Letters
Writer upset over campers’ bad behavior
Dear Editor, Well, spring is here, everything is blooming and like the swallows to Capistrano, or the buzzards to Hinckley, Ohio, flocks of rude and crazy people are swarming back into Crooked Cre...
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
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MES thanks volunteers
Dear Editor, Mamou Elementary School experienced flooding water on Thursday, January 10. Our school had four to six inches of water in first and second grade classrooms, as well as the gym, specia...
Jan 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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Writer offers appreciation for recognition of father
Dear Editor, Too often in life things are taken for granted and sometimes it takes a tragic event to make you fully appreciate things. My father, Lionel “Taxi” Vizinat, passed away December 2, and...
Dec 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
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Resident unhappy with Democratic convention
Dear Editor, I am writing this after watching the Democratic National Convention and the attacks on the USA in Libya and Egypt. After watching the incoherent get together in Charlotte, North Car...
Sep 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 45 45 recommendations | email to a friend
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LeJeune thanks Smoked Meat pageant supporters
Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to thank the people that helped put on our 20th Viande Boucanee beauty pageants. This festival and these pageants are put on and the money is kept locally and...
Jul 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 45 45 recommendations | email to a friend
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Writer asks that MHS mascot be changed
Dear Editor, To my brothers and sisters in Christ. I believe that Christ wants to change the Mamou High School mascot from Green Demons to Eagles. Our children deserve better than Green Demons. Do...
Jun 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 57 57 recommendations | email to a friend
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Veterans thank paper for support
Dear Editor, (EDITOR’S NOTE: This letter was addressed to Ville Platte Gazette Publisher David Ortego) The membership of our local veterans’ organizations: the Disabled American Veterans (Chapter ...
Jun 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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Writer responds, ashamed of new Evangeline Parish
Dear Editor, (EDITOR’S NOTE: This letter was written in response to a letter to the editor that ran in the Sunday, June 10, edition of The Gazette regarding Senator Eric LaFleur’s vote on House Bi...
Jun 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 47 47 recommendations | email to a friend
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Writer wants politicians held accountable
Dear Editor, I’m a New Orleans resident who recently read an article in The Times Picayune about the demise of the House Bill 380 that would have required random drug testing for welfare recipient...
Jun 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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Resident asks for proper flag maintenance
Dear Editor, Much time and thought has gone into the wording of this letter. It is not my intent to anger or frustrate anyone. Please read this knowing that if you choose to fly the American flag ...
Jun 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fuselier shares concerns with U.N. Agenda 21
Dear Editor, Responding to EP Farm Bureau President Richard Fontenot’s article in Thursdays, June 7, edition; Animal rights groups attack local farmers. Mr. Fontenot’s article refers in part to t...
Jun 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
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ECA offers thanks for Senior Day success
Dear Editor, Every year, in the month of May, Evangeline Council on Aging celebrates Older American’s Month by holding Senior Day. This year, Senior Day was held on May 6, at the Ville Platte Civi...
May 12, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 50 50 recommendations | email to a friend
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