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Freedom is Worth the Price You are Willing to Pay for ItPart 2 of Rafael Nowicki’s Odyssey to Freedom

Above: Rafael Nowicki, local businessman and native of Poland who escaped from Communist Poland in 1979.

By James Ronald skains Author’s Note: The follow-

ing is part two of a three-part ar-ticle as told in the words of Rafael Nowicki, who vividly describes his journey to freedom in the US. What a vivid reminder of what we as Americans have to be thankful for as we prepare to celebrate our country’s independence.

“My decision and the timing of my effort to leave communist Po-land was not a spur of the moment decision,’’ Nowicki told the Felici-ana Explorer. “I had been obsessed with immigrating to the United States since I was a pre-teenager.”

“I had to apply three times to the Polish authorities to go to England to learn to speak English. I played up the theme that since the entire computer languages at that time

were being written in English, that I could only learn proper computer style English in England. I told the communist Polish authorities that my learning proper English in England would be a great boon for the Polish computer industry when I came back from England.”

“My dad was involved in the beginning stages of the computer industry in Poland as a translator,” Nowicki noted. “He was fluent in three languages and could speak and understand two other languag-es. He could read the computer tapes that were used at the time, so he was a valuable person to the Polish government.”

“When I got permission to leave and actually caught the flight to London, the Polish authorities

Halcon Resources Increases Stake in TMSObtains $400 Million to Continue Exploration in the FelicianasBy James Ronald skains

Halcon Resources recently an-nounced that Apollo Global Man-agement would invest up to $400 million in one of its wholly owned subsidiaries that will hold all of its 314,000 acres the company has leased in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale of Louisiana and Missis-sippi. According to the announced plans, Apollo Global will receive preferred shares of stock in the subsidiary, plus receive up to a 4% overriding royalty interest from 75 wells to be drilled and completed in the Tuscaloosa acreage.

Halcon Resources (HK) had previously announced plans to begin drilling 10-12 wells in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) in 2014. HK also announced plans

to participate in 15-20 wells in the TMS in which they will not be the operating partner.

According to reports, the Horse-shoe Hill 11-22H-1 (92% WI) well in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, achieved a 24-hour average initial production rate of 1,208 barrels of oil per day and 1.1 million cubic feet per day of 1,551 BTU natural gas on a 19/64-inch choke. Based on gas composition analysis and assuming full ethane recovery, the company estimates that the well would produce an additional 212 barrels of NGLs per day for a total 24-hour average initial production rate of 1,548 barrels of oil equiva-lent per day.

The well has a 7,060’ effective

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lateral and was completed with 24 frac stages, 21 of which were effectively pumped and three of which were partially pumped (less proppant placed than designed). Halcón drilled this well in 39 days (spud to TD). The Company has drilled the Black Stone 4H-2 (87% WI) well in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in 28 days (spud to TD) with a 5,400’ lateral. It is ex-pected that completion of opera-tions are to begin this month. Hal-cón recently spudded the Fassman 9H-1 (84% WI), located in Wilkin-son County, Mississippi, with a second rig and is planning a 6,030’ lateral for this well. The Company has also spudded the SD Smith 1H (62% WI), located in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, and is plan-ning a 7,660’ lateral for this well.

Obtaining investment money from Apollo Global Management, LLC and its subsidiaries for drill-ing in the TMS is a major finan-cial indication of the potential of the TMS in Louisiana and Missis-sippi.

Apollo is led by three managing partners who have worked togeth-er for more than 24 years, Leon Black, Joshua Harris and Marc Rowan. Apollo Global Manage-ment, LLC and its subsidiaries are a leading global alternative invest-ment manager. Apollo is a con-trarian, value-oriented investor in private equity, credit and real es-tate, with significant expertise. It operates its businesses in an inte-grated manner which they believe distinguishes them from other al-ternative investment managers.

Apollo has applied this invest-ment philosophy over their 24-year history, deploying capital across the balance sheet of indus-try leading businesses, and seek-ing to create value for their inves-tors throughout economic cycles. Apollo raises, invests and manag-es funds on behalf of some of the world’s most prominent pension and endowment funds, as well as other institutional and individual investors.

Black, Harris and Rowan lead a team of 761 employees, includ-ing 302 investment professionals in New York, Los Angeles, Hous-ton, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Singa-pore and Mumbai. Apollo’s team possesses a broad range of trans-action, financial, managerial and investment skills.

Halcon’s midstream subsid-iary, Halcón Field Services, has acquired rights to develop an oil handling terminal at the Port of Natchez, a location with direct ac-cess to more than two million bar-rels per day of refining capacity on the Lower Mississippi River. The Port of Natchez has existing infra-structure including loading docks, pipelines and direct access to the Canadian National Railroad.

Floyd C. Wilson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, com-mented, “We are off to a solid start in the TMS, and the capital from our partnership with Apollo will help us to accelerate activity. The TMS is quickly evolving into a world-class oil play.”

This is not Wilson’s first rodeo by a long shot. Wilson started a company, Petrohawk from scratch that grew into a giant in the pre-dominantly natural gas exploration

and development business. Wilson sold Petrohawk to BPH Billiton for $15.1 billion.

Without much time out of the oil and gas industry, Wilson re-capitalized Ram Energy with $550 million and changed the compa-ny’s name to Halcon which means hawk or falcon in Spanish. After recapitalizing Ram Energy, now known as Halcon, Wilson acquired GeoResources which brought Hal-con into the TMS in SW Missis-sippi and SE Louisiana. Halcon now has approximately $900 mil-lion available for its leasing and exploration activities.

One of the most interesting characteristics of Halcon Re-sources Corporation is their com-mitment solely to the acquisition, production, exploration and devel-opment of onshore oil and natural gas properties in the United States. Unlike many current oil and gas, Halcon does not have offshore op-erations or drilling operations in foreign countries, only the USA.

Writer’s comment: After re-viewing the operations and plans by Halcon for the TMS, it appears that Wilson’s company is here in the Feliciana area to stay and produce. Checking the website of Halcon on a regular basis will probably keep most people up to date on the drilling trends devel-oping in the TMS. It seems that by track record, Wilson is an old school wildcatter with a rabbit’s foot and a buckeye in his pocket.

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West Feliciana Parish Hospital IOP Program Celebrates 2 Years of Mental Health Success

WFPH Intensive Outpatient Mental Health Program opened its doors in May 2012 with a mission to meet the mental health needs of our community members by providing quality assessment, evaluation and mental health treatment. Individu-al, group and family psychotherapy are provided under the supervision of a Board Certified psychiatrist, Dr. Carol Murphy. Since May 2012, the program has operated four days per week (Monday-Thursday) treating individuals with depression, anxiety, thought disorders, memory deficits, complicated grief, coping difficul-ties, and more. The medically super-vised program provides the services of physicians, nurses, licensed men-tal health therapists, and other pro-fessionals dedicated to improving the quality of life for clients.

The IOP program has seen great success and ever growing client

base. May 2012 saw the program commence operation with a group of seven clients. By May 2013, the growing IOP program provided treatment to 24 clients. As of May 2014 the IOP program provides treatment to 27 clients and boasts numerous successes and consistent positive reviews by clients and their family members. As West Feliciana Parish Hospital grows to meet the needs of our community, the IOP program intends to compliment this growth by continuing to provide the high standard of care for which it has come to be known.

WFPH Intensive Outpatient Pro-gram, located at 5154 Burnett Road, continues to provide excellence in mental health care for St. Francis-ville and surrounding communities. Confidential assessment for admis-sion to the program may be obtained by calling 225-635-6908.

Tommy Bellue Graduates from State Police AcademyThomas W. Bellue, Jr., 27, of St.

Francisville graduated May 22 from the Louisiana State Police Academy in Baton Rouge. Entry to the Academy requires that applicants complete two years of full-time law enforcement work, or three years of active-duty military service, or 60 semester hours of college. Bellue served as a first-line supervisor, a sergeant in charge of six police officers, at the Department of Public Safety State Police Barracks in Zachary from August 2009 to January 2014, more than twice the time neces-sary to qualify for State Police train-ing.

While in Zachary, Bellue worked criminal interdiction with the State Police, focusing on human trafficking and the transport of drugs on the in-terstates.

While at DPS, he worked a narcot-ics dog, Storm, a Labrador retriever and German Shepherd mix. Together they participated in Operation Carpe Diem, a seven-week detail in New Or-leans during which they worked with the criminal apprehension team in a high-crime area. Bellue notes, “This is the first year since 2007 that I haven’t worked an active dog.” What hap-pened to Storm? Now retired, he lives with Bellue and his family.

From 2007 to 2009, Bellue worked for Jackson’s Dixon Correctional In-stitute, where he served as a handler of dogs trained to detect narcotics and as

a member of the Chase Team, which uses bloodhounds to track prison es-capees.

Now, as a State Trooper, his as-signment is the uniform patrol, “no particular place,” he says, “just within Troop A, which covers nine parishes.”

He enforces state law and assists at ve-hicle crash scenes.

His goal: “eventually to go into criminal interdiction for the State Po-lice, focusing on criminal activity on the interstates.”

The inspiration for his career, he says, is his grandfather, Joe Williams, now of Slaughter. “While Paw Paw was working with the West Feliciana Sheriff’s Office,” Bellue recounts, some time in the ‘80s, “he was in-jured in the line of duty.” Bellue has remained very close, he says, to his

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grandfather, whose courage continues to serve as an example for his own life.

“He’s happy I’m doing this,” Bel-lue says, noting that he is the only one of Williams’ grandchildren who fol-lowed him into law enforcement.

Bellue is a graduate of Centreville High School, where he played foot-ball. He is the son of Dawn Williams Lee of Slaughter and Wayne Bellue of St. Francisville. Grandparents are Nor-wood Mayor Becky Bellue and Rob-ert McGraw of Norwood and Joe and Judy Williams of Slaughter.

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tion, in conjunction with the Twenti-eth Judicial District Attorney’s Office of Sam D’Aquilla, sponsored a Loui-siana Concealed Handgun Permit Class on Saturday, June 14 at the East Feliciana Parish Courthouse in Clin-ton. It was instructed by Total Pack-age Firearms Instructor Tony Holden And Paul Payne.

District Attorney D’Aquilla would like to give “Special thanks to all who helped to make this event possible, especially Dennis Aucoin, Crystal Maples, Shane Bourgeois, Mary Dufour, Marcy Robinson, Tony Holden, Paul Payne and the East Feli-ciana Parish Police Jury. Twenty-five people from East and West Feliciana Parish participated and successfully passed the course.

District Attorney D’Aquilla has sponsored 16 classes from 2011 to present with 381 participants suc-cessfully completing the course.

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Royal Street Neighbors Gather at St. Francisville Town MeetingBy PatRicia stallman

St. Francisville Mayor Billy D’Aquilla called the June 24 Town Meeting to order at 5:30. Present were Town Aldermen James R. Leake, James Davis, Oscar Robertson Jr., Robert P. Leake Jr., and Abby T. Cochran. Also in attendance were Town Attorney Jesse Means and Police Chief Scott Ford.

Royal Street traffic and parking problems

In the audience were 30 residents of Royal Street and their neighbors, pres-ent to discuss solutions for speeding ve-hicles and limited parking on the narrow street. First to speak was Marcia Roberg, who proposed “a range of options that could be taken incrementally,” begin-ning with speed strips (as opposed to speed bumps). Roberg advised against an immediate sweeping change, such as making Royal one way, as drivers could become upset “and end up speeding around the block.”

Alderman Cochran agreed that the “end of Royal Street in the curve of Mar-ket Hall” presents a problem and that “doing nothing is not an option.” Co-chran reminded those in attendance that representatives of the Center for Plan-ning Excellence in Baton Rouge would soon visit to “look at the congestion and speed” problems on Royal and make recommendations.

Ellen McFarland noted that the prob-lems do not cluster at “just our end” of Royal. Ferdinand Street, too, she said, is “part of the problem.” Listing the mix of activity in the historic district, of which Royal is a major part, McFarland named “children, animals, tourists with cameras

and traffic.“I have watched cars coming up that

street (Ferdinand) get airbound,” McFar-land said. Noting that she is “an architect, not a planner,” she agreed that “CPEX is the way to go” to find a solution. The CPEX “traffic-calming study,” she said, should produce at least six solutions, in-cluding making Royal one way in either direction. Or, she noted, “Stop signs may be all we need.” Though the town has erected temporary signs, parents still race to pick up or drop off their children at the United Methodist Church pre-school, day care, and after-care center. McFar-land also said she has observed residents “flying up the street to do their business at the school board office,” which is be-hind the church, before the close of day.

From the audience, one man said, “When the church has an event, Royal is already one way.”

At that point, the mayor asked, “Can you give me a solution?”

The audience member answered, “No, other than your people with the guns (radar guns) who are out on the highway; put them in here.”

Next to speak was Karry Hosford, who noted that she has three small chil-dren. “Kids are everywhere,” she said, some catching the school bus in the morning and returning in the afternoon, and others attending pre-school, as well as daycare and after care at the church. “The regular flow seems to be in one di-rection,” Hosford said,” the same direc-tion as when the Methodist Church has service. A one-way street might keep that flow from happening.”

Cochran, speaking after the meet-

ing, however, noted that a one-way street would not cure speeding and parking problems.

Rising with her solution, Leigh Anne Bennett Jones proposed a simple, inex-pensive plan to control the traffic involv-ing the Methodist Church and the school board office. Because of the church school, which serves 60 families, she said, why not put up a school zone sign requiring 10 miles per hour?

Mayor D’Aquilla responded, “We don’t need CPEX. We’re just going to hire you!”

Susie Tully commented, regarding the need for safety, “Royal Street is not a playground. No street is appropriate for children or unleashed dogs.” Further, she said, “I’m against a one-way street, be-cause I don’t think it solves problems; it just creates more.” Julie Brashier added, “I’m happy to hear we have tons of kids, because all I hear is we’re not growing!”

Alderman Leake reminded the au-dience that tour buses transport tourists from the river up St. Ferdinand, and that if Royal Street is one-way in a direction that causes them to disembark on the wrong side of the road, more problems will arise.

An audience member cautioned that decisions take into account the effect of changes on Our Lady of Mount Carmel across Ferdinand from Royal Street.

Cochran suggested having the CPEX representatives come to the July Town Meeting, as scheduled, but delay final recommendations until August so that the representatives can “see the street once school starts.”

The mayor recommended that Royal Street residents who have driveways park in them. Turning to Police Chief Scott Ford, he said, “Get out there with those radar guns!” and then, to the audi-ence, “and if some of y’all get caught,

don’t come to my office!”Business growth and resulting

problems for residentsAudubon Hills residents Bobby and

Patricia Fudge asked the town council to help them resolve a dispute with a local developer, Dick Lancaster, who is breaking ground for a shopping center just north of the Best Western Motel on Highway 61. The Live Oak Center will include the new Feliciana Supermarket, which will move from its current loca-tion on Jackson Road, and Patrick’s Fine Jewelry, which will move from the shopping center just north of Fred’s Dol-lar Store on Highway 61.

Patricia Fudge said that Lancaster had agreed to erect a fence along the north-ern edge of the shopping center property behind the Audubon Hills homes that abut it. Lancaster, however, Fudge said, “stopped the fence at my property and knocked a fence post down.” The drop from the Audubon Hills homes level to the shopping center level is quite steep, another audience member noted, and creates a danger for children and adults and even companion animals who could easily lose their footing and fall.

Bailey Cablevision franchise fee problems

The mayor noted that, after an exten-sive audit, the town’s auditor has report-ed that Bailey Cablevision (also known as Audubon Cablevision) owes, in ad-dition to what it has paid, an additional $50,000 in franchise fees. Remarking that the council does not wish to “shut down” the company, as that would only hurt the residents who are its customers, the mayor said that the town must decide what action it will take.

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Burial at 10:00 am conducted by Fr. Jeffery Bayhi. Burial will be in Masonic cemetery in Clinton. He is survived by his wife of 10 years, Laura Wall DeJohn, our children, Jessica Nora and husband Edward, Heather Mylai, Haley Nicole and Hannah Marie, Michael Alan DeJohn, Jr., “Doozer,” Dominick Benard DeJohn “Nini” and Alan Charles De-John and wife Christie, Mother, Alma DeJohn, sisters, Barbara DeJohn Wahman and husband Alan, and Nancy DeJohn O’Malley and husband John and brothers, Ronald DeJohn, James DeJohn, MD and wife Joyce and Dennis DeJohn and wife Karen, seven grandchildren, 14 nieces and nephews and his best friends, Lane Bellue of Centreville, MS and Dan Cooper of Nucla, CO. He was preceded in death by his father, Domi-nick DeJohn and brother Wayne DeJohn. Pallbearers will be Michael DeJohn, Jr., Dominick DeJohn, Alan DeJohn, Lane Bellue, Trey Bellue and Edward Bergeron. Share sympathies, condolences and memories at www.charletfuneralhome.com.

Buras Family Reunion

Roland & Helen Williams hosted the Buras Family Reunion at their home in Ethel. The Buras family members are originally from Plaquemines Parish. However, they traveled from Florida, Gonzales, Covington, Belle Chase, New Orleans, Lafayette, Boothville, Buras, and Mississippi for the reunion. The males in the photo are Roland’s brothers (left to right: Perk, Roger, Hansel, Basil and Harold Buras). His sisters (seated: 1st row) are Mary Jeanette, Dianne, Pearl, and Rose). The organizers for this event were Sylvia Buras-Parker (black/pink top) and Helen Williams (not pictured). Others in the photo are cousins and nieces. Most family members had not seen each other in over 21 years. The family enjoyed sharing their memo-ries, lots of food and family games.


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“The Polish authorities went to the hospital to talk with my dad who was in the hospital with the fake heart attack to help cover up my escape,” Nowicki said. “When the authorities got to the hospi-tal and asked where I was, he told them that he didn’t know, but that I was a no-good scoundrel of a son for disappearing when he needed me there at the hospital with him.”

“My dad took great pleasure in putting everything he could over on the communist Polish authorities. Poland is just one big prison. The communist party tried for years to get my dad to join the party, but he would tell them that he was too busy with his work to join. Later he told them that he was not worthy to become a member of the com-munist party, and then he began to say that he was too old to become a member of the communist party.”

“Several months later after I had left England and made it to Vienna Austria and was working at a UN complex, my dad came to visit me. When I made contact with him af-ter I got to Vienna, he went to the Polish authorities to tell that he had located me in another country and was going to go get me and bring me home. We had about a week to-gether in Vienna.”

“We drank several bottles of wine together, laughing about the trick he was playing on the com-munist Polish authorities,” No-wicki recalled with a laugh. “Im-mediately after Dad got back to Poland, he went to the authorities like a good communist should have and told them that he had searched where he thought I was, but could not find me. He did tell them that if he could find me, he would go get me and bring me home.”

After four months in England in 1978, Nowicki was destitute and not making any progress in leaving England. He was advised to make contact with the Polish American Society in Vienna and ask for their help. He did make contact with the Society and they offered encour-agement that they could help him immigrate legally to the United States.

“The big problem at that point in time and place was that my visa had expired,” Rafael explained. “I thought I could just send my pa-perwork into the Polish Embassy in London and they would send it back to me by post (mail). After several weeks of back and forth, I was told emphatically that the only way I could get my visa extend was by going to the Polish Embassy in person.”

“I was very uptight about going to the Polish Embassy because I knew that by the letter of the law, they could grab me and send me back to Poland on the next plane to Warsaw. From there, I knew I could be sent to prison in Siberia. As I went into the Embassy, I was very cautious and made sure that I could bolt and get out the front

door before they could arrest me.”“After I go to the front desk and

told them why I was there, I had to sit for a long time,” he remem-bered. “Finally I was told to go into what turned out to be a fairly big room. A Polish communist author-ity was in the room. He immedi-ately started yelling at me of how stupid I was to think I had to come to England to learn English.”

“I decided I didn’t have any-thing to lose, so I started yelling back at him. After about a minute of yelling at me, he told me to go stand in the hallway. I did go into the hallway having no idea what was happening. I kept my eyes on the front door of the Embassy that I could see from where I was stand-ing. After what seemed like a long time, the door slowly opened just enough for him to stick his hand

out. In the hand he stuck out into the hallway was the paper work I so desperately needed. It was like the hand of God reaching out to me.”

“Within a couple days of getting my new visa, I was on my way to Vienna to see the Polish American Society,’’ Rafael said in elaborat-ing on the next phase of his jour-ney to the United States. “In travel-ing to Vienna by train I had to go back behind what was then known as the Iron Curtain. I had another close call with Communist Securi-ty guards that I will never forget.”

Writer’s note: I will do my best to get Rafael’s incredible story wrapped up in the next issue of the Explorer.

Feliciana Explorer July 1

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