Rotary Club Meeting – 4-30-24
The program at Tuesday’s Rotary luncheon was presented by Rotarian Brent Coreil. Brent invited Silver Eagle Socials President, Rhonda Lafl.
Rotary Club Meeting – 4-30-24
The program at Tuesday’s Rotary luncheon was presented by Rotarian Brent Coreil. Brent invited Silver Eagle Socials President, Rhonda Lafleur, to speak about this volunteer, non-profit organization that provides weekly lunch and games for our senior and disabled citizens. Inspired by her Great Aunt’s desire to have socials for seniors and by Rhonda’s desire to give back, she formed this organization on March 3, 2011. Rhonda presented a business plan to the Mayor of Pine Prairie in 2010 to meet at the new Community Center. The Silver Eagle Socials have been meeting every Tuesday since then from 10:00 – 1:00 for coffee, visits, exercise, book swaps, blood pressure checks, bingo, prizes and lunch. Guests attend from Mamou, Pine Prairie, Turkey Creek, Ville Platte and Oakdale. The cost for the guests is $5.00 to help cover the basic costs, and everything else is provided by voluntee
Rotary Club Meeting – 7-11-23
The speaker at the Rotary Club meeting on Tuesday, presented by Rotarian Bill Brunet was Louisiana State Representative Rhonda Butler. She has been out of session a month, but they are probably going to have go back for a veto override vote.
Representative Butler talked about the success of this legislative session. She indicated that she and Senator Cloud were successful getting approval on about 95% of the projects they were working on.
The focus was for infrastructure projects including roads, water and sewer. She worked on school projects and the courthouse renovation. $55 million dollars in funding was awarded to Evangeline Parish. There were two STEM programs for $3 million each awarded. Mamou got one of the programs. School funding is being directed to Junior High School programs to encourage these students to remain in school. Significant crime is coming from these ages, and the goal is to keep these students engaged in school. If
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