The timing would be hard to beat: A couple of communities with a need for economic diversity and a port that’s undergoing improvement playing host to a European diplomat with a job description that includes strengthening economic ties.
That’s what happened Friday, when Consul General Vincent Sciama, based at the French consulate in New Orleans, was the guest of honor at a reception at Morgan City’s Emergency Operations Center.
Sciama is one of 10 French consuls in the United States charged with promoting that nation’s economic, cultural and education interests here. He’s the only one whose territory includes only one state, a ...