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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 ....
Rotarian Peter Strawitz invited Martha Aubert and James Douget from the Louisiana Orphan Train Museum to present the program at the Rotary meeting on Tuesday. The Louisiana Orphan Train Museum will be celebrating 15 years in October. This museum is 100% volunteer run, and there are approximately 2000 visitors per year. They do a lot of community outreach as well.
In the mid-1800s, there was a huge influx of people to New York, and due to shortages, there were thousands of street children, possibly as many as 30,000. Sister Irene Fitzgibbons founded the New York Foundling Hospital. She got the Catholic Church involved, and they were able to send children, as many as 350,000, all over the country. Most of them taken in as indentured servants, but they became a part of the families and part of the local communities. The Church sent people to check on the welfare of the children. Many people in this area can trace their roots ba ....