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Hospital cafeteria offers healthy discounts
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Efforts to make healthier food cheaper may encourage better choices
BY EMILY WOODRUFF Staff writer
TOP: Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel, left, blesses parishioners and palms during the Sunday Mass. ABOVE: Bishop Deshotel blesses the palms during Palm Sunday Mass at Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Lafayette. LEFT: Baskets with palms wait to be blessed. STAFF PHOTOS By BRAD KEMP
Most people don’t go to the hospital for the food. But Rachel Sigur often makes the short trip from her job with St. Bernard Parish to the small cafeteria inside Ochsner Health’s St. Bernard Parish Hospital. On Monday, there was pork loin with gravy. Midweek, a pasta primavera. And every day, a grilled chicken option. At the cash register, her meal often rings up for less than $4. The food options labeled with an “Eat Fit” seal, indicating it meets certain nutritional standards, are half price. That means the pork loin is $2.25. A side of green beans is 50 cents. “You normally don’t think about going to eat lunch at a hospital,” said Sigur, 54, who heard about the cafeteria from some ladies in her accounting department. “But the food quality was good and the prices were really affordable.”
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Iberia Parish requests out of juvenile justice district BY JOEL THOMPSON Staff writer
Pakistan says it will host talks between U.S. and Iran Iran threatens to target U.S. homes
U.S. and Iran, though there was no immediate word from Washington or Tehran, and it was unclear whether discusBY MUNIR AHMED, sions on the monthlong war would be direct or indirect. SAMY MAGDY and CARA ANNA “Pakistan is very happy that Associated Press both Iran and the U.S. have ISLAMABAD — Pakistan an- expressed their confidence nounced Sunday that it will ä See TALKS, page 4A soon host talks between the
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, from left, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan walk prior to their meeting to discuss the Middle East war, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Sunday. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO
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Iberia Parish became the fifth parish to announce its intention to exit the Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District after the Parish Council passed a resolution during a Wednesday evening council meeting. The resolution declared Iberia’s “desire to withdraw from participation in the affairs of the Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District” as well as its “intent to sever all ties with the district.” The resolution also specifically cited the district’s proposed 1% sales tax as being a primary motivator for the decision, with language stating opposition to “any tax being imposed to fund the acquisition of a detention facility and/or to operate and maintain such a facility.”
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