Valentine’s Day is Sunday and dining with your sweetheart will be different with the limited capacity, but that doesn’t mean you still can’t show love to your favorite eatery. Brooke Thorington explains.
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Louisiana could get hit with a major winter storm on Monday. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Valentine’s Day is one of the busiest dining days of the year for the restaurant industry but with limited capacity due to the pandemic, Wendy Waren with the Louisiana Restaurant Association says many members have creative options for their patrons this year.
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Behind Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day is the second busiest day of the year traditionally for restaurants.
In Louisiana, Valentine’s Day usually competes with Mardi Gras Parades but that’s not the case this year. Waren says however many restaurants are offering to-go options to celebrate carnival at home or for touring house floats by car.
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Waren says if you haven’t made reservations for Valentine’s you might want to pick up the phone and do so ASAP. She says if you can’t get seated you might want to look at some to-go options and still support your favorite local restaurant…
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The National Weather Service in Shreveport says confidence is increasing that the northern half of the state could be hit by two major winter storms next week. Meteorologist C-S Ross says a mix of wintery precipitation is expected to arrive Sunday morning and the storm system will intensify
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That means freezing rain, sleet, and snow. Ross says several inches of snow may fall in Shreveport, Monroe, and Alexandria on Monday. He says high temperatures will stay below freezing that day for those cities and dangerous wind chills are also expected Monday and Tuesday.
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Ross says the I-20 corridor could see single-digit low temperatures for Tuesday morning. He says freezing rain is in the forecast for south Louisiana on Monday and Tuesday morning will also be very cold south of Alexandria
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It will warm up in south Louisiana on Wednesday but another winter storm could arrive in north Louisiana on that day.
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The Louisiana Family Forum has found the new longest-married couple in the state: a pair out of Gonzales who’ve been married for 80 years.
LFF President Gene Mills says 101-year-old Gail is a Catholic and 99-year-old Patsy Richardson is Baptist, and both are both highly active in their faith.
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Mills says there’s a lot everyone could learn from these two centenarians.
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This year’s search for the longest-married couple turned up over 18 couples who’ve been married for more than 70 years. Mills says they will be celebrated.
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Those in the top ten list will receive a proclamation from the Governor and a King Cake.
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Pelican Waste has set up a GoFundMe for the two sanitation workers who spotted a car from an Amber Alert earlier this week in St. Martin Parish and helped rescue a kidnapped 10-year-old.
The fund has raised over 4,500 dollars for Dion Merrick and Brandon Antoine and Pelican spokesperson Monica Camille says they deserve it.
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Camille says the kidnapping was a shock, but Merrick and Antoine’s heroics were not.
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The GoFundMe has a 10,000 dollar goal…
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