In celebration of the return of local troops from combat deployment and in recognition of Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month, the Alexandria VA Health Care System Employee Association is sponsoring a 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk.
The Freedom 5K will be held March 24, at England Airpark in conjunction with the Welcome Home event, an annual celebration of combat veterans and their families.
Story courtesy of The Town Talk Written by Mike Hasten
BATON ROUGE -- The Louisiana Bond Commission on Thursday gave preliminary approval to the funding plan for biofuels firm Sundrop Fuels Inc. to build facilities at Rapides Station to produce "green gasoline."
And while construction of the major facility there will start this year and full production is expected at the beginning of 2015, a company official said Thursday that a smaller "pilot plant" will be built first and be up and running in 2013.
For the past 5 months, CLEDA has been working with a company that can bring hundreds of jobs to the area. We were just informed that the company is most interested in locating here. This prospect has the possibility of creating over 500 good paying jobs.
Two days ago, we were informed that the company wants to have a job fair to interview potential employee this Friday. We have been working diligently to meet this compressed schedule.
Story Courtesy of The Town Talk Written by Billy Gunn
When Louisiana economic development chief Stephen Moret alerted Cenla industry hunters about Sundrop Fuels this past summer, local officials already were trying to reel in a big 3,000-job trophy.
Story Courtesy of The Town Talk Written by Jeff Matthews
Officials from Sundrop Fuels Inc. as well as local and state government and business leaders agree wholeheartedly on this -- they would love to fill as many of the 150 jobs as possible at the company's planned biofuels plant near Alexandria with Louisiana natives.
Friday is Epiphany, and for carnival lovers across Louisiana (the French Catholic tradition has become synonymous with Louisiana), that means the official start of the Mardi Gras season.
Epiphay is also known as the Twelfth Day -- the day that commemorates the visitation of the Biblical Magi and Jesus Christ's physical manifestation to the gentiles. It is a day of celebration and, locally, it commences with a feast and the Burning of the Greens.
