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Representative Havard Awarded Legislator of the Year by the LSBA

West Feliciana Parish Hospital Construction on Track

On Wednesday January 22 the LSBA at their annual meeting named Representa-tive Kenneth Havard (R) Dis-trict 62 from St. Francisville, Legislator of the Year for his commitment to public educa-tion in the State of Louisiana.

“I am humbled to receive this award. Many educators across this state work hard every day to make this state a better place to live, learn and work. They hold the fu-ture in their hands and should be treated with dignity and respect. I am committed to education reform and higher standards, but we must move forward in a responsible way that is in the best interest of the students. We have a tre-mendous task ahead of us and I will continue to stand strong against any attempt by anyone or group that wants to privatize our public school

system in an attempt to profit from it,” Rep. Havard added.

Superintendent Milton Proposes New West Feliciana School Property Tax

West Feliciana Parish School Superintendent Hollis Milton plans on asking the West Feliciana School Board to put a 10-year, 14-mill tax before voters to raise $3.7 million a year for school enhancements at the February 25th meeting. The new tax measure would be on the May 3 ballot.

The money would be used to pay for teacher recruitment efforts and to increase course offerings, up-date facilities and sta-bilize the system’s fi-nances.

Milton asserts that the top 10 in the state school system for academ-ic achievement has been saddled with financial problems caused by a lack of economic growth in the parish, declining tax revenue, state and federal cuts to education and rising health care and retirement

costs.Right now, the West Felici-

ana Parish school system receives 35.96 mills in property taxes dedi-

cated to education. Milton’s plan would expand students’ col-lege and career op-portunities by creat-ing new programs and hiring highly qualified teachers and retaining them at a time when there is a shortage of certified teachers and an increased amount of veteran teachers re-tiring.

The money would also be used to improve school buildings, improve athletic facili-ties and pay anticipated recurring debt as well as health care and re-tirement costs, as well as, unfreeze staff salaries, add academic sti-pends and increase salary sched-ules.

Hollis Milton

The West Feliciana Parish Hospi-tal Board of Commissioners reported to the Feliciana Explorer this week that the layout design for the new hos-pital facility is progressing well. The hospital will be 58,000 square feet and currently the team is completing the schematic design. The building is being planned on the piece of proper-ty recently purchased by the hospital adjacent to the current hospital cam-pus. They are on schedule to submit construction documents for public bid late this summer and are working toward a project completion date for early 2016. Also, they are planning for a Medical Office Building that will be constructed next to the new hospi-tal. The options for the Medical Of-fice Building include hospital admin-

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WFPH continued from page 1istration and business office functions, an education /conference center, and physician clinics including specialists from Baton Rouge. Other services be-ing considered for this building are be-havioral health and a wellness center. This facility will allow WFPH to ex-pand specialty care and services. The new hospital and medical office build-ing have been planned with a focus on services and strategic priorities es-tablished by a demographic study and market assessment provided by Dixon Hughes Goodman, the hospital’s CPA firm. The report was used to develop a strategic plan for the services that will be provided with this construction project.

Over the last few months their architects have completed multiple design review sessions with hospital personnel to put the concepts of the study into a facility that will provide our patients a chance to receive diag-nostic services and specialty care in West Feliciana.

Their experienced team of health care architects (Curtis Group and Grace Hebert) and construction man-ager (JE Dunn) have done an excep-tional job in getting the project to this point. They have provided valuable feedback for the schematic design and elevations that are currently be-ing completed. The new hospital will transform healthcare in your commu-nity and will provide opportunities to receive traditional and new services in a state of the art facility. They contin-ue to work on several exciting initia-tives that will enhance this project and the hospital campus. Continue to read the Feliciana Explorer regularly for updates on the phases of construction.

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During last week’s Ice Storm, the dedicated staff of West Feliciana Parish Hospital manned their post to provide emergency services for all the area individuals who would need their services.

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Carlin to Be Congressman’s Point Man for the FelicianasBy James Ronald skains

Justin Carlin is the new Deputy Director for 5th District Congress-man Vance McAllister whose dis-trict includes West and East Fe-liciana and most of the Florida parishes.

“Congressman McAllister wants me to really focus on the people in the Felicianas to give them an open line to their Congressman,’’ Justin Carlin told the Feliciana EXPLOR-ER. “Our goal is to be in each par-ish in the Florida parishes at least once a week.”

“We will probably open a satel-lite office in southeast Louisiana that is convenient for everyone in the area. Congressman McAllister has given me instructions to make his Congressional office accessible to all the citizens of his district, no matter how large or small their problem might be. The Congress-man is taking his responsibility to represent everyone in the district very seriously.”

Carlin is a 28 year old former Deputy Sheriff in Rapides Parish and salesman for H&E Equipment in central Louisiana. Carlin had no political experience before becom-ing involved in McAllister’s cam-paign last fall for 5th District Con-gressman. That is a story in itself.

“I saw McAllister talking on TV one night. He was talking about how he could make the 5th district a much better place for kids to grow up in, than what is was now. I was so impressed with his sincerity in what he said, that I contacted him

Justin Carlin, the Deputy Director for 5th District Congressman Vance McAllister who will focus on the Felicianas and the Florida Parishes.

on Facebook the next day,’’ Carlin, who grew in Mangham in north Louisiana about 25 miles south of Monroe, said in relating his initial contact with McAllister. “A couple days later a friend of mine contact-ed me and asked me if I would put help him put up signs for McAllis-ter in the Alexandria area.”

“I agreed to put out some signs, and then Vance called and thanked me for my help. A couple of days later, I sent him a picture of my little six-year-old girl putting up a “McAllister for Congress” sign in Woodworth. When he came to Al-exandria to campaign, I met him and went around with him cam-paigning. We begin talking more on the phone and I worked with him each time he came to the Alexan-dria area to campaign.”

“The first thing I noticed about Vance was how humble he was for a man of his financial capability. His Christian faith showed through on everything he did. He was the same person whether he was talk-ing before a big group of people or a small group of business leaders or just riding around with me in my truck. He never changed, he was just always the same.”

“It just seemed that our friend-ship just grew the more we were to-gether,” Carlin noted. “I had never been involved in a political cam-paign before and certainly had no ambition of going to work in a po-litical environment.”

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New Log Export Operation Offers Feliciana Landowners AnotherBy James Ronald skains

Ralph Stewart Logging Com-pany’s export operation located in Port Allen, LA at the intersection of Hwy 190 and LA 1 offers a great opportunity for loggers, forest-ers and landowners to participate in the international demand for Southern Yellow Pine logs.

“Ralph Stewart Logging Opera-tion is going to be a win-win situ-ation for all the people in the Gulf South forest industry,” Ralph Stew-art told the Feliciana EXPLORER. “This is great opportunity for land-owners to get a fair market value for their timber in the international market and for the logger to get a good value for his efforts.”

“We are ready to start receiving logs as soon as the weather gives us a little break. Our log yard located here at the intersection of Hwy 190 and LA 1 has a good base, but we want to add a limestone base be-fore we start storing logs.”

The Stewart logging marshal-ling yard facility is a 25,000 square foot office/warehouse space setting on 12 acres. The site is the former home of the Louisiana Scrap Metal Facility until that facility moved to a new location in 2013 behind the Port of Baton Rouge. Stewart paid $1.75 million for the site.

“Bodi White, a longtime friend of mine from Central who is also a state Senator and realtor, helped make the deal happen,” Stewart related. “Everyone here in West Baton Rouge Parish and the people the Port of Baton Rouge have been extremely helpful. I couldn’t have done this without a lot of people’s help.”

“There are several keys to mak-ing a log export business happen. First, you have to have a good sup-ply of timber that you can get to your location. Secondly, but the real key, in making a log export business work is the ISO team. These guys work for the seller,

which would be Stewart Logging, but their job is to make sure that Stewart Logging adheres to the strict standards on all logs that our international buyers demand.”

An ISO company inventories the incoming logs, bar codes the logs, enters the logs in the right computer program, marshals and warehouses the logs, transport the logs to the ship and helps in load-ing the ocean going ship.

Chris Emmens is the Project Manager for the ISO Company working for Stewart Logging. His company, ISO Marshalling (USA, LP), is based in New Zealand.

“Our role in the exporting of logs is essential. We are the third party certifiers of the product,” Emmens told the EXPLORER. “We scale each log that comes into Stewart Logging here in Port Allen after it is weighed on the scales by Stewart.”

“The international buyer of the logs wants to know the exact measurements of the logs when they first come into the marshal-ling yard. We have a measurement formula that calculates the exact amount of fiber that a customer will get out of the log once it is delivered to him.”

“We use the JAS system for measurements and the formula to calculate the fiber of the logs,” Emmens, who worked for over a year at the Port of New Orleans, stated. “JAS is short for the Japa-nese Agriculture Standards which most countries in Asia use.”

“It will take these logs at least 32 days going through the Panama Canal to reach their destination in China, Japan or India once they leave the Port of Baton Rouge. To be able to get the maximum num-ber of logs on a ship, we need to know all the measurements of the log including its weight. The logs will change weight from Baton Rouge to their destination.”

The Japanese Agriculture Stan-dards (JAS) is a government cre-ated grading system for some 56 products including lumber. The JAS mark on a product certifies it has been graded by a manufactur-er, distributor, or importer or by a certified third party.

“I have worked methodically to set up this operation to make sure that I have all the bases covered,” Stewart explained. “I have a lot of experience in the logging export business, including actually load-ing the ships.”

“In fact, I will be the lead ste-vedore on loading the ships here at the port of Baton Rouge. We will be using Caterpillar excava-tors with log grapples on them to actually load the ships. Louisiana Machinery, Tommy Fernandez, Milton Jones and Mike Lott in their Hammond office have been great in helping get this operation set up.”

Ralph Stewart, a third genera-tion timber man and logger, is now based in Amite. A native of Hold-en, he currently has two logging crews in operation.

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Market for their Timber“I’ve had several mentors over

the years in the logging and timber business. Craig Watts and Mike Wild have been very helpful. I worked for Glenn Hinson for sev-eral years. If a person works for Glenn for very long and doesn’t learn how to log properly, he just isn’t listening or is not paying at-tention.”

“We have spec sheets that give the lengths and diameters for logs that we will be taking here to ex-port,” Stewart added. “We are go-ing to calculate into the price that we can pay for logs the length of the haul and any other circum-stances that affect the cost of har-vesting. We will buy the logs on a

per ton basis and everyone will get paid on a weekly basis.

This operation is not all about me trying to make money, but about giving all the timber indus-try an opportunity to sell logs at a fair price,” Stewart said in con-clusion. “The timber industry has seen some rough times in recent years. The log export business will give the industry a much needed new market.”

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Elena Metz Viator

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vited me up to his home in Swartz to watch the election returns on the Saturday of the runoff. When I got there, Vance was still out campaign-ing. He got in just as the election results begin to come in. The news media was already at his house by that time. The McAllister campaign was anticipating winning the elec-tion, but by a very narrow margin.”

“We were all pumped up as the returns begin to come in,’’ Car-lin recalled. “Vance’s friend Wil-lie Robertson with Duck Dynasty came by for a few minutes but he was in a hurry to get back home because they had killed a couple of deer that afternoon.”

“It wasn’t long before a lady TV reporter stuck a microphone in front of Vance and asked him, ‘How does it feel to be the new Congressman from the 5th Congressional district of Louisiana?’

Vance told her that he didn’t know because all the votes hadn’t been counted. The race was still fairly close at that point. The TV reporter told Vance that the AP had declared him the winner.”

“It was at that point the real-ization set in for him that he had won the race,’’ Carlin said vividly remembering that moment in time. “He became emotional and was very thankful for everyone’s help, and the opportunity to represent the people in the 5th Congressional

District in the US House of Repre-sentatives.”

“Congressman McAllister is tru-ly a man on a mission to make not only the 5th Congressional District a much better place to live, but also to help turn our country around. He has said many times that we must have a spiritual fix in Washington before we can have a political fix.”

“I was surprised, but humbled by him offering me a job,’’ Carlin re-vealed. “It was a very tough choice for me to take the job. Although I had only been working two years for H&E Equipment, I had built up a pretty good client base throughout Central Louisiana from the Texas line to Mississippi.”

Carlin, who now lives in Wood-worth (well known for its speed traps) just south of Alexandria, added: “Before taking the job sell-ing equipment, I had been a Deputy Sheriff in Rapides Parish. I really enjoyed that job because that was why I had attended the Delta Law Enforcement School in Monroe. But as my friends and family point-ed out to me, I wasn’t making much money as a deputy sheriff.”

“As a deputy sheriff, you could be very friendly and helpful to peo-ple in need, but very firm with of-fenders. One night we were patrol-ling I-49 near Woodworth when we stopped a Texas vehicle for a traf-fic violation. One question led to another and we finally brought the dogs in. They found drugs.”

“We asked them were they were

coming from and where they were going. When they told us they left Lake Charles going to Alexandria, I asked them why they didn’t just travel US 165 instead on getting on the interstate,” Carlin related. “The drug runner told us that they had traveled to Forest Hill just below Woodworth on US 165 and then cut over to the interstate so they would not have to go through Woodworth because they were afraid of getting a speeding ticket.”

“I had never thought of myself being in a political environment, but once I started the job, I found out that I really like what I am do-ing, working for Congressman McAllister,” Carlin, married with two children, said in conclusion. “I’m looking forward to getting to know the people in the Florida Parishes on a first name basis very soon. If you have a problem that you think a Congressman can help solve, come see me. A Congress-man has an awesome amount of re-sources that he can call on to help solve problems.”

Writer’s note: I’ve known Justin Carlin’s dad, B.J. Carlin for several years. The family is a class act with a deep spiritual faith and a track record of helping others in time of need. In my opinion, Justin Carlin is a good match for Congressman McAllister’s office in order to help the Congressman make a real dif-ference in the 5th Congressional District.

On Wednesday, January 22, 2014, Elena was called home to her Heavenly Father. After a year and a half of struggling with the cancer in her body, we rejoice in the fact that she is in her eter-nal home with no more pain.Elena was raised in St. Francisville and graduated from Wilkin-son County Christian Academy in Woodville and USL in Lafayette. She taught at a private school for a short time before homeschooling her own children. That’s where she was inspired along with her husband to publish “Blooming at Home”. Every issue was focused with scriptures from the Bible and how to use them at home in everything you do. She always said, “God is so good!”, “God loves you!”or “Praise The Lord!” She put all trust in The Lord.She was preceded

in death by her parents, Christian “Bubber” Metz and Sarah Griffin Metz. She is survived by her husband of 23 years, Kevin Viator of Kaplan, LA and four sons, Joshua, Josiah, John and Timothy and two daughters, Hosanna and Lydia; five brothers, “Sonny”, “Buddy”, Frank, Tim and Chris Metz and two sisters, Olinda Carruth and Myrtle Hair.She was buried at Metz Family Cemetery on Saturday, January 25, 2014, where she is blooming in her eternal home. The family wishes to thank all for their prayers, food, flowers and all acts of kindness shown to us in this difficult time.

Gregory Charles Franklin of Clinton, LA received the Quarterly Leader Award from Con-way on January 22, 2014. Gregory received 10 nominations from his fellow coworkers for this award. Some of the nominations stated that Greg was dependable, trustworthy, and hard working. He was also recognized for driving 1,000,000 miles without an accident. His family and friends attended the ceremony.

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receive printed menus and recipes of all dishes prepared during this demonstration, highlighting the specific African and Caribbean in-fluences in each recipe. For more in-formation, call 225-635-3110 in the St. Francisville area, or visit the Of-fice of State Parks web site at www.lastateparks.com.

A Gathering of Writers & Read-

ers Arts for All is pleased to an-nounce the return of an annual symposium for writers and lovers of writing to be reprised February 22, 2014 at Hemingbough. Through adoption of this event, Arts for All continues its mission of being the umbrella organization for ALL the arts in our parish! The event is growing in stature and popularity each year. For 2014, we have invited four of the best regional writers to share their works and their creative practices with those in attendance. The authors are Wiley Cash, Anne Butler, Rheta Grimsley Johnson and Julie Kane. Ernest Gaines, a recent National Medal of Arts win-

ner, will be present as our guest of honor. The 2014 Gathering of Writers and Readers promises to be our best symposium yet. These diverse authors have been specifi-cally chosen to give the audience a well-balanced appreciation for the art of literature---poetry, fic-tion, creative nonfiction, non-fiction, all with great appeal to Louisiana readers. They will share their creative processes and works; participants, including several students on scholarships, are encouraged to ask questions and will have an opportunity to interact with the authors. Seating is limited. For online information visit http://artsforall.felicianalo-cal.com. Tickets, $35, may be purchased at http://www.brown-papertickets.com/event/491750 and include parking, individual author presentations as well as moderated panel discussions, book signings, refreshments, lunch and a dessert reception with authors. For more Informa-tion call 225-302-3524

EVENTS IN THE FELICIANAS

There’s something to do every day in the Felicianas. From choir performances and rodeos to Main Street markets and special library programming for children, this area is rich in cultural and social activities. If you have an event you would like the public to know about, send and email to

info@felicianaexplorer.com. Space allowing, your event will be included for free in the Event Calendar section.