June 1 marks the first official day of hurricane season. Although severe weather is expected, we want to make sure we are fully prepared. With that in mind, we want to urge pet-owners to create an evacuation plan that includes their pets! Pets are members of the family and should be included in all disaster preparations.

Louisiana State Treasurer John M. Schroder announced that 27,125 Unclaimed Property checks totaling $4.8 million are being mailed out on Thursday, May 26, following a data match to update addresses. Checks will be mailed to every parish in the state.

May 18, 2022 100 Field St., Belle Chasse. Sydney Michael Sylvester, Sidney Sylvester to Kevin Armant, Chantele Armant, Chantele Turner Armant, Chantele Turner, Chantele Sherman.

I spent the weekend tidying up my kitchen garden, which included harvesting a lot of my cooking herbs that have been growing all winter long. We’re getting temperatures well into the 90’s lately, so my cool season herbs are producing their “last hurrah”. I think of my herbs as falling into two categories- warm season (roughly May-October) and cool season (roughly November-May). Some of the cool season herbs are long since over already, my borage flowered all spring, set seed, and died. Same story with my cilantro, I harvested some of the leaves and dried them, and allowed the rest of the plants to go to seed (coriander) for cooking with and to plant in the fall. My chervil, cutting celery, English chives, parsley, fennel, and dill are bolting and sending up flowers now. The thyme, French tarragon and Spanish lavender are nice and full, but I know they will begin to get crown rot when the summer rains and humidity begin.

The Belle Chasse Garden Club would like to acknowledge and congratulate the following Belle Chasse residences and business as recipients of Garden of the Month awards for May 2022: • Civic: Gulf Station / Subway, 9654 Hwy 23 • Community: The Luebbert Family, Springwood • Member: Reba Conefry, Pleasant Ridge.

Detective Victoria Barrois, Detective Bryan Arena and Deputy Riley Lee were recently named the recipients of the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office Quarterly Awards for the Third Quarter (January 2022 - March 2022) of the 2021-2022 fiscal year.

Plaquemines Medical Center in partnership with Plaquemines Primary Care, hosted its Healthier Community Series event on Thursday, May 19, with the Council on Aging. The topic of discussion was Mental Health Awareness. Ms. Christina Noble, MED., PLPC, NCC with the Plaquemines Community Care Centers Foundations, INC., played Mental Health Bingo to bring awareness to our community residents. Thanks, Christina and the Plaquemines Community Care Center, for all you guys do within our community.

Venture Global LNG has officially announced its “Final Investment Decision” (FID) on its Plaquemines Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) export terminal after years of steady development, overcoming numerous setbacks and challenges that threatened to totally derail the project.

“Life is a journey and only you hold the map!” The evening of Sunday, May 22, was enchanting. Seven beautiful, well-deserving young ladies participated for the Seafood - Miss and Teen Crowns, along with six precious little girls who nervously and excitingly crossed their fingers for their names to be “reeled in” from the treasure chest and be declared this year’s Seafood Pearl.

A disagreement between the Louisiana Fruit Company (LFC) and the Plaquemines Parish Government (PPG) developed into an official legal dispute after the company filed a lawsuit on May 2. Officially, LFC is requesting a “declaratory judgment” on whether a road on their property down in Venice, Louisiana—known as Coast Guard Road—is privately owned or owned by PPG.