I am: LSU alumna Cindy Haygood, a U.S. Army National Guard colonel and southwest Louisiana business banking market sales executive for Capital One Bank, will speak at the Disney character breakfast at the 2016 Invictus Games in Orlando, Florida. Haygood will discuss Capital One’s partnership with the Invictus Games. Haygood received a bachelor’s degree in economics from LSU in 1991 and became a Distinguished Honor Graduate of the Louisiana Army National Guard Officer Candidate School in 1994. She is also a recipient of the Brigadier General Edmund J. Giering Outstanding Company Commander in the Engineer Regiment for 1999, and the Bronze Star, among many others. The Invictus Games is an international, Paralympic-style, multi-sport event for armed services personnel and veterans. It was created by Prince Harry.
New location: Jimmy John’s opened its fifth location in Baton Rouge on Monday, after months of renovating the old Mama Della’s pizza restaurant at 8190 Jefferson Highway. The Illinois-based sandwich chain signed a contract earlier this year to lease the property and spent about three months transforming the building to look like a Jimmy John’s. The new location opens a whole new section of Baton Rouge for the national sandwich chain, allowing it to deliver in the Jefferson/Bocage area, as well as United Plaza on Essen Lane. The Jefferson Highway location joins the other Jimmy John’s locations on West Lee Drive, Coursey Boulevard, Perkins Road and Third Street downtown.
New laws: Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has agreed to exempt veterans from having to pay a state fee to get a concealed carry permit and to let the state agriculture department sell ads for its property. The Associated Press reports those were among the bill signings announced by the governor’s office Wednesday. A five-year concealed carry permit costs $125 and a lifetime permit costs $500, with veterans currently charged half the fee’s price tag. Edwards signed a bill to do away with the fees for veterans. The governor also agreed to let the agriculture department sell sponsorships for its equipment, like the transportation and wildlife and fisheries departments can. Also signed was a measure aimed at cutting state spending on office leases by steering agencies to state-owned buildings.
