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SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA’S FORGOTTEN BEACHES
With 397 miles of coastline, the great state of Louisiana has the third longest coastline in the continental United States, after Florida and California. Almost 100 miles of that shoreline is in Cameron Parish.
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FROM MILITARY MAN TO MASTER GARDENER: THE STORY OF MAJ. GEN. ERBON WISE
Story and color photos by Angie Kay Dilmore In Southwest Louisiana, a treasure can be found around every turn of the road. One of these treasures is the Tall Pines Ranch — a 40-acre
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SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA BAR GUIDE
A Personal Tour Of 15 Local Bars, 15 Specialty House Drinks And 15 Unique Experiences It’s no secret that Southwest Louisiana knows how to have a good time. But the million dollar question might
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BUFFI’S PEAUX BOYS & HOMECOOKING
3620 Gerstner Memorial Blvd., Lake Charles • 337-656-2883 One of the advantages of my Monday-Friday job is that I get taken to lunch as often as I want. My Blueline Equipment rep Lenny
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FUN FITNESS
Jeno Giordano Opens SwingFit, A New, Innovative Fitness Center You won’t find heavy weights in the SwingFit fitness center, opened recently at 1881 Easy St. (off Nelson Rd.) in Lake Charles. You won’t
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GREEN ACRES
Mini Farm Livin’ Is The Life For Kevin And Pam Mattingly And A Growing Number Of Other Locals Kevin Mattingly and his wife, Pam, decided in 2007 to follow their dream of living
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FREE TO BREATHE
5k Run / 1 Mile Walk Fundraiser To Benefit Lung Cancer Research March 28 Claire Howard Parker was diagnosed with lung cancer at age 30. One month later, she died from complications of
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THE ENEMY IN THE WAR ON TERROR
The current debate over how to label the enemy in our so-called “war on terror” reminded me of a column I wrote for Lagniappe one week after the 9/11 attack. I asked the editor
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SWLA RICE FARMERS HOPE FOR AN IMMENSE NEW MARKET IN CUBA
“I’ve been working on this for 10 years. I’m very passionate about it.” That’s Welsh rice farmer Brian Wild talking about the potential rice market in Cuba that became a bit more accessible recently
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POPS AND ROCKETS
Not long after moving back to his hometown of Lake Charles, Nick Villaume asked his childhood friend, Robbie Austin, if he would go into business with him. Villaume dreamed of starting and operating a
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