Recipients range from Acadian Village and Downtown Lafayette Unlimited to the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist and the Upper Lafayette Economic Foundation.
The Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission this week awarded $160,000 in Visitor Enterprise Grants to 20 Lafayette Parish civic, cultural and economic-development organizations at an awards luncheon held in, of all places, St. Martin Parish.
Recipients range from Acadian Village and Downtown Lafayette Unlimited to the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist and the Upper Lafayette Economic Foundation. LCVC has been awarding VE Grants since 1997; to date the commission has handed out more than $2.2 million. Grant recipients are designated via a committee review process. State Sen. Mike Michot, R-Lafayette, was on hand at the luncheon to distribute the grants.
