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East Baton Rouge, LA (October 4, 2024) – A traffic accident occurred on Friday, October 4 on Coursey Boulevard at the intersection with Stumberg Lane, resulting in injuries. Emergency responders were alerted to the scene at approximately 12:50 PM.

Initial reports indicate that the collision involved multiple vehicles, leading to a blockage of the intersection and prompting a response from local law enforcement and emergency medical services. Authorities worked to clear the area and assist those injured in the incident. The extent of the injuries has not yet been disclosed, but at least one individual was transported to a nearby hospital for medical care.

Our thoughts are with all those affected by this unfortunate accident.

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Baton Rouge-based LA-Crave-A-Ball is known for its unique variety of boudin balls and has recently started marketing to customers outside the state.

Members of the Pizzolato family, the founders of Tony’s Seafood, and chef and ball flavor creator Yvette Bonanno run the company.

The manufacturing facility in which the business operates out of on Florida Boulevard near South Donmoor Avenue was purchased in 2015 with original plans for a bakery. The building was converted into a manufacturing facility in 2020. LA-Crave-A-Ball began producing boudin balls under the inspection of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture in 2022.

“Half of the building is inspected under the Department of Health and Hospitals, which is where we do all of the blending, and that’s everything from fish fry, chicken fry, boudin spice barbecue rubs for Tony’s Seafood and our products in-house,” Bonanno says.

In the past year, the company became USDA-certified to distribute its foods outside Louisiana. It now ships to Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Atlanta.

The consumer base includes convenience stores, restaurants, caterers, hotels and country clubs.

“Tad Pizzolato said to me from the beginning that when you put Louisiana on a product like Louisiana Fish Fry, it is much more well received and sold better outside Louisiana,” Bonanno says. “We’ve only been selling to some of these customers for less than a year, so it’s been a huge growth for us.”

Reaching a more extensive audience resulted in adding new menu items like spinach and artichoke balls; red beans, pork, and sausage balls; crawfish etouffee balls; pimento cheese and grits balls; and kibbe and mini–kibbe balls. The staff is also working on new flavors.

The flavor combos result from a machine Bonanno and the staff use that injects one product into another and produces 90 boudin balls per minute.

The company aims to continue surprising customers with new products and flavors.

“We’re fortunate that our partners are buying, tremendous lots and bulk of our product, putting it out there, and helping with the distribution,” Bonanno says. “We’re generating jobs here, and we’re hopefully going to impact Louisiana’s economic footprint the way Louisiana Fish Fry did. We knew that we had that knowledge in our arsenal, that it was going to sell better outside the state of Louisiana, so we’re very excited about that.”

Customers can purchase the boudin balls from the freezer section at Tony’s Seafood on Plank Road.

This story originally appeared in an Oct. 2 issue of Daily Report. To keep up with Baton Rouge business and politics, subscribe to the free Daily Report e-newsletter here.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana first responders, including the Baton Rouge Fire Department, are still stationed in the southeast part of the country to help the areas hit by Hurricane Helene.

“We’re going road by road, looking at every structure, opening up a lot of roads, there’s still a lot of roads that are closed by downed power lines, trees blocking roads,” said Baton Rouge Fire Chief, Michael Kimble.

Chief Kimble has been in South Carolina since Saturday, along with other members from Baton Rouge, East Side, and Zachary fire departments. They are part of an urban search and rescue team with the Louisiana Fire Marshal and East Baton Rouge Emergency Medical Services.

“We’ve assisted a lot of folks to get out of their homes by opening the roads. They weren’t trapped in their homes by a tree falling and pinning them down, they were trapped in their homes because they couldn’t leave due to power lines down and trees down,” added Kimble, “it’s like any storm we’ve seen back in Louisiana, there are certain areas that have destruction, and there are certain areas that have very little damage.”

That’s not the case for other areas, according to Marc Creswell with Acadian Ambulance.

“In this case, there’s a lot of homes that are just wiped completely off the face of the earth,” said Creswell, “it just came in and just plowed through like a giant bulldozer.”

Creswell is the Director of Acadian Ambulance Air Med Division, he is stationed in North Carolina. Creswell says the level of destruction he is seeing is surreal.

“The town of Chimney Rock is completely wiped off the face of the earth and dumped into Lake Lure, and there’s numerous other cities that the majority of the buildings are wiped out or severely compromised,” explained Creswell.

The Acadian Ambulance crews are there to run 9-1-1 calls alongside the local first responders.

“When a hurricane strikes an area, it also strikes the first responders, not only their homes but their jobs, these guys have been running nonstop for four or five days, so we provide relief for them,” added Creswell.

Creswell says they don’t know how long they’ll be there, but based on what he has seen, he thinks their help will be needed for a while longer.

WAFB’s parent company Gray Media is partnering with the Salvation Army for Hurricane Helene relief. You can find out how to help those affected by the storm on the Salvation Army website.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Early voting started on October 18 for the November 5 election, but the deadline is Tuesday, October 29.

“It would be a shame if you just stayed at home and not exercise your civic duty to get out there and vote,” said Erica Williams, Second VP of Baton Rouge Delta, alumni chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.

The sorority was one of many organizations on Saturday outside of Baton Rouge’s city hall, encouraging people to vote early.

“We’re not into telling you who to vote for, we just want you to vote because it’s our civic duty, there’s a lot at stake for all of us and for everyone’s interest,” added Williams.

Others out there were Bike N’ Vote, the Power Coalition, and Pumps to the Polls, whose founder, Cherie Thomas, says there are many perks to voting early.

“At early voting, you can do it at your convenience, you can do it at places that are convenient to you for time and location and you don’t have to go to a specific location,” added Thomas.

She also says their goal is to encourage voter turn-out. Nearly one million voters in Louisiana cast their ballots early in 2020 and as of Friday more than 670 thousand voted in this election, with several days still left.

“Early voting definitely helps with turnout, because you have multiple days of doing it and so if something comes up, there‘s no barriers that’s stopping you from voting,” explained Thomas, “all you have to do is bring your ID in the parish you’re registered and early vote.”

More information about voting in your area can be found on the Secretary of State’s website.

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