You may be loaded up with Christmas gift cards right now, and if you are, you’re in luck because LSU Marketing Professor Dan Rice says the post-Christmas shopping season is a great opportunity for deals. Rice says popular, big-ticket items may not have major price reductions, but seasonal items, in particular, will likely be sporting major sales as retailers try to make room for spring stock.
The Bayou State is ending the holiday week with unseasonably warm temps for this time of year. The average is highs in the mid-60s and lows in the mid to upper 40s for Louisiana. State Climatologist Barry Keim explains why temps are above average right now.
Keim says expect temperatures in the morning in the mid-50s to lower 60s across the state and rising into the mid-70s as we finish out the week.
Parishioners in Cow Island had their small Vermillion Parish community blessed Sunday by 100 gallons of holy water dispersed from a crop-dusting plane courtesy of St. Anne Catholic Church.
St. Anne Reverend Matthew Barzare says the idea came from a congregant who wanted to pull the community together with a millennia-old tradition.
Cow Island is an unincorporated territory about 40 miles south of Lafayette and is within the Lafayette Archdiocese.