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Ville Platte Chamber of Commerce Meeting

Posted Monday Afternoon by Mark Layne

The Ville Platte Chamber of Commerce met today (Monday) at the Rendezvous Dinner Club and heard a progress report from Mark Buller on the Sacred Heart Locker Room project. Buller presented a architectural design of the project to chamber members. The project includes new restrooms and lockers along with new air conditioning . The 4800 foot area will be entirely gutted out and replaced. The estimated cost is $400,000. The school will be taking bids soon. The school has thus far raised $382,000 or $18,000 short of the projected cost. They are taking pledges. Work is due to begin at the end of November at the end of football season. Buller would like to thank everyone who contributed to the project.

In other chamber business, Director Camille Fontenot announced:

--the next chamber meeting on July 15 will be at Ville Platte High where chamber members will be given an escorted tour of the renovated school by Superintendent Toni Hamlin;

--announced that the recent Man and Woman of the Year banquet showed a profit of $8429;

--reported that 91 members are enrolled in the Chamber.

Evangeline Sheriff's Office locates marijuana plants

Posted About A Week Ago by Mark Layne

On June 13, 2013, Detectives with the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s office along with Agents with Wildlife and Fisheries conducted surveillance of a location in the Bayou Chicot area near Highway 106. After conducting the surveillance for a period of time, Wildlife & Fisheries Agents and Detectives with Evangeline Parish went to the area, upon doing so located a Marijuana grow area located in the woods near Stagecoach Road. Upon further searching the area, 3 mature marijuana plants as well as several smaller immature plants were located planted in the woods, a total of 10 plants were located. Detectives along with the Wildlife agents, confiscated the plants valued at $15,000 on the street. Several suspects have been identified, and the case is still under further investigation according to Chief Investigator Mike Perry.