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OLIVE MAY DOMANGUE HEBERT

Fri, 09/13/2019 - 10:41am

Olive May Domangue Hebert, 92, a resident of Morgan City, died Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019.
She is survived by two brothers, Stephen Domangue and Richard Domangue; a sister, Dorothy Boudreaux; a granddaughter; and two great-grandsons.
She was preceded in death by her husband, a daughter, parents and seven siblings.
Visitation will be Monday from 8 a.m. until services at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Patterson. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Hargrave Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

DOROTHY ELIZABETH SELLERS BRINLEE

Fri, 09/13/2019 - 10:37am

Dorothy Brinlee, 92, a resident of Patterson, died Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, at her residence.
She is survived by three sons, William Brinlee, Bruce Brinlee and Richard Brinlee; and a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, a brother, a sister and her parents.
Visitation will be Sept. 21 from 10 a.m. until services at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church in Bayou Vista.

Wheel House for Sept. 13

Fri, 09/13/2019 - 10:35am

YARD SALE
Sponsored by Zion Chapel AME Church Missionary Society, at 1511 Cherry St., Patterson from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 14.

POKER RUN
Pre-registration for 19th annual Marine Corps League St. Mary Detachment Motorcycle Poker Run ends at 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16. Cost: $20/bike, $15/rider, plus unwrapped new toy. Only pre-registration receives T-shirt. Poker run is 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, begins and ends at Daiquiri & Company, 7550 La. 182, Morgan City. Registration day off is 7-9 a.m. Registrants receive complimentary café au lait and beignet breakfast, and lunch ticket. Entrants must be 18 or older for prizes: $200, first; $100, second; $75, third; and $25, worst hand. For forms call 985-384-3446 or 985-372-8880.

TOYS FOR TOTS
Annual kick-off meal fundraiser is 10:30 a.m. until sold out on Saturday, Sept. 21, in parking lot of Daiquiri & Company, 7550 La. 182 East, Morgan City. Menu: pulled pork, sausage, chicken, rice dressing, coleslaw, barbecue beans and bread pudding. Cost $10.

TOYS FOR TOTS
The fourth annual St. Mary Detachment Marine Corps League Toys for Tots Golf Tournament is 8 a.m. Oct. 5 at St. Mary Golf & Country Club. It is an 18-hole three-man scramble. Extras: $10,000 Hole-in-One on Hole 5; Play-Up Hole 4 is $20 per team; and Unlimited Mulligans ($5 per mulligan or new, unwrapped toy per two mulligans). Entry: $300 per team, includes food and drinks on course. Sponsors needed, $100 per hole, deadline Oct. 1. Call Elmer Galloway, 985-759-4304; Chuck Walters, 985-518-4805; Bill Goessl, 985-372-8880; and Warren Smith, 985-312-9452.

MARINE BAND
The U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve Band will present a free Toys for Tots Christmas Concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, at the Morgan City Municipal Auditorium. Attendees asked to donate a new, unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots.

Pierce gets engineering post at Bollinger

Fri, 09/13/2019 - 10:03am

Bollinger Shipyards announces the promotion of Christian Pierce to director of engineering. Within this role, he will lead the engineering department in all facets of engineering on both government and commercial programs and is responsible for the execution of functional and design engineering compliant with customer requirements.
The announcement was made by Ben Bordelon, Bollinger Shipyards president and CEO, who stated that “Christian’s sound technical expertise and experience coupled with his solid management and leadership capabilities make him an excellent fit in leading our engineering team into the future.”
Since joining the Bollinger team in 2017, Pierce held the positions of Lead engineer and engineering manager in which he was responsible for supervising and directing the naval architecture, marine, electrical, electronics, and outfitting engineering disciplines in execution of the company’s design programs.
Pierce has over 20 years of shipyard experience and has held various positions of authority from principal naval architect to engineering manager. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of New Orleans.

SBA offers disaster assistance to business, residents

Fri, 09/13/2019 - 10:00am

Low-interest federal disaster loans are available to Louisiana businesses and residents affected by Hurricane Barry that occurred July 10-15, announced acting Administrator Christopher M. Pilkerton of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
SBA acted under its own authority to declare a disaster in response to a request SBA received from Gov. John Bel Edwards on Sept. 9.
The disaster declaration makes SBA assistance available in Allen, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Catahoula, Concordia, Evangeline, Iberia, Jefferson Davis, La Salle, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Mary, Terrebonne, Vernon and West Feliciana parishes.
“SBA is strongly committed to providing Louisiana with the most effective and customer-focused response possible, and we will be there to provide access to federal disaster loans to help finance recovery for businesses and residents affected by the disaster,” Pilkerton said. “Getting our businesses and communities up and running after a disaster is our highest priority at SBA.”
“Low-interest federal disaster loans are available to businesses of all sizes, most private nonprofit organizations, homeowners and renters whose property was damaged or destroyed by this disaster,” SBA’s Director Tanya N. Garfield of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West said. “Beginning Friday, Sept. 13, SBA representatives will be on hand at the following Disaster Loan Outreach Centers to answer questions about SBA’s disaster loan program, explain the application process and help each individual complete their application,” Garfield continued.
The St. Mary Parish center will be at the Patterson Civic Center, 116 Cotton Road. It will be open Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and the final day of operation will be Thursday, Sept. 26, closing at 6 p.m.
Businesses of all sizes and private nonprofit organizations may borrow up to $2 million to repair or replace damaged or destroyed real estate, machinery and equipment, inventory and other business assets. SBA can also lend additional funds to businesses and homeowners to help with the cost of improvements to protect, prevent or minimize the same type of disaster damage from occurring in the future.
For small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private nonprofit organizations of any size, SBA offers Economic Injury Disaster Loans to help meet working capital needs caused by the disaster. Economic injury assistance is available regardless of whether the business suffered any property damage.
Disaster loans up to $200,000 are available to homeowners to repair or replace damaged or destroyed real estate. Homeowners and renters are eligible for up to $40,000 to repair or replace damaged or destroyed personal property.
Interest rates can be as low as 4% for businesses, 2.75% for private nonprofit organizations and 1.938% for homeowners and renters with terms up to 30 years. Loan amounts and terms are set by SBA and are based on each applicant’s financial condition.
Applicants may apply online, receive additional disaster assistance information and download applications at https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela. Applicants may also call SBA’s Customer Service Center at (800) 659-2955 or email disastercustomerservice@sba.gov for more information on SBA disaster assistance. Individuals who are deaf or hard‑of‑hearing may call (800) 877-8339. Completed applications should be mailed to U.S. Small Business Administration, Processing and Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.
The deadline to apply for property damage is Nov. 12. The deadline to apply for economic injury is June 11, 2020.

Pets in the Park set for Oct. 12

Fri, 09/13/2019 - 9:58am

Jeepers for the Creatures will conduct its "Pets in the Park" from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 12 at Lawrence Park in Morgan City. Proceeds from the event go to Animal Advocates of St. Mary, a local animal rescue organization.
The event will have live music by Low Down Acoustic. The annual pet costume contest will take place with categories for entry being the cutest, scariest, and best owner/pet combination costume.
New to the event this year will be arts and crafts vendors, as well as some new things for the kids including a fun jump, petting zoo, and face-painting.
All pets must be on a leash as per posted city pet laws and are welcome.

Keeping St. Mary Beautiful

Fri, 09/13/2019 - 9:55am

Submitted Photo
Keep St. Mary Beautiful and Keep Louisiana Beautiful teamed up to reduce cigarette butt litter. Keep Your Butt in Your Pants is a campaign aimed to reduce cigarette butt litter by distributing pocket ashtrays to smokers and encouraging them to properly dispose the butts. Keep St. Mary Beautiful has recruited Cannata's Family Market to partner and implement this campaign. Pictured are Cannata's Manager Steve Domangue and Keep St. Mary Beautiful Chairperson Lea Hebert.

Jim Bradshaw: This time, the rascals didn't get away

Fri, 09/13/2019 - 9:52am

By JIM BRADSHAW

The Rev. J.M. Johnson was the only passenger aboard the stage coach that pulled out of Bayou Chicot in what is now Evangeline Parish about 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 3, 1881. But the driver, Robert Ferguson, had two locked mail sacks under his feet, along with two empty lock bags and some empty paper mail sacks.
The stage had gone about four miles on a road running through the Overton Swamp when a tall man with his black hat pulled down over his face jumped from behind a tree and ordered the stage to stop.
Ferguson thought it was a joke and kept going — until the man with the black hat fired a pistol shot at him and ordered him to throw down the mail bags.
The driver tried to fool the robber by throwing down the empty lock bags, but that didn’t work. The robber, waving his pistol, said he knew there were two full mail sacks on the stage and told Ferguson to toss them down, or else.
This time the driver followed instructions, then made haste to Ville Platte, where he told the postmaster he’d been robbed. The postmaster notified Sheriff C.C. Duson, and A.P. Williams, who was not only the mail contractor but also a deputy U.S. Marshal.
Williams and deputy sheriff S.O. LeBlanc found hardly any clues at the scene of the robbery early the next morning, but later that day two other deputies, T. S. Bailey and Sam Haas, found the mail bags in the woods about a hundred yards from the road. Both bags had been cut open and some registered packages were missing. The deputies found tracks that made them think two men were involved in the robbery.
They also came to the conclusion that the robbers must have known the stage schedule and what was in the mail bags.
By Sunday, when Brewster Cameron, a postal inspector from New Orleans, arrived on the scene, the local deputies had decided that the robbers most likely were two cousins in their early 20s, Elisha Courtney and Housan Griffith.
Griffith had been seen in the woods near where the stage was robbed on the Monday night before the hold-up and both men were in the store where the post office was located on the night the stage was robbed. Besides that, Griffith had been a mail driver on the route where the robbery took place.
The two men went along meekly when Williams found them and arrested them about 10 o’clock Monday morning. They were put into separate rooms at the jail and questioned separately. Lawmen used the old trick of telling each of the men that the other was on the verge of confessing.
Courtney broke first. He said that $250 taken in the robbery was buried in his yard. Deputies found the money buried in two bottles.
The two men were taken to New Orleans and tried in federal court in June 1881. Each pleaded guilty and each was sentenced to five years in prison.
The postal inspector, meanwhile, issued a commendation to the lawmen involved in solving the case and making the arrest, and for all of the “good citizens of Bayou Chicot.” According to Inspector Cameron, “as far as nine miles from Bayou Chicot [citizens] voluntarily offered their services to assist me to hunt the rascals down.”
A collection of Jim Bradshaw’s columns, "Cajuns and Other Characters," is now available from Pelican Publishing. You can contact him at jimbradshaw4321@gmail.com or P.O. Box 1121, Washington LA 70589.

Radio Logs for September 13

Fri, 09/13/2019 - 9:34am

The following are the radio dispatch logs from the Morgan City Police Department. To report unlawful or suspicious activity, call the police department at 985-380-4605.
Thursday, Sept. 12
6:04 a.m. 1000 block of Brashear Avenue; Disturbance.
6:15 a.m. 1000 block of Brashear Avenue; Animal complaint.
6:54 a.m. 900 block of Marguerite Street; Juvenile problem.
8:54 a.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Arrest.
9:39 a.m. 1100 block of Federal Avenue; Complaint.
9:50 a.m. 200 block of South Railroad Avenue; Telephone harassment.
9:51 a.m. 100 block of Headland Street; Animal complaint.
9:55 a.m. 300 block of Egle Street; Unauthorized use.
10:32 a.m. 200 block of Glenwood Street; Complaint.
11:24 a.m. 400 block of Garber Street; Animal complaint.
11:28 a.m. 700 block of Federal Avenue; Crash.
11:58 a.m. 6700 block of La. 182; Complaint.
12:32 p.m. 1400 block of Youngs Road; Arrest.
1:19 p.m. 600 block of Terrebonne Street; Reckless operation.
1:24 p.m. 1400 block of Bernice Street; Telephone harassment.
1:31 p.m. 1000 block of Ditch Avenue; Telephone harassment.
1:36 p.m. 1000 block of Levee Road; Theft.
2 p.m. 2400 block of Tiger Drive; Complaint.
2:06 p.m. 300 block of Greenwood Street; Alarm.
2:38 p.m. 6300 block of La. 182; Arrest.
4:12 p.m. 1000 block of La. 70; Hit and run.
5:42 p.m. 500 block of Hilda Street; Removal of subject.
5:47 p.m. 300 block of Wren Street; Assistance.
6:30 p.m. 500 block of Onstead Street; Complaint.
6:55 p.m. 1300 block of Oil Tank Alley; Complaint.
6:58 p.m. Brownell Homes; Narcotics activity.
7:01 p.m. 2000 block of Keith Street; Burglary.
7:12 p.m. 1400 block of North First Street; Animal complaint.
7:22 p.m. 700 block of Terrebonne Street; Juvenile problem.
8:50 p.m. 500 block of Eighth Street; Disturbance.
9:01 p.m. 501 block of Eighth Street; Disturbance.
9:41 p.m. 7200 block of La. 182; Medical.
10:40 p.m. 500 block of Eighth Street; Domestic disturbance.
10:47 p.m. 500 block of Barrow Street; Juvenile problem.
11:58 p.m. 700 block of Onstead Street; Burglary.
Friday, Sept. 13
Midnight 500 block of Roderick Street; Narcotics activity.
1:29 a.m. Roderick near Glenwood streets; Assistance.
3:06 a.m. 6300 block of La. 182; Fight.

Hites presented Patterson Garden Club yard award

Fri, 09/13/2019 - 9:10am

Patterson Garden Club has presented one of the September Yard of the Month awards to Dave and Nancy Hite. The shaded yard features Live Oak trees, split lead philodendron, dwarf philodendron — Xanadu, hostas, hydrangeas, iron plant and more.