Community Events
SUGAR FEST – The Old Arabi Sugar Fest is held annually on the grounds of the Lebeau Plantation in old Arabi. Voices Foundation scholarship winners are awarded at this event.
Though the Sugar Fest has been known to have its share of rainy weather the festival is great fun – and rain can’t possibly fall three years in a row, can it?
Join us in April 2011 for music, food, crafts and fun (might be best to bring your umbrella, just in case).
OPEN AIR MARKET IN ST. BERNARD – There was a true sense of community pride when St. Bernard Parish President Craig P. Taffaro, Jr., the Parish Council and the Tourist Commission hosted its Christmas Party and ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Aycock Barn and Open Air Market in Old Arabi. Friends, neighbors, community leaders, and vendors all shared in the excitement and the possibilities of this new facility.
Taffaro said the Open Air Market is part of a vision to have the historic Old Arabi area be a revitalized corridor into the parish, citing the new stores along St. Claude Avenue, the plans for the old jail, and the work slated for the Maumus Center on Friscovilee as indicators of progress. He also announced that in addition to serving as a marketplace, the Barn will also house the new St. Bernard Parish Tourism Office.
Voices Foundation board members attended the opening, offering copies of the Serving St. Bernard cookbook, to the delight of attendees.
