Way Back Wednesday: Aug. 30, 2017
Published 12:01 am Wednesday, August 30, 2017
- Aug. 28, 1969: Members of the newly organized LaPlace Jaynes volleyball team include, standing, from left, Viola Daigrepont, Norma Barrilleaux, Linda Ory, Peggy Cupit, Joan Anchor, Jerry Gauthier, Jerrye St. Martin, Minette Montegut, kneeling, team captain Connie Terry and coach Barbara Ayme.
Aug. 30, 1979: M.J. LaBranche of LaPlace, right, celebrated 35 years of service with Shell at Shell’s Norco Manufacturing Complex. LaBranche is shown with M.J. Landeche, left, of the Dispatching Department and T.B. Hatfield Jr. of the Alkylation Department, both Norco residents with 30 years of service at Shell.
Aug. 28, 1999: Leona Picard provides a link to the past when Waterford Plantation once dominated the Killona area. Here, she views the old plantation’s bell on display at the nuclear power plant that supplanted the plantation.
