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Friday, November 20, 2009
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ASCENSION
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GONZALES — The Ascension Parish Council adopted a $106.2 million budget for fiscal 2010 Thursday that calls for $25.3 million in spending on roads and drainage but takes a conservative approach on operating revenue.
The council adopted the budget and amendments unanimously.
Residents can dispose of old analog television sets, computers, telephones and other electronics on Saturday at Ascension Parish’s TV and Electronics Collection Day. The event is from 8 a.m. to noon at the Ascension Civic Center in Sorrento, said Scott Rabalais, Ascension public information officer. SORRENTO — The town of Sorrento’s utility fund took a $154,260 operating loss in fiscal 2008-09 as revenue from sewer, trash and water services fell behind expenses, a new annual audit says. PIERRE PART — Deputies arrested a man on two drug distribution counts in connection with allegations he injected two juvenile boys with oxycodone, the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office reported Wednesday. RACELAND — The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office asked the public Wednesday to help in its investigation of a Tuesday night armed robbery in which one of the robbers was armed with a semi-automatic AK-47 assault rifle. SORRENTO — Courtney Blanchard has always been a little on the shy side. The River Parishes Community College student was taken aback when her academic adviser suggested she consider running for a spot on RPCC’s Student Government Association. DONALDSONVILLE — Seventeen-month-old Carter Walker had no idea how important he was to the March of Dimes High Heels for Hope fundraiser. GONZALES — The Veterans Day Program hasn’t always drawn much of a crowd. Residents can dispose of old analog televisions, computers, telephones and other electronics on Saturday at Ascension Parish’s TV and Electronics Collection Day. The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program in Ascension will kick off its campaign this month to collect toys for more than 15,000 needy children in Ascension Parish. The Ascension Parish Council has named two people to fill openings on boards that have a say in how the parish develops. The Ascension Parish 4-H Shooting Sports Club held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 24 for its new shooting sports range. The Ascension Community Theatre will be holding audition for its February production of “Little Shop of Horrors” at 4 p.m. Friday at the Pasqua Theater. On Nov. 6, Lakeside Primary held its first Honor Roll Assembly. Public schools: Roast turkey and gravy, rice: or cornbread dressing, broccoli Normandy, fruit salad, sweet potato crunch, buttered roll, milk choice. Ascension Parish 4-H Club members competed Nov. 7 in the annual Beef and Poultry Cookery at Oak Grove Primary School. Ascension Parish government will rebid a road project on West Worthey Road because each of the bids for the clearing and grubbing work had problems of some kind, a parish official has said. PAJAMA STORYTIME AT LIBRARY: 6:30 p.m., Ascension Parish Library, Gonzales and Galvez. Nutrition update with Lisa Weber, Southern Agricultural Center, Gonzales Senior Center, 10:30 a.m. Registration is under way for the Ascension Parish Library’s Dec. 5 “Cookies and Candles” workshop. Sixty-six pumpkins competed for prizes in the Prairieville Primary School 4-H Club’s pumpkin decorating contest Oct. 18. The Pelican Point Golf Club has been selected as one of five sites in Louisiana to host the “Get Golf Ready” program. Two Cougar football teams won division championships Sunday in the Jefferson Parish Recreation Department’s 14th annual Bulldog Bowl in Metairie. Ascension Parish government administration wants to accept a proposal in which the state highway department would revamp a section of Joe Sevario Road and then the parish would take over long-term maintenance of the road, parish officials said. Every public school in Ascension Parish now has a seven-member team trained to respond to medical emergencies on campus, an official told the School Board Tuesday. GONZALES — A state District Court judge sentenced an Ascension Parish man to serve a mandatory life prison sentence for his role in a drug-related slaying nearly two years ago, attorneys said Tuesday. LAROSE — Deputies arrested five people and were looking for two others on cocaine distribution counts after an undercover sting in the “Two-Three” area of Larose, the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office reported. GONZALES — Work on a project to improve four intersections along La. 44 is nearly complete, save for two signal poles jutting into turn lanes planned for La. 44 at Orice Roth Road and La. 44 at La. 30. GONZALES — Sales tax collections in Ascension Parish continue to stay close to 2009 budget projections although revenue is down this year when compared with 2008 numbers, parish officials said Monday. The Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office is offering a $500 reward to anyone with information leading directly to the capture of Charles Richard Jr., deputies said Monday. GONZALES — The Ascension Parish Council has taken its first, halting steps at tackling major reapportionment changes expected to result from the 2010 census. |
