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Creole Road Is Slated Hurricane Audrey Day Rites The Cameron Parish ¢ Summer Splash to 5 be held at Hackberry The first annual A community barbecue Hackberry Summer Splash, will start at 5 p.m. and there sponsored by the Cameron will be games and other activ- Pilot LNG, will be held Wednesday, ities throughout the after- June 28 from 2 to 7 p.m. at noon. June 22, 2006 Vol. 49--No. 37 Cameron, La. 70631 the Hackberry Recreation The swimming pool also Center. will be open. The newly repaired and “Enjoy the free food, fun Adenise Trosclair reopened Hackberry and festivities as we celebrate Recreation Center also will be summer and our community,” dedicated. a Cameron LNG spokesman DJ music will be played said. Rites for from 2 to 4 p.m. and a live The company is affiliated band will play from 4 to 7 with Sempra LNG. ‘Mrs. Bolo’ p.m. in G. Lake Fishing Rodeo set Mrs. Adenise (Mrs. Bolo) Trosclair, 80, a former The 3rd Annual Cameron the day on Saturday. Cameron Parish Police Juror, Saltwater Fishing Festival Interested organizations died Monday, June 19, 2006 will be held at the Grand and groups who would like to in a Lake Charles hospital. FUNDING FOR the rebuilding of the Cameron Parish Library seems to be assured Chenier Park on Friday, Aug. set up a booth are invited to Mrs. Trosclair served on through insurance money, a large FEMA grant and an expected grant from the Gates 4 and Saturday, Aug. 5. Due attend an organizational the Police Jury in 1963 fol- Foundation. The library and all of its books and contents were destroyed in Hurricane to the heavy damage to the meeting at the Cameron lowing the death of her hus- Rita. The Hackberry and Grand Lake branches survived. Cameron Jetty Pier Pavilion Courthouse Courtroom on band, Roland (Bolo) Trosclair, Facility this year’s rodeo will Thursday, July 6, at 12 noon. who was serving as a juror at be held at the Grand Chenier If you cannot attend this the time. Later their son, Park. The Fishing Festival meeting and are interested in Roland (T-Bolo) Trosclair, Jr. will return to Cameron as reserving a booth, call one of also served on the jury. soon as repairs are complete the following numbers for fur- Library rebuilding to the Jetty Pier Facility. ther information: Carl The Trosclairs owned one of the oldest family business Along with the Fishing Broussard at 775-5316, in Cameron opening Trosclair Rodeo, there will be pageants, Penelope Richard at 905- Canning Co. in 1948. food, and craft booths, games 8135, Yvonne Mhire at 775- Mrs. Trosclair was a mem- for the kids, and live bands 7108. ber of Our Lady Star of the funds announced Friday night and throughout Sea Catholic Church, the Catholic Daughters and Altar Society. She was Catholic The Cameron Parish The funds will be released bookmobile in Cameron is Daughter of the Year three Library Board received an as reimbursement as the almost ready to open, rain Refuge gets funds times and the Grand Regent abundance of welcome news library replaces contents. The having delayed some equip- twice. at its regular meeting same process will apply to ment installation on Monday. By BILL SHEARMAN the refuge. She was awarded the Tuesday afternoon. Donations rebuilding the three lost A site is being selected for the American Press Money to clean up the Benemerenti Medal by the large and small have been libraries. JohnsonBayou bookmobile. debris “is on its way,” and the Pope. arriving from all around the Considering these positive The efforts of the Cameron U. S. Interior Secretary Interior Department is com- She is survived by seven country. The latest to be indications, the Library Parish Library were recently Dirk Kempthorne on Tuesday mitted to repairing the dam- grandchildren, Roland “Joey” anounced is a grant from the Board decided not to ask the recognized by Lt. Gov. Mitch promised up to $61 million to age done to the state’s Trosclair III, Benjie Trosclair, Louisiana Library Association Police Jury to roll up its tax Landrieu in a Proclamation repair the Sabine National refuges, Kempthorne said. Stevie Trosclair, Phillip in the amount of $10,000. levy from 5.75 to 6 mills, for Shining the Light on Wildlife Refuge, which was “Scooter” Trosclair. Adenise The Friends of the keeping an eye on the budget Louisiana for “providing heavily damaged by Michelle Conner, John Paul Blaisdell Memorial Library in for the next year. extraordinary library services Hurricane Rita last year. Hurricane Trosclair, and Thomas Lee Nottingham, N. H. held a Library Director Charlotte during Hurricanes Katrina Kempthorne, speaking to Trosclair; nine great-grand- soup and salad fund raiser for Trosclair announced that the and Rita.” the Outdoor Writers children. the Cameron Library, and Association of America con- Audrey Day She was preceded in death even made and sold T-shirts vention by video conference by her husband, Roland for the event, raising $3000. call, pledged as much as half Hurricane Audrey Mem- Trosclair, Sr.; two sons, The Friends of the Lynden of a recent $162 million sup- orial Day, a Cameron Parish Roland Trosclair, Jr. and (WA) Public Library sent FEMA grant given plemental spending bill to holiday, will be observed Phillip Luke Trosclair II, a $293, and the Woodstock (IL) repair the refuge. Tuesday, June 27 on the 49th granddaughter Roasa Lee Public Library sent $1255.25. The Sabine Refuge has anniversary of the storm that Trosclair and her life long Friends organizations in been closed to the public since devastated the parish in companion, Tubby Pellegrin. Redmond, Sisters, Sun River, Cameron Library Hurricane Rita struck in 1957. Funeral services will be and Bend, Oregon raised September. The storm left The holiday only affects held at 10 a.m., Thursday, $6474; and the Friends of The Cameron Parish Rep. Boustany said. several tons of debris - some parish offices and state and June 22, in St. Patrick’s Marshfield (WI) Public Library, whose central office The parish library building of it containing hazardous federal offices, including the Catholic Church in Grand Library sent $2825 and a box was completely destroyed by was built about a year after materials - scattered across Post Office, will be open as Lake. Father Joseph of chocolates. Hurricane Rita, got some good Hurricane Audrey and was usual. McGrath will officiate. Many other libraries, news this past week. partially funded by funds The holiday was approved Burial will be in Sacred schools, companies and indi- The Federal Emergency raised by the Lake Charles Creole store by the Legislature years ago Heart Cemetery in Creole viduals have sent books, com- Management Agency (FEMA) Louisiana Jaycees as a means in memory of the nearly 500 under the direction of Hixson puters, money, and even two has awarded the library $1.1 of helping the parish recover persons who died during the Funeral Home of Lake bookmobiles to help restore million to cover the storm from that storm. now open storm. library services to the lower damages. The library may also get Fortunately, during Charles. Another business has Cameron Parish area. Cash The announcement was some more good news at a Hurricane Rita last opened in lower Cameron donations received to date made Friday by Senator David press conference this week in September only one person Parish as the recovery from total $28,703.25. A grant Vitter and Rep. Charles Metairie at which the Bill & was known to have died. Creole road Hurricane Rita continues. request has been sent to the Boustany, Jr. Melinda Gates Foundation is No public observance is The Kountry Store, owned Bill & Melinda Gates The grant is for library expected to announce a major planned for Audrey Day as by Kim and Kristie Richard, is slated Foundation and should be equipment, supplies and other grant for storm damaged most parish residents are too has open in Creole and is announced this week. resources. The Library also libraries in Louisiana and occupied with the recovery Guinn Brothers of Jennings offering groceries and Meanwhile, insurance pay- expects to receive another Mississippi. The Cameron from Rita. were the low bidders on a con- ments totaling $649,000 have FEMA grant to help rebuild Library Board has applied for Pilgrim’s Feed. tract to make improvements been received against the loss the library building which was some of these funds although it The store also serves daily on La. 27 and 82 at the inter- of the three libraries in lower located next to the Cameron is not known what the library - boudin, sausage, tasso and section in Creole. Cameron Parish and damage Elementary School, and which might get. barbecue and pork rib sand- The work will consist of to the Hackberry branch. destroyed in the storm. The Gates grant announce- wiches. grading, drainage structures, FEMA project managers have “The loss of the Cameron ment coincides with the start The store is open from 5:30 paving and traffic signals for a been working with the library Parish Main Library during of the American Library a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday- total cost of $1,993,153. staff for months to establish Hurricane Rita was a signifi- Associations annual confer- Thursday, 5:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. The bids were opened by the total loss suffered by the cant blow to the community,” ence in New Orleans. Friday and Saturday; and 8 the La. Dept. of Transportation system. They announced a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. on May 31. Tuesday that the final project Telephone 542-1290. Audrey The Creole intersection has worksheets are almost com- the distinction of having the plete, having been revised on only traffic light in Cameron advice of the Library’s archi- Delinquent taxes told Parish.
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