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Vermilion Parish school employees will be getting a one-time check for working during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Superintendent Tommy Byler announced that school employees would get a one-time “COVID-19 Recruitment and Retention Stipend.” The check will go to full-time, part-time, and contract employees for the extra duties imposed upon them during the 2020-2021 school year, Byler said.
The money will be coming from the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund approved by Congress.

Last week Lena Domingues Elliott celebrated her 100th birthday in Kula, Hawaii with her five children, Judy, Karen, Janis, Steve (VC class of 1971) and Joseph (VC class of 1981), daughter in law Margaret Elliott, grandchildren Gavin Elliott, Matt Hawk and Lauren Hawk.
Also present were Matt’s wife Carmela and their newborn son Arthur, and Lauren’s fiancé Michael Giuliana. Yet to arrive to celebrate are granddaughter Alexandra Wagner and wife Danielle Pershing and their daughter Josephine.

Despite it being a COVID-19 year, sales tax continues to show positive in Vermilion Parish, based on the March sales tax report.
The parish as a whole collected $4.4 million or $800,000 more than a year ago when COVID-19 first began.
On the year, sales tax is up by at least 11 percent and in some municipalties, it is higher.
The big three had an increase of 20 percent this past March.
The School Board, Police Jury and Sheriff’s Office all collected a total of $500,000 more in sales tax than a year ago.