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Dorothy Imogene Lamb Vidos Bibbins Knudsen, age 96, of Morgan City, Louisiana passed away on Thursday, April 11, 2024.
Dorothy is survived by her children, Melvin Vidos and wife Teresa, Kathy Allen and husband Virgil, Ray Vidos, and Linda Vidos and husband Danny Head; her fur baby, Freddy; grandchildren, Kristopher Vidos, Keaton Vidos, Jacob Allen (Thephani), Sam Allen (Brooke), Daniel Allen (Kayla), Ethan Allen, Micah Allen, Louie Vidos, Amber Vidos, Jonathan Vidos; great-grandchildren, Mathieu Vidos, Jolton Vidos, James Allen, Lia Allen, Ava Allen, Baylor Allen, Reese Allen, Emersyn Allen, Everly Allen and Ella Allen.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Isaac E and Margaret Lamb; her husbands, Melvin “Bo” Vidos, Robert Bibbins and Norman Knudsen; dear friend, Chuck Thibodaux.
A special Thank you to Shari Rawls, Wilda Riles, Sherri Richard and Cheryl Beneditto for the care and love they gave to our mom.
Visitation will be on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at Immanuel Baptist Church from 11 a.m. until service time. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2024 at Immanuel Baptist Church. Burial in Morgan City Cemetery.

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Ryan Picou of Morgan City High won a blue ribbon at the St. Mary Student Art Show with his painting of Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca." Art show winners were recognized at Thursday's St. Mary Parish School Board meeting.

Conrad Shipyard LLC announced that it has received a 2023 AEU Safety Award for the company’s commitment to safety in the workplace.
The American Equity Underwriters Inc., the leading provider of workers’ compensation insurance for waterfront employers, presents the AEU Safety Awards each year to its best performing members nationwide.
“This prestigious award is a direct reflection of our company’s culture and Goal Zero journey,” said Conrad’s CEO, Johnny Conrad, in a press release. “It is attributable to the hard work and dedication of our employees who take great pride in preserving our core values with safety being of the utmost importance.”
Eligibility for the awards is based on the frequency and severity of workers’ compensation incidents for the prior calendar year, as well as safety-related metrics determined by AEU’s loss control team.
“Receiving the AEU Safety Award illustrates a member’s excellence in safety,” said Jimmy Burgin, AEU’s senior vice president and director of loss control. “This achievement speaks volumes about the steadfast dedication of every employee within an organization.
“From supervisors to frontline personnel, their tireless efforts in maintaining a top-tier safety program truly set them apart in the maritime industry.”
Conrad Industries Inc., established in 1948 and headquartered in Morgan City, designs, builds and overhauls barges, dredges and dredge support equipment, tugboats, ferries, dry docks, lift boats, offshore support vessels and other steel products for both the commercial and government markets. The company provides both repair and new construction services at its five shipyards located in southern Louisiana and Texas.

The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana conducted a web forum to discuss Gov. Jeff Landry administration’s initiative to revamp the state’s coastal agency.
The webinar, which was Friday, featured Tyler Gray, the secretary of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources; Simone Maloz, campaign director of Restore the Mississippi River Delta; and Rep. Jerome Zeringue, R-Houma, who was once the executive director of the CPRA.
On Feb. 1, Landry issued an executive order placing the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and the CPRA Board under the Louisiana Department of Energy and Natural Resources. 
The reorganization hasn’t been without controversy. 
The nonprofit Bureau of Governmental Research sent Landry a letter Feb. 20, telling the first-term GOP governor the work of the CPRA and its board is “distinct” from the energy department’s mission, they provide transparency and accountability and they can make a case for more federal funding for conservation projects. 
A bill by Rep. Brett F. Geymann, R-Lake Charles, would make changes to the CPRA’s governing board.
House Bill 806 would remove several state officials from the CPRA board, including the secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development; the secretary of the Department of Economic Development, the commissioner of administration; the commissioner of agriculture and forestry; the commissioner of insurance; and the director of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
The bill is before the House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Gray said one of the goals for the Landry administration was to be able to respond to the Biden Administration’s push for more green energy sources and blend that with the state’s traditional energy industry with oil and natural gas. 
“You look at what over multiple administrations where there are the opportunities and try to almost align our energy strategy in a way that actually meets the needs of the public going forward rather than looking about how energy is supplied,” Gray said.
“Looking more about how energy is needed and what those demands are and and in terms of preparing that for the future, we look at ways to sort of reorganize the the agency in a way that’s more efficient.”
Zeringue said officials from the state’s department of energy and natural resources had been helpful answering questions related to CPRA and he didn’t believe that the coastal agency “would lose its function” if it was absorbed by the agency.
But he did caution against “change for change’s sake” and said the present organizational model created in 2008 was the result of consolidation. 
“We could no longer have levees working outside of (the department) of Natural Resources,” Maloz said.
“So we changed all the rules and it was not easy, it was very difficult, but every step along the way all the way back to even the constitutional amendment that dedicated GOMESA (Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act) dollars, all of it was an educational opportunity to involve these coastal communities that are on the front line to tell them how we need a science-based master plan.
“We need to make strategic investments in our coast, not just for tomorrow, not just for quick fixes, but for the long term.”