Q&A with Nick Porto

Age: 75
Native of Donaldsonville

What are your hobbies Mr. Porto?

To keep myself busy when things slow down some are going to the workshop. It is inviting where I make small wooden trinkets and during the winter months I enjoy deer hunting.
 

Name:  Breanna Bernard
Age: 11
Class: Mrs. Lorraine Delatte-Homeroom teacher
School:  Ascension Catholic Elementary School
Grade:  Fifth
Family:  Mark and Cheryl Bernard
Hometown: Donaldsonville
Extracurricular: Member of the fifth and sixth grade quiz bowl team
Interests:  Reading, writing stories, riding my horse, and dancing
 

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THE ISSUE
The main issue at hand is that we have a business that is open 24 hours in our
Neighborhood. The fact that the Laundromat is open 24 hours a day unattended allows opportunity for vandals, drug dealers, vagrants and other suspicious characters to have a place to hang out when the rest of the town’s businesses are closed. This facility also brings with it certain individuals who do not seem to care that this Laundromat is surrounded by residential homes and while the individuals are washing clothes the tendency to play excessively loud music, trash our neighborhood with litter and use our properties as port-a-lets is supposed to be tolerated by the home owners. The right to quality of life is for all, not just the business owner who stands to make a small profit from this business.
The problem is occurring at the corner of St. Patrick Street and Iberville Street, which resides in the Donaldsonville Historic District.
 

This is the first year of the Future Leadership Ascension Program.  The program was started by a group of leaders who are currently in the Leadership Ascension Program sponsored by the Ascension Chamber of Commerce.  These leaders who are now the Committee Members for the new program are Julie Bourgeois, Charlie Carmouche, Lynn Chance, April McKey, Jeff Miller, Donna Shaheen, Virginia Snedeker, and Aubert Waguespack.