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DELCAMBRE — The town of Delcambre is losing at least one member of its police department, the Board of Aldermen learned at its monthly meeting on Monday.
The officer told the board he is leaving because he had been led to believe he would receive a pay increase from $13.50 an hour to $15 an hour, but that raise never came to fruition.
The policeman said he had been led to believe on three or four occasions that a raise would be forthcoming.

Sugarcane needs water; without it, it will not grow and could die.
Over the last month, the parish has received little or no rain and has dealt with 100-degree temperatures. Today’s sugarcane can handle high temperatures, but it cannot take not having rain over an extensive period.
The parish is dealing with extreme drought conditions, the worst in at least 25 years.
Sugarcane can grow 10 to 13 feet high when Mother Nature cooperates. Today, some sugarcane crops are only four to five feet tall, and the leaves are turning brown because of the lack of water.

Riding on hot school buses has been an issue throughout the United States, not just in Vermilion Parish. However, that does not help cool off the daily bus rides that students have to make.
In Vermilion Parish, the temperature has hovered around 100 degrees for the last three weeks with an average heat index of 105.
On Thursday, public school began in Vermilion Parish, and on the second day of school, KATC TV3 interviewed a parent about her child riding a hot school bus.