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EBR fire departments to get access to automated CPR devices

BY BLAKE LESCHBER Staff writer

One machine will soon be able to help streamline lifesaving efforts across the parish thanks to East Baton Rouge Emergency Medical Services’ decision to loan automated CPR devices to area fire departments starting Saturday.

Brad Harris, public information officer for EBR EMS, said the devices, known as LUCAS Chest Compression Systems, will help first responders access lifesaving technology if they arrive before an ambulance. Under the cooperative agreement, EMS will loan the devices to any participating fire departments in the parish.

“There’s a lot more fire trucks on the street than there are ambulances, so a majority of the time, the fire truck will get to the scene before us,” Harris said. “They’ll be able to actually use this and start CPR with this device before we get there.”

Harris said that the St. George and Zachary fire departments already use the LUCAS device. EMS will deploy 35 devices across the parish in addition to the 35 they already have, plus the units in St. George and Zachary, making a total of about 85 devices in service throughout the parish.

The LUCAS device consists of a backplate, two support legs and a pistonstyle suction cup. When it is put onto a person’s body, the suction cup moves up and down on the center of the chest and can send electrical currents through the body to restart the heart.

First responders can use the device on patients who are either sitting up or lying down, meaning they can administer CPR wherever and whenever.

“The earlier you can start CPR, the higher the probability of a good neurological outcome,” Dan Godbee, medical director for EBR Emergency Medical Services and emergency medicine

BY CHARLES LUSSIER Staff writer

Six of the nine members of the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board say they are seeking reelection this fall to oversee the state’s secondlargest traditional school district for four more years.

All six face an uncertain number of challengers when voters head to the polls on Nov. 3.

Some rival candidates will likely be alumni of training programs organized by the Baton Rouge Alliance for Students, a well-funded, H H H H H H pro-charter-school education reform group founded in 2021. Other possible contenders include traditional public education advocates, many of them recruited by local teacher organizer Storm Matthews.

A handful of candidates have already formally announced. More are expected to sign up in time for qualifying, Aug. 5-7.

In addition to competitive seats, two or three seats will be open this fall thanks to incumbents not running again.

This election will be held using new district maps the School Board approved in May 2022, but which were then held up by a court challenge that has since ended.

The new maps, when they were drawn, were designed to maintain a White majority on the board, with five White members and four Black members. But it is possible the parish’s racial balance has shifted enough since 2022 to elect a majorityBlack School Board.

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Brad Harris, public information officer for East Baton Rouge Parish Emergency Medical Services, connects a LUCAS Chest Compression System to a CPR manikin. physician, said.

The device is used continuously without breaks, reducing human fatigue and allowing more efficient CPR. “Normally, when you do CPR, you’re sitting there doing compressions for typically three to five minutes, and then you rotate responders out just because it’s tiresome,” Harris said.

“Even in a hospital where I’ve got multiple people in an emergency room working with me to do CPR,” Godbee said. “They eventually get worn out, then you’ve got to worry about trying to transition every

dr. dan Godbee, medical director for East Baton Rouge Parish Emergency Medical Services, talks about the benefits of the LUCAS Chest Compression System.

BY MARK BALLARD Staff writer

WASHINGTON — New Orleans Democratic U.S. Rep. Troy Carter is the first candidate running for chair of the Congressional Black Caucus — arguing that he wants the influential caucus on Capitol Hill to work more effectively in pushing policies that help everyday people.

“I’m absolutely going to run, and (I’m) hopeful that I will have the support of my colleagues to lead this very power-

ful and significant caucus,” Carter said Thursday.

In his third two-year term in the U.S. House, Carter is in the No. 2 role as first vice chair for the Congressional Black Caucus and well-positioned to take over from Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., who is stepping down.

“The CBC is more than a caucus. It is a powerful voice for millions of African Americans Carter and for all people who have too often been overlooked, underserved or denied equal opportunity. Should my colleagues entrust me with this responsibility, I will lead with humility, courage and an unwavering commitment to liberty,

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Committee to review education funding formula Some concerned about makeup of board, short time frame

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justice, equality and opportunity for all,” Carter, 62, said in an interview.

The election for caucus chair will be held after the Nov. 3 midterm elections, and the new leader will take office in January.

Carter believes the caucus is growing into a stronger influence in policy debates.

“I’ve worked very hard to be a bridge-builder within the caucus and outside the caucus. And I think now more than ever, it’s what we need in Washington,” Carter said. “People that are able to work within the caucus, but also recognize that the

Beginning next month, 15 people could decide the future of school funding in Louisiana.

Lawmakers established the school-funding task force with a unanimous vote on the last day of the legislative session in June. It was pitched as a way to increase pay for teachers, who once again this year received one-time stipends instead of permanent raises.

But the committee, which is scheduled to begin meeting Aug. 13, has a far more sweeping mission than simply to find more money for teachers.

Its job is to conduct a “top-to-bottom review” of the more than 30-year-old formula that determines how much state funding every public school in Louisiana receives, according to the resolution establishing the task force. Called the Minimum Foundation Program, the formula doles out about $4 billion annually, which schools use to pay teachers, purchase textbooks, operate buses, provide special education services and much more.

After studying the MFP, the committee must recommend a “revised or replacement formula”

by Jan. 1, according to the resolution. If their proposals are adopted, these 15 people will have overhauled the decades-old funding system in a matter of months.

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Injunction upheld to block federal voter list

A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that in nearly half of U.S. states halted President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a federal list of eligible voters and limit delivery of mail ballots only to people on that list.

The ruling Saturday by judges of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s effort to move forward with the mail-in voting restrictions in 23 U.S. states that sued ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Trump issued an executive order in March for the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the commissioner of the Social Security Administration to create a “state citizenship list” of eligible voters. It also ordered the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to people on that list.

Democratic officials in 23 states and the District of Columbia challenged Trump’s order in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston. They argued that Trump’s order was unconstitutional because the states and Congress, not the president, have the authority to set election rules.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, agreed and halted Trump’s order from being implemented for the Nov. 3 elections — but only in the states that have sued.

Sweltering heat wave grips U.S. another day At least 40 million people were under extreme heat warnings across central and southern parts of the United States on Sunday as high temperatures and severe humidity gripped large swaths of the country for a second straight day.

Heat indexes exceeding 105 degrees stretched from Minnesota down to Mississippi, extending west into southern California and Nevada. Parts of the Southwest could see highs of 120 degrees Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

Meteorologists said the sweltering weather was the result of another heat dome — a phenomenon in which atmospheric conditions trap heat, accentuating and prolonging already high temperatures “Right now, it’s affecting a lot of people right in the middle of the country,” said Bob Oravec, an NWS meteorologist. “The core of the heat sinks southward by early next week.”

The moist air was also producing other volatility around the top of the heat dome, including the risk of severe thunderstorms, flash flooding and hail around the Great Lakes on Sunday. The potential for heavy storms was expected to move east in the coming days.

“If you have a heat dome in one part of the country, you’ll have a different corresponding weather in another part,” Oravec said.

“It’s all related.”

Temporary relief will come to the central U.S. toward the middle of the week, but high temperatures could return by the weekend, he noted.

Raúl Castro absent from Cuba celebration HAVANA — Cuba held a traditional rally on Sunday to commemorate one of the revolution’s most important anniversaries but former President Raúl Castro was conspicuously absent.

It was the first time in at least three decades that 95-year-old Castro did not attend the event, and no explanation was given.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel read a congratulatory message from Castro to his compatriots at the rally, held in the eastern city of Pinar del Río.

The annual event commemorates the July 26, 1953, assault led by brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks in Cuba’s eastern region. The military action against former dictator Fulgencio Batista failed, but it marked the beginning of the revolutionary struggle that culminated on Jan. 1, 1959.

Raúl Castro’s last public appearances were in June, during an event to establish the Ministry of the Interior, and on May 1 to celebrate Labor Day.

BY SAMY MAGDY and CARA ANNA Associated Press

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People gather outside the Brandenburg Gate on Sunday for a demonstration in support of the LGBTQ+ community after a car rammed into a crowd at the Pride March in Berlin on Saturday night.

Deadly Berlin Pride attack suspect killed

Ballout was tracked down himself from the militant group Police say German around 6 p.m. Sunday at a garden and no actual threat had ever main Spandau, a Berlin suburb, the terialized. citizen sought to city’s police department wrote on He was released from detenThey said he apparently ran tion pending the appeal. join terrorist group X.toward officers with a sharp inBerlin’s Pride festival is one of

BY GEIR MOULSON, KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press

BERLIN — The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation on Sunday in a suburb of the city, authorities said.

Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in downtown Berlin. Prosecutors said he had previously sought to join the militant Islamic State group.

Ballout was suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival Saturday night before apparently stabbing others with a machete in what authorities believe was an Islamic extremist terror attack.

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the attack occurred a few hundred yards from a party near the Brandenburg Gate that was supposed to close out the city’s Pride festival.

strument, and police fired at least one shot. He died at the scene.

Ballout was born in Germany, the minister said. His mother was naturalized in 2002, three years before he was born.

Ballout traveled to Lebanon in 2025 with the goal of going to Syria to join the Islamic State group, Berlin prosecutors said Sunday.

There, he made contact with several people who were presumed members of the militant group — or at least he believed them to be, prosecutors said.

In May, a juvenile court in Berlin convicted Ballout of preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state, as well as publishing Islamic State propaganda on his Instagram account and other charges, prosecutors said.

The court handed down a suspended sentence of one year and 10 months in youth custody, which Berlin prosecutors had appealed.

The court said it took Ballout’s months of pretrial detention in Germany and Lebanon into account. It also said it considered that Ballout had admitted to the crimes, appeared to distance

Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ celebrations.

According to police, a white van drove into the Tiergarten park about 10 p.m. and hit several people before colliding with a tree. The closing party at the Pride festival, known as Christopher Street Day, was ongoing at the time next to the Brandenburg Gate, a short distance away.

Police said a woman was killed.

On Sunday afternoon, hundreds of mourners gathered at a memorial at the iconic gate. They hugged each other and laid down flowers, candles, rainbow flags and homemade signs, including a cardboard one that said: “the only thing more powerful than hate is love.”

Hundreds of thousands had come to Berlin to celebrate on Saturday, though it’s unclear how many were still at the festival by late evening. It’s one of Europe’s largest LGBTQ+ celebrations.

“We are simply stunned by what happened,” said Andre Lehmann, a top official with the main national LGBTQ+ association, LSVD+. “This suspected attack hits the heart of the queer community.”

2 West Bank mosques set on fire amid surge in settler violence

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TEL AVIV, Israel — Two mosques in the Israelioccupied West Bank were set on fire overnight in an apparent Israeli settler attack, officials said Sunday, after a spate of deadly violence that killed four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers.

Palestinians and the Israeli opposition accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line government of turning a blind eye to attacks by settlers against Palestinians, which threaten to ignite widespread violence across the territory.

Israeli soldiers and police fanned out across the West Bank after the attack, closing off major roads and blocking access to a hospital where it said two militants were hiding.

Israel also arrested more than 70 Palestinians over the weekend as they attempted to contain the escalating violence.

The mosques, in the villages of Qusra and Kour in the northern West Bank, suffered extensive damage in the fires.

In Qusra, the attackers spray-painted “revenge Benayahu,” referring to one of the Israeli soldiers killed on Friday, and “the land of Israel is redeemed

CAIRO — The United States and Iran paused their attacks for a second straight day Sunday, as efforts continued to bring them back to negotiations on an interim ceasefire deal largely undermined by recent exchanges of fire.

It was not clear why the U.S. has paused after targeting Iranian coastal areas and infrastructure in a nearly two-week escalation sparked by Iran’s firing at ships trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz. The Pentagon did not respond to questions.

President Donald Trump is “giving talks some space. He’s giving it a little bit of room,” Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told Fox News.

“We’ve had both Oman and Iran, and a number of our other negotiators, engaged at every level, from the most senior levels all the way down to the technical level over the past few weeks, and particularly in the past few days.”

Waltz dismissed the idea that the U.S. stockpile of interceptors crucial in defending against Iranian attacks is running low, but experts have questioned how long both the U.S. and Iran can afford to keep up attacks.

Since the U.S. has halted attacks for the past two nights, Iran has as well, its army spokesperson told Iran’s state TV on Sunday. Tehran in recent days has counterattacked against countries in the region hosting U.S. military forces, killing at least three service members at a base in Jordan and one in Iraq.

The 60-day period that began when the interim deal was signed by both countries in mid-June is well into its second half, and major issues that were meant to be negotiated — notably Iran’s nuclear program at the heart of tensions — remain set aside as mediators try to keep both sides talking.

A regional official involved in mediation efforts said diplomacy was underway and that a pause in U.S. and Iranian strikes was a “positive signal that helps their efforts to de-escalate.”

The official said both countries want to return to the interim ceasefire deal and that a compromise being negotiated centers on having Iran run vessel transit through the Strait of Hormuz with fewer restrictions on ships.

Commercial shipping traffic on the Strait of Hormuz was at a three-week low, a maritime body overseen by the U.S. Navy said Sunday, adding that no new attacks had been confirmed in the past 72 hours.

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A Palestinian man prays Sunday inside a mosque that was burned during an attack by Israeli settlers early in the morning in the West Bank village of Qusra. with blood.” The soldier lived in a nearby settlement.

Ahmed Abu Mahmoud, 64, who lives next to the Qusra mosque, said he heard noises at 3 a.m. and discovered the mosque had been set on fire. The fire was too large for him to fight on his own, so he called for help.

“The military arrived here, saw with their own eyes and then left,” Mahmoud said.

Security footage in Kour obtained by The Associated Press showed three people dressed in civilian clothes setting off a large explosion in the entrance of the mosque in the middle of the night.

On Sunday, residents held prayers despite damage to the entrance.

Israel’s military said it was working with police to investigate the mosque attack.

“The security forces strongly condemn incidents of this kind, including harm to religious sites, and will continue to act decisively to maintain security and public order in the area,” it said.

The Israeli army often announces investigations into violence against Palestinians but rarely makes arrests or prosecutes settlers involved in violence.

The military also reported it had sealed the homes of two Palestinian militants suspected of killing the soldiers in preparation for their demolition.

Israel often demolishes the homes of attackers, claiming it deters future attacks.

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Continued from page 1A By next year, “hopefully we’ll have a brand-new MFP — a new dawn — in Louisiana,” Gov. Jeff Landry said in June when he and legislative leaders formed the task force.

But as the group gets set to convene, public education advocates are raising concerns.

While most agree that the funding formula needs to be updated, they argue that the five-month timeline is too condensed. They also question why the committee includes 10 lawmakers and someone from the Governor’s Office, but just four people representing education groups.

Other states have engaged in lengthy school-funding reviews before overhauling their systems. Tennessee’s review process involved 18 subcommittees with more than 200 members and public hearings across the state, while Texas’ school-finance commission produced a 165page report with dozens of recommendations.

Critics have suggested that Louisiana’s task force is designed to give Landry and the Legislature more sway over school funding, even though the state board of education legally controls the MFP. They fear the committee will lock in the funding cut that Landry ordered this year to pay for the teacher stipends, forcing schools to make do with less money.

“I’m praying for the best,” said St. Tammany Parish School Board member Isabelle Moore, but “I do worry.”

School funding debate The task force was ostensibly created to secure funding for permanent teacher raises. But it sprang from a much larger debate: Do Louisiana public schools need

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Continued from page 1A caucus makes up one part of the Congress. Our responsibility is to use that force to build with other forces to advance good, sound policy.”

Louisiana power players Should the Democrats win the majority in the 120th Congress that begins its two-year term in January, Carter’s election as caucus leader would mitigate Louisiana’s loss of influence on Capitol Hill.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, of Benton, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, of Jefferson, now the chamber’s top two leaders, will step into new roles should the Republicans lose the majority in November.

I n t h a t Johnson scenario, which polls suggest is not unlikely, Carter predicts his friend and fraternity b r o t h e r , Scalise Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., will become House speaker. The two have a good relationship and are on the same page for most issues, he said.

The caucus is important With 435 representatives and 100 senators, Congress often breaks up into cliques who discuss policies, figure out stances and create strategies that enhance their influence.

The largest Democratic group is the New Democrat Coalition, with 114 members who focus on economic policy and national security.

Carter is a member of that group too.

The Republican Study Committee, whose 189 members research and develop conservative policies, is that party’s largest caucus. Both Scalise and Johnson have chaired the Study Committee.

Formed in 1971, the Con-

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Gov. Jeff Landry speaks during a news conference about teacher pay raises at the State Capitol on May 26. more money — or more fiscal discipline?

The debate is centered on the MFP, the system Louisiana adopted in 1992 to distribute state education dollars, which comprise about 40% of school funding (local and federal money make up the rest). The formula doles out funding to school systems based on how many students they enroll, giving extra money to districts with less local tax revenue and to schools serving students with additional needs, including those with disabilities or from low-income families.

Public school advocates generally approve of the formula’s basic design, which distributes dollars based on local needs and resources.

The main problem, they argue, is that the baseline funding amount — $4,015 per student — has increased by less than $600 over the past 20 years. Meanwhile, the cost of goods and services has soared, and schools face mounting demands to provide tutoring, mental health

services, career education, enhanced security and more.

“One word they don’t want to hear is ‘adequacy,’ ” said Michael Faulk, the former head of the statewide superintendents association, referring to lawmakers.

“What does it actually take to provide every student an education that meets all the requirements the state puts on schools?”

But not all state lawmakers, who allocate school funding, are convinced that schools need more money.

Senate President Cameron Henry, who introduced the resolution creating the task force, said advocates who ask for more education funding can’t explain the formula or how schools spend the dollars they receive.

“You’re never going to get more money when no one understands where the money that you’re currently getting goes,” he said in an interview last month.

The funding debate came to a head this spring over the question of teacher pay.

gressional Black Caucus is one of the more influential voices in Congress, particularly within the Democratic Party.

Former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris were members when they were in Congress. So was civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. Becoming caucus chairs has been a boost for the holders of the office.

Cedric Richmond, who went on to become a top aide to President Joe Biden, and Karen Bass, who is mayor of Los Angeles, have been caucus chairs.

balances healthy again.”

The Black Caucus, like the rest of the Democratic Party, also is struggling with how to incorporate farleft wing members who seek more radical solutions and more aggressive confrontations with the Trump administration.

Carter says that theme has been overblown by the media.

“New members coming in who have very bold ideas are not going to be silenced.

We’re not going to just throw them to the side because they have bold ideas,” Carter said. “Part of leadership is harnessing those ideas, harnessing that energy, and morphing it into a position that we can all work on to advance what’s best for the American people. The role that I intend to play as leader of the caucus is to not allow outside voices to try to pit one against the other.”

Carter began his political career in the 1980s as an aide to New Orleans Mayor Sidney Barthelemy. He represented Algiers in the Louisiana House starting in 1991, then the New Orleans City Council in 1994.

In 2015, Carter was elected to the state Senate and won election to Congress in 2021 when Richmond resigned to work in the White House.

He serves on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which oversees oil and gas exploration and production policies.

Challenges ahead

The 62-member Congressional Black Caucus has more members than ever before — but it faces more challenges in an era where Republicans control all three branches of government and thus control the levers of power.

Those numbers likely will change after the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

Some states, including Louisiana, used the Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais to redraw and eliminate the districts that had been configured to elect minority candidates.

“We’ve lost my colleague and friend, Congressman Cleo Fields,” Carter said of the Baton Rouge Democrat, who announced Tuesday he would not seek reelection in a seat that was redrawn in May to ensure that five Email Mark Ballard at of Louisiana’s six represen- mballard@theadvocate. tatives would be White Re- com. publicans.

“That repeats itself in Texas and Alabama, perhaps, and other places, so we will lose some (seats). But in other places, we’ll pick up, certainly offset some of the losses,” Carter said. “So, this notion that the Congressional Black Caucus will be weakened is not true. We’ve demonstrated that even with small numbers, we have good voices.”

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After voters rejected Landry’s plan to use education trust funds to finance raises, he pulled $168 million out of school district budgets to cover stipends for teachers and support staff. He argued that school districts can stretch the dollars they get by reducing “waste and bureaucracy.”

“We do not have a revenue problem in this state,” Landry said. “We have a priorities problem.”

Around the same time, Landry and Henry said the MFP task force would figure out how to insert teacher raises into the formula so that, after this year, temporary stipends would not be necessary.

“There is no way we can’t

find a permanent pay raise its formula in 2019, increasin those dollars,” Henry said. ing per-student funding by about 20% and boosting ‘Tall order’ for task force spending by more than $6 The task force faces a for- billion. The changes came midable to-do list when it after a commission met for about a year, hearing testiconvenes next month.

The committee must con- mony from more than 150 duct a “comprehensive” educators, advocates and review of the MFP, then policy experts.

Barry Erwin is chief polpropose a new or revised formula that is transparent, icy officer of the research sustainable and includes and advocacy group Leaders “permanent and predict- for a Better Louisiana. He able” funding for educator said he questions how lawraises, the establishing reso- makers who are not schoolfinance experts will be able lution says.

The resolution does not to rewrite the MFP in less address what educators and than five months.

“Honestly, it doesn’t seem advocates say is the underlying problem — that the feasible to me,” he said. state has not put enough “Once they start really digmoney into K-12 education ging into it, they’re going to to keep up with rising needs see how complex it is.” and costs.

Even if the group does pro“I think the formula’s pose a new formula, the Legpretty fair,” said David islature can’t simply adopt Claxton, executive director it. Under the Louisiana Conof the Louisiana Association stitution, the state Board of of School Superintendents, Elementary and Secondary who is on the task force. Education sets the funding “The issue is more about formula, which the Legisfunding it.” lature can only approve or Another task force mem- reject.

Kevin Berken, who chairs ber, Sen. Glen Womack, R-Harrisonburg, said he is the board’s education fiopen to considering whether nance committee, said the schools need more money — board is open to recommenafter the group digs into the dations, adding that there funding formula. already have been two in“I think our first step dependent studies of the is finding out how we got MFP this year. He said the here,” said Womack, who board will consider the task chairs the Senate Finance force’s recommendations, Committee. “Where is the but noted that the group has money going now?” been given a short timeline When other states re- to propose a school-funding vamped their school-fund- overhaul.

“It’s a pretty tall order,” ing formulas in recent years, they simultaneously he said. “I wish them a lot of boosted funding levels. Ten- luck.” nessee adopted a new formula in 2022 that increased Email Patrick Wall at annual education funding by patrick.wall@theadvocate. $1 billion. Texas revamped com.

Corporate Partnerships help shape the future of Southern University Jaguar Athletics with Investments, Scholarships and more

By Amanda McElfresh, amcelfresh@theadvocate.com This article is brought to you by Southern Jaguar Athletics.

College athletics has changed dramatically in recent years thanks to NIL rules that allow student-athletes to earn compensation through business relationships and a revamped transfer portal that makes it easier for them to move between schools without missing a season.

As a result, today’s college recruits consider more factors when making a decision, including university facilities and athletic support services, academic assistance, brand visibility and opportunities to maximize their potential.

As Universities work to demonstrate they can provide a positive experience, Corporate Partnerships have become an essential part of successful Athletic programs.

At Southern University, those partnerships do more than place logos on scoreboards. They help fund scholarships, upgrade facilities and technology and give Jaguar Student-Athletes the resources they need to compete at the highest levels.

EFCUFinancial,alongtimeSouthernJaguars corporate partner, has supported several initiatives, including a media room for the Men’s and Women’s basketball teams, scholarships for Student-Athletes and sponsorships of halftime contests for students to win money.

“When you go on some of these campus visits andseethefacilities,thatplaysacriticalcomponent as far as where you’re going,” said EFCU President and CEO Tom Kuslikis. “Finding different ways as a corporate partner that we canhelpworkwithSouthernathleticsandmake an investment so they can bring the best and the brightest to the University is something that is important to us.”

Southern University holds deep meaning for Attorney Walter Gabriel, founder of Walter Gabriel Injury Lawyers, as he is a graduate of its law school. Gabriel’s firm began as a table sponsor for Southern University Athletics Annual Gala and other fundraising events, and that relationship has evolved into the firm becoming a full Corporate Partner this year.

“It’s a dream come true,” Gabriel said. “Being able to be a Corporate Partner to where we can help this University upgrade its facilities and compete in recruitment in this NIL landscape is critically important for us. I’m just excited to see how we can help. We’re involved with all sports,

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Genevieve becomes a major Pacific hurricane off Mexico Storm has maximum sustained winds of 140 mph

pected to intensify well southwest of Mexico but stay far out to sea on a course roughly parallel to the coast.

Genevieve had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph, making it a Category 4 hurricane, accordBy The Associated Press ing to the National Hurricane MIAMI — Genevieve strengthened Center in Miami. A major hurriinto a major hurricane in the Pa- cane is Category 3, with winds of cific Ocean on Sunday and is ex- at least 111 mph or higher.

Genevieve’s center was located about 530 miles southwest of Manzanillo, and it was headed westnorthwest at 14 mph.

No coastal watches or warnings were in effect, but the hurricane center said that swells from the storm — likely causing “life-threatening surf and rip current conditions” — were affecting parts of Mexico’s southwest-

ern coast and would likely reach southern parts of the Baja California Peninsula on Sunday night or Monday.

The storm was expected to strengthen further before weakening by midweek.

Farther northwest in the Pacific, Hurricane Fausto weakened to a Category 1 storm as it continued on a path in the general direction

of the Hawaiian Islands.

Forecasters said Fausto was expected to be downgraded to a tropical storm in the coming days but warned that it could still generate significant surf for parts of Hawaii.

Fausto had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph. It was about 825 miles east of Hilo and was moving west at 14 mph.

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The impact of devices Before the Saturday launch date, all firefighters have to attend an orientation on when not to use the machine — particularly if the patient is too large or small — and day-to-day maintenance on it, such as changing the batteries.

Harris said each device costs about $25,000 plus additional maintenance costs.

Baton Rouge fire stations, however, will not have to pay for the units. EMS will gather 35 devices they already possess and distribute them for use among the departments.

“A lot of rural or volunteer fire departments can’t afford that kind of money,” Harris said. “We have them in stock; we might as well just go for it. We’re not buying more devices to gear out; we already have them.”

In his experience working in an emergency room, Godbee said the device will benefit patients and emergency room personnel even when in the hospital.

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World Heritage List expands in South Korea World War II’s d-day beaches, Mount olympus in Greece added by committee

BY KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — World War II’s D-Day landing beaches in northern France and the iconic Mount Olympus in Greece were among the sites added to the World Heritage List on Sunday at a U.N. committee meeting in South Korea reviewing dozens of nominations.

The UNESCO committee, which meets in Busan through Wednesday, also inscribed the ancient Japanese capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara and South Sudan’s BomaBadingilo Migratory Landscape, host to one of the world’s largest land mammal migrations and the country’s first addition to the World Heritage List.

The French designation covers the five Normandy landing beaches — Omaha, Utah, Sword,

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Lower temperature The six incumbents seeking reelection say they want to keep pursuing the current district agenda they’ve developed with Superintendent LaMont Cole.

Cole, who took over in July 2024, has helped calm a district that was in turmoil after COVID, a school transportation crisis, the voluntary buyout of predecessor Sito Narcisse and a tumultuous search to replace Narcisse.

The longevity of the parish school district was also helped greatly by the decisive failure in May of the statewide referendum that sought to create a St. George school district as a companion of the new city.

“I’m going to stay here so that I can continue the work that has started, see that it can really fully be implemented in the way that we all want to see,” said Shashonnie Steward, board president and representative for District 4, which includes the Belaire and Park Forest communities.

“I’m now getting a chance to see some of the vision that I’ve had for our (school) district and District 3 be able to come to pass,” said Carla Powell-Lewis, who represents District 3, which includes most of Scotlandville, where she lives.

All six of the incumbents seeking reelection are finishing their first terms.

Three of them — Cliff Lewis, Nathan Rust and Patrick Martin V — had defeated incumbents in difficult, costly elections, capitalizing on a sour electorate.

Now, like those they replaced, they are trying to persuade voters things are going well enough that they should remain in office.

The Baton Rouge Alliance for Students, via its campaign arm, was the biggest spender in fall 2022 to change the board — nearly $1 million. It is once again planning to interview, endorse and finance independent campaigns for favored candidates.

Adonica Duggan, CEO and co-founder of the alliance, sees a much better environment education-wise in Baton Rouge than four years ago.

“We are excited at this time to continue in the direction we are heading,” Duggan said. “We think that the superintendent and the board are making tough decisions that are benefiting students, and the proof is in the data.”

Cole and the board have pushed through several big changes in the past two years: closing low-enrollment schools, changing school start times, beefing up security and, most recently, approving significant employee pay raises.

Standardized scores grew this past year, keeping pace with the state, improving in almost every grade and

Gold and Juno — where more than 150,000 Allied troops came ashore on June 6, 1944, along with the Pointe du Hoc assault site, all central to the campaign to liberate Western Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. International Council on Monuments and Sites, which evaluates submissions to the heritage committee, said the sites contain extensive remnants, from German fortifications and bomb-scarred landscapes to Allied harbor structures and sunken vessels, marking an “event widely perceived as having enabled the return of freedom and heralded a lasting peace on the European continent.”

ICOMOS also called for stronger monitoring and preservation efforts on the sites, citing potential threats posed by tourism, climate change and rising sea levels, and the development of wind farms near the areas.

Ahlem Gharbi, France’s permanent delegate to UNESCO, said the Normandy landings marked a turning point from global conflict toward a postwar order built on peace and security, and that the

subject.

As controversy has waned, board meetings are shorter and less contentious, with fewer speakers and lower temperatures.

While the mood is more upbeat, Duggan notes that the school district still has a lot of issues, including thousands of children who are reading below grade level.

She said her organization wants to make sure voters don’t lapse into complacency and elect people who change course.

“I am focused on making sure we don’t lean back and say, ‘We got it,’ and go on cruise control,” Duggan said.

Open seats, new faces The uncertainty about whether there will be two or three open seats rests with incumbent Dadrius Lanus.

The 38-year-old Lanus has represented District 2 since 2019. He said he is not sure if he will seek a third term; he plans to decide within the week. He said his job as executive director of the Louisiana Democratic Party, which he assumed in spring 2025, has kept him busy criss-crossing the state.

“I hate missing School Board meetings, because these are decisions that we are making for kids,” Lanus said.

District 7 representative Mike Gaudet, who narrowly won reelection in 2022, fending off heavy spending by the alliance, announced long ago he won’t seek a third term. He reiterated that stance last week.

Mark Bellue, who joined the board in 2015, is barred by state law from seeking a fourth term in District 1.

Kim Bainguel is running again for that district.

Bainguel, who is Black, came within 22 votes of defeating Bellue, who is White, despite being outspent by a 20-to-1 margin.

“Our district has strengths worth protecting — and gaps worth closing,” said Bainguel, a licensed social worker with three children in public schools.

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designation of the sites carries added significance at a time of escalating international crises and wars.

“It’s probably the greatest amphibious landing there’s ever been.

It ought to be remembered for that alone,” historian David Edgerton said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

The World Heritage inscription of Mount Olympus, the mythical home of the 12 Olympian gods, rewarded a 12-year effort by Greece to secure recognition for its tallest mountain as a mixed cultural and natural heritage site. Rising 9,573 feet from a base near sea level, the mountain was believed to be the throne of Zeus, king of the gods, while also harboring rich biodiversity.

Evangelos Geroliolios, mayor of Dion-Olympus, a municipality at the foot of the mountain, said in a recent interview with the AP that inclusion on the World Heritage List “places greater obligations on our part to protect this environment,” citing the potential impact of increased tourism.

“We reaffirm our unwavering

moor area, District 1 has shifted racially over the past four years, adding 1,300 Black voters and losing about 1,000 White voters.

The racial balance of the district, however, is unclear moving forward. The Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office won’t be updating its voting registration to the new East Baton Rouge Parish School Board maps until qualifying, said a spokesperson for the state agency.

Several traditional public education advocates have announced their candidacies for School Board.

Hannah Amoroso, a physical therapist with two children attending district schools, announced months back that she is running to replace Gaudet to represent District 7. Amoroso is best known for her work pressing for new school start times. She points to her years of experience dealing with the district.

“Through these experiences, I’ve seen both the strengths of our schools and the real challenges they face,” Amoroso said.

More recently, Nicole Fitzgerald, a former Spanish teacher at Westdale Middle, announced a few weeks ago that she plans to run against Rust to represent District 6.

She says she is campaigning to “bring classroom insight, honest accountability and a deep belief in public education to the decisions that affect District 6 students and families.”

Melissa “Dani” Altazin, a mother of three and a parent leader, announced Friday that she is running against Emily Soulé to represent District 8. She has been endorsed by Steve Crump, a retired Unitarian minister who lost to Soulé in a 2024 special election for the seat.

“Parents are vital front line stakeholders in our schools, and when the district treats families as an afterthought, it loses the public’s trust,” Altazin said.

Thomasina Joseph has announced she is running against Powell-Lewis for District 3. Joseph is a former clerk at Scotlandville

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commitment to safeguarding Mount Olympus for the benefit of present and future generations,” said Georgios Koumoutsakos, Greece’s delegate to UNESCO. “As Greek mythology wisely reminds us, it is always best to remain on good terms with gods.”

The designated Japanese locations in the western prefecture of Nara cover 19 archaeological sites from the 6th- to 8th-century capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara, where Japan established its first centralized state modeled after Chinese systems. The sites preserve the largely buried remains of royal palaces, government offices, Buddhist temples and tombs from capitals that influenced the later capitals of Nara and Kyoto.

Japanese Vice Culture Minister Shigeki Kobayashi thanked the committee for inscribing the Asuka-Fujiwara sites and said Japan reaffirms its commitment to “transmitting this valuable property to the future generations.”

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, a Nara native, wrote on X that she hopes the World Heritage designation will boost tourism

High and mother of a graduate from the high school. She has long been civically active. She is currently neighborhood director of Clean Green Neighborhood Alliance.

Tebbe Jackson, a school administrator who spent a decade working in East Baton Rouge public schools, is running again for the District 4 seat held by Steward. She placed third in 2022 when she

to the site.

Yoshiyuki Aihara, a Nara University archaeology professor, told AP the sites are significant because they show how Japan’s ancient state was formed through influences from China and the Korean Peninsula.

“If you dig underneath these rice paddies about 1 meter, you start finding a stretch of ruins in this area, though that’s not easy for ordinary visitors to understand,” said Aihara, who is continuing excavation work at the site.

South Sudan’s Boma-Badingilo site encompasses vast wetlands, flood plains and savannas shaped by seasonal rainfall and flood dynamics, with an estimated 6 million white-eared kob, tiang and Mongalla gazelles moving across the landscape in response to changing environmental conditions.

It also provides habitat for elephants, lions, cheetahs and other wildlife while supporting various ethnic communities that have lived by herding, farming and fishing for centuries, according to UNESCO. AP writer Mari Yamaguchi contributed to this story.

ran for that same seat.

Matthews said she has more candidates who will be announcing soon. She said she had more luck recruiting than she thought she would. She credits the highly charged state of current politics, from fights over immigration to the St. George school vote.

“It was all the crap that’s been happening,” Matthews said.

District 1 is the only district where Matthews said she is still looking for someone willing to run.

“All of the people are either educators or they are present. You know them,” Matthews said. “They are at board meetings. They are fighting for community issues every day.”

Email Charles Lussier at clussier@theadvocate.com.

Cool Kids Inc. expands its reach, empowering youth in Northeast Louisiana to pursue brighter futures

By Stevie Cavalier Licciardi stevie.licciardi@theadvocate.com This story is brought to you by Meta.

Cool Kids, Inc. is an early development & mentoring program based in Northeast Louisiana that provides community support to school-age children and their families. From warming shelters and fresh meals to enrichment learning experiences, Cool Kids, Inc. strives to help kids unlock their full potential within their communities.

Kelsey Higdon, Digital Sales Manager for Nola.com and The Advocate, visited with Deanna Hubbard, owner of Cool Kids, Inc., to get the inside scoop on how the recent Meta investment has been impacting this local community program.

Can you tell us the story of how this organization started, and what your core mission is?

This organization was started by my son, Jordan Hubbard, who was at one time very undisciplined. To make a long story short, I told him that if he could find a few other young men who needed the same support he was then I would start an organization to help them. He was able to find about ten young men, and so it grew from ten young men to fifty, and then from fifty all the way to what we have now. It changed his whole life when the program started. Jordan was able to go to Morehouse College in Atlanta.

He is the CEO of Cool Kids, Inc. and was recently elected as alderman for the Town of Rayville.

How is the Meta investment changing the ‘day-to-day’ for families walking through your doors?

During a recent storm, the power was out and people were displaced. Kids weren’t eating because everything was closed— stores, restaurants, and schools. Jordan Hubbard called Henry Thornton, Community Development Regional Manager for Meta, and said, “Our kids need to eat.”

Within two days, we were able to feed 1,600 kids with the meals Meta provided.

We also petitioned Meta for additional funding to help with our building’s repairs and the meals we provide for 250 kids throughout three parishes each week. Our Cool Kids, Grab & Go Program provides

breakfast and lunch 5 days a week throughout the summer when children are out of school. Meta said they would help, and they did everything they said they were going to do. We have a brand-new computer room in the back of our building, thanks to Meta. It was unusable, but now it’s usable. We are also getting ready to repair the outside of the building, as well, and we will have a beautiful building to operate in because of the impact that Meta has had on this community.

Meta believes “The future is for everyone.” What does that phrase mean for the kids you are able to help?

That statement goes hand-in-hand with our motto, which is, “You are not a product of your environment, your environment is a product of you.” We look to instill in our kids the idea that you can be whoever you have decided you want to be. That means you can be a doctor, lawyer, nurse, or whatever you claim for yourself. That’s a major part of our program. When a kid comes to our door we look to make sure that they have what they need educationally, spiritually, and emotionally. We believe that every child has a chance to excel, and with Meta coming in, not only do they have a chance to excel in the present, but they have a chance to have a job for a long time in the future.

Follow @coolkidsinc1 on Instagram for regular program updates.

For more information on the Meta project in Richland Parish, see meta.com/ BuildingLouisiana.

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Musicians explore roots of Louisiana zydeco Creole la-la sound influences newer bands

BY JOANNA BROWN Staff writer

Long before electrified zydeco bands filled dance halls, Creole musicians gathered for acoustic “la-la” house parties across southwest Louisiana. Two young Lafayette musicians are trying to bring that tradition back.

Cajun music leans on Louisiana French folk traditions built around the fiddle, accordion and triangle.

Zydeco added rhythm and blues, electric guitars and the rub board, creating a louder, more energetic sound.

But no matter what kind of band is playing, there’s a beating heart in the music that drives people to gather, dance and make friends out of strangers. It’s possible to hear the unbroken traditions in the sounds, and even see it, when you observe traditional Cajun and Creole artists and zydeco players sit in jams together, or play on each other’s records.

Then, it becomes clear that Louisiana roots music has evolved together over the years, producing a modern day sound that wins Grammys and attracts visitors from across the world.

Those shared roots are exactly what two young Lafayette musicians hope to highlight through a new acoustic project. Le Nouveau Zydeco highlights one of southwest Louisiana’s oldest recorded musical traditions — Creole la-la.

Considered a precursor to modern zydeco music, “la-la” is the music that would have been played at a rural house party in 19th- and early 20th-century Creole communities — similar to the Acadian folk music played across the countryside, but leading in a new

direction.

“It’s like a root that fed into the tree of zydeco,” said Joshua Caffery, the director of the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where they hold archival recordings of Creole la-la players going back to the 1920s and ‘30s.

“I think one analogy you can make is bluegrass is to American old-time music, what zydeco is to la-la. You know, there’s these older, more traditional strands of the music, then there’s the modernized version of it. When people like Clifton Chenier came along and fused rhythm and blues in a bigger, electrified band with some of these older la-la traditions, it created a modern style that was designed, to some degree, to meet people where they were at in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.”

La-la music first became known through the sounds of early players like Amédé Ardoin and the Carrière Brothers, who were highly influential in building the Louisiana French songbook that Creole, Cajun and zydeco players still use today.

“There’s not too many acoustic Creole bands out there,” said 19-year-old Israel Chaisson, who formed Le Nouveau Zydeco with Brayden Janice, who is 22. “I want to make sure that the younger generation of people not only know about the music, but understand it and understand the origins of it.”

They played a set this summer at Sojourn Tea House in Lafayette, showcasing a musical confidence that speaks to their roots — Chaisson has been playing on stages with his father, Zydeco Mike, since he was 2 years old, and Janice also plays in a band called Next Gen Zydeco.

“In my zydeco band, we do play a lot of old Creole songs, but I really like with this band that it’s acoustic,” said Janice. “It’s like old times. With my other band, we

have a lot of big speakers, and it’s a full piece band. This is just an accordion, a fiddle and maybe an acoustic bass — it’s a completely different feeling.”

Zydeco musician Brandon Ledet, who plays with Brandon Ledet & Creole Touch, said he likes to explain the differences between oldtime Creole and Cajun music in simple terms — “it’s dependent on the flavor of the people making it.”

“There are similarities, because it was pretty much all stirred out of the same pot,” he said. “As far as Creole la-la music and Cajun music, I find that Cajun music has more of a straightforward flow to it, where your Creole la-la music is more centered around a pulsating beat.”

As the bands got amplified and genres like zydeco and swamp pop entered the mix — influenced by predominant trends in pop music, such as the rise of country-western and R&B music — Louisiana music and players continued to evolve, while maintaining a connection to the roots. Ledet said that when he is invited to Cajun jam sessions in the area, the playing style is a familiar one with direct links to old Cajun music icons like Iry LeJeune, who was influenced by Ardoin.

“Myself, I play across the board,” said Ledet. “I can play Cajun music, I can play Creole, I play zydeco. You can sit me in with a Cajun band, close your eyes, and say, ‘That’s a Cajun artist up there.’

“Usually, music gets labeled by the identity of the person playing it,” he added. “They can play the same tune, and have a different style band backing them up, because it comes from the same root of where the music started. And you can’t grow a seed without a root first.”

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7521 JEFFERSON HIGHWAY: 258-square-foot oyster bar addition to Cafe American, $45,000; applicant, Britany Dealminana; owner, Brian Blackledge.

1750 BRIGHTSIDE DRIVE: remodeling 1,000-square-foot commercial building, $4,800; applicant, Walter Saunders; contractor, Building From the Heart.

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3156 COLLEGE DRIVE: park trucks and store pesticides; applicant, Ethan Farrer; owner, Bryant Butler.

5201 NICHOLSON DRIVE: bar, not serving food; applicant, William Scott.

2575 O’NEAL LANE: build out of 1,755-square-foot space for restaurant, $85,000; applicant, Lonnie Bonacorso; owner, Daulat Sthanki; contractor, Bonacorso — Sthanki Sthanki Builders.

2040 S. ACADIAN THRUWAY: exterior improvements to the playground, outdoor theater and sidewalks at Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts Elementary School, $900,000; applicant, Jonathan Guelfo; owner, Doug Pourciau; contractor, Build Commercial Construction.

660 ARLINGTON CREEK CENTRE BLVD.: wall sign; $10,500; applicant, Cody Jenkins; owner, Xianggang Chen; contractor, Brightbox Wholesale Signage.

11592 S. CHOCTAW DRIVE: wholesale millwork sales to construction industry; applicant, David Berke; owner, Roy Maughan.

2798 O’NEAL LANE: pediatric therapy for children; applicant, Danielle Mixon.

11715 BRICKSOME AVE.: office/ clerical work; applicant and owner, Lawanda Jackson.

2320 DRUSILLA LANE: laboratory offering specimen collection and health and wellness services; applicant and owner, Rashida McKnight.

1623 BRIGHTSIDE DRIVE: monument sign, $20,000; applicant, Rachel Perrodin; contractor, Sign Edge USA. 1251 N. ARDENWOOD DRIVE: removal and disposal of existing window units, installation of vinyl window units, $35,000; applicant, Declan Savage; contractor, LECA Construction.

8418 SCOTLAND AVE.: small-office use; applicant, Wade Investment Group; owner, Tevin Wade.

4961 GUS YOUNG AVE.: tire shop with sale of new and used tires; applicant, Ali Abdulrahman Shaafal.

12606 WARWICK AVE.: political sign for Jermaine Guillory; applicant, Jermaine Guillory.

3084 WESTFORK DRIVE: financial services for St. George Fire Department; applicant, Blake Townsend; owner, Richard Hedley.

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316 WOODSONG AVE: $566,709, 3,413 square feet; applicant and owner, Scott Bardwell; contractor, Bardwell Construction Co. 21052 CHANEY ROAD, ZACHARY: $450,000, 3,640 square feet; applicant, owner and contractor, Bayleigh Guerin.

1941 GREEN OAK DRIVE: $148,000, 1,630 square feet; applicant, Phillip Johnson; owner, Magnolia Property Solutions.

9433 DAWSON TRACE AVE.: $200,000, 2,465 square feet; applicant, Jacob Harelson; owner, Carlos Alvarez; contractor, Alvarez Construction Co. 9452 DAWSON TRACE AVE.: $200,000, 1,979 square feet; applicant, Jacob Harelson; owner, Carlos Alvarez; contractor, Alvarez Construction Co.

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A new office building for Elemental Health is under construction on Goodwood Boulevard.

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Elemental Health is expanding into a new office on Goodwood Boulevard, across the street from the Main Library.

The outpatient mental health facility is renovating and expanding an office building at 7938 Goodwood Blvd., right in front of its current location at 7946 Goodwood.

The new building will be about 4,900 square feet, said Peter Turner of JCT Solutions, the general contractor for the project.

That is about 1,000 square feet larger than the current site.

The work should be completed in the next couple of months, Turner said.

Elemental Health is owned by Marc Crawford, and Dr. Majid Khan is the medical director.

Is there a building under construction or renovation in your neighborhood and you want to know what it is? Send an email with a picture or the location to ianne.salvosa@ theadvocate.com.

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BY JENNIFER McDERMOTT

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to and that has been adopted around the world.

Currently, facilities such as nuclear plants, hospitals or academic institutions that use radioactive materials must ensure radiation exposures are kept “as low as reasonably achievable” — the ALARA principle. The NRC proposal would abandon that philosophy while keeping a separate standard on maximum radiation exposure.

The two standards have worked together in radiation safety. Dose limits set the maximum amount of radiation the public and radiation workers can be exposed to, while ALARA kept radiation exposure as low as practical under those limits.

Research shows radiation exposure increases a person’s chance of getting cancer, a risk that increases as the dose increases.

The dose limits are not changing.

But the NRC, which regulates civilian nuclear energy technologies and radioactive materials, now wants to replace ALARA with a “graded approach” that includes several actions facilities must take depending on the potential dose of radiation to workers. More rigorous radiation protection measures would be required when approaching dose limits to ensure they aren’t exceeded.

This comes as President Donald Trump attempts to quadruple domestic nuclear energy production because of surging electricity demand

amid a data center and artificial intelligence boom. Reforming the NRC is one way Trump is trying to speed up nuclear reactor development. He instructed the federal agency in an executive order last year to “adopt science-based radiation limits.”

The Energy Department, which oversees national energy policies, has already stopped using ALARA. The NRC expects to finalize its radiation protection regulations in the coming months.

NRC Chairman Ho Nieh said the commission is not lowering the bar on safety.

“We’re just removing the ambiguity,” he said in a call with reporters.

“But the standard for exposure to workers and the public, those are not changing. We’re just putting in place greater clarification.”

Nieh doesn’t expect major changes within the nation’s existing fleet of large, traditional reactors. But companies designing and building new, smaller reactors could move faster with a clearer picture of the radiation protection requirements, he said.

The NRC said radiation exposure limits are set well below levels associated with health effects, and it expects remaining standards and industry practices to keep radiation doses far below the limits. There’s incentive to do so — it’s more expensive and time-consuming to work in areas with higher radiation because access must be restricted and more surveys are required.

The nuclear industry’s trade association agrees with the NRC. “We will always continue to look at what can we do to reduce the dose to workers, and maintain our doses to the off-site public as low as possible,”

said Doug True, chief nuclear officer at the Nuclear Energy Institute. “It’s not like we’re just going to throw open the doors and let everything run up to the limits.”

ALARA created a “moving target” for regulation, said Justin Friedman, a nuclear energy consultant who previously spent three decades at the U.S. Department of State. Getting rid of the rule would allow NRC scientists to make more rational decisions about appropriate levels of manageable risk, he added.

Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, cautions that some parts of the NRC proposal could raise permissible radiation doses in certain cases, while still staying below the cap. Lyman highlighted a proposed revision to radionuclide emissions standards, in particular.

Radiation exposure to the general public is limited to 100 millirem per year. A typical dose of radiation from a chest X-ray is 10 millirem.

The NRC wants to increase its radionuclide emissions standards from a conservative 10 millirem per year dose to 25 millirem per year, based on a hypothetical person living in a house at the property line for a nuclear plant.

The NRC says actual doses to the public would remain far lower because, in reality, people live farther from nuclear sites and benefit from dispersion in air and water.

The NRC should improve, rather than eliminate, ALARA, Lyman said, to protect the public and workers.

ALARA has become a political target because some people mistakenly believe radiation exposures have to be as low as possible no matter the cost, Lyman said. In reality, it allows

tradeoffs.

Katy Huff, a former U.S. assistant secretary for nuclear energy, said in some cases, the requirement may be challenging to regulate. Additional clarity would improve the regulatory environment without harming the public, added Huff, a professor and department chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

However, Huff said, she thought the NRC was going to clarify what reasonable means in ALARA without scrapping it. She said she’s open to being convinced the graded approach will be just as effective.

The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, chartered by Congress to provide independent scientific guidance, has not formally weighed in yet. Council president Kathryn Higley said she personally likes some things in the 180-page document and thinks others are problematic.

The NRC should look at the whole picture for managing risk, she said. For instance, if a worker at a nuclear power plant were to enter an area where airborne radioactive materials are present, in keeping with ALARA, they might wear full personal protective equipment with respirators, said Higley, professor emeritus at Oregon State University. That makes them move slower, potentially subjecting them to heat stress that could hurt them more than a low dose of radioactivity, she said.

A concern with the proposal, Higley said, is that it maintains the current occupational dose limit for adult radiation workers at 5 rem, or 5,000 millirem, per year. With ALARA in place, the average dose to workers has been well below that cap.

European wildfires drive thousands from homes

BY MARK CARLSON, EMMA DA SILVA and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press

LEGE-CAP FERRET, France — A raging wildfire in southwest France forced the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight Sunday, bringing the total forced out of their homes to a staggering 220,000 in one region alone, as flames crept ever closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux. Neighboring Spain oversaw its own fire evacuations on the country’s east coast.

Shifting and gusting winds, as well as arid conditions, complicated massive efforts to limit the spread of the monster blaze burning out of control since midweek in France’s Gironde region, where Bordeaux is located.

Authorities issued overnight evacuation orders for five more localities southwest of the historic city.

“The situation remains very unfavorable,” French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said after what he described as “another difficult night” for fire crews battling roundthe-clock against the blaze that has burned an area four times the size of Paris.

“The fire became extremely virulent again and unpredictable, generating its own winds and advancing erratically toward the Bordeaux metropolitan area,” Nunez posted on X. “It became calmer by the end of the night,” the minister added.

At the end of his Sunday Angelus prayer, Pope Leo XIV referenced “the devastating wildfires” in France and Spain and said: “I express my solidarity and invite everyone to pray for those affected and for the work of the rescue workers.”

An estimated 162 square miles had burned in Gironde, the region’s pre-

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A firefighter carries a hose while battling a wildfire Sunday in San Martin de Valdeiglesias, Spain, west of Madrid. fecture said, much of it forests and scrubland made tinder-dry by successive heat waves. That is seven times the area of Manhattan island and four times the size of Paris.

Firefighters raced in trucks to fight flare-ups and planes dropping water and retardants rotated in the smokefilled air. Farmers delivered water in tanks to fire crews so they could fight the flames without interruption.

“This allows firefighters to focus on the fire,” said Theo Hernandez, a wine grower. “It’s very strong, very virulent, it’s spreading everywhere.”

The number of firefighters mobilized grew to 2,500, backed by 18

planes and helicopters, including from other European nations. Soldiers have also been called in. A giant A400M military cargo aircraft dropped plumes of ochre-colored retardant.

In a first for France, the blaze alarmingly developed into a selffeeding firestorm on several occasions, most recently on Saturday night, generating lightning bolts that can start new flare-ups, authorities said.

“It’s like being confronted by a hurricane,” said Gironde fire chief Marc Vermeulen.

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In Spain, wildfires burned out of control around Madrid. Evacuations were also carried out Sunday in the Valencia region. A man was killed Saturday in a wildfire in Manises, a Valencia suburb, marking Spain’s first recorded death in the latest fires.

“We still have some difficult hours ahead,” Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Sunday, but the night was “very positive in terms of bringing the flames under control.”

A total of 76,000 people have been evacuated in Spain while 30,000 others have been confined to their homes, the government said.

Evacuees fretted about what they’ll find when they’re allowed to return.

Rocío Domínguez fled her house with only the clothes on her back.

“All the clothes, all the memories, everything, everything, everything,” were left behind, she told The Associated Press.

“The only thing I had time to grab was a kit I have for the dogs,” Domínguez added, surrounded by her two beloved pets. Everything else she has with her now — from the clothes she wears to her food and toiletries — she received at the shelter.

At the evacuation center, where cots have been set up for about 200 people, Domínguez still has the terrifying memory of their escape fresh in her mind.

“It was madness with cars going up and down, traffic jams in the village streets as people tried to get out.

It looked like the apocalypse,” said Domínguez, 35. “You couldn’t see anything.”

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Racism isn’t destiny in important U.S. Senate race Nothing less than the future of Louisiana is at stake in the U.S. Senate race. That’s why it can’t be called off before it even begins by racism about the choices in the November election.

The campaign must be about the quality of life for every family in Louisiana: healthcare in rural areas and metro areas, the ability of families to be financially secure and earn a livable wage, the protection of access to reproductive healthcare and protections for all citizens.

But some people want to tell you the election is over now, before a single general election ballot is cast.

When Shawn Wilson was running for governor in 2024, I was so aggravated by the White Democrats and no-party folks parroting the line that a Black man could not be elected.

What that race proved is that a highly qualified Black man can’t win if we don’t vote for him. And the state is poorer today for the election of Jeff Landry over Wilson.

I hope my White friends understand what is at stake this year. We need to highlight why the Democratic Senate nominee Jamie Davis is a generational leader, who understands rural Louisiana, a businessman who farms 3,200 acres and understands the critical impact of federal policies on Louisiana farmers and working families.

Davis understands the balance between business and protecting our natural resources, environment and communities.

We need White people of character and conscience to understand this opportunity to bridge the fault lines of race, class, region and political party.

They can help elect a man who embodies the best of Louisiana.

Jamie Davis can win if we vote like our future depends on it. It is time for Louisiana to move past the racism that has polluted our politics for generations.

MELISSA S. FLOURNOY Baton Rouge

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n.o. will pay a high price for antagonizing the governor New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno recently retracted a $110 million bond sale request before the State Bond Commission, saying she expected it to be rejected as retribution for the indictment of the attorney general.

Gee, who could ever imagine this would be the inevitable outcome of the city attacking the attorney general?

Dane Ciolino, law professor at Loyola University, opined during a recent interview that the indictment of the attorney general for cautioning city officials that they were breaking state law and could pay a price they did not want to pay was going to be a nonstarter.

The fact that all 12 Criminal District Court judges recused themselves because they were smart enough to realize that they did not want any part of this fiasco should be evidence that city officials got way over their skis.

Let’s be realists. Grand jury members didn’t get together and decide to indict Liz Murrill. Someone put that motion before them.

That was a dumb move, and the city is going to pay a big price for a long time.

I hope that Moreno doesn’t continue to antagonize the governor and his staff. The real losers will be the citizens of New Orleans.

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Surgeons operating on a patient at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 2025.

Research into new treatments for cancer relies on federal funding.

The breakthrough cancer drugs of tomorrow depend on our investment today For decades, pancreatic cancer has remained one of the most difficult cancers to treat.

Most patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage, when surgery is no longer an option, and for those whose cancer has worsened despite chemotherapy, treatment options have been extremely limited.

That is why the recent data on daraxonrasib presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting earlier this summer is so important. In a pivotal Phase 3 study of patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer, daraxonrasib nearly doubled survival compared with chemotherapy.

A once-daily oral tablet, it is also the first chemotherapy-free treatment to show benefit in a Phase 3 trial for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.

This progress did not happen overnight. It is the result of decades of scientific research into KRAS, a protein that is mutated in most pancreatic cancers.

For years, KRAS was considered “undruggable.” Continued investment in science and persistence from researchers have begun to

change that narrative.

A breakthrough like this is not just a headline. It can mean more time, something my patients and their families hope for every day.

Daraxonrasib is not yet FDA-approved, but it is available through the FDA’s Expanded Access Program in partnership with the manufacturer for certain patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Researchers are also studying it in earlier stages of pancreatic cancer, in patients with untreated stage IV disease and in combination with other novel therapies.

That is how progress builds: One discovery opens the door to the next.

As policymakers debate healthcare reform and scientific research funding, they should remember that the discoveries that will save lives tomorrow depend on the investments we make today.

Patients need care to be affordable and accessible, but they also need a system that continues to support scientific innovation.

RICK ELLIS new orleans

Size, placement of photos tell their own story after election I recently read an article in a national newspaper highlighting 16 things America got right. The one that caught my eye was titled, “Our Aspiration to Fairness.”

Soon afterward, I read my regional paper. The headlined story showed a large photo of the Republican Senate primary winner, the written commentary, a smaller photo of the Republican runner-up and below that a photo of the Democratic primary winner.

Most of the article detailed the Republican winner’s story and her connection to the president, with a brief mention of the Democratic winner’s name.

I then looked on my social media page and noticed a local news station’s post with the winners in sideby-side photos. The photo of one winner featured her professionally dressed, while the photo of the other winner depicted him in his working gear — farming attire.

While I do believe that what someone wears could be thought of as a minor indicator of ability in some minds and also that someone wearing casual or working attire could be thought of as a more relatable candidate, a photo depicting a candidate in business attire almost surely presents that person as capable of doing a better job.

It is incumbent upon reporting entities to make more of an effort to present fairly. Thinking about the sheer level of effort, energy and finance it surely takes to run for office, it is my hope that in the future, especially as the November election approaches, the media reporting stories live up to their claims of fair and nonpartisan reporting, including the headline, body and photos.

JONATHAN MIZRAHI, M.D. ochsner Medical Center Jefferson

Industry assures neighbors they’re safe, but where’s the proof of that?

As someone who has spent years working with Louisiana communities living near petrochemical facilities, I am troubled by a familiar pattern.

Following recent industrial incidents — including the May refinery explosion and fire in Chalmette and the April refinery fire in St. Charles Parish — residents were quickly reassured that there was no threat to public health.

Yet many families living closest to these facilities continue to ask an important question: How do we know?

For decades, residents of Louisiana’s industrial corridor have reported concerns about cancer, respiratory illness, reproductive health problems, childhood learning disabilities and other chronic health conditions affecting multiple generations. Too often, these concerns have been dismissed or minimized.

The recently released CoDA Environmental Health Study provides new evidence that these concerns deserve serious attention.

Using Louisiana Medicaid data and government environmental data, researchers found elevated risks for several health conditions among people living in areas with higher in-

dustrial pollution exposure, including learning disabilities and anemia among children, reproductive health complications among women and other adverse health outcomes.

Importantly, these findings echoed stories shared by residents themselves during focus groups held throughout the state.

Louisiana’s communities are not asking for alarmism. We are asking for transparency, accountability, honest answers and the basic right to breathe clean air and drink clean water.

This is not unreasonable. When industrial accidents occur, residents deserve more than reassurance without clarity. We deserve to know the risk when disastrous chemical fires, spills and other industrial disasters happen in our communities.

We deserve robust environmental monitoring, clear public communication and a commitment to understanding the long-term health impacts of living near industrial facilities.

The people who live beside these plants every day deserve to be heard. Residents of Louisiana deserve better!

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COMMENTARY President Donald Trump arrives to speak at Wheeler High School on July 22 in Marietta, Ga.

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Is Trump losing his touch?

For over a decade, Donald Trump port his economic policies and 27% has demonstrated a shrewd — even back the war effort. Two-thirds debrilliant — grasp of what motivates scribe groceries as “unaffordable,” up his followers. That’s why he’s won two from 45% in February, and many Reelections and only barely lost a third. publicans are increasingly frustrated But Trump has always been more with the president’s relentless rants. effective as a challenger than as an “To me, it’s just a missed opportunity incumbent — the one election he lost to talk about an issue that voters are was as a sitting president — and actually going to cast votes on,” 18 months into his second term, Michigan Republican strategist the president seems to be losing Jason Cabel Roe told The Hill. his political touch. A glaring gap “We continue to have to revert keeps growing between what back to him airing his grievanche’s focused on and what votes, and, you know, Republicans are expected to just stand and ers care about, and his recent Steve salute to it.” tone-deaf speech about voter “When moms and dads lie fraud highlights that damaging Roberts down to sleep at night and can’t, disconnect. what are they mostly worried America is at war, a war Trump about? I would say cost of living. That’s chose to fight after promising to avoid what I believe,” said Sen. John Kenneforeign conflicts, and the costs are mounting rapidly. At least 17 U.S. soldy of Louisiana. “But he’s the president and he was elected by the people and diers are dead and about 500 injured. he can talk about whatever he wants.”

The White House has requested an Other GOP lawmakers say Trump is emergency aid package of $67 billion ignoring a basic truth: that American to fund the war, and the Washington politics is always about the future, Post reports: “The Pentagon faces an urgent budget shortfall caused largely not the past. “It’s like it’s a really good show,” said Sen. Thom Tillis of North by the war in Iran, with some critical Carolina. “But you’ve watched the relines of funding set to run out within weeks…” runs too many times.”

For civilians, the average price of As a result, reports the Post, there gas is now back to over $4 a gallon, and “are signs that Trump’s base is weakaccording to Brown University’s Iran ening.” Only 15% of Trump backers War Energy Cost Tracker, Americans “approve strongly” of the president, a have shouldered more than $72 billion new low, down from 19% in February. in increased fuel bills since the war And there is a growing enthusiasm gap began in February. That works out to between potential Democratic and Remore than $550 per household, and con- publican voters.

“Democrats are 10 points more likely sumer resentment is rising. to be certain to vote this year than ReIn a recent Washington Post poll, Trump’s overall approval rating republicans,” writes the Post. “And more than 7 in 10 Democrats say it is ‘more mains stuck at 37%, but only 33% sup-

important’ to vote in 2026 than in previous midterm elections, compared with just over half of Republicans.”

To some strategists, this fading zeal explains Trump’s speech on voter fraud. He pulled out all the favorite catchphrases that have always motivated his base — plot, fraud, cheat, even Deep State — in an attempt to generate pressure on Congress to pass the SAVE Act, a bill that would rig the fall election for Republicans by disenfranchising as many as 21 million valid voters. And if the bill fails, as is likely, he acquires one more grievance to motivate his supporters.

But his ploy could also ignite “a political backfire for the GOP,” warns The Wall Street Journal. “If Republican voters believe” the election system is corrupt, then “why waste time going to the polls in November?”

Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who lost a primary to a Trump-backed challenger, argues that since Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress — plus the Supreme Court — playing the victim won’t work.

“And we’re trying to convince people that the problem is we can’t win elections or the elections weren’t fair?”

Massie told The Hill. “It may energize a small amount of the base, but it’s going to fall flat among the swing voters.”

Do those swing voters care more about election fraud in Venezuela or gas and grocery prices in Visalia or Vincennes or Vicksburg? The answer is obvious, but not to Trump.

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When the guardrails are destroyed could lay out why economic incentives, People of a certain age were taught rather than government diktats, are to respect the police, obey the law and more effective at allocating other rules and regulations resources. But the GOP led by mostly practiced by our parPresident Donald Trump has ents and grandparents. They spent more time name-calling believed such things would lead than making a positive case for to better lives for themselves the American system.” and for the nation. For many, Calling people names doesn’t they did.

Cal change their minds. It hardens Today we look at the lawlessThomas their hearts. Republicans should ness, the antisemitism, the hate focus on why they think — and speech directed at the presiprove — their ideas are better than dent, teen takeovers, attacks on police what the Democratic Socialists are officers and others and we might ask: selling. A little bit of history might Why is this happening? help, especially when the younger The answer can be found on the side generation may have missed learning of the road. To use a metaphor, the guardrails have been removed. Guard- about much of the 20th century which saw communism and socialism kill milrails are crash-tested barriers designed to keep vehicles from running lions of people, the imprisonment of off the road. Moral, ethical and deport- millions more, suppression of speech and religion and a state-controlled ment “guardrails” have functioned to press. keep us from “running off the road.”

If guardrails are destroyed, where Politicians, including President Donald Trump and Democrats in Congress, does one turn for protection of what we in America know as basic human throw rhetorical barbs at each other, rights? No guardrails, no freedom and sometimes using vulgar language. anything goes, depending on who has What kind of lesson does this teach the power. As the verse says: “If the young people? foundations be destroyed, what can A Washington Post editorial titled “Name-calling won’t win election” puts the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3). Asit this way: “Republicans could explain suming, that is, anyone can be called why putting bureaucrats in charge of “righteous.” the economy has ended disastrously The World Cup, watched by huneverywhere it has happened. They dreds of millions around the world,

has boundaries on the field. So do other sports. There are speed limits and limitations on other behavior to protect our safety, allow for the pursuit of happiness or at least contentment, and contribute to the general welfare. If there were no boundaries in sports how could anyone keep score? If there are no moral boundaries in life, anarchy results.

Replacing these guardrails cannot be done by government alone, or even mainly. It requires a change of heart for individuals, which can then lead to a change in direction for the country.

I’ve quoted it before, but the condition in which we find ourselves deserves repeating it: “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 21:25) Guardrails are coming down faster than Trump’s name on The Kennedy Center in Washington. Truth has become subjective. Everyone does what seems to him or herself to be right — without being able to define right or wrong using a universal standard.

Notice the number of politicians who refuse to define “woman.”

As in ancient times, we are seeing the results of what we are dismantling.

Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@ tribpub.com.

One brave Democrat delivers a blunt party autopsy Former South Carolina congressman Joe Cunningham talks — and writes — like someone who has nothing to lose. Or, he is one brave man, willing to tell the unvarnished truth to his fellow Democrats.

At 44, Cunningham isn’t nearly finished with what he started out to do when he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2018 after running on a promise to vote against Nancy Pelosi Kathleen as House speaker. He quickly Parker transformed into a national political star after becoming the first Democrat to win the state’s 1st Congressional District in four decades. His career was cut short just two years later when Republican Nancy Mace ousted him in a close election. A run for South Carolina governor in 2022 against the seemingly invincible Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, also proved quixotic.

Some might say that a Democrat such as Cunningham isn’t electable in MAGA-red South Carolina, where President Donald Trump is still the endorser-in-chief. Cunningham admits that campaigning was often tough. In Trump strongholds such as Goose Creek (near Charleston) or even Hilton Head, people don’t want to hear a word from Democrats, he told me in an hourlong conversation. At least Cunningham was hearing people out as he tackled a tour of the state’s 46 counties before the governor’s race.

He heard what voters cared about — not the Democratic Party’s green energy tax breaks, but grocery prices, affordable housing, education and health care. The mayor of one small town told Cunningham that residents just wanted a grocery store.

These days, Cunningham is less frustrated by his defeats than by the sorry state of the Democratic Party — the hypocrisy, disingenuousness and disconnect from what Americans generally care about. He detailed his observations in a recently self-published book, “Life of the Party,” an easy-to-read autopsy of his beloved party’s departure from reality.

“The Party’s gaze has drifted beyond the basic needs … and has settled on a culture war that includes gender identity, racial quotas, DEI, and bathrooms,” he wrote. “It has cost them swaths of voters who may never come back.”

He points out that a tiny percentage of people are transgender and asks what percentage of those want to play sports. Victory for a minuscule slice of the population may fill the virtue cup, but it’s not a win for the country. Diversity, he wrote, should be the nation’s barometer, not its guiding star.

Cunningham’s book offers insights, as well as statistics and stories from his Kentucky upbringing, into his heroes and simpler times when humility, honesty and accountability were social norms. The world has changed so rapidly in the past two decades that most Americans struggle not only to make ends meet but also to make sense of things. Most baffling (and frightening) are advances in artificial intelligence and the predatory practices of Big Tech. A father of two with a baby due any day, Cunningham said the Democratic Party should shift focus from tangential issues to, among other things, the challenges all parents face in protecting their children.

Those most confused are sometimes elderly elected officials — the people Cunningham calls the “geriatric oligarchy.” He argues that the country needs younger representation from generations that understand the complexities of technology. In his book, he recounts an anecdote from 2018 when Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified at a U.S. Senate committee hearing about data abuse and social media privacy. Then 84-year-old Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, asked, “How do you sustain a business model in which users don’t pay for your service?” Zuckerberg responded, “Senator, we run ads.”

In 2006, during a debate about net neutrality, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, then 82, shared his expertise, explaining that “the internet is not something that you just dump something on.

It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes.”

Cunningham proposes age limits for elected officials and the judiciary. “It’s hard to take the keys away from your parents,” he told me, but age matters.

He argues that his party, more than Republicans, needs new ideas. “You have to make things simple, and Trump does make things simple,” he told me. “No tax on tips was one. …

We can’t better dissect our healthcare system and come up with some new ideas?

Cunningham said he hopes his book will contribute to a more honest self-appraisal by his former colleagues and a return to big ideas.

One might also hope it will lead him to run again for public service. A third party might be just the ticket.

Kathleen Parker is on X, @kathleenparker.

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Kobe Bufkin made the most of his chance to play with the New Orleans Pelicans’ Summer League team.

The Pelicans have signed Bufkin to a training camp deal. The deal will allow Bufkin an opportunity to earn one of the final roster spots, according to a team source.

Bufkin, a 6-foot-4 guard, was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks with the 15th overall pick in the 2023 draft. The former University of Michigan standout has played in just 43 games in his three NBA seasons. He spent his first two seasons in Atlanta before playing last season with the Los Angeles Lakers.

His best season was his second one with the Hawks when he averaged 5.3 points and 2.1 rebounds. He averaged just 2.9 points this past season with the Lakers. However, he played well for the South Bay Lakers, the G League affiliate. He averaged 24.8 points, 4.4

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Saints’ sixth-round draft-pick Barion Brown runs with the ball during rookie mini-camp on May 9 at the team’s indoor practice facility in Metairie.

After nFL-worst finish in 2025, Saints committed to fixing special teams

BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer

Quietly, the New Orleans Saints allocated some of their offseason resources toward addressing a third phase that had grown stagnant in recent years — special teams.

The first came in free agency, when the Saints signed former Minnesota Vikings (and Tulane Green Wave) punter Ryan Wright to a four-year, $14 million deal — hopefully putting a stopper into the creaky revolving door at the position they created when they cut Thomas Morstead five years earlier.

Then, on Day 3 of the draft, New Orleans used a sixthround pick on one of the draft’s most electric return men, LSU’s Barion Brown. That may not sound like much, until one remembers New Orleans has found its last two AllPro returners in the undrafted ranks.

And, finally, the Saints waited until one of the final days of their offseason program to add kicker Tanner Brown — who was named the United Football League’s 2026 Special Teams Player of the Year — to compete with incumbent Charlie Smyth.

The investment was necessary. Last season, New Orleans ranked dead last in both field goal percentage (71.1%) and gross (43.3 yards) and net punting average (36.1).

Depth chart (name, height, weight, experience) n Charlie Smyth, 6-foot-4, 210 pounds, 2 years n Tanner Brown, 6-0, 177, 1

n Ryan Wright, 6-3, 245, 5 n Zach Wood, 6-3, 255, 10

n Barion Brown, 5-11, 177, R

n Ty Chandler, 5-11, 205, 5

Number to know: -63.3 That is the cumulative Expected Points Added (EPA) contributed by the Saints special teams units in 2025.

Take note of the minus sign in front of that number. It was the worst figure in the NFL last season by a significant margin. The difference between the Saints and the second-worst team, the Arizona Cardinals (minus-44.2),

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Beltrán, Andruw, Kent enshrined into HOF Hall of Famers pay tribute to home, family during induction

BY KENNY LACY JR. Associated Press

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Puerto Rico and Curaçao may be small islands, but the support they showed was massive as elite center fielders Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.

Both joined slugging second baseman Jeff Kent as the newest members before an estimated crowd of 12,000 fans at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, with 57 other Hall of Famers on stage — creating the largest gathering of current Hall of Famers.

Jones’ speech was almost like a love letter to his home country of Curaçao.

“There’s no easy way to get here from the small island of Curaçao, more than 2,000 miles away,” Jones said. “But today Cooperstown and Curaçao are forever joined together.”

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The 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Jeff Kent, left, Andruw Jones, center, and Carlos Beltran pose for pictures after the induction ceremony on Sunday in ä See HOF, page 6B Cooperstown, n.y.

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Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bufkin dribbles during a game against the Sacramento Kings on March 1 in Los Angeles. The Pelicans signed Bufkin to a training camp deal on Sunday.

Embiid’s pitch to James worked — even if it was 12 years later

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PHILADELPHIA — The social media pitch to bring LeBron James to Philadelphia was an almost naive one from Joel Embiid. “ @KingJames hey bro hope you’re having a good day...... Want to join us in philly??

Peace,” Embiid wrote.

His recruitment skills were on point and James — the four-time NBA champion and career scoring leader — will join Embiid in a startling turn of events on the Philadelphia 76ers.

Ok, fine, just a short 12 years after the July 1, 2014, post.

The 76ers expect James to be worth the wait and hope he can win an NBA championship in Philadelphia much as he did in his previous three stops in Cleveland, Miami and with the Los Angeles Lakers.

The 76ers are used to playing the long game. The franchise hasn’t won an NBA championship since 1983, when Julius Erving still soared and a year before James was born.

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BY JEROME PUGMIRE AP sportswiter

PARIS — Tadej Pogacar confirmed his status as one of cycling’s alltime greats after winning a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title in emphatic style.

Daring mountain attacks from deep, multiple stage wins and an ice-cool temperament all helped the 27-year-old Slovenian seal his victory on Sunday. He joined Belgian Eddy Merckx, Spaniard Miguel Indurain and Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault as the only riders to win five Tours.

“I’m speechless. It’s an incredible day, there was an incredible atmosphere,” Pogacar said. “I’ve ridden seven Tours already and I’ve always finished on the podium. You might think this is a fairytale, it’s incredible for me too.”

After competing strongly in Sunday’s 21st and exciting final stage in Paris, Pogacar finished 6 minutes, 26 seconds ahead of Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel in the overall standings.

Two-time Tour champion Jonas Vingegaard was Pogacar’s main rival heading into the race but the Dane crashed out on the 15th stage.

“Shame that Jonas and others crashed out of this Tour,” Pogacar said. “I hope we can all fight again next year.”

Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates XRG teammate Isaac Del Toro, a 22-year-old Mexican making his Tour debut, was third at 9:42 back from Pogacar, who smiled and held up his hand to signify his wins. His teammates then joined him as they stood proudly on the Champs-Élysées.

“I don’t know how I do it,” Pogacar said. “I now have to find a new goal to chase. Which goal? Let’s just not jump ahead of ourselves, and enjoy this moment.”

the expected contenders for the stage win.

Crowds roared as the riders began the first climb up Rue Lepic in Montmartre, with the famed Sacré-Coeur basilica looming over them.

Pogacar moved ahead after the second ascension of Montmartre, with Van der Poel, Evenepoel and Pedersen alongside him.

Van der Poel attacked on the third and final climb with Pogacar responding well, and the one-day classics rivals surged ahead.

But they were caught with 700 meters left and, after Pogacar faded, the 31-year-old Van der Poel still had work to do.

ASSoCIATEd PRESS PHoTo By MoSA’AB ELSHAMy He got his bike just over the Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar celebrates as he crosses the finish line in the line ahead of Belgian Jasper Philipsen, his Alpecin-Premier Tech last stage of the Tour de France on Sunday in Paris. teammate, and Pedersen. Pogacar eased up and finished 30th.

Pogacar won the Giro d’Italia in the southwest. Some security “I thought the sprinters would 2024 but has not won the Spanish forces initially mobilized for Paris catch us up so I launched (my attack) Vuelta, which starts on Aug. 22. were redeployed to help response from very far away,” Van der Poel “Will I be at La Vuelta in a few efforts. said. “I gave everything I had left in weeks?” he said. “Let’s see.”

For the second straight year my legs and it was just enough.” the stage featured the hugely Peerless Pogacar popular uphill climb through the Cycling pedigree Pogacar won five stages at this Montmartre district, a sharp 1-kiVan der Poel is widely considyear’s race to take his impressive lometer dash which riders tackled ered one of the best cyclists in the tally to 26 overall. three times before finishing on the world. He has multiple victories He tried to win on Sunday, too, Champs-Élysées. in one-day classics and Cyclobut victory ultimately went to It proved even too much for Po- cross world championship titles, Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel, gacar, who could not match Van and is also a former world road who just held off the chasing pack der Poel’s raw power in the clos- race champion. on the home straight for his sec- ing stages.

His father Adri van der Poel Shortly before 6 p.m. local time, won two stages on the Tour in the ond stage win at this year’s race Pogacar shook hands at the start late 1980s. and fourth overall.

Sunday’s 88.7-kilometer (55- line with Evenepoel and EcuaHis maternal grandfather was mile) stage looped around Paris dorian veteran Richard Carapaz, French cyclist Raymond Poulidor, and was mostly processional, al- wearing the polka-dot jersey for who raced in the 1960s and ’70s, finthough less so than in previous the best climber. ishing second on the Tour three times “I battled hard to win this jer- and third five times. Nicknamed years, which were usually entirely flat stages for sprinters and not sey, it was a great fight,” the “Poupou” and “The Eternal Runnerfor the rest of the peloton.

33-year-old Carapaz said. “It’s the up,” he was adored by French fans.

The stage was shortened from best feeling to win it.”

Women’s Tour 133 kilometers and its starting point in Thoiry, west of the capi- Exciting finale The nine-stage women’s Tour tal, was changed to Paris so as to Van der Poel and Dane Mads starts in the Swiss city of Lausreduce pressure on emergency Pedersen, the green jersey win- anne on Aug. 1 and finishes in Nice services combating wildfires in ner as best sprinter, were among on Aug 9.

Shin claims first LPGA win in more than a decade The Associated Press TROON, Scotland — South Korean golfer Jenny Shin secured a twoshot victory at the Women’s Scottish Open on Sunday to end a wait of more than 10 years for her second LPGA win.

The 33-year-old Shin, who won the Texas Shootout in May 2016, carded a 3-over 75 on the Dundonald Links to finish at 9 under.

“My first one didn’t really feel like a win at the time,” Shin said.

“I didn’t feel like I deserved it.

It felt very accidental. But this one definitely feels a lot different. This one feels like I earned it. I worked hard for it.”

Shin was in tears after the final putt dropped on the 18th and was doused with water and champagne by a group of friends.

Leading since the first round, Shin could afford three straight

bogies on Nos. 6-8 after starting the final round with a five-shot lead over Thailand’s Pajaree Anannarukarn (74). Shin also bogeyed two of the last three holes but had made two birdies earlier.

“I wasn’t as nervous as yesterday,” Shin said. “I feel like I’ve done everything right but just wasn’t hitting it like I was the last three days and just hitting it into bunkers and bushes and that wasn’t fun.

“With three bogies in a row, I thought, ‘oh boy, I don’t know where this is going to go’. But yeah, I hung in there, so I’m quite proud of myself and very happy.”

Shin is now thinking about the next challenge.

“I’m going to do everything I can to win again,” Shin said. “I can’t believe it happened this week.”

A Lim Kim finished second after a 4-under 68, with four

AP sportswriter

BLAINE, Minn. — Jackson Koivun felt the nerves but never flinched, securing his first PGA Tour win in the face of a strong finish by the world’s top-ranked player and clear fan favorite in Scottie Scheffler.

Koivun won the 3M Open by three strokes Sunday in only his third start as a professional, holding off Scheffler with a closing 5-under 66 for a tournament-record 25-under 259 total.

“All throughout the crowd I kept hearing, ‘Scottie’s coming. Scottie’s coming,’ ” the 21-year-old Koivun said. “I just tried to tune that out and keep playing the golf I knew I could.”

Scheffler, who played five groups ahead of Koivun, surged into contention with a 63 but settled for his fourth runner-up finish this season. His lone win this year was in his first start at The American Express in California.

“We’re seeing a lot of really, really good young talent in the game

today,” Scheffler said. “When you see the guys come out of college, they’re really, really prepared, even more prepared than we were coming out.”

Hideki Matsuyama, Brian Harman, Chandler Phillips and Denny McCarthy tied for third at 20 under.

Koivun played a safe and steady game on a 97-degree afternoon at the TPC Twin Cities, going bogeyfree for the second straight day after a 61 in the third round gave him a three-shot cushion after 54 holes. His par-saving putt on the 9th green after his approach landed in the sand gave him an energy boost for the back nine.

“Might be the biggest putt I made all week,” Koivun said.

“Scoreboard was right there, and I saw exactly how I stood. If I missed that, then I only had a two-shot lead — where last time I checked I had a five-shot lead.

So making that was huge for my momentum.”

Lee Hodges held the previous 3M Open record, finishing at 24-under 260 in 2023.

One of LSU baseball’s top freshman signees has decided to hold off the start of his professional career — but it’s unclear if that move is a sign he’s coming to Baton Rouge.

Left-handed pitcher Logan Schmidt said Sunday in a social media post that he has “made the difficult decision not to sign with the Cleveland Guardians” — the club that selected him with the 59th overall pick of the 2026 MLB Draft.

The high-profile prospect was the first LSU signee chosen in the draft, and he had until Monday to decide if he wanted to join the Guardians organization.

Schmidt can now either play for LSU next season and reenter the draft in 2029, or he could enroll at a junior college and put his name back into the draft next year.

All-Star Bellinger heads to IL with hamstring strain

PHILADELPHIA — The Yankees have placed All-Star outfielder Cody Bellinger on the 10-day injured list with a left hamstring strain, a blow to New York’s defense on a team already missing several big bats.

The Yankees recalled outfielder Spencer Jones from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre before Sunday night’s game at Philadelphia to take Bellinger’s spot on the roster.

New York has been without slugger Aaron Judge since May 31 because of a fractured rib and designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton is still out with a strained right calf that’s sidelined him since April 24. The Yankees entered Sunday’s game 21/ 2 games behind Tampa Bay in the AL East.

F1’s Bahrain Grand Prix to be held in Malaysia

MOGYOROD, Hungary — Formula 1 is heading back to Malaysia for the first time in nine years as the Bahrain Grand Prix was rescheduled there for Oct. 4.

The Sepang circuit is slotted in between races in Azerbaijan and Singapore, subject to approval from the FIA’s world motor sport council, F1 and the FIA said Sunday.

F1 called off its races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, which had been set for March and April, as the Iran war escalated.

Despite taking place in Malaysia, the race will still have Bahrain Grand Prix branding.

It’s not the first time an F1 race has been named for one country and took place in another. The long-running San Marino Grand Prix was held in neighboring Italy but last used that name in 2006.

Texas SS Seager takes first BP since back injury ASSoCICATEd PRESS PHoTo By STEVE WELSH

Jenny Shin of South Korea celebrates after winning the 2026 ISPS HAndA Scottish open on Sunday at dundonald Links, Ayrshire. straight birdies helping her leapfrog two shots ahead of Anannarukarn, who dropped to third.

The Women’s Scottish Open

comes between the final two majors — the Evian Championship and the Women’s British Open starting Thursday at Royal Lytham & St. Annes.

Koivun wins the PGA 3M Open in his 3rd pro start

BY DAVE CAMPBELL

LHP Schmidt won’t sign with Cleveland Guardians

Koivun, who became the fourth rookie winner this season, missed the cut at the John Deere Classic in Illinois and tied for 10th at the ISCO Championship in Kentucky earlier this month. He made 10 starts as an amateur on tour events.

Earning $1,584,000 for his win in Minnesota, Koivun also jumped 124 spots in the FedEx Cup standings into 70th, the last place above the cut for the playoffs with two regular season events remaining on the schedule.

“I feel like I’ve gotten a lot better over the past couple years of being able to beat guys with my mentality,” said Koivun, who broke the NCAA career record for per-round stroke average (68.89) and helped lead Auburn to the national championship last month.

“Sometimes I watch guys hit on the range and I don’t feel like I’m the most talented out there, but if I can go out there and believe and use my brain to my advantage, then that’s definitely kind of like a superpower.”

Scheffler, who began the final

round six shots back, needed a collapse by Koivun to catch up. That never came.

Scheffler played a nearly flawless game, save for a 5-foot birdie putt on the 14th hole that lipped in and out. As he was conducting his post-match interview, Koivun birdied the 16th to go 25 under.

“Anytime you’re trying to win for the first time, it’s awfully difficult, especially for a young guy coming out of college,” Scheffler said. “I think that shows not only how talented of a player he is, but the mental strength he has as well.”

Koivun, who grew up in San Jose, California, before moving to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at age 17, got his start in the game on a public nine-hole course. After hugging his father, George, on the course, he got on a FaceTime call with his mother, Meghan, who was unable to attend the tournament.

“She was crying,” Koivu said. “I was trying to make out a little bit of what she said, but she kept saying how proud she was. Those two are just my rocks.”

ARLINGTON, Texas — Corey Seager took live batting practice Sunday for the first time since the Texas Rangers shortstop was sidelined by a back injury for the second time this season on July 1.

Seager finished the session with a home run and was planning to take live BP again Monday before what would appear to be a minor league rehab assignment.

The two-time World Series MVP and five-time All-Star played two games in the minors in early June when he was returning from a three-week absence because of lower back inflammation. Seager spent two more weeks on the injured list in June after getting a concussion.

Memphis, Caldwell-Pope reach buyout agreement

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Kentavious Caldwell-Pope reached a buyout agreement with the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday.

ESPN, citing sources, reported late on Saturday that Caldwell-Pope plans to sign with the Philadelphia 76ers after clearing waivers.

Caldwell-Pope averaged 8.4 points and 21.9 minutes in 51 games last season for Memphis. He had finger surgery in February and missed the final 31 games of the season.

Caldwell-Pope underwent surgery to address a misalignment of his right pinkie finger in February and missed the last 31 games of the season.

The 33-year-old guard has a career 11-point average in 963 games in 13 seasons with Detroit, the Los Angeles Lakers, Washington, Denver, Orlando and the Grizzlies. He was part of championship teams with the Lakers in 2020 and the Nuggets in 2023.

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Heim holds on for historic Brickyard 400 win

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won the second stage.

Kyle Larson and Daniel Dye were knocked out of the race early when blown tires sent them into the wall before the end of stage two. Chase Elliott also was knocked out early when he hit the wall and the right rear wheel went flat.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Corey Heim passed team co-owner Denny Hamlin on the final restart Sunday and then held off the hard-charging cars of Christopher Bell and Joey Logano to capture his first Brickyard 400 crown.

The 24-year-old has won twice this season, even though he won’t be driving full-time in NASCAR’s Cup series until next season. He’s the first Cup driver to win twice in his first 15 career starts since A.J. Foyt in 1965.

And he did it this time with a daring outside move to overtake Hamlin, then leading the final 35 laps and holding off Bell by 0.287 seconds on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s historic 2.5-mile oval. Logano, last week’s winner, finished third, 0.972 seconds behind, again keeping team owner Roger Penske out of victory lane.

“That was a damn handful,” Heim said. “I was hanging on for dear life once the shade went down and the pace picked up, my car got really loose and I never really got a lot of clean air throughout the day, so that was the hardest I’ve ever fought in my life to make sure I focused on the exits and get through dirty air.”

Hamlin, who is part of Michael Jordan’s ownership group with 23XI Racing,

Larson’s drought

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Corey Heim heads into the first turn during the nASCAR Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday in Indianapolis. made his second straight trip to victory lane as a team owner. Bubba Wallace, Heim’s teammate, won the 2025 title. But Hamlin finished fifth, more than six seconds back, as he tried to add the only missing link in a career sweep of NASCAR’s

four crown jewel races. He’s now 0 for 18 all-time at Indy.

Todd Gilliland of Front Row Motorsports surprised everyone by collecting the $1 million In-Season Challenge despite qualifying 36th and spending most of the day behind 2023 Cup

champ Ryan Blaney. He also finished second in the second stage.

But the payoff came after 2023 Cup champ Ryan Blaney was collected in a nine-car crash with 41 laps to go. Team Penske’s crew members tried to get

Blaney’s No. 12 Ford back in cotention, but he couldn’t pass Gilliland, who finished 24th. Blaney was 26th.

Ty Gibbs won stage one and finished third in stage two before getting shuffled back to 14th during a pit stop in stage three. Ross Chastain

It was another tough weekend for Larson, the defending Cup champ whose winless streak reached 46 races as he finished last in the 39-car field late in stage one.

First, Larson qualified 10th with a lap time more than 0.3 seconds behind pole winner Carson Hocevar. Then Sunday, he was ready to cycle into the lead when a left rear blew, sending him hard into the wall coming out of Turn 3 and making him the first car out of the race.

“We just had a tire let go.

I wouldn’t say pushing had anything to do with it,” he said. “Just a little bit of bad luck, I guess.”

He’s won 26 races and two series crowns since joining Hendrick Motorsports in 2021. But even though the No. 5 Chevrolet last reached victory lane in May 2025 at Kansas, the longest drought in Larson’s Hendricks tenure may not deter him from defending his Cup title.

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the aquatic center had been scaled down to avoid cost blowouts.

Whatever that temporary capacity is, Schrinner said the legacy outcome — a permanent 8,000-seat venue — would be “fantastic.”

The Queensland state government, which is the major backer of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games with support from the federal and local governments, sent the original concept for the aquatics venue back to planning for budgetary reasons.

The Queensland “government is doing the responsible thing, in these conditions and changing costs,” Schrinner said. “You have to make adjustments to the plan, and that’s exactly what’s happening, it’s a responsible thing to do.”

More than a dozen new sports venues are in the pipeline, including a contentious rowing center in Rockhampton, a coastal city in Central Queensland. Critics argue the impact of tidal flow and crocodile habitat in the Fitzroy River make it unsuitable to host Olympic events.

Liveris said all venues were still going through validation reporting, including rowing.

“Right now we’ve had no red lights and some very good greens, and a couple of yellows,” he said. “And they’re being worked on for later this year.”

Liveris said he was preparing a revised “bottomup budget” to present early next year, after the IOC has finalized the sports program.

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BRISBANE,Australia — A pesky native bird appeared on the podium almost on cue as organizers prepared to unveil a countdown clock marking six years to go until the 2032 Olympics.

Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner noted the timely white ibis in his welcoming remarks, joking with the crowd that it wouldn’t be an event in Brisbane without the appearance of a “bin chicken,” as the bird is colloquially known.

There’s a small, humorous push locally for the ibis to become a mascot for the Brisbane Games rather than one of Australia’s more widely known native animals such as the kangaroo or the koala.

Schrinner didn’t miss a beat and the bird moved off before the big digital Omega clock officially started counting down Thursday in the downtown Queen Street mall.

That was a matter of hours after the Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority published revamped designs for the National Aquatic Center that will host Olympic events.

awarded rights to the Summer Games.

Andrew Liveris, president of the Brisbane 2032 organizing committee, said there’s no cause for panic.

“Six years is perfectly fine in construction, even under stress conditions,” he said.

“I’m very confident that the contingencies are built (in) to allow that to happen.”

Liveris said he briefed IOC president Kirsty Coventry as recently as Monday in New York, in the wake of the World Cup final.

“We had a long conversation about timelines, venues, sports, and we’re confident it’s not 6 minutes to midnight,” he said.

The International Olympic Committee last year backed the Queensland government’s revised venue plan after several false starts, saying the Brisbane Games were “on the right path.”

There are still groups opposed to building major sports venues in the downtown parklands, and more general concern over rising costs of staging the Games.

GIICA, the coordination authority, only took over possession of the Victoria Park site for the 63,000-seat main stadium last month, after police removed protesters.

had written on Instagram on Saturday. He discussed how his three-place penalty in qualifying — Hamilton’s third penalty in three race weekends — made it “difficult to hang on to that positivity”.

A fourth penalty won’t have helped, and nor will yet another Ferrari strategy blunder.

When Piastri’s breakdown at the side of the road brought a virtual safety car slowdown, Ferrari decided it was worth calling in Hamilton for fresh tires.

Unfortunately for the seven-time champion, he left the pit lane to see Antonelli approaching fast. In what appeared to be a rush to keep the Mercedes driver at bay, Hamilton broke the pit lane speed limit.

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standings lead to 50 points over Lewis Hamilton, who was fifth after a penalty for speeding in the pits. George Russell was barely a factor as he drove through the field to seventh after a near-stall at the start dropped him to the back. He drops 59 points behind his Mercedes teammate Antonelli.

Norris hadn’t won a full Grand Prix race since Sao Paulo in November, though he did win a sprint in Miami Antonelli gets boost in May. Hungary was the last Even with Mercedes largely off the pace for once race before the mid-season and a three-place grid pen- break. The next race is the alty in qualifying, Antonelli Dutch Grand Prix on Aug. recovered from seventh to 23. take his ninth podium finish in 11 races and make a state- Hamilton rues penalty ment to his title rivals.

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MOGYOROD, Hungary — Lando Norris ended an eightmonth wait by “flying” to a Formula 1 victory with strong pace and a dose of good fortune at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday.

The defending champion was on pole but lost the lead to his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri when he ran wide at the second corner.

Norris got the lead back after Piastri was delayed by a collision with Carlos Sainz Jr. while lapping the Williams driver, allowing Norris to come out of the pits ahead of his teammate.

He cruised to the win from there.

“Car was unbelievable today, well done guys, incredible. We were flying,” Norris said. “Nice to be finally able to do it all for you. Feels like it’s been a while.”

Piastri then stopped with a broken gearbox, paving the way for Max Verstappen to take second, with Kimi Antonelli third.

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EMOTIONAL WIN Heavy-hearted Jones helps lift Team Spoon past Team Coop in WnBA All-Star Game

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WnBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert speaks at a news conference ahead of the league’s All-Star game on Saturday in Chicago.

WNBA to add an NBA-style replay center next season

BY DOUG FEINBERG AP basketball writer

CHICAGO — The WNBA will have a replay center similar to the NBA next season as the league continues to invest in officiating, commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced at her state of the league press conference Saturday before the All-Star Game.

Officiating has been a hot topic around the league for the last few seasons, with physical play being a major point of contention. The league put together a task force in the offseason to help clean up some of the physicality in the game.

“This is one of the most significant investments we’ve ever made in our basketball operations; these investments of tens of millions of dollars will help bring greater consistency, efficiency, and transparency to our officiating process while continuing to improve the quality of the game,” Engelbert said.

Engelbert said that a lot of the details on the replay center still need to be worked out, although she said, as of now, the last twominute report that the NBA has won’t be used in the WNBA yet.

Fouls have been up this season as there has been an emphasis to help players’ freedom of movement. The increase in fouls has led to more offense as teams are averaging a record-high number of points. It has also led to longer games. Earlier this month, league gametimes were at an average of 2 hours, 8 minutes — the longest in league history.

Player safety Engelbert said the league is continuing to work with the players to try and improve their safety off the court. The league and players’ union had a virtual meeting on Tuesday night to discuss what more can be done to combat the online hate. “(For) too many players across the WNBA, that experience is unacceptable,” she said. “Many cases, it’s disgusting. Racism, misogyny, homophobia, the harassment and threats directed to our players has no place in sport or anywhere else.”

Engelbert said the feedback from the players was helpful to her.

Aces investigation wraps up The WNBA’s investigation into whether a Las Vegas Aces sponsorship deal violated the salary cap was inconclusive, Engelbert said.

“No discipline will be recommended or imposed. Of course, if new or additional evidence comes to light, we’ll continue to investigate. But, you know, the integrity of our game is number one,” the commissioner said.

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The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority offered in May 2024 a $100,000 sponsorship agreement to Aces players for each of the following two seasons. That amount exceeded the salaries for six of the players, according to Spotrac.

No such agreement was offered for this season, but player salaries also dramatically rose after the new collective-bargaining agreement was completed in May. Each Aces player earns at least $270,000, according to Spotrac. The initial offer prompted the league to launch a probe into whether it skirted salary-cap rules.

“We did this the right way,” LVCVA president and CEO Steve Hill said at the time. “We did something that we think works for Las Vegas and I think great for the players.

We did this without the team. It was our idea and any questions they ask they’ll find that out.”

Increased communication Engelbert said that the league needs to do better communicating with its players, whether its through texts or emails or some other form. One of the chief complaints from players has been that they have no relationship with the commissioner. A’ja Wilson said before the game that the only time she talks to Engelbert is when she’s receiving trophies.

“I’ve been talking with the players about how much they want to hear from us, how much they don’t,” Engelbert said. “We do send them a lot of email updates and things like that. They’re a generation that doesn’t check email as much. So we have to get better at a text chain. ... We have to be better at it. it’s something certainly, like if a player is getting honored or players gets hurt or something like, I try to reach out to them, and, yeah. So we need to be better at it. There’s no doubt I need to be better.”

Engelbert’s future Engelbert sidestepped a question about her future next season.

“I’m so blessed to have to be at the helm of this league during this incredible hypergrowth period. So blessed that these players are putting the product on the court,” she said. “I will just continue to, you know, do my job, execute the strategy because it has been working.”

Positive metrics Engelbert said that this is already the most-watched WNBA season of all-time, with the 117 broadcasts reaching over 73 million unique viewers. Twenty-nine of the games averaged over one million viewers — the most ever at the All-Star break. They had 11 all of last season.

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CHICAGO — Jonquel Jones, Nneka Ogwumike and Dominique Malonga made WNBA history on Saturday night.

It was quite the All-Star party in the league’s 30th season.

Jones had 22 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists, helping Caitlin Clark and Team Spoon outlast Marina Mabrey and Team Coop 129122 in the WNBA All-Star Game.

Playing with a heavy heart after the death of an aunt, Jones was named MVP. The 32-year-old New York Liberty center became the first player to win the league, WNBA Finals, Commissioner’s Cup and All-Star MVP awards.

“No matter what mood I’m in, basketball can pick me back up,” Jones said, “and so just leaning into that.”

Malonga had a first-half dunk for Team Coop, but Team Spoon had eight players score in double figures in an All-Star Game that featured 127 3-point attempts and very little defense. Allisha Gray had 19 points for Team Spoon, and Clark finished with 17.

It was the first WNBA All-Star Game in Chicago since 2022. This time, the marquee event was played in front of a record crowd of 19,783 at the United Center instead of the smaller Wintrust Arena in downtown Chicago.

“To be able to have tonight, have 19,000 people in the highest attendance ever in the All-Star Game just really shows that our league is growing and people want to be around us and want to be a part of this and understand how special it is,” Jones said.

Ogwumike scored 11 points for Team Spoon while passing Maya Moore (119) for the most career points in All-Star Game history.

Kelsey Mitchell had 28 points for Team Coop, and Mabrey scored all of her 23 points during a red-hot first half. The 20-year-old Malonga finished with 12 points and 13 rebounds.

“I got to see a few go down early,” said Mabrey, who matched the WNBA scoring record when she had 53 points for Toronto in a win over Los Angeles on June 25.

“That’s kind of like my thing. Get them up when they’re going in.”

WNBA greats Cynthia Cooper

JAMES

Continued from page 1B his MVP heyday, LeBron James is still, well LeBron James and his addition should lift any team mired in the NBA mucky middle such as the Sixers into contention.

Throw him into in a lineup that includes a league MVP in Embiid, All-Stars Tyrese Maxey and Jaylen Brown, and promising secondyear standout VJ Edgecombe, and it’s no shock the Sixers moved up few a few pegs Friday on the betting board and into the short list of favorites for an NBA title.

Just not the favorite.

James is again chasing a ring and his arrival on a two-year deal for the veterans’ minimum of about $3.9 million per season shook up the Sixers and put the Eastern Conference on notice — yes, even the NBA champion Knicks — that a real championship contender might finally emerge in Philly.

76ers won the offseason Before the team made the trip to Vegas, first-year Pelicans head coach Jamahl Mosley talked about what an opportunity like this could mean for the former first-round draft pick.

“I think it’s great for Kobe,” Mosley said. “He’s been excellent in his communication with the coaches in what he’s trying to do and what we’re asking of him to do. Just be a facilitator and attack the basket when he needs to. Defensively, can he pick guys up full court? Can he make it harder for the other team’s point guard? It’s a great opportunity for him, but it’s a great opportunity for all these guys to show what they are capable of doing.”

Now Bufkin will get to attend training camp and try to earn a roster spot.

assists and 3.7 rebounds. He shot 41.9% on 3-pointers for South Bay. He put up similar numbers playing for the Pelicans in Summer League. He played in three games in Vegas and led the Pelicans in scoring with 21.3 points per game.

His best game was the first one against the Minnesota Timberwolves when he poured in 30 points and shot 5-for-9 on 3-pointers.

“Our coaches put me in a position to thrive, so I just took advantage of the opportunities that they gave me,” Bufkin said after the first game.

His 3-point shooting dropped off in the other two games and he finished Summer League 7-of-22 (31.8 %) from long distance. He also averaged 5.3 rebounds, 3 as- Email Rod Walker at rwalker@ sists and 2 steals. theadvocate.com.

Here they come, team of the year?

The Sixers earned straight A’s on their summer school report card even before James said he would sign with team.

The Sixers fired team president Daryl Morey and replaced him with longtime Cleveland executive Mike Gansey, who came out swinging for the fences in his first month on the job. He pulled off the shocker of a trade with Boston that landed them Brown — the 2024 NBA Finals MVP, a five-time All-Star and the league’s fourthleading scorer this past season.

It’s difficult to fathom that an oftinjured Embiid — who won Olympic gold with James — and Maxey alone would have been enough to coax James to Philadelphia.

But adding a stud like Brown?

Brown surely played a key deciding factor in James’ decision — his “last” one, he says — and now the Sixers boast perhaps the top

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Team Spoon center Jonquel Jones, left, and Team Coop forward natasha Howard, right, battle for a rebound during the All-Star game Saturday in Chicago. and Teresa Weatherspoon drafted the All-Star teams from players that were either voted as starters by fans, media and fellow players or chosen as reserves by the league’s coaches. Las Vegas’ Becky Hammon coached Cooper’s team, and Minnesota’s Cheryl Reeve was in charge of Weatherspoon’s squad.

Clark went 5 for 15 from beyond the arc and had five assists in her return to the All-Star game. The Indiana Fever guard missed last year’s event in Indianapolis because of a groin injury.

“Last year really stunk being in our home city; you never want to miss that for the fans,” Clark said.

“I love to show up and compete.”

The 24-year-old Clark came out firing, connecting from 33 feet and 37 feet on her way to 11 points in the first 21/ 2 minutes. She buried another 3 early in the second quarter off a slick no-look pass from Minnesota Lynx guard Olivia Miles, the only rookie selected for the game.

Clark and Mabrey each put on

an offensive show, but Malonga got the biggest cheer of the night.

The 6-foot-6 center from the Seattle Storm ran down the lane, got a pass from former LSU standout Angel Reese and threw down a right-handed jam with 6:24 left in the first half.

Reese jumped up and down as Malonga finished the play, and the two exchanged a mid-air chest bump on their way back down the court.

“The way she makes it look easy, the excitement around it,” said Paige Bueckers, who scored 12 points for Team Coop. “I love Dom ... really happy for her in just how easy she makes it look.”

It was the first dunk in a WNBA All-Star Game since Sylvia Fowles in 2022. Lisa Leslie (2005), Jones (2017), Brittney Griner (2019) also have accomplished the feat.

Leslie was on hand for the festivities, along with South Carolina coach and former WNBA guard Dawn Staley. Former NBA star Dwyane Wade also was courtside.

starting five in the NBA. And boy, what a bargain.

There are some caveats, of course.

James turns 42 in December and there are a lot of miles on those legs. James battled injuries last season and played in only 60 games. Embiid has never been reliable, with only 57 combined games played the last two seasons, and the Sixers have churned through a slew of imported stars over the last decade — James Harden, Jimmy Butler, Paul George — and still haven’t advanced out of the second round since 2001.

There’s only one ball and a lot of talent that has the resume to command it.

But with apologies to Wilt Chamberlain, many, many apologies, James becomes the most accomplished player to ever wear a 76ers uniform.

He won’t be alone in that No. 23 uniform — Fanatics sold out almost instantly of his jerseys on Friday.

It’s also a big win for front office boss Bob Myers, who openly pitched for James to sign in Philadelphia on his agent’s podcast and won four championships as a Golden State Warriors executive.

are a two-star team with Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo. Antetokounmpo, Adebayo and James would have made them a new Big 3, much like when James won titles in Miami with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.

Toronto is hopeful for a resolution to their held-up trade with the Los Angeles Clippers that should land them Kawhi Leonard. The trade is on hold pending the outcome of the NBA’s investigation into whether the Clippers circumvented salary cap rules.

Power shifts in the East

LeBron’s legacy

The Sixers ended their season with a second-round sweep to Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and the NBA champion Knicks.

The Knicks are still the team to beat. By talent, by virtue of winning it all and, at least out of the East, the betting favorite to again reach the NBA Finals.

The Knicks have largely stayed pat while other hopeful contenders went for major moves.

The Heat — hey, when exactly is that presser? — like their chances after they traded with Milwaukee for Giannis Antetokounmpo. The two-time MVP was the latest on a long list of superstar acquisitions made since Pat Riley arrived to take over as team president in 1995.

Much like the Sixers before they acquired Brown, the Heat

Look, James’ legacy is set and not even a flameout in Philly is going to change his indelible stamp on the game from the court to the cash register.

There is one major mark he could hit should he send the Sixers on a parade route down Broad Street. He would become the first player to win NBA titles with four teams.

Sixers coach Nick Nurse turned 59 on Friday and there’s no better professional gift he could have received than LeBron James.

Purchased on a discount rack.

Look for LeBron on opening night in New York. Look for LeBron on a Christmas game in Philadelphia. Look for LeBron to keep Sixers’ tickets sky high on the secondary market even on nights when Embiid sits.

A bad day for Cleveland The Cavaliers would have loved a sentimental third tour with James and have the franchise’s greatest player eventually retire in Cleveland.

James instead left the Cavaliers in a lurch, and they have to hope they can re-sign 36-year-old James Harden as part of a lineup that includes Jarrett Allen, Evan Mobley and Donovan Mitchell.

They will be projected to finish behind the Knicks and 76ers in the East.

Don’t forget, Detroit won 60 games last season and would like to prove its early playoff exit was a part of the growing pains of a contender.

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Seahawks open camp with key players on PUP

BY LUKE OLSON Associated Press

RENTON, Wash. — Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald is ready to turn the page after capturing the franchise’s second Super Bowl in his second season at the helm.

“Look, I’m different than I was this time last year. I’m different than I was at the end of the season. We got, I don’t know, 30 percent of our rosters probably different,” Macdonald said Saturday. “We got changes to our coaching staff. We got guys with a new perspective. … We’re all kind of new people here in this situation, which, by definition, makes us a new team too.”

Seattle opened training camp with much of its core in place. It did, however, lose key contributors this past offseason, such as Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker III (Chiefs), safety Coby Bryant (Bears), linebacker Boye Mafe (Bengals), and cornerback Riq Woolen (Eagles).

It is unclear whether Seattle intends to replace Walker’s production, either by committee with the likes of Emanuel Wilson, who was signed in free agency after three seasons with the Green Bay Packers, rookie Jadarian Price, George Holani and Kenny McIntosh. Or, if the injured Zach Charbonnet will become the main option once he’s healthy.

Charbonnet was placed on the physically unable to perform list before camp after tearing his ACL in the divisional game against the San Francisco 49ers.

He and Walker were part of a committee approach most of last season, but Charbonnett received a bulk of the carries in the red zone and capitalized with a career-high 12 touchdowns.

“He’s just attacked the heck out of the offseason in his rehab, as you’d expect, and the returns

SAINTS

Continued from page 1B is about the difference between the Cardinals and the eighth-worst team.

It was an all-around poor performance. The field goal unit struggled throughout the course of the season (though things were better after Smyth took over).

The punting unit routinely underperformed and also allowed two kicks to be blocked. The Saints’ best overall performance came from their punt returners, who finished 19th in average yards per return.

The lowdown At bare minimum, the Saints should be a competent team when their punting unit jogs onto the field.

While New Orleans was struggling last season, Wright was enjoying one of the best years of his career. He finished 2025 ranked No. 3 in the NFL in net punting average (44.5, more than eight yards better than the Saints’ total), No. 7 in average hang time (4.49 seconds) and No. 4 in touchback percentage (4.6%). He also had the longest punt in the NFL last season, a 77-yarder against the Cleveland Browns in London that traveled 63 yards in the air before rolling to the 2-yard line, where it was downed.

Even if Wright doesn’t maintain that standard, he’s a safe bet to be better than what the Saints have trotted out since letting go of Morstead.

Since the start of the 2021 season, 168 punters have recorded at least 20 punts in a season. The four players who have punted for the Saints in that span achieved the following ranks in gross punting average: 65 (Blake Gillikin), 109 (Gillikin), 138 (Kai Kroeger), 152 (Matthew Hayball) and 162 (Lou Hedley). In other words, three of the five are in the bottom 20th percentile.

The return game had been steady for a long time in New Orleans, whether it was Deonte Harty or Rashid Shaheed back to strike fear into opposing specialists. But the Saints had a need after trading Shaheed to the Seattle Seahawks last offseason, and Brown should be the first to get a

have been what he deserved,” Macdonald said.

The Seahawks had a welcoming sight as second-year wide receiver Tory Horton was healthy and running routes all afternoon after a shin injury ended his season prematurely after a scintillating start to his rookie campaign.

After missing minicamp and OTA’s, there was optimism he would be ready to go at the start of training camp.

“It’s great to see Tory back out there,” Macdonald said.

Horton, a fifth-round pick out of Colorado State, scored six touchdowns in his first eight games with Seattle before he was placed on the injured reserve in November.

He provides depth to an already deep wide receiver room with AP Offensive Player of the Year Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Cooper Kupp and last season’s midseason acquisition Rashid Shaheed.

The Seahawks also placed standout safety Nick Emmanwori on the PUP list after recently having ankle surgery, but there’s expectation he will be ready for their Wednesday night opener on Sept. 9 in a rematch with the New England Patriots.

He suffered a low sprain four days before the Super Bowl, but played through the injury.

“I think the best way to describe it is something that he’s been dealing with since the Super Bowl,” Macdonald said. “He was able to perform, did some things in the offseason program, but he just got to the point where it was the best for him for the long term to just go ahead and get it fixed.”

Emmanwori had 11 passes defended, an interception and 2.5 sacks in 14 games for Seattle.

But Macdonald wouldn’t confirm — or deny — that the runnerup for Rookie of the Year would be available.

“He could play in the opener,” Macdonald said.

shot at filling it.

Brown was an exceptional college football return man, setting the Southeastern Conference record for career kick-return touchdowns (six) during his time at Kentucky and LSU. It will be interesting to see if Brown gets a shot to return punts in the pros — in college, he returned only 11 punts in his career.

If Brown is unable to duplicate his success in the NFL, the Saints could lean on free agent signee Ty Chandler, who has a 25.7-yard career kick return average in the NFL (albeit in a limited sample size).

As for kicker, well …

Training camp battle Smyth waited a long time to earn his place on an NFL active roster, spending about 18 months on the practice squad after signing from Ireland via the International Player Pathway. And while he wasn’t perfect in his debut season — he drilled a game-winner in the closing seconds against Carolina and hit from 57 yards out, but he also missed four of his 11 field goal attempts beyond 40 yards — he showed more than enough potential to merit a longer look.

It’s just a question of how long that look will be.

New Orleans has actively pursued competition for Smyth this offseason. It signed (and subsequently released) former Texas kicker Mason Shipley after the draft and also worked out former Pro Bowler Younghoe Koo. But the most daunting challenge may come from Brown.

Some have compared Brown to Dallas Cowboys All-Pro kicker Brandon Aubrey, not only because of where they came from (Aubrey found immediate success after playing in the USFL; Brown is trying to make a similar leap from the UFL), but because of their powerful kicking legs.

While Smyth has shown more than enough leg in practice settings, hitting some that look like they’d be good from 70 yards, Brown has proven it in a game setting. He connected on a pair of 60-plus-yard field goals in one UFL playoff game last year, following up a regular season in which he successfully converted 29 of his 32 kicks.

ASSoCIATEd PRESS PHoTo By CHARLIE RIEdEL

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes talks with coach Andy Reid in between drills during training camp Saturday in St. Joseph, Mo.

A reset in Kansas City

year after I got done with it, to a couple of games should MaReid brings rookies, be honest with you,” Reid said of homes be unable to start Week 1. three-day crash course, which Their young project QB is Garrett QBs in early after last the continued through heat indexes Nussmeier, the once-heralded colyear’s collapse topping triple digits Sunday. “It’s lege star from LSU who fell all the

BY DAVE SKRETTA AP sportswriter

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — The past few years, Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid had drifted away from bringing rookies and quarterbacks into training camp a few days early, reasoning that such a veteran team coming off deep playoff runs could do without it.

After all, for a decade, the Chiefs had made at least the wild-card round. Many of those seasons ended in February.

But the Chiefs collapsed last season, finishing a dismal 6-11 while losing quarterback Patrick Mahomes to a major knee injury.

There were significant roster issues on both sides of the ball, depth problems at important positions that became exacerbated when injuries happened to other players, and it all meant an end to the season far earlier than anyone in Kansas City had expected.

So, with the team in need of a reset — among other reasons — Reid opted to bring his quarterbacks and rookies, along with a few other players coming off injuries, back to Missouri Western State University for a few days of work before the full squad arrives.

“I didn’t like not doing it last

a good thing for the quarterbacks, good thing for the rookies coming in. We do have more numbers (of rookies) this year, so it allows us to get more reps.

“I think,” Reid added, “that will benefit us.”

It couldn’t hurt.

Start with the quarterbacks: Mahomes was cleared this past week to fully participate in training camp after undergoing surgery in December to repair torn knee ligaments. And while Reid insisted this week that the two-time MVP would have no limitations, there is nevertheless a certain comfort that comes with getting some reps without a full team flying around him.

“You just have to build that confidence back,” Mahomes said, “and I’m glad I get to do that from Day 1 of training camp. I didn’t want to have to get only a couple of weeks of practice in and then have to go play a game. I wanted to build it up, see how training camp goes as we gradually build, and so I think that’ll help me get back to where I need to be.”

For the next two QBs on the depth chart, there’s the matter of learning the offense.

The Chiefs swung a trade with the Jets to bring in Justin Fields as the veteran backup, in part to have someone capable of winning

way to the 249th overall pick in the NFL draft last April.

Beyond the quarterbacks, though, is the chance to get some extra work for a rookie class — more than two dozen are in camp — that Kansas City will be leaning upon more heavily than perhaps any other point in Reid’s tenure.

Defensive back Mansoor Delane, the first cornerback taken in the draft, is expected to start Week 1, and he may not be the only first-year player on the field. The Chiefs’ other first-round pick, defensive tackle Peter Woods, could find himself playing alongside perennial Pro Bowl pick Chris Jones, while pass rusher R Mason Thomas will be counted upon to pressure the quarterback.

That makes every extra rep they can get before the veterans arrive invaluable.

“I’m super grateful for the three days (of rookie camp),” Woods said. “I told someone earlier that the veterans, they have a standard for what they want to see from us young guys. Just coming in and being able to have some days to prepare myself to be able to mesh well with the veterans, that means a lot to me. Not everyone gets a chance to do that.”

Not in Kansas City. Not the past few years.

Brissett agrees to reworked 1-year deal with Cardinals, is likely Week 1 starter

BY DAVID BRANDT Associated Press

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Now that Jacoby Brissett has his new contract with the Arizona Cardinals, the veteran quarterback is ready to go to work with first-year coach Mike LaFleur and help the team bounce back from last season’s 3-14 record.

But first, he’s looking forward to some quality rest.

“I’m pretty sure I’ll probably sleep more than three hours tonight,” Brissett said with a grin.

Brissett and the Cardinals agreed to a reworked one-year deal Sunday worth a reported $15.5 million and LaFleur confirmed that the veteran is the team’s likely starter for Week 1.

The 33-year-old Brissett was unhappy with his previous contract, which included just $1.5 million of guaranteed money for the upcoming season. He reported for training camp last week, but was limited during practices while he and the Cardinals worked on the deal.

Brissett said it got “dark a couple times” during negotiations, but he had enough confidence in himself to persevere. This will be his 11th NFL season.

“It felt good to be back out there,” Brissett said. “Standing around wasn’t particularly fun.”

Brissett was the team’s starter for the final 12 games last year after Kyler Murray suffered a season-ending foot injury. He did well individually with a careerhigh 3,366 yards passing, 23 touchdowns and eight interceptions, but the Cardinals had a 1-11 record in those games.

ASSoCIATEd PRESS PHoTo By RoSS d. FRAnKLIn

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett throws a pass during training camp on Sunday in Glendale, Ariz.

LaFleur confirmed that Brissett’s deal was done before Sunday’s practice and said that the quarterback would begin working with the starters soon. The team’s other main options under center are veteran Gardner Minshew and rookie Carson Beck.

“It hasn’t been a distraction by any means — I think we’ve got some very mature and professional players,” LaFleur said. “But it’s just one more thing that we don’t have to talk about.”

Brissett is a popular presence in the Cardinals’ locker room and some players — most notably eight-time Pro Bowl safety Budda Baker — were publicly supportive of a new deal for the quarterback.

“I think that’s the ultimate reward of this game, the respect of your teammates,” Brissett said. “That’s what I pride myself

on. That’s the only thing I really value. Contracts come and go but your teammates and the people you work with, the ones who want to go bat for you, that’s what matters most.”

LaFleur said he wasn’t worried about Brissett’s lost practice time.

The quarterback didn’t practice with the team during the offseason because of the contract situation.

“He’s got a level head about himself,” LaFleur said. “He’s been in a lot of different systems and heard a lot of different things and seen a lot of different things. He’s had the ups and downs with teams. He’s in a good spot and I’m excited to really start working with him.”

The Cardinals open the preseason Aug. 6 against the Carolina Panthers in the Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio.

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SCOREBOARD Odds MLB Monday

American League FAVORITE LINE Seattle -126 Baltimore -114 N.Y Yankees -143 Houston -119 Boston -165 National League FAVORITE LINE at MIAMI OFF Arizona -125 Atlanta -117 at ST. LOUIS OFF Milwaukee -127 Interleague FAVORITE LINE at WASH OFF at CINCINNATI -164

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Cycling Tour de France Sunday Stage 21 A 55-mile ride from Thoiry to Paris Champs-Elysees Stage Results:

1. Mathieu van der Poel, Netherlands, Alpecin-Premier Tech, 1:58:49.

2. Jasper Philipsen, Belgium, Alpecin-Premier Tech, same time.

3. Mads Pedersen, Denmark, Lidl-Trek, same time.

4. Max Kanter, Germany, XDS Astana Team, same time.

5. Olav Kooij, Netherlands, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, same time.

6. Matej Mohoric, Slovenia, Bahrain Victorious, same time.

7. Rick Pluimers, Netherlands, Tudor Pro Cycling Team, same time.

8. Anthony Turgis, France, TotalEnergies, same time.

9. Milan Fretin, Belgium, Cofidis, same time.

10. Clement Russo, France, Groupama-FDJ United, same time.

Also:

49. Matteo Jorgenson, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 2:00:59.

70. Sean Quinn, United States, EF EducationEasyPost, 2:06:39.

107. Matthew Riccitello, United States, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 2:09:43.

124. Sepp Kuss, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 2:09:43.

Overall Standings:

1. Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia, UAE Team Emirates-XRG, 73:56:26.

2. Remco Evenepoel, Belgium, Red BullBORA-hansgrohe, 74:02:52.

3. Isaac Del Toro Romero, Mexico, UAE Team Emirates-XRG, 74:06:08.

4. Paul Seixas, France, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 74:08:22.

5. Lenny Martinez, France, Bahrain Victorious, 74:09:28.

6. Mattias Skjelmose, Denmark, Lidl-Trek, 74:11:25.

7. Juan Ayuso, Spain, Lidl-Trek, 74:14:14.

8. Richard Carapaz, Ecuador, EF EducationEasyPost, 74:16:26.

9. Tom Pidcock, Great Britain, PinarelloQ36.5 Pro Cycling Team, 74:25:54.

10. Jordan Jegat, France, TotalEnergies, 74:29:47.

Also:

13. Sepp Kuss, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 74:58:49.

18. Quinn Simmons, United States, Lidl-Trek, 75:31:54.

19. Sean Quinn, United States, EF EducationEasyPost, 75:43:31.

24. Matthew Riccitello, United States, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 76:07:35.

30. Matteo Jorgenson, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 76:29:55.

Withdrew Stage 18

Brandon McNulty, United States, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 60:57:21.

Pro basketball WNBA Glance EASTERN CONFERENCE Indiana Atlanta New York Washington Toronto Chicago Connecticut

W 17 16 15 14 10 9 7

L 10 10 12 12 16 18 20

Pct .630 .615 .556 .538 .385 .333 .259

Minnesota Golden State Las Vegas Dallas Portland Los Angeles Phoenix Seattle

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Pct GB .786 — .704 2½ .692 3 .667 3½ .407 10½ .385 11 .357 12 .207 16½

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Saturday’s games

GB — ½ 2 2½ 6½ 8 10

2026 All-Star Game Team Spoon 129, Team Coop 122

Sunday’s games

No games scheduled.

Monday’s games None scheduled.

Pro golf ISPS HANDA Women’s Scottish Open par scores Sunday

At Dundonald Links Troon, United Kingdom Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,543; Par: 72 Final Round Jenny Shin, $300,000 66-67-71-75—279 -9 A Lim Kim, $167,294 67-72-74-68—281 -7 P. Anannaruk., $111,529 71-69-69-74—283 -5 Esther Henseleit, $83,647 70-68-73-73—284 -4 Lauren Coughlin, $62,271 66-74-74-71—285 -3 Miyu Yamashita, $62,271 70-74-70-71—285 -3 C. Wannasaen, $52,047 71-76-70-69—286 -2 Erika Hara, $44,612 70-70-71-76—287 -1 Leona Maguire, $44,612 72-72-73-70—287 -1 Ryann O’Toole, $44,612 73-72-71-71—287 -1 Aki Iwai, $39,965 78-70-69-71—288 E J. Lopez Ramirez, $39,965 71-74-73-70—288 E Hye Jin Choi, $35,318 76-70-76-67—289 +1 P. Tavatanakit, $35,318 71-69-78-71—289 +1 Amy Yang, $35,318 76-69-71-73—289 +1 Diksha Dagar, $31,600 74-73-70-73—290 +2 Hyo Joo Kim, $31,600 75-70-73-72—290 +2 Nelly Korda, $31,600 72-76-73-69—290 +2 Daniela Darquea, $27,108 71-72-74-74—291 +3 Alice Hewson, $27,108 75-70-75-71—291 +3 Sei Young Kim, $27,108 75-72-73-71—291 +3 P. R.-Bouchard, $27,108 73-73-76-69—291 +3

HOF

Continued from page 1B The longtime Atlanta Braves outfielder, a 10-time Gold Glove winner and five-time All-Star, is the first player from Curaçao to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

But he said he doesn’t plan on being the last. He pointed to players who have followed him, including Ozzie Albies and Kenley Jansen, as part of the Curaçao legacy started

by Hensley “Bam Bam” Meulens.

Among the highlights, Jones’ tribute to his late father, Henry Jones, stood out. He said his father used to hit him flyballs from foul pole to foul pole to teach him how to track the ball, and how to build strong wrists by rolling a sledgehammer.

“Everything he taught me had a purpose,” Jones said. “Henry

Maja Stark, $27,108 74-72-73-72—291 +3 Weiwei Zhang, $27,108 73-73-73-72—291 +3 Nataliya Guseva, $22,306 72-74-73-73—292 +4 Ariya Jutanugarn, $22,306 73-73-71-75—292 +4 Rose Zhang, $22,306 73-72-71-76—292 +4 Anna Nordqvist, $18,588 70-79-73-71—293 +5 Ina Yoon, $18,588 73-68-76-76—293 +5 Arpichaya Yubol, $18,588 73-72-77-71—293 +5 Manon De Roey, $14,716 73-75-76-70—294 +6 Hannah Green, $14,716 74-76-74-70—294 +6 Chizzy Iwai, $14,716 72-74-75-73—294 +6 Sara Kouskova, $14,716 77-69-76-72—294 +6 Mi Hyang Lee, $14,716 75-68-77-74—294 +6 N. Nadaud, $14,716 75-71-74-74—294 +6 Pia Babnik, $11,339 77-71-74-73—295 +7 Amanda Doherty, $11,339 72-73-77-73—295 +7 Moa Folke, $11,339 76-70-75-74—295 +7 Lottie Woad, $11,339 74-70-78-73—295 +7 Allisen Corpuz, $10,595 78-72-72-74—296 +8 You Min Hwang, $10,316 74-74-77-72—297 +9 Lisa Pettersson, $10,316 69-77-77-74—297 +9 Helen Briem, $9,480 77-70-74-77—298+10 Lindy Duncan, $9,480 74-74-76-74—298+10 Amelia Garvey, $9,480 76-73-72-77—298+10 Charley Hull, $9,480 78-71-75-74—298+10 Grace Kim, $9,480 74-70-76-78—298+10 Alexa Pano, $9,480 75-72-78-73—298+10 Dewi Weber, $9,480 79-71-76-72—298+10 Jenny Bae, $8,551 72-76-74-77—299+11 Mimi Rhodes, $8,551 77-71-75-76—299+11 Emma Spitz, $8,551 77-73-78-71—299+11 Nasa Hataoka, $8,179 74-72-77-77—300+12 In Gee Chun, $7,993 73-76-77-75—301+13 Robyn Choi, $7,714 76-73-79-74—302+14 Soo Bin Joo, $7,714 76-74-80-72—302+14 Yana Wilson, $7,435 73-76-77-77—303+15 C. Tejedo Mulet, $7,156 74-76-80-74—304+16 Aunchisa Utama, $7,156 73-74-84-73—304+16 Yan Liu, $6,692 77-73-83-72—305+17 Olivia Cowan, $6,506 74-75-80-78—307+19

PGA 3M Open par scores Sunday

At TPC Twin Cities Blaine, Minn.

Purse: $8.8 million Yardage: 7,431; Par: 71 Final Round Jackson Koivun 64-68-61-66—259 Scottie Scheffler 65-70-64-63—262 Brian Harman 69-64-66-65—264 Hideki Matsuyama 70-65-65-64—264 Denny McCarthy 66-68-64-66—264 Chandler Phillips 66-65-66-67—264 Emiliano Grillo 64-67-65-69—265 Davis Thompson 68-68-63-66—265 Ben Kohles 62-69-65-70—266 Michael Kim 69-59-70-69—267 Seamus Power 68-68-63-68—267 Gary Woodland 64-71-67-65—267 Zac Blair 68-65-68-67—268 Billy Horschel 67-66-65-70—268 Jake Knapp 68-70-68-62—268 Davis Chatfield 69-68-64-68—269 Zecheng Dou 67-69-67-66—269 Patrick Fishburn 70-68-66-65—269 Kevin Yu 69-66-66-68—269 C. Bezuidenhout 68-67-69-66—270 Lee Hodges 68-67-65-70—270 Tom Kim 68-69-67-66—270 R. Neergaard-Petersen 66-72-66-66—270 Chandler Blanchet 67-68-67-69—271 Michael Brennan 65-69-63-74—271 Kurt Kitayama 68-69-66-68—271 Hank Lebioda 69-69-65-68—271 John Parry 69-69-69-64—271 Austin Smotherman 68-67-68-68—271 Kevin Streelman 67-68-69-67—271 Max Greyserman 69-70-69-64—272 Chris Kirk 70-69-64-69—272 Kevin Roy 65-70-68-69—272 Joel Dahmen 70-69-66-68—273 Muzzy Donohue 73-63-73-64—273 Mark Hubbard 70-69-65-69—273 Maverick McNealy 71-66-72-64—273 Vince Whaley 67-69-68-69—273 Corey Conners 70-69-66-69—274 Troy Merritt 66-66-69-73—274 Pontus Nyholm 68-69-71-66—274 Jordan L. Smith 71-68-67-68—274 John VanDerLaan 67-71-66-70—274 Zachary Bauchou 70-69-66-70—275 Ricky Castillo 71-68-65-71—275 Mackenzie Hughes 71-67-68-69—275 Keith Mitchell 68-69-67-71—275 Matti Schmid 67-72-69-67—275 Neal Shipley 70-69-66-70—275 Jesper Svensson 65-69-70-71—275 Casey Jarvis 71-66-66-73—276 Jimmy Stanger 69-70-67-70—276 Kris Ventura 72-66-66-72—276 Camilo Villegas 69-69-69-69—276 A.J. Ewart 69-69-70-69—277 Beau Hossler 69-68-67-74—278 Austin Eckroat 69-67-71-72—279 Lucas Glover 65-70-72-72—279 Hao-Tong Li 68-68-72-71—279 Will Gordon 68-70-72-70—280 Sam Stevens 68-69-73-70—280 Trace Crowe 67-72-68-74—281 Rico Hoey 67-72-71-71—281 Lanto Griffin 70-68-71-73—282 Jeffrey Kang 67-70-72-73—282 Fabián Gómez 71-67-72-75—285

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STANDINGS American League East Division

Race statistics

Average Speed of Race Winner: 127.429 mph.

Time of Race: 3 hours, 8 minutes, 21 seconds.

Margin of Victory: .287 seconds.

Caution Flags: 5 for 27 laps.

Lead Changes: 15 among 11 drivers.

Lap Leaders: C.Hocevar 0-31; D.Suárez 32; D.Hamlin 33-39; T.Reddick 40; C.Heim 41-44; T.Gibbs 45-74; C.Heim 75-91; J.Nemechek 92; J.Berry 93; C.Briscoe 94; R.Preece 95; R.Chastain 96-100; T.Gibbs 101-116; C.Heim 117-118; D.Hamlin 119-125; C.Heim 126-160 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): C.Heim, 4 times for 58 laps; T.Gibbs, 2 times for 46 laps; C.Hocevar, 1 time for 31 laps; D.Hamlin, 2 times for 14 laps; R.Chastain, 1 time for 5 laps; C.Briscoe, 1 time for 1 lap; J.Berry, 1 time for 1 lap; R.Preece, 1 time for 1 lap; T.Reddick, 1 time for 1 lap; D.Suárez, 1 time for 1 lap; J.Nemechek, 1 time for 1 lap.

Wins: T.Reddick, 5; D.Hamlin, 4; R.Blaney, 2; C.Elliott, 2; S.Van Gisbergen, 2; T.Gibbs, 1; C.Hocevar, 1; C.Briscoe, 1; D.Suárez, 1; J.Logano, 1.

Top 16 in Points: 1. D.Hamlin, 842; 2.

T.Reddick, 774; 3. R.Blaney, 755; 4. T.Gibbs, 708; 5. C.Elliott, 634; 6. K.Larson, 616; 7. C.Hocevar, 598; 8. C.Briscoe, 587; 9.

C.Buescher, 585; 10. C.Bell, 574; 11. D.Suárez, 558; 12. W.Byron, 546; 13. B.Wallace, 531; 14.

S.Van Gisbergen, 516; 15. J.Logano, 511; 16.

A.Cindric, 495.

NASCAR Driver Rating Formula

A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.

The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

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Western Conference

W L Vancouver 10 3 Los Angeles FC 10 5 San Jose 10 4 Real Salt Lake 8 6 Houston 8 6 FC Dallas 7 5 St Louis City 7 6 Seattle 7 6 Minnesota United 6 6 Portland 6 8 LA Galaxy 5 7 San Diego FC 5 7 Colorado 6 10 Austin FC 4 8 Sporting Kansas City 4 11

Eastern Conference

T Pts 3 33 3 33 3 33 2 26 2 26 5 26 4 25 3 24 5 23 3 21 6 21 5 20 1 19 5 17 2 14

GF 37 34 35 28 23 32 23 19 19 31 24 31 26 22 18

GA 16 18 20 24 24 25 23 20 24 32 29 28 25 35 44

W L T Pts GF GA Nashville 12 2 3 39 33 12 Inter Miami CF 11 2 4 37 43 30 New England 9 5 2 29 26 19 Chicago 8 6 2 26 30 22 New York City FC 7 6 4 25 30 23 Charlotte FC 7 6 4 25 28 25 Cincinnati 6 6 5 23 41 42 New York 6 7 4 22 26 37 D.C. United 5 5 7 22 24 27 Orlando City 6 9 2 20 28 44 Columbus 5 8 4 19 24 26 Toronto FC 3 7 7 16 23 31 CF Montréal 4 10 3 15 22 33 Philadelphia 3 10 4 13 22 31 Atlanta 3 11 3 12 17 30 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Wednesday’s games

Cincinnati 4, Vancouver 3 New York City FC 2, Columbus 1 Miami 3, Chicago 2 Toronto FC 0, New England 0, tie Philadelphia 3, New York 1 Atlanta 2, Charlotte FC 2, tie D.C. United 1, Houston 1, tie Sporting Kansas City 2, Minnesota 1 Nashville 1, CF Montréal 0 Austin FC 3, Seattle 1 Colorado 1, San Diego FC 0 St Louis City 3, LA Galaxy 1 Los Angeles FC 3, Real Salt Lake 1 FC Dallas 2, Portland 2, tie Orlando City 4, San Jose 0

Saturday’s games

Charlotte FC 2, New York 0 Columbus 2, Cincinnati 1 D.C. United 2, Toronto FC 1 Miami 1, CF Montréal 0 New England 4, Atlanta 1 New York City FC 3, Chicago 1 Philadelphia 1, Seattle 0 Houston 3, Austin FC 0 Vancouver 0, Minnesota 0, tie St Louis City 1, Colorado 0 Orlando City 1, Nashville 0 San Diego FC 1, FC Dallas 0 Los Angeles FC 4, Sporting Kansas City 0 Portland 2, Real Salt Lake 1 LA Galaxy 1, San Jose 1, tie

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Transactions

Sunday

Major League Baseball American League ATHLETICS — Recalled C Brian Serven from Las Vegas (PCL). Placed C Shea Langeliers on the 10-day IL, retroactive to July 25.

BOSTON RED SOX — Reinstated LHP Ranger Suárez from the IL. Optioned LHP Alec Gamboa to Worcester (IL). Acquired 3B Curtis Mead from Washington in exchange for LHP Connelly Early.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Recalled RHP Miguel Ullola from Sugar Land (PCL). Optioned RHP Kai-Wei Teng to Sugar Land (PCL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Acquired LHP Rob Hensey from Sussex County (FL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Reinstated LHP Connor Prielipp and RHP Cole Sands from the IL. Optioned RHP Jack Anderson to St. Paul (IL). Placed RHP Mike Paredes on the 15-day IL, retroactive to July 23.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled CF Spencer Jones from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

Placed LF Cody Bellinger on the 10-day IL. SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled RHP Alex Hoppe from Tacoma (PCL). Optioned RHP Nick Davila to Tacoma (PCL).

National League MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Recalled RHP Garrett Stallings from Nashville (IL).

Designated RHP Lance McCullers Jr. for assignment.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with OF Derek Curiel on a contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Recalled LHP Carson Whisenhunt from Sacramento (PCL). Optioned RHP Tristan Beck to Sacramento (PCL).

National League

Tampa Bay New York Boston Baltimore Toronto

W 62 59 54 51 48

L 43 45 50 55 58

Pct .590 .567 .519 .481 .453

GB — 2½ 7½ 11½ 14½

Chicago Cleveland Minnesota Detroit Kansas City

W 55 54 53 50 45

L 49 53 54 56 62

Pct .529 .505 .495 .472 .421

GB — 2½ 3½ 6 11½

Texas Seattle Houston Athletics Los Angeles

W 53 52 52 44 41

L 52 54 55 61 64

Pct .505 .491 .486 .419 .390

GB — 1½ 2 9 12

Central Division

West Division

Saturday’s games

W 62 56 54 52 44

L 43 49 52 54 62

Pct .590 .533 .509 .491 .415

GB — 6 8½ 10½ 18½

Milwaukee Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati

W 66 59 54 53 49

L 39 46 52 52 55

Pct .629 .562 .509 .505 .471

GB — 7 12½ 13 16½

Los Angeles Arizona San Diego San Francisco Colorado

W 67 55 53 44 42

L 39 51 53 60 65

Pct .632 .519 .500 .423 .393

GB — 12 14 22 25½

Central Division

West Division

Saturday’s games

Washington 5, Arizona 3 San Francisco 9, L.A. Angels 2 San Diego 7, Miami 2 N.Y. Yankees 3, Philadelphia 1 Chicago Cubs 11, Pittsburgh 0 Baltimore 3, Atlanta 2 Milwaukee 8, Colorado 5 St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 0 L.A. Dodgers 4, N.Y. Mets 3

Tampa Bay 1, Cleveland 0 Boston 6, Toronto 1 L.A. Angels 4, San Francisco 3 Kansas City 5, Detroit 4 Chicago White Sox 12, Houston 3 Atlanta 3, Baltimore 2, 11 innings Minnesota 11, Athletics 8 Seattle 6, Texas 4 N.Y. Yankees at Philadelphia, n

Pittsburgh 8, Chicago Cubs 7 L.A. Angels 4, San Francisco 3 San Diego 5, Miami 3 Washington 10, Arizona 7 N.Y. Mets 8, L.A. Dodgers 3 Milwaukee 11, Colorado 2 Atlanta 3, Baltimore 2, 11 innings Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 3, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees at Philadelphia, n

Sunday’s games

Sunday’s games

Monday’s games

Seattle (Kirby 8-8) at Texas (Rocker 3-8), 1:35 p.m.

Baltimore (Bradish 7-9) at Detroit (Montero 7-5), 5:40 p.m.

Toronto (Scherzer 1-4) at Washington (Alvarez 2-3), 5:45 p.m.

Cleveland (Cecconi 4-7) at Cincinnati (Burns 12-1), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Fried 4-3) at Chicago White Sox (Schultz 3-7), 6:40 p.m.

Houston (Imai 6-4) at L.A. Angels (Ureña 6-7), 8:38 p.m.

Boston (Tolle 5-6) at Athletics (Perkins 2-5), 8:40 p.m.

Monday’s games

Arizona (Kelly 8-8) at Pittsburgh (Keller 6-7), 5:40 p.m.

Philadelphia (Wheeler 10-2) at Miami (Phillips 2-5), 5:40 p.m.

Toronto (Scherzer 1-4) at Washington (Alvarez 2-3), 5:45 p.m.

Atlanta (Pérez 6-6) at N.Y. Mets (Thornton 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Cecconi 4-7) at Cincinnati (Burns 12-1), 6:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Peterson 5-7) at St. Louis (Liberatore 5-7), 6:45 p.m.

Milwaukee (Sproat 3-5) at San Francisco (Mahle 2-9), 8:45 p.m.

BOX SCORES Seattle 6, Texas 4

Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 3

Seattle

Cincinnati St. Louis ab r h bi ab r h bi De La Cruz ss 5 2 2 1 Wetherh. 2b 5 1 0 0 Steer 2b 2 0 0 0 Walker rf 5 0 0 0 Arroyo ph-2b 2 0 0 0 Herrera dh 5 1 2 1 Bleday lf 4 0 0 0 Burleson 1b 5 1 3 1 Suárez dh 4 0 0 0 Church pr 0 0 0 0 Lowe 1b 5 0 3 2 Winn ss 4 0 2 0 Myers cf 5 0 1 0 Fermín cf 2 0 0 1 Marte rf 4 0 2 0 Velázquez lf 2 0 0 0 Trevino c 3 0 0 0 Nootbaar ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Stephe. ph-c 1 1 0 0 Jordan 3b 3 0 0 0 Hayes 3b 2 1 1 1 Pagés c 1 0 0 0 Stewart ph-3b1 1 1 1 Torres ph 1 0 0 0 Crooks c 1 0 0 0 Totals 38 5 10 5 Totals 35 3 7 3 Cincinnati 001 010 000 3 — 5 St. Louis 011 000 000 1 — 3 E—Lowe (2), Trevino (5). DP—Cincinnati 2, St. Louis 1. LOB—Cincinnati 8, St. Louis 10.

2B—Burleson (26). HR—De La Cruz (18), Hayes (3), Herrera (12). SF—Fermín (2).

S—Arroyo (2).

IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati Abbott 6 3 2 2 4 4 Johnson 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 ⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 Antone 0 0 0 0 2 Burke W,4-4 11⁄3 Garcia S,1-1 1 2 1 0 0 1 St. Louis Leahy 6 6 2 2 1 9 Gastelum 1 0 0 0 1 1 Stanek 1 0 0 0 0 0 Soriano 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 ⁄3 2 3 2 0 0 Svanson L,2-3 2 Bruihl ⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 WP—Svanson.

ABS Challenge—Marte (Strike-Confirmed); Antone (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Antone (Ball-Overturned to Strike).

Pitch timer violations—Bruihl (pitcher).

Umpires—Home, Gabe Morales; First, Doug Eddings; Second, Mike Muchlinski; Third, Emil Jimenez.

T—3:03. A—22,852 (44,494).

Texas

ab r h bi ab r h bi Young 2b 5 2 2 0 Pederson dh 4 1 1 0 Rodríguez cf 4 1 1 1 Langford lf 4 0 1 0 Canzone dh 5 1 3 4 Duran ss-3b 3 1 1 2 Arozarena lf 5 1 3 1 Nimmo rf 4 1 1 0 Naylor 1b 5 0 2 0 Burger 1b 3 1 0 0 Raleigh c 3 0 1 0 Carter cf 3 0 1 1 Raley rf 2 0 0 0 Lopez 2b-ss 4 0 1 1 Wilson ph-rf 1 0 0 0 Smith 3b 2 0 0 0 Robles rf 1 0 1 0 Foscue ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Crawford 3b 4 0 0 0 Osuna ph 1 0 0 0 Emerson ss 4 1 1 0 Díaz c 3 0 0 0 Totals 39 6 14 6 Totals 32 4 6 4 Seattle 001 000 401 — 6 Texas 100 200 010 — 4 DP—Seattle 0, Texas 2. LOB—Seattle 8, Texas 4. 2B—Canzone (15), Pederson (11). 3B—Young (2). HR—Canzone (16), Arozarena (12), Duran (11). SB—Carter (12). SF—Duran (4).

IP H R ER BB SO Seattle Gilbert 52⁄3 5 3 3 2 4 Speier W,2-2 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 Bazardo H,20 1 1 1 1 0 2 Muñoz S,18-23 1 0 0 0 0 3 Texas deGrom 5 7 1 1 0 4 Ahlstrom H,5 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 Alexander H,10 ⁄3 2 2 2 0 0 2 Winn L,5-3 BS,1-3 ⁄3 2 2 2 0 1 Peoples 1 1 0 0 0 0 Gray 1 2 1 1 0 0 deGrom pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.

HBP—Peoples (Raleigh), Gray (Rodríguez).

ABS Challenge—Arozarena (StrikeOverturned to Ball); Emerson (Strike-Confirmed); Foscue (Strike-Confirmed).

Umpires—Home, Nick Mahrley; First, Derek Thomas; Second, Marvin Hudson; Third, Tripp Gibson.

T—3:03. A—29,496 (40,000).

Atlanta 3, Baltimore 2

ChI. White Sox 12, Houston 3

Atlanta

Houston

At Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Ind. Lap length: 2.50 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (7) Corey Heim, Toyota, 160 laps, 0 points.

2. (23) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 160, 35.

3. (19) Joey Logano, Ford, 160, 34.

4. (11) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, 160, 36.

5. (5) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 160, 44.

6. (16) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 160, 31.

7. (26) Josh Berry, Ford, 160, 30.

8. (34) Ryan Preece, Ford, 160, 33.

9. (1) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 160, 40.

10. (3) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 160, 28.

11. (15) Chris Buescher, Ford, 160, 28.

12. (4) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 160, 43.

13. (12) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 160, 24.

14. (35) Austin Cindric, Ford, 160, 23.

15. (30) Zane Smith, Ford, 160, 22.

16. (25) S. Van Gisbergen, Chevrolet, 160, 21.

17. (2) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 160, 25.

18. (6) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 160, 30.

19. (8) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 160, 18.

20. (24) R. Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 160, 17.

21. (21) William Byron, Chevrolet, 160, 22.

22. (33) Noah Gragson, Ford, 160, 15.

23. (22) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 160, 24.

24. (36) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 160, 22.

25. (9) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 160, 12.

26. (13) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 160, 11.

27. (14) Erik Jones, Toyota, 160, 12.

28. (29) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 160, 9.

29. (20) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 160, 8.

30. (28) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 160, 7.

31. (37) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 160, 6.

32. (17) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 158, 5.

33. (32) A. Hill, Chevrolet, accident, 125, 0.

34. (31) C. Zilisch, Chevrolet, accident, 122, 3.

35. (38) C. Mears, Chevrolet, accident, 121, 2.

36. (18) R. Herbst, Toyota, accident, 120, 1.

37. (27) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 119, 1.

38. (39) D. Dye, Chevrolet, accident, 93, 0.

39. (10) K. Larson, Chevrolet, accident, 43, 1.

National Football League SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed DL Kevin Givens to a one-year contract. Waived DL Evan Anderson. Placed DLs Alfred Collins and Mykel Williams, RB Isaac Guerendo and TE George Kittle on the active/PUP list.

Jones was a legend in Curaçao, a great player in his own right. And I’m not standing here in Cooperstown without his constant coaching. Dad, we did it.”

Chants of “Puerto Rico” broke out before Beltrán even uttered a word. And whenever he mentioned his home island, the crowd cheered for him and waved flags.

“Everywhere I played baseball, I always tried to represent my island,” Beltrán said. “I tried to do the best I could for the organizations that I played, but also I wanted to represent Puerto Rico.”

The 20-year veteran and 1999 AL Rookie of the Year ran through each organization he played for, thanking them for the different lessons each provided. The New York Mets received the most praise.

“When people ask me about why I chose (the Mets) cap, I have to say

this,” he said. “Guys, it’s simple.

Every organization shapes your career. New York shaped my life.”

When discussing the teams he played for, Beltrán gave specific examples from some of his stops, including watching teammates Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell “play with pain” in Houston. But he did not mention winning the World Series with the Astros in 2017. That title carries controversy because of an illegal sign-stealing scheme and Beltrán’s involvement in it.

Beltrán did not directly address the scandal, but did comment on those who may or may not have voted for him for whatever reasons.

“To the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, I want to say thank you for making me a Hall of Famer. ... And for those that didn’t (vote for me) — that saw things different — I want to say also thank you. I appreciate your

perspective,” he said. “If baseball has really taught me something, I want to say is that I hope in life, we continue to measure ourselves by the same standard we have used to measure others.”

Beltrán earned 84.2% of the vote from the BBWAA to make the Hall on his fourth try. Jones garnered 78.4% in his ninth year of eligibility, eclipsing the 75% needed for induction. Kent was elected by a much smaller panel last December, the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee, after dropping off the BBWAA ballot when his eligibility ran out in 2023.

The 2000 NL MVP with the San Francisco Giants played for six teams over his 17-year career and set the all-time home run mark for second basemen. A hard-nosed player, Kent showed a softer side during induction weekend.

Before even speaking, Kent

FOOTBALL

Atlanta Philadelphia Washington Miami New York

Kansas City 3, Detroit 2 San Francisco 9, L.A. Angels 2 Toronto 6, Boston 0 N.Y. Yankees 3, Philadelphia 1 Tampa Bay 3, Cleveland 0 Baltimore 3, Atlanta 2 Minnesota 2, Athletics 0 Houston 4, Chicago White Sox 1 Texas 7, Seattle 1

Baltimore ab r h bi ab r h bi Baldwin c 3 0 2 0 Beavers lf 4 0 0 0 Albies 2b 6 0 0 0 Alonso 1b 4 1 2 1 Olson 1b 5 1 1 0 Hender. ss 5 0 0 0 Harris cf 5 1 1 0 Ward dh 5 0 2 0 Dubón lf 4 0 0 0 En-Stnd 3b 3 0 1 0 Smith dh 5 0 3 2 Mayo pr-3b 1 1 0 0 Mateo pr-dh 0 1 0 0 Cowser cf 2 0 1 0 Riley 3b 4 0 1 1 O’Neill ph-rf 3 0 0 0 Yastrzem. rf 2 0 0 0 Taveras rf-cf 4 0 0 0 White pr-rf 1 0 0 0 Holliday 2b 3 0 0 1 Hicklen ph-rf 0 0 0 0 Tromp c 3 0 0 0 Jarvis ss 2 0 0 0 Jackson ph 1 0 0 0 Huff c 1 0 0 0 Totals 37 3 8 3 Totals 39 2 6 2 Atlanta 010 100 000 01 — 3 Baltimore 000 000 011 00 — 2 E—Albies (6), Cowser (3), EncarnacionStrand (1). DP—Atlanta 2, Baltimore 2.

LOB—Atlanta 14, Baltimore 12. 2B—Olson (26), Riley (14). HR—Alonso (22). S— Jarvis 2 (3).

IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta López 52⁄3 5 0 0 1 6 Dodd H,7 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Lee H,20 1 1 1 1 0 1 Iglesias BS,21-23 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 D.Young ⁄3 0 0 0 2 0 Kinley W,6-4 11⁄3 0 0 0 2 1 Baltimore Baz 41⁄3 6 2 1 2 2 Walker 12⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 Nunez 1 0 0 0 2 2 Suárez 2 0 0 0 2 2 Wells 1 0 0 0 1 0 Kittredge L,1-3 1 1 1 0 2 0 WP—López, D.Young, Nunez.

T—3:31. A—25,032 (45,971).

BASEBALL

East Division

Chicago ab r h bi ab r h bi Peña ss 4 2 2 2 Antonacci lf 2 2 2 0 Allen ph 1 0 1 0 Grichuk ph 1 0 1 0 Alvarez dh 2 0 0 0 Perez pr-lf 1 2 1 2 Vázquez ph 1 0 0 0 Murakami 1b 5 3 3 6 Paredes 3b 4 0 0 0 Vargas 3b 5 1 1 2 Altuve 2b 4 0 0 0 B.Montg. rf 2 0 0 0 Wade 1b 2 0 0 0 Benintendi dh 4 0 1 1 Diaz c 4 0 1 0 Peters cf 4 0 0 0 Trammell cf 4 1 2 1 Meidroth 2b 3 2 1 1 Smith rf 3 0 0 0 Acuña ss 4 0 1 0 Dezenzo lf 4 0 1 0 Romo c 3 2 1 0 Totals 33 3 7 3 Totals 34 12 12 12 Houston 101 010 000 — 3 Chicago 201 002 43x — 12 DP—Houston 1, Chicago 1. LOB—Houston 8, Chicago 3. 2B—Antonacci (14). HR— Peña 2 (11), Trammell (4), Murakami 2 (22), Vargas (22), Meidroth (8), Perez (3).

IP H R ER BB SO Houston 1 Blanco L,0-1 5 ⁄3 4 5 5 3 4 De Los Santos 1 3 2 2 0 1 2 King ⁄3 3 2 2 0 1 Ullola 1 2 3 3 1 0 Chicago Fedde 41⁄3 5 3 3 1 2 Hicks 1 0 0 0 1 0 Newcomb W,1-2 2⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 Taylor H,7 1 0 0 0 1 2 Murphy 1 0 0 0 0 2 Domínguez 1 1 0 0 0 1 De Los Santos pitched to 3 batters in the 7th, Hicks pitched to 1 batter in the 6th.

HBP—Newcomb (Smith), King (B.Montgomery). WP—King(2).

ABS Challenge—Alvarez (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Antonacci (Strike-Confirmed); Murakami (Strike-Confirmed); Blanco (Ball-Confirmed).

Umpires—Home, Mark Ripperger; First, Dan Bellino; Second, Dexter Kelley; Third, Shane Livensparger.

T—2:44. A—32,581 (40,241).

needed tissues to wipe the tears from his eyes after looking at his parents in the crowd, he said in a post-ceremony news conference.

“I was more emotional for the 35, 40 minutes of sitting down than I was for the speech,” he said. “I thought I was going to be a wreck and I’m glad it was only a half a wreck.”

In his speech, Kent told a story of how his baseball career turned when his father offered him a deal: if he earned a college scholarship, he would buy him a pickup truck.

Kent quit racing motorcycles and shifted his focus to school and baseball and eventually earned a scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley.

In turn, he got a pickup truck he still has.

“It sits in my garage as a simple reminder that some of the simplest things can change the entire direction of your life,” Kent said.

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A plain bagel with cream cheese

The bagel’s journey to American breakfast staple

WHY WAS HE FORGOTTEN?

BY JOSH CORNFIELD Associated Press

NEW YORK — The bagel in America is an immigrant story with a hole in the middle.

It came to America with Eastern European Jews escaping poverty and antisemitism. It landed in New York street carts and neighborhood bakeries. Later, it made its way to supermarket freezer aisles and into the Part of an breakfast oroccasional der of so many series from every day. And The Associated like every food Press on story, it starts America’s freedom with the first bite.

As a layer of crunch prepares your brain for a crusty piece of bread, it’s immediately met by the soft yet dense chew of the inside. Eating the two textures together brings a feeling of joy, along with whatever toppings you’ve added.

A schmear of cream cheese to keep it simple. A flavored spread to add a bit of zest. Or a bagel topped taller than the human mouth can handle with fish, tomato, cucumber and red onions.

And we haven’t even talked about the flavor choices.

A simple plain or egg bagel works for some (no judgment).

Others insist on seeds — poppy, sesame — or shards of onion or salt. Others say it’s not a bagel unless it’s an everything, each bite snapping back at you with a different cascade of flavors.

Purists will tell you to keep it simple. But with a bagel, like so much in American life, you can have it any way you’d like.

AMERICA @ 250

BY ROBIN MILLER | Staff writer

What started out as a simple internet search ended with a lost piece of Louisiana entertainment history for Michael Wynne.

Now Wynne, the Alexandria historian, is curious as to why there isn’t a state historical marker dedicated to Spencer Williams Jr. in Vidalia, where he was born on July 14, 1893.

Who is Spencer Williams Jr.? He’s probably best known for his final acting role as Andrew “Hogg” Brown, or simply Andy, in CBS’s 1950s era television version of “The Amos ‘n’ Andy Show.” The show began as a nightly radio program in the 1920s featuring White actors. Racial stereotypes stirred intense controversy, and the television series was canceled.

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Museum honors late artist within enough peanut butter to make 15,000 sandwiches

BY MOLLY QUELL

Associated Press

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — More than 800 pounds of peanut butter — enough for around 15,000 sandwiches — has been spread across the floor of a museum in the Netherlands in tribute to Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers, who died last month.

The conceptual artist, who died at the age of 83, first created the Pindakaasvloer, or

peanut butter floor, in 1969.

The work was unveiled in June at the Depot offshoot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam for a two-month show.

Schippers was a beloved nonconformist character in the Netherlands, where he also voiced Ernie and Kermit the Frog in the Dutch version of “Sesame Street,” and created

Workers spread peanut butter on a floor to recreate the ‘Peanut Butter Floor’ artwork in tribute to dutch artist Wim T. Schippers at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, netherlands.

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As the school year starts, we’re thinking about the people who stand at the front of the room, who open classroom doors with a smile. Sometimes a stranger in August becomes the person a student never forgets.

Certain teachers say something on a random October afternoon and students repeat it for decades to come — or a teacher may lead by example and give in ways that changes lives.

We invite readers to tell us about that teacher who made all the difference: write a letter directly to the teacher and send it to us. Or tell the story plain: a name, a classroom and the moment that stuck.

We’re looking for the lessons that have outlasted the chalkboard (or the dry-erase board, as the case may be). Send your letter or story, including the name of the teacher, name of school, city and year to jan.risher@ theadvocate.com by 2 p.m. July 28. Photos of the teacher are also welcome.

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A sign at the end of the Mississippi bridge connecting Concordia Parish to Adams County, Mississippi, at natchez, welcomes travelers to the town of Vidalia. Vidalia was Black filmmaker Spencer Williams Jr.’s native home.

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Jones writes. “In the early 1940s, Williams met Al Continued from page 1C Sack, a Dallas-based film distributor whose company, Sack Amusement Enterprises, provided ‘ethnic While perusing the interfilms’ for many theaters in net for a favorite childhood the Southwest.” episode of the TV comedy, And it was in Dallas Wynne discovered that where Sack financially Williams not only made backed Williams in a series filmmaking history, but he of feature films for Black maintained his Louisiana audiences, resulting in 10 roots. films for which Williams “He kept ownership of wrote, directed and acted. two lots of land in the Bing“Sack evidently gave ham addition in Vidalia Williams the freedom to until his death,” Wynne PUBLIC doMAIn shape the films as he saw said. “He also married a fit,” Jones writes. “Unlike Louisiana woman, Olivia A movie poster for Spencer most of the genre, Williams’ Jones, in 1929, and had one Williams Jr.’s 1941 selfdaughter.” produced film ‘The Blood of films are generally faithful to reality and unmarred by Williams was considered Jesus’ stereotypes.” one of the top pioneers in Probably Williams’ most Black cinema. noted movie was the 1941 “He paved the way for the University of MinneBlack actors and Black sota, but his time there was feature, “The Blood of Jedirectors in the movie incut short by the U.S. Army. sus,” filmed for $5,000 by the “In 1914, he began his Amegro Film Co., founded dustry,” Wynne said. “They four-year Army service at

by Williams that same year. wouldn’t have had those Fort Slocum, New York,” opportunities in the early National Registry of Films Wynne said. “He became movie industry if it wasn’t Gen. John J. ‘Black Jack’ for Williams.”

According to the nonPershing’s personal bugler profit Black history website Why no remembrance? in Mexico, while the genBlackPast.org, “The Blood eral was on the trail of Pan- of Jesus” is “considered But the “Amos ‘n’ Andy” one of the most effective controversy eclipsed Wilcho Villa. After World War depictions of Black church I started, Spencer served liams’ career. life in the South and was seextensively in military in“Forget about ‘Amos ‘n’ Andy,’ ” Wynne said. “Spen- telligence in France after lected by the United States his promotion to sergeant Congress for entry into the cer Williams should be major.”

National Registry of Films honored for his pioneering After that, it was back to in 1991.” The website also work. So, why isn’t there a points out that Williams historical marker honoring New York, where Williams recorded the duet “It Feels also composed music. him?”

So Good” with native New Then came 1951, when Then again, Wynne alOrleans jazz guitarist LonWilliams landed the role of ready knows the answer.

Andy.

Williams fell out of favor nie Johnson on the Okeh “Although he is best rewith Hollywood after CBS Race Records label, which canceled its Thursday night targeted African American membered for his role as series on June 11, 1953, and audiences. New Orleans’ slow-witted, often duped faded into obscurity. Wynne King Oliver and Louis Arm- and frequently unemknows that if he didn’t know strong also produced early ployed Andy, Williams later Williams’ story, neither did recordings on the label with protested the demeaning others. So, no marker.

Armstrong eventually mak- public images in which HolBut that wasn’t the case ing music history. lywood subjected Blacks when Williams was on teleto portray,” BlackPast.org Taking a different path states. “He pressed for vision. Archived editions more serious depictions of of The Advocate and The But Williams’ recording Times-Picayune include would point him down a dif- Blacks in motion pictures and attempted to rectify photos of the actor, along ferent path. the stereotypical climate with mentions that he was “Williams’ work in the by making movies after the a Louisianan from Vidalia New York recording in‘Amos ‘n’ Andy’ series that during the series’ run. dustry led to an invitation were more in line with AfriAnd historians have since to move to Hollywood as a written of Williams. sound technician for Chris- can American life.”

Historian G. William But Williams’ attempts ty Studios,” Jones writes.

Jones’ short biography of “Like other studios, Christy failed. He died of kidney Williams for the Texas State was gearing up to meet the failure in his Los Angeles Historical Association’s new challenge of sound mo- home on Dec. 13, 1969.

“Handbook of Texas,” notes tion pictures. Al Christy, “His tombstone in the Los that Williams moved from the studio head, began mak- Angeles National Military Vidalia to New York in his Cemetery notes his home ing a series of Black cast teens. state as Louisiana,” Wynne short films adapted from Texas was both his home said. “His life is worthy of the magazine stories of and filmmaking base in the Jewish writer Octavus Roy a historical marker and a 1940s, but as a teenager in book.”

Cohen.”

New York, Williams worked Christy asked Williams to as a “call boy,” or stagehand, write the scripts to give the Do you have a question for theater impresario Osdialogue a more authentic about something in Louisiana that’s got car Hammerstein — grand- sound. By the 1930s, Wilyou curious? Email father to playwright-lyricist liams also was acting in your question to Oscar Hammerstein II, who these films produced for curiouslouisiana@ would co-write and stage Black audiences. theadvocate.com. Include some of Broadway’s most “Williams also wrote and your name, phone number legendary musicals. appeared in the first horand the city where you Williams eventually left ror film with an all-black New York and enrolled at cast, ‘Son of Ingagi’ (1940),” live.

Today is Monday, July 27, the 208th day of 2026.

There are 157 days left in the year.

Today in History: On July 27, 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting on the Korean peninsula that killed an estimated 4 million people.

Also on this date: In 1789, President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the Department of State.

In 1909, during the first official test of the U.S. Army’s first airplane, Orville Wright flew himself and a passenger, Lt. Frank Lahm, above Fort Myer, Virginia, for one hour and 12 minutes.

In 1940, Billboard magazine published its first “music popularity chart” listing bestselling retail records. In first place was “I’ll Never Smile Again” recorded by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with featured vocalist Frank Sinatra.

In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to adopt the first of three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon, charging he had personally engaged in a course of conduct designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case.

In 1980, on day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis,

the deposed Shah of Iran died at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60.

In 1981, 6-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a department store in Hollywood, Florida, and was later killed (Adam’s father, John Walsh, subsequently became a victims’ rights activist and, in 1988, launched and hosted the television show “America’s Most Wanted”).

In 1996, terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park, directly killing one person and injuring 111. (Anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph later pleaded guilty to the bombing, exonerating security guard Richard Jewell, who had been wrongly suspected.)

In 2012, Britain opened its Summer Olympic Games in a celebration of Old England and new, even cheekily featuring stunt doubles for Queen Elizabeth II and fictional special agent James Bond parachuting into Olympic Stadium.

In 2013, security forces and armed men clashed with supporters of Egypt’s ousted president, Mohammed Morsi, killing at least 72 people.

In 2015, the Boy Scouts of America ended its blanket ban on gay adult leaders while allowing churchsponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion for religious reasons.

In 2018, the White House announced that North Korea had returned the remains of what were believed to be U.S. servicemen killed during the Korean War, with a U.S. military plane making a rare trip into North Korea to retrieve 55 cases of remains.

In 2020, the world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study began with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots created by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc. Today’s birthdays: Singersongwriter Bobbie Gentry is 84. Actor-director Betty Thomas is 79. Olympic gold medal figure skater Peggy Fleming is 78.

Singer Maureen McGovern is 77. Comedian-actorwriter Carol Leifer is 70.

Comedian Bill Engvall is 69. Actor-martial artist Donnie Yen is 63. Jazz singer Karrin Allyson is 63. Rock musician Juliana Hatfield is 59. Former professional wrestler Triple H is 57. Actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is 56.

Comedian Maya Rudolph is 54. Rock musician Abe Cunningham (Deftones) is 53. Singer-songwriter Pete Yorn is 52. Former MLB All-Star Alex Rodriguez is 51. Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is 49. Actor/comedian Heidi Gardner (TV: “Saturday Night Live”) is 43. Actor Taylor Schilling is 42. MLB All-Star pitcher Max Scherzer is 42. Golfer Jordan Spieth is 33.

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A breakfast egg and cheese on an ‘everything’ bagel

BAGEL

Continued from page 1C The bagel started in Jewish communities in Poland and was brought here by Eastern European Jews escaping growing antisemitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After arriving from Poland, Harry Lender worked at a New Jersey bakery to earn enough to bring his family to America. His sons grew the family’s work from their New Haven, Connecticut, bakery to supermarkets around the country

with frozen bagels.

The bagel, then, is another story of the success of immigrants in America.

The shops that now sell them are run by families of those original immigrants and new groups who’ve come for a better life.

But no matter how far the bagel spreads, it maintains a special place for American Jews. Many moments in the circle of life for Jews in America include boiled rings of dough stacked high to celebrate or eat away the grief.

Ritual circumcision for a baby boy? Snip snip, then bagels for all.

Bar mitzvah day 13 years later? Months of practice for an hour of work. Then: bagels.

Shiva house mourning a loved one? “Sorry for your loss.” “Thank you. Bagels are in the other room.”

In these situations, the bagel brings comfort — just as it has for generations of American Jews, immigrants, and anyone else looking for their place at the table.

Part of a recurring series, “American Objects,” marking the 250th anniversary of the United States.

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Continued from page 1C absurdist and silly works that challenged conventional ideas about the meaning of art.

“Isn’t it fantastic that we are all standing here looking at peanut butter?” Schippers told journalists gathered at the Central Museum in Utrecht in 1997 where Pindakaasvloer was on display for the second time.

Schippers created the work as part of a Floor Covering Series, which also included floors covered with glass shards and salt.

The aroma, redolent of breakfasts and lunch boxes, is what lingers with many who experience the work first hand. Museum staff directed visitors for the opening to “follow the smell” which was wafting by the ticket counter, three floors below where the artwork is laid out.

“The thing I remember is the smell,” Mieke Weismann told The Associated Press.

The food photographer and writer saw the 1997 exhibition as a teenager.

The art installation may not be for everybody. A sign at the museum’s entrance warns visitors with peanut allergies that they might not want to enter the space.

It took two employees of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen several days to spread 40 buckets of peanut butter across a 270-squarefoot hexagon.

“It was a lot of work,” Leon Duenk, one of the two men who installed the artwork, told AP. The pair used drywall trowels to smear the peanut butter to a thickness of 0.8 inch.

Prior to his death the museum and Schippers discussed how to recreate the work in the future, producing a 20-point plan that included the requirement to apply the peanut butter “as

smoothly and boringly as possible” and that “no one is supposed to stand in, or lie down on the peanut butter.”

Schippers did not specify the size or shape of the work, but he did say it needed to be smooth peanut butter and that he preferred the Dutch peanut butter brand Calvé.

The company donated 40 tubs of peanut butter for the work.

Multiple visitors stepped into the artwork when it was on display in 2011. In 1997, the work was “vandalized” when a group of people placed 12 slices of bread and several bags of hagelslag — chocolate sprinkles commonly eaten on bread at breakfast in the Netherlands — on the floor.

“It doesn’t look bad,” Schippers told Dutch newspaper Volkskrant at the time. “The sprinkles have been applied with a sense of proportion and a skillful hand.”

AP writer Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, contributed.

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Stop worrying about who walks away.

If a connection is causing you grief, let it go. Take the path that offers food for thought. sAGIttARIus (nov. 23-Dec. 21) All is good if you take care of your health and physical well-being. Taking on too much or more than you can handle will leave you subject to risk and injury. cAPRIcORn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Address issues concerning legalities, health issues and your financial future with those who influence your lifestyle and how you proceed. A commitment will help you get back on track.

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By PHILLIP ALDER Zig Ziglar, a writer, salesman and motivational speaker who died in 2012, said, “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

To succeed in a bridge deal may require taking a winner at the right moment. A trick too soon or too late may prove fatal.

In today’s deal, South is in four spades.

West leads the club queen. What should declarer do?

In the auction, South probably should have rebid three no-trump. With eight winners, he needed partner to provide only one more trick, or for the opening lead to be a low heart away from the ace.

Declarer apparently has these 10 tricks: six spades, one heart, two diamonds and one club.

However, to get that heart trick, South has to lead his king to drive out the ace, then get to the dummy to cash the queen.

And apparently the only dummy entry, the club ace, has been removed by West’s opening lead. Well, if a heart trick is impossible, maybe South’s 10th trick can be a club ruff in dummy.

Some players would take the first trick and return a club, but the defender who won that trick would surely shift to a trump to stop declarer’s club ruff.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge (BREC) will receive electronic or paper bids for the construction of the following project: SB 1874 LAVEY LANE CONNECTOR ROAD AT GREENWOOD PARK 13350 LA-19, BAKER, LA, 70714 Project Description: The work generally consists of constructing the Lavey Lane Connector Road at Greenwood Community Park, including a new as‐ phalt concrete park en‐ trance roadway, earth‐ work, grading, drainage improvements, concrete walk, curb ramps, pave‐ ment markings, signage, erosion control, and final restoration. Major items of work include clearing and grubbing, removals, excavation and embank‐ ment, Class II base course, lime treatment, asphalt concrete pave‐ ment, drainage pipe in‐ stallation, concrete walk, curb ramps, signing, striping, hydroseeding, and related appurte‐ nances.

Electronic OR Paper bids will be received until 2:00 PM CT, August 11, 2026, by the BREC Finance De‐ partment, BREC Adminis‐ tration Building, 6201 Florida Boulevard, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

All electronic bids will be downloaded and publicly read aloud, along with all paper bids received, im‐ mediately after the 2:00 PM bid closing in Room 1501 of the BREC Admin‐ istration Building. Bid‐ ders or their authorized representatives are in‐ vited to be present. No bids will be received after 2:00 PM on the same day and date.

Bids, amendments to bids, or requests for withdrawal of bids, re‐ ceived after the time specified for bid opening shall not be considered for any cause whatso‐ ever, except as required by law. Bids shall be firm for a period of forty-five (45) days from the date of the opening of bids and no bid shall be with‐ drawn for any reason during this period of time except as allowed per LSA-R.S.38:2214.C. Bid‐ ders shall obtain an orig‐ inal set of bidding docu‐ ments from BREC as fol‐ lows.

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Ques‐ tions about this proce‐ dure shall be directed to Bid Express Customer support@ Service at bidexpress.com.

Toll Free: (888) 352-BIDX (2439), Phone: (352) 3814888, Fax: (888) 971-4191, Monday through Friday, 6am - 7pm CT.

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Bidders are responsible for their own reproduc‐ tion costs. A set of docu‐ ments can be printed by most reprographers.

Bids shall only be ac‐ cepted by Contractors who have formally ob‐ tained a complete set of the contract documents and in whose name the proposal forms and/or specifications were is‐ sued.

Electronic bids and elec‐ tronic bid bonds must be submitted through www. bidexpress.com prior to the bidding deadline.

Electronic bid bonds will be downloaded by the BREC Finance Depart‐ ment immediately after the 2:00 PM bid closing.

Bidders utilizing the elec‐ tronic bid process are re‐ sponsible for confirming that all documents are properly submitted and received by Bid Express.

Questions about this pro‐ cedure shall be directed to Bid Express Customer support@ Service at bidexpress.com.

Toll Free: (888) 352-BIDX (2439), Phone: (352) 3814888, Fax: (888) 971-4191, Monday through Friday, 6am - 7pm CT. Paper bid forms must be submitted in a sealed, opaque envelope and en‐ dorsed SB 1874 Lavey Lane Connector Road at Greenwood Park for the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge along with Con‐ tractor’s license number as required by LSA-R.S. 37:2151-2165. Bids with no license number will be rejected. One (1) copy of the bid form shall be submitted.

Bid form blanks must be duly filled in by the Bidder.

Bidders are cautioned not to attach any condi‐ tions or provisions to their proposals. Any for‐ eign conditions will ren‐ der the proposal invalid and may cause its rejec‐ tion. A Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, payable to the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge or a satisfactory Bid Bond, in compliance with LSA-R.S. 38:2218.A&C, executed by the Bidder and an ac‐ ceptable surety, in an amount equal to five per‐ cent (5%) of the total bid, shall be submitted with each paper bid.

BREC is an Equal Oppor‐ tunity Employer. The Bid‐ der is encouraged to uti‐ lize minority participa‐ tion in this contract to the extent possible through the use of small, disadvantaged and women-owned busi‐ nesses as suppliers or subcontractors.

All Contractors bidding on this work shall com‐ ply with all provisions of the State Licensing Law for Contractors, LSA-R.S. 37:2150-2163, as amended, for all public contracts. It shall also be the responsibility of the General Contractor to as‐ sure that all subcontrac‐ tors comply with this law. Contractors must be licensed in the proper category of work. If re‐ quired for bidding, Con‐ tractors must hold an ac‐ tive license issued by the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors in the classification of

BREC reserves the right to reject any or all bids for just cause as allowed

by LSA-R.S. 38:2214.

The construction esti‐ mate will be read aloud at the bid opening.

A pre-bid conference will be held at 9:00 AM CT on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 in the Baton Rouge Zoo’s Executive Boardroom #A201, Baton Rouge, LA 70807, The pre-bid con‐ ference is non-manda‐ tory. Bidders should re‐ view the bid documents and drawings prior to this meeting.

Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference & Site Visit: August 4, 2026 @ 10:30 AM Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference Location: Southern University Baton Rouge Campus Physical Plant Department Benjamin H. Kraft Building 515 James L. Hunt Street Baton Rouge, LA 70813 Pre-bid conference telephone numbers 225-771-4741 & 771-6241 Late arrivals cannot par‐ ticipate in the bid process

Inquiries will be ac‐ cepted until August 11, 2026 by 5:00 p.m. In‐ quiries shall be submit‐ ted to Linda Antoine at linda_antoine@subr.edu

RECREATION AND PARK COMMISSION FOR THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE

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ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR BID Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by Southern Uni‐ versity, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the Pur‐ chasing Office, J. S. Clark Administration Building Annex, South Entrance, 1st Floor East, or PO Box 9534 Baton Rouge, LA 70813, until the date indi‐ cated for the following: LANDSCAPE AND GROUNDS LAWN CARE Areas of the Southern University Agricultural Research & Extension Center (SU Ag Center) Southern University and A&M CollegeBaton Rouge Campus BID NUMBER 10358 AUGUST 21, 2026 @ 10:30 AM As an alternative Use link to submit bid on‐ line: http://www.sus.edu/bid certification Bid shall be uploaded or delivered no later than 10:30 AM on August 21, 2026. Late bids will not be accepted.

Bidders are solely re‐ sponsible for ensuring timely delivery of their bids. The Purchasing De‐ partment is not responsi‐ ble for any delays caused by bidders’ chosen means of delivery. Failure to meet bid opening date and time will result in re‐ jection of bid.

This request for lawn services is not to out‐ source the Southern Uni‐ versity Grounds Depart‐ hi i

Any person requiring special accommodation should notify Henry Thurman, Interim Direc‐ tor, Southern University Risk Management at 225771-3101 or 225-771-4741 or henry_thurman@subr. edu. of the type(s) of ac‐ commodation required not less than seven (7) days before the bid opening date Bids may be withdrawn by written, telegraphic or fax notice received at the address designated in the Invitation to Bid prior to the time set for bid opening, as recorded by date stamp at the Pur‐ chasing Office. Bids re‐ ceived after closing time will be returned un‐ opened. Evidence of au‐ thority to submit the bid shall be required in ac‐ cordance with R.S. 38:2212(a)(1)(c) and/or R.S. 39:1594(c)(2)(d). The University reserves the right to award all or done and to reject any and all bids and to waive any in‐ formalities incidental thereto.

The Southern University System is a participant in the Louisiana for the Small Entrepreneurships Program (the Hudson Ini‐ tiative) and the Louisiana Initiative for Veterans and Service-Connected Disabled VeteransOwned Business Small Entrepreneurships. Bid‐ ders are encouraged to consider participation. A list of certified vendors and additional informa‐ tion can be obtained http:// from website www.ledsmallbiz.com.

Potential participants may also register at this website.

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Anyone knowing the whereabouts of William Brandon Elkins and/or Happy Humble Homes, LLC, contact Carlin Chambliss: (225) 270-1209 195201-7/25-26-27-3t $67.00 Seeking information on the whereabouts of a Carrie Morris Bergeron, who is currently married to Clinton Bergeron, please contact Attorney Robin V. Cazayoux at (225) 381-3141 or by email at robin@cazayouxlaw.com.

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WANT TO BUY Old Records 33's, 45's & 78's. All types of music. Call 985-259-1889

Baton Rouge Real Estate For Sale RETIREMENT COMMUNITY Village Woods Independent Condo Living 2 BRS, 2 BA, available ranging from $142,900 to $209,900 225-718-3025 www.jarreaurealty.com

Baton Rouge Rental APARTMENT 3060 N. Acadian Thrwy (Wtr/Swr Pd) 5135 & 5137 Fairfield (Duplex Updt) 1BR/1BA, Rent $500, Dep $100 225-357-6436 APARTMENT AREA 5 1BR $600, 2BR $700 Tigerland. $500 Deposit. 225-475-1737

194802-July 21-27, 7t $8981.50 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Christine S. Chapman please contact attorney Melanie Newkome Jones at (225) 344-2200.

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APARTMENT Silverside Gardens, very nice home, Lg 2-Story apartment w/cent a/c/heat, all electric, w/d hu, ceiling fans. remodeled & very clean. $900/mo & $850/dep 225-939-5229 APARTMENTS 655 North St Subsidized Efficiency Apartments cpabr.org 225-383-5551 TDD/TTY 711 RELAY

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Gerald McDowell please contact attorney Larry McAlpine at 225-3171956 195374-7/25-26-27-3t $58.60 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of KMX Real Estate Louisiana Division, LLC, please contact Attorney Harry Landry at (225) 2834529.

195445-July 25-27, 3t $73.30 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the children or heirs of Paul Michael LeBlanc, contact Christopher Jenkins, Atty (225) 5138100.

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or maryjane_spruel@ subr.edu for questions concerning this adver‐ tisement and bid docu‐ ments,

scribing bidders that a solicitation and any sub‐ sequent addenda have been let and posted, no‐ tice and receipt thereof is considered formally given as of their respec‐ tive dates of posting dates. Though not re‐ quired if receiving solici‐ tation and addenda no‐ from LaPAC, tices BRECwill mail addenda to all vendors contacting our office and requesting to be put on our office Vendor Listing for this solicitation.

State Procurement, 1201 North Third Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, LA until 10:00 AM CT on September 1, 2026 for Solicitation Number Doc#2307630702 - Re‐ quest for Proposal (RFP) for Records Manage‐ ment. The RFP may be accessed https:// discovery.ariba.com/rfx/ 1110019401.

(7) DAYS BEFORE THE BID OPENING.

Bids will be accepted only from contractors who meet state and fed‐ eral guidelines to oper‐ ate charter bus services under the classification of 7200000 Building and Construction and Main‐ tenance Services, 72100000 Building Con‐ struction, Support Main‐ tenance and Respir, 72102900 Ground Mainte‐ nance Services, 72102905 Exterior Ground Mainte‐ nance.

SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY & A&M COLLEGE Linda A. Antoine, Director of Purchasing SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER DATE ADVERTISED JULY 27, 2026 195328 July 27, 1t $61.50

PUBLIC NOTICE --BIDS TO BE OPENED: August 10, 2026 @ 10:00 AM NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the BRECRecreation and Parks Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge until August 10, 2026@ 10:00 AM local time at 6201Florida Boulevard, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70806 for: SB 1868 -Annual Contract for Event Inflatables, Rides, Entertainment, & Event Accessories Bids received after the above specified time will not be considered. Bids will be opened immedi‐ ately after proposal opening time in Room 1501, of the Administra‐ tion Building located at 6201 Florida Boulevard, Baton Rouge, LA 70806.

All interested parties are invited to be present.

Copies of the Solicitation shall be obtained from the Purchasing Division, 6201Florida Boulevard, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70806, or by telephoning or emailing Dedra Foun‐ tain at 225-272-9200 ext.

1581 (Dedra.Fountain@ brec.org) or Venice Flem‐ ing at 225-272-9200 ext.

1582 (Venice.Fleming@ brec.org).

The right to reject any and all proposals and to waive irregularities and informalities is reserved.

BREC is an equal oppor‐ tunity employer.

All questions concerning the Solicitation must be received in accordance with the bid documents. *Note: BREC has elected to use LaPAC, the state's online electronic bid posting and notification system, in addition to its standard means of ad‐ vertising this require‐ ment. LaPAC is resident on State Purchasing's https:// website at wwwcfprd.doa.louisiana. gov/OSP/LaPAC/ and is pubmain.cfm available for vendor selfenrollment. In that LaPAC provides an immediate email notification to sub‐

Complete bid documents are available in elec‐ tronic format at www. bidexpress.com.

Ques‐ tions about this proce‐ dure shall be directed to Bid Express Customer Service at support@ bidexpress.com. Toll free phone: (888) 352-BIDX (2439), Phone: (352) 3814888, Fax: (352) 381-4444, Monday thru Friday, 6am - 6pm CST. BREC reserves the right to reject any or all bids for just cause as allowed

by LSA-R.S. 38:2214.

RECREATION AND PARK COMMISSION FOR THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE __________________ /s/ Janet Simmons, In‐ terim Superintendent THE ADVOCATE BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA To be Published Two Times: July 20, 2026; July 27, 2026 6 SB# 1868 Annual Con‐ tract for Event Inflata‐ bles, Rides, Entertain‐ ment, & Event Acces‐ sories 194390 July 20, 27, 2026 3t $99.16 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 135 Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Procure‐ ment Section of the Divi‐ sion of Administration, 1201 N. 3rd. St., 2nd.

Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 10:00 A.M. for the follow‐ ing: RFx No. 3000026530, *REBID* Armed Security Guard Services - LDH, 8/6/26 Bid proposal forms, in‐ formation and specifica‐ tions may be obtained by accessing the bid num‐ ber in LaPac at www.doa. la.gov/doa/osp/ or from the procurement section listed above. No bids will be received after the date and hour specified.

The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive any infor‐ malities.

Amy Vincent Director of State Procurement FAX (225) 342-8688 195335 July 27, 1t $12.05

PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice to Proposers SP# 136 Sealed proposals will be received by the Office of

No proposals will be con‐ sidered after the date and hour specified. The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals and to waive any infor‐ malities.

Amy Vincent Director of State Procurement Phone (225) 342-8010 195341 July 27, 1t $10.34

PUBLIC NOTICE --River Parishes Commu‐ nity College is seeking bids for a 40005-FY27-012, 2026 48 ft Dry Van Trailer – CDL Training Program (Qty 2). To obtain bid package, please visit https://wwwcfprd.doa. louisiana.gov/osp/lapac/ dspBid.cfm?search=dep artment&term=4.

The following bids are open: #4005FY27-012 195319 July 27-Aug. 10 15t $86.40

PUBLIC NOTICE --Sealed Bids for the Build‐ ing 385 Ventilation and Heating Upgrade, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, New Orlans, Louisiana, 70143 will be received at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Belle Chasse, LA ANG Civil Engineer Squadron Building 473 until 9:00 a.m. CT on Thursday, August 20, 2026.

ANY PERSON REQUIRING SPECIAL ACCOMMODA‐ TIONS SHALL NOTIFY MAJOR BRIAN PLUNK OF THE TYPE(S) OF ACCOM‐ MODATION REQUIRED NOT LESS THAN SEVEN

Complete Bid Documents for this project are avail‐ able in electronic form.

They may be obtained without charge and with‐ out deposit from Forte and Tablada.

Printed copies are not available from the Designer, but arrangements can be made to obtain them through most repro‐ graphic firms. Plan hold‐ ers are responsible for their own reproduction costs. Questions about this procedure shall be directed to the Designer at Pond, Consulting Engi‐ neers, 3500 Parkway Lane, Suite 500 Peachtree Corners, GA, 30092.

Phone (678) 336 7740. At‐ tention: Lorraine White, Project Manager. E-Mail Address: WhiteL@ pondco.com.

A Mandatory Pre-Bid conference and site visit is scheduled for 9:00 a.m.

CT on, Wednesday, Au‐ gust 5, 2026, Building 385 Ventilation and Heating Upgrade, Naval Air Sta‐ tion Joint Reserve Base, New Orlans, Louisiana, 70143. Attendance at this Conference is manda‐ tory. Prospective bidders must attend the entire mandatory Pre-Bid con‐ ference in order to sub‐ mit a bid. The Military Department and Archi‐ tect point of contact is Lorrain White at POND LLC. whitel@pondco.com eric.

Eric Norwood norwood@us.af.mil

BIDS SHALL BE ACCEPTED ONLY FROM CONTRAC‐ TORS THAT ATTEND THE ENTIRE MANDATORY PREBID CONFERENCE. ANY PERSON REQUIRING SPECIAL ACCOMMODA‐ TIONS SHALL NOTIFY MAJ BRIAN PLUNK OF THE TYPE(S) OF ACCOMMO‐ DATION REQUIRED NOT LESS THAN FIVE (5) DAYS BEFORE THE MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE. All Bids must be accom‐ panied by Bid Security equal to five percent (5%) of the Base Bid and Additional Bid Items (ABI) and must be in the form of a certified check, cashier’s check or bid

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bond.

Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192 for the classification of BUILD‐ ING CONSTRUCTION. Bid‐ der is required to comply with provisions and re‐ quirements of LA R.S. 38:2212(B)(5).

The successful Bidder will be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written by a company licensed to do business in the State of Louisiana, equal to 100% of the Contract amount, including Addi‐ tional Bid Items (ABI), if required.

No Bid may be with‐ drawn for a period of forty-five (45) days after receipt of Bids except under the provisions of LA R.S. 38:2214.

Electronic Bid Docu‐ ments may be submitted

by Contractors to the Construction & Facilities Management Office by submitting their bid along with their bid secu‐ rity to https://www.cen tralauctionhouse.com.

Electronic bids must be submitted so as to be posted prior to 9:00 a.m.

CT on August 20, 2026.

Hard copies of the con‐ tractor’s electronically submitted packet must be sent to 159 CES at 400 Russell Ave Box 27 New Orleans, LA 70143 Con‐ tractors MUST attend the mandatory Pre-Bid con‐ ference scheduled for 9:00 a.m. CT on Thursday, August 5, 2026, at the listed above location in order to submit an elec‐ tronic bid.

The Owner reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Bids for just cause. In accordance with directives and guid‐ ance published by Facil‐ ity Planning and Control, the Louisiana Revised Statutes, the provisions and requirements of those stated in the ad‐ vertisement for bids and those required on the bid not be form shall waivered. The Louisiana Military Department Deputy Director for Con‐ tracting and Purchasing d h

PUBLIC NOTICE Invitation to Bid ADA Accessible Bus Stop Improvement Project Solicitation #2026-ADAbuspads-003 The Capital Area Transit System (CATS), a political subdivision of the State of Louisiana, operating the public transit system in EBR Parish is accepting Bids for ADA Accessible Bus Stop Improvement Project.

Sealed bids are due to CATS Procurement Department by August 28, 2026, at 10:00 am (local time) at 2250 Florida Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70802, or electronically (see info below). A copy of this ITB can be found on CATS website at: http://www.brcats.com/page/procurement and https://wwwcfprd.doa.louisiana.gov/osp/lapac/deptbids.cfm.

Bidders may submit written questions to: catsprocurement@brcats. com until August 14, 2026. Bidders are reminded to check CATS website often for addendums issued to this ITB. CATS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

A mandatory pre bid conference will be held at 350 N. Donmoor St, Baton Rouge, La. 70806. Job Site Visit to follow.

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g g and the State Contract‐ ing Officer do not pos‐ sess authority to waive any informality inciden‐ tal thereto. The Owner shall incur no obligation to the Contractor until the Contract between Owner and Contractor is fully executed.

g A.M.) and then at said of‐ fice publicly opened and read aloud for construc‐ tion of the project de‐ scribed as follows:

The Louisiana Military Department is a partici‐ pant in the Louisiana Ini‐ tiative for Small Entre‐ preneurships (SE) Pro‐ gram (the Hudson Initia‐ tive) and the VeteranOwned and Service-Con‐ nected Disabled VeteranOwned Small Entrepre‐ neurships Program (the Veteran Initiative). Bid‐ ders are encouraged to consider participation.

This project consists of road repair work throughout the Town of Addis as shown in the construction plans and as required by the Town on various roadways throughout the Town Limits.

Construction work generally includes asphaltic concrete over‐ lay, cold planing, pave‐ ment patching, tempo‐ rary traffic control, pave‐ ment markings, and other necessary items as shown on the plans & specifications.

193965-jul 20-27-aug 3-3t $203.50 PUBLIC NOTICE --SECTION 001- BID INVITATION Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by The Town of Addis, 7818 LA-1, Addis, LA 70710, on Tuesday, Au‐ gust 25, 2026, until 10:00 ) d h id f

2026 TOWN OF ADDIS ROAD REHAB PROJECT STATEMENT OF WORK:

Electronic bids will be accepted. Please find bid-related materials and place your electronic bids at www.centralauct ionhouse.com. Bids re‐ ceived after the above time will not be ac‐ cepted.

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Complete Bid Documents for this project are avail‐ able in electronic form.

They may be obtained without charge and with‐ out deposit from www. centralauctionhouse. com. Printed copies are not available from the Designer, but arrange‐ ments can be made to obtain them through most reprographic firms.

Plan holders are respon‐ sible for their own repro‐ duction costs. Questions about this procedure shall be directed to the Designer at: Novus Reb Engineering, LLC – Jason Ellis, 1651 Lobdell Ave., Ste 202, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806 via email to jason@novusreb.com.

shall be countersigned by a person who is under contract and who is li‐ censed as an insurance agent in the State of Louisiana, and who is re‐ siding in this state.

Hall, 7818 LA-1, Addis, LA 70710 by the bidder or his agent, a written receipt shall be handed to the deliverer. For bids sub‐ mitted by mail, bids shall be sent by registered or certified mail with a re‐ turn receipt requested, the sealed envelope con‐ taining the bid must be enclosed in another en‐ velope addressed to the Town of Addis, 7818 LA-1, Addis, Louisiana 70710, and must be received no later than the bid open‐ ing. Bids will not be ac‐ cepted on days that are recognized as holidays by the United States Postal Service. Electronic bids will also be ac‐ cepted. Please find bid related materials and place your electronic bids at www.centralauct ionhouse.com. All elec‐ tronic bids must contain the bidders license num‐ ber. Bids received after the above time will not be accepted. All bidders are required to have an active license for “High‐ way, Street, And Bridge Construction” from the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors prior to bidding this pro‐ j

PERFORMANCE AND PAY‐ MENT BOND: A perfor‐ mance and payment bond for the work will be required upon execution of the contract, equal to one hundred percent (100%) of said contract written by a company li‐ censed to do business in Louisiana and who is cur‐ rently on the U.S. Depart‐ ment of the Treasury Fi‐ nancial Management Service List. The bond

ATTESTATION AFFIDAVIT: The bidding documents shall not require any bid‐ der, other than the apparent low bidder, to furnish any other information or doc‐ umentation, including the Attestation Affidavit, any sooner than ten days after the date bids are opened; however, the ap‐ parent low bidder may submit such information or documentation at any time prior to the expira‐ tion of the ten-day pe‐ riod.

All mailed or hand deliv‐ ered bids must be sub‐ mitted in a sealed enve‐ lope marked “SEALED BID FOR 2026 TOWN OF ADDIS ROAD REHAB PROJECT”, including Louisiana Con‐ tractor’s license number and Construction Firm name. All bids must be submitted in one of three ways. For bids hand de‐ livered to Addis Town

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The Owner reserves the right to waive any infor‐ malities or to reject any or all bids. Determination of the low bidder shall be on the basis of the sum of the base bid and any alternates accepted. The owner is under no obliga‐ tion to accept an alter‐ nate.

194928-jul 27-aug 3-10-3t $224.52

All questions and/or re‐ quest for clarifications must be electronically submitted to the project engineer, Jason Ellis via email to jason@ novusreb.com by Thurs‐ day, August 13, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. No questions will be answered after the deadline for ques‐ tions passes.

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

OWNER TOWN OF ADDIS BY: /s/ Mr. David H. Toups,

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Bid security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the Total Base Bid plus any Alternates must accompany each Bid, and shall be made payable to the Owner.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --VOUCHER# 26-006458 BIDS TO BE OPENED: 08/13/26

Electronic or sealed bids will be received by the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge, Purchasing Divi‐ sion, City Hall Building, Room 826, 222 Saint Louis Street, 8th Floor, Baton Rouge, La. until 11:00 A.M. August 13, 2026, for the following: REQ#6458 2026 or Newer Harben E-180 DTK 375 Trailer Jetter Official

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Electronic bids for the solicitation will be down‐ loaded by the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge, Pur‐ chasing Division. Begin‐ ning as soon as feasible after the bid closing time all electronic bids will be downloaded and publicly read aloud along with all paper bids received, if any, in Room 806 immedi‐ ately after the 11:00 a.m. bid closing. Bidders or their authorized repre‐ sentatives are invited to be present.

Bids, amendments to bids or request for with‐ drawal of bids received after time specified for bid openings shall not be considered for any cause whatsoever.

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bid posting and notifica‐ tion system, in addition to its standard means of advertising this require‐ ment. This Invitation to Bid is available in elec‐ tronic form at the LaPAC website https:// wwwcfprd.doa.louisiana. gov/osp/lapac/dspBid. cfm?search=departm ent&term=102.

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LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Lot 60, Square 2, Rich‐ mond Park Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) North 32nd Street.

By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19847, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of United Tax Group, LLC, et al., and was adjudicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2010 for unpaid taxes for the year of 2009. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your interest in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the prop‐ erty by making all re‐ quired payments to the tax collector listed below or file a lawsuit in accor‐ dance with law within SIXTY (60) DAYS of the date of the first publica‐ tion of this notice, or the recording of an act trans‐ ferring ownership, if later.

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194598 July 20, 27, 2t $80.36

PUBLIC NOTICE --Recquisition 11297767 NOTICE OF SALE OF ADJUDICATED PROPERTY Nathalie Cecile Bates Carroll, Marion Patterson Bates, Kevin Gerard Bates, Sr., Nadalie Maria Bates Thomas, Elydia Janelle Bates Gaither, and Nathaniel Bates Jr. THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW:

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Lot X, J.J. Burke Estate Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) East Blvd.

By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19879, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Nathalie Cecile Bates Carroll, et al., and was adjudicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2021 for unpaid taxes for the year of 2020. The sale will take place in ac‐ cordance with the provi‐ sions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your interest in the property will be termi‐ nated if you do not re‐ deem the property by making all required pay‐ ments to the tax collec‐ tor listed below or file a lawsuit in accordance with law within SIX (6) MONTHS of the date of the first publication of this notice, or the record‐ ing of an act transferring ownership, if later.

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194599 July 20, 27, 2t $83.06

PUBLIC NOTICE --Recquisition 11297767 NOTICE OF SALE OF ADJUDICATED PROPERTY Cedric Byrd THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Lots 17 & 18, Square 26, South Baton Rouge Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) Jefferson Davis Street By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19892, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ d h

LOUISIANA LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY On motion of Butler and seconded by Rabalais, the following resolution was adopted: RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE LOUISIANA LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY TO PROCEED WITH THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED EIGHT MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($8,500,000) LOUISIANA LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY REVENUE BONDS (BEEKMAN CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT), IN ONE OR MORE SERIES, ON BEHALF OF BEEKMAN ALUMNI AND FRIENDS, INC.; MAKING APPLICATION TO THE LOUISIANA STATE BOND COMMISSION FOR APPROVAL OF SAID BONDS; AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. WHEREAS, the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, acting as the governing authority (the “Governing Authority”) of the Louisiana Local Government Environmental Facilities and Community Development Authority (the “Authority” or “Issuer”) is a political subdivision of the State of Louisiana (the “State”) established for public purposes pursuant to Chapter 10-D of Title 33 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended (La. R.S. 33:4548.1 through 4548.16) (the “LCDA Act”); and WHEREAS, the LCDA Act and other constitutional and statutory authority empower the Authority to issue bonds to provide funds for and to fulfill and achieve its authorized public functions or corporate purposes as set forth in the LCDA Act; and WHEREAS, the Beekman Alumni and Friends, Inc. (“Borrower”) is a Louisiana non-profit corporation exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), as an organization described under Section 501(c)(3) of the Code; and WHEREAS, the Borrower is currently operating as a Type 3 Charter School in the District which currently operates Beekman Charter School (the “Charter School”) as a Type 3 Charter School under the provisions of the Louisiana Charter School Law and a Charter Contract dated as of March 15, 2013 (as amended and/or extended, the “Charter Contract”) with the Morehouse Parish School Board; and WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Authority issue not to exceed Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($8,500,000) of its Revenue Bonds (Beekman Charter School Project), in one or more series (the “Bonds”), to assist the Borrower by: (i) providing financing for the construction and improvement, of permanent public junior high school building, classroom facilities and related furniture and equipment at the Charter School, including replacement of existing modular facilities; and (iii) to pay costs of issuance of the Bonds (collectively, the “Project”); WHEREAS, it is the desire of this Governing Authority to proceed with the financing for the purposes of the Project, and pursuant to and in accordance with the LCDA Act, the Authority will issue the Bonds, and loan the Borrower funds for such purpose; and WHEREAS, this Governing Authority desires to authorize filing of an application with the Louisiana State Bond Commission (the “State Bond Commission”) requesting that the State Bond Commission grant approval for issuance of the Bonds in accordance with the LCDA Act; and WHEREAS, the Authority desires to authorize the publication of one or more notices of public hearing the conduct of public hearings in accordance with the requirements of Section 147(f) of the Code; and WHEREAS, the Authority reasonably expects to reimburse expenditures of the Borrower incurred prior to issuance of the Bonds, if any, for the Project, from proceeds of the Bonds and to have this resolution (the “Resolution”) serve as a declaration of intent under Section 1.150-2 of the United States Treasury Regulations issued pursuant to the Code.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Governing Authority of the Issuer, that: SECTION 1. Parameters. Pursuant to the authority of the LCDA Act, the Authority hereby authorizes the issuance of the Bonds. The Bonds shall mature not later than twenty-five (25) years from date of issuance and shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding eight (8%) percent per annum.

SECTION 2. Security for the Bonds. The Bonds shall be secured pursuant to the terms of a: (i) a loan agreement by and between the Authority and the Borrower (the “Loan Agreement”), (ii) a trust indenture by and between the Authority and the trustee now therein (the “Trust Indenture”) providing for the pledge and dedication of: (a) the minimum foundation payments or appropriated moneys, in connection with the Charter School, payable by the State pursuant to Article VII, Section 13(B) of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, as amended and La. R.S. 17:3995A. (1), or any other moneys appropriated by the State or any agency thereof to the Borrower in connection with the Charter School (“State Aid”), (b) the net revenues of the ad valorem tax of 10 mills (subject to adjustment from time to time by reassessment) which the School Board, on behalf of the Consolidated School District No. 12 of the Parish of Morehouse, State of Louisiana (“District”), is authorized and imposed to collect in each

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p p y j cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Cedric Byrd, et al., and was ad‐ judicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2020 for unpaid taxes for the year of 2019. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your inter‐ est in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the property by making all required payments to the tax col‐ lector listed below or file a lawsuit in accordance with law within SIXTY (60) DAYS of the date of the first publication of this notice, or the record‐ ing of an act transferring ownership, if later.

p 47:2201 et seq. Your inter‐ est in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the property by making all required payments to the tax col‐ lector listed below or file a lawsuit in accordance with law within SIXTY (60) DAYS of the date of the first publication of this notice, or the record‐ ing of an act transferring ownership, if later.

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194600 July 20, 27, 2t $79.68 PUBLIC NOTICE --Recquisition 11297767 NOTICE OF SALE OF ADJUDICATED PROPERTY MARY JANE TOURERE ST. AMANT, AND THOMAS HARRIS ST. AMANT, II THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Lot 4, Highland Farms Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) Avenue E. By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19746, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Mary Jane Tourere St. Amant, And Thomas Harris St. Amant, II, et al., and was adjudi‐ cated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 1998 for unpaid taxes for the year of 1997. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. i

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194585 July 20, 27, 2t $56.02

PUBLIC NOTICE --Recquisition 11297767 NOTICE OF SALE OF ADJUDICATED PROPERTY Sadie Lee Bryant Carter THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Lot 10, Prescott Court Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) Prescott Ct. By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19894, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Sadie Lee Bryant Carter, et al., and was adjudicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2004 for unpaid taxes for the year of 2003. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your interest in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the prop‐ erty by making all re‐ quired payments to the tax collector listed below or file a lawsuit in accor‐ dance with law within SIXTY (60) DAYS of the date of the first publica‐ tion of this notice, or the recording of an act trans‐ ferring ownership, if later.

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff

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222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194588 July 20, 27, 1t $79.02 PUBLIC NOTICE --Recquisition 11297767 NOTICE OF SALE OF ADJUDICATED PROPERTY Andrew Gibson THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Lot 14, Square 29, Greenville Extension Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) North 47th St By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19893, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Andrew Gibson, et al., and was adjudicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2019 for un‐ paid taxes for the year of 2018. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your inter‐ est in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the property by making all required payments to the tax col‐ lector listed below or file a lawsuit in accordance with law within SIXTY (60) DAYS of the date of the first publication of this notice, or the record‐ ing of an act transferring ownership, if later.

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194589 July 20, 27, 2t $79.68

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Recquisition 11297767 NOTICE OF SALE OF ADJUDICATED PROPERTY Sally M. Sheppard Early THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Lot 9, Square 164, South Baton Rouge Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) West Garfield Street.

By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19880, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Sally M. Sheppard Early, et al., and was adjudicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2017 for unpaid taxes for the year of 2016. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your interest in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the prop‐ erty by making all re‐ quired payments to the tax collector listed below or file a lawsuit in accor‐ dance with law within SIXTY (60) DAYS of the date of the first publica‐ tion of this notice, or the recording of an act trans‐ ferring ownership, if later.

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194594 July 20, 27, 2t $80.36

PUBLIC NOTICE --Recquisition 11297767 NOTICE OF SALE OF ADJUDICATED PROPERTY ANTHONY F. MEDICI, FRANCES ANNE HELOUIN MEDICI THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐

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LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Lot 13, Square 3, Magno‐ lia Place Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. () Ellwood Street By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19166, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Anthony F. Medici, et al and was adjudicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2010 for un‐ paid taxes for the year of 2009. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your inter‐ est in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the property by making all required payments to the tax col‐ lector listed below or file a lawsuit in accordance with law within Sixty (60) Days of the date of the first publication of this notice, or the recording of an act transferring ownership, if later.

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194595 July 20, 27, 2t $81.02

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Ave. By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19894, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Cynthia Haynes, et al., and was adjudicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2022 for un‐ paid taxes for the year of 2021. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your inter‐ est in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the property by making all required payments to the tax col‐ lector listed below or file a lawsuit in accordance with law within SIX (6) MONTHS of the date of the first publication of this notice, or the record‐ ing of an act transferring ownership, if later.

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194596 July 20, 27, 2t $79.68

PUBLIC NOTICE --Recquisition 11297767 NOTICE OF SALE OF ADJUDICATED PROPERTY Roosevelt Lee Leblanc THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW:

Cynthia M. Haynes

Lot 31, Belfort

THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW:

Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) North 38th St.

Lot 18, Square 29, East Fairfields Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) Jefferson

By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19896, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Roosevelt

year through the year 2048 for the purpose of constructing, improving, maintaining or equipping public elementary and secondary schools within the boundaries of the District pursuant to an election held on May 3, 2014, and which the Borrower is entitled to receive pursuant to Section 3.1.2.4 of the Charter Contract for the exclusive use for capital improvements for the Charter School, including the Project (the “District 12 Tax Revenues”); and (c) other revenues available to the Borrower for the purpose of paying debt service on the Bonds (collectively, with State Aid and the District 12 Tax Revenues, the “Lawfully Available Funds”).

is hereby authorized to execute a term sheet, commitment letter, and/or similar offer to purchase for the Bonds, in form and substance satisfactory to Bond Counsel, and the municipal advisor, provided that the sale of the Bonds is within the parameters set forth herein and otherwise complies with the terms of the approval of the State Bond Commission.

SECTION 3. Authorized Denominations. The Bonds may be issued in denominations of $100,000 or any multiple of any multiple of $5,000 in excess thereof (“Authorized Denominations”).

SECTION 14. Electronic Signatures. This Governing Authority consents and agrees to the execution of documents by electronic signature in accordance with the Louisiana Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (La. R.S. 9:2601, et. seq.), and electronically executed documents are deemed binding and legal on all parties to the extent allowed by the provisions of that act.

SECTION 4. Declaration of Intent. This Resolution is an adoption of an official intent of the Authority relative to issuance of its Bonds as contemplated herein in accordance with the laws of the State and the United States Treasury Regulations, Section 1.150-2(e). The Bonds are not expected to exceed an aggregate principal amount of $8,500,000.

Reimbursement of expenditures of the Borrower from proceeds of the Bonds, if any, will be for reimbursement of expenditures made from time to time in connection with the Project.

SECTION 5. State Bond Commission Application. Bond Counsel (as defined herein) is hereby directed to forward a certified copy of this Resolution to the State Bond Commission, along with a letter requesting prompt approval of this application.

SECTION 13. Incorporation of the LCDA Act. This Resolution does hereby incorporate by reference as though fully set on herein the provisions and requirements of the LCDA Act.

SECTION 15. Severability. If any provision or item of this Resolution or the application thereof is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions, items or applications of this Resolution which can be given effect without the invalid provisions, items or applications, and to this end, the provisions of this Resolution are hereby declared to be severable SECTION 16. Publication. This Resolution shall be published in The Advocate, the official journal of the Authority and the State of Louisiana published in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

SECTION 6. SBC Swap Policy. By virtue of the Issuer’s application for, acceptance and utilization of the benefits of the Louisiana State Bond Commission’s approval(s), resolved and set forth herein, it resolves that it understands and agrees that such approval(s) are expressly conditioned upon, and it further resolves that it understands, agrees and binds itself, its successors and assigns to, full and continuing compliance with the “State Bond Commission Policy on Approval of Proposed Use of Swaps, or other forms of Derivative Products, Hedges, Etc.”, adopted by the SBC on July 20, 2006, as to the borrowing(s) and other matter(s) subject to the approval(s), including subsequent application and approval under said Policy of the implementation or use of any swap(s) or other products(s) or enhancement(s) covered thereby.

SECTION 17. Effective Date. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon adoption hereof.

Jim Holland, Chairman

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SECTION 7. Public Hearing. The Authority hereby approves and authorizes publication of one or more Notices of Public Hearing and does hereby further authorize and approve conducting public hearings as set forth in said Notices in accordance with the requirements of Section 147(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Mayor David Camardelle, Vice Chairman

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Mayor David C. Butler, II, Secretary/Treasurer

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SECTION 8. Authorization. The Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary/ Treasurer, Assistant Secretary or Executive Director (each an “Authorized Officer”) of the Authority are hereby authorized, empowered and directed, for and on behalf of the Authority, to take any and all further action and to execute any and all documents, instruments, writings and certificates as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Resolution and to file, on behalf of the Authority, with any governmental board or entity having jurisdiction over the Bonds or the Project, such applications or requests for approval thereof as may be required by law.

Johnny Berthelot

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SECTION 9. Bond Counsel. It is recognized, found and determined that a real necessity exists for employment of bond counsel in connection with issuance of the Bonds and accordingly, Boles Shafto, LLC, is hereby employed as bond counsel to the Authority (“Bond Counsel”) to do and perform comprehensive, legal and coordinate professional work with respect to issuance and sale of the Bonds. Bond Counsel shall (i) prepare and submit to the Authority for adoption all proceedings incidental to authorization, issuance, sale and delivery of the Bonds; (ii) counsel and advise the Authority with respect to issuance and sale of the Bonds; and (iii) furnish its opinion covering legality of issuance thereof. The fee of Bond Counsel, for services rendered in that capacity in connection with the issuance of the Bonds, is hereby fixed at a sum not exceeding the maximum fee allowed by the Attorney General’s fee schedule for comprehensive, legal and coordinate professional work in the issuance of revenue bonds, based on the amount of the Bonds actually issued, sold, delivered and paid for, plus “out-of-pocket” expenses, said fee to be contingent upon the issuance, sale and delivery of the Bonds.

Pursuant to instructions from the Authority, and if deemed necessary, said Bond Counsel shall also assist in the preparation of a preliminary and final official statement containing detailed comprehensive financial and statistical data required with respect to the sale of the Bonds and the costs of the preparation and printing of such official statement shall be paid from the proceeds of the issue for which it has been prepared.

SECTION 10. Issuer Counsel. It is recognized and agreed that a real necessity exists for employment of special counsel to service as issuer counsel to the Authority to supervise the issuance of the Bonds; accordingly, Butler Snow, Baton Rouge, Louisiana is hereby employed for such purposes (“Issuer Counsel”). The fee to be paid for such services shall be an amount to be negotiated with the Authority, together with reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses incurred and advanced in connection with the issuance of the Bonds and shall be payable by the Issuer from the proceeds of the Bonds.

SECTION 11.

Other Professionals.

Should it be deemed necessary upon advice of Bond Counsel to engage other professionals, an Authorized Officer of the Authority shall be entitled to engage such professionals provided the contracts employing such professionals shall be promptly submitted to the Issuer.

SECTION 12. Sale of the Bonds. The Bonds are hereby authorized to be sold by direct placement to a bank or other financial institution, upon the advice of the municipal advisor, and an Authorized Officer of the Issuer

[THE REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK] This Resolution having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows: Executive Committee Member

Yea

David Rabalais

X

Mary Adams

X

Guy Comier

X

Nay

Abstaining

Absent

And the Resolution was declared adopted on this, the 9th day of July, 2026. (Other business not pertinent to the foregoing resolution may be found in the official minutes of the Executive Committee of the Authority.)

LOUISIANA LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

ATTEST:

/s/ Ty E. Carlos, Executive Director

/s Amy K. Cedotal, Assistant Secretary STATE OF LOUISIANA PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE I, the undersigned Assistant Secretary of the Louisiana Local Government Environmental Facilities and Community Development Authority, do hereby certify that the foregoing constitutes a true and correct copy of: A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE LOUISIANA LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY TO PROCEED WITH THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED EIGHT MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($8,500,000) LOUISIANA LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY REVENUE BONDS (BEEKMAN CHARTER SCHOOL PROJECT), IN ONE OR MORE SERIES, ON BEHALF OF BEEKMAN ALUMNI AND FRIENDS, INC.; MAKING APPLICATION TO THE LOUISIANA STATE BOND COMMISSION FOR APPROVAL OF SAID BONDS; AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. I further certify that this resolution has not been amended or rescinded.

IN FAITH WHEREOF, witness my official signature on this 9th day of July, 2026. /s/ Amy K. Cedotal, Assistant Secretary 195377-671714-July 27-1t $ 448.36

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Leblanc, et al., and was adjudicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2022 for un‐ paid taxes for the year of 2021. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your inter‐ est in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the property by making all required payments to the tax col‐ lector listed below or file a lawsuit in accordance with law within SIX (6) MONTHS of the date of the first publication of this notice, or the record‐ ing of an act transferring ownership, if later.

with law within SIXTY (60) DAYS of the date of the first publication of this notice, or the record‐ ing of an act transferring ownership, if later.

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810

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194597 July 20, 27, 2t $79.68

PUBLIC NOTICE --Recquisition 11297767 NOTICE OF SALE OF ADJUDICATED PROPERTY Farmco Inc. THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Lot 19, Square 26, South Baton Rouge Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) Jefferson Davis Street By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19887, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Farmco Inc, et al., and was adju‐ dicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2010 for unpaid taxes for the year of 2009. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your inter‐ est in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the property by making all required payments to the tax col‐ lector listed below or file a lawsuit in accordance with law within SIXTY (60) DAYS of the date of the first publication of this notice, or the record‐ ing of an act transferring ownership, if later.

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194590 July 20, 27, 2t $79.68

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Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194592 July 20, 27, 2t $79.68

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NOTICE OF SALE OF ADJUDICATED PROPERTY Charlie Gatlin and Ella Gatlin THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Lots 5 & 6, Square 1, St. Irma Lee Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) St. Irma Lee Way By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19897, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Charlie Gatlin, et al., and was ad‐ judicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2017 for unpaid taxes for the year of 2016. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your inter‐ est in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the property by making all required payments to the tax col‐ lector listed below or file a lawsuit in accordance with law within SIXTY (60) DAYS of the date of the first publication of this notice, or the record‐ ing of an act transferring ownership, if later.

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194593 July 20, 27, 2t $80.36

PUBLIC NOTICE --The Louisiana Office of State Parks is requesting proposals for a PublicPrivate Partnership pro‐ ject to design, construct, and operate a high-qual‐ ity recreational vehicle campground and related amenities. For more in‐ formation go to opportu‐ nitiesinlouisiana.com.

192994-jul 2-aug 15-45t $207.90

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Carroll Anne Carpenter THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Lot 35, Bakerfield Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) North Mag‐ nolia Dr. By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19895, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Carroll Anne Carpenter, et al., and was adjudicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2017 for unpaid taxes for the year of 2016. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your interest in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the prop‐ erty by making all re‐ quired payments to the tax collector listed below or file a lawsuit in accor‐ dance with law within SIXTY (60) DAYS of the date of the first publica‐ tion of this notice, or the recording of an act trans‐ ferring ownership, if later.

Tax collector: East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff 222 St. Louis Street, 2ND Floor Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 (225) 389-4810 194591 July 20, 27, 2t $79.68

PUBLIC NOTICE --Recquisition 11297767 NOTICE OF SALE OF ADJUDICATED PROPERTY James Frank Brown THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Lot D, Robert A. Brian Tract Improvements thereon believed to bear on Mu‐ nicipal No. ( ) Magnolia Bridge/Wax By virtue of the provi‐ sions of Louisiana Re‐ vised Statute 47:2201 et seq. and Metropolitan Council Ordinance num‐ ber 19899, the Parish of East Baton Rouge has been authorized to sell this property as adjudi‐ cated property. You have been identified as a party who might have a vested or contingent in‐ terest in said property, which was assessed in the name(s) of Roosevelt Leblanc, et al., and was adjudicated to the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the year of 2018 for un‐ paid taxes for the year of 2017. The sale will take place in accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47:2201 et seq. Your inter‐ est in the property will be terminated if you do not redeem the property by making all required payments to the tax col‐ lector listed below or file a lawsuit in accordance

PUBLIC NOTICE --ST. GEORGE CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA July 28, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.

St. George Fire Department 14100 Airline Hwy St. George, LA 70816 Broadcast Live at https://youtube.com/@ costgeorgela I. Preliminary Business (1) Call to Order (2) Pledge of Allegiance (3) Invocation (4) Roll Call (5) Approval of Minutes of the July 14, 2026 Coun‐ cil Meeting (6) Monthly Financials Report II. Introduction of Ordinance for Public Hearing on August 11, 2026 1 . Ordinance to establish a fee schedule for the Construction Board of Appeals and to provide for related matters (Him‐ mel) III. Items for Public Hearing and Action 1. Zoning Matter No. CU26-0004 – Ordinance to granting a conditional use permit for the instal‐ lation of a rooftop sign on a 70 ft tall office build‐ ing (9100 Bluebonnet Centre Blvd) Zoning Commission vote: Motion to recommend approval: Billy Aguillard; seconded by Travis Thornton. YEAS – Travis Thornton, Laurie Marien, Billy Aguillard, Jason McAllister. NAYS - 0. Mo‐ tion passed and CU-260004 was recommended for approval for a Condi‐ tional Use Permit, along with a waiver of the 80foot-high building re‐ quirement, to allow the installation of a single, approximately 50.47 sq. ft., roof sign atop the façade facing Interstate 10. (Applicant: Signworx, on behalf of 9100 Blue‐ bonnet Centre BR, LLC) (Ordinance) Prior to the meeting, the applicant amended the request to install a roof sign atop the façade fac‐ ing Bluebonnet Boule‐ vard rather than Inter‐ state 10.

2.

An Ordinance to amend Title 6, Chapter 1 and Chapter 4, relative to Fire Prevention and Pro‐ tection (Cook) (Ordi‐ nance) 3. Resolution to adopt the City of St. George Emergency Operations Plan. (Monachello) (Res‐ olution) 4. Resolution to award the contract for Elliot Road Rehabilitation to the lowest bidder, there‐ fore, R.J Daigle and Sons Contractors, Inc and to provide for related mat‐ ters. (Himmel) (Resolu‐ tion) IV. The following items may be discussed in Ex‐ ecutive Session pursuant to La R.S. 42:17(2)(A) 1. Petition for Declara‐ tory Judgment and Dam‐ ages concerning pro‐ posed rezoning. LRK, LLC v. The City of St. George, Chris Rials, and Norman Browning, Docket No. C779530, Section 22 in the 19th Judicial District Court (Plaintiffs and De‐ fendants as listed in cap‐ tion) V. Other Business: Announcements • Administrative Hearing – Friday, July 31, 2026 at 9:00 am • City Council Meeting – Tuesday, August 11, 2026 at 5:00 pm at 11207 Proverbs Ave • City Council Meeting – Tuesday, August 25, 2026

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at 5:00 pm at 11207 Proverbs Ave • Board of Adjustment Meeting – Monday, Au‐ gust 3, 2026 at 5:00 pm at 11207 Proverbs Ave • Planning Commission Meeting – Monday, Au‐ gust 3, 2026 at 6:00 pm at 11207 Proverbs Ave • Zoning Commission Meeting – Monday, Au‐ gust 3, 2026 at 6:00 pm at 11207 Proverbs Ave ADJOURNMENT "In accordance with the Americans with Disabili‐ ties Act, if you need spe‐ cial assistance, please contact Angela Norman at (225) 228-3200 or email angela.norman@ stgeorgela.gov, to re‐ quest the assistance re‐ quired."

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record in the office of the· Clerk and Recorder for EAST BATON ROUGE Parish, State of Louisiana, as LOT NUM‐ BER SIX HUNDRED NINETY-ONE (691), said subdivision said lot hav‐ ing such measurements and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes and restric‐ tions as are of record and/or more particularly shown on the official subdivision map; subject to restrictions, servi‐ tudes; rights-of-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affecting the property.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $244.89 SHERIFF'S SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE the Louisiana De‐ partment of Conserva‐ tion and Energy, Office of Permitting and Compli‐ ance (OPC) has received the following applica‐ tion(s) for a Coastal Use Permit (CUP) in accor‐ dance with La. R.S. 49:214.21 et seq., and the rules of the Coastal Man‐ agement Program. Appli‐ cations for coastal use permits may be in‐ spected at 617 North 3rd Street, Room 1078, Baton Rouge, LA or on the OPC https:// webpage at: denr.louisiana.gov/page/ public-notices.

Copies are available, costs apply. Written comments are solicited from the public and must be re‐ ceived within 25 days of the date of this notice.

Comments must be up‐ loaded directly to our electronic record through the OPC web‐ page or mailed to: OPC Administrator, Kyle Balkum, P.O. Box 44487, Baton Rouge, LA 708044487. All comments must contain the appropriate CUP number and the commenter's full name and contact information.

Below are the referenced ******* application(s): CUP NUMBER: P20260312 Name: St. Charles Parish Department of Public Works c/o Coastal Per‐ mitting, LLC 14433 RIVER ROAD HAHNVILLE, LA 70057 Attn: Julie Hebert Location: Saint Charles Parish, LA; Lat. 29-5402.45N, Long -90-2045.28W (see plats for ad‐ ditional coordinates); Section 39,40,43,45, T14SR21E; Luling. Description: Proposed general main‐ tenance of existing perimeter canals to pump station in Willow‐ dale Subdivision. The ex‐ isting maintenance berms/servitudes will be used for equipment to enter without impacting adjacent wetlands. Vege‐ tative debris will be placed on high bank servitudes alternating sides every 500' or with gaps every 200' to avoid berming off natural flow if on same side of canal for extended period. Veg‐ etative debris will be hauled offsite in tight to sections backing homes where it is not ap‐ plicable to place onsite.

Vegetative overgrowth will be removed (approx.

4,875 CY) to improve sur‐ face waterflow and will be done on an annual basis unless storms deem a more or less fre‐ quent schedule.

195439 July 27, 1t $26.06

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SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 749669 JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION vs THE UNOPENED SUC‐ CESSION OF DARCUS GRIMES HANEY Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, July 12, 2024 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: THE UN‐ OPENED SUCCESSION OF DARCUS GRIMES HANEY One (1) certain lot or par‐ cel of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Parish of EAST BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision thereof known as FOSTER HEIGHTS, and being more particularly described according to the official map of said subdivision, on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder for the said Parish and State, as LOT FIFTY TWO (52), said subdivision; said lot having such measurements and di‐ mensions and being sub‐ ject to such servitudes as shown on the said map.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $211.71 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 750512 NEIGHBORS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION vs MAR‐ GUARITE LEWIS SCOTT Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, November 10, 2025 and to me di‐ rected, I did seize and will, beginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an on line auc‐ tion site at www. bid4assets.com/EBR SOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: MARGUARITE LEWIS SCOTT ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF-GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of EAST BATON ROUGE, State of Louisiana, in that subdivision known as VILLA DEL REY, EIGHTH FILING, and being desig‐ nated on the official plan thereof, on file and of

Suit No: (17) 751188 DEUTSCHE BANK NA‐ TIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAMP TRUST 2006-SEA 1 MORT‐ GAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006- SEA 1 vs MICHELLE VINSON A/K/A MICHELLE E VINSON AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMER‐ ICA Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Fieri Fa‐ cias issued out of the honorable court afore‐ said, in the above enti‐ tled and numbered cause, dated, January 06, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described property belonging to: MICHELLE VINSON A/K/A MICHELLE E VINSON AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA One certain lot or parcel of ground, together with all the buildings and im‐ provements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servitudes, appur‐ tenances and advan‐ tages thereunto belong‐ ing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as South Riveroaks Subdivision, and designated on the official map of said sub‐ division on file and of record in the office of the clerk and recorder for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as lot number twenty-five (25), said subdivision, said lot hav‐ ing such measurements and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes and building lines as shown on said map.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $247.45 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 759861 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICING, LLC vs ROD‐ MAN W. PRICE Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, May 29, 2025 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: RODMAN W. PRICE THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Sate of Louisiana, in that sub‐ division known as Cim‐ maron, and being desig‐ nated according to the official map thereof on file and of record in the Office of the Clerk and Recorder for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as Lot Number Sixty-Four (64), said subdivision, said lot bearing measurements and dimensions as more particularly described on the official subdivision plat TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

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ing such measurements and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes as are shown on said subdivision map TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $232.15 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 763845 BANK OF ST. FRAN‐ CISVILLE vs JOSEPH HER‐ NANDEZ Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, March 26, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: JOSEPH HER‐ NANDEZ Two (2) certain fractional lots or parcels of ground, together with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servitudes, appur‐ tenances and advan‐ tages thereunto belong‐ ing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as BEAURE‐ GARD TOWN, and being the Northern One-half (N 1/2) of Lot Number Nine (9) and the Southern Three (3') feet of the Eastern One Hundred (100') feet of Lot Number Ten (10) of Square Num‐ ber Sixty-Four (64) said Beauregard Town, the Northern one-half of Lot No. Nine (9) having a front of Thirty-two (32') feet on the west side of East Boulevard by a depth between parallel lines of One Hundred Twenty-eight (128') feet and the southern Three (3') feet of the eastern One Hundred (100') feet of Lot Number Ten (10) having been taken from the Northeastern corner of said Square Sixty-four (64) and having a front of Three (3) feet on East Boulevard by a depth of One Hundred (100') feet.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $255.11 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 764543 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC VS ANTON SMIRNOV Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, April 01, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: ANTON SMIRNOV ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as West River Oaks, Second (2nd) Filing, Part I, and desig‐ nated on the official plan thereof, on file and of record in the Office of the Clerk and Recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as Lot Number Thirty-Three (33), said subdivision, said lot hav‐ ing such measurements and dimen'5ions and being subject to such servitudes and restric‐ tions as are more partic‐ ularly shown on said map.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $211.71 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 765415

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish

CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES LLC vs DALE WAYNE GORDON, JR. AND RAYMONIKK GRANVILLE

ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $216.82

Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana

SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 760245 ROCKET MORTGAGE LLC FKA QUICKEN LOANS LLC vs TIFFANY O. REESE AKA TIFFANY REESE AKA TIFFANY O. PRATER AKA TIFFANY PRATER Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Fieri Fa‐ cias issued out of the honorable court afore‐ said, in the above enti‐ tled and numbered cause, dated, November 10, 2026 and to me di‐ rected, I did seize and will, beginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auc‐ tion site at www. bid4assets.com/EBR SOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described property belonging to: TIFFANY O. REESE AKA TIFFANY REESE AKA TIFFANY O. PRATER AKA TIFFANY PRATER One certain lot or parcel of ground together with all buildings and im‐ provements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servitudes, appur‐ tenances and advan‐ tages thereunto belong‐ ing or in anywise apper‐ taining, being situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as River Oaks, First Filing, and designated on the offi‐ cial plan thereof, on file and of record in the of‐ fice of the clerk and recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as lot num‐ ber forty-one ( 41), said subdivision, said lot hav‐

Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, July 18, 2025 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: DALE WAYNE GORDON, JR. AND RAY‐ MONIKK GRANVILLE ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, TO‐ GETHER WITH ALL THE BUILDINGS AND IM‐ PROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATED IN THAT SUBDI‐ VISION OF THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, KNOWN AS SOUTH BROADMOOR SUBDIVI‐ SION, THIRD FILING, AND BEING DESIGNATED ON THE OFFICIAL SUBDIVI‐ SION MAP, ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OF‐ FICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER FOR SAID PARISH AND STATE, AS LOT NUMBER ONE HUN‐ DRED SEVEN (107), SAID SUBDIVISION; SAID LOT HAVING SUCH MEASURE‐ MENTS AND DIMENSIONS AS SHOWN ON SAID MAP. Which has the address of 9721 Judi Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70815 TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $221.93

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SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 765921 CITIZENS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY vs LUSCO HOLDINGS, L.L.C. AND BATON ROUGE SHRIMP COMPANY, INC. Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, August 13, 2025 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: LUSCO HOLD‐ INGS, L.L.C. AND BATON ROUGE SHRIMP COM‐ PANY, INC. One certain tract or par‐ cel of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, in Section situated Thirty-eight (38), Town‐ ship 7 South, Range 1 West, of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, and being more particularly de‐ scribed as follows: Commencing at a point of intersection of the center-line of Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company's Lead Track No. 1 (I.C.C. Track No. 60M), with the Westerly line of the 60.0 ft. width right-of-way line of Sor‐ rel Avenue, said point being at Survey Station 21+49; thence southerly along said westerly line of Sorrel Avenue, a dis‐ tance of 462.5 ft. to the northerly right-of-way line of Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Com‐ pany's Lead Tract No. 2 (I.C.C. Tract No. 60.0), said right-of-way line being 22.5 ft. northerly from the center-line of Lead Track No. 2; thence westerly along said northerly right-of-way line of Lead Tract No. 2, a distance 300.0 ft. to the Point of Beginning; thence continue westerly normal to said northerly right-of-way line of Lead Track No. 2, a distance of 200.0 ft. to a point; thence easterly parallel to said northerly right-ofway line of Lead Track No. 2, a distance of 300.0 ft. to a point; thence southerly normal to said right-of-way line of Lead Track No. 2, a distance of 200.0 ft. more or less to the Point of Beginning, and containing 1,377 acres more or less.

Together with Seller's in‐ terest in that real servi‐ tude of passage and way, on, over, across and along those certain undedicated streets more particularly de‐ scribed in Exhibit D at‐ tached to the Exchange Deed between the Kansas City Southern Railway Company and Kansas City Southern In‐ dustries, Inc., dated April 26, 1971, or record in Book 2166, Folio 176 of the Conveyance Records of East Baton Rouge Parish, State of Louisiana.

The municipal address of the property is 822 NEOSHO STREET, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction previously offered WITH Appraisement, no bids were received, so the sale will be offered at cost and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $372.50 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 768475 LANDMARK BANK vs TRINITY'S AFFORDABLE HOMES LLC Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, April 01, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: TRINITY'S AF‐ FORDABLE HOMES LLC A certain tract or parcel of land, together with all of the improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and appurte‐ nances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise ap‐ pertaining, situated in that subdivision of the Parish of East Baton Rouge known as NORTH‐ WESTERN PLACE SUBDI‐ VISION, in the Town of Zachary, State of Louisiana, and being the EAST ONE-HALF (E 1/2) of LOT "L", of a resubdivi‐ sion of the Westerly por‐ tion of Northwestern Place Subdivision, and fronting forty-five (45) feet on the Northerly side of Shaffett Lane, and having a depth on its West side line of four hundred nineteen and fifty-five one hundredths (419.55) feet, a depth on its East side line of four hundred twenty-six and eighty-four one hun‐ dredths (426.84) feet, and a width across the rear of forty-five and four tenths (45.4) feet, all as more fully shown on "Map Showing the Sur‐ vey of the East 1/2 of Lot "L" of & Resubdivision of the Westerly Portion of Northwestern Place Sub‐ division in the Town of Zachary, in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, for David W. Judson", dated Baton Rouge, La., February 8, 1963, made

by Toxie Craft, C. E. and Surveyor, a blueprint copy of which is at‐ tached hereto and para‐ phed "ne Varietur" by me, Notary, for identifi‐ cation herewith.

Municipal Address: 4194 Shaffett Lane, Zachary, LA 70791.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $293.40 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 772731 STANDARD MORTGAGE CORPORATION vs ASHLEY LIVOUS A/K/A ASHLEY JARMAINE LIVOUS Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered

Public Notices Sheriff Sales

cause, dated, April 02, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: ASHLEY LIVOUS A/K/A ASHLEY JARMAINE LIVOUS LOT 5, MEADOW VIEW SUBDMSION, PHASE 1, "A FINAL PLAT OF MEADOW VIEW SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1 LOTS 1-83, GS-1, GS-2, GS-3, & CEM, Being a Portion of the Tract F-4, Located in Section 68, T4-S, R-1-W, Greensburg Land District, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pre‐ pared by Collin B. Gravois, P.L.S. Louisiana License No. 5115, dated February 28, 2018, recorded at ORIG# 347 BNDL# 12875 on March 12, 2018 in the records of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $198.97 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 773233 STANDARD MORTGAGE CORPORATION vs DONTE ANTHONY MILLS Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, April 06, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: DONTE AN‐ THONY MILLS ONE (1) certain lot or parcel of ground, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurten‐ w1ces and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that sub‐ division known as PARK FOREST SUBDIVISION, SECOND FILING, and des‐ ignated on the official plan thereof, on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as LOT NUM‐ BER TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE (221 ), said subdivision, said lot hav‐ ing such measurements and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes and restric‐ tions as are more partic‐ ularly shown on said map.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $227.04 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 773571 LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVIC‐ ING, LLC vs NATHAN L. JONES Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, February 10, 2026 and to me di‐ rected, I did seize and will, beginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auc‐ tion site at www. bid4assets.com/EBR SOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: NATHAN L. JONES LOT 196, MEADOW VIEW SUBDIVISION, PHASE 2, PART 1, "A FINAL PLAT OF MEADOW VIEW SUBDIVI‐ SION, PHASE 2, PART 1, LOTS 124-126, PHASE 3, PART 1 LOTS 182-184, 189200, 202-246, TRACT GS-4 & TRACT GS-5, BEING A PORTION OF THE REMAI‐ INING OF TRACT F-4, Lo‐ cated in Section 68, T-4-S, R-1-W, Greensburg Land District, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pre‐ pared by Collin B. Gravois, P.L.S. Louisiana License No. 5115, dated March 10, 2019, recorded at ORIG# 281 BNDL# 12947 on March 20, 2019 in the records of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish

Public Notices Sheriff Sales j tudes and building line restrictions, all as more particularly shown on the official subdivision plat. The improvements thereon being the munic‐ ipal number 16438 Ver‐ million Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70819.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

SHERIFF'S SALE

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish

Suit No: (17) 774433 ROCKET MORTGAGE LLC vs MICHAEL WENDELL DELONE A/KIA MICHAEL W. DELONE A/K/A MICHAEL DELONE Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, March 20, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: MICHAEL WENDELL DELONE A/K/A MICHAEL W. DELONE A/K/A MICHAEL DELONE That certain lot or parcel of ground, together with all buildings, component parts and improvements thereon, and with all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servitudes, appur‐ tenances and advan‐ tages thereunto belong‐ ing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in that subdivision of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, known as Baker Estates Subdivision, First Filing, and being particularly described on the official map of said subdivision on file and of record in the office of the clerk and recorder for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as lot number twelve (12), said subdivision, said lot hav‐ ing such measurements and dimensions as indi‐ cated on said map and being subject to such servitudes and restric‐ tions as are of record in the office of the clerk and recorder for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $244.89 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 774958

SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 775237 FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORA‐ TION vs THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF AD UN‐ KNOWN HEIRS OF PHOUSAY JOHNNY SA‐ VATH A/K/A PHOUSAY JOHNNY SAVATH A/K/A PHOUSAY J. SAVATH A/K/A PHOUSAY SAVATH Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, March 26, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: THE UN‐ OPENED SUCCESSION OF AD UNKNOWN HEIRS OF PHOUSAY JOHNNY SA‐ VATH A/K/A PHOUSAY JOHNNY SAVATH A/K/A PHOUSAY J. SAVATH A/K/A PHOUSAY SAVATH One (1) certain lot or par‐ cel of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that sub‐ division known as Cedar‐ crest Bend, and desig‐ nated on the official plan thereof, on file and of record in the office of the clerk and recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as lot number twenty-six (26), said sub‐ division, said lot having such measurements and dimensions and being subject to such servi‐ tudes and restrictions as are more particularly shown on said map.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $237.23

Suit No: (17) 776125

Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana

MIDFIRST BANK vs MILO LORENZO POWELL (A/K/A MILO POWELL, MILO L. POWELL)

Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, March 17, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: THE UN‐ OPENED SUCCESSION OF AND UNKNOWN HEIRS OF MELVIN JONES, Ill AKA MELVIN JONES, Ill

Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana

One (1) certain lot or par‐ cel of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and ad‐ vantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise ap‐ pertaining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in that subdivision thereof known as Longwood, and being designated on the official plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the clerk and recorder for East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as lot number one hundred nineteen (119), according to the official plat of said Longwood Subdivision, Second Filing, Part I, dated Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 31, 1961, made by Sam G. Dupree, C.E,, of record as Original 98, Bundle 4973 in the of‐ ficial records of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said Lot 119 measuring sev‐ enty-five (75) feet front on the east side of Kim‐ berly Drive by a depth between parallel lines of one hundred forty (140) feet; subject to a seven and 5/10 (7.5) foot servi‐ tude across the rear and further subject to a five (5) foot sidewalk servi‐ tude along the front line of said lot,

SHERIFF'S SALE

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish

PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC vs MICHAYLA GABRIELLE JOHNSON

ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $275.52

Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana

Suit No: (17) 774967

A certain lot or parcel of ground, together with all the buildings and im‐ provements thereon and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and ad‐ vantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise ap‐ pertaining, situated in that subdivision of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana known as STEVENDALE HEIGHTS and designated on the official subdivi‐ sion plat on file and of record as Original 97 Bundle 7411 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana as LOT NUMBER ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT (158) said subdivision said lot hav‐ ing such bearings and di‐ mensions. and being subject to such servi‐ d d b ildi li

ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $237.23

SELECT PORTFOLIO SER‐ VICING, INC vs THE UN‐ OPENED SUCCESSION OF AND UNKNOWN HEIRS OF MELVIN JONES,III AKA MELVIN JONES, Ill

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, April 02, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: MICHAYLA GABRIELLE JOHNSON

THEREOF, ON HIE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, AS LOT NUMBE.R THREE (3), SAID SUBDIVISION, SAID LOT HAVING SUCH MEASURE‐ MENTS AND DIMENSIONS AND BEING SUBJECT TO SUCH SERVITUDES AS ARE MORE PAR'TICU‐ LARLY DESCRIBED ON SAID SUBDIVISION MAP. (the "Property")

ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $239.78

ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $

Suit No: (17) 774367

Public Notices Sheriff Sales

SHERIFF'S SALE

Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, April 14, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: MILO LORENZO POWELL (A/K/A MILO POWELL, MILO L. POWELL) ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, TO‐ GETHER WITH ALL THE BUILDINGS AND IM‐ PROVEMENTS THEREON, AND ALL OF THE RIGHTS, WAYS, PRIVILEGES, APPURTE‐ SERVITUDES, NANCES AND ADVAN‐ TAGES THEREUNTO BE‐ LONGING OR IN ANYWISE APPERTAINING, SITUATED IN THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, IN THAT SUB‐ DIVISION KNOWN AS VILLA DEL REY SUBDIVI‐ SION, AND DESIGNATED ON THE OFFICIAL PLAN THEREOF, ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, AS LOT NUM‐ BER THREE HUNDRED TWENTY (320), SAID SUB‐ DIVISION, SAID LOT HAV‐ ING SUCH MEASURE‐ MENTS AND DIMENSIONS AND BEING SUBJECT TO SUCH SERVITUDES AS ARE MORE PARTICU‐ LARLY DESCRIBED ON SAID SUBDIVISION MAP. Which has the address of 10044 E Coronado Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70815.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE June 26, 2026 July 27, 2026 $250.00

SHERIFF'S SALE

HANCOCK WHITNEY BANK vs JACQUELINE KNIGHTEN HARVEY Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, March 19, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on July 29, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: JACQUELINE KNIGHTEN HARVEY ONE (1) CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE BUILDINGS AND IM‐ PROVEMENTS THEREON, AND ALL OF THE RIGHTS, WAYS, PRIVILEGES, SERVITUDES, APPURTE‐ NANCES AND ADVAN‐ TAGES THEREUNTO BE‐ LONGING OR IN ANYWISE APPERTAINING, SITUATED IN THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, IN THAT SUB‐ DIVISION KNOWN AS NORTH HARDING HEIGHTS, SECTION ONE (1 ), AND DESIGNATED ON THE OFFICIAL PLAN

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