Camille Fontenot
By: RAYMOND PARTSCH III
Managing Editor
The Ville Platte Chamber of Commerce needs your vote.
The Chamber released the nominees for Business Person of the Year and Business on the Year on Tuesday. Chamber of Commerce Director Camille Fontenot wants to urge all members to make sure to cast their votes at the chamber’s offices on Main Street by the deadline of noon on Monday, April 18.
“I ask that all chamber members please remember that the banquet is coming up and that we need all the votes for the nominations by Monday,” Fontenot said.
A total of five individuals from four city businesses have been nominated for Business Person of the Year. Those nominees include: Luke Deville for Teet’s Food Store, Amy and Scott Dupre for B&S Grocery, Toni Hamlin for Evangeline Parish School System and Alana McCaskey for the Flower Patch.
A total of four businesses meanwhile have been nominated for Business of the Year. Those local businesses are: B&S Grocery, H.L. Pitre and Sons, The Flower Patch and Uptown Cakes.
The winners of both categories, as well as Ville Platte’s Man and Woman of the Year, will be revealed at the Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet which is scheduled this year for Thursday, April 28 at the Ville Platte Civic Center.
Tickets cost $40 and the Chamber does have gold and silver tables available. For those interested in buying tickets or reserving those tables, please call the Chamber at (337) 363-1878.