ERIK SANZENBACH / L’Observateur / May 17, 2000

LAPLACE – The Wal-Mart store on Airline Highway been operating in LaPlace for several years. Recently the store had a grand “re-opening” to celebrate are-designed interior and an expanded inventory.

Saying “a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into this,” store manager Pat Meadowcroft thanked Wal-Mart employees for working long hours and sacrificing quality time with their families to get the “new” Wal-Mart finished.

Meadowcroft said the whole store make-over took over six weeks to accomplish, and the final results were:

An expanded food department.

A brighter, cheerier and better lighted interior.

Improved, speedy check-out for the customer.

At the re-opening ceremony St. John Parish President Nickie Monica said theimprovement of Wal-Mart is “good for all of St. John.”Also in attendance were Wal-Mart store managers from Metairie and New Orleans.

The Wal-Mart company used the ceremony to donate grants to various organizations in the parish.

Wal-Mart has an environmental grant which will provide the planting of trees in the new LaPlace Park on U.S. Highway 51.Wal-Mart also donated $500 to the Rev. Alexander White and the New LifeMissionary Shelter; $500 to the American Therapeutic Riding Academy; $500 to Leon Godchaux Junior High School; $500 to Margaret Hastings, a teacher at LaPlace Elementary who was just chosen as Teacher of the Year, and $500 to Good Hope Baptist Church to expand its computer training facilities.

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