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This weekend local bikers will be riding up and down Bayou Lafourche in an event to raise money for a local Marine detachment.
The Marine Corps League Bayou Detachment 905 is hosting its first annual poker run on Saturday. The run begins at the Veterans Memorial District in Galliano, with registration starting at 8 a.m. The groups in the run usually consist of motorcycles, but David Boudreaux, with Det. 905, said all vehicles are welcome to join.
The run will begin with the first group of vehicles leaving the memorial district at 9 a.m., with assorted groups following shortly afterwards and the last vehicles departing at 10 a.m., according to Boudreaux. The groups will travel to five locations, going as far north as Chackbay before coming back down the bayou to stop at the Galliano Truck Plaza. At each location, each vehicle will pick up get draw a card and try to make a poker hand. Those with the best hands upon returning to the memorial district in Galliano, , with the latest groups getting in by 2 p.m., will receive cash prizes.
Boudreaux said registration for the poker run is $20 per hand, and the money raised will go toward the detachment’s support system for Marines in Lafourche Parish.
“Our primary objective is to help other marines in our area and their families. If anybody would come in from deployment and need somebody to talk to or need any kind of assistance, we try to provide that assistance to them,” Boudreaux said. “Or if they need help paying some bills, maybe we can help them do that. It extends past just Marines coming in, it also extends to people in the community. Whenever we can, we try to help them out as well.”
The fundraising is part of a concerted effort by Boudreaux and three other Marines to revive Det. 905, which has seen a drop in activity in recent years. Boudreaux said as the detachment became dormant, charter and lifetime members went their separate ways. He said the he and the other Marines are trying to move the charter location from Lockport to Raceland so it can better serve the entire parish as well as make the detachment active again. Boudreaux says jolting Det. 905 to life will support and maintain the special bond among local Marines.
“The camaraderie, and whatever we all went through, we all went through together in one timeframe or another, so it’s a brotherhood, it’s a bond we all share,” Boudreaux said.
After the vehicles return to the Veterans Memorial District, there will be a DJ playing music, plate lunches, raffles and live auctions. Boudreaux said he chose the Veterans Memorial District, which has wall commemorating South Lafourche veterans from every American war, because it is a both a good focal point in the parish and a place that carries special meaning to both veterans and civilians alike.
“It’s a good place to start and stop and a good place for people to come visit the wall and see what they have. Because it’s a good facility you can go to,” Boudreaux said.
