Posted About Three Years Ago
by
Mark Layne
The Ville Platte Rotary Club today (Tuesday) heard from guest speaker, Lisa Derouen, Executive Director of the Evangeline Parish Council on Aging.
Derouen has been serving as director for the past ten years. The council on aging was formed in 1971 and is a private non-profit agency serving seniors, age 60 and older, throughout the parish with a range of services. Their funding sources come from state and federal agencies as well as funding through a local property millage tax.
Their services include: meals both at the homes of seniors and in a congregate setting. They deliver 330 meals a day five days a week. The congregate meals are served for seniors at Village de Memoire, Martin Luther King Center, Savoy Heights , Basile and Pine Prairie.
Evangeline Council on Aging also offers transportation services for the elderly and the general public using eight vehicles.
The agency also offers home making services such as cleaning house, sitter and grocery shopping.
All of the clients of Council on Aging services are age based and not determined by income.
Derouen mentioned that the Senior Center at Village de Memoire offers congregate meals, bingo games and regular scheduled guest speakers and birthday parties. The center is now closed due to Covid-19. The agency employs some 60-70 workers, mostly part time. She was the guest speaker of Rotarian Bob Buroker.
In other action, KVPI General Manager introduced two new full members of the staff: John Hadley, sales account representative and Claire Vidrine, DJ/Announcer.