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THE IIAYNK ACADIAN-TRIBUNE Page 2A. Thursday, December 17, lH7 Houses' Come To Rayne And Crowley he "MiGIUFF HOUSE" PROGRAM INSTITUTED-Under a program sponsored by the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Program, the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Department and the Itavne and Crowley Police Departments have instituted the "Mi-Gruff House" program to provide "a temporary haven for children who find themselves in emergency or frightening situations." On hand to learn about the program during a recent meeting in Crowley were, seated from left. Ken Goss, Acadia Parish Sheriff; Becky Ohlenforst, Substance Abuse Education Facilitator; John W. Arceneaux. Ravne Police Chief; standing from left, Harry (our-ville, Crowley Police Chief; CPI) Detective Gilford Richard and APSO Detective Doug Daigle.

St. Joseph Choir First Selection On Christmas Tape With the St. JoMpk CupenUr'i Choir, Coorad Brtwus directing, as the first Ktectioaaa tt first annual Acadiana Community Christmas Album, this community can now obtain caaettv of the album at Rayne State Bank and Trust effective Wednesday morning. Coat of the album ia 18 and, in addition to the beautiful "An Old Fashioned Christmas" recorded by St. Joseph musicians, eight other Lafayette area choirs and two soloists are featured.

Enjoy the beautiful music of Christmas, including the talented St. Joseph Choir, and share in sponsoring this program by visiting Rayne State Bank r.nd getting a 1987 Community Christmas Album today. Tickets Now On Sale For Annual Legion New Year's Eve Dance First a visit from Santa, and second, the annual New Year's Eve Dance at the Legion Home, are highlights of the holiday season each year for Rayne and this area! Beginning Tuesday, December 15. tickets are now available to the general public for the big "fun night" from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.

sponsored by Arceneaux Post, American Legion. Gil Cormier, 1987 Chairman, urges everyone to get those tickets now and help welcome in 1988, at the always wonderful celebration planned for the New year by the Legion. This is a pulic service hospitality each year, providing a night of fun as friends join friends and share in the New Year festivities, here at home, without having to travel on the highways for New Year's Eve. Admission is only $25 a couple, including drinks and bar service, as well as all the "makin's" for the 12 midnight date when old 1987 says a reluctant "farewell" with the New Year, 1988, taking over the center stage for the year ahead. Party hats, noise makers, and other party favors will be included in the admission charge per couple.

Music for the New Year's Eve party will be by the Cajun Express and tickets are available from Chairman Cormier, other Legionnaires or at the Legion Home. Have a safe, "at New Year's Eve. Join the Legion and share in saying "Welcome to the Little New Year!" the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Department, the Crowley and Rayne Police Departments, and the Acadia Parish School Board. For information about the program contact any of the following representatives: Doug Daigle, Acadia Parish Sheriff's Department, Capt. Joe LeBlanc or Detective Gilford Richard.

Crowley Obtain Marriage virus. The affidavit will not disclose the test results, but will certify that the doctor has complied with the law: the doctor has tested the applicant and, if the applicant tested positive for AIDS, the doctor has informed Police Department, Chief John "Piggy" Arceneaux, Rayne Police Department, or Becky Ohlenforst, Acadia Parish School Board. Applications for participating in the program can be picked up at any of the coordinator's offices or in the principal's office in the local schools. Licenses and counseled both applicants. No marriage license may be issued on or after Jan.

1, 1988, unless the requred affidavits for both parties are presented to the office authorized to issue the license, states Barousse be called in to help in the event of a major emergency here. In wrapping up the Tuesday meeting, Haure, with the assistance of Ed Duthile of the Sheriff's Office, listed a number of Haz-Mat classes and seminars planned for the month of January and urged as many of the committee members as possible to attend. COMMITTEE 'McGruff What's a kid to do if an older boy bullies him on the way to school, if she's scared of an unleashed dog, if he sees an accident, or if a stranger follows her in a car? One answer is to look around and ask for help from a house that displays a sign with a figure that children know and trust -McGruff. Children in the Crowley and Rayne communities will have McGruff Houses to turn to, under a program sponsored by the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Program, the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Department and the Crowley and TRIE BITS Early School Dismissal Acadia Parish public schools will dismiss one hour earlier than the regular dismissal time on Friday, Dec. 18, for the Christmas Holidays, according to Dr.

James M. Griffin, Superintendent. Buses will operated their regular routes at this time. 'Toy Rummage Sale' Members of the Rayne Jaycees will stage a "Toy Rummage Sale" Saturday, Dec. 19, at 205 E.

Edwards (behind Garden Patch), from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. During the sale, the Jaycees will also be selling barbecued hamburgers beginning at 10 a Proceeds from the event will be used for community projects for the upcoming year. Christmas Cantata First Baptist Church of Rayne will present a Christmas Cantata entitles "A Song, A Star, A Son" on Sunday, Dec. 20, at 7 p.m.

at the church. Amy Whatley, director of the Adult Choir, announces that the public is invited to attend. Support Group Anyone interested in forming a local Cancer Support Group is asked to contact Edna Duhon, 334-2972. Families, friends and cancer patients are invited to take part in this support program, to find out many of the same problems and help to solve them through mutual understanding. Further announcement will depend on response and interest.

Migrant Search Sherman A. Wilson, Director of the Migrant Program for Acadia Parish, is seeking children of migrant parents that have recently moved into the parish. Please contact Carol Malbrough, Migrant Education Office, Acadia Parish School Board. For more information, call 783-3664. Learn To Read Volunteer Instructors Teaching Adults (VITA) offers free reading and writing instruction to adult non-readers in Lafayette, Acadia and Vermilion Parishes.

Lessons are confidential, and done on basis of one student to one tutor. If you can read and write, then you can become a volunteer tutor. VITA also has other volunteer opportunities available in the fight against illiteracy. Call Donna Groth at 236-7030. VITA is a United Way Agency.

Baptist Mission The Duson Baptist Mission is held every Thursday at 7 p.m. at the home of Gerald Robin, 200 North School St. Bro. Claude Fontenot, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Rayne, is the preacher for these missions. Pre-Baptism Class All St.

Joseph Parish prospective mothers are requested to call the Rectory (334-2193) during their fourth or fifth month of pregnancy to register for Pre-Baptism Preparation. ACOA Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) will meet at 409 Second St. as of Oct. 1. Meetings are held every Thursday at 7 p.m.

For more information, call 334-5764. Special Meetings The Alcoholics Anonymous, Alanon, and Alateen groups meet at 110 S. First St. Meetings are held at the following times: AA, Alanon and Alateen Wednesday at 8 p.m. and Friday at 12 noon.

If any further information is needed, please call the Central Office of Alcoholics Anonymous at 234-7814. responses to questionnaires to date and expects to have a full report by the January meeting Meche stated that he has been contacted by most of the fire departments within Acadia Parish but has still not received any information from the outlying areas, such as Jennings. Kaplan and Eunice, who may Rayne Police Departments. Training and information sessions are being held for volunteers, parents, and students. A McGruff House is a temporary haven for children who find themselves in emergency or frightening situations such as being bullied, followed or hurt while walking in a neighborhood.

Individuals who volunteer their homes as McGruff Houses agree to make emergency phone calls for children in trouble and watch out for neighborhood children as they go to and from school. A McGruff House is not a medical aid station, a restaurant, or a public restroom. What makes McGruff Houses different from other block parent programs? First, McGruff. The houses display a symbol McGruff, the trench-coated spokesdog for crime prevention that 99 of children recognize because they've seen him on television or he's visited their school. One in five U.S.

families moves yearly; using a symbol recognized nationwide only makes sense. And there's a McGruff House program in at least one community in almost every state. The State of Washington legislated McGruff as the state standard for block homes. Second, the McGruff House program has built-in safeguards against abuses. While no system is foolproof, the McGruff House program provides every possible precaution to insure the safety of children.

Adults who volunteer their homes agree to a law enforcement records check. McGruff House signs are numbered, and released from the national inventorv onlv on writ AIDS Testing To Andrus "Andy" Barousse, Acadia Parish Clerk of Court, is reminding that, begining Jan. 1. 1988. no marriage license may be issued in Louisiana without both parties to the proposed marriage undergoing tests for the detection of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) antibodies Act 830 of the 1987 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature becomes effective as law on Jan.

1, 1988, and it provides, in effect, that, in addition to being tested for and AUDITOR Through this action, the City of Rayne enters into an agreement with the Dept. of Revenue and Taxation to be bound by the outcome of the suit Acting upon the recommendations of the Civil Service and Police Board, the council approved the promotions of Auxiliary Police officers Henry Chaumont, and Luke Malbrough from PFC to Corporal. Also, Jerry Gaspard was approved for a six-month trial period with the Auxiliary Police. Bids on the purchase of a pickup truck for the City Water and Light Plant were accepted with Mayor Ralph Stutes authorized to act when specs are studied. Apparent low bid of $9,570 60 was submitted by John R.

Young Chevrolet of Eunice. Service Chevrolet of Lafayette submitted a bid of $9,575.75, and A. J. Dohmann of Church Point bid $9,775 00. The council also accepted bids on the sale of a used motor grader, accepting the high bid of $1,020 submit- THE RAYNE ACADIAN-TRIBUNE I UPS 456-060) The Oldest Semi-WeekH in Aradia Parish Official Journal for the Town of lota Myrta Fair Craig Steve Bandy Publisher Managing Editor Frances Bihm Brent Foreman Advertising Director John Pierre Stella Spaetgens Advertising Rep.

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Rayne AssoriatioB of Businesses Local Area Deaths ten approval from law enforcement. The national office maintains a registry of signs issued to approved applicants. Written guidelines are provided together ith training suggestions and an educational program The McGruff House coordinators for the Crowlev and Ravne area are Be Required To found to be free of any venenal diseases, both applicants for a marriage license must be tested for AIDS as well, explains Barousse The costs of the tests are to be paid by the applicants If the AIDS test for either party is positive, the marriage license may still be issued but only after the applicants provide an affidavit from a licensed physician stating that the physician has informed both parties of the positive test result and has counseled the parties concerning the ted by Irvin Sonnier of Rayne Three other bids were also submitted, ranging from $702 87 to $1,008 00 Three amendments to the city's Code of Ordinances were adopted, all three having been introduced during the November meeting of the council. The first amendment deals with the Occupational License tax and provides for authority to adjust or amend the applicaton and license to provide for any person or entity engaged in conduct protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America and to provide for related matters. The second is relative to the minimum coverage of an indemnity bond or insurance required for all vehicles for hire.

The third deals with the City's Zoning Ordinance and reclassifies two of the "commercial" zones. In other action, the council' re-zoned property adjacent to the Abundant Life Assembly of God Church from residential to commercial; advertised to sell a used Xerox copying machine; approved a request by Scott Johnson for a leave of absence, without pay, for 75 days from Nov. 11, 1987, to Mar. 1, 1988; approved a request by Jane Sweeney and Hdda Petit jean, Rayne Garden Club, to again enter the Louisiana Garden Club Federation's Cleanest City Contest for a fee of $35; and announced that all city departments will close at 12 noon on Christmas and New Year's Eves, reopening the Monday following the holidays. Mrs.

Donald Bex Jr. Funeral services were held at a 1 p.m. Mass Monday at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Scott for Mrs. Donald "Donnie" Bex 24, the former Glenda Alleman who died Sunday as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident.

Burial was in the church cemetery. The Rev. Frederick O. Swenson, pastor, officated. The Sts.

Peter and Paul Senior Choir, accompanied on the organ by Nancy Pinchoff provided the music of the Mass. Survivors include her husband, Donald "Donnie" Bex Jr. of Broussard; a son, Ronnie Lane Bergeron of Broussard; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Alleman of Lafayette Mrs.

Alleman is the former Sybil Guidry three brothers, Darrell Wayne and Carson James Alleman of Scott and Patrick Alleman of Lafayette; two sisters, Mrs. Francis (Eva) Touchet of Duson and Mrs. Robert (Bella) Cloteaux of Lafayette; and her paternal grandfatehr, Ganbel Alleman of Rayne. A native and lifelong Lafayette Parish resident, Mrs. Bex was employed as a film processor for Superior Micro Filming Inc.

of Lafayette. Martin and Castille Funeral Home in Scott was in charge of arrangements Ophelia Cormier Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at St Joseph Catholic Church for Ophelia Cormier, 72, who died at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Rayne-Branch Hospital. Burial followed in the Church of the Assumption Cemetery in Mire.

She is survived by four sons, Eric, Stafford, Clifford and Lennick Cormier, all of Rayne; one daughter, Joyce Bourque of Eunice, two sisters, Elonia Cormier of Mire and Mary Lopez of Rayne; one half-sister, Verdie Miller of Church Point; 17 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one son, Paul Cormier. Gossen Funeral Home of Rayne was in charge of arrangements. Rev. Msgr.

James J. Finnegan Word has been received here of the death of Rev. Msgr. James J. Finnegan, frequent visitor with the Habetz family, and other Roberts Cove friends in past years.

Msgr. Finnegan died at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge. He was 73, a native of New Orleans and resident of Denham Springs.

He was a retired Roman Catholic priest, having retired in 1984. Visiting at St. Joseph Cathedral, 1 to 10 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. until Mass of Christian Burial at 12 noon Friday, conducted by the Most Reverend Stanley Joseph Ott, STD, Bishop of Baton Rouge, and clergy.

Graveside services at St. Joseph Abbey Cemetery, Covington, 4 p.m. Friday. Survived by a sister, Sister Cecilia, Daughter of Charity, Dallas, Texas; a brother, the Rev. Michael Finnegan, Gibson.

Preceded in death by parents, Joseph and Mary Finnegan; and two brothers, Joseph Finnegan and Brother Aloysius Finnegan. He was ordained May 18, 1940, in New Orleans, at St. Louis Cathedral and was a classmate of Archbishop William Donald Borders of Baltimore, Md. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Seminary Burse of the Diocese of Baton Rouge, in memory of Monsignor James J. Finnegan.

Msgr. Finnegan was a classmate of Msgr. Dan Habetz when they were together in Notre Seminary in New-Orleans. His "home" away from the Seminary was with the J.W. Williams Habetz family, and during those years he and "Father Dan" shared many happy "family" experiences.

He will be remembered by many friends here and in Baton Rouge where he was a loved pastor at St. George Church Parish for a number of years. Mrs. Warren Richard Funeral services were held Tuesday at a 1 p.m. Mass in the Sts.

Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Scott for Mrs. Warren Richard, 78, the former Evelyn Thibodeaux, who died Sunday at 9:45 ra. in Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center. Interment was in the St Peter Cemetery in Carencro. The Rev.

Frederick O. Swenson, pastor, Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church, officiated. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs Felix (Effie) Benoit and Mrs. Phillip (Joyce) Taylor, both of Lafayette and Mrs. Daniel Margaret Trahan of Scott 14 grandchildren; 36 great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren; two brothers, Rene Thibodeaux of Lafayette and Leroy Thibodeaux of Eunice; and two sisters, Mrs.

Louis Thibodeaux of Rayne and Mrs. Leroy Pitre of Opelousas. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Freeman, Easton and Aldus Thibodeaux. A native of Church Point and a former resident of Lafayette for most of her life, she had been a resident of Scott for the past 12 years She was the daughter of the late Eugene Thibodeaux, Acadia Parish native and the former Euphemie Miller, a native of St. Landry Parish Pallbearers were Merlin, Ferdie and Terry Benoit, Sherman and Jeffery Bernard, and Harold Bernard.

Honorary pallbearers were Daniel Trahan, Felix Benoit and Phillip Taylor. Martin and Castille Funeral Home in Scott was in charge of arrangements. Dorothy Ross Funeral services were held Tuesday at 9 a in Lafond-Ardoin Funeral Home in Opelousas for Dorothy Bearb Ross, 52, of Opelousas, who died Sunday in Opelousas General Hospital Burial was in the Arceneaux Cemetery in Rayne. Survivors include a daughter, Janet Hebert of Cecilia three brothers, Carl Bearb of Lake Charles, Clarence Bearb of Mire and Milton Bearb of Biloxi, su sisters, Mona Bearb and Judy Miller, both of Mire, Marie Breaux of Biloxi, Geneva Bearb of Lake Charles, Gloria Bearb of Lafayette and Barbara Bearb of Opelousas; and three grandchildren. Lafond-Ardoin Funeral Home, old Sunset Opelousas was in charge of arrangements.

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