It’s Mardi Gras weekend and parade-goers will be flooding the streets of Lafayette through Tuesday. The kickoff parade happened on Friday, February 28. The bands were marching, the floats were floating, and the beads were flying as the Krewe of Allons parade rolled through the Hub City. There was a kids’ parade at Westside Elementary School in Scott. Students caught beads and other throws as faculty and staff paraded around the school in side-by-side ATVs doubling as floats. Park Vista Elementary School in Opelousas also held a Mardi Gras parade. The parade started when Marcelle Fontenot was a student there with floats built out of shoe boxes. Now, it’s one of the larger parades to roll in Opelousas. Pediatric patients at Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s and Children’s Hospital got in on the…..