Update: This event has been postponed until September. Please check back for details later this summer for the rescheduled event. Thank you for your support!

Come enjoy the 2025 Cajun Cookoff for Lydia on Saturday, March 29, for a day filled with mouth-watering food and family-friendly activities all for a great cause! The 2025 Cajun Cookoff for Lydia will be held from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Natchitoches Fair Grounds.

Your participation in this event helps fund research to find a treatment or cure for children with Sanfilippo Syndrome like Natchitoches-native Lydia Rachal and her family. The Rachal family and their supporters have been relentlessly fundraising to advance critical research for a cure since Lydia was diagnosed earlier this year.

Sanfilippo Syndrome is a terminal, neurodegenerative disease that causes children to lose all the skills they’ve gained. These children suffer seizures and movement disorders, experience pain and suffering, and then die in their teens. Currently, there is no FDA-approved treatment or cure.

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