SENIOR DAY

MAY 19, 2016

   Over 250 senior citizens from the Ville Platte-Evangeline Parish area today (Thursday) packed the Ville Platte Civic Center for the annual senior day event sponsored by the Evangeline Council on Aging.

    This year, the council decided to go to a ticket system to get a better head count on how many meals to prepare. The cost of a ticket was only $2 and it was a sell out days before the event.

    Once again members of the Evangeline Area Chapter of the Viet Nam Veterans of America cooked the BBQ dinners and prepared the box lunches in the civic center kitchen area. Volunteers from the Council on Aging and others helped serve the drinks and meals to the seniors at their tables.

   A Cajun band from the Opelousas-Church Point area provided Cajun French music from 10-12 noon. Once the music ended at noon, the seniors enjoyed playing bingo games with plenty of door prizes.

   KVPI FM was there with a live remote broadcast at the civic center from 10-12 noon.