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The Kaplan Herald Page 2 Wednesday, August 12, 2020 Obituaries: Lorraine Callahan Hebert June 24, 1S36 August 6, 2020 KAPLAN Funeral services were held at 1:00 FM on Saturday, August 8, 2020 at Vincent Funeral Home Kaplan honoring the life of Lorraine Callahan Hebert, 84, who died Thursday, August 6, 2020 at Kaplan Healthcare Center. She was laid to rest at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers were Marion Hebert, Kirby Hebert, Johnny Hebert, Fabion Hebert, Farrel Hebert, and Donald Sanchez. Honorary pallbearers were Austin Hebert and Quentin Sanchez. She is survived by her daughter, Brunella Sanchez and her husband, Donald; her sons, Marion Hebert and his companion, Bernardine, Kirby Hebert and his wife, Terry, Johnny Hebert and his companion, Melanie Suire, Fabion Hebert and his wife, Kim, and Farrel Hebert and his wife, Melanie; and was blessed with 19 grandchildren; and 28 greatgrandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leo Hebert; her parents, Sydney "Ben" Callahan and the former Oliviee Primeaux; her granddaughter, Carla Gemma Hebert; and her sister, Adeline (Azalan) Callahan Hebert. The family request ed that visiting hours be observed at Vincent Funeral Home Kaplan, 300 N. Eleazar on Saturday, August 8, 2020 from 9:00 AM until the time of the services at 1:00 PM with a rosary being prayed at 11:00 AM. Broussard makes history as Parish's first female Registrar of Voters i i I Gov. Edwards extends Phase II through Aug.

28 BATON ROUGE Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that he has extend his Phase Two order, including the statewide mask mandate, closure of bars to on-site consumption and crowd size limits of no more than 50 people for at least another 21 days. The previous order expired on Friday, August 7. Gov. Edwards will sign a new order before the end of the week that extends this order through Friday, August 28.

"Louisiana is beginning to see the positive impact of the mask mandate in its COVID-19 data, including a decline in the number of people who are reporting to emergency rooms with CO-VID-like symptoms, decreasing new cases across the state and declining or plateauing hospitalizations in many regions of our state. Still, every single one of our 64 parishes has high COVID incidence. According to the White House report If Page 7) Savings From Page 1 one, Slemco. There were a total of 5 interested electrical providers that wanted to supply Kaplan with electricity. 1 want to thank everyone that had a part in mnlri-ng thin happen.

I especially want to tannic the residents of Kaplan for believing in my vision and for giving me the opportunity to not only get this done, but to serve you as your mayor," Kloesel said. The contract will be in effect for the next 5 years. Tina Marie Broussard has risen through the ranks of the registrar of voters' office in the court house. She now sits behind the desk given to the Vermilion Parish registrar of voters. She is the first female in the parish to hold that title.

By Chris Rosa Kaplan Herald On Thursday, the Vermilion Parish Police Jury interviewed and then hired the new registrar of voters for the parish. It was also a historical hire. The policy jury unanimously selected Tina Marie Broussard as the next registrar of voters. She is no stranger to the office. For the last 22 years, she has worked in the registrar of voters office under two former registrar of voters, Jimmy Domingues and Mike Bertrand.

She began working in the office as a green 17-year-old kid who needed a job to help her single mother pay bills, and at the same time, trying to save money to help purchase a car to go to college. Since 1999, she has risen through the ranks of the office and learned everything there is to know about voting, signing up people to vote and helping run an election. For the last three years, she had been the Chief Deputy Registrar under Bertrand. Bertrand officially retired on July 4, and Broussard took over as the interim registrar of voters. The reason the hiring of Broussard was historical was because the former registrar of voters were men.

Clarity From Page 1 son to begin. An Aug. 31 start to the regular season remains for cross country and swimming. "I am excited," said AHS head coach Roderick Moy, "We now have a realistic date to start." LHSAA fall sports seasons were scheduled to begin the week of Aug. 24 with jamborees for both volleyball and football.

The regular season all sports, including swimming and cross country, was scheduled to begin on Aug. 31. The decision is the latest change during a tumultuous year that saw the COVID-19 pandemic force the LHSAA to suspend all spring sports in mid-March before canceling them in May. Last week, Alabama and Louisiana were the only states in the National Federation of High Schools' southern region that had not announced some delay in their fall sports programs. Throughout the summer, the LHSAA has pledged its commitment to conducting a safe return for fall sports seasons while adhering to state and CDC guidelines.

Erath football coach Broussard is the first female registrar of voter in Vermilion Parish. She now joins Diane Meaux Broussard (first female clerk of court in Vermilion Parish), Kathy Broussard (first female tax assessor in Vermilion Parish) and Linda Duhon (the first female Police Jury ad Eric LeBlanc read the email sent by Bonnie. He was not surprised by the LHSAA pushing back the start date. "At least now we have a date," said LeBlanc. "We will practice three days a week and take it slow.

Oct. 8 is two months away, which is a longtime." North Vermilion head football coach Brett Blakey said he received the news with, "Cautious Optimism." Blakey said, "It all depends on what the governor does at the end of August, but we will be prepared to play on Oct. 8" VC head football ministrator). When she reads the names on the list above, Broussard said she feels "surreal." "I feel so surreal, there are no words to describe it," said Broussard. "To think when I started as a 17-year-old student worker who (See UOHSSJUU, Page 7) coach Broc Prejean said the coaches now have a "concrete" date as to when the season will begin.

"I am excited and relieved to get some more concrete dates as we all knew Sept. 4 was unrealistic," said "Prejean. "It'll be fun and challenging to manipulate practice plans, workouts, preparation, and a few curveball activities to keep the kids motivated and engaged. We are following that Coach mentality of let us know when and where and we will be ready. (The Advocate newspaper contributed to this story) visit I 1 MILESPERRET.ORGGAA DOWNLOAD THE FREE Ppj" eam points I THE HUNT IS FREE TO PLAY -J I BUT ENTRIES CAN ALSO BE PURCHASED FOR $20 AT SH0PMILESPERRET.COM I lYi j5tody Liit Company t-1 -J mm.

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