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Year-old specialty LaPlace store taps into vaping popularity By Lori LyonsL’OBSERVATEUR

LAPLACE — While everyone knows there are bars, coffee bars and a brand new frozen yogurt bar in LaPlace, some folks know where there is a really cool juice bar.

It’s not your normal kind, though.

As more and more people come to rec-ognize the dangers of smoking, some have turned to vaping — the inhalation of water vapor through a hand-held device.

Juice is the wide assortment of flavors inserted into the hand-held vaporizer and can include everything from banana moon pie to peaches and cream to whiskey.

In LaPlace, 985 Vapors is the go-to spot for all those fla-vored juices, as well as vaporizers, mods, e-cigarettes and almost everything in between, with a large inventory of popular brands.

It also offers the most popular flavored juices along with some of its own exclusive New Orleans-flavored juices.

Opened by Christian Cornejo and Craig Jacomine a little over a year ago, 985 Vapors offers a comfortable spot to hang out, shoot the breeze (and

some pool) and blow some vapor with gen-eral manager Clayton Lacinak behind the bar.

“I say it’s got a man cave feel,” Lacinak said.

“We want our cus-tomers to be comfort-able and feel at home here. They’re like a family to us. I’ll talk to them about anything, from football to Grey’s Anatomy.”

For the expert, Lacinak or his co-work-ers can demonstrate the latest models, including some hand-crafted models.

For the novice,

Lacinak can explain the art of vaping as well as the technology behind the devices.

Vaping first came into being sometime in the 1960s but there cer-tainly were no hand-held devices.

It really blew up (pardon the pun) in the early 2000s once the hand-held device was invented and as more people began turning away from cigarettes due to science, laws and regulations.

Today’s vaporiz-ers are as small as a lighter or as large as a TV remote, with several alternatives in

between. They can cost anywhere from $20 to more than $300.

One customer to 985 Vapors was looking for a replacement for his, which fit perfectly in his front shirt pencil pocket.

While the dangers of vaping are still being studied and debated, those who do it are convinced it’s a better alternative.

Lacinak has read the research and can explain it all.

Legally, however, Lacinak can’t say vap-ing is safer or better for you than smoking.

He can just tell

you how going from a smoker to a vaper changed his own life.

“In my personal expe-rience, I can run again. I can work out again,” Lacinak said.

“I would use smok-ing as a stress release. Tensions are high, I’m smoking a cigarette. But then the costs out-weighed the benefit of smoking to me. I did the math. Then I did the math on how much I was smoking.

“Smoking about a pack and a half of American Spirits a day meant I was spending about six to eight hours a day smoking. I didn’t

like that idea.”Eddie Ferrand of

Slidell, who stopped by 985 Vapors for some of his favorite juice on his way to work in Norco, said he was a cigarette smoker until about 10 months ago.

“I smoked a pack and a half a day,” Ferrand said.

“When I started vap-ing, I’d smoke a pack every couple of days. Then I had a pack last me a whole week. Then I just quit buying them.

“I know this, I go to this one (vaping) place where there are some stairs. I used to have to stop halfway up those stairs for a little rest. I went the other day and I said, ‘Man, I don’t have to stop and rest anymore.’”

Added Lacinak: “The way I look at it, it’s a way to quit smoking without having to actu-ally suffer.

“Vaping has been the alternative, a differ-ent way to achieve the same thing.”

985 Vapors is located at 1900 U.S. 51, Suite. A in the Riverwood Shopping Center.

It is open Monday through Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Call 985-224-8847 or visit 985vapors.com.

Clayton Lacinak, general manager of 985 Vapors in LaPlace, can explain the vaping science and demonstrate the various devices. (Lori Lyons/L’oBsErVATEUr)

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CLEARING THE AIR

The year-old vape specialty store in LaPlace offers the latest models of vaporizers, plus a wide variety of flavored juices and a pool table for customers to use when they want to hang out.

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Public NoticeS: Saturday, december 17, 2016

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH

COUNCILPurchasing & Procure-

ment Department1801 West Airline

HighwayLaPlace, LA 70068

Request for Qualifications

forRiver Rd. Effluent

Pump Station Control Panel, Level Controls,

and SCADA Equipment

The Parish of St. John the Baptist (“The Par-

Fri. December 30, 2016Auction 9 am

3334 W. Airline HwyCash minimum bids

sold by lotsSubject to 5 day hold.

Unit #141 N.KahlFurniture, BoxesUnit #Y135 K. BoothBoxes, bagsUnit #Y240 S. McKinleyFurniture, BoxesUnit #Y248 L WashingtonAppl., Furniture, Bins Unit #Y354 K WactorFurniture, BinsUnit #Y358 Q. BrownFurniture

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ish”) hereby issues a Request for Qualifica-tions (RFQ) for one firm that possesses Professional Engi-neering qualifications for the purpose of preparing plans and specifications for the design of River Road Effluent Pump Station Control Panel, Level Controls and SCADA Equipment. Requested information shall be completed on Standard Form SJB-1000. The selected firm shall provide sufficient in-formation demonstrat-ing that the firm has Professional Electrical Engineers registered in the State of Louisi-ana in good standing and sufficient sup-port staff available to complete the required design documents for the proposed proj-ect. Final drawings, specifications and bid documents shall all be included in the design package and submitted to the Department of

Utilities.

Interested parties are invited to obtain a Request for Qualifica-tions from St. John the Baptist Parish Purchas-ing and Procurement Department, 1801 W. Airline Hwy., LaPlace, LA 70068, (985) 652-9569, by emailing a request to j.stewart@stjohn-la.gov, or electronic pro-posals can be obtained and submitted at www.centralbidding.com. The Request for Quali-fications may also be viewed and downloaded at the Parish website, www.sjbparish.com.

All responses received will be evaluated in accordance with the selection criteria iden-tified in the request for statements of qualifi-cations packet. That packet also identifies the scope of services to be performed by the selected firm.

Each Consultant Firm

shall provide a submit-tal package following the included format based on the designated point evaluation sched-ule sheet. The Ap-plicants shall include sufficient information about the firm’s quali-fications to assist the Parish in making the proper determinations about their capabilities. An original and seven copies of The State-ment of Qualifications must be submitted, ac-companied by a CD or Flash Drive containing the entire RFQ.

All Statements of Qualifications must be submitted on the Standard Form SJB-1000 in a sealed envelope at the desk of the Parish Presi-dent’s Reception-ist, 1801 W. Airline Highway, LaPlace, LA 70068. The RFQ number, name, and closing date/time must be referenced on the outside of the

envelope (lower left corner). Submissions must be received by prior to 2:45 p.m. on January 11, 2017 CST. The sealed submit-tals will be publicly opened at 3:00 p.m. that same date in the St. John the Baptist Parish Joel S. Mc-Topy Council Cham-bers located at 1801 W. Airline Highway, LaPlace, LA.

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and the Buy American provisions.

Equal Opportunity in Employment: All qualified applicants will receive consider-ation for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Con-tracts awarded on this work will be required to comply with the President’s Executive Order No. 11246, as amended.

St. John the Baptist Parish Council is an Equal Opportunity Em-ployer. Persons requir-ing reasonable accom-modation to respond to this solicitation are requested to contact the Parish at (985) 652-9569 to discuss their particu-lar needs.

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