VILLE PLATTE ROTARY CLUB

MARCH 8, 2016

     The Ville Platte Rotary Club, today (Tuesday) heard from Rotarian Hillary Hill discuss the Ville Platte Veterans of Foreign Wars Post. The post was first organized in June 1940. Hill commented that when he first joined the organization there were 240 members and now the membership has dwindled to 112. To be a member, a veteran must have served overseas in a combat or “hot” zone.

   There are very few World War Two and Korean War era veterans remaining in Evangeline Parish. He said Bervic Celestine, a Pearl Harbor survivor and long time chaplain for the VFW post now resides at Savoy Care center in Mamou.

    He listed some of the post commanders through the years: Parker Fuselier, Lionel Deville, Jules Ashlock, Bernie Daigle (longest serving at 14 years), Preston Aucoin, Dallas DeVille and Cecil Colligan.

    The post members are still active in the community cooking for the nursing home every month and at Chateaux Des Amies.

     In other rotary news,

--the annual Spring Fellowship is scheduled for April 26;

--shots for Tots will be held the week of April 18 at the Evangeline Parish Health Unit;

--the District Rotary convention is set for March 31 through April 2 at L ‘auberge Du Lac Casino in Lake Charles.