(Editor’s note: This is the last piece of a two-part series regarding a recent meeting of the Jeff Davis Water and Sewer Commission No. 1 where residents, community leaders and board members discussed the water pressure issues in Lacassine. In today’s issue, readers will learn of the board’s plans going forward to correct the problems.)
As part of a three-year celebration, Friends of the Welsh Museum honored the town’s past and present ministers and health professionals during a reception. The celebration started in 2023, when the Welsh Museum celebrated its 30th anniversary and the town celebrated 135 years since the signing of the town charter. Many family members of past honorees, as well as several present ministers and doctors, attended the reception, including Father Prabhakar Kowtiki (below left photo, from left) of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Helen Daigle Lopez, who was a nurse in Welsh for 27 years, and Dr. Young Hee Kang (below right photo, on right) who has practiced medicine in Welsh since 1982 with her late husband, Dr. Young Bin Kang.
LAKE ARTHUR — Organizers for the Art in the Park event are calling all vendors to register and secure their spot for the wellattended market.
A fundraiser is being held to help a local high school student attend summer art camp to further her dream of becoming a professional artist.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — AT&T says the hourslong outage to its U.S. cellphone network appeared to be the result of a technical error, not a malicious attack. The Dallas-based company blamed the outage Thursday on an error in coding while it was expanding its network, without elaborating. It restored wireless coverage after the outage knocked out cellphone service on its network across the U.S. Outage tracker Downdetector noted that outages began at about 3:30 a.m. ET and peaked at around 73,000 reported incidents. AT&T had more than 58,000 outages around noon ET, in locations including Houston, Atlanta and Chicago.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lander has made the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years. Intuitive Machines' lander touched down Thursday, but left flight controllers scrambling before gaining better contact. Tension mounted in the company's Houston control center when there was no immediate word from the lander following the designated touchdown time. A faint signal finally was acquired. Once communication was improved, the company confirmed the lander was upright and starting to send back data. The landing put the U.S. back on the moon for the first time since NASA's Apollo moonwalkers.
Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff’s Office made an arrest earlier this week involving the misappropriation of funds from a third-party vendor who received federal funds from the parish school board.
LAKE CHARLES — United Way of Southwest Louisiana’s free tax initiative, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, is open for registration.
The Jennings Police Department (JPD) is searching for a stolen 2022 Kubota skid steer with pallet forks and is asking the public for any information they may have concerning the theft.
Editors note: This is the first of a two-part series regarding a recent meeting of the Jeff Davis Water and Sewer Commission No. 1 where residents, community leaders and board members discussed the water pressure issues in Lacassine. In today’s issue, readers will learn of the complaints from the community. The story will conclude in the Sunday, Feb. 25 edition of the Jennings Daily News with the plans going forward to correct the problems.)
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