Riverside’s Garden of the Month for May has been awarded to Shannon and Rooney Hymel who live at 1157 Lawrence Street in Hymel’s Subdivision in Lutcher, LA. Rooney extended the flower bed so that annuals and perennials could be planted to provide blooms and texture to their garden.
The St. James Wildcat Boys and Girls Track & Field teams competed in the Hurricane Invitational hosted by Prairieville High School.
The Lutcher High Boys & Girls Track & Field teams participated in the annual District 8-4A Track Meet held at E.D. White Catholic School in Thibodaux. The top four finishers in each event qualify to compete in the Region II-4 Meet. Sophomore Anais Johnson of the Lady Bulldogs was named the District Track MVP and overall MVP of the Meet in the Girls’ Division.
The St. James Fishing Team competed in the two-day Louisiana Youth Bass Nation state championship this weekend May 2-3, 2026 at Doiron's Landing in Morgan City, LA.
WHAT A FIND! I’ve been doing a grand clean-up of my house. It’s like Spring cleaning on steroids. Downsizing that means business. On the top of the freezer is a cookie jar that belonged to my grandmother. It’s made of ceramic, I think. It’s likely about a hundred years old. It’s a female bear around one side and a male around to the other side. I took it down to wash it and discovered that it was full of old coupons. Hundreds of coupons. These were loyalty coupons that were part of the product wrapper. The coupons were collected and sent in to redeem for premiums. I have lots of one inch by two-inch Betty Crocker coupons. The Borden company had Red Scissors gift coupons on sweetened condensed milk, Luzianne coffee and tea, Mrs. Filbert’s Margarine, Grandma’s Unsulphured Molasses, Prince Spaghetti, Super Suds and New White Detergent. The “valuable premiums” they offered included coffee percolators, electric clocks, baseball gloves and baseballs, jewelry and other items. Also in my collection are Octagon Soap coupons, J. B. Coffee Coupon distributed by the Foltz Tea & Coffee Co., Blue Horse coupons, and B & W Raleigh Tobacco coupons. These loyalty coupons were offered in the 1950’s and 60’s. I’m going to put these back in the cookie jar in case I can redeem them later. I saw that coupons are offered for sale for nostalgic purposes on Ebay.
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