Published 5:05 americium Sunday, January 29, 2023
Visit Lake Charles recognized
The Louisiana Travel Association awarded Visit Lake Charles with 3 Louey Awards during the associations’ yearly Louey Award solemnisation successful New Orleans. Visit Lake Charles was named 2022 Outstanding Convention and Visitors’ Bureau of the Year, arsenic good arsenic 2022 Tourism Campaign of the Year, and Major Event of the Year. The Louey Awards honors individuals and organizations who person made exceptional contributions to the Louisiana tourism industry.
Outstanding CVB
This grant recognizes exceptional efforts successful tourism promotions done events, activities, oregon selling initiatives, showing impervious of instrumentality connected concern done accrued visitation. In 2022, Visit Lake Charles held the PGA Korn Ferry Lake Charles Championship, an planetary property league for 300 journalists astatine US Travel Association’s IPW, the 19th Americas LNG & Gas Summit & Exhibition arsenic good arsenic the Louisiana Travel Summit. The squad launched the archetypal podcast, Louisiana’s Playground, by a destination selling enactment successful the authorities with large success, and the enactment was inducted successful to the USSSA Hall of Honor. Visit Lake Charles claimed the grant for wide fund gross of $1 cardinal and above.
Tourism Campaign/Promotion of the Year
Visit Lake Charles’ Austin Integrated Marketing Campaign was selected arsenic the victor for the Tourism Campaign Award for 2022 for the class of a fund of $30,000 and above. This run showcased Southwest Louisiana’s culinary stories done societal media, integer advertising, out-of-home done wrapped vehicles, nationalist relations, and leveraging an Austin influencer. Some of the results see an summation successful website postulation by 65 percent, overnight stays by 8.5 percent, and nutrient expenses by 8.5 percent.
Major Event of Year
This is presented to bid-based large events that person proven economical interaction for its region. Visit Lake Charles claimed successful grant of the PGA Korn Ferry Tour Lake Charles Championship. Professional golfers traveled from crossed the federation and astir the satellite for a accidental to vie successful this four-day tournament.
Ochsner Christus welcomes pair
Ochsner Christus Health Center-Lake Area welcomes the husband-and-wife squad of Kelly Paulk, M.D., and Emily Paulk, M.D. to the Lake Charles community.
A Lake Charles native, Dr. Kelly Paulk is committee certified successful the attraction of symptom medicine, particularly chronic symptom involving the musculoskeletal strategy and spine. He earned a aesculapian grade from the Louisiana State University Health Science Center New Orleans School of Medicine, wherever helium besides completed an internship and residency, arsenic good arsenic a fellowship successful symptom medicine. He has been with Ochsner since 2019. He is certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation successful Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine. He treats patients astatine Building G, Suite 1 connected the Lake Area field astatine 4150 Nelson Road.
Dr. Emily Paulk is simply a superior attraction doc and committee certified successful interior medicine. After undergraduate enactment astatine LSU, she earned a aesculapian grade from the LSU Health Science Center New Orleans School of Medicine. She completed an internship and residency successful interior medicine astatine Ochsner Medical Center successful New Orleans. She is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She has been connected unit astatine Ochsner since 2017. Dr. Paulk treats patients astatine the Lake Area field astatine Building G, Suite 5
Cormier named elder VP
The SWLA Economic Development Alliance/Chamber SWLA has announced that Eric Cormier has been tapped to pb the Alliance/Chamber SWLA’s concern improvement efforts.
Cormier has been promoted to elder vice president of Entrepreneurship and Strategic Initiatives astatine the Southwest Louisiana Economic Development Alliance/Chamber SWLA.
He volition oversee the agency’s programs and advocacy for entrepreneurship and tiny concern improvement wrong the five-parish area. He volition besides negociate the SEED Center Business Incubator.
Along with those duties, Cormier volition proceed moving with the agency’s economic/community development, governmental affairs and strategical communications initiatives.
Cormier began moving astatine the Alliance/Chamber SWLA arsenic a Special Projects manager successful 2013. In 2016, helium was promoted to vice president of argumentation and strategical Development.
Cormier graduated from McNeese State University successful 1993 with a grade successful wide communications. He completed studies successful the Louisiana Industrial Development Executives Association Economic Developer Program.
EXIT welcomes squad members
EXIT Realty Southern is pleased to denote the summation of Lauren Bane Huffman. Huffman brings 4 years of existent property acquisition serving the residents of Southwest Louisiana.
She and her team, The Land Home Group, person been serving Southwest Louisiana since 2019.
Damon Thorn and Rachel Lanclos person besides joined EXIT Realty Southern astatine its offices astatine 3701 Maplewood Drive successful Sulphur.
EXIT Realty Southern is simply a arrogant subordinate of EXIT Realty of Louisiana’s rapidly expanding web of independently owned and operated brokerages crossed the region.
Hospital honors 5 employees
SULPHUR — West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital precocious recognized respective outstanding employees with Employee of the Month distinction.
Employees recognized were: Lolita Roberts, lab; Blanche Matthews, housekeeping; Heather Miller, respiratory; Matthew Welsh, selling & communications; and Jessica Soto, carnal medicine.
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