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Hammond – First Guaranty Bank is pleased to welcome Terry Fendley to the lending team, representing the Lafayette and Acadiana Markets. Fendley is a native of Abbeville, LA where one of our 22 Louisiana locations are located. Fendley is bringing 33 years of lending and management experience from the financial industry, with 9 years of that being at Capital One. Fendley also received Omega Performance training for Business Banking (commercial loans and small business) and Financial Accounting for Lenders, which makes him a highly qualified lender no matter the project at hand.

Re-opening of the Abbeville Fire Department’s Hebert Substation No. 2 is moving closer to reality.
Construction of the station, which had to be torn down after it was heavily damaged during the historic flooding in August of 2016, is expected to be completed around November. The station is located on Morgan Street on the west side of the Vermilion River.

LAFAYETTE — Planning is underway for the establishment of the Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Blanco is a UL Lafayette alumna and the only woman to serve as Louisiana governor.
The policy center and archive will house Blanco’s gubernatorial papers. It also will contribute interdisciplinary, independent research to a host of public policy areas, including criminal justice reform, poverty and economic opportunity, governmental ethics, and education.