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Extra Mile fête raises much-needed funds for Avec Les Enfants

by Walter Pierce

Auction items include hotel lodging, clothing and accessories from local merchants, a year of karate lessons and even a round-trip flight over the Atchafalaya Basin to New Orleans and back in a small plane.

The Extra Mile's Avec Les Enfants program promotes visitation between children and non-custodial parents under the supervision of trained staff members as well as law enforcement, allowing children to have contact with parents with whom they otherwise would not. To help support the program, the Extra Mile's eighth annual Silent Auction Dinner & Dancing Fundraiser will be held Thursday night at Abacus on Pinhook Road.

The event will be held from 6-10 p.m. with music by The Rick James Project. Pre-order tickets are $30 per person; $35 at the door.

Auction items include hotel lodging, clothing and accessories from local merchants, a year of karate lessons and even a round-trip flight over the Atchafalaya Basin to New Orleans and back in a small plane.

For ticket information or to make a tax-deductible donation to this very worthy cause, call Karen Hebert at (337) 237-2090, extension 114, or email her at [email protected].