Louisiana
Louisiana man in wheelchair fatally struck by car on highway
SLIDELL, La. (WGNO) — Police have confirmed a person is lifeless after being struck by a automotive in St. Tammany Parish in a single day.
In accordance with Louisiana State Police, troopers responded to the deadly crash on US 11 close to Oak Harbor Boulevard in Slidell.
Police consider round midnight on Friday morning, a Nissan Altima was touring north on the freeway when on the similar time, a wheelchair-bound man was making an attempt to cross the roadway.
Because the wheelchair entered the northbound lane of the freeway, the person was struck by the Nissan, leaving him with life-threatening accidents. He was transported to an space hospital the place he died shortly after arriving.
The person’s identify has not but been launched.
The motive force of the Nissan was unhurt within the crash.
LSP says impairment is just not suspected within the crash, nevertheless, toxicology samples had been collected for testing.
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Most of the U.S. has heard of Louisiana’s spicy, ruby red crawfish, tasty boiled shrimp and hearty crab-filled dishes. But Jan Gourley, founder and director of the Louisiana Food and Wine Festival, encourages local, regional and national attendees to bust out of their culinary comfort zones.
“(We’re) opening their eyes to boudin, cracklins, andouille and things that Louisiana is known for,” she says.
The Louisiana Food and Wine Festival aims to prove there’s good cookin’ to be found not only in New Orleans but statewide—and particularly in Acadiana, where the event is staged. Hosted at locations around Lake Charles, the festival Sept. 19-22 returns for its second year with formal six-course dinners, tastings, cooking classes, barbecues and more. Attendees should bring their appetite for three days of tasty events, plus an introductory dinner on Thursday.
“What I try to explain to people is that the Cajun and Creole culture that Louisiana has built its famous cuisine on truly lives in Acadiana and southwest Louisiana,” Gourley says. “(This festival) is more of an authentic Louisiana experience.”
Last year’s inaugural event lured attendees from every parish in Louisiana along with others from Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and even Canada, Gourley says.
“A lot of people had said, ‘It’s going to be a hit-or-miss thing,’” Gourley says. “‘People probably won’t get it because it’s the first year, and it’s a lot different from every other festival.’ But they did. … The objective of creating a culinary destination event, I believe, was achieved.”
Things kick off on Thursday, Sept. 19, with Louisiana’s Celebrity Chefs Wine Dinner. Held at L’Auberge Casino Resort Lake Charles, the meal will feature six courses prepared by acclaimed chefs. Each plate will be expertly paired with a wine.
The festival continues on Friday with master classes taught by celebrity chefs with themes like “The Perfect Wine & Oyster Pairings” and “Southern Inspired Smokey Seafood Mac & Cheese.” That evening, pitmasters will serve up grilled dishes for Fire on the Lake. The Grand Tasting event on Saturday and a lively Jazz Brunch on Sunday close it all out.
“(We hope to) introduce people to new things,” Gourley says. “Especially people that are not from Louisiana that have never heard about what maque choux is. Last year, we had a pitmaster that had an alligator on a spit.”
Louisiana Food & Wine Festival
Sept. 19-22
Locations vary | Lake Charles
louisianafoodandwinefestival.com
This article was originally published in the September 2024 issue of 225 Magazine.
New Orleans
Franziska Wagner has been hired as chief financial officer of the Louisiana Bar Foundation.
Wagner has worked as an accountant and auditor for clients in the government, nonprofit and construction sectors.
She earned a bachelor’s in accounting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a master’s in accounting from the University of New Orleans.
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Terrance Payne has been named director of building trades training at the New Orleans Career Center.
Payne was one of the inaugural trainers in the building trades program.
The Career Center recently hired 14 new staffers, a move that brings the number of employees to 42, double what the organization had two years ago. There are now more than 600 trainees in the program’s five industry sectors: health care, building trades, digital media/IT, engineering/manufacturing and culinary arts.
The new hires are: Shanitra Charles, instructor, pre-nursing; Myles Ford, instructor, pharmacy technician; Diana Kennedy, instructor, pre-nursing; Wynn Martin, success coach; Tony McKarry, instructor, building trades; Bria Hays-Mackey, bookkeeper; MacKenzie Rosenberg, success coach; Maria Schneider, program coordinator; Cedric Singleton, instructor, building trades; Taralyn Stephens, instructor, culinary; Lee Stevenson, instructor, building trades; Aaron Washington, trainee support coordinator; and Anastasia Williams-Smith, program coordinator.
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Darian Shorts and Justin Vlosich have joined the staff of Gambel Communications.
Shorts is a communications strategist. Previously, she worked for The PR Alliance.
She earned a bachelor’s in political communication and a master’s in mass communication, both from LSU.
Vlosich is a communications coordinator. He previously worked for the New Orleans Pelicans, Louisiana SPCA and the New Orleans Saints.
He earned a bachelor’s in marketing from the University of New Orleans.
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Joe DiTommaso has been promoted to vice president of commercial lending for OnPath Credit Union.
DiTommaso joined OnPath in 2022 as northshore market president. Before that, he worked for Gulf Coast Bank, Chase and Hibernia National Bank/Capital One.
He served as a Marine for five years and received awards for his involvement in the support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Baton Rouge
Bailey Richard has been hired as director of marketing, communication and compliance for Off The Hook Restaurants.
Richard has held senior marketing positions for other businesses and has a track record of strategic planning and grassroots marketing.
Off the Hook, which was founded in 2012, has five quick-service seafood restaurants in Baton Rouge, Gonzales, Hammond, Thibodaux and Houma.
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Reis Alsberry has been hired as director of intellectual property and commercialization for Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
Alsberry was commercialization manager for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Before that, he held patent management positions at Florida State University, Florida A&M University and Old Dominion University.
He earned a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Old Dominion, a bachelor’s in civil engineering from the University of Virginia and a law degree from the University of Richmond School of Law.
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Amos Davis has been named chief operating officer for Emergent Method.
Davis has nearly two decades of policy, legal and operational experience. He spent the past several years as global senior counsel for Uber; before that, he was a lead adviser for several Coca-Cola Co. brands, including Minute Maid.
He earned a bachelor’s from the University of Virginia, a master’s from Emory University and a law degree from Emory University School of Law.
BOONE COUNTY, Ark. — A man from Carencro, Louisiana has died after a crash between a motorcycle and a pickup truck in Burlington, Arkansas on Tuesday, August 27.
At 2:15 p.m., 62-year-old Richard Zaunbrecher was driving a 2002 Yamaha Road Star motorcycle north on U.S. Highway 65 in Burlington behind a 2020 Ford F-150 in the inside lane.
Springfield man sentenced to 28 years for murdering his wife in 2022
According to the Arkansas State Police, the motorcycle did not obey flashing traffic control signals and change lanes, causing the motorcycle to rear-end the Ford. The crash forced Zaunbrecher off the vehicle and he landed in the inside lane of U.S. 65.
Zaunbrecher was transported to the North Arkansas Regional Medical Center in Harrison, Arkansas, where he later died from his injuries.
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