– The St. Martinville City Council gave permission at its Monday council meeting to city resident Joe Paris to form a non-profit Friends of Magnolia Park group to help raise funds for, beautify and otherwise promote the city park.
Paris said he has been involved with legislative bodies and city park groups since age 3. Paris said his father grew up near Galvez Park in Mobile, Alabama, and helped formed the Friends of Galvez Park group that supported the park.
Paris grew up largely in Crowley and has been a member of several “Friends of” park groups everywhere he’s lived, including time as a television reporter in New Orleans and Lafayette and as a student at LSU in Baton Rouge…