If you’re looking to satisfy your craving for crawfish one last time this year, this is the perfect weekend to do so. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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A memorial service takes place Saturday in Lake Charles for hall of fame football coach Bobby Keasler. Jeff Palermo has the story.
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If you’re looking for a way to celebrate Memorial Day or graduation, how about with one of Louisiana’s most famous delicacies? Laney King, the co-founder of The Crawfish App, says crawfish prices this holiday weekend are averaging $2.99 a pound for live crawfish and $5.50 a pound for boiled crawfish.
King says besides Memorial Day and graduations, there’s another big reason you should treat yourself to those tiny tasty crustaceans this weekend.
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King says if you need that crawfish fix after this weekend and it cannot wait until after Mardi Gras next year, good luck.
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Not to mention, once the calendar flips to June, the crawfish just doesn’t taste as good. Due to the much warmer weather, their shells get hard, and that results in much tougher meat.
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It’s Memorial Day weekend; and on the roadways, that can only mean one thing – Click It Or Ticket! Greg Fischer with the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission says law enforcement is putting an extra emphasis on looking for people not wearing their seatbelts from now through June 1st.
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According to Triple-A, more than 39-million people will be hitting the road this holiday weekend. Fischer says if avoiding the 50-dollar ticket isn’t enough of an incentive for you to wear your seatbelt, being able to survive a crash should be.
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Fischer says statistics show that not wearing your seatbelt has deadly consequences.
In Louisiana, you can be pulled over just for not wearing your seatbelt; you do not need to be committing a moving violation to be subject to a seatbelt fine.
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It will be a wet Memorial Day weekend as the state is stuck in a rainy weather pattern that will stick around into next week. Chanelle Stigger, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, says we are looking at some impressive rain totals for the next week.
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Stigger says a stationary frontal system over the Southern Plains is helping to produce all of this rain.
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Stigger says rain chances are higher on Saturday and Sunday and they drop off for Monday. She says the clouds and rain will ultimately make it more comfortable to be outside once it does dry out.
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Most of Louisiana can expect three to six inches of rain through Tuesday.
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A memorial service takes place Saturday for a McNeese State legend. Family, former players, friends, and Cowboy fans will pay their final respects to Bobby Keasler, who died earlier this month at the age of 80. McNeese Sports Information Director Matthew Bonnette says Keasler turned the McNeese football program into a winner after some lean years.
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Keasler guided McNeese to four Southland Conference championships from 1991 to 1997. In 1997, he took the Cowboys to the Division One-Double-A national championship game. Bonnette says Keasler coached 53 first-team All-Southland players and 16 first-team All-Americans.
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Keasler was an outstanding three-sport athlete at New Iberia High School and began his coaching career in New Iberia at the middle and high school levels. He became head coach at McNeese State. His coaching career concluded with three seasons at U-L-M. Bonnette says Keasler’s death is a tremendous loss for the entire state.
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The memorial service will take place at Johnson Funeral Home in Lake Charles at 1 p-m. Public viewing is from 10 a-m to 1 p-m.