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District Attorney VanKyzar said Monday that con-victed killer Phillip DeSellewill be released from the La.State Dept. of CorrectionsJan. 22.

DeSelle was convicted inTenth Judicial District Courtin 1991 for kidnapping andkilling Averie Evans, 11, inNatchitoches.

An assistant district attor-ney at the time, Kyzar said thecase was prosecuted by for-mer District Attorney MikeHenry. DeSelle pleaded guiltyto aggravated kidnapping andreceived a 40-year sentence,and guilty to manslaughter forwhich he received an addition-al 10 years for a total of 50years.

He was to serve at least 17years before being eligible forparole. He served 17 years,was denied parole in 2007 andserved served an additional 6and one-half years.

Kyzar said DeSelle’s origi-nal release date was Januaryof 2016 but he received 375days credit for obtaining aGED while imprisoned atDavid Wade Correctional inHomer. DeSelle is approxi-mately 64.

Kyzar said there will be nohearing because DeSelle isbeing released. “If there is apositive to this, it’s that he will

be on paroleuntil 2040,”Kyzar said.

A v e r i ewas an 11-year-old stu-dent atW e a v e rElementarywho wass e l l i n gfundraisercandy in hern e i g h b o r -hood Nov. 5, 1990. DeSelle, aneighbor, lived in a house onHenry Avenue and lured thechild into his home where hekilled her. Authoritiessearched for her body for 12weeks with FBI agents assist-ing in the search. Pressurebegan to build on DeSelle as asuspect and in JanuaryDeSelle was discovered in aparked car in the City follow-ing an alleged suicide attempt.

DeSelle told officers he putAverie’s body in a dumpsterand but a search of the MundyLandfill in Mansfield yieldedno remains.

Police found Averie’s bicy-cle in Sibley Lake but neverfound her body.

Kyzar said informationfrom the Dept. of Correctionsindicates DeSelle will live inTurkey Creek in EvangelineParish.

DA confirms release date of manin prison for killing11-year-old girl

Phillip DeSelle admitted killing Averie Evans in 1990

Because the Martin LutherKing, Jr. Holiday Monday,Jan. 19, the next regularmonthly meeting of theNatchitoches AirportCommission will be Tuesday,Jan. 20. The meeting willbegin at 5 p.m. at theNatchitoches RegionalAirport Terminal Building,located at 450 WallenbergDrive in Natchitoches.

The Parish Council meet-ing will be Tuesday, Jan. 20 inthe Parish Council meetingroom on second floor of theNatchitoches ParishCourthouse at 5:30 p.m.

The meeting was moved toTuesday because of theMartin Luther King Jr. holi-day Monday.

The City will close Monday,Jan. 19 to observe the MartinLuther King Jr. holiday.

The next scheduled CityCouncil meeting will beMonday, Jan. 26.

It finally happened. With bated breath, NatchitochesParish residents watching gas prices fall were glad tosee it drop below $2 per gallon. A little over $50 per bar-rel, crude oil is trading at its lowest price since 2009. “Ifilled up my tank at the Shop Rite on Keyser AvenueDec. 6 for $1.99 per gallon, said News Editor CoreyPoole. “However, new reports in Texas and other areasshow how this drop in gas prices affects some con-sumers in a negative way. Some oil field workers gotlaid off and are now dealing with financial demands ona lower income. So while my frequent trips to see fami-ly in New Orleans only cost $60 round trip, instead ofthe usual $100, it’s hard to be too happy about it when Iknow other people are battling the harsh consequencesof this double edged dilemma.”

There will be a series ofmeetings, “Common CoreStrategies: Lunch and LearnSeries” from noon until 1 p.m.at the Title I Media Center at310 Royal St.

The meetings will be Feb.6, March 6 and April 10.

RSVP by contacting Dr.Adrienne M. Mustiful at 352-2358 Ext. 1169 or at [email protected]

BATON ROUGE – TheLouisiana Department ofRevenue (LDR) will beginaccepting 2014 state individ-ual income tax returns thesame day as the InternalRevenue Service (IRS),Tuesday, Jan. 20. LDR willbegin processing returns onFeb. 3 and will start issuingrefunds Tues., Feb. 24.

Following the initial Feb.24 refund date, the expectedrefund processing time forreturns filed electronically isup to 21 days. For paperreturns, taxpayers shouldexpect to wait 8 to 10 weeks.

Additionally, to safeguardtaxpayers against fraudulentactivity, including the suspi-cion of identity theft, a smallpercentage of refunds aredelayed. When this occurs,the taxpayer is contactedthrough written correspon-dence with further instruc-tions.

Delays can also occurwhen taxpayers fail to keeptheir most current contactinformation on file, includ-ing their name, address, andtelephone number. If need-ed, taxpayers can visitwww.revenue.louisiana.govto update their contact infor-mation.

On Jan. 20, state income

tax forms will become avail-able atwww.revenue.louisiana.gov/taxforms.

To file taxes electronical-ly, taxpayers can visitLouisiana File Online, thestate’s free web portal forindividual and business taxfilers atwww.revenue.louisiana.gov/fileonline. With LouisianaFile Online, taxpayers can:?

• File returns and paytaxes electronically

• Check the status of indi-vidual income tax refunds

• Amend tax returns• View business tax infor-

mation for current and previ-ous years

There are no fees associat-ed with its use. Taxpayersmay also use commercial taxpreparation software to filetheir state income taxes.

Taxpayers can check thestatus of a refund by visitingwww.revenue.louisiana.gov/refund or by calling 888-829-3071. Taxpayers should notethese applications are updat-ed only once every businessmorning with the latestinformation on refunds.Taxpayers should only callLDR once their return hasexceeded the expected pro-cessing times of 21 days for

electronic returns and 10weeks for paper returns.

The state income tax filingdeadline is Friday, May 15.

Tips for Taxpayer LDR rec-ommends the following stepsto ensure the fastest, mostaccurate tax return andrefund processing:?

• File electronically – Theexpected refund processingtime for returns filed elec-tronically is up to 21 days; forpaper returns, expect to wait8 to 10 weeks.

• Update your personalinformation if your name oraddress has changed duringthe tax year.

• Double-check returninformation – Ensure that allSocial Security numbers andtax computations are cor-rect, and that all names andSocial Security numbers arein the same order as previ-ous years; math errors andincorrect tax-table informa-tion are leading causes ofdelayed refunds.

• Include all supportinginformation such as W-2s;use paperclips, not staples, iffiling a paper return.

• Apply for extensions in atimely manner – Extensionrequests must be filed nolater than the May 15 incometax filing deadline.

Dept. of Revenue will begin accepting tax returns Jan. 20, issuing refunds Feb. 24

AverieEvans

Natchitoches ParishSheriff ’s Deputies have cap-tured a Natchitoches manwanted in connection with dogfighting, cruelty to animalsand theft of dogs in southNatchitoches Parish accordingto Natchitoches Parish SheriffVictor Jones Jr.

Jarin D. Pikes, aka/Moonie,29 who gave an address in the100 block of Bayonne Road,Derry, was captured Tuesdayafternoon at approximately5:47 p.m. by deputies at aNatchitoches apartment com-plex after he attempted toescape through a rear window.

After Pikes saw thatdeputies had set up a perime-ter, he re-entered the apart-ment and was captured with-out incident.

Deputies recovered two pit

bulldog pup-pies thatwere stolenJan. 9 nearCloutierville.

During asearch ofPikes person,they alsoseized sus-pected mari-juana.

Pikes was booked into theNatchitoches Parish DetentionCenter charged with fourcounts of dog fighting, sevencounts of cruelty to animals,eight counts of unlawfulrestraint of a dog, two countsof theft of dogs, one count ofpossession of CDS I marijuanasecond offense, and one counteach of criminal obstruction

of justice and probation viola-tion.

Pikes, who is on felony pro-bation, remains in theNatchitoches Detention Centerwithout bond.

The investigation stemsfrom several dogs that wereallegedly used for dog fightingnear the Derry community.Some of the dogs were founddead at the undisclosed loca-tion and several dogs wereseized by the NatchitochesParish Sheriff ’s Office andNatchitoches City AnimalShelter.

Jones,said, "We are pleasedthat we could recover the dogsand return them to the owner."

Deputies involved in thearrest were John Axsom,Amber Shirley and MichaelSmith II.

Dog fighting, animal abuse charges ariseafter incident near Derry leaves dogs dead

Pikes

This file photo from the Natchitoches Times shows Phillip DeSelle and counselapproaching the main courtroom at the Natchitoches Parish Courthouse for a hearing in1991. With him are, at front left are Mike Small and Greg Gravel, and at right, CamilleGravel, attorneys from Alexandria.

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Meeting resetat airport

Board will hostCommon Core

Connie Perot FosterPenny Cook

Rev. Toney LeeWallace

Mary Fay Gallien

MARY FAY W. GALLIEN A memorial service will be

at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 17 inthe chapel at First BaptistChurch, 508 Second St. inNatchitoches for Mary FayWatts Gallien, 91, who passedaway Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, at St.Agnes Healthcare and RehabCenter in Breaux Bridge.

Mary was a career militaryspouse, a loving wife andmother. She enjoyed playinggolf, going bowling, and fish-ing.

She is survived by herdaughter, Mary Fay DeLongis

and her husband, Anthony;and her son Neal W. Gallienand his wife, Susan.

She is preceded in death byher husband, James CasimereGallien; her parents, JoelBunion Watts and NancyRebecca Tharp Watts; four sis-ters and three brothers.

Pellerin Funeral Home(337-332-2111) is in charge ofarrangements.

To view on-line obituary,sign guestbook and viewvideo tribute, go to www.pel-lerinfuneralhome.com.

PENNY COOK May 5, 1931 - Dec. 29, 2014

Mrs. Penny Charlene Cook,83, of Natchitoches, formerlyof Jonesboro passed awayMonday, Dec. 29, 2014 atNatchitoches RegionalMedical Center. She was amember of Natchitoches

Chapter #13 Order of EasternStar. She had an Eastern Starservice. She was also a mem-ber of the Jonesboro GardenClub, VFW Axillary and shewas a member of The Churchof Latter Day Saints.

Mrs. Cook is survived bydaughters, DeborahCulpepper and husbandWayne of Quitman, DonnaNelken-Baker and husbandRobbie of Natchitoches;grandchildren, JennyRasbury and husband Jamesof Weston, Jesse Culpepperand Shelley Boullt of WestMonroe, Jimmy Culpepper ofQuitman, Clayton Sean"Cricket" Franklin andAndrea of San Antonio,Texas, Casey Franklin andRachel Levine of Beverly, Ma.;great-grandchildren, Cody,Ashton, Kaitlyn, Brandon,Kristal, Cade, Landon,Victoria, Kayla, Brett, Seanand Connor. She is also sur-

vived by a host of nieces,nephews, other relatives andfriends.

She was preceded in deathby parents, Charles andEtheleen Massey Vines; step-father, Elmer Greer; husband,George Cook, previous hus-band, Dempsey Hodges;grandchild, Gilbert Franklin.

Friends visited with thefamily Tuesday, Dec. 30 atSouthern Funeral Home,Jonesboro. Funeral serviceswere held Wednesday, Dec. 31in the Southern Chapel withBishop Ted Methvin andJames and Billie Sue Smithofficiating. Interment was inSiloam Springs Cemeteryunder the direction ofSouthern Funeral Home inJonesboro.

Serving as pallbearerswere; Sean Franklin, JesseCulpepper, Jimmy Culpepper,Casey Franklin, WayneCulpepper and Robbie Baker.

CONNIE PEROT FOSTER

Funeral services forConnie Perot Foster, 58, ofCampti, were at 2 p.m.Tuesday, Jan. 13 at Rockett-

Nettles Funeral HomeChapel with Bro. OlanMcLaren officiating andSister Linda Chance assist-ing. Interment followed inNativity Catholic Cemetery.Visitation was from 6-9 p.m.Monday at the funeralhome.

Ms. Foster was born Aug.11, 1956 and earned herwings Jan. 10, 2015 after acourageous and difficultbattle with cancer.

Connie was a one of akind person who never meta stranger. She loved lifeand always had a smile onher face.

She was preceded indeath by her father, HoracePerot; mother, Mildred

Perot; and brother, PaulPerot.

Ms. Foster is survived byher daughter, CarmenVascocu; son, Jacob Foster;three granddaughters,Chelsea, Cassidy andChaylie all of Campti; threebrothers, Ricky Perot andwife Cathy, Dale Perot andEddie Perot and wife, Jennieall of Dallas; one sister, JudyPerot of Natchitoches; and aspecial friend who was like asister, Valerie Swayze; and ahost of nieces, nephews, andfriends.

Pallbearers were JeremyPerot, Joey Perot, RandyPerot, Justin Perot, MarkChatelain and Stanley RayDortlon.

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The family of Lynne Dowden Weaver wishes to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to everyone that was there for us during our loss, December 26,2014,

including Lynne’s home health nurse, Debra Anderson, Natchitoches Regional Ambulance Drivers, ER

Staff, ICU Staff and Dr. Anil Matta for his extreme determination to detect Lynne’s sickness, the results were

Lynne’s death. Special thanks to Jane LeBrun, Lynne’s Faithful prayer partner, Keith, Susie and Brandie

Thompson, her extended family and friends, Kelly & Gwen Gray, Brother Lee Dickson, Matthew Pagels, and staff of Blanchard Funeral Home, Bro. Bill Hudson and Provencal Baptist Church, each call, the cards, visits and

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During half time of the NSU women’s basketball game against Incarnate WordUniversity, Jan. 10, fans voted on the “People’s Choice Award” while a group of inde-pendent judges selected the best chili at the NSU Chili Cook-Off benefiting Relay forLife. Fans sampled chili prepared by local businesses. Jason Rachel, director of food andnutrition at Natchitoches Regional Medical Center (NRMC) cooked the winning sweetchili recipe. NRMC won both the Overall Best Chili and the Peoples Choice Award,based on how many purchased tickets were left at each of the tables. The NRMC teamincluded, from left, CEO Kirk Soileau, Collin LaCaze, Cathy Jacobs and Rachel. Not pic-tured is Ryan Shirley. NRMC won an autographed team ball for People’s Choice andDemon Paddle for being overall winner.

The following NSU students were recentlywere initiated into The Honor Society of PhiKappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selec-tive collegiate honor society for all academicdisciplines. They are:

Ruby Johnson of Campti; Chelsi Ragan ofClarence; and McKenzie Kay, BrettRodriguez, Shelby LeDoux, GretchenSwindle, Donnette Stokes, Daniel, AmberBlanchard, Melissa Aldredge, DanaThompson and Allison Walker, all ofNatchitoches.

These residents are among approximately

32,000 students, faculty, professional staffand alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phieach year. Membership is by invitation andrequires nomination and approval by a chap-ter.

Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5percent of juniors, having at least 72 semes-ter hours, are eligible for membership.Graduate students in the top 10 percent ofthe number of candidates for graduatedegrees may also qualify, as do faculty, pro-fessional staff, and alumni who haveachieved scholarly distinction.

NSU inducts members of Phi Kappa Phi

REVEREND TONEY LEE WALLACEReverend Toney Lee

Wallace was born March 20,1941 to O. B. Wallace and OraVell Waldrup Wallace inCampti.

He passed away Monday,Jan. 5, 2015.

Toney graduated fromCentral High School inNatchitoches,and then attend-ed Grambling College inGrambling. He later moved toKansas City, Mo., andobtained a position as a mailhandler with the U. S. PostOffice. He was later inductedinto the U. S. Army where heserved from 1967 to 1969. Afterhis tour of duty, he returnedto Kansas City, Mo. and a posi-tion with the U. S. Post Office.He later attended Park Collegein Parkville, Mo., and graduat-ed with a Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Liberal Arts. He waslater called to the ministry,attended Bible College andbecame pastor of St. Mary’sBaptist Church in Lena,where he remained for a num-

ber of years while working forthe Natchitoches ParishSheriff ’s Department until hishealth failed.

Toney was preceded indeath by both of his parents;his brother Johnny Waldrupand his sister Shirley Wallace.He leaves to mourn his pass-ing his son, Toney Lee WallaceJr. of Olathe, Kans.; his for-mer wife, Earnestine Strong-Wallace, of Kansas City, Mo.;two sisters, Mary Waller ofKansas City, Mo. and OraMiller of Campti; two broth-ers, Leo Wallace of Detroit,Mi. and Earl Mack Wallace ofCampti, and one aunt, LouElla Walters of Natchitoches.

Rev. Wallace requested thatupon his death he desired tobe buried at the LeavenworthMilitary Cemetery inLeavenworth, Kans.

MR. ORIE J. HELAIREMr. Orie J. Helaire’s service will be Saturday, Jan. 17 at 2

p.m. in The Winnfield Memorial Funeral Home Chapel.Visitation will take place from 8 a.m. to service time at theWinnfield Memorial Funeral Home. Burial will be in the St.Paul B. C. Cemetery. We will have military burial.

The American HospitalAssociation and the HospitalEngagement Network recog-nized and celebrated the pre-liminary successes of 233 hos-pitals nationwide who havemet the national reductiongoals set out through thePartnership for Patients.Natchitoches RegionalMedical Center was one ofthese hospitals who demon-strated their commitment tocontinual improvement ofpatient care.

NRMC achieved 100 percentof their applicable goals ofnational and state alignedmeasures. “I am proud of theactions of the NRMCAssociates in achieving thepatient improvement goals.Through their dedication andfocus they are improvingpatient safety and care,”explained Kirk Soileau, ChiefExecutive Officer.

The Partnership forPatients has set “The 40/20Goal,” which focuses on keep-

ing patients from gettinginjured or sicker with a goal ofreducing preventable hospitalacquired conditions by 40 per-cent. The Partnership forPatients also focuses on help-ing patients heal without com-plications with a goal ofreducing hospital readmis-sions by 20 percent.

This list of hospitals wasbased on the returned LOPscores that were submitted toCMS for the Dec. 1 monthlyreport.

NRMC recognized for commitmentto patient care improvements

BATON ROUGE, La. – Theannual forestry forum held inconjunction with the AgExpoat the West MonroeConvention Center is sched-uled from 8 a.m. to noon Jan.16.

LSU AgCenter forestry spe-cialist Michael Blazier saidthe forum is open to forestlandowners, professionals inthe forest industry and thegeneral public.

“This year’s program willprovide landowners with thelatest information about man-

agement of the emerald ashborer, land use business prac-tices and other forest-relatedtopics,” Blazier said. “We willalso have talks on regenera-tion silviculture and modelinggrowth of mixed pine-hard-wood forests.”

Another topic on the agen-da is maximizing the effective-ness of forestry herbicides,Blazier said.

In addition to the valuableinformation that will be pre-sented, Blazier said, atten-dance also will provide three

hours of Continuing ForestryEducation (CFE) credits.

Blazier said registrationfor the forestry forum is $10and is due by Jan. 10.

Make checks payable toNELAMG, with ForestryForum on memo line,and mail to Forestry Forum,704 Cypress St., West Monroe,LA 71291.

For more information, con-tact Michael Blazier at 318-927-2578 [email protected].

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Gov. Bobby Jindalannounced appointments tothe University of LouisianaSystem Board of SupervisorsJan. 8.

The University ofLouisiana System Board ofSupervisors’ responsibilitiesinclude, but are not limited to,selecting the presidents of sys-tem institutions, determiningfees paid by students, purchas-ing land and buildings for uni-versities, formulating curricu-la and programs of study,exchanging university proper-ty, seeking financial assistancefor universities, and allocatinguniversity system expendi-tures.

According to the LouisianaConstitution, the board is com-prised of fifteen members,including one student member.

The remaining fourteen mem-bers are gubernatorialappointments, subject toSenate confirmation, includ-ing two members selected fromeach congressional districtand the remaining membersselected from the state at-large.

Jimmy D. Long Sr. ofNatchitoches is on the board.

They are:Ed Crawford III of

Shreveport, a managing part-ner of Atco InvestmentCompany. Crawford will bereappointed to serve as a rep-resentative of the 4thCongressional District, inaccordance with the require-ments of the LouisianaConstitution.

Pamela Egan of Covington,a nurse practitioner and theco-owner of Egan Healthcare

Services. Egan will be appoint-ed to serve as a representativeof the 1st CongressionalDistrict, in accordance withthe requirements of theLouisiana Constitution.

David Guidry of NewOrleans, president and CEO ofGuico Industries. Guidry willbe reappointed to serve as arepresentative of the 2ndCongressional District, inaccordance with the require-ments of the LouisianaConstitution.

Shawn Murphy, ofJonesboro, an agent with StateFarm Insurance. Murphy willbe appointed to serve as a rep-resentative of the 5thCongressional District, inaccordance with the require-ments of the LouisianaConstitution.

Jindal appoints members to board that governs NSU

By Carissa Kautz.

There are many types ofservice dogs. A service dog is atype of help dog, disciplined toassist with particular jobs orto help humans who have dis-abilities.

Some types of service dogsinclude K-9s, fire dogs, searchand rescue dogs, U.S. customsand border protection dogs,guide and hearing dogs,seizure alert dogs, physicalassistance dogs, dogs assistingdiabetics, therapy dogs, andmilitary dogs.

Police dogs, often referred toas K-9s, are disciplined specifi-cally to help the police in jobssuch as hunting for drugs andexplosives, searching for miss-ing folks, investigating forcrime scene evidence, andwatching over their handler.Some commonly used servicedogs are the GermanShepherd, Shiba Inu, LabradorRetriever, Bloodhound, Beagle,and Rottweiler.

Guide dogs are used todirect blind people. Guide dogslive with someone who is blindto ensure he or she gets aroundsafely. Dog types that makegood guide dogs are the GoldenRetriever, Labrador Retriever,and German Shepherd.

Fire dogs are trained tobravely fight fires. They canrun into the burning buildingand retrieve people strugglingto get out. Dalmatians are themain type of fire dog.

Search and rescue dogs helprescue workers. They use theirnose to sniff out people buriedunderneath debris. BorderCollie, German Shepherd,Bloodhound, and LabradorRetrievers are good at gettingthis job done.

Border protection dogs canbe used to sniff illegal sub-stances that someone may betrying to bring over the border.They can also chase down peo-ple committing illegal activity.Athletic, sporting dogs aresuitable for this position.

Hearing dogs have been edu-

cate to alert a deaf person tosounds, such as a telephoneringing or dangerous noises,such as fire alarms. Some dogsthat can be found useful at thisare the Golden Retriever,Labrador Retriever, andGerman Shepherd.

Seizure alert dogs are goodat predicting seizures beforethey occur. They are trained todo important tasks whilstsomeone is having a seizure.These tasks may include clear-ing vomit from the mouth, get-ting help, operating a call but-ton or K-9 phone, helping theperson to rise, helping withbalance issues, and guiding aconfused person to a locationor person.

Because these responsetasks are so useful, mostseizure alert dogs are alsotrained in response work.

Therapy dogs can be usedfor emotional work. They canbe used in therapy to work on

behavior. Calm, relaxed dogsare used as therapy dogs.

Dogs assisting diabetics usedifferent barking signals towarn someone about theirsugar level. Did you know adog has seven different types ofbarks? One type of dog usedfor this job is a LabradorRetriever.?Military dogs aretrained in war and can be usedas a guard and a sleuth, someof their service continues inpresent day military. Most wardogs are the Belgian ShepherdDog.

Physical assistance dogs dotasks such as pressing a buttonto open an automatic door.These dog help make people inwheelchairs more indepen-dent.

These dogs must havepatience and be able to obeycommands.As you can see ser-vice dogs can help with a vari-ety of things. They make thisworld a better place.

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The 57th Annual MissNorthwestern – Lady of theBracelet Pageant will be heldFriday, Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. in theA.A. Fredericks Auditorium.Tickets are $5. NSU andBPCC@NSU students areadmitted free with a currentstudent I.D.

Eight Northwestern Statestudents are scheduled tocompete in the event, which isa preliminary for the MissLouisiana Pageant. The NSUStudent Activities Boardsponsors the pageant. Thewinner will receive more than$8,000 in scholarships andprizes.

This year’s contestants areAlexis Britt of Keithville,Keyerre Chattard of NewOrleans, Ciera Jenkins ofDuluth, Georgia, MarissaMcMickens of Pineville,Haley Neal of Houma, Lincoln

Pearce of Florien, FaithStanfield of Natchitoches andTaylor Walker of Greenwood.

Britt is a sophomore biolo-gy/pre-med major. She is amember of the Purple PizazzPom Line and Alpha EpsilonDelta. Britt is an NSU StudentAmbassador and has beennamed to the President’s List.

Chattard is a junior socialwork major. A President’s Liststudent, she is a member ofCircle K International and theSocial Work Club.

Jenkins is a freshman the-atre major. She is a member ofthe Student TheatreOrganization.

McMickens is a sophomoretheatre major with a concen-tration in musical theatre anddance performance. She is amember of Phi Mu Fraternityand the NSU Dance Company.

Neal is a sophomore radio-

logic sciences major. She is amember of Phi Mu Fraternity,the Purple Pizazz Pom Line,Alpha Epsilon Delta andAlpha Epsilon Delta. Neal is aDean’s List student.

Pearce is a junior sec-ondary education major. Sheis a member of Phi MuFraternity and Alpha LambdaDelta Honor Society.

Stanfield is a sophomoreearly childhood educationmajor. She is a member of PhiMu Fraternity, the PurplePizazz Pom Line, One ofSeven and serves as an NSUAmbassador.

Walker is a junior psycholo-gy/theatre major with a con-centration in dance. She is amember of Alpha Omicron Piand the NSU Dance Company.Walker is a President’s Liststudent and is a member ofPhi Kappa Phi.

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A report released by theDepartment of Health andHuman Services Dec. 30 pro-vides the first detailed analy-sis of the 2015 open enroll-ment period.

About 87 percent of peoplewho selected health insur-ance plans throughHealthCare.gov for coveragebeginning Jan. 1 were deter-mined eligible for financialassistance to lower theirmonthly premiums, com-pared to 80 percent ofenrollees who selected plansover a similar period lastyear. In addition, over 4 mil-lion people in both the stateand federal Marketplacessigned up for the first time orreenrolled in coverage for2015 during the first monthof open enrollment. Thatincludes over 3.4 million peo-ple who selected a plan in the37 states that are using theHealthCare.gov platform,and over 600,000 consumerswho selected plans in the 14states that are operatingtheir own Marketplace plat-form.

The report includes datathrough Dec. 15 for the 37states using theHealthCare.gov platform,and through December 13 for12 states and the District of

Columbia that are usingtheir own Marketplace plat-forms.

HHS also released aWeekly Enrollment Snapshotthat captures more recentenrollment activity. TheWeekly Snapshot shows thatfrom Nov. 15 – Dec. 26, nearly6.5 million consumers select-ed a plan or were automati-cally reenrolled.

“We’re pleased thatnationwide, millions of peo-ple signed up forMarketplace coverage start-ing Jan. 1. The vast majoritywere able to lower their costseven further by getting taxcredits, making a differencein the bottom lines of somany families,” HHSSecretary Sylvia M. Burwellsaid. “Interest in theMarketplace has been strongduring the first month ofopen enrollment. We stillhave a ways to go and a lot ofwork to do before February15, but this is an encouragingstart.”

Detailed findings:• 87 percent selected a plan

with financial assistancecompared to 80 percent in theearly months of the firstopen enrollment period.

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• Nearly 1 million con-sumers selected a plan in thethree days leading up to Dec.15. That is almost 28 percentof total plan selections fromNov. 15 – Dec. 15.

• Of the 3.4 million planselections, 48 percent (1.6million) reenrolled in aMarketplace plan and 52 per-cent (1.8 million) signed upfor the first time.

Open Enrollment in theMarketplace runs from Nov.15 - Feb. 15. Consumersshould visit HealthCare.govto review and comparehealth plan options.Consumers shopping forhealth insurance coverageshould sign up by Jan. 15 inorder to have coverage effec-tive on Feb. 1. If consumerswho were automaticallyreenrolled decide in the com-ing weeks that a better planexists for their families, theycan make that change at anytime before the end of openenrollment on Feb. 15.

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BATON ROUGE, LA -Audits of life insurance com-pany policies have uncoveredmore than $31 million inunclaimed property for bene-ficiaries in the past eightyears, State Treasurer JohnKennedy announced Tuesday.

“We compared the out-standing policies of a dozeninsurance companies with theSocial Security Death MasterFile (DMF),” Kennedy said.

“By making these compar-isons, we were able to returnmoney to Louisianians whodid not realize they were inline for money from insur-ance policies. We cannotbring back their loved ones,but we can make sure insur-ance proceeds are distributedas intended.”

The Louisiana Departmentof the Treasury works withVersus Financial LLC to con-duct the audits. The auditsare necessary because fami-lies often are unaware that aninsurance policy exists.Unless an insurance companymakes an effort to locate ben-eficiaries or heirs, the benefitwould not be paid without theaudits.

“My staff just spoke to awidow who tried talking tothe insurance company afterher husband died and gave upbecause they were so difficult.Our audits uncovered herhusband’s policy. We’re writ-ing her a check for more than$500,000,” Kennedy said. “Theaudits are just one componentof the Unclaimed PropertyProgram. Since 1972, theUnclaimed Property Programhas returned more than $338million to nearly 570,000Louisiana citizens.

Kennedy says Louisianaresidents to search for miss-ing money online atwww.LATreasury.com or callthe Treasury’s toll-free hot-line at 1-888-925-4127 (Monday- Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.).

Few things go better withLouisiana politics than redbeans, biscuits and friedchicken. Well, other thanmoney.

And for $1,000 per head,donors can learn later thismonth at a D.C. townhousewhether the state’s two U.S.senators take their Popeyesspicy or mild.

The clever fundraisinginvite went out Monday morn-ing. Supporters were asked topony up for Sen. David Vitter’sgubernatorial campaign andcatering from Popeyes (the lat-ter received top billing).

But it’s the third line listedin bold on the invite that real-ly batters and deep-fries thewhole push: “With SpecialGuest Senator Bill Cassidy.”

It’s no big secret that Vitter,a Metairie attorney, was a seri-ous force in Cassidy’s cam-paign last year, and that thejunior senator very muchowes his senior senator. Fromloaning a longtime staffer torun Cassidy’s campaign tohelping recruit national influ-encers and forcing out com-petitors, Vitter’s payback isunlikely to end with a chickendinner.

The real question is justhow far Cassidy is willing togo to help Vitter, specifically inhis hometown of Baton Rouge.

Right now the race for gov-ernor is being played out onthe back of an envelope — or aPopeyes napkin, if you will.And the numbers in BatonRouge favor the native son, Lt.

Gov. Jay Dardenne, a fellowRepublican running for gover-nor.

Red Stick has long beenDardenne’s base; he was LSUstudent body president, a citycouncilman, a staple on localMDA telethons and later astate senator.

Cassidy doesn’t have thesame kind of political roots inthe city as Dardenne, but hisold congressional district cov-ered a lot of ground. So itcould become more of aregional strategy.

If Cassidy is successful inbreaking up Dardenne’s base,which is no easy task, the bigwinner will be Public ServiceCommissioner Scott Angelle,the Republican candidate forgovernor from Breaux Bridge.He shares the middle groundwith Dardenne and they’retargeting similar voters.

Angelle is primed for abump and will report raisingslightly more than $1.5 millionduring the last quarter of 2014,after announcing in earlyOctober. The figure is an atten-tion-grabber and helps buildanticipation for Dardenne’sfundraising report.

But for Angelle to make redbeans from Cassidy’s play, heneeds several different grainsof rice, starting with solidari-ty in his native Acadiana.Angelle also needs to keep themoney spigot wide open andfor another Democrat to shavevotes from state Rep. John BelEdwards of Amite. Edwards isthe only declared Democrat inthe governor’s race and histo-ry suggests he has a decentchance of making the runoffif he stays alone.

Another Dem would helpDardenne as well, but not asmuch if his base is sliced anddiced.

One thing Baton Rougeboys do, or have done in thepast, is stick together. Cassidy

and Dardenne once represent-ed the same state Senate dis-trict and their families arefriendly.

Under any other circum-stances, they would have glad-ly shared a bunker against acombatant from JeffersonParish. At the very least,Dardenne’s team probablyentered 2015 hoping Cassidywould stay somewhat quiet.

But one fried chickenfundraiser later those hopesare dwindling.

The threat for Cassidy isthat it backfires, particularlyamong the mutual supportershe shares with Dardenne, andwho probably originated withthe lieutenant governor. Theymay not like the idea of thejunior senator succumbing toa D.C. narrative in aLouisiana race, all the whiledoing the bidding of a man towhom he owes a debt.Interestingly enough, Cassidyhas something in commonwith them: he has donatedmoney to Dardenne in thepast.

It’s also important to notethat Dardenne runs betteramong Democrats and blackvoters, a base of supportshored up over four statewideelections that Cassidy won’t beable to sour.

Anyone who knowsDardenne knows he is askilled politician with a chessmaster’s ability to read theplays, a gift rivaled by the likesof Vitter. To think this racemight turn on a few boxes ofPopeyes is not only fitting, butsays something about thesometimes fleeting nature ofLouisiana politics. Vitter’sRepublican opponents, howev-er, should probably be lessworried about Cassidy andmore concerned that it’s a signof the party’s infrastructurecoalescing early behind oneman. How’s that for spicy?

EditorialThe Natchitoches TimesSection A, Thursday, January 15, 2015

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Violent crimes declined across the nation by 4.4 percentlast year but increased in Louisiana, which ranked fifth onthe FBI’s annual list of Most Dangerous States. That rankingcontinues to tarnish the state’s image and its opportunitiesfor progress and prosperity.

It is encouraging that the nation’s crime rate, which hasdropped by 15 percent over the past decade, was down againlast year. The 368 violent crimes per 100,000 population in thelatest FBI report is down from more than 420 crimes per100,000 in 2005.

In Louisiana, though, the violent crime rate of 510 per100,000 residents was a 2.8 percent increase over the previousyear. This state’s 498 murders ranked in the top 10 in thenation and was nearly three times higher than the nationalmurder and manslaughter rate.

The FBI report emphasizes that socioeconomic indicatorsoffer an accurate forecast of crime rates, and Louisiana con-tinues to lag far behind other states in personal income, edu-cation and other factors that are related to crime rates.

According to the report, people living in the most danger-ous states in the nation are much more likely to live in pover-ty. The poverty rate in 6 of the 10 states on the MostDangerous list had poverty levels above the 15.8 percentnational average. Louisiana’s poverty rate of 19.8 percent isthe third highest in America.

Educational attainment levels are also closely linked tocrime rates. Just 83 percent of Louisiana citizens have atleast a high school diploma, which is the fourth lowest rate inthe nation. This state’s percentage of residents with a col-lege degree is just 22.5, one of the lowest rates in the country.

In 7 of the 10 Most Dangerous states, median householdincome was less than the $52,250 national norm. Louisianaranked near the bottom nationwide at $44,164. In Louisiana,17 percent of citizens are on food stamps compared to thenational average of 13.5 percent.

Louisiana’s high crime rate has a negative impact ontourism and efforts to attract more retirees to the state, andit could make it difficult for the state to draw people fromother parts of the nation to its works force as thousands ofnew jobs are created in the next few years.

State leaders must develop new initiatives to at least chipaway at the deep, long-lasting socioeconomic problems thatare at the root of Louisiana’s high crime rates.

Most of the more than two dozen new Louisiana laws thatwent into effect on the first day of 2015 were relatively minorstatutes that will have little impact on people’s lives, butsome of the laws will enhance the health and safety of stateresidents.

One of the statutes that prohibits smoking within 25 feet ofentrances to state office buildings will help curtail exposureto secondhand smoke that can endanger the health of non-smokers. That should be a first step toward eventually ban-ning smoking in all public places.

Other laws should make state roads and highways safer byexpanding penalties for DWI violations involving drivers 21years of age and younger. Penalties for those individuals arenow similar to punishment imposed on older motorists.

Younger drivers facing DWI convictions have beenenrolled in substance abuse driving programs in the past butnow face jail sentences and community service for drunkendriving. Multiple offenses are punishable by longer jail sen-tences now even for younger drivers.

Legislators should be commended for efforts to protect cit-izens from dangerous secondhand tobacco smoke and forimposing tough DWI penalties for younger drivers. Thoselaws will benefit the majority of the state’s residents andmake Louisiana a better, safer place to live.

Laws on secondhand smokeand DWI make state safer

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This month’s edition of theBayou Talk Newspaper paystribute to the birthday and lifeof a beloved figure in the tight-knit Cane River Creole commu-nity of Louisiana, their“Grandpère,” Nicolas AugustinMetoyer.

Nicolas Augustin Metoyer(1768 - 1856) is credited withdonating a parcel of his proper-ty to build what would ulti-mately become St. AugustineCatholic Church and Cemeteryin Natchez, Louisiana.

His brother, Louis Metoyer,constructed the structure,which still stands today. St.Augustine’s has earned the dis-tinction of being the firstCatholic church in the U.S. tobe founded, financed, and builtby people of color primarily fortheir own use, while remainingopen to all who share theCatholic faith.

A famous portrait ofMetoyer still hangs in thechurch, which remains anactive parish today, and he isoften referred to as the“Grandpère” of the Creolecommunity that exists alongthe Cane River Lake region inLouisiana.

In 1989, the Bayou TalkNewspaper, founded by LouisH. Metoyer, himself a descen-dent of Nicolas Augustin,selected this then largelyunknown “Grandpère” as thecentral figure and focal pointfor its first ever NationalCreole Cultural HeritageAwareness Campaign.Thecampaign sought to increaseinterest in, pride for, and asense of connectedness to therich history not only behindthe Metoyer name, but of theCane River Creoles as a unitedpeople and culture.

On Jan. 22, 1991, then Gov.Buddy Roemer honored arequest by Louis H. Metoyer toproclaim Jan. 22 as CreoleHeritage Day in Louisiana. In1993, after sensing a need to cre-ate more meaningful ways tohonor Creole CulturalHeritage, Metoyer wrote a let-ter to the Most Reverend SamG. Jacobs, Bishop ofAlexandria, to encourage hischurches to celebrate a Mass inhonor of Nicolas AugustinMetoyer.

In his personally-pennedresponse to the Bayou Talk’sfounder, the Bishop wrote, “Ihave sent a memo to our pas-tors, our Clergy Digest,requesting that some recogni-tion of this celebration begiven in the parishes wheredescendants reside.”

It was through this corre-spondence that the late Dr.Terrell Delphin, becameinvolved in working to high-light and celebrate LouisianaCreole Heritage in the ways inwhich we do today.

While many changes havetaken place since the BayouTalk’s first Creole CulturalHeritage AwarenessCampaign, one thing hasremained a constant: the con-nection between Cane RiverCreoles and their devoutCatholic faith. Even today,many annual Creole Heritageevents are centered aroundlocal parishes, includingNicolas Augustin’s St.Augustine.

Since well before the days of“Grandpère,” Creoles as a cul-ture have remained loyal totheir Catholic faith and clingtightly to the roots of their reli-gious traditions. Many stillattend Mass faithfully, are oftengenerous supporters of theirlocal parishes, and are frequentorganizers of parish events.This faith-based aspect of

Creole loyal-ty was a partof the spiri-tually richand hopefulcommunitiesalong CaneRiver Lakelong beforeN i c o l a sA u g u s t i nM e t o y e rdonated theland for St.Augustine Catholic Church;perhaps it was in witnessingthis loyalty in action that hebecame inspired to do so.

In fact, Creoles have beenrooted in Catholicism sincebefore the development of theFrench Colonial period. In thearchives of churches and gov-ernment records, you will findCatholic Creoles amongst thegenerous people who donatedland for churches, schools, hos-pitals and shelters that pre-datethe establishment of theUnited States and the formalpractice of Catholicism in theU.S.

In reflecting on his deepCatholic faith and heartfelt tiesto his Creole lineage, history,and culture, Louis H. Metoyerwas recently inspired to devel-op a Catholic Creole CulturalHeritage Liturgy. It was inrevisiting the book “TheForgotten People: Cane River’sCreoles of Color” that Louiswas reminded of the faithfuldetermination of Father Luisde Quintanilla, a Franciscanmissionary priest who lived inthe Cane River, Louisianaregion at the same time asNicolas Augustin’s now nearlylegendary parents, ClaudeThomas Pierre Metoyer andMarie Therese Coincoin.Coincoin was a slave owned byJuchereau de St. Denis, thefounder of Natchitoches,Louisiana. She was leased toClaude Thomas PierreMetoyer, a young French mer-chant, to serve as his house-keeper. The two went on to haveten children together, and aftereventually purchasing MarieTherese from her owner,Metoyer gave Coincoin herfreedom.

Louis was particularlystruck by how FatherQuintanilla’s strong moral con-science, a true demonstrationof Catholicism in action, signif-icantly shaped the attitudes ofClaude Thomas Pierre and thefavorable historical outcomefor Marie Therese Coincoinand her children, includingNicolas Augustin Metoyer, whoalong with his brother, Louis,went on to leave such a lastingtribute to their Catholic faithwith the construction of St.Augustine Parish.

In the not-so-distant past ofU.S. history, all people of colorencountered and enduredmany struggles on the path toequal rights and protectionsunder the law. Indeed thesestruggles still exist today. It isLouis’s view that throughoutsuch difficult and troublingtimes, the Catholic Church andfaith have served as a source ofcomfort and hope to manymembers of the Creole com-munity. Out of these struggling

times came the theme forLouis’s Creole CulturalHeritage Liturgy: “We HaveCome This Far by Faith.”.ThisCatholic Creole CulturalHeritage Liturgy, a tribute toNicolas Augustin Metoyer, isboth a call to thoughtfullyreflect on those times of uncer-tainty and strife, and a celebra-tion of the bright future aheadfor the Creoles and the Church.

Nicolas Augustin,“Grandpère”, is widely knownamong Creoles today, and formany, is looked upon as thegrandfather of the Cane RiverCreoles, however, LouisMetoyer and the Bayou TalkNewspaper are working toraise further awareness of hislife and legacy through theirlatest initiative. BecauseNicolas Augustin was soinstrumental in helping theCane River Creoles to establisha truly unique place of worshipin St. Augustine CatholicChurch, Louis’s dream today isthat in 2018, communitiesacross the country will com-memorate the 250th anniver-sary of the birth of NicolasAugustin Metoyer in a new andsignificant way. His hope is thatall Catholic churches acrossthe United States with parish-ioners who are descendants of“Grandpère” will happily agreeto host a Catholic CreoleCultural Heritage Liturgy intheir communities celebratingthe Catholic faith and theCreoles who so love and anchortheir identities in that faith.

The Liturgy might takeplace at any time during thecalendar year. The actualanniversary of Metoyer’sbirthday is Jan. 22 so there willundoubtedly be servicesplanned for this month.

Metoyer feels that hisCatholic Creole CulturalHeritage Liturgy would alsomake a meaningful addition tothe Creole-centric eventsalready planned throughOctober, which was officiallyproclaimed Creole HeritageMonth by former Gov. EdwinEdwards.

That new initiative beginswith this month’s edition of theBayou Talk Newspaper, whichis available online at www.bay-outalk.com. For more informa-tion on how you can bringLouis Metoyer’s CatholicCreole Heritage Liturgy toyour parish in 2018 as a way tohonor the memory and contri-butions of Nicolas AugustinMetoyer, please [email protected].

For the past 27 years,Metoyer has served as theFounder, Executive Directorand Editor of his family’s cele-brated grassroots publication,The Bayou Talk Newspaper.Since leaving Natchitoches,Louisiana for Los Angeles, in1962, Metoyer says he and hisfamily dreamed of finding away to reach out to theirextended family and their fel-low Creoles, not only inLouisiana, but around theworld.

Since its inception, TheBayou Talk Newspaper hasbeen, for Louis and for so manyothers, the truly effective resultof that dream.


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Thursday, January 15, 2015


LaMar Gafford, Sports Editor(318) 352-3618

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The Northwestern Statewomen’s basketball teambroke from its trustedSouthland Conference for-mula Saturday afternoon atPrather Coliseum.

The end result, however,was the same, as the LadyDemons pulled away fromvisiting Incarnate Word topost a 73-51 Southland victo-ry. Northwestern Stateimproved to 9-6 overall and 4-0 in conference play, its bestconference start since the2003-04 Lady Demons startedSouthland play 11-0.

“I thought we were prettygood in the first half offen-sively,” third-year co-headcoach Brooke Stoehr said.“Second half, we got greatexecution and missed someeasy shots, but I was moreproud of our defense in thesecond half. We gave up toomany points in the first half(34), and they had one kidwho hadn’t made a 3 all yearand she hit one in the firsthalf. We felt like we neededto take away the high post inthe second half.”

NSU carried a lead intohalftime of a Southlandgame for the first time thisseason after hitting 50 per-cent of its first-half shots.UIW (4-10, 1-2) hung around,however, making 48 percentof its shots to stay withinfour points of the LadyDemons.

With Arianne Ausmer andChelsea Rogers tighteningup the defense on theCardinals’ high-post-basedoffense, NSU held IncarnateWord to 23.1-percent shoot-

ing (6-for-23) in the final 20minutes.

“We went back to our 2-3zone, covering that high postand forcing them to kick outand not being able to pickapart our zone like they didin the first half,” Stoehr said.

The Lady Demons’stronger zone helped offset aslower second half shooting-wise. Northwestern State hit40.9 percent of its second-half shots, but the combina-tion of Keisha Lee (game-high 22 points) and JanellePerez (21) were more thanenough to overwhelm thevisitors.

“(Perez) had some reallygood looks at the basket,”Stoehr said. “She made acouple of nice moves and gotthe ball into the heart of thedefense. She’s hard to guardbecause she’s so low to theground and she can pene-trate and get in there andreally make some things hap-

pen. The good thing is theywere 7-of-13 (Lee) and 7-of-11(Perez), so high-percentageshots.”

After a back-and-forthfirst 13-plus minutes, Leeknocked down consecutive 3-pointers on assists fromPerez to snap a 25-all tie andset in motion a 10-0 NSU runthat gave the Lady Demonsthe lead for good.

Incarnate Word ralliedfrom the 35-25 deficit with a12-3 surge across both halvesthat cut the lead to 38-37 on apair of Aricka Adams’ freethrows at the 18:17 mark ofthe second half.

With 15:59 to play in thegame, Perez hit a jumper forNSU’s first points of the sec-ond half and quelled UIW’smomentum. After ShaniseBrooks pulled UIW backwithin one on the next pos-session, NSU’s BeatriceAttura delivered a three-point play with 15:07 to play

and UIW never climbed with-in four points the rest of theway.

In keeping with its keys tosuccess, Northwestern Statetied a season-low with eightturnovers while forcing 18UIW miscues. The LadyDemons used that discrepan-cy to build a 17-7 advantagein points off turnovers.

NSU also owned a decidedadvantage at the line, hitting84 percent of its free throws(21 for 25) compared to 52.9percent from UIW (9 for 17).

“I’m proud of our free-throw percentage and thebest part is we valued thebasketball,” Stoehr said. “Wehad two turnovers late whenwe were trying to run clock,but six to that point, I thinkthat’s very good.”

Lee and Perez were NSU’sdouble-figure scorers, whileAdams led UIW with 13points.

The Lady Demons returnto action Wednesday at 7 p.m.when they travel to TexasA&M-Corpus Christi.Following that, NSU opens aseason-long, three-gamehomestand Jan. 17 againstLamar.

Lady Demons beat the Cardinals; seeking five straight winsBoys’ Basketball

FridaySt. Mary’s @Logansport

Girls BasketballLakeview @ North

CaddoNext WeekTuesday

Boys’ BasketballAlexandria @ NCHS

St. Mary’s vs. La Salle

Girls’ BasketballNCHS vs. Alexandria

FridayBoys’ BasketballNCHS @ Pineville

St. Mary’s @Northwood

Lakeview vs. Homer

Boys’ BasketballDist. Ovr.

NCHS 0-0 19-1Ouachita 0-0 20-2Alexandria 0-0 18-2Ruston 0-0 9-3West Monroe 0-0 6-10Pineville 0-0 5-14

Girls’ BasketballDist. Ovr.

Alexandria 0-0 15-1Ouachita 0-0 17-3West Monroe 0-0 17-4Pineville 0-0 15-5Ruston 0-0 14-7


Northwood 0-0 14-5LaSalle 0-0 7-6Block 0-0 9-7Montgomery 0-0 9-6Logansport 0-0 4-9St. Mary's 0-0 5-12


St. Mary's 0-0 12-6Montgomery 0-0 10-6Logansport 0-0 5-8Block 0-0 6-9Northwood 0-0 1-15LaSalle 0-0 0-14

Presley Owens attempted to shoot over defenders.Janelle Perez facing the Cardinals defense.

Chelsea Rogers and TiaYoung blood on defense.

Although the St. Mary’s boys’ and girls’matchups were postponed until Saturdaydue to inclement weather, that didn’t stopboth teams from claiming victory overBlock High School.

The Tigers (5-12) came down to the wirewith the Block, but they claimed the winover their archrival, 57-51.

The Tigers came out with an early lead12-4. The score would’ve been 12-9 at the endof the first quarter until junior JakeBankston hit a difficult running bank shotin the lane to make it 14-9.

The second quarter showcased bothteams trading shots through the first fourminutes. Junior Scott Maggio drained a 3-pointer from the corner to make it 23-17 with3:37 left. Block cut the lead to two, 23-21;Maggio hit another 3-pointer to end the halfwith score of 26-24.

The second half proved that this was theTigers victory as they took control.Freshman Bailey Shelton made a 3-pointerto make it 31-25 with 6:05 left in the third.Following a score by Block, junior RyanCunningham was clutch on a 3-pointer asthey continued to hit from beyond the arc.

Consistency continued for the Tigers inthe third with Cunningham, Maggio,Shelton and crew were making a killingfrom the 3-point line. Aaron Howell madehis way to the free throw line twice where hewas 3 of four. The free throws made theTigers a 37-29 lead. The Tigers went to line

again where Bankston hit two shots to makeit 41-32.

Intensity started to heat up when thedeficit was cut to three until ThomasWilliford hit jumper to give the Tigers a 43-38 lead at the end of the third.

Cunningham scored a lay-up and hit a 3-pointer at the start of the fourth to give theTigers a 48-42 lead with 6:14 left.

Tigers continued lead being up by 51-44with 4:20 left.

From then, the Tigers held the lead andBlock never got within striking range.

“We did really well and I couldn’t ask formuch more,” Jason Templet said. “We gavea lot of effort on both ends of the court.”

Going into the game, Templet stressed tohis team to stay focus, although they wereplaying rival Block.

“The whole game I thought we never lostconfidence. Although they made runs, wejust believed that we were going to win thegame.”

Templet believes rebounding is the key towinning for his team.

“When we can control the glass, we giveourselves a chance to win and we did that.”

The Lady Tigers (12-6) dictated the pace ofthis game as they won by double digits, 70-58.

The Lady Tigers fell behind 7-2, but wenton a 6-0 run to lead 8-7. Later, Mazie Duboismad a 3-pointer give the Lady Tigers an 11-9lead with 3:01 left. The Lady Tigers went to

19-12 lead with contribution by sophomoreAddison Shelto when she hit two 3-pointersat the end of the first.

Early second half; the Lady Tigerspushed their lead to 12, 28-16 with help ofback-to-back scores and a free three fromsenior Shelby Bishop. Block would cut thedeficit down to by the end of the secondquarter, 35-31.

The Lady Tigers came running out thegate in the third when sophomore SaigeDoty hit a key 3-pointer to give them a 46-36lead. Block cut the score to 50-43, by the endof the third.

Both teams came out trading blows, butthe Lady Tigers continued to hold a doubledigit lead 60-48, with 4:28 left.

The Lady Tigers sealed the game with akey from Shelton and clutch points fromDoty and Dubois down the stretch.

“We played extremely hard,” John Coxsaid. “We had a lot of effort, but we didn’tfinish the game how wanted to.”

Cox believes there were two importantfactors to the victory.

“We defended pretty well and made ourfree throws down the stretch.”

This win was meaningful to the LadyTigers not only for their playoff chances,but to avenge two losses from their rivallast year.

“Block beat twice last year and we beatthem earlier this year, so it is importantand a good start.”

The Chiefs made a come-back, but it wasn’t enough tobeat Riverside as they lost aclose one, 70-68.

For just the second time thisseason, Natchitoches CentralHigh School has lost a game asthey fell short in their partici-pation in the All-State SugarBowl National PrepTournament where they lost toRiverside Academy, 70-68.

Kendarius Aaron andDanny Cohen led the Chiefs

with 20 points, while CameronLard had a double double with16 points and 14 rebounds.Brandon Rachal contributedwith 15.

The game showcased greatguard play with Aaron for theChiefs and Von Julien forRiverside. Julien scored 7 ofhis 14 points to give Riversidethe lead, 19-10 in the first quar-ter.

By halftime, Aaron man-aged to help the Chiefs hold a 9

point 43-34 lead at the half.Coleman was disappointed

at his teams’ efforts in the firsthalf.

“I want to fight hard whenit’s 0-0,” Coleman said. “I wantto fight hard when we’re upfour, when we’re up 10…We’vegot to play with defensiveintensity in the first half, notwhen you get down.”

The third quarter showedboth teams relying on guardplay for scoring. Chiefs reliedon Rachal with the 8-points heput up, but Riverside’s HerbMcgee had other plans has heblasted the Chiefs with 12points. Although the Chiefsrallied from as many as 18down, they again headed intothe final quarter facing a 9-point deficit, 57-48.

In the fourth, the Chiefsstarted to cut the lead down.Riverside’s lead went back todouble digits when MalikCrowfield hit a 3-pointer tomake the game 62-52.

The Chiefs weren’t out of it

yet as Danny Cohen retaliatedwith a 3-pointer of his own,which sparked a 7-0 run. Thisbrought the game to the scoreof 62-59.

Riverside’s Jordan Andrewsand Malik Crowfield answeredthe Chief ’s scores to give theRebels some breathing room,68-63.

The Chiefs came within two-points twice with the secondtime coming late in the fourthto make the score 70-68 withtwo seconds.

The next possession,Riverside’s guard Von Juliencaught the inbounds pass anddribbled out until the victorywas sealed.

Despite the loss, Colemanbelieve these are the type ofgames that you want to play.

“This game is why we cometo this tournament,” Colemansaid. “Over the last seven oreight years, Riverside’s beenthe best program inLouisiana.”

The Lady Chiefs continued

their win streak last Fridaywhen they defeated Rayville,61-41. This was the fifth gamein a row that the Lady Chiefshave one and they have not losta game since playing Salmenback in December.

Princess Cohen lead theLady Chiefs with 21 points,scoring 59% from the field.Ladayja McIntosh was the sec-

ond leading scorer with 17 andEladrian Payton contributedwith 12.

Coach Nikki Jones wasimpressed with her teams per-formance on the road.

“I think their performancewas good,” Jones said. “I thinkeverybody started off slow, butwe picked it up as the gamewent along.”

Tigers win their fifth game; Lady Tigers cruise to victory over rival

Chiefs lose a thriller in New Orleans; Lady Chiefs continue their streak

On Deck:

District 2-5A


North Caddo 0-0 18-1Lakeview 0-0 13-5Lakeside 0-0 8-8Red River 0-0 7-11Homer 0-0 4-12Calvary 0-0 4-8


North Caddo 0-0 11-9Red River 0-0 11-8Homer 0-0 7-7Lakeside 0-0 2-6Calvary 0-0 7-8

District 1-2A

District 3-1AAddison Shelton shootinga three.

Thomas Howell playingthe ball.

Princess Cohen attempted to shoot over surroundingArcadia defenders.

Cameron Lard laying the ball up over defenders.

Staring at the first chance topick up his 600th career coach-ing win Tuesday night whenNorthwestern State basketballteam hosts Abilene Christian,Demons' coach MikeMcConathy has another num-ber in mind.

"I'd like to be 3-1 in confer-ence. That's all I'm concernedwith," said McConathy, who inhis 32nd year of college coach-ing and his 16th at NSU has 599wins after freshman guardDevante Hall's buzzer-beating6-footer settled Saturday's 103-101 shootout with IncarnateWord.

The Demons (7-7 overall) canmove to 3-1 in the Southland ifthey can hand the much-improved Wildcats their firstconference loss in a 6:30matchup at Prather Coliseum.ACU (8-7, 2-0) has alreadymatched its conference wintotal from last season with apair of 17-point homecourt vic-tories over Central Arkansasand Nicholls, and has capturedfour of its last five overallwhile being over .500 at thispoint of the season for the firsttime since 2008.

"They're markedlyimproved," said McConathy."They have two small guardswho pose problems for us, theyshoot very well from outsideand on 3-pointers, and obvious-ly they're playing well. We'vegot our hands full."

So will the Wildcats, facing

an offense averaging 90 pointsin its last six games, spear-headed by the NCAA's assistsleader (Southland Player of theWeek Jalan West, averaging 7.6assists) and second-rankedscorer (Zeek Woodley, 22.3 pergame). West had 33 andWoodley 28 in Saturday's wildwin.

West, who is averaging 21.8in the last eight games, hasraised his season's scoringaverage to 17.4.

ACU has three double-figurescorers led by returning stand-out guard Parker Wentz (13.4points per game on 45 percent3-point aim), HarrisonHawkins (12.6 ppg) andLaDarrien Williams (11.1).

The Demons will celebrate amilestone not long after tipoffwith 6-10 junior college trans-fer Deji Adekunle making hislong-delayed debut. A surpris-ing NCAA eligibility rulingsidelined him for the season'sfirst 14 games, despite appeals,and has at this point deniedhim a senior season next year,related to the Englishman'sbrief enrollment at a now-defunct West Virginia prepschool.

"The NCAA makes deci-sions that we don't agree with.I'm not happy about it, becauseit impacts a real quality youngman," said McConathy. "He did-n't do anything wrong, he's awonderful person and a goodstudent in music education

who has abright future.He will go proin somethingother thansports. Wehave to acceptit and go for-ward, ands o m e t i m e sthat's easiersaid thandone.

"What kindof impact will he make? I'mclueless. I honestly don't knowwhat to expect. Deji's a goodaddition, but with all the gameprep we've been doing sinceChristmas we really haven'thad the opportunity to meshhim into rotations at practice,"said McConathy. "He hasworked hard in individualworkouts and he looked goodout there this (Monday) morn-ing. Obviously he adds a bigbody and athleticism inside,and you can never have enoughof that. We're just very happythat he finally gets to go outand play."

McConathy hopes Adekunlewill contribute to someimproved defense.

"There definitely wasn't anydefense Saturday. The object isto score more than the otherteam, but it would help if wemade it more difficult for themto score. We gave up way toomany easy baskets and can'tcontinue to do that," he said.


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With the 2015 season open-er just a week away, newNorthwestern State women’stennis coach OlgaBazhanova has bolstered herroster with the addition ofBarbora Kollarova, a versa-tile scholar-athlete who wasone of the top players inSlovakia last year.

“Barbora is a great fit forour team,” said Bazhanova.“She is a very athletic,aggressive player and has agood all-court game. Her suc-cessful experience playing inWTA and ITF world tourna-ments will help to achievethe team goals.” Last year,she reached the doublesquarterfinals of a WTA tour-nament in Austria, and ITFtournaments in Belgium andAustria. Kollarova wasranked as a top 20 player inthe open women’s division inSlovakia last year.

She reached ITF juniorsand WTA doubles rankingswhile winning severalnational junior tournamentsin singles and doubles. Shewas on the championshipdoubles team in the nationalwomen’s league.

Kollarova helped her highschool win three straightlocal basketball champi-onships and advance to theregional championship tour-nament. She also won sprintand long jump regional trackand field titles and was aregional bronze medalist inthe high jump forGymnazium Ivana Kupca inHlohovec, Slovakia. Whilegraduating with a perfect 4.0grade point average, she wona national arts schools com-petition in recitation andwas among the top 10 in theNational MathematicalOlympiad.

Kollarovais the daugh-ter ofH l o h o v e cm a y o rM i r o s l a vKollar, a for-mer chair-man of theboard ofS l o v a kTe l ev i s i o n ,the nationalpublic ser-vice TV net-work, and aformer on-air broadcaster.Her mother Dana is a univer-sity professor.

The Lady Demons opentheir spring schedule nextweekend in the Florida GulfCoast Spring Invitational,then have a Jan. 31 match atLSU before beginning theirhome schedule on Feb. 3against Louisiana-Monroe.

Tennis team adds international scholar to roster

Aaron Williams won themen’s triple jump with the sec-ond-best jump in the nationFriday night while RechelleBessard added a foot to herNorthwestern State weightthrow record, posting one ofeight runner-up finishes byNSU competitors at the LSUInvitational opening the indoortrack and field season.

Williams soared 50-7 1/2, anindoor personal best and bet-tered so far this season only bya 50-9 ½ from Chris Martin ofSoutheast Missouri. Manynorthern and Midwesternschools start indoor competi-tions in December. Williamswas redshirted indoors lastseason when his twin brotherEmmanuel, who is redshirtingthis year, was an indoor longjump All-American.

Williams took second in thelong jump at 24-2 ¼, less thanan inch behind LSU’s DevinDavis (24-3).

Bessard blew by her year-oldschool record by over a footwith a 59-8 ½ toss that ranks

26th nationally. The LadyDemons went 2-3 with KeonaJackson right behind with apersonal indoor best of 58-8 ½that also topped Bessard’s 58-8in 2014 that was the schoolrecord.

Defending Southland Indoorand Outdoor women’s triplejump champion Por’shaThomas was the top collegianand second overall with a 40-1¼, an indoor personal record.

Sophomore Ty Shilling gavethe Demons second in themen’s 200 meter dash (22.59).

NSU took silver in both 400meter races. NewcomerAnthony Taylor was second inthe men’s race at 50.77 afterfreshman De’Shalyn Jones ran59.11 in the women’s competi-tion.

Junior college transferLawrence Wallace was themen’s high jump runner-upwith a 6-8 clearance.

The final second place camein the men’s distance medleyrelay, with Hunter Wamack,Lucas Moncla, Josh Wilkins

and Jeremy Elliott running11:36.63 and trailing only LSU.

Along with Jackson’s bronzemedal in the weight throw,NSU added two more thirdplaces: Brent Giddens in themen’s 60 meter hurdles in 8.31,and the Demons’ 4x400 relay,3:23.37 by Taylor, Giddens,Keenan Jackson and AmirJames.

After lining up against sev-eral in-state rivals Friday night– McNeese, UL Lafayette,Nicholls and SoutheasternLouisiana, along with LSU —NSU will compete next week-end at Texas A&M.

Lady Gators win by 40 over Warriors; Gators shoot lights out from three in win

Williams competing in the long jump at Maddox Field House in Baton Rouge.

Lakeview High School girls’and boys’ team cruised to vic-tories in their matchups withLakeside High School.

The Lady Gators stresseddefense in this contest as theyheld the Lady Warriors to 18points for the game. This wasthe third straight victory forthe Lady Gators as they wenton the road in their districtopener to win, 58-18.

Freshman Shelby Savell ledthe Lady Gators with 11 pointsin the win. Ryan Cotton wassecond with 10 points.Madison Alexander andLatara Brumfield scoredeight. Derika Browder hadseven and Morgan Payne putin six. Senior KourtneyHorton finished off the scor-ing with four and juniorAmber Holman had two.

Although the score was onesided, Lakeside did hold to the

Lady Gators to zero points inthe first minutes of the gamewhile scoring four pointsthemselves.

After that, the Lady Gatorsburst the game open by goingon a 26-0 run contributed bysix first half points fromjunior Latara Brumfield, andAlexander and Savell scoredfour each. By halftime, theyscore was 33-6.

The third quarter had theLady Gators cooling off, asthey could not score for thefirst five minutes of the sec-ond half. They weren’t scor-ing like they were in the firsthalf, but it didn’t effect thegame as they still had a com-manding 33-10 lead.

The third quarter only hadthe Lady Gators scoring fivepoints, but they were in con-trol with a 38-12 lead goinginto the fourth.

In the fourth, turnovers cre-ated by juniors’ MorganPayne and Cotton created a 12-0 run, which helped theGators put this game away.

The Lady Gators look tomake it four straight winsFriday night when they hitthe road to face North Caddo.

It was lights from three asthe Gators were relentlesswith their 3-point shooting todefeat the Warriors, 86-67 intheir first district game. Thevictory improved the Gators’power rankings from numberfour to three.

Senior Tay Hardy andAaron Savell combined fornine 3-pointers. Hardy fin-ished with 26 and Savell had20. Adrio Bailey and BrentTouissant each had 10. JuniorCameron Pottain scored sevencoming off the bench.

It was neck and neck after

the first with the score havingthe Gators up by one, 18-17.

The Gators were able topush the envelope in the sec-ond, going up 35-27, in largepart to Bailey and Touissant.With the Warriors in pursuit,The Gators were able to givethemselves some cushionbefore halftime with Savelldraining a three at the buzzer.Halftime score was 40-27.

In the third, the Gatorswere way out in front, 65-41,with dunks, alley hoops, andtransition baskets highlight-ing the quarter. The score was69-44 going into the fourth.

The Warriors would notquit as they hit seven 3-point-ers to bring the game closerthan what it was.

Defense played a factor theGators as Malik Metoyerblocked four shots andgrabbed 11 rebounds.

McConathy still seeking 600th win

Lakeview players fighting for the ball against playersfrom Arcadia.

Ryan Cotton keeping the ball away from an Arcadiadefender.

Demons’ Williams leads strong for track team

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Seating is limited soadvanced registration is rec-ommended. To reserve a seat,register online atwhy.bas.com/event or call318.441.3403.

MAKER MORNINGS ispowered by Central LouisianaEconomic DevelopmentAlliance (CLEDA) and fundedin part by The RapidesFoundation and TheLouisiana Office ofCommunity Development –Disaster Recovery Unit.

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Over 16,000 familiesthroughout Texas, Louisianaand Arkansas received aweek’s worth of food this holi-day season throughBrookshire Grocery’s Spirit ofChristmas Food Drive.Between the two locations inNatchitoches, $600 in scancoupons was sold, along with400 of the pre-assembled grab-bags. Together, these stores’donations helped some 150families in the Natchitochesarea.

From Nov. 19-Dec. 20, par-ticipating BGC stores collect-ed donations of non-perish-able food items and also soldpre-assembled “grab bags”and scan coupons for cash

contributions. All donationsstayed within each store’scommunity.

In total, 500,000 pounds offood was collected and donat-ed to local service organiza-tions and food pantries for dis-tribution to families in need.In addition, more than $41,000from scan coupon sales wasused to purchase additionalfood items. Along with a boxof food, each family alsoreceived a free roasting hen,courtesy of Brookshire’s andSuper 1 Foods.

“The goal for our 2014 Spiritof Christmas Food Drive wasto provide a week’s worth offood to approximately 15,000families throughout our mar-

ket area,” said Rick Rayford,BGC president and CEO.“Thanks to the generosity ofour customers, we were ableto surpass that goal and assisteven more families during theholiday season. This eventwould not be successful with-out the support of the localagencies we work with toeliminate hunger in our com-munities.”

The Spirit of ChristmasFood Drive began in Tyler in1982 with the Rose CityKiwanis Club, providingassistance to approximately90 families in the Tyler area.In 2013, the food drive assistedmore than 14,000 families inBGC’s operating area.

Brookshire Grocery’s Christmas food drivehelps yield food for over 16,000 families

Partnership provides recyclingcenter for those in parish

The recycling bins are on Mill Street.

Agencies develop safe driving program for teens

Considered the “guardiansof the colors” theNatchitoches ParishSherriff ’s Office HonorGuard is a select group ofdeputies that volunteer theirservice with a high degree ofpride and self determination.

A Law Enforcement BallSaturday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. inthe NSU Student UnionBallroom will raise funds todefray the cost of uniforms,equipment and travel expens-es for the Honor Guard.Tickets are $20 per person.Formal or semi-formal attireis required.

The uniforms worn by theGuard are different fromtheir regular work attire.“It’s all about appearanceand attitude,” said SiggieSilvie. “We need to looksharp. We want to look ourbest.”

The Guard’s goal is toserve as a visual reminder ofthe service and traditions oflaw enforcement and repre-

sent Natchitoches Parish andthe NPSO at functions andceremonies throughout thestate.

“We represent the prideand self determination of theindividual. We hold eachother accountable,” saidSilvie. “We’re proud to repre-sent the Sherriff ’s Office.”

The Guard represents theNPSO at memorial servicesproviding last honors for fall-en officers past and presentwith respect and dignity.They stand guard at the cas-ket, present the family withthe American flag, perform a21 gun salute and post the col-ors, including the American,state, memorial and depart-ment flags.

The Guard travels to assistother parishes that don’thave Honor Guards andassist the military whenextra members are neededfor an event or ceremony. InMay they travel to NewOrleans for a statewide

memorial for fallen officers.“We honor fallen officers andtheir families and showmoral support,” said BillyShugart. “We let them knowthey’re not alone whenthey’re going through thegrief of losing their lovedone.”

Acceptance into the HonorGuard depends on the volun-teer’s good standing, willing-ness to volunteer their time,availability for meetings andtraining, their beliefs on hon-oring fallen officers and edu-cation in formations, tapsand the 21 gun salute.

“We get up in front of thecrowd and show pride andrepresent the citizens ofNatchitoches Parish,” saidShugart.

Door prizes will be award-ed at the ball and the NPSOseeks the communities sup-port through donations ofdoor prizes for the event. Fortickets or more informationcall 318-357-7801.

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Thursday, January 15, 2015


Natalie CovherLifestyle Editor(318) 352-3618

e-mail: [email protected]

By Joe DarbyI love dogs.I love --

almost --everythingabout them.I love theirfloppy ears,their cold wet noses, theirwaggy tails and the way theygreet you when you return toyour house.

I even like wet-dog smell. Ifthere were an after shavewith wet-dog aroma, I'd buyit, even though I suppose a lotof people would try to avoidcoming near me.

I've been in Natchitochesonly nine years, but I havetwo beloved dogs buried inthe back yard, as well as anactive pack of three livingwith The Wife and me.

The two departed dogswere among the best I've everhad. There was Belle, a point-er, who lived to love. If youlooked up Sweet Dog in thedictionary, I think Belle's pic-ture would have been there.She encountered a rare paral-ysis and we had to have herput to sleep not too long afterwe moved here.

Then there was our pre-cious little white and liver ratterrier that we got from thepet shelter. Her attitude wasall Southern aristocrat so wenamed her Doodie Claire, asin I DO DECLARE -- get it?

In spite of her size, Doodiewas the alpha of our pack.She loved those stuffed toysthat they sell for dogs to playwith, and no other member ofthe pack was allowed to playwith them. Doodie kept all ofHER babies in her own chair.Doodie suffered from rarebrain lesions, that took awayher sight and then a loss ofcoordination, so we had tolose her also.

Now we have Kate, Mosbyand Bea. Kate, who turns 11this spring, is a spaniel-chowmix. She's also a sweet lovingdog, who my sister, who livedin the country north of BatonRouge, discovered in hergarage one day. The Wife andI were visiting and Patsy, mysister, said, who wants apuppy? "Me", said The Wife."Not me," said I.

The Wife, said, "If she high-fives me, can we keep her?"Well, sure I said, being prettysure the dog didn't know howto high five. So The Wife puther hand up in front of thedog and, of course, the puppytouched her hand with itspaw. And Kate's been with usever since.

Mosby is another rat terri-er. He had obviously beenbadly abused when we gothim from the shelter and waswalking skin and bones. Ittook months for him to trustus and allow us to pet him.But now he's about 9 and iscompletely comfortable withhis pack -- both canine andhuman.

Bea is a beagle and wasalso abandoned down nearBaton Rouge. The Wife adopt-ed her too, of course. Bea'salso had a bad life and stillwhines a lot and cowers ifyou approach her too fast.But, although she sometimesdestroys things likeChristmas ornaments, she toohas become part of the packand family.

Some people say dogs cango to heaven. Isn't it nice tothink that is true? Imagineall your pets waiting for youin a big green field, ready togreet you and play for all eter-nity.

That's what I call heaven!

SSlliiccee ooff LLiiffee

Darby, retired with “The Wife”to Natchitoches from NewOrleans in 2006, where heworked for 41 years as a newsreporter at the Times-Picayune.He still enjoys sitting down andexpressing himself on paper, orshould we say on a computerscreen. He can be contacted [email protected].

The history of Mardi Gras costumes

Krewe of Excellence reveres carnival season

"By land, air or sea, Take Me to Las Vegas" touted members of the Krewe of Excellence during its Twelfth Night celebration Jan .10 at theVFW center. The krewes theme for this years Mardi Gras season is "Take Me to Las Vegas.” The krewe will host it’s Tableau and Mardi Grasball Jan. 24 at the Natchitoches Events Center. On first row from left are Duchess of Superiority - Sandra Williams, Duke of Superiority -Reginald McGaskey, Duchess of Perfection - Cathy Chester, Queen Elect - Doretha Hooper, King Elect - Ron Helaire, Cynthia Nora and ReneeBrown. On second row are Olga Nell LeBrum, Chrishelle Washington, Danielle Conde, Sherri Conde, Betty Smith, Tammy Walker, reigningQueen - Brenda Sowell, Renne Jones, Vanessa Monroe and float Captain - Donta Latchie. On third row are Duke of Perfection - HenryBerryman, Victor Pinkney, Rene’ Porter, J.D. Oliphant, Sylvia LaCour, Lamarr McGaskey, Ricky LaCour, William Allen, Charlie Davis, CarlosDonaway, Alison Maxie, Judy Allen and Travis Barnum. On fourth row are reigning King - Melvin Holmes, Al Middleton and Ralph Wilson.

Host a Mardi Gras tutu making party Some of the most elaborate

Mardi Gras costumes in theState are those of the MardiGras Indians in New Orleans.The costumes can cost thou-sands of dollars and takebetween six to nine months tocomplete. Although these cos-tumes are beautiful not every-one has that much time todedicate to a costume. Thatdoesn’t mean that a great cos-tume is unattainable.

Here is a simple, easy andinexpensive idea to doll up forMardi Gras. Sometimes thebest costumes are group cos-tumes uniting everyone inrevelry. Make a night out of itand host a Mardi Gras tutumaking party.

To insure the party is a suc-cess send out invites inform-ing guests of the suppliesneeded for the party. Purchaseor bake a king cake to deter-mine the queen of theevening. Consider making theproject before the party toinsure that at least one personknows how to complete theproject.

Materials per person needed for this project:

- 6 spools of Tulle 6″ wide 25-yard of Tulle ($1.99 each atJoAnn’s) in Mardi Gras Colors

- A length of ribbon long enough to wrap around thewaist and tie a bow.

- Fabric scissors to cut the ribbon and tulle

Step One: Wrap the ribbon around thewaist and add approximately 20 inches toeach side to allow for a bow and cut. Cut apiece of cardboard the desired length forthe Tutu. Usually this length is between 8-13 inches long.

Step Two: Wrap the tulle around the card-board loosely. Start with 60 strips of tullefor each color. Wrap the tulle looselyaround the cardboard 60 times. Cut oneedge of the tulle, making pieces twice aslong as desired length.

Step Three: Take one strip of tulle andmake a loop with your finger. Make surethe ends of the tulle line up together. Placethe loop under the middle of the ribbon.Grab the ends through the loop like so inthe picture. Pull the ends through the loopholding onto the ribbon. Pull the tulle tightto the ribbon.

Step Four: Place two more pieces of thetulle in that color and start a new color.Leaving the ends free to tie a bow, alter-nate colors every three pieces of tulle untilthe ribbon is covered. Push all the tulletogether as close as possible for that extrafluffy tutu. Burn the ends of your ribbonwith a lighter so they don't fray.

SazeracIngredients • 1 cube sugar• 1½ ounces rye whiskey

or bourbon• ¼ ounce Herbsaint• 3 dashes bitters• Lemon peelDirectionsPack an Old-Fashioned glasswith ice. In a second Old-Fashioned glass place thesugar cube and add the bittersto it, then crush the sugarcube. Add the whiskey orbourbon to the second glasscontaining the bitters andsugar. Empty the ice from thefirst glass and coat the glasswith the Herbsaint, then dis-card the remaining Herbsaint.Empty thewhiskey/bitters/sugar mix-ture from the second glassinto the first glass and gar-nish with lemon peel.

It is not a surprise thatAmerica's first cocktail, theSazerac, was created in NewOrleans.

Bring a little New Orleansto Natchitoches with thistimeless cocktail.

The tale of this cocktailbegins in 1838, when AntoineAmedie Peychaud, owner of aNew Orleans apothecary,treated his friends to brandytoddies of his own recipe,including his bitters, madefrom a secret family recipe.

He named it for his favoriteFrench brandy, Sazerac-de-Forge et fils. By 1850, theSazerac Cocktail, made withbrandy and bitters, wasimmensely popular, andbecame the first "branded"cocktail.

Over the years ingredientshave been tweaked andchanged but the cocktailremains a Louisiana favorite.

The flavors come across thepalate in layers. The warmthof the rye, subtle hints ofspice and honey are accentedby the bite of the bitters. Thissweetness balanced with thecomplex flavor of the aniseand the perfume of the lemonoil are what make this drink aclassic. This is also a drinkthat warms up well, revealingeven more flavors. Mix up afew of these at a king cake orMardi Gras tutu making party.

Celebrate Carnival with a Sazerac

The French Canadianexplorer Pierre Le Moyne,Sieur d'Iberville brought theMardi Gras celebration toAmerica in1699 from France.

The earliest costuming inAmerica revolved around thepractice of “masking” toretain anonymity.

Masked balls, which werean important part of theParisian celebration of MardiGras, were common in NewOrleans under French ruleduring much of the 1700s. TheSpanish outlawed maskingwhen they came into power inthe late 1700s because theysaw the custom as pagan.

The prohibition remaineduntil 1823, despite Louisiana'sannexation to the UnitedStates. While there was per-mitted masking at Mardi Grasballs, masking in the streetswas not legalized again until1827.

The first organized paradeoccurred in 1837. The maskingtradition came under fireagain in the 1840s when ban-dits began using the traditionfor acts of robbery and vio-lence.

However, Mardi Gras inAmerica was saved by theComus Krewe in 1857. Thisgroup organized Mardi Grasand introduced the concept ofthemed parades with decorat-ed floats and characters in notjust masks but full costumes.

Over the next 40 years, cos-tuming for parade and ballparticipants became morewidespread and characterssuch as King Rex and the ZuluKing.

By the middle of the 1900s,full costumes became com-mon for Mardi Gras partici-pants at all levels, though thetradition continues to becalled "masking."

St. Matthew MissionaryBaptist Church officers andmembers will hold their youthchoir anniversary Saturday,Jan. 17 at 6:30 p.m. Guests willbe Ronnie Williams and theRockford Baptist Church fam-ily of Natchez.

The Christian BaptistChurch will hold its PayerWorkshop Saturday, Jan. 17 at9 a.m. The theme is “Hell isReal.” Guests will be MinisterMerry Byers of First BaptistChurch on North Street,Mother Estelle McGill ofPrater Street COGIC andMinister Nettie Ligon ofLiving Word Ministries.Ministry of music guest willbe The Daughters ofJerusalem of New JerusalemBaptist Church in Many.

Prather Street Church ofGod In Christ will hold itsPastor and Wife anniversarySunday, Jan. 18 at 2:30 p.m.Guest speaker will be ElderRoosevelt Harris Sr.

Jabez Missionary BaptistChurch will hold the NewBeulah Baptist Association“Women and Men home mis-

sion society” meeting Jan. 19at 6 p.m.

Westside Baptist Churchwill host a no-nonsense, com-mon-sense approach to rais-ing money-smart childrenseminar Jan. 25 from 4-6 p.m.with Steve McAlister. Theseminar is based on the best-selling book “Smart Money,Smart Kids” by Dave Ramseyand his daughter, RachelCruze. Cost is $15 per coupleor $10 per person. Costincludes a copy of the book,seminar materials and sup-per. Childcare will be provid-ed with registration.

Calvary Baptist Churchwill hold Gospel SingingSaturdays the first Saturdayof each month starting Feb. 7at 4 p.m. This event is free andopen to the public to attendand to sing. Performers are

allowed to bring music to singto or play instruments foraccompaniment. Call PastorTJ Boyd at 439-8179, JohnRushing 352-8589 or DavidCheatwood 352-5711.

Evergreen BaptistChurch of Maurice and pas-tor Elbert Demery Jr. willhold their “Women in red andMen in Black: GospelExtravaganza” Saturday, Feb.14 at 6:30 p.m. The EvergreenBaptist Chorus will be fea-tured at this Valentines Dayevent sponsored by Kay Clark.Guests will be Big Show andthe Quartet Boyz of Zwolle,Tenmen Singers of Monroe,Sharrita P. Garner, YoungDisciples of Monroe, ChosenVoices of Ruston and NewDisciples of Bossier.

First Baptist Church onSecond St. will host a fourday revival conference titled“Thirst” April 12-15. FromSunday morning throughWednesday night, the LifeAction team will bring power-ful preaching, refreshing wor-ship, memorable testimonies,dynamic children’s and youthprograms, and passionateprayer right into the sanctu-ary. For more information call318-352-3737.

Christ the King Churchholds “modern worship expe-rience” every Sunday at 6:?30p.m. at Cane Brake Café.Worship will consist of livemusic and bible study.

First PresbyterianChurch has “Lunch on Us”every Wednesday, providingsack lunches for those in needstarting at 11:30 a.m. Luncheswill be provided on ChristmasEve and New Years Eve.

A grief support groupmeets the fourth Thursday at5:30 p.m. in the church hall ofSt. Anthony of Padua.Anyone experiencing a losscan attend.

United MethodistChurch in Montgomery hasAA meetings Wednesdays at 7p.m.

Christ the King has AAmeetings Mondays andFridays at 7:30 p.m. and NAmeetings Wednesdays at 7:30p.m

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Church News

Young at Heart met at FirstMethodist Church Jan. 7.

Bostic Bradley women’scircle of Methodist Womenused a snowman theme in thedecorations.

Doug deGraffenried, pastorof First United MethodistChurch, posed the question,“Which came first, the chick-en or the egg?”

After a quiz of 100 pointspossible to see if the partici-pants were southern enoughto know about fried chickenfat, many humorous pointswere made about age oldfighting roosters and fryingchickens.

In February, Steve Wellswill play hit tunes with aromantic twist for Valentines.The meetings are open to thepublic and are on the firstWednesday of each month.

Jan Annis, Jackie Cox, Harold Collier, Jim Reichel, TerrySteadman, Jamie Steadman and Hyland Packard markedbirthdays when Young-at-Heart met Jan. 7 at First UnitedMethodist Church.

Terry and Jamie Steadman, Sophie and Hyland Packardobserved January wedding anniversaries when Young-at-Heart met at First United Methodist Church Jan. 7. The groupmet for fun and fellowship and a meal of jambalaya made byJohnny Broussard and covered dishes brought by some ofthose attending. The monthly meeting is open with a $3charge for lunch or take a covered dish.Young at Heart

members meet

Rev. Doug deGraffenried

Jackie Cox, Paul Ates and Hyland Packard had January birth-days. They attended the Senior Luncheon at Trinity BaptistChurch.

The Banded Travelers, a band made up of seniors, performedat the Trinity Baptist Church Senior Luncheon. From left aremusicians Earnest Self, Fran Blackmon, Fay Carson, BobParker, Bonnie Toliver and Tommy Pardee.

Sophie and Hyland Packardwere recognized for havingtheir 60th wedding anniver-sary when they attended theTrinity Baptist ChurchSenior Luncheon.

Jerry Ray is a member of TheBanded Travelers.

Larry Ryals is a member ofThe Banded Travelers.

Located about 4 miles eastof Hornbeck, La. on La. Hwy.392, also known as Rifle RangeRoad, is the church and ceme-tery located in the Oak GroveCommunity. This is a very oldcommunity, with the cemeterybeing at this location since1851.

This cemetery was begunin a strange way that has ledto many legends pertaining toboth the cemetery and the lit-tle country community. Withsome assistance from myfriend and fellow historianNelta Nolen, we are going tolook into this strange eventthat led to the death and bur-ial of the Unknown Soldier ofOak Grove Cemetery.

Living in this small com-munity was John “Johnnie”West and his wife Dicia andhis children. Johnnie Westwas supposedly born inIreland in 1801, yet somerecords show he was born in1812 in Mississippi. So webegin with a mystery!

If he had been born inIreland, somehow he hadmade it across the great wideocean to the AmericanColonies. Upon his arrival inthe new United States, recordsshow he married Dicia Cooperand they lived in Mississippiprior to moving to Louisiana.Near where the West Familylived were several other fami-lies, those of Joab Owers,Hirman West, Tabitha Brownand Jonathan Owers.

These were hard workingfarmers who provided fortheir families, were probablykin, and who worked togetheras neighbors. But in 1851something happened thatimpacted the West Family andhas spawned many legendsthat still exist in this ruralcommunity.

In 1851 as one legend has it,Johnnie West picked out thevery first grave-site at the pre-sent day Oak Grove Cemetery.The story is that Johnnie Westselected the site for the graveof an unknown soldier whodied unexpectedly at his homeplace. After this burial,Johnnie removed his wife’smother from a grave locationeast of the present day ceme-tery and her grave-sitebecame the second burial atOak Grove Cemetery.

But the story of theunknown soldier has severaltwists in it that we will

attempt to follow. Anotherstory is that an unknown sol-dier came riding up to theWest home and was givenwater and food.

The soldier was invited into have a meal with this poorcountry family. As they ate,there was one biscuit left onthe table and one of the chil-dren reached for it, but the sol-dier was quicker and he gotthe last biscuit and ate it.This made Johnnie West madand he told the soldier youwill not take the last breadfrom my child. Supposed afight ensued with the soldierbeing killed.

Another story came fromone of Johnnie West’s daugh-ters, Margania told manyyears later to her daughter.She said that a man who wastraveling home from warstopped at their house late oneafternoon and as was customat that time in our history, hewas given shelter for the nightand fed a meal before startingtravel the next morning.

The man snatched the lastbiscuit from one of the chil-dren and ate it. When he start-ed to leave, Johnnie escortedhim on his way from the farm.Margania said that she hearda shot and after her father hadcome back home, there was afresh dug grave on top of thenext hill from the West home-place.

I have heard this storythroughout my life and somequestions came up. First, as Ilooked through our earlyAmerican history, in 1851 theUnited States was not at warwith anyone.

Where was this soldiercoming from?

A little more research findsthat he would not have beenfrom Fort Jesup because ithad been abandoned in 1846 ordue to the rural location ofthis area, could it have beenanother year instead of 1851?Where were the nearest fortsto this area in 1851?

There were only 3 that Icould locate. One was FortJackson near New Orleans,Fort Smith in the ArkansasTerritory, and Fort Arbucklelocated near the Oklahomaand Red Rivers.

Another question that aris-es, was this a scout from oneof these forts that possiblyhad sent a military patrolthrough this area or could this

have been a deserter from thearmy?

One thing for sure, the manwas identified from hisappearance to be a soldier, andhe must have been anAmerican soldier who spokeEnglish and not some foreignlanguage. And Johnnie Westhad enough respect for the sol-dier to give him a proper bur-ial and to have properlymarked the grave-site.Johnnie West lived in thiscommunity until he died in1884.

He was quite active inchurch work, and he andJoshia Brown set the churchcornerstones for both OakGrove Baptist and Prewitt’sChapel Baptist churches.Well, after hearing these vari-ous stories and legends onthis incident, what do youthink?

I think it will remain a leg-end till we get to Heaven oneday and ask the Lord the truestory of this event and themystery surrounding it.

In 1968 the West and OwersFamily donated and placed anappropriate grave-marker forthe Unknown Soldier of OakGrove Cemetery that has with-stood the elements and stillmarks this unique grave-site.

If you ever travel out to thislittle community, stop in andwalk into the cemetery. Youwill see the grave-site of theUnknown Soldier and not farfrom it, the grave-site ofJohnnie West and his family.Here in this cemetery lies twomen whose lives, when theymet, led to deathly conse-quences, yet they lie in peacein the same cemetery.

Known Not toMan…..Known Only by God isthis Unknown Soldier.

The grave marker for the Unknown Soldierburied at Oak Grove Cemetery nearHornbeck was erected by the West andOwers Families in 1968.

The grave foot marker on thegrave of the UnknownSoldier of Oak GroveCemetery reads “1851”.

Grave marker for Johnnie West located atOak Grove Cemetery near Hornbeck, whoburied the Unknown Soldier in 1851.

The headquarters building at Fort Jesup, the Unknown Soldier could have been assigned tothis post. Photos complements of the Rickey Robertson Collection

Historian researches the story behind the Unknown Soldier of Oak Grove Cemetery

Cole and Cooper Johnsonattended the Louisiana JuniorShow Circuit 2014 awards ban-quet at the Dean Lee LSU AgCenter in Alexandria. Cooperand Cole are the sons ofChristina and Josh Johnson ofNatchitoches.

The Louisiana Junior ShowCircuit consists of exhibitorsfrom Louisiana, Arkansas andTexas that compete in marketgoat, swine and sheep showsthroughout the year.

Cole is 10 years old and inthe 5th grade at ProvencalElementary. He won GrandChampion Overall MarketGoat and third place overall inMarket Goat Showmanship.He also won eighth place over-all in Market Swine and tenthplace overall in Market SwineShowmanship.

Cooper is 11 years old andin the 6th grade at ProvencalElementary. He won ReserveChampion Overall MarketGoat Showman and thirdplace overall Market Goat. Healso won sixth place overall inMarket Swine Showmanshipand tenth place overall inMarket Swine.

Both are active in theNatchitoches Parish 4-H. Theyalso attended the 75th CentralDistrict Livestock Show inAlexandria, Louisiana atDewitt Livestock Facility Jan.30-Feb. 1. The show includedover 215 participants and FFAmembers from Avoyelles,Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches,Rapides, Vernon and WinnParishes.

Cole Johnson was theReserve Champion MarketGoat winner. His goat sold for$500 to Petrus Feed and Seed.He was also the Reserve GrandChampion Market Hog win-ner.

Cooper Johnson was theGrand Champion Hog winner.His hog was sold for $2000 toMac's Fresh Market. He wasalso the Grand ChampionMarket Goat winner.

Cole and Cooper Johnson proudly display their end of the year awards.

Cole Johnson sold his hog for $1250 to the Kiwanis Club ofAlexandria.

Cooper Johnson sold his goat for $800 to Thomas Carnival.

Parish boys win awards at junior circuit and central district shows

Provencal Christian Academy 4H club met Tuesday Dec. 9 at 11 a.m. for a pizza party.After members enjoyed pizza and desserts they made peppermint jars for the elderly. 4Hclub members along with youths from Provencal united Pentecostal Church went carol-ing Dec. 18th and delivered peppermint gift jars. On front row from left are DylanVascocu and Kidron Pagels. On middle row are Ayden Jordan, Eric Young, Eden Hailey,Morgan Grace and Madison Grace. On back row are Christopher Jennings Jr., AmberMiley, Cameron Simmons, Lakyn Wyatt, Alexis Hailey and Carson Custis.

Thursday, January 15, 2015 THE NATCHITOCHES TIMES 3B

Bike Natchitoches willhold their monthly “ThirdSaturday Ride” Saturday,Jan.17. Participants are askedto gather at the OaklandPlantation National Park at 9a.m. and the casual ride willbegin at 9:30 a.m. The bike ridewill consist of a 14 mile and 21mile loop but participants areallowed to turn back at anytime.

Rebel State Historic Siteinvites all acoustic musiciansto come out and jam Saturday,Jan. 17, from 1 -5 p.m. . Thisevent is for the experiencedmusician or those just learn-ing. A variety of differentmusical techniques and styleswill be discussed and demon-strated. If you are not musical-ly inclined, come and listen tothe music with your friendsand neighbors. This casualget-together will be held in theLouisiana Country MusicMuseum lobby.

Fort St. Jean Baptiste willoffer a Colonial Workshop on“The Rope Maker,” open to allages Saturday, Jan. 17 from 10a.m. - noon. There is a $6 feefor this program plus regularadmission. For informationcall 357-3101.

Rebel State Historic Sitewill hold a “Learn the basics ofthe mountain dulcimer” work-shop at 10 a.m. workshopSaturday, Jan. 17. Ms. Daryle

Stephenson of Shreveport willlead the workshop. The work-shop fee is $2 per participant,in addition to any applicableadmission fees. Pre-registra-tion is required for this work-shop.o Located The site is openTuesday-Saturday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. For information, call472-6255. Admission is $4 foradults ages 13 to 61, SchoolsGroups, children 12 and under,seniors 62 and over and StateParks annual pass holders areadmitted free.

Maglieaux’s on the Canewill rock out on Front Streetwith live music for the “Boogieon the Bricks” event. TheLaCour Trio will perform Jan.17 from 6-10 p.m. The circlewill be blocked off to makeroom for dancing.

The Natchitoches ParishLibrary will be closed forMartin Luther King Jr. dayMonday, Jan. 19.

Bike Natchitoches willhold their monthly meetingTuesday, Jan. 20 at 5:30 p.m. inthe Natchitoches Art Center.

The Natchitoches ParishLibrary will hold “Art withAnnabel” Tuesday, Jan. 20This event provides 12-17 yearolds with an opportunity topaint acrylic portraits. Allsupplies will be provided. Forinformation or to sign up call357-3280.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY forThursday, Jan. 15, 2015:

This year you thrive by pursuingeducation and travel. You might beencouraged to develop an interestand go back to school. Some of youmight travel to foreign lands inorder to learn about different cul-tures. You also could be lucky withmoney. If you have a hunch, followit. If you are single, someone quitedifferent from you could enteryour life after July. A significantrelationship is likely to develop. Ifyou are attached, your in-lawsmight play a more significant rolein your life than they had previ-ously. You will learn to appreciatethem more. SCORPIO knows howto make an impression on you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Your energy could deflate

even the strongest of egos. Yourcreativity will mix together withyour high drive, and you will see apersonal issue in a different lightas a result. A partner might try toconvince you of the rightness ofhis or her ways. Tonight: Makenice.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH You might defer to others.

Pressure could surround a domes-tic matter. Ultimately, what youhear will be good news, but it stillis likely to create some stress. Anassociate could make demandsthat you’re unable to fulfill.Tonight: Keep the peace, but havea needed discussion.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You’ll have the right

words, but everyone seems so busywith personal matters that theymight not be listening. Consideryour options, and be willing to del-egate what you can to others. Agreat idea could come from a closefriend. Tonight: Know when to callit a night.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)HHHH Be more sensitive regard-

ing a touchy situation. Listen towhat other involved parties haveto say, but don’t feel as if you haveto help financially. Your ingenuitywill allow you to find a way out ofwhat could be a very sticky mess.Tonight: In weekend mode.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)HHH Emphasis will be on family

and personal matters. Your moodis contagious, and others seem tobecome more upbeat as a result.Your sense of humor tends to helpmany people lighten up. Check outa recent purchase for your homecarefully. Tonight: Buy a treat onthe way home.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)HHHH Your instincts will point

you in the right direction, despiteany interference you mightencounter. In fact, you will discov-er how right-on your intuition canbe. You seem to have endless cre-ativity, with enthusiasm behindyour ideas. Tonight: At yourfavorite haunt.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)HHH Your focus remains on your

long-term goals and on the finan-cial backing necessary to makethem so. You see the path to whereyou want to go, and you’ll feel thesupport of key people in your life.Consider an investment involvingproperty. Tonight: Where theaction is.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)HHHH Someone who is well

aware of your performance mightbe quite pleased with what is hap-pening. Take a stand, and be clearabout your direction and choices.Be sure to explain your logic whendeciding what it is you’d like to do.Tonight: On cruise control.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)HH You might be unusually quiet

when dealing with others. Theymight want to know what is hap-pening with you, and you might behard-pressed to explain it. Youcould see how a financial risk isdoable, but first compare yourviews with those closest to you.Tonight: Not to be found.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)HHHHH You’ll be more con-

cerned about a meeting than youmight realize. A close friend willsupport you in a very open andclear manner. You will succeedbeyond your wildest dreamsbecause of this person’s confi-dence in your abilities. Tonight:Enjoy a leisurely dinner.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)HHHH You might have to take on

additional responsibilities andwork, but others are likely to wantto help you out. You might beuncomfortable changing roles in acertain relationship. Don’t worry;you will gain more clarity givensome time. Tonight: A force to bedealt with.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH You have a lot of energy

invested in completing a projectand in making time for an impor-tant friend or associate. What youdecide to do easily could become areality, if you so desire. The victo-ry trail lies directly in front of you.Tonight: Put your feet up.

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The Austin BaroqueOrchestra, a period-instru-ment orchestra based inTexas’ capital city, will pre-sent a program of Baroquemusic Jan. 20 inNorthwestern StateUniversity’s Magale RecitalHall at 7:30pm.

This is the orchestra’s firstperformance in Louisiana andwill showcase the work ofsome of the most popularcomposers of the Baroque era.

Founded in 2011 as a cham-ber ensemble called EnsembleSettecento, the AustinBaroque Orchestra originallyconsisted of 10 players andone singer.

The ABO and its associatedchorus is now comprised of atotal of some 35 young instru-mentalists and singers.

The players perform usingperiod-appropriate perfor-mance practices, on replicasof 17th- and 18th-centuryinstruments, while the chorusmembers sing in an historical-ly informed manner, includ-ing the use of historic diction.

“I’m incredibly excited tobe coming home to Louisianaand to be bringing my ABOcolleagues with me,” saidArtistic Director Billy

Traylor, a native of DenhamSprings. “It’s so rare that peri-od-instrument ensembles per-form in Louisiana, so whenNatchitoches-NorthwesternSymphony Orchestra conduc-tor Doug Bakenhus invited usto come to Natchitoches toperform, I very happilyagreed to put a programtogether.”

A baroque oboist and harp-sichordist, Traylor is an NSUalumnus (M.M., 2004) and alsowas a student in IndianaUniversity’s Early MusicInstitute.

“The concert we’ve pre-pared will include some of themost beloved genres of thefirst half of the eighteenthcentury, including concertogrosso, cantata, and overture,and will include music bysome of the greatest com-posers to ever live. Because ofthis ‘sampler’ quality of theprogram, it would make anideal introduction for thoseunfamiliar with the use ofperiod instruments – replicasof instruments from theBaroque era. I’m also veryhappy that Dr. Bakenhus andDr. Dennette McDermott willbe joining us on this perfor-mance, on baroque bassoon

and baroque flute, respective-ly.”

The concert, entitled “Live[Baroque] Music Capital(s) ofthe World,” references bothAustin’s nickname as the“Live Music Capital of theWorld” and the fact that theworks performed all originat-ed in the most importantmusical centers of 18th-centu-ry Europe.

Among these will be worksby George Frideric Handel(London), Jean-PhilippeRameau (Paris), AntonioVivaldi (Venice), and IgnacioJerúsalem (Mexico City). Toclose the concert, the orches-tra will be joined by a smallchoir made up of NSU facultyand student singers for a per-formance of JohannSebastian Bach’s cantataJesu, der du meine Seele.

Ticket prices are $10, $20,and $25 (student, senior, andgeneral admission, respective-ly), and can be purchasedeither at the door (cash, check,and all major credit/debitcards accepted), or throughthe ensemble’s website(http://austinbaroqueorches-tra.org). NSU and LSMSA stu-dents, faculty, and staff areadmitted free with valid ID.

Artwork by Phyllis Lear,professor of art history atNorthwestern StateUniversity, will be on exhibitin the Student Union ArtGallery at Louisiana StateUniversity through Tuesday,Jan. 27.

“About the Jurors: SelectedWorks from Randell Henry,Phyllis Lear and JenniferShaw” features 20 works fromthe jurors of the 2015 LSUJuried Student Art Show.

The exhibit is intended toshowcase work by the jurorsand demonstrate to studentswhat practicing artists create,providing insight to the styleof the jurors who will bereviewing their work.

The LSU Student Union ArtGallery is open from 10 a.m.-5p.m. Monday-Friday and from1-5 p.m. Sunday. For informa-tion, e-mail [email protected]. WishesFishes

by Phyllis Lear

NSU professor to present art exhibit at LSU

Austin Baroque Orchestra to perform in Magale Hall

Winter Wonders

Daughters of the AmericanRevelation will host The OldCourt House will hold agenealogy workshop Saturday.Jan. 17 at 10 a.m. This work-shop will provide an opportu-nity to lean about personalancestry pertaining to theAmerican Revolutionary war.Participants could find evi-dence to become eligible tojoin Daughters of theAmerican Revolution (DAR),Sons of the AmericanRevolution (SAR) or Children

of the American Revolution(CAR). The members of St.Denis Chapter, Daughters ofthe American Revolution(DAR), represent many patri-ots from one of the severalColonies or States. SomeNatchitoches patriots whoserved in the GalvezExpedition are: Metoyer,Prud'homme, Lambre, Buard,LeComte, Rachal, Bordelon,Frederic, Meullion, Vercherand Chelette. Patriot namesfrom other states represented

in the local chapter include:Brewer, Sledge, McGinty,Davie, Hamilton andBloodworth (Bludworth), toname a few. Members haveresearch files completed onmany patriots. DAR member-ship is open to women 18 orolder of any race or creed whocan prove lineal (direct),bloodline descent from anancestor who aided in achiev-ing American independence,who served as a sailor, soldieror civil officer.

Genealogy workshop to be heldat the Old Court House Saturday


Monday, Jan. 12We started off the New Year

a happy family.Granddaughter RemingtonRose Bamberg was born Dec.30 and came home New Year’sDay. It’s been a great twoweeks of getting to know herand adjusting to a newborn’sroutine. As expected, shealready has the entire familycaptivated, especially big sis-ter, Grayci.

Our family is not the onlyone in baby mode in Fairview.

Derril Glenn Blanchardand Miranda Rousseau areexpecting a baby boy they willname Declan.

Caleb Blanchard andChelsea Graves justannounced Jan. 12 they arealso expecting a boy in June.

Zack and Kelsey Perotrecently hosted a reveal partythat divulged the fact they arehaving a girl named Paityn inJune. Attendees wore TeamGirl pink shirts or Team Boyblue shirts. Two large boxes, apink one labeled Girl and ablue one labeled Boy were thefocal point of the reveal. Zackand Kelsey each lifted a boxand when they were upended,pink confetti and silverstreamers poured all overtheir toddler daughterAdaleigh, who seemed excitedto be getting a baby sister.

I treated myself to a mani-cure last week on one of thecoldest days. While in the

salon, a lady came in to get apedicure. The salon’s waterwas frozen, except for onefaucet in the back room. Theowner asked how far the ladylived from the salon andlearned it was a 30 minute

drive, so to prevent the cus-tomer from having to make anextra trip on bad roads, sheimprovised and heated waterin a tea pot to fill the pedi sta-tion basin. It required severaltrips. Have to say it was a lotof extra effort for the owner todo that and the patron appre-ciated the effort. Sometimespeople do go above the call ofduty to accommodate others.

Speaking of accommodat-ing, the folks on Cason Roadare hoping CP-Tel will accom-modate them.

The company is runningtelevision, telephone andinternet lines throughFairview, but has yet to ven-ture down Cason Road.Several families are ready todrop their current providersand become CP-Tel customers.

Hollis Dupree enjoyed his visit with Santa and Mrs.Clause,at Bass Pro.

Juanice Gray is one happy Nee-Nee holding granddaughterRemington Rose who arrived Dec. 30, while big sisterGrayci, 2, steals another kiss.

Ralph Gray decided to sharesome Christmas spirit by giv-ing away this saddle towhomever gave him the bestreason for needing it.Kaitlyn Bryan received thesaddle and gave it to her sis-ter Kami Bumgardner. By thelook on her face, the choice togive the saddle to Bryan wasa good one.

Derril Glen Blanchard andMiranda Rousseau are hav-ing a boy, DeclanChristopher, in June.

FAIRVIEW ALPHA NEWS

By JuaniceGray

476-2392

Fairview youth wins saddle because of graciousness of spirit; babies born, some on the way

Monday, Jan. 12Sunday at Old Bethel,

Larry Smith sang “PleaseForgive Me.” Bro. DannyAsbell preached onPhilippians 1:12-19. He talkedabout how to find purpose 1.Our purpose defines who weare. 2. Our purpose shouldbring glory to God. 3. Ourpurpose directs our future. 4.Our purpose testifies ourfaith. 5. Our purpose causesus to celebrate.

The men of Old Bethel willhave a prayer breakfastSunday, Jan. 18 at 8 a.m.

Old Bethel WMU will meetat the church Jan. 20 at 6:30p.m. This is for Old Bethelwomen only.

Celebrating birthdays inJanuary at Old Bethel areAllison Berry Jan. 7, SandiStrickland Jan. 14 and Ashley

Fulton -Jan. 19. Happy birth-day to all of you. HappyAnniversary to Malcolm andLiz Durr Jan. 3 and Rex andShirley Fair Jan. 28.

Marthaville First BaptistChurch will have Ben Waitesin concert Sunday, Jan. 25 at 5p.m. Old Bethel will cancelchurch that night to attendMarthaville First BaptistChurch. They will collect alove offering that night andrefreshments after the con-cert.

District Eight BaptistConvention will meet meetingthis Thursday, Jan. 15 at 6p.m. at Clara Springs. ClaraSprings staff will have dinnerbefore the meeting.

Clara Springs Kids WinterCamp is Jan. 16-17 for grades2-6. Check in time is 6 p.m.The cost is $55. Speaker isBlake Nichols. Blake hasworked professionally withpre-school, elementary andteenage kids for over 16 yearsfrom Texas to Tennessee. He

is also youth Minster atWaller Baptist Church inHouston. Worship leaders areMORIAH: WhitneyRobertson, Jordan McCorveyand Emily Gunter make upthis Christian ContemporaryGroup.

Clara Springs fourthFriday fish fry is Jan. 23.Fairview Baptist Church willcook. They will start servingaround 5:15 p.m.

There will be a church safe-ty training at Clara SpringsJan. 24. Michael Sesvold iscoordinating this event. Hewill bring a team of profes-sionals from private, local,

parish and state agencies topresent a range of topics onsafety. Tropics include dri-ving safety, internet safety,fire safety, and CPR training.This program will start at 9a.m. For more information,contact Michael Sesvold at471-2591 or email him [email protected]. or callClara Springs office at 318-796-3875.

Trinity Baptist Churchwill host the NatchitochesPrayer breakfast Feb. 5 at 8a.m.

Calvary Baptist Churchwill have their monthlysinging Feb. 7.

OLD BETHEL NEWS

By Liz Durr

352-8898

Larry Smith sang “PleaseForgive Me” at Old BethelSunday.

Liz Durr took this photo of the fountain behind theNatchitoches Historic Foundation during cold weather lastweek.

Allison Berry talks to a group during children’s church at Old Bethel Baptist Church.

Old Bethel writer reports church events at her church, Clara Springs, Trinity and Calvary Baptist

A reveal party divulged the gender of Zack and KelseyPerot’s baby girl, Paityn. From left are Zack’s dad, JackiePerot, Adaleigh Perot, Zack , Kelsey, and her mom, RachelBlanchard.

Monday, Jan. 12 Bro. Roger and Connie

Matkin were saddened to hearof the death of Dr. RichardWhite who was Connie’s twinsister, Bonnie Shaw’s, broth-er-in-law. Richard was a manwho gave his life for Jesus, hisfamily and bringing hurtingpeople to Jesus.

Everyone that met him,their life was impacted by hisinfectious smile and genuineinterest in their lives. Richard

graduated from Bossier HighSchool and Baptist ChristianCollege in Shreveport. He alsoreceived three honorary doc-torate degrees and one earnedDoctorate of Humanities andDivinity.

Richard started CalvaryHeights Baptist Church andMercy Church in BatonRouge. He had also been thepastor of North ShreveBaptist Church inShreveport, Central BaptistChurch in Panama City, Fla.,and the Northside BaptistChurch in Roswell, Ga.

Bro. Roger, Connie, andBrittany went with her sister,Bonnie, and husband Scottieto visit with Richard and hiswife, Pam, when they livedthere in Georgia. Theyarrived on a Wednesday andgot to go to the evening ser-

vice at his church and at thattime Richard anointedBonnie for healing becauseshe was battling ovarian can-cer.

God healed her for a whilelonger, then decided to giveher the ultimate healing andcalled her on to Heaven 3years later.

Richard helped preach herfuneral along with Bro.Roger.

While visiting withRichard and Pam, they treat-ed the Matkins and Shaws toan Atlanta Braves game,which they all thoroughlyenjoyed. Connie said their 2-day stay at Richard’s andPam’s will always be remem-bered as one of the highlightsof their vacations.

Richard also was thefounder of the Calvary

Baptist Foundation of India.In India, Richard help plantalmost 500 churches throughthe ministry of JustusBanuel.

Connie remembers Justusalso contacting Bonnie, assur-ing her of their prayers andfasting for her in India. It wastruly a blessing for Bonnieand her family to know this.

Richard was also thefounder of Calvary ChristianSchool in Baton Rouge. Theywere involved in a ministrycalled “Spin” there in BatonRouge and just last Sundaythey gave out 40 sleeping bagsand fed gumbo to their home-less friends. Then four dayslater he was called to his eter-nal home.

Our prayers go out to hiswife, Pam, and his two boys,Bradley and J.D., and to his

grandchildren, Landon,Catherine, Caroline, andSunny, who all loved their“Poppy.”

The visitation was Monday

and the service to celebratehis life was Tuesday at theThe Chapel at the Oaks, for-merly Calvary Heights, inBaton Rouge.

BELLWOOD NEWS

By Shirley O.Rachal

472-9175

Dr. Richard White, at left, in his younger days, and at right,recently, passed away.

Friends mourn loss of dynamic pastor who started churches in Louisiana, Florida, Georgia

Read your community news and other events online at www.natchitochestimes.com


Monday, Jan. 12Provencal community’s

first bingo of 2015 was a suc-cessful evening. Monthly bin-gos are hosted by theCommunity Developers.There has been a schedulingchange for February.February’s event will beFriday, Feb. 13 as to not con-flict with the Mardi Grasparade or Valentine’s Day.

The Little Hoops season hasgotten underway. Over 130children will play on 16 teams.Games begin Saturday, Jan. 24and run through Feb. 28.Coordinators are seeking vol-unteers to help during gameday activities, including refer-ees and score keepers.Anyone willing to volunteershould contact Dwayne Poe at(318)472-6174. Little Hoop pro-ceeds go to ProvencalElementary/Jr. High Schooland go back into classrooms.

Surveying continues inpreparation for constructionof a new junior high wing.Building is set to begin latespring and take 12-18 monthsto complete.

Provencal’s Girl Scouttroop has begun the GirlScout Cookie Drive. GirlScouts offer classic cookiesand three new additions.Cranberry Citrus Crisps, RahRah Raisins and Toffee-tasticare new gluten-free cookiesadded this year.

To order Girl Scout cookies,contact Brandi Stroud at(318)554-8018 or Robin Wellingat (318)623-8566. Cookies canalso be ordered thru any GirlScout.

The first Provencal CouncilMeeting of 2015 will beTuesday, Jan. 27 at 6 p.m. Themeeting will be at ProvencalCity Hall. Meetings are held

the last Tuesday of eachmonth.

PJH teachers are preparingto meet parents duringParent/Teacher conferences.Conferences will be today,Thursday Jan. 15 from 3:30-6:30 and Friday, Jan. 16 from 8a.m.-noon. Parents areencouraged to attend, meetwith teachers and pick upreport cards.

Students will be out ofschool Friday, Jan. 16 due toparent/teacher conferencesand Monday, Jan. 19 in obser-vance of Martin Luther King,

Jr. Day.Provencal Community

Developers continue to pre-pare for new, upcomingevents. A community-wideEaster service, including anEaster egg hunt is beingplanned. Also new to the cal-endar of events is a greenmarket on Saturdays duringMay and June.

Volunteers for each eventare being sought. If interest-ed in volunteering or partici-pating in either event, contactTammy Graves at (318)663-9984.

PROVENCAL NEWS

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Emily Robertson, a 7th grader at Provencal Jr. High, startedoff the last week of hunting season with 5-point buck. Thehunting season concluded last week but a week-long youthhunt (and muzzle-loader week) will continue throughSunday, Jan. 25. Emily took advantage of the youth huntdays and killed her first buck Jan. 12. Emily’s hunting part-ner and grandfather is Dennis Scarbrough and she is thedaughter of Joni Scarbrough, all of Provencal.

Provencal Community Developers sponsoringbingos, Little Hoops season about to start

Monday, Jan. 12The town of Robeline has

added another member,Dakota Roy Bass. Dakota isthe newborn son of Leslieand Sean Bass. He was bornJan. 8, 2015 at 6:51p.m.Dakota tipped the scales at 6pounds and 15 ounces andwas 19 and one-half incheslong. Dakota is doing well butis still in Highland Hospital.Soon he will be welcomedhome by his sister Paris, andbrothers Kayden, Eli andChristian. CongratulationsLeslie and Sean.

The town of Robelinemeeting was Jan. 8 and thenewly elected members weresworn in and they are MayorBobby Behan, Chief of PoliceGordon O’Con, AldermanGilda Jenkins, RandyBockstanz, Bergen Oge, and

Constable Tommy O’Con.Robeline First Baptist

Church had an awesomerevival last week. There were11 saved, 3 joined the church,

and other decisions made. Remember you can email

me at [email protected] any events or news ofany kind.

The Robeline Council presided at the first meeting of the year Jan. 8. From left are Chiefof Police Gordon O’Con, Alderman Randy Bockstanz, Mayor Bobby Behan andAlderwoman Gilda Jenkins. Not pictured is Bergen Oge. The council was sworn in at themeeting.

New mayor and council take over in RobelineROBELINE NEWS

by KathrynE. Laurent(Lisa)471-

6894

Dakota Roy Bass was born Jan. 18.

Monday, Jan. 12 2015 is starting off in a run.

I can’t seem to catch up.Sorry missed last weeks post-ing, but I was running likemy bloomers were on fire.My daughter went throughthe surgery of stint removalfrom her gall bladder with fly-ing colors.

School is back in as I heara lot of moaning and groan-ing from moms and kidsabout having to get up earlyagain. The best part of beingmy age is no one can makeme get up or go to bed, well,that is—- and live.

Jimmie comes in with mycoffee 8’ ish with, “Honey,here’s your coffee,” as he’sbacking out of the room. I ‘mjust kidding, but you seniorsout there, I know you willagree with me. There aresome good perks with being asenior. “Oh just over look her,she’s old.”

I can get away with a lot ofsneaky stuff with thatexcuse.

At Goldonna School par-ent/teacher conference isThursday, Jan. 15, 3:30-6:30p.m., with report cards. PBISAcademic Pep Rally will beat 1:30 p.m. in auditorium.

I didn’t ask permission towrite this, but I’m sure I willhear about it, if not. Aftervisiting with JuniorBlackmon in Rehab, we raninto Joe Wiley Vercher. Hewas in the waiting room look-ing lost, so we stopped to talk.It seems he and David weretrying to pen a cow whichneeded some medical atten-tion. Ethel being the dutifulwife of course was trying tohelp by waving her arms andtalking really sweet to scareher in to a pen. Well being acow, and being in a lot of painshe forgot who Ethel was, soshe tried to trample her.

Poor Ethel ended up on the

ground with lots of pain her-self. Miss cow was left stand-ing, while they flew to the ER,where X-rays were made, No,she doesn’t have any brokenbones, but is sore and upsetwith the cow. I told her, weladies (as we hear each timewe go to the doctor) are justtoo old to do those kinds ofthings.

Some times, I totally agreewith that smart doctor. It’sthis time in our lives that weshould sit on satin pillows,have our massages, pedi-cures, manicures, sip a goodclass of wine, have hair doneand wear dressing gowns allday swishing back and forthlike Zaa Zaa Gabore.

Betty Pullig said Jim isdoing great, has just beenreleased from the doctor to goback to work. I’m sure bothare ready for that. For a manwho’s accustomed to workingall the time, medical lay-upsare hard to tolerate.

So sad to hear about ourloss of Al Ferrier, the “Rock-a-Billy” of Louisiana. I sangwith his band way back in70’s at the Sportsman’s Lodge(which is no longer there),and several times since atnursing homes and etc.

Family and friends havesuffered a great loss. Henever let go of his love ofsinging and playing his gui-tar. He loved giving of himself to others. Keep on keep-ing on for Jesus and theangels.

Also, another good friendof ours, Connie Perot left forheaven this week. I don’tknow any of the particularsyet.

She was a good Christianlady, with a prayer in herheart for others. You will bemissed too Connie. Pleasesay a prayer of peace for thefamily members.

The Banded Travelers wereinvited to perform for thesenior luncheon at TrinityBaptist Church Thursday. Wehad a great reception and weenjoyed the lunch. Thegroup was put together sometime ago, called Over the HillGang, which honestly madesome of us over the hillers

feel really over the hill, so,Bonnie came up with the newname which is very fitting Ithink.

We have just banded our-selves together andtravel. Our practice sessionsare always in front of anaudience. So far, we’ve notbeen asked to leave early, norreceived rotten tomatoes, icecubes, or spit balls.

So if any one out there hasneed of a great BandedMusicians/Singers, you canalways call on us. We take allcalls, donations, (food) and weare never no-shows. Contactus at [email protected]/ 318-332-3772.

I was re-vamping mysewing room and found thissock monkey. My grand-daughter, Kelyn Cockran, atthe age of 3 wanted to sew sobadly, she cut out the dress,using straight pins, dressedit. I hope she will resume herdesire to sew. Which bringsup this. I really have someunique frannie designedwelders caps for sale. I sureneed to get rid of some.

Well my father-in law,Junior Blackmon is definite-ly on the mend. After havingoutlived five wives and sev-eral girlfriends, at 91, guesswhat, the old codger is nowchecking out the nurses atthe Rehab Center. I think wehad better be thinking seri-ously of getting him out ofthere.

In the green house, thatlast freezing attack, did mytomato plants in! I was inhopes for fresh ones soon.The greens are doing well,though it’s miserable to pick,wash and cook.

Pray for America, thoseattacks around our world,could just as well be in ourback yard. I keep hearing folksay its coming here, but Idon’t want to claim that. Wegreat Americans will cometogether at the sound ofalarm.

FFT: Crossing ones legs atthe knees, ups blood pressurereadings and very bad espe-cially for diabetics. Best tonot cross legs at all, but okeyat ankles.

BLACK LAKE NEWS

By Frannie

Blackmon332-3772

New Year arrives on Black Lake

Monday, Jan. 12The Natchitoches Parish

Council of Aging will closeMonday, Jan. 19, Dr. King’sbirthday. The council will dis-tribute commodities Tuesdayfrom 1-3 p.m. and Wednesdayfrom 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Volunteers of the Month atCOA are Lionel Dawson and

Meryland Robinson.The birthday party for

January will be Friday, Jan. 30at 11 a.m.

Food for Seniors, 40-poundboxes will be distributedThursday, Jan. 22 at St.Augustine Catholic Hall from9 a.m.-10 a.m.

St. Augustine HistoricalSociety will host GrandpereAugustin’s birthday Saturday,Jan. 24 with mass at 5 p.m. fol-lowed by celebrations in thechurch hall.

Louisiana Creole Heritagepageant winners will be pre-sented and recognition ofsenior parishioners. Therewill be festive food, music andfellowship.

The Louisiana CreoleHeritage Pageant will beFriday, Jan. 23 at 6 p.m. atMagale Recital Hall.

Sincere sympathy and con-dolences to the family ofRosalie Metoyer Christophe.Services for Mrs. Christophewere Monday, Jan. 12 at St.Anthony’s. with Father JohnO’Brien officiating. Intermentfollowed at St. AugustineCatholic Cemetery at IsleBrevelle.

Rodney LeCoure Jr. cele-brated his 16th birthdaySaturday at the home of hismother with family andfriends. Rodney attendedOasis of Love Academy.

Monday, Jan. 12Happy birthday wishes are

extended to Ethel Forest Jan.15. She will celebrate herbirthday with a party atLloyd’s Night Club Jan. 17beginning at 9 p.m. Birthdaywishes are also extended toMichael McDaniel, Jan. 16;Edward Sewell, Jan. 20; JerryForrest Jan. 24; LucilleJohnson Jan. 25; ConnieWalker Jan. 29 and MerdisHoward, Jan. 31.

It is tax season again andmost are eager to get their W-2 forms to file.

The latest date that the W-2forms to be issued by employ-ers is Jan. 31. Remember thatsome of the tax laws havechanged and if possible, get

with a CPA or a certified taxperson to submit your taxes.

Natchitoches Parish FireDistrict 5 met Jan. 6. Themeeting was called to order,prayer, Pledge of Allegiance,roll call and adoption of lastmonth’s minutes’ meetingthat held Dec. 2 Next on theagenda was the chief ’sreport.

There was no old businessand also there was allottedtime for public comments.

New business consisted ofthe adoption of the 2015 bud-get, CPA Engagement for the2014 financial statements.

Training was next on theagenda. The financials werecovered and the meeting wasadjourned.

Martin Luther King Jr., dayis Jan. 19. This day is anAmerican federal holidaymarking the birthday ofMartin Luther King Jr. It isobserved on the third Mondayof January each year, whichis around the time of King’sbirthday, Jan. 15. The floatingholiday is similar to holidaysset under the Uniform

Monday Holiday Act.King was the chief

spokesman for nonviolentactivism in the civil rightsmovement, which successful-ly protested racial discrimi-nation in federal and statelaw. The campaign for a feder-al holiday in King’s honorbegan soon after his assassi-nation in 1968.

President Ronald Reagansigned the holiday into law in1983, and it was first observedthree years later. At first,some states resisted observ-ing the holiday as such, givingit alternative names or com-bining it with other holidays.It was officially observed inall 50 states for the first timein 2000.

Pentecost Baptist Churchfamily would like to thankeveryone that played a part inthe funeral services for life-time community memberBertha Edmond.

No matter what the part;whether it was your prayers,visitation, flowers, etc. Shewas loved my many and willbe dearly missed.

MELROSE NEWS

By Janet Jones

379-2691

NATCHEZ NEWS

By Shelia

Johnson354-1644

Natchez writer details history of MLK holiday

Council on Aging will close for MLK birthday

Monday, Jan. 12The new Campti Mayor

Roland Smith will sit in at theTown Council MeetingTuesday night, the first meet-ing of the year. I am not surewho all the council membersare, since not enough ran forthe seat in the election. I willbe there and hope to havesome good news.

As Gail Roy, Sissie Blackand myself were returningfrom the wake of our friend AlFerrier Thursday night andwhile waiting for the red lightat Keyser and East Fifth, wewitnessed two cars collide,sending one almost into us.The driver of that car waspinned in with a leg injuryand she related to us how shewas doing all she could do toavoid hitting us. Once her car

stopped she really was right atour bumper. No one else wasinjured thank God. We wereheld up for some time.

I am so sorry my friend Alhas gone so soon. He had along career in his music, witha distinctive voice that soldmany records. He was so wellknown here in the states andwas extremely popular inEurope, especially Swedenand Germany. Even thoughhis voice was giving him trou-ble again, he was still plan-ning on another tour. He andmy brother Sonny Black werevery close friends. They bothhad fish markets, but Sonnywas also the fisherman whosupplied Al with a lot of hisfish. I offer my sincerest sym-pathies to his family.

The United Baptist SuperStars Program resumed Jan.14. The session will runthrough May 6 Wednesdaynights at 6 p.m. The theme willbe “Talking to God.”

Jamie Montgomerybrought our special musictoday. We were also blessed onthis day. Benji Colvin and hiswife, missionaries toHonduras, spoke of his life

before he became involved inmission work, and of course,his work in the mission field,especially in Honduras.

There are very few modernthings including vehicles,running water, electricity andother things we enjoy. Theyare with the Sabine ParishTeam and will travel back toHonduras.

Last Sunday, Mr. PeroScallian had to go get checkedout at the hospital, he appar-ently had a very light stroke,but is now fine as of Saturday,Jan. 10. On his birthday hewas a very young 91 years old.

Alyssa Wright is gettingchecked out at ChristusCoushatta. Ethel Vercher hadto get checked out at the emer-gency room after a run in withone of their cows. I under-stand it was just a slight footinjury.

Some of our members wentover to the Court Yard thisweek to play and sing andmingle with the patientsthere. I rescheduled two doc-tor appointments inShreveport for Friday. I justdidn’t know what the weatherwas going to be.

Community Care Centerhonored Corine Luchin asResident of the Month. Shehas been there since 2013.Team member of the month isMarshonna Hardy.

January birthdays are:Katherine Dalme (3), DeloresNelson (4), Mary Clark (7),Alvin Johnson (8), JaneLoucks (10), Glenn Magee (20),Joyce Smith (26), WillieWallace (29) and Relia Picou(31).

They mourn the loss of Ms.Evelyne Masters, Mr. WilliePauir and Mr. AndrewMaggio.

Sorry to report that Ms.Connie Perot Foster haspassed away. Her wake isMonday night, Jan. 12 atRockett-Nettles in Coushattawith the service there at 2 p.m.Tuesday and burial followingat the Nativity Cemetery inCampti.

I was informed this weekthat Allison Moore, who has acamp on Black Lake and was aschool mate of mine atGoldonna High School, is veryill at the V.A. Hospital inShreveport. Please get bettersoon Allison.


Monday, Jan. 12Everyone was excited

when the announcement wasmade at MarthavilleElementary/Jr. High School,that Students of the Year areGracie Dans and TuckerHenderson.

Gracie is in the 5th gradeand her proud parents areRoland and Jamie Dans.

Tucker is in the 8th gradeand his proud parents areJohn Paul and CeciliaHenderson. What an honorthis is. Congratulations goout to Gracie and Tucker andmay they both continue to dothe excellent work that theyboth are doing now.

It is time to sign your childup for the Winter Mini-CheerCamp at Marthaville schoolfor Pre-K thru 5th grade Feb.16-17 from 1-4 p.m. The fee is $30.

This will include a T-shirt,crafts, snacks and prizes. Youcan pick up your entry format our school and deadlinewill be Jan. 30. Make checkspayable to MarthavilleSchool.

January 17 at 7:00 pm atthe Marthaville HeritageBuilding, the MCHC willhold a club hunt inMarthaville. They will followall PKC coon hunting rulesand it will be a $ 20 hunt. Theclub will pay back 100 per-cent. To join costs $20 for anannual membership. Formore information you cancall Shawn Hall at 652-1655.

You have heard the ole say-ing that there is a “NewSheriff ” in town? That iswhat you can say about

Robeline. They have neweverything! Last Thursdaynight, was the swearing in toa new mayor, three aldermenand police chief.

Bobby Behan is the newmayor, his three aldermenare Randy Bockstanz, BergenOge’ and Gilda Jenkins, newpolice chief is GordonO’Con. Will new changestake place?

Time will tell but whateverit is the town of Robelineshould back this new teamup. The sky is the limit andthis team is ready to take itall the way to the top! Goodluck and Congratulations toall of you!

If you are wanting to pur-chase a brick for theNatchitoches Veterans andMemorial Park, you will haveuntil the end of January.That order will hopefully bein by Memorial Day,

2015. Cost for each brick is $100. For more information onthis, call Bob Gillan at 352-7746.

In 1991 the Many PoliceDepartment was asked toassist when Hollywood cameto town to film the movie,“The Man in theMoon.” Downtown became amovie set with 14-year oldReese Witherspoon staring inher first movie.

San Antonio Avenue wasclosed and older model carswere brought in and parkedat an angle. Some of thedowntown store fronts wererecreated as they might havelooked in the 1950’s. Here isjust a little story behind thatone movie that you and oth-ers had no idea about.

Gwendell DesmondKingrey was a 16-year-oldthat was looking forward tohis junior year at

Natchitoches High. Hisfriends knew him as “Gwen”,but later movie goers wouldknow him as “Court Foster,”the boy that Dani Trant(Reese Witherspoon) andMaureen Trant (EmilyWarfield) fell in love with inthe 1991 movie, “The Man inthe Moon.”

Gwen was killed instantlyon July 9, 1959 after fallingfrom a tractor inNatchitoches Parish nearClarence. The accidentoccurred about 9 a.m. in apasture where Kingrey andanother youth were each dri-ving a tractor pulling largemowers cutting grass. Onewheel of Kingrey’s tractorapparently struck a stumpcausing the vehicle to lurchand throw the youth beneaththe bush-hog blades.

Funeral services for Gwenwere officiated by the Rev. A.

E. Wingfield. The Rev.Wingfield was the father ofthe movie’s screenwriter,Jenny Wingfield. Jenny, whowrote the play and was por-trayed as “Dani” in themovie, while her dad wasportrayed by Sam Watterson,although he did not play therole of a preacher.

Much of the movie wasfilmed in Robeline, whereboth screenwriter JennyWingfield and the Kingreychildren lived in the 1950’s.

Gwen was buried in theFort Jesup Cemetery. Thefamily moved to SabineParish after the death ofGwen. His twin brothersgraduated from Many HighSchool with one of them later

returning from a tour ofVietnam and working forboth the Many PoliceDepartment and the SabineSheriffs Office.

Scenes in the movie werefilmed in downtown Many,the old Robeline MethodistChurch, the RobelineCemetery and nearby BobWelch farm. Other sceneswere at the NatchitochesCountry Club, the Cane Riverbank, a house down CaneRiver across Pratt’s nearPoint Place (Trant house)and at Kisatchie Falls just offHwy. 118.

Just a little “FYI” on amovie of long ago, it bringsback lots of memories of themaking of that one movie.

MARTHAVILLE NEWS

By DonnaDyson-Horn472-6396

Marthaville School names Students of the Year; writer recalls story of ‘Man in the Moon’

Marthaville Elementary Jr. Students of the Year are GracieDans in fifth grade and Tucker Henderson in eighth grade.From left are Tucker, Principal Terry Williams and Gracie.

Jonah Henry Roe turned 5years old. He is in Pre-K atMarthaville School. His par-ents are Bubba and DawnRoe, grandparents are Ralphand Sue Roe all ofMarthaville and grandpar-ents Roy and CatherineBoudreaux ofConvert. Brothers Owen andGabe Roe, were also in onthis celebration.

Wayne O’Con turned 36 and in on his surprise celebrationwere his wife Celeste and their two sons, Joshua and WesleyO’Con. Hot wings and French fries were on their birthdaymenu for their dad. From left are Wesley, Joshua and Wayne.

Campti writer witnesses crash; remembers Al Ferrier’s life

Liam Mahloch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Mahloch, celebrat-ed his 1st Birthday.

CAMPTI NEWS

ByMarie Walker

476-2231

Monday, Jan. 12The arctic blast is giving

the Ark-La-Tex a frigidblast. We’ve had some verycold days and nights.Wednesday morning thetemperature was in the 20s.God is cleansing the Earthwith rain and cold weather.The bugs and parasiteswon’t be so bad on yourspring gardens. I know the

deer will be happy again.Deer hunters have only fourmore days to prey on thewild. Deer season ends Jan.15. Sunday was Youth Day atEvergreen Baptist Church.Pastor Tucker W. Hunterpresided over the event.Remember to check on theelderly, the sick and shut-ins. Happy birthday to mydaughter Latoya “Red”Smith (Jan. 17), ValereHolden (Jan. 12), KelvinStewart (Jan. 13), Johnathan“John John” Armstrong(Jan. 16), Samuel JohnsonJr. (Jan. 28) and to many oth-ers that have birthdays inJanuary. Condolences tothose who have lost a lovedone. May God send you com-fort.

SPANISH LAKE NEWS

By Gayla Banks

472-4479

Correspondent warns readersof cold weather and hunting

Monday, Jan. 12We enjoyed a great

Sunday School Lesson Dec.11 titled “A Friend in HighPlaces,” from St. John 17:1-26. As Christians we are toknow that Jesus prays for allbelievers.

We are to unite in prayerfor the unity of one another.We invite you to be added tothe church. The Good HopeFull Gospel Church will hosta Baptism Wednesday, Jan.

21 at 7 p.m. at theDeliverance Temple COGICin Coushatta with ElderJimmie Mitchell. The Lord’sSupper will be given Sundaymorning, Jan. 18, with wor-ship services beginning at 11a.m.

Farmers are taking abreak now that all the cropsare in and are looking for-ward to next season’s har-vest. Planting has ceased,however there are those whoare still enjoying the hunt-ing season of squirrels, deerand wild hogs.

Do be extra careful whenout and about. I must say amess of white perch or cat-fish would be great. With theweather being so chilly andcold one could always warmup with a big bowl of chili,gumbo or plain old red

beans and rice. Don’t forgetfresh greens and hot corn-bread.

Kids will be out of schoolafter Thursday in obser-vance of Martin LutherKing Jr.’s birthday. It’s a fourday weekend so do makesome preparations. Parent-Teacher conferences areThursday from 3:30-6:30 p.m.Go and talk with your chil-dren’s teachers to see howthey are doing or how you asa parent can help.

Playing a role in yourchild’s education is a veryimportant part of theirlives. Be a part of theirfuture. Remember the teach-ers and staff get whateverwe send them. If he or shebehaves at home, they willdo the same at school.

Happy Birthday to Paula

Calhoun, Ronald Williams,Iris Hymes, Earlie B, Rodenyand Robin Taylor, JerryReed, Robert White, BobbieNewton, Ricky Brown,Claudie and Reneka Brooksand Willie Clark. We wishyou all many more.

Our prayers go out to thesick and shut-ins.

Here’s a reminder toalways check your plantsand pipes. Some of ourneighbors experienced bro-ken pipes after the ice fromlast week. You need to beprepared for changes in tem-perature.

It will save you time andmoney. Stay tuned to yourlocal weather up dates at alltimes. The advise is free toyou and will save you fromthese types of problems thatcan be prevented.

POWHATAN NEWS

By JohnnieTaylor

352-4371

Powhatan writer discusses crops and parent-teacher conferences


Dear Annie: Myboyfriend and I are in our 60sand have known each othersince high school. We recon-nected five years ago, and forthe past 18 months, we'vebeen living together.

At first, my boyfriend wasloving and sweet andpromised all sorts of dreamsfor our future. But after sev-eral months, he changed. Hebecame distant, sometimeseven cruel in his actions. Ibegged him to tell me if therewas another woman, but healways denied it, in spite of

rumors and the fact thatthings just seemed off.

The problem is, even afterall this time, I still havemoments when I'm convincedhe had a fling with a certainwoman, and I can't get over it.He still denies it, and I amconfused and hurt. But whenI ask, he will respond by with-drawing from me for months.

I believe he did have anaffair and never got over herand that's why we have so lit-tle intimacy now. I have beenpraying and am seeing acounselor, but I can't seem tolet it go completely. Is theresomething wrong with me?Or is my intuition telling methat he deceived me and iscontinuing to lie about it? Allmy friends say either to let itgo or to end it, but I don'twant to leave him, and I haveno control over my thoughts

and feelings. Please help. --Louise in Louisville

Dear Louise: Actually,you do have some controlover those thoughts and feel-ings, but it takes effort andwillingness. Your intuition istelling you that yourboyfriend is not being com-pletely honest, and you havebecome fixated on knowingsomething that he probablywill never tell you. And itcould be that there is nothingto tell. Because you wish tostay with him, please talk toyour counselor about how toforgive him, and then do thenecessary work to get there.

Dear Annie: I would liketo write a note to all smokers:News flash. You smell like adirty ashtray. Always. You tryto be nice and go outside tohave your cigarette, but whenyou come back in, you still

smell like an ashtray. Yousmoke in your car so you canhave your cigarette beforeyou arrive at your destina-tion, but when you walk intothe room, you still smell.Your clothes reek of smoke --always. No amount of per-fume covers it up.

Just thought you'd like toknow. I know I'm tired ofsmelling you. -- ANonsmoker

Dear Nonsmoker:Although what you say istrue, it is not so simple. Mostsmokers are well aware ofthe lingering odor, not tomention the yellowing teethand nails, frequent cough,and looming lung cancer. Thedownside has been well-docu-mented and -publicized. Butsmoking is highly addictive.For some, giving it up is near-ly impossible, no matter how

much effort they put into try-ing. Though smoking in thecar or outside the office is notideal, it is better than noth-ing.

Dear Annie: I'd like tooffer a more positiveresponse to all those motherswho complain about theirdaughters-in-law.

My son is married to awonderful woman. She is agreat mother to their twochildren and stepmother tohis daughter. I love thiswoman with all of my heart. Iam always welcome in theirhome as they are in mine. Ican have the grandchildrenwhenever I want. When theirdaughter was born, mydaughter-in-law gave me themost wonderful gift: Sheallowed me to be in the deliv-ery room for the birth. Whata precious woman my son

married.I called her "daughter,"

because to me, that is whatshe is. My own mother-in-lawwas not very kind to me, andI vowed I would be different.Sometimes it takes a littlework, and sometimes yourson marries an angel. --Mother-in-Law of an Angel

Annie's Mailbox is writtenby Kathy Mitchell and MarcySugar, longtime editors of theAnn Landers column. Pleaseemail your questions [email protected],or write to: Annie's Mailbox,c/o Creators Syndicate, 7373rd Street, Hermosa Beach,CA 90254. To find out moreabout Annie's Mailbox andread features by otherCreators Syndicate writersand cartoonists, visit theCreators Syndicate Web pageat www.creators.com.

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He promised me a future but he changed: A secret fling?

The National Center forPreservation Technologyand Training, partneringwith the Preservation TradesNetwork, the Association forthe Preservation HistoricNatchitoches, and theFriends of NCPTT, will hosta workshop investigating theengineering issues facinghistoric timber structuresFeb. 9-12.

This workshop will bringin preservation engineers,timber framers, site man-agers, historic building own-ers, and other parties to dis-cuss best practices for plan-ning and implementing thesemulti-faceted projects.

The focus of these work-shops will be African House,a 200-year low fired brick andtimber framed building,located at Melrose Plantationoutside of Natchitoches.

Classroom sessions will beheld at Lee H. Nelson hallwith site visits to MelrosePlantation and MagnoliaPlantation. Africa House, sonamed because local lore

attributes it’s unusualumbrella-like roof to Africanbuilding traditions, is a 200year old structure builtusing both heavy timber andlow-fired brick. Among theissues facing African Houseis a lack of understanding ofthe structural capabilities oftraditional heavy timberjoinery. During the engineer-ing workshop, instructorsexperienced with historictimber framed structureswill discuss this buildingtechnique and issues thatarise during preservation,focusing on the example ofAfrican House. Participantswill learn what is acceptablefor these structures and whatthey need to look for whenevaluating these buildingson their own.

Regular Registration forthe workshop is $399.Thecost is $349 for NPS employ-ees and?$199 for students.Limited student seats areavailable. Students must pro-vide photocopy of currentstudent ID and a letter of

interest. Student applica-tions should be emailed [email protected] before Feb. 1.

InstructorsLisa Sasser has worked in

preservation since 1972,beginning as a MuseumTechnician at the RanchingHeritage Center in Lubbock,Texas. In 1977, she received aBachelor of Architecturedegree from Texas TechUniversity, completing as athesis project, a HistoricStructures Report andrestoration plan for a post-1680 houserow at TesuquePueblo, New Mexico.

From 1979-1984 she wasemployed as a Historical

Architect on the NortheastTeam of the Denver ServiceCenter, the centralized plan-ning and design office of theNational Park Service. Shecurrently provides consult-ing, teaching and technicalservices for documentation,conservation, repair andmaintenance of historicstructures. Lisa is a foundingmember and past Presidentof the Preservation TradesNetwork, and past Presidentof the Timber FramersGuild.

Rudy R. Christian is afounding member and pastpresident of the TimberFramers Guild, foundingmember and past president

of Friends of Ohio Barns,founding member and pastExecutive Director of thePreservation TradesNetwork and is a foundingmember of the TraditionalTimberframe Research andAdvisory Group and theInternational TradesEducation Initiative. Hisexperience includes partici-

pation in the QuingueForum, numerous speakingengagements and instructingeducational workshops aswell as publication of vari-ous articles about historicconservation.

For more information con-tact Sarah Marie Jackson [email protected] 318-356-7444.

Rudy R. Christian, right, explains to Andy Ferrell what thecut marks show in a rubbing of a timber.

Agencies partner to present workshop to examine issues of historic timber structuresThe focus of these workshops will

be African House, a 200-year lowfired brick and timber framed build-ing, located at Melrose Plantationoutside of Natchitoches.

DEADLINE NOTICEAll persons or organizationsplacing legal advertisements,notices, minutes, etc., arehereby notified that deadlinesfor getting the material to theNatchitoches Times for publi-cation are as follows: for theTHURSDAY paper the noticemust be in the Times officeBEFORE 4:00 p.m. Monday,and for the WEEK-ENDpaper, the material must be inthe Times office BEFORE4:00 P.M. on Wednesday.

PUBLIC NOTICES FOR1-15-15

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9:00 AMJURY NUMBER 2015-0001

AARON, RUBY LEE ADAMS, SHELBY SALENCIA ADDISON, ASHLEY SHENICE ALLEN, BETTY OUTLAW ANDRUS, CHRISTIAN ISAIAH ARDISON, EDGAR LEE BABERS, JEREMY EDWARD BABINEAUX, ASHLEY OCTAVIA BARBOUR, AUDRA P BARNUM, CARRIE RENEE BARTNIK, ROBERT JOSEPH BASS, LOUISA BAYOUNE, HERBERT JOHN BAZAR, ALICE PROTHRO BENJAMIN, JERAMIE LLOYD BERGERON, GUY FRANCIS BERRY, CLAUDETTE BIRDSONG, CYNTHIA WALTERS BLAKE, BROOKAJA BLAKE, SHARON DOUGLAS BOSTICK, DAVID WAYNE BOWMAN, KAITLIN JEAN BRADEN, JAMICHAEL JEROME BRAXTON, BREAUNNA B BRAXTON, CATHERINE SUE BREWER, STACEY LEA BROADWAY, CLINTON WAYNE BURTON, JESSIE BELL BUSBY, AMANDA LANEE BUSH, MARY O'LEAN BYRD, BRITTANY RAE CADE, JAMES C CALVIN, DIANNE M CALVIN, MARQUITA MARIE CAMPBELL, LILA HARMON CAMPBELL, ROSA MAE CARPENTER, CLINT EARL CARR, ANGELA HOPE CARROLL, DAMON DEAN CASKEY, NICHOLAS WAYNE CEASER, NIKKI NICOLE CHAMBERS, RANEY MICHELLE CHARK, ALEXIA TANAY CHARLES, WHITNEY JERLEISHA CHERRY, JAMES NATHAN WADECHURCHMAN, HOPE LACAZE CLAIBORNE, IMOAN BlLAHLAVE CLARK, ALEXIS M CLARK, PETER CLAYTON, TIFFANY LANELL COBB JR, JERRY ROY COLE, JEFFREY TAYLOR COLLINS, JAYLIN DEJUAN CONEY, BARBARA JEAN CORTEZ, NOE BENAVIDEZ COUTY, GWENDOLYN COUTEE COX, DAISHA DANIELLE COX, MYRTICE MARGARET CRAIG, CHARLOTTE L CREWS, STEVEN DAVID CROSS, BRIANCA SHARNAY CULVER, ETTA ST ANDRY CUNNINGHAM, MARKAY S CYRIAQUE, CAROLYN RELIFORD DAVIS, DAVANTE JAMAL DAVIS, GREGORY MANDELLE DAVIS, LENA DEWITT, JESSICA DAHLEM DILLON, PATRICIA DOBSON, LAURIE LEE DODSON, CHRISTOPHER PAULMAD DUPREE JR, JOSEPH DAVID EDWARDS, AARON SCANDURROEDWARDS, JANICE BAILES ELLIS, KATTIE EMMONS, JOHNNIE C ENDRIS, MATTHEW FREDERICKERWIN, ELLA W ESPARZA, MIGUEL EVANS, TOMMY WYATT FIELD, ELIZABETHFOSTER, ADAM PHILIP FOWLER, CHRISTOPHER MAU-RICE FREE, THOA KIM FULLER, EDWARD RILEY GARCIA, CHARLES DOUGLAS GARCIA, V. CAROL BARNIDGE GARIBAY, BRITTNEY JEAN GARY, JEFFREY LEE GASH, GABRIELLE SHANTAE GAY, JOHN LEE GEOGHAGAN, FRED JOHN GILLIE, ALBERT JAMES GILMORE, JAIME WRIGHT GLADNEY, LEWIS MANSHIP GLEASON, MARK KIRBY GRAVES, LINDA BURKE GRAY, TRISTAN TERELL GREELY, JOHN ROBERT GRIFFIN, SEAN DWAYNE GRILLETTE, CLIMMER HARRI-SON GRIMMETT, MORGAN ANTHONY GROCE, JAYD MACKENZIE GUIDROZ, IAN KYLE HAASE, MARGARET LOUISE HAMMOND, SANDRA M HARDY, JESSIE FAYE HARRIS, EULA MAE HASKETT, COREY SHANE HAYES, LATASHA DENICE HAYS, DORLE R HEBERT, TREY WAYNE HENDERSON, JMES HAROLD HICKMAN, JOAN VINES HICKS, SHELIA RENAE HILL, JONATHAN MCLAIN HOCKE, JEANNINE WHEELAHAN HOLT, KAREN BETH HOOVER, CATHERINE JOHNSON HOOVER, SHAWN HORN, STEPHANIE NICOLE HOWARD, DERRICK D HUMPHERY, ROSIA LEE JACKSON, LACOMBA SHONE JACKSON, OLGA RUTH JACKSON, ROSE VIRGINIA JEFFERSON, WILLIE JOHNS, ANNA DURHAM JOHNSON, C J JOHNSON, DE'EISHA LASHA JOHNSON, KAREN S JOHNSON, MARKEITH DURELL JOHNSON, MARY PAIGE JOHNSON, RICHARD JONES, CRICHELL EVETTE KARLE, JOHN ERIC KEATOR, MARIANHOLLINGSWORTH KEDLEY, ROCYNDA M KEENAN, EMILY ANASTASIA KELLEY, CHARLY NICOLE KERRY, HANNAH JEAN KOHLES, MONEKE LOWANNA KWENTUA, VICTORIA JEWEL LABOM JR, JAMES ROY LABUTKA, JACOB ALEXANDER LACAZE, KIMBERLY FLOYD D LACOUR, MEGAN JUANA LACOUR, WILLIE ROY LAPEYROUSE, LYLE LARD, BELINDA DENISE LAUGHLIN, KIMMERLY WESSON LAWRENCE, JESSICA DIANE LAWSON, ABROSIA DANYELLE LEMOINE, LISA GIBSON LESTER, LAURIE GLANCY

LEWIS, CHASLEY NICOLE LEWIS, LATASHA MARIE LINDSAY, CONSUELA RAQUEL LONG, AMANDA LYNN MAGGITTI, ZENA MARIE MARTIN, ANITA EDMONSON MCCAIN, MALLORY BETH MCCLURE, CYNTHIA GAYE MCCULLOUGH, CONNIE ZOE MCELWEE, LAVERNE E MCGASKEY JR, REGINALD MELDER, CAROLYN RACHAL METOYER, DENISE MARIE MICHAELIS, HEATHER ASHLEY MILLER, NATHAN WARREN MILNER, MARK KEVIN MINCHEW, VALERIE J MITCHAM, SUMMER ALANE MITCHELL, KELVIN RAYNARD MITCHELL, MICHAEL WAYNE MOBLEY, BENNY RAY MONTGOMERY, MARY SIBLEY MOORE, DORIS J MORELOCK, MAURICE M MORRIS, BENJAMIN C MORRISON, TOMMY RAY MORROW, SHARON ANN MUSSELWHITE, JOSEPH GILBERT NEALY JR, ORLEAN W NEKLUTIN, MICHAEL VADIM NELSON, TARA TATE NICHOLS, EVON NICHOLS, ROBERT PAUL NUGENT, LANSING ALTON OWSLEY, ROBERT CHARLES PALMER, TAN'KEIA PARIS, TYLER WINSTON PARKER, CYNTHIA LEE PATTERSON, MARGARET CAL-VET PEACE, LATOSHA NICOLE PENROD, RUBY ELIZABETH PERILLOUX JR, REED J PEROT, DONNA FOSTER PEROT, JACKIE MITCHELL PHILLIPS, LATESHA PATRICE PITRE, ANNE VONESH POOL, SARAH ELIZABETH POOLE, FRAN LEA POSSOIT, GREGORY JAMES PRATT, DOROTHY ANN PRICE, CHRISTOPHER DEMON PRIDGEN, LETA MARIE PROTTI, RONALD THOMAS PRUDHOMME, STEPHANIE VIC-TORIA PRYMUS, CLAIRE SHENESE RACHAL, AMANDA RENEE RACHAL, RUTH COUTEE RAGGIO, KIMBERLY DEANN RAMOS, KATE LON LADONA RANDOLPH, GAYLAND JOHNSON RATLIFF, DEDRICK RAYMOND, DYNESHA L REID, SAMMIE SIMONE RICE, PATRICE S RICHMOND, WILLIAM R ROACH, PORTIA RENEE ROBINETTE, TOMMY HULAND ROBINSON, ADIA K ROBINSON, AGNES LACOUR ROQUE, VIOLA WASHINGTON RUSHING JR, SIDNEY RUSSELL, MELISSA ANNE RYALS, TIMOTHY SHANNONMURP SALARD, JANNA SALARD, STEVE ALLEN SAMUEL, DANA CARPENTER SANDERS, CECIL HERNDON SANDERS, MARSHA WISE SANFORD, VICTORIA ALYSSE SAWYER, CATINA MONIQUE SCARBOROUGH, AMANDABRAZZEL SCARBOROUGH, MISTY BREW-TON SCRUGGS, SAMUEL HENRY SEPULVADO, BILLIE N SHAW, JEREMY SCOTT SIAS, CARL DOUGLAS SIMMONS, ROBERT A SIMS JR, JOHNNIE HUXLEY SMITH, JACOB BLOXOM SMITH, JOSHUA KEITH SMITH, NEVA TROYNELLE SMITH, RODERICK LEMONT SMITH, ROGER EARL SMITH, STEPHANIE DENISE SNOW, GRETA MICHELE SMITH SOILEAU, BRANDON TRENT SONNIER, MARISSA FAITH SOWELL, AGANAH JOEL SPARKS, TORI ANNE SPEIR, JANIS SPEAKS STANFIELD, SYLVIA THOMAS STATON, JOHNATHAN EDWARD STEWART, ANTOINE JERMAINE STEWART III, THOMAS JARVIS STRINGER, JUNE B SUTTON, MATTHEW LANDRY TEEKELL, BLAKE MARTIN THEUS, JESSICA ELAINE THOMAS, DENISE GAIL THOMAS, MALCOLM E THOMISEE, SHELIA RENEE TODTENBIER, RYAN EDWARD TOUSANT, PEARL TOUSSAINT, BRITTANY SHEN-DELL TUMMONS, ROBERT A TURNER, GERALD D VALLERY, BRITTANY NICOLE VAZ, SUEZELLA RANA VERRET, EVELYN GRACE WALKER, DENNIS EDWARD WALKER, KEITH WAYNE WALKER, PATTY ANN WALKER, RYAN SCOTT WARDSWORTH, DEANDREFITZGERALD WASHINGTON, DORIS WASHINGTON, RUSSEL EUGENEWASHINGTON, SHARLENE WASHINGTON, Z L WASHINGTON SR, RONNIE WELCH, TANNER DIANA WHEELER, EUGENE WILLIAMS, EDNA A WILLIAMS,JENNIFER ANN WILLIAMS, TAYLOR JUDSON WILLIAMS, TERRENCE RAY-MOND WINCHESTER, ZACHARY TYLERWINDHAM, LESLIE WAYNE WOODS, KATELYN MICHELE WORSHAM, JOHN WILLIAM YOUNG JR, HYMON ZEIGLER, TOBBRAION TERRON ZENO, QUINTON GEVANTE ZENO, YEPREMIAN TERRELL #07-15 1-15

ADVERTISEMENT FORBIDS

Sealed bids will be receivedfor the State of Louisiana bythe Division ofAdministration, Office ofFacility Planning and Control,Claiborne Office Building,1201 North Third Street,Conference Room 1-145, PostOffice Box 94095, BatonRouge, Louisiana 70804-9095until 2:00 P.M., Tuesday,February 10, 2015.

ANY PERSON REQUIRINGSPECIAL ACCOMMODA-TIONS SHALL NOTIFYFACILITY PLANNING ANDCONTROL OF THETYPE(S) OF ACCOMMO-DATION REQUIRED NOTLESS THAN SEVEN (7)DAYS BEFORE THE BIDOPENING.

FOR: Parking LotRepairsNorthwestern StateUniversityNatchitoches, Louisiana

PROJECT NUMBER:19-631-13-02, Part 01

Complete Bidding Documentsfor this project are available inelectronic form. They may beobtained without charge andwithout deposit from theDesigner. Printed copies arenot available from theDesigner, but arrangementscan be made to obtain themthrough most reprographicfirms. Plan holders are respon-sible for their own reproduc-tion costs.

Questions about this proce-dure shall be directed to theDesigner at:Meyer, Meyer, LaCroix &Hixson, LLC100 Engineer PlaceAlexandria, LA 71303Telephone: 318-448-0888

All bids shall be accompaniedby bid security in an amountof five percent (5.0%) of thesum of the base bid and allalternates. The form of thissecurity shall be as stated inthe Instructions to Biddersincluded in the BidDocuments for this project.

The successful Bidder shall berequired to furnish aPerformance and PaymentBond written as described inthe Instructions to Biddersincluded in the BidDocuments for this project.

A PRE-BID CONFER-ENCE WILL BE HELDat 10:30 AM on Tuesday,

January 27, 2015 at FacilityServices Complex-Conference Room, Northwestern State

University, 998 SouthJefferson Street,

Natchitoches, LA 71497.

Bids shall be accepted fromContractors who are licensedunder LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192for the classification ofHighway, Street & BridgeConstruction. Bidder isrequired to comply with provi-sions and requirements of LAR.S. 38:2212(B)(5). No bidmay be withdrawn for a periodof forty-five (45) days afterreceipt of bids, except underthe provisions of LA. R.S.38:2214.

The Owner reserves the rightto reject any and all bids forjust cause. In accordance withLa. R.S. 38:2212(B)(1), theprovisions and requirementsof this Section; and those stat-ed in the bidding documentsshall not be waived by anyentity.

When this project is financedeither partially or entirely withState Bonds or financed inwhole or in part by federal orother funds which are notreadily available at the timebids are received, the award ofthis Contract is contingentupon the granting of lines ofcredit, or the sale of bonds bythe Bond Commission or theavailability of federal or otherfunds. The State shall incur noobligation to the Contractoruntil the Contract BetweenOwner and Contractor is fullyexecuted.

Facility Planning and Controlis a participant in the SmallEntrepreneurship (SE)Program (the HudsonInitiative) and the Veteran-Owned and Service-Connected Disabled Veteran-Owned (LaVet) SmallEntrepreneurships Program.Bidders are encouraged toconsider participation.Information is available fromthe Office of Facility Planningand Control or on its websitea twww.doa.louisiana.gov/fpc/fpc.htm.

STATE OF LOUISIANADIVISION OF ADMINIS-TRATIONFACILITY PLANNING ANDCONTROLMARK A. MOSES, DIREC-TOR#04-15 1/8, 15, 22***

PUBLIC NOTICE

LEASE OF RED RIVERWATERWAY

COMMISSION OWNEDLAND

RAPIDES PARISH,LOUISIANA

Sealed bids for the lease ofapproximately 246.0 acres ofCommission owned landlocated in Sections 14 and 15,T3N-R1E, left descendingbank of Red River, RapidesParish, Louisiana, will bereceived by the Red RiverWaterway Commission, gov-erning authority of the RedRiver Waterway District, 5941Highway 1 Bypass,Natchitoches, Louisiana71457, until FEBRUARY 3,2015. No bids will bereceived after 2:00 PM. Thiswill be a five (5) year landlease.

The bids must be submitted onforms provided by the RedRiver Waterway Commissionand any contract entered intowith the Commission mustconform to the specificationsrequired thereby. Bid formsand specifications may beobtained upon request fromthe Red River WaterwayCommission, 5941 Highway 1Bypass (P.O. Box 776),Natchitoches, Louisiana71458-0776, Phone Number

(318) 352-7446.

The Red River WaterwayCommission reserves the rightto reject any and all bids andwaive any informalities.

KENNETH P. GUIDRYEXECUTIVE DIRECTORRED RIVER WATERWAYCOMMISSION#01-15 1/1, 8, 15***

PUBLIC NOTICE

LEASE OF RED RIVERWATERWAY

COMMISSION OWNEDLAND

RAPIDES PARISH,LOUISIANA

Sealed bids for the lease ofapproximately 60.0 acres ofCommission owned landlocated in Sections 4, 5 and 6,T3N-R1E, Rapides Parish,Louisiana, will be received bythe Red River WaterwayCommission, governingauthority of the Red RiverWaterway District, 5941Highway 1 Bypass,Natchitoches, Louisiana71458, until FEBRUARY 3,2015. No bids will bereceived after 2:15 PM. Thiswill be a five (5) year landlease.

The bids must be submitted onforms provided by the RedRiver Waterway Commissionand any contract entered intowith the Commission mustconform to the specificationsrequired thereby. Bid formsand specifications may beobtained upon request fromthe Red River WaterwayCommission, 5941 Highway 1Bypass (P.O. Box 776),Natchitoches, Louisiana71457, Phone Number(318)352-7446.

The Red River WaterwayCommission reserves the rightto reject any and all bids andwaive any informalities.

KENNETH P. GUIDRYEXECUTIVE DIRECTORRED RIVER WATERWAYCOMMISSION#02-15 1/1, 8, 15***

ADVERTISEMENT FORBIDS and/or

INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS

Sealed proposals for:

NATCHITOCHES PARISHLIBRARY - NORTHEASTBRANCH FOR NATCHI-

TOCHES PARISHLIBRARY NATCHI-

TOCHES, LOUISIANA3129 HIGHWAY 71,CAMPTI, LA 71411

will be received and opened at2:00 P.M., TUESDAY, FEB-RUARY 10, 2015 in theNATCHITOCHES PARISHLIBRARY BOARD ROOM.Bids will be addressed toNATCHITOCHES PARISHLIBRARY and will be pub-licly opened and read at thetime and date above men-tioned.

The successful Bidder will berequired to enter into a con-tract with the above owner andto furnish all the materials,perform all of the work, super-vise, coordinate, administrateand be responsible for thework.

A cashier's or certified check,payable without recourse toNATCHITOCHES PARISHLIBRARY or acceptable sure-ty proposal bond in an amountnot less than 5% and of thelargest possible bid mustaccompany each bid as a guar-antee that if awarded the con-tract, the bidder will promptlyenter into a contract and exe-cute bonds in forms as out-lined in the Specifications.Performance and PaymentBonds in an amount of 100%of the contract will be requiredto be furnished by the success-ful bidder, and all costs in con-nection with such bonds shallbe paid by the successful bid-der.

Documents may be obtainedfrom GraphX DigitalServices, LLC, 107 SpringStreet, Shreveport,Louisiana 71101, (318) 317-1000, upon receipt of a$100.00 per set plan deposit.Deposit Checks shall be madepayable to GEORGE W.MINTURN, ARCHITECTA.I.A., for Job Number 14-02- NATCHITOCHES PARISHLIBRARY - NORTHEASTBRANCH, and sent toGraphX Digital Services,LLC, 107 Spring Street,Shreveport, Louisiana 71101.Copies of the ContractDocuments and Specificationsare on file and open to publicinspection at the NatchitochesParish Library, 450 SecondStreet, Natchitoches, LA71457. Documents must bereturned to GraphX DigitalServices, LLC, 107 SpringStreet, Shreveport,Louisiana 71101. Deposits onthe first set of documents fur-nished bona fide prime bid-ders will be fully refundedupon return of the documentsno later than ten days after thereceipt of bids. On other setsof documents furnished to bid-ders the deposit of ($100.00)less the actual cost of repro-duction and handling fee($59.00), will be refunded

upon return of the documentsno later than ten days afterreceipt of bids. The direct costof reproduction for missing ordamaged drawings($.90/sheet)and specifica-tions($.10/page) will bededucted from the deposit.

Electronic bids may be sub-mitted through bidsync.com,BidSync, 629 Quality Drive,Suite 101, American Fork, UT84003. Contractors that wishto submit electronic bids willbe charged a fee by BidSync.Bidders needing assistancewith on-line bidding shouldcall 801.765.9245 or [email protected]. Inaddition, contractors shall berequired to obtain a digital sig-nature certificate prior to sub-mitting bids on-line. The bidbond required for this projectmay be submitted on-line. Ifelectronic bidding is utilized,a bid bond, if not submittedelectronically, must be deliv-ered by the Contractor to theNatchitoches Parish Library asspecified above prior to thedate and time of the bid open-ing.

A mandatory Pre-BidConference will be held atthe Natchitoches ParishLibrary site located at 3129Highway 71, Campti,Louisiana, on Tuesday, JAN-UARY 27, 2015 at 2:00 P.M.The purpose of the pre-bidconference is to familiarizeBidders with the requirementsof the project and the intent ofthe Contract Documents, andto receive comments andinformation from interestedBidders.

No revision of the BiddingDocuments, made as a resultof the pre-bid conference,shall be valid unless includedin an addendum issued inaccordance with Article 3 ofthe Instructions to Bidders.

The contractor shall certifythat he is licensed under R.S.37:2150-2164 and show hislicense number, classification,contract number and contractname on the bid envelope. Theproject shall be classified asBUILDING CONSTRUC-TION, and the contractor shallbe licensed to do work underthis classification.

By: Mr. Bob Black, DirectorNatchitoches Parish Library#12-15 1/8, 15, 22***

00010 -- INVITATION TOBID

WINNFIELD HOUSINGAUTHORITY

2014 MODERNIZATIONOF DWELLING UNITS

CAPITAL FUND PROGRAM

LA48-P123-501

1. The Owners, WINNFIELDHOUSING AUTHORITY,901 NEIL WAGONERDRIVE, WINNFIELD,LOUISIANA, will acceptsealed bids for the project2014 MODERNIZATION OFDWELLING UNITS, until2:00PM, JANUARY 30, 2015.Bids will be opened and readaloud.

2. Complete bidding docu-ments may be obtained fromWHITTINGTON ARCHI-TECTS INC., P.O. Box 1701,Ruston, LA. 71273-1701,phone number (318) 255-2271, [email protected]. upondeposit of $50.00 for each setof documents. Deposit of thefirst two sets is fully refund-able to all bonafide prime bid-ders upon return of the docu-ments, in good condition, nolater than ten (10) days afterreceipt of bids. The deposit ofall other sets of documentswill be refunded 50% uponreturn of documents as statedabove. The bid will be for allwork as shown in Drawingsand Specifications and relatedwork required for projectcompletion.

3. All bidders must examinethe Drawings, read theSpecifications, and visit thesite of this project to fullyinvestigate the extent andquality of the work required.Bidders shall be familiar withthe location and access to con-struction site, availability ofutilities, the condition of thesite and any existing construc-tion, and governing regulatoryagencies and permit process-es.

4. All bids must be accompa-nied by bid security equal tofive (5%) of the base bid andall additive alternates, andmust be in the form of a certi-fied check, cashiers check, orbid bond written by a compa-ny licensed to do business inLouisiana.

5. The successful bidder willbe required to furnish a perfor-mance and payment bondwritten by a company licensedto do business in Louisiana inan amount equal to 100% ofthe contract amount.

6. Submit bids on the formsprovided, signed, with allitems complete.

7. Address bids to the Ownersand deliver to the address onthe INSTRUCTIONS TOBIDDERS on or before theday stated.

8. A PRE-BID CONFER-ENCE will be held at 11 AM,Monday, January 19, 2015, at901 Neil Wagoner Drive,Winnfield, LA. 71483.

9. For projects exceeding$50,000, bids shall be accept-ed from Contractors who arelicensed under LA.R.S.37:2150-2163 for the classifi-cations of BUILDING CON-STRUCTION.

10. No bids may be withdrawnfor a period of sixty (60) daysafter receipt of bids.

11. The Owner reserves theright to reject any and all bids,for just cause and to waive anyinformalities incidental there-to.

Date: December 23, 2014by order of: Bobby CollinsExecutive Director#13-15 1/8, 15, 22***

PUBLIC NOTICELOUISIANA

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTALQUALITY (LDEQ)

VILLAGE OF NATCHEZNATCHEZ SEWERAGETREATMENT PLANT

DRAFT WATER DISCHARGE PERMIT

The LDEQ, Office ofEnvironmental Services, isaccepting written commentson a draft Louisiana PollutantDischarge Elimination System(LPDES) permit prepared forthe Village of Natchez,Natchez Sewerage TreatmentPlant, P.O. Box 229, Natchez,Louisiana 71456. The facili-ty is located 1/4 mile off LAHwy. 1 on Main Street inNatchez, NatchitochesParish. Upon the effectivedate of the final permit, theLPDES permit shall replacethe previously issued LPDESpermit.

The principal discharge fromthis existing source is madeinto Bayou Natchez, waters ofthe state classified for primarycontact recreation, secondarycontact recreation, propaga-tion of fish and wildlife, andagriculture. Under the SICCode 4952, the applicant pro-poses to discharge treated san-itary wastewater from a pub-licly owned treatment worksserving the Village ofNatchez.

During the preparation of thispermit, it has been determinedthat the discharge will have noadverse impact on the existinguses of the receiving water-body. As with any discharge,however, some change inexisting water quality mayoccur.

Comments and requests for apublic hearing or notificationof the final decision can besubmitted via personal deliv-ery, U.S. mail, email, or fax.Comments and requests forpublic hearings must bereceived by 4:30 pm CST,THURSDAY, FEBRUARY19, 2015. Delivery may bemade to the drop-box at 602N. 5th St., Baton Rouge, LA70802. U.S. Mail may be sentto LDEQ, Public ParticipationGroup, P.O. Box 4313, BatonRouge, LA 70821-4313.Emails may be submitted [email protected] and faxes sent to(225) 219-3309.

Please see additional instruc-tions for comment submis-sion, hand delivery and infor-mation regarding electronicsubmission athttp://www.deq.louisiana.gov/portal/Default.aspx?tabid=2256 or call (225) 219-3276.Emails should follow thestatewide email policies. Formore information regardingstatewide email policies, go tohttp://doa.louisiana.gov/ocs/email/policies.htm.

If LDEQ finds a significantdegree of public interest, apublic hearing will be held.LDEQ will send notificationof the final permit decision tothe applicant and to each per-son who has submitted writtencomments or a written requestfor notification of the finaldecision.

The application, draft permitand statement of basis areavailable for review at theLDEQ, Public RecordsCenter, Room 127, 602 North5th Street, Baton Rouge, LA.Viewing hours are from 8:00a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Mondaythrough Friday (except holi-days). The available infor-mation can also be accessedelectronically on theElectronic DocumentManagement System(EDMS) on the DEQ publicwebsite atwww.deq.louisiana.gov.

Inquiries or requests for addi-tional information regardingthis permit action should bedirected to Ms. DarleneBernard, LDEQ, WaterPermits Division, P.O. Box4313, Baton Rouge, LA70821-4313, phone (225) 219-3587.

Persons wishing to be includ-ed on the LDEQ permit publicnotice mailing list or for otherpublic participation relatedquestions should contact thePublic Participation Group inwriting at LDEQ, P.O. Box4313, Baton Rouge, LA

70821-4313, by email [email protected] or contact the LDEQCustomer Service Center at(225) 219-LDEQ (219-5337).

Permit public notices includ-ing electronic access to thedraft permit and statementof basis can be viewed at theLDEQ permits public noticewebpage atwww.deq.louisiana.gov/apps/pubNotice/default.asp andgeneral information related tothe public participation in per-mitting activities can beviewed atwww.deq.louisiana.gov/por-tal/tabid/2198/Default.aspx.

Alternatively, individuals mayelect to receive the permitpublic notices via email bysubscribing to the LDEQ per-mits public notice List Servera thttp://louisiana.gov/Services/Email_Notifications_DEQ_PN/.

All correspondence shouldspecify AI Number 19002,Permit Number LA0076686,and Activity NumberPER20130001.

Scheduled Publication Date:January 15, 2015#16-15 1/15***

WHEREABOUTS NOTICE

Anyone knowing the currentwhereabouts of the heirs ofJarred L. Taylor, please con-tact Jared Dunahoe (318) 352-1999. #17-15 1/15***

NOTICE OF SPECIALELECTION

Pursuant to the pro-visions of a resolution adoptedby the Board ofCommissioners of FireProtection District No. 5 ofthe Parish of Natchitoches,State of Louisiana (the"Governing Authority"), act-ing as the governing authorityof Fire Protection DistrictNo.5 of the Parish ofNatchitoches, State ofLouisiana (the "District"), onNovember 4, 2014, NOTICEIS HEREBY GIVEN that aspecial election will be heldwithin the District on SAT-URDAY, MARCH 28, 2015,and that at the said electionthere will be submitted to allregistered voters in theDistrict qualified and entitledto vote at the said electionunder the Constitution andLaws of the State of Louisianaand the Constitution of theUnited States, the followingproposition, to-wit:

PROPOSITION(PARCEL FEE RENEWAL)

Shall Fire Protection DistrictNo.5 of the Parish ofNatchitoches, State ofLouisiana (the "District"),levy and collect an annual par-cel fee of Twenty-Five Dollars($25.00) on each lot, subdivid-ed portion of ground or indi-vidual tract in the Districtupon which is located, eitherin whole or in part, a residen-tial or commercial structure,regardless of the structure'sbeing occupied or unoccupied(an estimated $20,000 reason-ably expected at this time tobe collected from the levy ofthe tax for an entire year), fora period of ten (10) years,beginning with the year 2016,for the purpose of acquiring,constructing, maintainingand/or operating fire protec-tion facilities and equipment,including paying the cost ofobtaining water for fire pro-tection purposes and salariesof firemen, and all purposesincidental thereto?

The said specialelection will be held at the fol-lowing polling places situatedwithin the District, whichpolls will open at seveno'clock (7:00) a.m., and closeat eight o'clock (8:00) p.m., inaccordance with the provi-sions of La. R.S. 18:541, to-wit:

POLLING PLACES

Ward - Precinct - Location

01 02 (IN PART)NATCHITOCHES PARISHCOUNCIL OF AGING, 1016 KEYSER AVENUE,NATCHITOCHES

01 09A (IN PART)NCHS BOYS GYM, 200HWY 3110, NATCHI-TOCHES

04 01 CYPRESSPOLICE JURY VOT BLDG,11345 HWY 1, CYPRESS

04 02 ROYALPALACE BANQUET HALL,9581 HWY 1 SOUTH,NATCHEZ

04 03 (IN PART) STAUGUSTINE CATH CHSOC HALL, 2250 HWY 484,MELROSE

04 08 (IN PART)FLORA POLICE JURYBUILDING, 1500 HWY 120FLORA

04 09 (IN PART)LAMP HEATING & COOL-ING BLDG, 2099 HWY 494,NATCHITOCHES

The polling places

set forth above are hereby des-ignated as the polling places atwhich to hold the said elec-tion, and the Commissioners-in-Charge andCommissioners, respectively,shall be those persons desig-nated according to law.

The said specialelection will be held in accor-dance with the applicable pro-visions of Chapter 5 andChapter 6-A of Title 18 of theLouisiana Revised Statutes of1950, as amended, and otherconstitutional and statutoryauthority, and the officersappointed to hold the saidelection, as provided in thisNotice of Special Election, orsuch substitutes therefor asmay be selected and designat-ed in accordance with La. R.S.18: 1287, will make duereturns thereof to saidGoverning Authority, andNOTICE IS HEREBY FUR-THER GIVEN that theGoverning Authority willmeet at its regular meetingplace, the Natchez FireStation, 181 Main Street,Natchez, Louisiana, onTUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015,at SEVEN O'CLOCK (7:00)P.M., and shall then and therein open and public sessionproceed to examine and can-vass the returns and declarethe result of the said specialelection. All registered votersof the District are entitled tovote at said special electionand voting machines will beused.

THUS DONE ANDSIGNED at Natchez,Louisiana, on this, the 4th dayof November, 2014.

ATTEST:

/s/ Mary Verzwyvelt Chairman

/s/ Carol O'OuinnSecretary#18-15 1/15, 22, 29 &2/5***

Village of Robeline Town Council Meeting

Thursday, January 8, 20156:30 PMCity Hall

The "Pledge ofAllegiance" was recited afterthe invocation by BetsyJordan.

Gilda Jenkins mademotion to accept theNovember 13, 2014 TownCouncil Meeting minutes asread. Randy Bockstanz sec-onded said motion. The votewas as follows; Yeas: 3, Nays:0, Absent: 0 . MOTION PASSED

Gilda Jenkins mademotion to accept theNovember 2014 Income &Expense Report. Bergen Ogeseconded said motion. Thevote was as follows; Yeas: 3,Nays: 0, Absent: 0 . MOTION PASSED

Mayor BobbyBehan took a few minutes totell the new Chief of PoliceGordon O'Con and the newAldermen Gilda Jenkins,Bergen Oge and RandyBockstanz that he looked for-ward to working with them forthe good of Robeline.Louisiana.

Having no furtherbusiness, Randy Bockstanzmade motion adjourn meeting.Gilda Jenkins seconded saidmotion. The vote was as fol-lows; Yeas: 3, Nays: 0,Absent: 0 . MOTION PASSED

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The following resolution wasoffered by Russell Danzy andseconded by Harry Graham:

RESOLUTION

A resolution providing forcanvassing the returns anddeclaring the results of thespecial election held inConsolidated School DistrictNo.8 of the Parish ofNatchitoches, State ofLouisiana, on Saturday,December 6, 2014, to autho-rize the incurring of debt andissuance of bonds and the levyof a special tax therein.BE IT RESOLVED by theParish School Board of theParish of Natchitoches, Stateof Louisiana (the "GoverningAuthority"), acting as the gov-erning authority ofConsolidated School DistrictNo. 8 of the Parish ofNatchitoches, State ofLouisiana, that:

SECTION 1.Canvass. This GoverningAuthority does now proceedin open and public session toexamine the official tabula-tions of votes cast at the spe-cial election held inConsolidated School DistrictNo.8 of the Parish ofNatchitoches, State ofLouisiana, on SATURDAY,DECEMBER 6, 2014, toauthorize the incurring of debtand issuance of bonds and thelevy of a special tax therein,and said Governing Authoritydoes further proceed to exam-ine and canvass the returnsand declare the results of thespecial election.

SECTION 2. ProcesVerbal. A Proces Verbal of thecanvass of the returns of saidelection shall be made and acertified copy thereof shall beforwarded to the Secretary ofState, Baton Rouge,Louisiana, who shall recordthe same in his office; another

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certified copy thereof shall beforwarded to the Clerk ofCourt and Ex-OfficioRecorder of Mortgages in andfor the Parish of Natchitoches,who shall record the same inthe Mortgage Records of saidParish; and another copythereof shall be retained in thearchives of this GoverningAuthority.

SECTION 3.Promulgation of ElectionResults. The results of saidelection shall be promulgatedby publication in the mannerprovided by law.

This resolution hav-ing been submitted to a vote,the vote thereon was as fol-lows:

YEAS: E u g e a nGarner, Carroll Daniels,Ralph Wilson, Joella Wilson,Harry Graham, RussellDanzy, Michael Hilton, EmileMetoyer, Steven Harris,Thomas Helder, GeorgeRhymes

NAYS:ABSENT:And the resolution

was declared adopted on this,the 8th day of January, 2015.

Dale Skinner, Secretary

George Rhymes, President

PROCES VERBAL ANDPROCLAMATION OF THECANVASS OF THE VOTESCAST AT THE SPECIALELECTION HELD IN CON-SOLIDATED SCHOOL DIS-TRICT NO. 8 OF THEPARISH OF NATCHI-TOCHES, STATE OFLOUISIANA, ON SATUR-DAY, DECEMBER 6, 2014.

BE IT KNOWNAND REMEMBERED thaton Thursday, January 8,2015,at five o'clock (5:00p.m., at its regular meetingplace, the Parish SchoolBoard Office, Board Room,310 Royal Street,Natchitoches, Louisiana, theParish School Board of theParish of Natchitoches, Stateof Louisiana (the "GoverningAuthority"), acting as thegoverning authority ofConsolidated School DistrictNo. 8 of the Parish of

Natchitoches, State ofLouisiana (the "District"), andbeing the authority orderingthe special election heldtherein on Saturday,December 6, 2014, with thefollowing members present:Eugean Garner, CarrollDaniels, Ralph Wilson, JoellaWilson, Harry Graham,Russell Danzy, MichaelHilton, Emile Metoyer,Steven Harris, ThomasMelder, George Rhymes

There being absent:

did, in open and public ses-sion, examine the official cer-tified tabulations of votes castat the said election, and didexamine and canvass thereturns of the said election,there having been submittedat said election the followingpropositions, to wit:

PROPOSITION NO.1(BOND)

Shall Consolidated SchoolDistrict No.8 of the Parish ofNatchitoches, State ofLouisiana (the "District"),incur debt and issue bonds tothe amount of not exceeding$3,500,000, to run notexceeding 20 years from datethereof, with interest at a rateor rates not exceeding 7% perannum to be issued at par, pre-mium or discount, for the pur-pose of acquiring and/orimproving lands for buildingsites and playgrounds, includ-ing construction of necessarysidewalks and streets adjacentthereto; purchasing, erectingand/or improving schoolbuildings and other schoolrelated facilities within andfor the District and acquiringthe necessary equipment andfurnishings therefor, title towhich shall be in the public;which bonds will be generalobligations of the District andwill be payable from ad val-orem taxes to be levied andcollected in the manner pro-vided by Article VI, Section33 of the Constitution of theState of Louisiana of 1974and statutory authority sup-plemental thereto, with anestimated 33 mills to belevied in the first year of issueto pay said Bonds?

PROPOSITION NO.2(MILLAGE)

Shall Consolidated SchoolDistrict No. 8 of the Parish ofNatchitoches, State ofLouisiana (the "District"),levy a special tax of seven (7)mills on all property subject otaxation within the District(an estimated $63,400 rea-sonably expected at this timeto be collected from the levyof the tax for an entire year),for a period of ten (10) years,beginning with the year 2015and ending with the year2024, the purpose of givingadditional support to publicelementary and secondaryschools by funding theimprovement, maintenanceand operation of publicschool buildings in saidDistrict?

There was found bysaid count and canvass thatthe following votes had beencast at the said special elec-tion IN FAVOR OF andAGAINST, respectively, thepropositions as hereinaboveset forth at the followingpolling places, to-wit:(See box A)

The polling placesabove specified being the onlypolling places designated atwhich to hold the said elec-tion, it was therefore shownthat

(i) there was a totalof 370 votes cast IN FAVOROF Proposition No. 1 and atotal of 172 votes castAGAINST Proposition No.1,as hereinabove set forth, andthat there was a majority of198 votes cast IN FAVOR OFProposition No. 1 as herein-above set forth; and

(ii) there was a totalof 353 votes cast IN FAVOROF Proposition No.2 and atotal of 187 votes castAGAINST Proposition No.2,as hereinabove set forth, and

that there was a majority of166 votes cast IN FAVOR OFProposition No.2 as herein-above set forth.

Therefore, theGoverning Authority diddeclare and proclaim and doeshereby declare and proclaimin open and public session thatProposition No.1 andProposition No.2 as herein-above set forth were dulyCARRIED by a majority ofthe votes cast by the qualifiedelectors voting at the said spe-cial election held in theDistrict on Saturday,December 6, 2014.

E x h i b i t “ A ”attached hereto and made apart of this Proces Verbal is acopy of the Notice of SpecialElection and proof of publica-tion thereof.

THUS DONE ANDSIGNED at Natchitoches,Louisiana, on this, the 8th dayof January, 2015.

ATTEST: ' Dale Skinner, Secretary

George RhymesPresident

EXHIBIT "A"

NOTICE OF SPECIALELECTION

Pursuant to the pro-visions of a resolution adoptedby the Parish School Board ofthe Parish of Natchitoches,State of Louisiana (the"Governing Authority"), act-ing as the governing authorityof Consolidated SchoolDistrict No. 8 of the Parish ofNatchitoches, State ofLouisiana (the "District"), onJuly 17, 2014, NOTICE ISHEREBY GIVEN that a spe-cial election will be held with-in the District on SATUR-DAY, DECEMBER 6, 2014,and that at the said election

there will be submitted to allregistered voters in the Districtqualified and entitled to vote atthe said election under theConstitution and Laws of theState of Louisiana and theConstitution of the UnitedStates, the following proposi-tions, to-wit:

PROPOSITION NO.1(BOND)

Shall Consolidated SchoolDistrict No. 8 of the Parish ofNatchitoches, State ofLouisiana (the "District"),incur debt and issue bonds tothe amount of not exceeding$3,500,000, to run not exceed-ing 20 years from date thereof,with interest at a rate or ratesnot exceeding 7% per annumto be issued at par, premium ordiscount, for the purpose ofacquiring and/or improvinglands for building sites andplaygrounds, including con-struction of necessary side-walks and streets adjacentthereto; purchasing, erectingand/or improving schoolbuildings and other schoolrelated facilities within and forthe District and acquiring thenecessary equipment and fur-

nishings therefor, title to whichshall be in the public; whichbonds will be general obliga-tions of the District and will bepayable from ad valorem taxesto be levied and collected inthe manner provided byArticle VI, Section 33 of theConstitution of the State ofLouisiana of 1974 and statuto-ry authority supplementalthereto, with an estimated 33mills to be levied in the firstyear of issue to pay saidBonds?

PROPOSITION NO.2(MILLAGE)

Shall Consolidated SchoolDistrict No. 8 of the Parish ofNatchitoches, State of

Louisiana (the "District"), levya special tax of seven (7) millson all property subject to taxa-tion within the District (anestimated $63,400 reasonablyexpected at this time to be col-lected from the levy of the taxfor an entire year), for a periodof ten (10) years, beginningwith the year 2015 and endingwith the year 2024, the pur-pose of giving additional sup-port to public elementary andsecondary schools by fundingthe improvement, maintenanceand operation of public schoolbuildings in said District?

The said specialelection will be held at the fol-lowing polling places situatedwithin the District, which pollswill open at six o'clock (6:00)a.m., and close at eight o'clock(8:00) p.m., in accordancewith the provisions of La. R.S.18:541, to-wit:

POLLING PLACES

Ward - Precinct - Location

01 09A (IN PART)NCHS Boys Gym, 200 Hwy.3110, Natchitoches

03 05 (IN PART)

Provencal Elementary School,132 Cherry Street, Provencal

03 06 Provencal CityHall, 1968 Hwy. 117,Provencal

03 08 (IN PART)Robeline Police Jury VotBldg., 6354 Hwy. 485,Robeline

03 09 (IN PART)Bellwood Baptist Church Hall,135 Bellwood Church Road,Bellwood03 10 New CedronBaptist Church, 217 Cox Lane,Robeline

04 01 (IN PART)Cypress Police Jury Vot Bldg.,

11345 Hwy. 1, Cypress

04 06 (IN PART)Gorum Fire Dist No.1, 9358Hwy. 119, Natchitoches

04 07 (IN PART)Kisatchie Community Center,1793 Hwy. 118, Kisatchie

04 08 F l o r aPolice Jury Building, 1500Hwy. 120, Flora

The polling placesset forth above are hereby des-ignated as the polling places atwhich to hold the said election,and the Commissioners-in-Charge and Commissioners,respectively, shall be thosepersons designated accordingto law.

Notice is furthergiven that a portion of themonies collected from thetaxes described in thePropositions shall be remittedto certain state and statewideretirement systems in the man-ner required by law.

The said specialelection will be held in accor-dance with the applicable pro-visions of Chapter 5 andChapter 6-A of Title 18 of the

Louisiana Revised Statutes of1950, as amended, and otherconstitutional and statutoryauthority, and the officersappointed to hold the said elec-tion, as provided in this Noticeof Special Election, or suchsubstitutes therefor as may beselected and designated inaccordance with La. R.S.18:1287, will make due returnsthereof to said GoverningAuthority, and NOTICE ISHEREBY FURTHER GIVENthat the Governing Authoritywill meet at its regular meetingplace, the Parish School BoardOffice, Board Room, 310Royal Street, Natchitoches,Louisiana, on TUESDAY,JANUARY 6, 2015, at FIVEO'CLOCK (5:00) P.M., and

shall then and there in openand public session proceed toexamine and canvass thereturns and declare the resultsof the said special election. Allregistered voters of the Districtare entitled to vote at said spe-cial election and votingmachines will be used.

THUS DONE ANDSIGNED at Natchitoches,Louisiana, on this, the 17thday of July, 2014.

ATTEST:/s/ Carl MeansPresident

/s/ Dale SkinnerSecretary

AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION

STATE OF LOUISIANAParish of Natchitoches

Before me, a Notary Public,personally came and appearedVickie Feazell who, being dulysworn, did depose and say thatshe/he is Bookkeeper of TheNatchitoches Times, a newspa-per of general circulation pub-lished within the Parish ofNatchitoches, And that N.P.School Board - District No.8 -Notice of Special Election#398-14 as per copy attachedhereto, was published in saidnewspaper in the issues of9/18, 9/25 & 10/2 & 10/9/14/s/ Vickie Feazell

SWORN AND SUB-SCRIBED to before me this9th day of October, 2014.

Notary PublicDianne B. Litton #015767

PROCLAMATION

I, the undersignedPresident of the Parish SchoolBoard of the Parish ofNatchitoches, State ofLouisiana, the governingauthority of ConsolidatedSchool District No.8 of theParish of Natchitoches, Stateof Louisiana (the "District”),do hereby declare, proclaimand announce that PropositionNo. 1 and Proposition No. 2submitted at the special elec-tion held in the District onSaturday, December 6, 2014were CARRIED by a majorityof the votes cast at the saidspecial election, all asdescribed and set out in theabove Proces Verbal.

THUS DONE ANDSIGNED at Natchitoches,Louisiana, on this, the 8th dayof January, 2015.

George C. RhymesPresident#20-15 1/15***

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(Box A)POLLING PLACES PROPOSITION PROPOSITION

NO. ONE NO. TWO

Wd. Pct. POLLING PLACE FOR AGAINST FOR AGAINST01 09A (IN PART) NCHS Boys Gym, 200 Hwy. 3110, Natchitoches 0 0 0 0

03 05 (IN PART) Provencal Elementary School, 132 Cherry Street Provencal 80 40 78 4203 06 Provencal City Hall, 1968 Hwy. 117, Provencal 117 48 110 5503 08 (IN PART) Robeline Police Jury Vot Bldg., 6354 Hwy. 485, Robeline 2 0 2 003 09 (IN PART) Bellwood Baptist Church Hall, 135 Bellwood Church Road, 30 11 29 12

Bellwood03 10 New Cedron Baptist Church, 217 Cox Lane, Robeline 35 13 34 1304 01 (IN PART) Cypress Police Jury Vot Bldg., 11345 Hwy. 1, Cypress 14 3 14 404 06 (IN PART) Gorum Fire Dist. No. 1, 9358 Hwy. 119, Natchitoches 0 0 0 004 07 (IN PART) Kisatchie Community Center, 1793 Hwy. l18, Kisatchie 0 0 0 004 08 Flora Police Jury Building, 1500 Hwy. 120, Flora 48 33 43 34

ABSENTEE VOTES 44 24 43 27TOTAL 370 172 353 187

MAJORITY FOR 198 166

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Natchitoches Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is currently seeking FT LPNs on evening shift and PRN LPNs on all shifts. NNRC offer a great work environment and

opportunity to join a great team, apply today! Apply in person M-F or

call 352-8779 for more info.

POSITION AVAILABLEJOB VACANCIES: Speech TherapistQUALIFICATIONS: Master’s Degree in speech communication disorders. American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) license.SALARY: According to parish school salary schedule.

WHERE TO APPLY:Phone:

(318) 352-2358Fax:

(318) 352-8138Application website:

nat.k12.la.us

Linda G. Page, Personnel Director

Natchitoches Parish School Board

P. O. Box 16Natchitoches, LA 71458-0016

Operate extremely high pressured waterblast units and industrial vacuum units. We work in

paper/pulp mills, steel mills, refineries, nuclear plants, etc. Must have valid driver license (CDL

a plus); work flexible hours(on call 24/7), travel, lift 50lb hoses, pass drug tests. Complete

application on line at www.thompsonindustrialservices.com EOE

Immediate Openings for

Technicians/Operators

EMT PARAMEDICEMT BASIC

EOE M/V/DApply on line at

www.nrmchospital.org

HELP WANTED: Farm mechanic and machine operator/driver needed for large cotton and vegetable operation. Must enjoy working outdoors and have some experience with machinery, repairs, maintenance and operation of tractors and other large equipment. Any experience with large row crop systems, agriculture, horticulture, welding fabrication, heavy machinery or personal management is a big plus. Must be in good health and have reliable transportation. This is NOT a part time position. Hiring immediately. Housing possible. Long term, permanent positions are available for the right persons. Apply in person between 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Ed Lester Farms, 1165 Hwy 84 East, Coushatta. Pay based on experience and knowledge. More information 318-471-3856.

30-TEMPORARY SEASONAL FARMWORKER POSITIONS 02/14/15-11/30/15 Madding Assoc. Altheimer, AR. All applicants must be able willing, qualified to perform work described in this JO/Ad & must be available for entire period specified. Crops: Rice, Corn, Soybeans. Possible weekly hrs: 35 possibly up to 60; possible daily hrs: 7A-6P may be some weekend work. Duties may include: Manual plant, hoe work, weed, crop irrigation, clean, spray, load/unload grain bins & trucks up to 75lbs. May cultivate, & harvest field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, knives. Till soil & apply fertilizers; transplant, thin, prune crops; apply pesticides; pack, & load harvested products, post harvest clean-up; may construct trellises, repair fences & farm bldgs, or participate in irrigation activities, climb up/down grain bins; must not fear heights & other related activities as per 45-2092 as per onetonline.org. Tools provided by employer at no cost to worker. Use hands, arms in handling, install, position, & move materials. Outdoors, exposed to weather; hrs may fluctuate (+/-); possible downtimes and/or extended hrs. Be responsible, & dependable: fulfill obligations. Attn to Detail: careful to complete tasks. Self Control: maintain composure, keep emotions in check, control anger, & avoid aggressive behavior. Employer provided housing available to any worker (foreign or US) who cannot reasonably return to residence daily. ¾ guarantee applies. Extensive walk, stoop, bend. Transportation will be provided by employer from housing to field location. If applicable, transport, subsist expenses provided upon 50% of worked contract. If it is prevailing, employer assures that advance inbound transport, subsist costs will be paid to worker. Variable weather, crop conditions apply; hrs may fluctuate (+/-), possible downtime. Social Security, medicare, Federal/State taxes will be withheld from wages of U.S. workers. Reasonable repair cost of intentional damage will be deducted from workers pay. 1st week wage guarantee of $356.30 @ 10.18/hr. Employer will offer highest of the AEWR, prevail hrly wage or piece rate, agreed-upon collective bargaining wage, or Fed/State min wage. Drug/alcohol/tobacco-free work zone. Must show proof of legal authority to work in United States. Employers who wish to require interviews must conduct interviews by phone or provide procedure for the interviews to be conducted in the location where the worker is being recruited at no cost to worker. Employers cannot provide potential H-2A workers more favorable treatment w/ respect to the requirement and conduct of interviews. To apply contact nearest State or Local job service office: Reference: AR1074488.


Garage Sale

***1 DEADLINE***

W e e k e n d(Saturday/Sunday) Adsdue by noon Thurs.;Nakatosh Chief ads due bynoon Thurs. (for the fol-lowing week); Thurs. adsdue by 4:30 Monday.Holiday deadlines mayvary. Call 352-3618.

1/15/15

BIGGEST SALE EVER

$ .15 up to $8.00Hundreds of new and usedgoods, 432 Carver Ave,Natchitoches, January17th, 8:30 a.m. until

CHURCH RUMMAGE

SALE FRIDAY, January16th, 7 a.m. until, 4819Hwy. 3278, Natchitoches.RAIN OR SHINE.

Land

LAND FOR SALE: 76

ACRES TIMBER ANDROAD ACCESS. NearMarthaville. 318-377-5331. Or Ronnie @ 318-377-6537.

For Sale

FOR SALE: Two wood-framed twin beds in greatshape. Mattress and boxsprings included; $200.00each. Call Debbie @ 357-0436 for more info.

MARSHAL AMP

MG250DFX. Excellentcondition. Call 318-646-2274, leave message if noanswer.

USED BEDSPREADS

and AC/Heat unit for sale.Call 352-4426.

Auto

2003 CADILLAC

ESCALADE 188,000miles. Pearl white, 4 newtires, good condition, 3rdrow seat, DVD player. Allleather. $8,400. Call 318-471-8997.

Services

GLORIA’S CLEANING

SERVICE Houses, trail-ers, churches, move-in,move-out and any type ofcommercial cleaning.Mobile 318-471-8491.

MARVIN’S REMODEL-

ING - Painting, vinyl sid-ing, leveling, foundationwork, gutter work. Honestand dependable. Phone318-228-4320 or 318-727-0442.

INDOOR/OUTDOOR

BUILDERS LLC, LarryHarper. Fencing, remodel-ing, room additions, ceram-ic tile, vinyl siding, cementwork, drainage installation,general repairs. Phone481-4603 or 352-9192.

STAN’S LAWN

SERVICE Call for freeestimate. 318-880-1201 or318-356-0188 and leavemessage.

STEVE’S WASHERS

352-7773. We now repairfront load washers & dry-ers. 15 years experience.P.S. We want your oldappliances.

For Rent

1BR, 1BATH PATIO

HOME on Sibley Lake.Call Jerry 318-402-5149.

1 & 2 BEDROOM

MOBILE HOMES onFish Hatchery Road.ALSO, LARGE, SHAD-

ED LOT for mobile home.Call 352-3692 before 7p.m.

1 AND 2 BEDROOM

APARTMENTS for rentin Historic District. Nopets. 318-609-0110

1 BR APARTMENT $500a month, all utilities paid.123 Chris St. Call 471-7261

2BR, 1 BATH Apartment.$750/month, $500/deposit.ALSO, 2BR, 2 BathApartment, $750/month,$500/deposit. Call 318-581-3070.

2BR/1BA SMALL

HOUSE, VERY PRI-

VATE W/ PATIO Brandnew washer/ dryer /Refrig./Dishwasher/ stove/Microwave/ Central AC/heat. Granite/ tile. NOSMOKING/Pets, Singlecarport, 5’x10’ store room.$950/mo, plus deposit.Serious inquiries only. Oneyear lease. 352-2639 or471-7789. Leave messageif no answer.

3 APARTMENTS W/

S H A R E D

KITCHEN/LIVING Allutilities paid. $550/month.$200/deposit. NO SMOK-ING, NO PETS. 318-419-3491

3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH,

16X80 MOBILE HOME,#12 Bayou Vista.$700/deposit, $700/month.318-332-9278.

3 OR 4 BR, 2 BATH

house for rent in nice areaof Natchitoches. Greatn e i g h b o r h o o d .$800/month. Call 919-219-8976.

3 OR 4BR/2BA BRICK

HOUSE CA/CH. Goodcondition. All tile floors.Good location. Call 318-652-2886

3BR/2BATH MOBILE

HOME at 1405 PatrickRoad, Point Place onCane River, $650/month,plus deposit. Call 652-0604.

4 BR, 2 BATH HOME

on Hwy. 1 South/OldRiver Road. Quiet area,$600 per month, $600deposit. StudentsWelcome. 318-352-5333.

CEDAR GROVE

3BR/2BA.Trailer. NoPets. $575/$575. Call318-352-3953 or 318-652-0666.

CLEAN 1BR APART-

MENT HISTORIC DIS-

TRICT No pets; musthave references.$ 4 2 5 / m o n t h .$400/deposit. Dan 318-352-0059

COUNTRY COTTAGE

IN MARTHAVILLE 2 or3 bedroom, furnished andutilities included. $1150month, plus deposit. Call318-332-0406.

DAYCARE FACILITY

FOR RENT. Great loca-tion. Very economical.Call Sutton Agency 352-6267.

DUPLEX FOR RENT

$700 month, Deposit $500,2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Pleasecall (318) 445-8263 or(318) 664-4360.

FOR LEASE Cane RiverCottage, 3/2 Vienna Bend,with pool on Cane RiverLake. $1,200 per monthrent, with $1,200 depositand 1st month’s rent due atleasing. $250, non-refund-able (small) pet deposit.Call Kay 318-471-7144.Available 02/01/2015.

HOUSE FOR RENT 427St. Denis, 2 bedrooms 1bathroom. AvailableJanuary 1st, 2015.$650/month. [email protected]

MOBILE HOMES inHwy. 6 park; Mobile homeon river Shoreline Drive,for 1 or 2 people,$650/month. 352-4714.

OAK GROVE/BRAND

NEW 2014 TRAILER

Never lived in 2BR1BA.Beautiful deck. No housingauthority. No pets. Safearea. $650/$650 318-352-3953/318-652-0666

R E M O D E L E D

APARTMENTS- HistoricDistrict-Walking distanceto NSU and Downtown,central a/c allappliances. Inexpensiveutilities. ALSO AVAIL-ABLE: nice Cane Rivertown homes. Call SuttonReal Estate 352-6267.

WAREHOUSE FOR

LEASE 5222 Highway 1,$650/mo., plenty parking;water, sewer, electric. CallRhodes Properties at 318-238-3733

Mobile Homes

3BR, 1 BATH MOBILE

HOME FOR SALE.

Great condition. Must bemoved, $15,000. Call 318-581-0182.

Real Estate

140 MILL ST -

CAMPTI, LA -

3BR/1BA brick home.Central heat, windowunits. Sales price$48,000 or rent for $500per month. Call 318-352-1020 for details.

3BR/2BA. HOUSE

Large office, open floorplan, 1850 sq. ft. Locatedat 1013 Loren Ave.,$162,000, OBO. ContactSandra 318-471-8961.

ARE YOU TIRED OF

RENTING and wouldlike to own a home? CallSophie Essex, LoanOfficer at Mortgage USAInc. at 318-354-1203.

THINKING OF SELL-

ING YOUR HOME?

Call the experienced realestate professionals atRealty USA Inc. at 318-354-1200. BobbyMcIntosh, Broker.

WOULD YOU LIKE

TO BUY A HOME

WITH ONLY $500. Letus explain and show youhow to qualify. For freeadvice, Call Realty USAInc. at 318-354-1200.Bobby McIntosh, Broker.

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La Workforce CommissionNatchitoches Career Solutions

303 Bienville Street, Natchitoches, LA 714579 am to 2 pm

Join us at the following event to apply & test

CITY OF NATCHITOCHES JOB OPPORTUNITY

POSITION: Electrical Department – Class “A” Lineman

QUALIFICATIONS: Class “A” Lineman Certificate. Must possess a working knowledge of principles and practices in overhead and underground electrical power line installation, maintenance procedures, and operation of substations, including low voltage service work.

Overtime, stand by, dependability and a high school diploma or equivalent required. Commercial Driver’s License required.

CONTACT: City of Natchitoches, Human Resources Department located at 1400 Sabine St. or P.O. Box 37, Natchitoches La 71458-0037. Applications may also be picked up upstairs at City Hall, located at 700 Second St., or you can download an application on line at www.natchitochesla.gov

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: January 26, 2015

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The Natchitoches Times is looking fora mature and dependable employee toassist with day-to-day office duties.

Duties include but are not limited toanswering phones, dealing with cus-tomers, entering data via computer, etc.

Previous experience a plus.Please mail resume to:

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