Pelican Post - Online Newspaper | Ascension Parish Online Newspaper, Did the Ole' Chicken Doctor pull a fast one? Ascension's Parish Council is scheduled to approve (or deny) a 46-page Construction, Operating and Cooperative Endeavor Agreement, along with eight appendices on Thursday. The contractual terms have never been discussed publicly, not the ones that will bankrupt the parish anyway. That's how one-sided (against the parish and in favor of Ascension Sewer, LLC, the consortium headed up by Bernhard Capital Partners) this deal is. Why would a.