TOWN OF WASHINGTON
ANNUAL MARDI GRAS PARADE
When: Saturday, February 18th, 2012
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TOWN OF WASHINGTON ANNUAL MARDI GRAS PARADE
Categories: UncategorizedPro Wrestling Live December 9th right after the parade
Categories: Upcoming Events
Town Of Washington Annual Christmas Festivities
Categories: Upcoming EventsWe are having our 13th Annual Christmas Parade on
December 9, 2011 @ 7:00 p.m.
Line-up will begin @ 6:00 p. m. at the
Washington Recreational Center at the corner of Bridge
and MLK St. it will proceed down Main St. ending at the Washington Festival Grounds
Interested parties need to contact Mona Wilson
or Town Hall at (337) 826-3626.
Proof of Insurance must be provided prior to line –up.
No fee to participate!
Community program moving forward
Categories: News Articles
Neighborhood gardens and a community nursery are among the things under consideration by a group of citizens working to find ways to bring jobs, education, and income to Washington.
The town is one of two places in Louisiana selected by the Southern Rural Development Center for a pilot program in its program called Turning the Tide on Poverty.
Members of a committee have been exploring options for about a year and have identified a community-run nursery and allied neighborhood gardens to produce and sell Louisiana historic plants as a likely place to begin.
Vincent Deshotel and Kathryn Fontenot of the LSU AgCenter met with the group April 20 to make concrete suggestions on how to proceed, and the group will meet again in May to decide the immediate next steps.
The town council adopted a resolution at its regular meeting in March “applauding and encouraging” the effort.
Bazaar big success
The April 10 bazaar to raise funds for the rebuilding of Immaculate Conception Church netted more than $18,000 for the construction fund. More fund-raisers are planned as work continues to replace the historic church that burned in January
Washington Municipal Library an underused resource
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Did you know you can access practically any book in print through the Washington Municipal Library? Or that you can use its computers to access the Internet and all it holds?
The library, located at 418 N. Main Street in an old home made available by the Gillespie family, has a variety of fiction and nonfiction books on its shelves. Because Washington is part of the state library system, the staff here can find and order books housed by every other library in the system—and the books can usually be here within a week.
That extends its shelves hundreds of times over, according to librarian Delilah Jackson, who adds that any resident of the Washington area can become a library card holder.
The library also has a cheery room for beginning readers to read by themselves or to listen to stories read to them in regularly scheduled programs.
Library hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. It is closed on Sunday and Monday. For more information call 826-7336.