Welcome to the home page of kingfishland.com. This is the starting place for our website. Our website is designed and built for everything Plaquemines Parish. Use the navigation menu on the left to visit various areas of our site. You can find more information about us and our site by going to our ABOUT US PAGE.
We are building and growing on a daily basis. This means some pages may be updated more often then others. We are building around the Parish and so we welcome input from everyone. Let us know what you would like to see added to our site. Simply click on any of the e-mail us buttons throughout the site.
Please support our sponsors by clicking on the various banner you see on our pages. Many of our sponsors are offering great discounts and specials for our visitors. We also have advertisers supporting various charities in our Parish. One of this sites main goals is the weather and hurricanes. You will find tons of information on weather, storms, and most importantly hurricanes.
SATURDAY 2 JANUARY 2010
ADOPT A ROAD PROGRAM
Show your parish pride and adopt a section of highway near you this year. Plaqumines Parish is needing everyone to help start the new year right. The Parish is looking for churches, schools, businesses, individuals, property owners, and other organizations to step up an help keep Plaqumines beautiful by maintaining, picking up trash, and/or cutting grass. Although there is a 1/2 mile median/shoulder minimum on a 4 lane highway and a 1 mile shoulder minimum on 2 lane roads. You may choose this minimum or opt for more if you desire. Areas are available for adoption from Woodland Highway (LA-406), to Venice.
If you wish you may visit this link to review the application details and join the adopt a road program. This is a free membership and only requires your dedication and love for our great Parish.
FRIDAY 1 JANUARY 2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR PLAQUMINES;
Well the Christmas and New Years holidays are now behind us for the 2009 season and now we are in 2010 and moving forward. Make no mistake, Plaqumines Parish is moving forward. We hope everyone had a great holiday season and a safe one. Many things are fast approaching us, Saints in the playoffs, Mardi Gras, and a host of local area events, even elections. Kingfishland.com hopes everyone moves forward with the Parish to make 2010 a better and more productive year in all areas.
WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FISHERMEN
A special event is being held this month to support our local Plaquemines Parish fishermen, as well as Louisiana fishermen and our seafood industry. Show your support and be at this event. for more information CLICK HERE.
MONDAY 30 NOVEMBER
ORANGE FESTIVAL
Yes its that time of year again in Plaquemines Parish. Time for the annual Orange Festival. This years festival is at the Medal of Honor Park in Belle Chasse. The park is located at 1292 Barriere Rd. This is just outside the back gate of the Naval Air Station. The event will be December 4th thru December 6th. The Festival kicks off on Friday at with the carnival only. Saturday the Festival opens at 10AM and goes until 9PM, and Sunday from 10am until 6PM.
As in the past parking is free and abundant. Admission to the festival is $4.00 for adults, $2.00 for children 3 to 12 years of age, and children under 3 are free. This years event marks the 63rd annual festival and the event was not stopped by Hurricane Katrina. The festival was held in 2005 at its present location the medal of Honor Park. This is its last year there however; Next year the Festival will be returning to its roots in South Plaquemines on the grounds of our historic Fort Jackson.
For more information on the festival visit the Orange Festival website. CLICK HERE to be taken to the Orange Festival website. You can also visit our page for the festival.
SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2009
ELECTION RESULTS ARE IN
The results are in and by a very slim margin a 1 cent sale tax has been approved. This brings the tax level up to 8 cents per dollar, or 8% of a sale. While this website supported the tax we also looked for those opposed to the tax. In this vote one very disturbing picture arose painting a picture of voting in the Parish. Low turnouts and slim margins are becoming an normal here.
Without worry on the voting side the correct side won this election. Plaquemines Parish will now begin moving forward with a real Fire Department. 45 full time Firemen and employee's. This is not a big department by no means, in fact it's really quite small and inadequate for the land area they will be covering.
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