chief Ran- Editor dy Fontenot said. Rural St. Landry Parish resi- “We suspect the same dents who travel rough roads or players as we usually have those with drainage problems in these things. It just so can take comfort this morning in happens to be in the vicin- the passage of a 1-mill, 10-year ity of a house of a relative A mound of trash at the Eunice City Barn has been ing up the debris. The collection is job for the St. property tax to fund parish jail of some of our regular sus- a constant site for months. Eunice Mayor Scott Landry Parish Solid Waste Commission, he said. maintenance and operations. pects who are involved in Fontenot said at Tuesday’s Board of Aldermen (Photos by Harlan Kirgan) Some St. Landry Parish Coun- some of the little games,” meeting that he wants city crews to get out pick- cil members warned that if the he said. tax failed money used for road “There is always a con- and drainage work would be nection that goes back to shifted to operate and maintain the same people that we Mayor says city crews the jail. The tax is expected to always have problems raise $671,000 annually. The tax passed with 54% of the (See Shots, Page 8) 5,380 votes cast in the election Saturday. Turnout, according to aren’t for garbage collection the state secretary of state web- Suit filed site, was 8%. By Harlan Kirgan Parish President Jessie Bel- to clean up Editor lard said voter approval “was Eunice Mayor Scott Fon- a great thing for us because we Cankton site tenot made the city’s case at can focus on doing the rest of our Tuesday’s Board of Aldermen stuff for our parish.” St. Landry Parish and meeting that its crews should Bellard passage allows parish the village of Cankton not be pick- government to plan for 2021 and have filed suit to clean up ing gar- help deliver services and keep alleged contamination at bage. people employed. the former 80-acre Can- “We are The tax was set to expire at kton Tank Farm/MAR not the (See Election, Page 8) Services oilfield waste trash col- treatment, storage and lector in disposal facility near Can- the parish,” kton, according to a news he said. Food Bank food drive today release from Lafayette at- “ S o l i d The annual Food Bank food torney Bill Goodell. Waste con- Scott Fontenot drive in Eunice is set from 6 a.m. The news release stated tracts with until 7 p.m. today at the Food the site continues to con- Waste Con- Bank, 2101 W. Ash Ave., behind taminate area groundwa- nections. They are the trash the DMV. ter, and is threatening to collector in the parish,” Fon- All food items are needed as further impact St Landry tenot said. well as toiletries. Monetary dona- Parish groundwater, area Richard LeBouef, execu- tions are accepted as well. drinking water wells, and tive director of the St. Landry The Eunice Food Bank is the Chicot Aquifer. Parish Solid Waste Commis- opened from 9 a.m. until noon, The St. Landry Parish sion, said, “I make no excuses Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Council passed a resolu- and accept all criticism for the Richard LeBouef, executive director of the St. Landry Parish Solid For more information, call tion at its Sept. 16 meet- issues at hand, but surely you Waste Commission, speaks at the Eunice Board of Aldermen meeting Mary Ann Guillory at 457-7541 ing to authorize Parish (See Trash, Page 8) Tuesday. or 305-0876. President to contract with attorney Bill Goodell and other environmental at- torneys to file a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, School Board about to alter its meeting format Chevron and other de- fendants to cleanup and By Harlan Kirgan would not have to appoint committees, he decontaminate an under- Editor said. Or, the Board could create standing ground water pool near OPELOUSAS — For years the St. Landry committees that would be called upon when Cankton. Parish School Board has followed a proce- needed. The action also seeks dure of committee meetings followed by a “This school system is unique from the to recover monetary dam- regular meeting with all Board members standpoint that a lot of school systems that ages for the parish. present. we deal with don’t have committee meet- The contamination At its Dec. 3 meeting the Board met as a ings at all. Lafayette doesn’t have committee issue has percolated committee of the whole prior to the regular meetings,” he said. through Cankton since session. The Board has met as a committee Joiner said it took the Board three to four the 1980s when residents of the whole on occasion in the past, but that years to settle on a procedure to fill positions complained about bitter- may become the normal procedure. on its Executive Committee. tasting water. The Board divides its members into com- Removing the committee structure would The source then was mittees to discuss its business. Those com- be efficient, he said. identified as the 80-acre mittees are Executive; Buildings, Lands and “I think is a very efficient way for the Mar Services site, used to Sites; Academic; Finance; and Personnel, Board to operate. It is clean. I think it will dispose of oil field waste. Employee Benefit and Transportation. help streamline,” he said. The site has been used by The committees usually meet on the Mon- Board member Mary Ellen Donatto said about 300 companies be- day and Tuesday a week ahead of the full with a committee of the whole the expecta- Board meeting on the first Thursday of the tion would be a lawyer would always be pres- ginning in 1934. Courtney Joiner, St. Landry Parish School A permit to use the site month. Board legal counsel, talks about how a commit- ent at meetings. was revoked in 1992 and Within those committee meetings mem- tee of the whole would function at the Dec. 3 Board member Denise Rose said Board a struggle began to get it bers make recommendations to the full Board meeeting. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan) members usually meet in committees over cleaned up. Board meeting. two days and most of the Board is present Cleanup began in 1997 At the Dec. 3 meeting, Courtney Joiner, le- even if they are not on the committee that is the whole meetings and we need to correct and all tanks were re- gal counsel, discussed the proposed policy for session. There is often confusion about who that,” Joiner said. moved from the site in a committee of the whole. is on the committee in session, she said. “Typically, what a committee of the whole July 2000. “Over the course of the last few months “I think it is worth trying,” she said of the does is what your individual committees do,” The two companies that there have been questions of what can and committee of the whole. cannot be done during those committee of he said. (See Suit, Page 8) With a committee of the whole the Board (See Board, Page 8) Construction & Dirt Service, LLC AVAILABLE MATERIALS SUPPLIES • Fill Dirt • Fill Sand • Gravel • Topsoil • 15 Yard Containers • Mason Sand • Fly Ash • Sugar Soil • 30 Yard Containers • OPF42 (Cal base) • Crushed Concrete • Scrap Containers • Calica Limestone • White Limestone • Concrete Containers • Grey Limestone • Rip Rap Limestone • Hazard Waste Disposal • 2x1, 4x1 Limestone or 3x5 Limestone 161 W. Maple Ave. • Eunice, La 70535 • Phone (337)457-5100 • Fax (337)546-6039 or (337)546-1145 • www.frey-construction.com • [email protected] 2 Thursday, December 10, 2020 News The Eunice News www.eunicetoday.com LSUE mental health services Free mental health services for LSUE stu- Amanda Quirk, Compass Mental Health dents via telehealth will be offered through director of physician services; Caniesia Compass Mental Health. The services will Daggs, Compass Mental Health Clinic also be provided to faculty/staff through program assistant; and Tara Charpentier, insurance. Front, from left, are Carey LCSW. Back, from left, are Corey Lalonde, Lawson, LSUE Foundation; Dr. Kyle Smith, LSUE Police; Jase McDonald, LSUE SGA dean of Student Affairs; Dr. Nancee Soren- president; Dr. James Robinson, LSUE son, LSUE chancellor; Emily Hunter, Com- faculty; and Dr. Jessica Jones, director of pass Mental Health chief strategy officer; Student Success. (Submitted photo) Business group honors Cloud By Tony Marks The Ville Platte Gazette For her work advocating for small businesses dur- ing her freshman term in the Louisiana State Sen- ate, Sen. Heather Cloud received the Minuteman award from the National Federation of Independent Business. The presentation from NFIB State Director Dawn Starns was made as the Rotary Club of Ville Platte met Nov. 24. Cloud attributed the legislature’s pro-small business work this year to new legislators who share the same values as she does. “I am so pleased there a lot like me who have the same mindset,” she said.
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