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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.
Friday, April 26
7 a.m. 600 block of Fourth Street; Medical.
9:52 a.m. 100 block of Mallard Street; Intel.
9:56 a.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Prisoner transport.
10:38 a.m. 300 block of Egle Street; Intel.
11:07 a.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Stolen vehicle.
11:12 a.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Complaint.
11:27 a.m. Keith Street; Animal complaint.
11:41 a.m. 500 block of Egle Street; Fire.
12:05 p.m. Fourth Street/Youngs Road; Animal complaint.
1:37 p.m. 1400 block of North Third Street; Complaint.
1:44 p.m. 1100 block of Victor II Boulevard; Complaint.
2:16 p.m. Victor II Boulevard; Domestic disturbance.
3:39 p.m. Mallard Street; Complaint.
4:18 p.m. 100 block of Mallard Street; Welfare check.
6:02 p.m. 5000 block of Railroad Avenue; Alarm.
6:30 p.m. 600 block of Brashear Avenue; Crash.
6:37 p.m. 100 block of Chennault Street; Loud music.
6:46 p.m. 1100 block of Levee Road; Juvenile complaint.
7:09 p.m. 100 block of Mallard Street; Medical.
7:58 p.m. 3100 block of Wytchwood Drive; Removal of subject.
9:58 p.m. 4000 block of Railroad Avenue; Open door.
10:02 p.m. 700 block of First Street; Loud music.
11:03 p.m. 600 block of Brashear Avenue; Disturbance.
Saturday, April 27
12:37 a.m. U.S. 90 West; Reckless operation.
1:47 a.m. 800 block of Levee Road; Arrest.
2:32 a.m. 600 block of Redwood Drive; Alarm.
3:30 a.m. 700 block of Belanger Street; Medical.
4:44 a.m. 7700 block of La. 182; Arrest.
7:19 a.m. 300 block of Mallard Street; Complaint.
8:31 a.m. 600 block of Marshall Street; Medical.
9:51 a.m. Second/Bowman streets; Animal complaint.
10:33 a.m. 200 block of Terrebonne Street; Medical.
2:26 p.m. 2300 block of La. 70; Traffic.
2:35 p.m. 700 block of Leona Street; Complaint.
3:10 p.m. 100 block of Eleventh Street; Complaint civil.
3:23 p.m. 1400 block of Railroad Avenue; Assistance.
4:02 p.m. 700 block of Myrtle Street; Medical.
4:43 p.m. 1000 block of Victor II Boulevard; Traffic.
4:54 p.m. U.S. 90 West; Traffic.
4:59 p.m. U.S. 90 West; Reckless driver.
5:22 p.m. 700 block of Sixth Street; Loud music.
5:24 p.m. 2300 block of Clements Street; Medical.
5:58 p.m. Stazione, Berwick; Arrest.
6:29 p.m. 7000 block of Railroad Avenue; Animal complaint.
6:36 p.m. Eleventh Street/La. 182; Animal complaint.
6:48 p.m. 500 block of Orange Street; Disturbance.
7:57 p.m. Catherine Street; Patrol.
8:09 p.m. 2300 block of Federal Avenue; Disturbance.
8:46 p.m. 100 block of Mallard Street; Disturbance.
9:50 p.m. 100 block of Mallard Street; Arrest.
Sunday, April 28
12:02 a.m. U.S. 90 West; Reckless operation.
12:43 a.m. 600 block of Bowman Street; Loud music.
2:24 a.m. 5000 block of Railroad Avenue; Complaint.
3:07 a.m. 7100 block of La. 182; Suspicious vehicle.
7:12 a.m. 400 block of Sixth Street; Complaint.
9:45 a.m. 1600 block of Chestnut Drive; Medical.
10:55 a.m. 400 block of Laurel Street; Complaint.
1:03 p.m. 1800 block of Filmore Street; Assistance.
1:37 p.m. 1100 block of Marguerite Street; Complaint.
2:06 p.m. 7700 block of La. 182; Complaint.
2:06 p.m. 500 block of Everett Street; Intel.
2:38 p.m. 700 block of Duke Street; Complaint.
4:52 p.m. 200 block of Mallard Street; Medical.
4:57 p.m. Arkansas/Adams streets; Animal complaint.
5:39 p.m. 500 block of Roderick Street; Alarm.
5:58 p.m. 300 block of Wren Street; Disturbance.
6:14 p.m. Aycock/Chennault streets; Animal complaint.
7:04 p.m. 500 block of Franklin Street; Civil.
7:26 p.m. Ninth Street/La. 70; Complaint.
8:15 p.m. Victor II Boulevard/La. 70; Signals.
8:26 p.m. 900 block of Seventh Street; Theft.
8:33 p.m. U.S. 90 West; Assistance.
8:48 p.m. 1100 block of Marguerite Street; Complaint.
8:52 p.m. 1200 block of Victor II Boulevard; 911 hang up.
9:42 p.m. 1000 block of Sixth Street; Complaint.
11:18 p.m. 500 block of Franklin Street; Hit and run.
Monday, April 29
12:45 a.m. 7400 block of La. 182; Disturbance.
3:37 a.m. 100 block of Mallard Street; Medical.
3:49 a.m. 200 block of Brashear Avenue; Medical.
4:45 a.m. 1100 block of Marguerite Street; Medical.

All five tax and bond propositions on Saturday's St. Mary ballots passed on a day when turnout in most was less than 3%.

Complete but unofficial results from the Secretary of State's Office:

Wax Lake East
Drainage District Prop. No. 1
3.26 Mills continuation for 10 years
13 of 13 precincts
225 YES 73%
85 NO 27%
Unofficial Turnout: 2.9%

Wax Lake East
Drainage District Prop. No. 2
$2.5 million Bond -- 20 years
13 of 13 precincts
187 YES 61%
118 NO 39%
Unofficial Turnout: 2.8%

Gravity Sub-Drainage
District. No. 1 of GDD No. 2
12.63 mills continuation - 10 years
3 of 3 precincts
40 YES 78%
11 NO 22%
Unofficial Turnout: 2.6%

Ward 4 Fire Protection
District No. 2
4 mills renewal - 10 years
5 of 5 precincts
108 YES 81%
26 NO 19%
Total: 134
Unofficial Turnout: 7.8%

Water and Sewer
Commission No. 4
$1.7M bond - 15 years
14 of 14 precincts
174 YES 81%
40 NO 19%
Unofficial Turnout: 6.1%

Bayou Horseshoe Pitchers Association
Spring League 2024
Week 3
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Born To Ring..............16 11
Hit & Miss...................15 12
Bayou Ringers............15 12
We Got This................13 14
The Crawdads ...........11.5 15.5
The Good Fellas.........10.5 10.5
High scratch point average: (30’) Tim Gilmore 81.0, Clyde Landry 68.9 and Burnie Williams 67.2; and (40’) Dwain Arceneaux 53.0, Dale Pearce 48.7 and Tim Hayles 47.5.
High individual ringer percentagqae: (30’) Gilmore 60.4, Landry 50.3 and Williams 40.0; and (40’) Arceneaux 34.7, Pearce 31.9 and Hayles 26.7.
High scratch game: (30’) Gilmore 85, Williams 77 and Landry 75; and (40’) Pearce 67, Arceneaux 61 and Hayles 58. Most ringers: (one night) Gilmore 74, Landry 62 and Williams 51; and (one game) Gilmore 26, Landry 23, Pearce 21, Williams and Travis Bourdier 19, and Jimmy Percle 18.
Most points one night: Gilmore 246, Landry 216, Williams 204, Lovell 184 and Bourdier 173; best won-loss record: Arceneaux 8-1; Gilmore and Hayles 5-1; Pearce 6-3, Bourdier 5.5-3.5 and Percle 3.5-2.5.
Most points one night – team: Born To Ring 523, Hit & Miss 473 and We Got This 473; and most ringers one night – team: Born To Ring 130, Hit & Miss 114 and We Got This 114.

Jim Roberson of Shalimar, Florida, was among the men who came Saturday to Morgan City to see plans for a new oilfield divers monument. Roberson carried his own reminder of his days as a diver: the cane he uses to walk.
Roberson and other veterans of what was a pioneering segment of the energy industry were here for the first Morgan City Oilfield Divers Rally. They swapped stories about their days of economically vital but sometimes dangerous work, memorialized at Morgan City’s Monument Park near Municipal Auditorium.
“You see guys who you worked with 30 and 40 years ago,” Roberson said, “old sea stories about working in Brazil, Abu Dhabi and Dubai.”
Roberson is writing a book about commercial diving, a field he entered in 1975.
His father was a Navy diver. Roberson, now 67, began scuba diving in 1966 and later underwent commercial dive training. He went to work as a diver in 1975.
He worked for Martech International, Solus Ocean Systems and Oceaneering. Divers worked on platforms and pipelines deep below the surface and, and as they did their jobs they became subjects for research into the decompression safety procedures.
The pressure at 300 feet below the surface is 10 times greater than at sea level.
If a diver returns to the surface too quickly, the rapid pressure decrease causes nitrogen gas in the blood and tissues to expand, a condition known as the bends.
It can cause extreme pain in limbs and joints and create cardiac and respiratory problems. The remedy is a decompression chamber that increases pressure gradually.
Roberson learned about the bends first-hand in a 1985 dive off California.
He first dove to 272 feet, but the job required going deeper, to 326 feet. The decompression procedures used for Roberson were those for the shallower dive.
The result was hospitalization and some form of physical therapy ever since.
Now he’s a member of the International Game Fish Association’s International Committee.
“Fishing is my rehab,” Roberson said.
Roberson’s experience shows the sort of risk oilfield divers live with, although he was luckier than some.
Rusty Wright, who gets credit for first thinking about a monument to oilfield divers three years ago, said his first idea was to create a memorial naming divers who had been killed while doing their work.
But Wright, who worked in the diving industry for 25 years beginning in 1972, was afraid someone would be overlooked.
He consulted Jack Vilnas, known locally for his knowledge of oilfield diving, and Bryce Merrill, the curator at the Mr. Charlie rig museum.
“It turned out to be a monument to the people who came before,” Wright said.
In 18 months, the monument team of Wright, Vilas, Merrill, Virgil Allen and Micah Allen had raised donations sufficient to commission a life-sized diver statue by Cindy Burleson, which was unveiled as a diver monument in April 2023.
The team also gave a $20,000 scholarship endowment for the South Louisiana Community College diving program, and hopes to do the same again this year.
Saturday’s attendees got a look at a sign with the wording that will appear on a granite monument that will appear near the statue. The team has been waiting two years for the granite, Merrill said, a lingering effect of the COVID pandemic.
The text that will appear on the granite gives a brief history of oilfield diving. The top line says, "We stand on the shoulders of giants."
The rally went on without the physical presence of the granite monument.
“It makes me proud,” Mayor Lee Dragna told the audience, “that people are proud of their heritage and what they did to change a whole industry.”
Next year’s Oilfield Divers Rally Weekend is already on the schedule for April 25-26.