Alena Maschke
Reporter at The Acadiana Advocate
Reporter at The Current Media
Health reporter @thecurrentlaf & @theadvocateaca. Formerly: @longbeachpost @mydesert @ndn. 🖤 data. @columbiajourn '17.
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2 weeks ago |
newsfromthestates.com | Alena Maschke
BROUSSARD – In the Laotian Sou Khuan ceremony, a string is tied around participants’ wrists, in a ritual meant to preserve good luck and well-being by calling out to the spirits of their ancestors. Common across Southeast Asia, the ritual is often performed in moments of great change in a person’s life — marriage, childbirth or a big professional leap.
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2 weeks ago |
thecurrentla.com | Alena Maschke
In the Laotian Sou Khuan ceremony, a string is tied around participants’ wrists, in a ritual meant to preserve good luck and well-being by calling out to the spirits of their ancestors. Common across Southeast Asia, the ritual is often performed in moments of great change in a person’s life — marriage, childbirth or a big professional leap.
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1 month ago |
thecurrentla.com | Alena Maschke
A group of approximately 40 protesters gathered near the old city hall in Downtown Lafayette Thursday in observance of May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, with many protesting Trump administration policies. Kathryn Delcarpio, a retired public school teacher, says she’s worried abut the effect the new administration’s policies, along with those of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, will have on future generations, including her former students, children and grandchildren.
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2 months ago |
thecurrentla.com | Alena Maschke
Christmas, family barbecues, quinceañeras — Jorge Rojas Perez was there and happy to be. “He’s a great dancer, a really beautiful person,” Graciela Perez says of her brother-in-law. “He’s like a boy, he’s never going to grow up,” says her husband, Pedro Perez, with the loving scorn of an older brother. In his 20s, Jorge followed his older brother from Mexico to Acadiana two decades ago to escape the threat of violence in their hometown.
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2 months ago |
thecurrentla.com | Alena Maschke
On Sunday, facing the gusts of an especially breezy afternoon, family members and friends of people who lost their lives to overdoses huddled in small clusters on a slope in Girard Park. On banners and T-shirts, they carried with them pictures and names of the Louisiana victims of the nation’s opioid epidemic. Making visible that epidemic’s toll has been among the primary objectives of Millie Mattered, the organization behind Sunday’s gathering.
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I keep hearing that young people feel badly about the economy at large despite feeling good about their individual economic position. Someone introduce me to these people, bc I don't think I don't know a single person my age who feels good about their current finances rn.
This is objectively hilarious https://t.co/3hRLbL0K8y
