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CelebratingOur Community

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Sharp scouting eyeRickey Drexler, a Jeanerettenative who coachedbaseball at JeaneretteSenior High, hasproved himself asa pro baseballscout with theTampa BayRays.

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a look at some of those who make the teche area unique

On targetNeecie Falgout, aMorgan City nativewho moved here inthe mid-1990s, hasfallen head over heelsfor the sport of archery.She has excelled bywinning statetitles.

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Football through the lensesDusty Rhodes started filming PeeWee football games in the late1990s, then took it to thenext level. Highschool coachesare benefittingfrom his passion forvideoing footballgames ever since.

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Citizen of the YearBY JESSICA GOFF

THE DAILY IBERIAN

Silver and gold aren’t metals that appeal toCathy Voorhies Indest. It’s bronze.

The 58-year-old New Iberia native has dedicatedherself to preserving Iberia Parish’s unique histo-ry, culture and art through promoting it to itshomegrown citizens.

She has followed the footsteps of her mother,Jacqueline Voorhies, a Romanian-born womanwho fell in love with the Teche Area and waspresident of the Iberia Cultural ResourcesAssociation in the 1970s.

Among many accomplishments in the pastfew years, Indest worked to replace the wood-en historic plaques on buildings in down-town New Iberia with bronze markers tohonor the area’s long-standing heritage. Themarkers are one-of-a-kind trilingual plagueswritten in English, French and Spanish.This year, another set of bronze markers isscheduled to be unveiled and placed on his-toric landmarks in New Iberia.

In 2006 Indest, who has been marriedJohn Indest for 37 years, set out to revivethe association. The organization nowhas roughly 250 members and is respon-sible for sponsoring many events,including concerts performed by theAcadiana Symphony Orchestra to New

Iberia free of charge to the public.It was for this work and dedication that

she was selected by The Daily Iberian asthe 2011 Citizen of The Year.Upon learning that she was the recipient

the annual award, which has been given by thenewspaper since 1993, Indest said she was “hum-

bled” and the honor belongs to “everyone who livesin this community.”“The community has just embraced the culture that

has been presented by the organization,” she said. “Itmakes me very proud to be a part of this community.”

Aside from serving as president of the Iberia CulturalResources Association, Indest is also a member of the

Bayou Teche Museum Board, member of the IberiaPreservation Alliance and is on the Acadiana Symphony

Board of Directors.But Indest had not always deeply involved in community affairs,

she said. She spent a majority of her adult life as an educator and as thecoordinator for youth ministry at St. Peter’s Catholic church, along with

raising her and her husband’s three children — Christine IndestMcCrory, Jennifer Indest Minvielle and Zachary John Indest. She now

has five grandchildren and one on the way.Indest attributes her mother’s devotion to Teche Area commu-

nity as her inspiration.Jacqueline Voorhies married Indest’s father, Dr. Vernon

Voorhies, after the two met in Europe where he wasstationed in World War II.

The European native delved into her new lifein South Louisiana, Indest said, and worked

to cultivate its unique heritage.“She really adopted New Iberia as her

home and she became very active in thecommunity to make it a better place,”Indest said. “She spent a lot of timeresearching the Acadians.”

Her mother died in 2006 while workwas under way to revitalize the ICRA.Her passing prompting Indest to con-tinue on her work.

“After she died, I just felt a verystrong need to carry on her workand her legacy. Because she hadbeen so active in communityaffairs even though she was notfrom here,” she said.

Seventy-five members attendedthe first meeting of the revivedassociation in 2006 and by 2008

CathCathy Indest folloy Indest follows the footsteps ws the footsteps of her mother, which lead her to of her mother, which lead her to . . .. . .

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Cathy Indest isThe Daily Iberi-an’s Citizen ofthe Year.

BY NEAL MCCLELLAND

THE DAILY IBERIAN

From Jeanerette tothe World Series,Rickey Drexler has

been to both places.The former baseball

coach at JeaneretteSenior High is now aMajor League Baseballscout for the Tampa BayRays and in 2008,Drexler achieved one ofthe highest highs a base-ball player can achievewhen he attended theWorld Series whenTampa playedPhiladelphia.

Probably the only otherachievement that ranksclose to that was when aplayer he scouted andsigned, DesmondJennings, got his firststart in the major leagueswith the Rays.

“They probably runclose as to which one wasthe biggest achievementin my career,” saidDrexler, who is the areascout for the Rays andcovers Louisiana,Mississippi, Arkansasand the western part ofTennessee from theMemphis-area to theJackson-area for theteam.

He’ll be the first to tellyou that he has the great-est job in the world. Hegets to watch baseballand scout players and getpaid for it. But he’ll alsotell you that the biggestdrawback to his job isthat he’s on the road any-where from 180 to 200days a year, whetherscouting high school andcollege players duringthe spring and summerfor the team to sign orscouting major leagueplayers in the fall to see ifthe team can use theplayers when they comeavailable.

“Mostly my job to scoutamateurs,” said Drexler.“In the summer timewe’ll do minor leagues.The director of pro scout-ing will give us someteams to go see in casethey decide to make a

trade for somebody or akid that’s Rule 5 eligibleso that the team will havesome information onthem.”

The Rule 5 draft pre-vents teams from stock-piling players in theminors when other teamsin Major League Baseballwould be willing to havethem play in the majors.

“In the fall, we’ll domajor league scouting,”said Drexler. “We’ll get apro team to scout so thatwe’ll have a report onthose players if we wantto make a trade forthem.”

In 2010, Drexler scoutedthe Atlanta Braves, in2009, he scouted theHouston Astros.

The other part of hisjob involves scouting highschool players. The Rayswill have some informa-tion on a prospect theymight be interested inand Drexler goes out and

gets firsthand informa-tion on the player for theteam.

“There are a lot of kidsin this area that we keeptabs on,” he said. “Wedon’t want to rely onother people’s informa-tion on them, so I stayavailable to visit withplayers and coaches tomake sure that we havethe best informationavailable.”

Drexler, 41, has been aprofessional scout for 12years. He got started on apart time basis when wewas baseball coach atJeanerette Senior High.He played college baseballin Alabama and one ofhis former teammateshad a brother who was ascout for the AtlantaBraves.

He was helping theBraves scout in an associ-ate scout capacity, onewho notifies a scout if hesees a player with pro

potential, when Drexlerwas asked if he wanted tobe a full-time scout withthe Rays.

It didn’t take long tomake a decision.

“Seeing that it was aunique and hard industryto get into, I alwaysthought that I couldreturn to coaching andteaching if it didn’t workout,” said Drexler. “So Istarted scouting and obvi-ously I love it and ampretty decent at it.”

When Drexler started,he covered Missouri,Nebraska, North andSouth Dakota andArkansas. Over time, he’sslowly been able to moveback down to where hecan work and live in NewIberia, close to home.

Over 12 years, Drexlerhas signed numerousplayers. Most of them arestill in the minor leagues,from Triple-A down to thelowest Class A minors.

But his greatest thrillwas to sign Jennings andwatch him develop into amajor league player andeventually start with theRays in 2010. As a bonus,Jennings signed a jerseythat is framed and hangsin Drexler’s home office.He also has a copy of the2008 World Series ticketsthat are also framed andmany other signedmementos including batsand baseballs as well asan American LeagueChampionship ring fromwin the Rays won the pen-nant in 2008.

“It’s a great job,” saidDrexler. “I get to set myown hours, do my ownwork, and get to watchbaseball for a living.There is no 9-to-5 that Ihave to worry about andnobody hounds you aboutthe job.

“You go out and do whatyou’re supposed to do andget the job done.”

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Citizen of the YearCathy Indest’s communityactivities are many but she isknown most for her work aspresident of the Iberia CulturalResources Association. . .page 1

Top scoutThe American League’s TampaBay Rays depend on Jeaner-ette native Rickey Drexlerto tip them off on MajorLeague prospects. . . .this page

World travelerAfter the high school softballseason, New Iberia SeniorHigh’s Mitzi Lalande travelsabroad as she has done formany years. . . . . . . . . .page 3

Stays on targetWorld champion pistolshooter Blake Miguez hasproved to be just as successful inthe business world after grad-uation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 3

TwinnedAfter growing up in a horseand buggy era with few cars,twins Ruben and ZurbenGuillory have remained closeall the way to 91. . . . . .page 4

Passion for archeryNeecie Falgout has beenon target ever since she tookup the sport of archery,starting in college andcontinuing locally. . . . . .page 5

Stuffing in classCenterville High Schooleducator Stephen Nu-gent’s students learn how tomake deer sausage in theirclassroom venture. . . .page 5

VideographerOnce he started videoingfootball games, DustyRhodes has gotten plenty offilming experience at highschool football games. . . .page 6

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INDEST: Bronze is a precious metal, according to Citizen of Year

the organization unveiled thenine bronze trilingual plaguesdisplayed on historic buildingsin downtown New Iberia. The100-pound markers were fundedthrough donations made by localfamilies in honor of lost lovedones.

The plaque displaying Indest’smother’s name was recoveredlast year from the MasonicLodge as it burned to the ground.As of now it remains at City Halluntil another building of facadeis built in replace of thedestroyed lodge.

This year, the association willhold four free concerts per-formed by Lafayette-based sym-phony orchestra, and severalother projects through the BayouTeche Museum and the IberiaPreservation Alliance are underway.

Indest’s tireless dedication and“can-do” attitude led her to be

selected as this year’s Citizen ofthe Year, Will Chapman, publish-

er of The Daily Iberian said.“I’m just trying to do every-

thing I can for this communitybecause I believe so strongly inits citizens and their generosityand their appreciation of art,theater, history and culture,”Indest said.

Indest will be honored at TheDaily Iberian’s open house,scheduled for 3 to 5 p.m. Feb. 29.

FROM PAGE 1

LEE BALL / THE DAILY IBERIANCitizen of the Year Cathy Indest holds an original location plaque.

‘I’m just trying to doeverything I can for thiscommunity.’

Cathy IndestIberia Cultural Resources Association

president

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Now scouting for Rays: Drexler

NEAL MCCLELLAND / THE DAILY IBERIANRickey Drexler’s achievements as a pro baseball scout include signing Desmond Jennings and a trip to the World Series.

BY MATTHEW BEATON

THE DAILY IBERIAN

While MitziLalande givessigns in the third

base coaching box, shemay be thinking aboutEurope ... or Asia orAfrica. The New IberiaSenior High School headsoftball coach has been toall those places.

She’s a world travelerwith a knack for adven-

ture. When school lets outeach summer, the NISHteacher and assistant vol-leyball coach takes offabroad and enjoys a fewmonths on the roambefore coming back to pre-pare for volleyball season.

Lalande, who lives inLafayette, took her firsttrip to Europe in 1986.Then she was attendingthe University ofLouisiana-Lafayette, earn-ing a business degree. It

was summer. Her sisterand brother-in-law wereheaded to England. Theyhad a newborn and shewas the nanny, so theyinvited her along.

“I spent two months inLondon and fell in lovewith the city,” Lalandesaid.

She came back invigor-ated by the experience andreturned the followingsummer on a workexchange program.

“I was actually workingfor Domino’s Pizza,”Lalande said. “Yeah,everybody always laughs— ‘Domino’s, they havethose in England?’ Yeahthey have them all over.”

The following summershe graduated andreturned, working atDomino’s for another yearand a half. Since then she’sbeen traveling every sum-mer to myriad locations.She has numerous contacts

abroad. Some she madewhile working in London,others she’s met throughthe ULL tennis team. She’san avid tennis player andbeen close to the team along time. Most of the play-ers come from abroad, anda couple have lived withher and her friends.

They offer to recipro-cate, and she takes themup on it. That means trips

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There’s more to Blake Miguez thanmeet’s the bull’s-eye.

A world champion shooter who’s oftenrecognized from his time as a cast mem-ber on the first season of the popularcompetitive shooting reality show “TopShot” aired in 2010 on The HistoryChannel, the 30-year-old Loreauville resi-dent takes just as much pride in his busi-ness success as he does in theInternational Practical ShootingConfederation (IPSC) World Shoot cham-pionship he won in Rhodes, Greece, inOctober.

“Sometimes I think I’m just as success-ful in business” as at shooting, saidMiguez, a Catholic High graduate who isvice president of Iberia Marine Service,which runs a fleet of 10 fast crew boats.The company was founded by his father,Steve, in 1975.

“I started having an active role in thecompany while I was in college (atLSU),” said Miguez, whose family alsoruns Miguez Fuel, based at the Port ofIberia, and a number of smaller compa-nies. “I run all my father’s contracts. Mytitle’s technically vice president but mydad is kind of semi-retired so I prettymuch run things.”

Miguez said his dad tried to convincehim to become a doctor instead of goinginto the family business, but he realizedafter starting college that the scienceaspect of pursuing a medical degree heldno interest for him. What he really likedwas the law and different aspects of busi-ness, so he changed his major late in hisfreshman year and went on to earn adegree from the Southern UniversityLaw School after finishing his under-graduate studies.

“My whole college career and throughlaw school I couldn’t wait to get started(working),” Miguez said. “I’ve doubled

my dad’s business and I really have a lotof other goals.”

Miguez took up pistol shooting at anearly age as a way to spend time with hisfather, whose big hobby was shooting. Byage 12 he’d begun competing. Miguez’sfather and uncle at one point bought allthe .22-caliber rounds from HowardBrothers in New Iberia, which was goingout of business at the time, and split the200,000 or so cartridges between them.

Miguez had shot the vast majority bythe time he’d won his first major title afew years later, with only about 17,000

rounds left from the estimated 100,000with which his dad started. Those count-less hours shooting bottles, branches offtrees, plates and anything else he couldfind to take a shot at helped Miguezdevelop the skills and instincts to beginwinning competitions, including his firststate title at age 17.

Practical shooting combines accuracyand speed in a variety of situations —moving, using props, shooting throughwindows, running with a gun, reloadingand shooting again. There are 18 stagesat the IPSC World Shoot, which is akin to

the Olympics of shooting, said Miguez.“You have to be adaptive,” he said.

“You take how many (targets) you hitand divide it by the time. Everybody isranked and the one with the top hit fac-tor gets the most points.”

Miguez uses an STI pistol, a high-capacity .40-caliber pistol that’s a moreadvanced version of the M1911 pistol thatwas the standard U.S. military issue fordecades.

Blake Miguez, right, smiles proudly as hiscousin Mason Walet takes the captain’schair of the Mr. Mason. The 136-foot crew

boat in May was named after Walet, whowas born with a heart disease. Miguez isvice president of Iberia Marine Service.

MATTHEW BEATON / THE DAILY IBERIANWith framed photos of her world adventures behind her, Mitzi Lalande looks forward to more trips.

SUBMITTEDMitzi Lalande, above, deemed camel ride more difficult than riding a horse.

SUBMITTEDBlake Miguez has shot his way to the top.

SEE TRAVELER, PAGE 6

SEE TRIGGER, PAGE 4

NISH teacher, coach a world traveler‘Every place you goto kind of sticksout in your mind.It’s so different.’

Mitzi Lalande

World traveler

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‘My whole college career and through law school I

couldn’t wait to get started (working).’

Blake Miguez

Iberia Marine Service vice president,

world champion pistol shooter

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Pulls trigger successfully in business, sport

SUBMITTED

BY MATTHEW BEATON

THE DAILY IBERIAN

ST. MARTINVILLE —Ninety-one — whowould’ve thought it’d

be so fun?Ruben and Zurben

Guillory of St. Martinvillecelebrated that birthdayJan. 11 and seem to be ontop of the world, sharpand spry. And though theopportunities for formaleducation were few, theyhave made a good life,worked to support theirfamilies and have enjoyedliving in South Louisiana.

Born and raised on afarm about eight milesoutside of Broussard inrural St. Martin Parish,the Guillorys never had achance to go to school.None reached out that farinto the rural area.

“When we came up, wedidn’t have nothing. Wehad to walk with no shoessometimes,” Zurben said.

He said there were hard-ly any cars, but plenty ofhorses and buggies outon the streets.

“It was nice, better thanit is now,” Zurben said.

Zurben, however, didspend a little time intrade school later in life.However, he neverlearned to read.Nevertheless, the familysaid the two are excellentbookkeepers — keepingtrack of every penny —despite their lack of edu-cation.

The twins are close, andthey have been all theirlives. But during WorldWar II they learned sepa-ration.

Zurben was drafted andshipped off to Europe,while Ruben stayed home.Zana Guillory Fontenette,Ruben’s daughter, said theUnited States had a rulewhere only one twincould be taken into themilitary during the war.They didn’t know whyZurben was chosen andnot Ruben.

Zurben saw France andGermany while in theArmy. It was no touristtrip. No Louvre. No CastleChurch in Wittenburgwhere Luther supposedlynailed his 95 theses. Hesaw war, carnage anddeath. Zurben said he hadfriends he would sleepbeside and then see themdie the next day.

“I lost my best friend ofone year,” Zurben said.

When the war ended, hereturned to St.Martinville and to hisfamily and of course histwin brother. Both drove atruck for a living. Ruben

worked forM&CContractorsfor about 40years. Healso loggedtime at thePine GroveCanning Co.in St.Martinville,canningokra andsweet pota-toes. Zurbensaid heworkedthere, too,but not as long as Ruben.

Their lives weren’t allabout work, though, aseven now the two areknown to imbibe fromtime to time, they said.When asked about theirbeverage of choice, themen perk up. Zurben’s agin man, preferablySeagram’s.

“I drink a little gin. It’sgood,” Zurben said play-

fully. “Youfeel likeyou’re 20years oldwhen youdrink gin.”

Mean-while, RubencherishesCoors Light.At 91, hesaid he canpartakeevery onceand awhile,but thengave himselfa little more

latitude, saying Saturdayand Sunday were bothgood days to drink. Andhow many?

“Oh only two, three, foursometimes a little more,”Ruben said, laughing.

As they begin their 10thdecade, the twins stilldrive, live on their ownand have gotten along welltheir whole lives. Therewas never embittered sib-

ling rivalries or animosity.“It’s just like we’re sit-

ting down today,” Zurbensaid.

“Sometimes we make alittle mistake, but then wemake up.”

And they are not as com-petitive in these lateryears. When questionedwho is stronger or faster,both agreed that Zurbenwould win a race. Zurbensaid he was a littlestronger, and Rubenagreed, though he saidwere it not for his bumknee it might be a differ-ent story.

“I got a bad knee. I knowI can’t make it,” Rubensaid.

Through all the yearsand all the jokes, the twohave remained close — acertain bond you mightonly expect from twins.

“We’ve always (been)pretty close,” Zurben said.“I call him on the phonemost every day.”

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TRIGGER: Like boot camp

Shortly after taking theLouisiana Bar Exam in2008, Miguez competed inhis first IPSC WorldShoot, an event held everythree years. He built a biglead through the first fourdays of the competition inIndonesia, but ended upfinishing second afterhaving a bad final day.

Many, if not most, of thecompetitors at the U.S. andworld cham-pionshipsare full-time,professionalshooters.But Miguezsaid for himit’s just ahobby, some-thing hedoes onextendedweekendsfor most ofthe year,except forone or twotimes a yearwhere he’lltake a fullweek off work for competi-tions like the USPSA orIPSC championships.

The rest of his sparetime he likes to spend in avariety of activities rang-ing from hunting and fish-ing, which he enjoyeddoing with his grandfa-ther when he was young,to rock climbing in hisheavy-duty jeep. He alsospends time with his girl-friend Ashley Jolet andhis two Great Danes, Ottoand Amos, one a blue dogand the other a black one.

“They’re huge,” saidMiguez, adding that the165-pounders eat about abag of food a week and arestill growing. He boughtthem to replace the GreatDane that died duringfilming of “Top Shot.”

Because the cast was iso-lated with no telephone,Internet or cell phoneaccess, he didn’t know hisdog had died until after heleft the show.

Top Shot was as much asocial experiment as com-petition, he said, with castmembers living togetherin a huge mansion andmoved around in vehicleswith blacked out windowsto their shooting range.

“It was kind of like aboot campor prison,”Miguez said.

Thoughthere wereconflictsthat arose,with peoplevoting oth-ers intoposition tobe eliminat-ed based noton theirshooting buton differentreasons,Miguez saidhe madesome

friends on the show,including Peter Palma,who moved fromPhiladelphia toLouisiana. When Palmaisn’t attending school inBaton Rouge, he lives atMiguez’s house. The twopractice shooting whenthey can at a privateshooting range Miguezowns in Charenton.

“It was a real interestingshow,” said Miguez of“Top Shot,” which intro-duced him to a broaderaudience than just thecompetitive shootingworld.

“It was a neat experi-ence to pretend to be aHollywood guy out there.I’ve been able to help outwith some charities (as aresult of the show).”

FROM PAGE 3

Twins enter 10th decade

‘Sometimes wemake a little

mistake, but thenwe make up.’

Zurben Guillory

St. Martinville resident and twin

brother of Ruben Guillory

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MATTHEW BEATON / THE DAILY IBERIANBrothers Zurben Guillory, left, and Ruben of St. Martinville celebrate the same birth date.

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BY JESSICA GOFF

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CENTERVILLE —Under the direc-tion of their

instructor Steve Nugent,a team of CentervilleHigh School studentscarefully squeezed thethick rows of pork anddeer meat into casingthat turned into severalcoiled feet of sausage.

“Y’all want to makesure you are using thegreen onion seasoningon the sheriff ’ssausage,” he remindedthe apron and hair net-clad teens has they cutand processed shanks ofdeer meat delivered bySt. Mary Parish SheriffMark Hebert.

Nugent heads up theschool’s AgricultureDepartment and does notteach within the conven-tional four walls of aclassroom but everywhereelse: from inside theschool’s own 35-year-oldmeat processing plant; itsgreenhouse; shop; or outon the soon-to-beChristmas tree farm.

Throughout his eightyears as the CHS agri-culture instructor, hehas preached his phi-losophy on life’s mostimportant needs.

“You need food, water,air, clothing, shelter,each other and a faithsystem,” he said. “Fiveof those are based onagriculture.”

Judging by the cama-raderie, along with buzzof sausage maker dubbed“Lucille” by he and hisstudents, Nugent’s hands-on approach to teachingstudents job skills alongwith life skills seems towork well.

“He’s a lot of fun. We’vegot a lot stuff going on in

here, just wait and see,”CHS 11th-grader KayArton said as her rubberboots squeaked down ahigh school corridortoward meat plant waft-ing of pungent herbs andspices. Those spices arepart of Nugent’s lessonsin business managementand entrepreneurship.

Twelve spices, all orig-inal recipes, have beencreated and marketed byhis students and arenow sold nationwidefrom their homemadewebsite.

During hunting seasonthe plant processes thou-sands of dollars oforders from customersthroughout the region,Nugent said. The pro-ceeds go back into CHSAg Department for sup-plies and resources.

Nugent, 50, is a nativeson of the rural St.Mary Parish communityand after spending muchof his childhood livingin Texas pined to return,he said. He came toLouisiana as a studentat LSU.

“I knew I wanted to gosomeplace close toCenterville,” he said. “Iknew I couldn’t stayindoors and get somesort of business degree.I had to be outdoors. Iknew that agriculturewas for me.”

Since then he hasgiven presentationsthroughout the state andwas invited to present aseminar at the NationalAssociation ofAgricultural Educatorsin Las Vegas.

His family is heavilyinvolved with the CHScommunity as his wife,Elizabeth, is a sixth-grade teacher at theschool. They have twochildren Leigh Ann, 16,

and David, 11.The CHS Ag

Department seems tonever be short of innova-tion. From harvesting its“worm tea,” which is anorganic liquid fertilizercreated by worm-inhab-ited compost, to design-ing the one-of-a-kind 26-foot long grill dubbed the“Chicken Train.”

The massive, crimsonpainted contraption isNugent’s original designand was inspired by therelief the Centervillecommunity requiredafter Hurricane Andrewin 1992. The area sus-tained widespread dam-age, he said, includingto the Ag Departmentwing of the high school.

“It tore this whole placeto smithereens,” he said.

The Chicken Train isa portable grill designedto feed more than 2,000people and, if need be,and can cook 800-1,000pieces of chicken in athree-hour cycle.

It’s been used for sever-al recreational events butalso contracted by thestate Office ofEmergency Preparednessto be on standby in caseof a major storm or otheremergency as far aTexas and Florida.

“I hate being set up fora catastrophe, but some-body has got to beready,” Nugent said.“You have to thinkabout those people whodon’t have.

“As a school , we needto teach the kids thatyou’ve got to give backwithout expecting any-thing in return,” he said.“That is what we lack ina lot of places today. Youhave to learn to giveback and, you know, itcomes back to you laterwhen you really need it.”

BY PATRICK FLANAGAN

THE DAILY IBERIAN

Every time NeecieFalgout draws backon her bow, eyes

squinted as she takes aim,for the few seconds beforeshe releases the arrowtoward her target, she saysthe world around hermelts away.

“You’ve got to zoom outfrom everything else that’sgoing on around you. Thenoise, the lights, your sur-roundings, all can affectyour shot,” Falgout, 55, said.

Although the MorganCity native dabbled inarchery while in college atNicholls State Universityin the 1970s, it wasn’t untilshe arrived in New Iberiain 1995 that Falgout reallyfell head-over-heels for thesport.

Her achievements as anamateur competitorinclude holding the staterecord for women’sbowhunter freestyle shoot-ing, as well as competingin cities on both coasts ofthe United States and sev-eral places in between.Falgout said what keepsher shooting is the friend-ships she and her hus-band, Ronnie Falgout,have developed since join-ing the Bayou BowmanArchery Club.

“We’re like a family ofarchers,” Falgout said ofthe New Iberia-based club.“Over the years, that’swhat’s kept us going, forthe camaraderie.”

Falgout’s son TimFalgout said his mother’sprowess as an archer isimpressive.

“It’s definitely a uniquepride, and not very compa-rable to other people’smothers,” he said.“Definitely not somethingyou hear about every day.”

Yet, Tim Falgout said

archery is often misunder-stood by those who haveno experience with itssporting side, and oftenconsider it a practice forhunting.

“Everyone always thinksof archery as putting anapple on someone’s head,or that it’s all about killinganimals, but that’s not it atall,” Tim Falgout said.“Really, it’s not seeing whokills better or about hon-ing your hunting skills,but more for the challenge.I liken it more to pool orgolf, but at an even higherlevel of challenge. You’reshooting arrows at reallyhigh speeds, so if you’rethe slightest bit off inyour aim, you miss.”

Neecie Falgout agreed,saying what drew her inwas the skill required tobe successful as an archer.

“It’s all about precisionand memory skills,” shesaid. “You’re trying torepeat the same shot everytime. And it takes sometime to actually get to thatlevel where you can shootwithout thinking about it.”

Although Neecie saidher scores have slowlystarted slipping in recentyears, she has no plans ofputting away her bow.

Noting she has plans toperhaps shoot for severalmore state records, NeecieFalgout said her main prior-ity is recruiting new mem-bers to the Bayou BowmanArchery Club, as well asmaintaining her long-run-ning friendships with thegroup’s existing members.

“I really never had aclue archery would takeover so much of my life,”she added with a grin.

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Four walls aren’t enoughspace for his classroom

The Daily Iberian / Thursday, February 2, 2012 / page 5

BY DON SHOOPMAN

THE DAILY IBERIAN

For 15 years, James“Dusty” Rhodes ofNew Iberia has seen

countless kickoffs, punts,tackles, blocks, penalties,picks, fumbles, etc.,through the lens of aviewfinder.

Thanks to him, coachesand football players overthe years have seen thosesame images filmed by thevolunteer videographerwho has made it his pas-sion and his specialty.Rhodes, better known byTeche Area outdoorsmenas Sgt. Dusty Rhodes, arespected enforcementagent with the stateDepartment of Wildlifeand Fisheries, looks forthe Friday night lights andthe chance to film highschool football games, thelast three seasons atLoreauville High School.

“What I do, basically, it’smy way of giving back tothe community. It’s some-thing I enjoy doing,”Rhodes said severalmonths after the team’slast football game.

“The biggest reward Iget out of this is my videowill capture an athlete’shighlights and can be usedto fulfill his dream of get-ting a college scholarship.To me, that’s the ultimate

in doing this,” he said, not-ing clips can be made toshow recruiters.

Loreauville Tigers headcoach Trent Delahoussayecan attest to that benefitand appreciates it so

much, hesaid.

“The kidslike thefilmbecause wehave a pro-gram thatallows kidsto watchthe film athome onthe Internetand maketheir ownhighlights(for recruit-ing and per-sonal pur-poses). Thekids likethat kind ofstuff,”Delaho-ussaye said.

Rhodes,53, startedfilmingfootballgames inthe late1990s whenhis sonZach, now a

22-year-old senior at LSU,was playing in the localPee Wee football league ona Packers team coached byDave Cavalier of NewIberia, who ownsAcadiana Hearing Center.

Cavalier’s son Grant wason the same team.

Cavalier saw Rhodesvideoing the games,Rhodes said.

“Dave said, ‘Can yougive me a copy of that?’ ”Rhodes said.

And thus the relation-ships between videograph-er and coaches eager to geta second, third and fourthlook at their team inaction began and carriedover to Catholic HighSchool, where their sonscontinued playing football,from 2004 to 2008.

Rhodes said he startedwith VHS and changedwith the times and techno-logical advances to 8mm,HI-8 and Digital-8, whichhe uses today. Ahead areMini-DV, DVD Disc (stan-dard and mini disc),Digital Hard Drive andDigital Flash Drive.

“The technology now isshooting at Hi Def (defini-tion). I’m not there yet. Iprobably will make thejump in the future when Ican afford the cameras Iwant,” he said.

He uses two modern dig-ital cameras at once in aunique setup on his tri-pod. On a specially made

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“Every place you go tokind of sticks out in yourmind. It’s so different. It’sso different from anythingthat you can experiencehere,” Lalande said.

If she had to name afavorite, it would beGreece. But she alsocalled London her secondhome.

Lalande has been thereevery summer for the past20 years, and Paris too forthe past 15 years. Thosetwo cities are her launch-pad. She’ll go toBarcelona, Prague or else-where from them.

“It’s very easy to travel once you getto mainland Europe. It’s cheap. It’s eco-nomical. Once you make the big flightover, you can make other little bittytrips here and there,” Lalande said.

She said the only way it’s affordable isby staying with friends. Her most recenttrip was to Spain and Morocco. Shewent camel riding in the Sahara.Though she often travels alone, thistime Lalande was joined by five othersincluding Erika Lalande, her sister-in-law. Erika has joined her on trips toLondon, Paris, Spain and Amsterdam.She found the camel a difficult means oftransportation.

“It’s kind of hard to ride a camel,”Erika said. “It’s not like a horse.”

They landed in Spain and took a char-ter flight to Marrakesh, Morocco. Thewhole trip was a little nerve wrackingbecause a month earlier a terrorist hadbombed a cafe in the city, killing 16.

“We were in that square and actuallysaw the remnants of that explosion,”Lalande said.

“We really didn’t know what to expect,”Erika added. “Their culture, their reli-gion, everything is just different.”

The two were worried Moroccanswouldn’t welcome westerners, but theyfound the opposite.

“We didn’t know what to expect,”Lalande said. “They were very welcom-ing. We felt very safe.”

They hired a private company thattook them out to the Sahara. Lalandesaid they need two six-to seven-hour daysin the car just to reach the desert.

Their little pack rode the camels intothe famous desert, which Lalande saidhas a reddish hue. Then the groupcamped amongst the desert’s large hillsfor the night.

“It was just phenomenal,” Lalandesaid. “We camped with the nomads inthese tents.”

Erika said it dawned on them as aplace they hadn’t seen — another con-quest — so she did a little research andset the trip up.

But for Lalande, running aroundEurope for more than two decades hasbrought some danger. In 1988, she wassupposed to be on Pan Am Flight 103,which blew up over Lockerbie,Scotland. She had come home a fewmonths early.

“All of my family members always call

me the cat with nine lives,” Lalande said.In 1991, she went to the former

Yugoslavia to check out their beaches.She only spoke English — and a fewwords of French — and traveled to thecountry alone.

When she arrived at the beach it wasdeserted.

“I had been traveling, backpacking fora month, so I hadn’t seen an Englishnewspaper in a month,” Lalande said.

When she had gotten off the train, alocal had pestered her, asking “Yousleep?” in broken English. The womanfollowed her for 10 minutes after she gotoff the train. Lalande wasn’t sure whatthat was all about. Then she met anAmerican freelance photographer.

“He said, ‘Civil war’s about to breakout. What are you doing here?’ ”Lalande said.

Together they rented a room in ahouse and spent two nights — he on thefloor, she on the bed.

“This guy took care of me. I have noidea what his name is — I don’t know —he’s some photographer,” Lalande said.

The next day she went to the beachwhile the photographer hunted her up aticket to Greece. They ate dinner that

night and she left on a boatthe following day.

“And the next day civilwar broke out,” Lalandesaid.

As luck would have it,she met some Canadiangirls, which giving her theopportunity to speak someEnglish (she had hardlyspoken English for amonth and a half). Shespent the next month trav-eling with them.

With all the adventureand stories, there are stilltrips not taken. Lalandesaid Egypt, India,Australia, Moscow andSouth America are placesshe still wants to see.

“The bucket list is end-less,” Lalande said.

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From left, riding camels in June in the Sahara Desert, areThomas Lalande, Jon-Ross Winch, Rachael Phillips, Troy

Lege, Erika Lalande and Mitzi Lalonde, who said aboutthe entire trip, ‘We felt very safe.’

SUBMITTEDFrom left, front row, Mitzi Lalande, RachaelPhillips and Erika Lalande, and from left,back row, Thomas Lalande, Troy Lege andJon-Ross Winch, model clothing in Morocco.

TRAVELER: ‘It’s kind of hard to ride a camel. It’s not like a horse’ — Lalande

Lights, camera, action for Rhodes

DON SHOOPMAN / THE DAILY IBERIANWhen he isn’t in the wild working, Dusty Rhodes is at home atop pressbox filming LHS football games.

His passionfor filminghelps LHSfootball

SEE RHODES, PAGE 7

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BY PATRICK FLANAGAN

THE DAILY IBERIAN

Danny Blakelydescribes himselfas a “hands-off”

teacher of a hands-on typeof classroom.

Blakely, a 49-year-oldnative of Winona, Miss.,said he was recruited toteach industrial arts in NewIberia shortly after graduat-ing from Mississippi StateUniversity in 1984.

After 15 years teachingat the former-FreshmanHigh School, Blakelydecided to make a move toLoreauville High School,which at that time, had noindustrial arts program.

“This is a working-typecommunity,” Blakely saidof the village ofLoreauville. “I reallycouldn’t believe they did-n’t have a program.”

Blakely quickly gotapproval from the IberiaParish School Board tobring industrial arts toLoreauville High, wherefor 13 years now he hashelped students learn,mostly without theirknowing, through hisunique style of teaching.

“What I’ve tried to do isremember everything Ididn’t like about schooland teach without utiliz-ing those same methods,”Blakely said. “I teach in away that the kids don’teven know their learning.

Some of the projectsBlakely has engaged hisstudents with include thedesigning and constructionof what he described as“medieval war machines,”or a “trebuchet,” whichresembles a catapult.

“They put the design onpaper, build a model, and

then we hold a competi-tion,” Blakely said.

Recently, Blakely saidthe winners of that com-petition were designatedas team captains for fol-low-up project, which wasto build a life-sized tre-buchet that instead of golfballs, shot 10 pound bowl-ing balls as high up as thelength of a football field.

Other projects haveincluded building dragsters,model bridges, towers, fur-niture, an outdoor learningcenter, ticket booth and pic-nic tables for the school’scampus, and even podiumsand cabinets for otherteacher’s classrooms.

“With the dragsters, thekids learn the metric sys-tem without realizing whatthey are learning,” Blakelysaid. “This is like learningthrough osmosis. And

when a kid asks me ‘Howdo you do this,’ I turn itback around and ask themhow they think they can doit. I want the kids tobecome problem solvers,instead of always having tosay ‘Help me, help me.’”

During the school’shomecoming in the fall,Blakely said two formerstudents returned and toldof how their experience inhis class is already payingoff in college.

The students, Blakelysaid, are both freshmenstudying mechanical engi-neering at University ofLouisiana-Lafayette.

“Straight out of theirfirst class, they knew whatto do and finished in notime while the other kidshad no clue,” Blakely said,proudly. “They told me theyfelt they had a head start.”

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bracket, the one on the left is for wideangle while the other is for zooming in,he said.

The bracket was made by WalterVoorhies of New Iberia, who ownsVoorhies Machine Shop Inc.

“Walter’s the one who built this,” Rhodessaid recently as he stood next to his cam-eras atop the LHS press box at TigerStadium. “I described to him what I need-ed. He drew it out and made it for me.”

Rhodes almost didn’t need it after hisson graduated from CHS in 2008. He con-sidered quitting videoing games altogeth-er.

“It just so happens I was at Clementinefor my birthday in August 2008 ... theShensky twins (Matt and Drew) werebartenders. We got to talking about foot-ball and whether I was going back toCatholic High. They suggested going toLoreauville. Butsy (Butsy Walet) washere. Rob Segura and Rhett Peltier werehere, too,” he said. “Before the eveningwas over, I said ‘Yeah, I’ll go toLoreauville and see if they need some-one to video.’ ”

He walked in on a preseason practice,he said, and ran into Segura, who said,“What are you doing here?”

“I said ‘I came to see if you neededsomeone to video.’ He said, ‘Are you seri-ous?’ ” Rhodes said, noting his reputationpreceded him as Walet, Segura and Peltierwere former assistant coaches at CHS.

His Tiger era began that fall. TheTigers have benefited from his videosever since, Delahoussaye said.

“He has that interest in filming andthat great equipment and cameras. Hehas a passion for what he does. He does agreat job for us,” the coach said.

Having quality videos is a plus and aminus at the same time, Delahoussaye said.

“The advantage is to be able to seewhat your players are doing wrong soyou can coach them up better with quali-ty film and make the corrections neces-sary. But on the other hand, since thequality’s so good, we also have to swapthat film with other schools” and thosecoaches can pick out the players’strengths and weaknesses, he said.

Delahoussaye also said, “I’ve hadcoaches in the district compliment ourfilm. That’s how good a job we do withour film. That’s a credit to Dusty.”

The quality is there, plus more.“Another thing Dusty does on film,

he’ll call out the yard line, down and dis-tance. You just hear what Dusty’s saying.It makes our job a lot easier,”

Delahoussaye said.How much easier? On a typical football

weekend, he said, Loreauville’s coachingstaff spends an estimated 20 hours onfilm ... one from the Tigers’ game the pre-vious week and films of the opponentthey will face that Thursday or Friday.

“Looking at film is a huge part ofcoaching. You’ve got to watch your filmand three films from the other team andyou have to be ready to go by Monday.The little things Dusty does with downand distance helps tremendously,” thecoach said.

Rhodes uses his experience to offer tipsto other sports event videographers.They are:

• Use the heaviest tripod you are will-ing to carry. The heavier models won’tmove as much, if at all.

• Always use optical zoom and cut offthe digital zoom.

• Use a wide angle lens to get a widerfield of view. That helps tremendouslywhen zooming in.

Rhodes was born and raised inAtlanta. He moved here in January 1983and started working a month later withthe DW&F.

He and his wife, Clodora “Cleo”Romero, the daughter of Iberia ParishPresident Romo Romero, have one son,Zach.

‘Headstart’

Blakely teacheswith ‘hands-off’approach at LHS

PATRICK FLANAGAN / THE DAILY IBERIANLoreauville High School industrial arts teacher DannyBlakely takes a different approach in the classroom.

FROM PAGE 6

DON SHOOPMAN / THE DAILY IBERIANLoreauville coaches gave Dusty Rhodes theold camera he’s holding. The LHS videogra-pher treasures the camera, with its Tigerhelmet logo, and said with a chuckle it’sprobably old enough to have filmed some ofassistant coach Merlin ‘Butsy’ Walet’s gameswhen he played at LHS in the early 1960s.

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