Cajun Coast Rocks

In the first photo, Annabelle Guagliardo, 2, paints a rock Monday at the Cajun Coast welcome center in Morgan City as part of the St. Mary Rocks initiative. In the second photo, Liyah Blanco, 6, reaches for paint while Brandon Guagliardo, 5, paints a rock Monday at the Cajun Coast Visitors & Convention Bureau Welcome & Interpretative Center during “Cajun Coast Rocks,” in conjunction with the recently-formed St. Mary Rocks initiative. Amy LeBlanc of Berwick started the St. Mary Rocks group on Facebook a couple of weeks ago after learning of the idea from a group of people decorating rocks in her hometown in Missouri and placing the rocks in different places in the community. In light of recent tragic events, LeBlanc decided to bring the movement to St. Mary Parish and paint rocks, add inspirational messages to them and place them in different places throughout the parish. Cajun Coast officials plan to take some of the rocks with them when they go to the lieutenant governor’s tourism summit in Shreveport and put the rocks throughout the state, Cajun Coast Spokeswoman Jean McCorkle said. (The Daily Review/Zachary Fitzgerald)