The Louisiana Workforce Commission has launched the “Back to Work Louisiana” campaign, an effort aimed at putting people back to work as federally boosted unemployment benefits expire. LWC spokesperson Chris Fiore says the employment drive will culminate with a statewide in-person job fair on August 4th.
Visit l-a-works-dot-net for more info.
Local historians have located the gravesite of Louisiana’s 13th Governor Joseph Walker. Amateur historian Michael Wynne says Walker was buried in 1856 in Rapides Parish, but the land was later cultivated, and the cemetery destroyed. Wynne says Walker was a significant governor.
Aerial photographs from the 1950s helped them find the gravesite.
The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2020 will finally get inducted Saturday night. Four of the inductees include former Tennessee athletic director and LSU grad Joan Cronan, Advocate high school sports reporter Robin Fambrough, LSU men’s basketball SID Kent Lowe and broadcaster Tim Brando. Hall of Fame Chairman Doug Ireland.
The lineup for this year’s fall Jazz Fest includes Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks, Jimmy Buffet and Lizzo, Jazz Fest Producer Quint Davis says the lineup is awful similar to the one we were supposed to have in April of 2020. Davis says those artists were itching to get back to New Orleans.
It will run for six days, Friday through Sunday the second and third weekends in October.