On Thursday, May 19 from 1:30-5 p.m. this location is sponsoring a blood drive. A bloodmobile will be parked outside the shop. If you give blood you get a free cup of coffee and a sling backpack and automatically receive a free cholesterol test.
What do you have to do to donate? Step one, show up. Step two, be at least 18 years old, at least 110 pounds and be healthy. You cannot have had a tattoo or piercing within the last 12 months to give blood. Kids who are 16 and 17 can give blood with signed permission from a parent or guardian.
If you can’t come on this day, don’t worry. Go to www.bloodhero.com to schedule a time to donate.
Around 250 blood donations are required each day in Acadiana in order to have the proper amount at the ready to save lives. While all are strongly encouraged to apply, those with Blood Type O, the universal donor, are especially encouraged. And now whenever you give there is a points rewards program — you accrue points every time you give and can redeem them for ice cream, movie tickets and more. So essentially your blood is now like a credit card and every time you spend it, BAM! points. Nifty.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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