Restaurant offers free crosses on Church Street

Odds are, Shrimp Boat Manny’s, on Church Street in Livingston may be the ultimate oxymoron. Where else, pray tell, can diners scarf down delicious Cajun food whipped up from Southern Louisiana recipes that owners Manny and Nancy Rachal have featured since 1985… then, pick up free crosses on the way out? The intent is for the sealed cedar crosses — weighing 2.6 pounds each, 42 inches tall and 33 inches across — to be posted in yards or wherever. Painted in white on each cross are the words “JESUS IS LORD.”