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Margarette has been involved with the
Calcasieu-Cameron Fair Association for the past fifteen years. She
has worked in all departments and activities of the fair. She was
the Commercial Exhibits Chairman for six years with sales exceeding
each year. She has done everything from cleaning restrooms to
shoveling wood chips in the livestock and poultry buildings. The
only thing she has not had the pleasure of doing is to get on the
tractor and cut grass, and this is a job she would like to be
spared. However, she has cut grass with a push mower and did a lot
of trimming with a weed eater. She has worked with the carpenters,
electricians and plumbers when help was needed.
She has
worked with the community service workers to make sure they did the
jobs they were assigned to do plus keeping up with the paper work on
each one that was sent to work the fairgrounds.
She has helped organize the Summer
Fishing Rodeo Fest in Cameron Parish. She has been very active
working with the Girl Scouts. Margarette has worked very hard with
the Girl Scouts in the past years. She was honored by the Troops in
Hackberry, LA for all of the past practices such as manning the Girl
Scout Booth at the Marshland Festival in Hackberry, and the Cajun
Rivera Festival in Holly Beach, LA.
She has worked with numerous Fairs
and Festivals throughout the State of
Louisiana when called upon.
Margarette has worked the ticket booths for the Cajun French Music
Association Festival held annually at the Burton Coliseum. She has
volunteered her services in various ways at the First Robeline
Heritage Festival, Sulphur Mines Festival, Starks Mayhaw Festival,
the Sabine Parish Fair, in Many, LA, the Calcasieu Cajun Festival in
Vinton, LA, the Hodges Gardens Independence Day Festival, in Florien, LA and Calca Chew Food Festival
in Lake Charles, LA.
She has served one year on the Board
of Directors of Louisiana Association of Fairs and Festivals (L.A.F.F.).
She has served as Chairman of Registration for L.A.F.F. for the past
six years. Margarette was the Poster Chairman for L.A.F.F. for one
year. Has attended Zone Meetings, I.A.F.E. Convention in Las Vegas
and traveled throughout the State with her husband promoting
Tourism, Cal-Cam Fair, and L.A.F.F.
Margarette was employed as a Bus
Driver for the Louisiana State Department of Health and Human
Resources for six years. She was a Calcasieu Parish School Bus
Driver for the school system for five years.
Margarette has been on the
Calcasieu-Cameron Fair Board of Directors for the past seven years.
She volunteers her time whenever possible to help better the
Calcasieu-Cameron Fair.
She is involved as a volunteer with
the Calcasieu Association for Retarded Citizens (C.A.R.C.), United
Way, Heart Fund Drive and the Early Intervention Program for the
Handicapped. She is the Chairperson for "Special Visitors Day" at
the Cal-Cam Fair each year. She assists with the registration desk.
Margarette is married, a mother of
two, and the proud grandmother of three. |
