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to historic homes, antique cars and motorcycles etc. so this job has been a dream job for Schelley Brown Francis, the me. I have connected with so director of the Dorcheat His- many of our older generation torical Museum will be the during the last 13 years. I have guest speaker for February heard some amazing stories 27, 2020 noon gathering of and tried to capture them eithe Minden Lions club. Fran- ther in our museum speaker cis became the director of the series “Night at the Museum” or in our books that we museum in 2007, have complied for the even before there was museum. Every day we a museum. Her job lose more and more of was to raise awarethese people…it’s like ness of why Minden losing a library filled and Webster Parish with books when they needed a museum. pass away.”

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The Glenbrook Apache Princess Pageant will take place on Friday, February 28 at 7 p.m. at the Minden Civic Center.

Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for students.

Standing left to right: Mary-Evelyn King, Gracie Purvis, Emma Pitman, Gracie Sivils, Haley Self, Olivia Blackwelder, Madolyn Vandenoord, Caylum Lewis, Molly Fowler Seated left to right: Emma Earnhardt, Anna Claire Lemoine, Hannah Mosley, Lauren Still, Aubrey Gray

Ash Wednesday marks start of Lenten season WILL PHILLIPS Minden Press-Herald

This week is host to two holidays, Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, that are a part of the long-standing season of Lent, during which people take as a time to “to give up specific pleasures, such as sweets, alcohol, or social media, during Lent as a way to foster simplicity and self-control,” according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, and continues on until the Good Friday.

Back before it was known as

“Fat Tuesday,” the day falling before Ash Wednesday was known as “Shrove Tuesday,” a solemn day of preparation for that took place for the oncoming Lenten season, or Lent.

Many Christians back then participated in the Sacrament of Confession on that day, which is why it ended up with the name of Shrove Tuesday, shrove being the past tense shrive, which refers to a priest hearing a confession.

Over time, however, the purpose of the day changed to holding one last feast before the

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oncoming fast as a part of Lent.

Back then the fast was more strict and required people to abstain from all meat and food that came from animals, such as milk, cheese, butter, eggs, and animal fats.

Since they wouldn’t be needing all of these ingredients, people chose to use them all to make and enjoy one last feast before Lent, making it obvious why the name transitioned to that of Fat Tuesday.

“Although Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation, it is traditionally one of the most

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heavily attended non-Sunday masses of the liturgical year,” according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

They also state that the practices originate, “in Rome for penitents and grievous sinners to begin their period of public penance on the first day of Lent in preparation for their restoration to the sacrament of the Eucharist. They were sprinkled with ashes, dressed in sackcloth, and obliged to remain apart until they were reconciled with the Christian community.”

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bolize two things, death, and repentance. “Ashes are equivalent to dust, and human flesh is composed of dust or clay (Genesis 2:7), and when a human corpse decomposes, it returns to dust or ash.”

In most congregations, the ashes used in the ceremony to place crosses upon congregants foreheads are prepared by burning palm branches from the previous year’s Palm Sunday. This ceremony marks the beginning of Lent, which will continue on until Good Friday.

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‘A new day’: Harvey Weinstein convicted, led away in cuffs NEW YORK (AP) — Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and sexual assault against two women and led off to prison in handcuffs Monday in what his foes hailed as a landmark moment for the legal system and a long-overdue reckoning for the man vilified as the biggest monster of the #MeToo era.

The 67-year-old Weinstein had a look of resignation on his face as he heard the verdict: guilty on two charges, not guilty on a set of more serious ones.

While it was not the across-the-board victory prosecutors and his accusers had hoped for, it could put the stooped and feeble-looking Weinstein behind bars for the rest of his life. The charges carry up to 29 years in prison.

District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. saluted the women who came forward against the oncefeared studio boss, saying they “changed the course of history in the fight against sexual violence” and “pulled our justice system into the 21st century.”

“This is the new landscape for survivors of sexual assault in America, I believe, and it is a new day. It is a new day because Harvey Weinstein has finally been held accountable for crimes he committed,” Vance said.

Weinstein’s lawyers said they will appeal.

“Harvey is unbelievably strong. He took it like a man,” defense attorney Donna Rotunno said. “He knows that we will continue to fight for him, and we know that this is not over.” Another of his lawyers, Arthur Aidala, quoted Weinstein as telling as his legal team:: “I’m innocent. I’m innocent. I’m innocent. How could this happen in America?”

The jury of seven men and five women took five days to find Weinstein guilty of raping an aspiring actress in a New York City hotel room in 2013 and sexually assaulting production assistant Mimi Haleyi at his apartment in 2006 by forcibly performing oral sex on her.

He was acquitted on the most serious charges, two counts of predatory sexual assault, each carrying up to life in prison. Both of those counts hinged on the testimony of “Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra, who said Weinstein barged into her apartment, raped her and forcibly performed oral sex on her in the mid1990s.

Judge James Burke ordered Weinstein taken to jail immediately.

Court officers handcuffed Weinstein and put their arms under his, leading him unsteadily out of the courtroom via a side door without the use of

the walker he relied on for much of the trial. He was later taken from the courthouse in an ambulance, strapped to a stretcher in his suit, and taken to a locked unit at Bellevue Hospital.

The judge said he would ask that Weinstein, who had been free on bail since his arrest nearly two years ago, be held in the infirmary at the city’s Rikers Island jail complex after his lawyers said he needs medical attention following unsuccessful back surgery.

Rotunno said in an appearance on Fox News that Weinstein was initially headed to the jail, but was diverted to Bellevue to be checked out for heart palpitations and high blood pressure.

“He’s O.K,” she added.

Sentencing was set for March 11. The sexual assault charge carries up to 25 years in prison, while the third-degree rape count is punishable by up to four years. (The jury acquitted Weinstein of first-degree rape, which requires the use of force or the threat of it, and found him guilty of third-degree rape, which involves a lack of consent.)

The verdict followed weeks of often harrowing and excruciatingly graphic testimony from a string of accusers who told of rapes, forced oral sex, groping, masturbation, lewd propositions and excuses from Weinstein about how the Hollywood casting couch works. In addition to the three women he was charged with attacking, three more who said they were assaulted by Weinstein testified in an effort by prosecutors to show a pattern of brutish behavior.

Whispers about Weinstein circulated in Hollywood for years before they finally turned into a torrent of accusations in 2017 that destroyed his career and gave rise to #MeToo, the global movement to encourage women to come forward and hold powerful men accountable for their sexual misconduct.

The trial was the first criminal case to arise from the barrage of allegations against Weinstein from more than 90 women, including actresses Gwyneth Paltrow, Salma Hayek, Ashley Judd, Uma Thurman and Mira Sorvino. Most of those cases were too old to prosecute.

While prosecutors and other Weinstein foes were disappointed by his acquittal on the most serious charges, they exulted over the guilty verdicts.

“The era of impunity for powerful men who rape people is over,” Sorvino said, breaking down in tears on a conference call of Weinstein’s former accusers. “He will rot in jail as he deserves.”

Judd, who accused

Weinstein of damaging her career by spreading lies about her after she rejected his advances, tweeted: “For the women who testified in this case, and walked through traumatic hell, you did a public service to girls and women everywhere, thank you.”

While Weinstein did not testify, his lawyers contended that any sexual contact was consensual and that his accusers went to bed with him to get ahead in Hollywood.

The defense seized on the fact that the two women he was convicted of attacking had sex with him — and sent him warm and even flirty emails — well after he supposedly attacked them.

In the end, that argument didn’t seem to gain any traction. Instead, the jury had trouble with Sciorra’s allegations. Four days into deliberations, the jurors sent out a note indicating they were deadlocked on the two predatory sexual assault counts but had reached a unanimous verdict on the others. The judge told them to keep on deliberating.

After the verdict, jury foreman Bernard Cody was asked what the deliberations were like for him personally and responded: “Devastating.” He did not elaborate.

Sciorra said in statement: “While we hope for continued righteous outcomes that bring absolute justice, we can never regret breaking the silence.

For in speaking truth to power we pave the way for a more just culture, free of the scourge of violence against women.”

The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sex crimes unless they grant permission, as Haleyi and Sciorra did.

The phenomenally successful movie executive helped bring to the screen such Oscar winners as “Good Will Hunting,” “Pulp Fiction,” “The King’s Speech,” “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Shakespeare in Love” and nurtured the careers of celebrated filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith.

Weinstein now faces charges in Los Angeles.

In that case, announced just as the New York trial was getting under way in early January, authorities allege he raped one woman and sexually assaulted another on back-to-back nights during Oscars week in 2013.

During the trial, Weinstein regularly trudged into the courthouse stooped and unshaven, using his walker — a far cry from the way he was depicted in court as a burly “Jekyll-and-Hyde” figure whose eyes seemed to turn black with menace when his anger flared.

“If he heard the word ‘no,’ it was like a trigger for him,” his rape accuser testified. One woman said that when she laughed off his advances, he sneered, “You’ll never make it in this business. This is how this industry works.”

The jury heard lurid testimony that Weinstein injected himself with a needle to get an erection, that his genitals appeared disfigured, that he sent Sciorra a box of chocolate penises and that he once showed up uninvited at her hotel room door in his underwear with a bottle of baby oil in one hand and a video in the other.

The prosecution’s task was made more complicated because Haleyi testified that she had sex with him two weeks after she was supposedly attacked, while the rape accuser whose name was withheld said she had a sexual encounter with him more than three years afterward.

The rape accuser admitted sending Weinstein emails saying “Miss you big guy” and “I love you, always do. But I hate feeling like a booty call.”

Under fierce cross-examination from Weinstein’s lawyers, she explained

that she was afraid of the movie executive’s unpredictable anger and “I wanted him to believe I wasn’t a threat.”

To blunt that line of questioning, prosecutors called as a witness a forensic psychiatrist who said that most sexual assault victims struggle to comprehend what happened to them and continue to have contact with their attackers.

During closing arguments, Rotunno charged that Weinstein had become “the target of a cause and a movement” — #MeToo — and asked the jury to ignore “outside forces.” She said the case against Weinstein amounted to “regret renamed as rape,” arguing that the women exercised their free will to try to further their careers.

Weinstein’s lawyers repeatedly raised objections during the case that could form the basis of an appeal. Among other things, the defense complained that the Los Angeles charges were timed to influence jury selection, and they unsuccessfully opposed the seating of a juror who wrote a novel involving predatory older men.

Over the years, Weinstein managed to silence many accusers with payoffs, nondisclosure agreements and the constant fear that he could crush their careers if they spoke out. He also employed an army of attorneys, publicists and private investigators to thwart journalists and suppress news stories about his behavior.

Weinstein was finally arrested in May 2018, seven months after The New York Times and The New Yorker exposed his alleged misconduct in stories that would win the Pulitzer Prize. Among other men taken down by the #MeToo movement since the scandal broke: news anchors Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose, actor Kevin Spacey and Sen. Al Franken.

Weinstein’s studio, the Weinstein Co., went bankrupt after his disgrace. A tentative settlement was reached last year to resolve nearly all lawsuits stemming from the scandal. It would pay Weinstein’s accusers about $25 million, but he would not have to admit any wrongdoing or personally pay anything; the studio’s insurance would cover the cost.

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Dorothy W. Davis Dorothy W. Davis, born September 2, 1027 in Lawhon, Louisiana passed away on Sunday February 23, 2020, at the age of 92. She was preceded in death by her husband of 63 years Ernest E Davis, her parents Robert and Lorene White, her sister Gladys North, and two brothers Lane White and James Roy White. She is survived by her daughter, Ramona Fryer and husband Kenneth of Baton Rouge Louisiana, one sister Merry Conly of Ringgold, Louisiana and numerous nieces and nephews.

Dorothy was a lifelong member of Taylor Baptist Church. She served her church and family faithfully.

She was profoundly strong, and some people occasionally made the mistake of calling her stubborn, to which

Jan Terri Parker Jan Terri Parker, born January 23, 1957, unexpectedly passed from her earthly life on February 22, 2020.

Preceding her in death was her father, Thomas Parker, a brother, Steve Parker, a niece Marci Denise Adcock and nephew Casey Lee Adcock. She leaves behind her mother, Marie Parker, two sisters Cheryl Whatley and husband Ronnie of Minden, La and Sally Pope and husband John of Litchfield Park, Az. Terri was the proud mother of two children, Gene Paul Stevens and his wife Amy from Baton Rouge, La. and a daughter, Haley Cedotel of Plaquemine, La. Four grandchildren, Brody Cash Stevens, Baylor Cate Stevens, Bristol Claire

Rex Frye Services for Rex Frye, 81, of Minden will be held on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. at RoseNeath Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Carolyn Michael officiating.

Interment will follow at the Gardens of Memory Cemetery in Minden under the direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home.

Mr. Frye passed away Sunday, February 23 at home in Minden. He was born November 14, 1938 in Minden to Gilly D. and Bessie Batton Frye.

Rex served in the United States Air Force from 1958 to 1962. Following his retirement from Lucent Technologies, he spent time on Lake Claiborne and when at home he loved spending time with his furry companions.

Rex was preceded in death by his parents, sister Geraldine Frye Cottrell, and his first wife Mary Ann Laird Frye. He is survived by his loving family including his

she always replied, “I’m true to my convictions.” Her upbringing during the Great Depression and World War II gave her strength of character, determination, and an unwavering work ethic. She loved any plant with a bloom and cared for any animal that needed help, but most of all she was a nurturing, caring, and loving mom.

Family and friends are invited to attend the visitation at Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Minden, Louisiana on Tuesday February 25, 2020 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Funeral Services honoring her life will be held at Taylor Baptist Church in Taylor, Louisiana on Wednesday February 26, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. Reverend Larry Hubbard and Reverend Jimmy Eppinette will be officiating. Interment will be at Woodard Cemetery in Taylor.

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Stevens, and Brayden Cedotel. Nephews are Dusty Adcock and his wife Tammy, of Spearsville, La. and Josh Pope and his wife Andrea Of Mckinney, Texas. Terri grew up in Minden and graduated from Minden High School in 1974. During her school years she was a majorette and band member. At an early age she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior, and was a member of Parkway Baptist Church. Terri lived in several cities in the state and made lasting friends wherever she went. She loved animals and was happiest on the farm.

Her favorite thing to do was trail ride with her nieces and nephew. Known as Aunt by her nephew, Dusty his wife, Tammy, and all her many friends in Union Parish she was loved by many and will be missed greatly. A memorial service and celebration of her life is planned for Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 2:00. Visitation prior to the service at 1:00.

wife Eva Anita Savell Frye of Minden, daughter Dee Dee Fowler and husband Randy of Tyler, Texas, daughter Pam Shields and husband Wade of Athens, Georgia, and daughter Melanie McCullough and husband Scott of Minden. Sisters Jo Rogers of Minden, and Jean Mitchell of Winnsboro, 7 grandchildren, and 3 great grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Randy Fowler, Wade Shields, Scott McCullough, Colby Jester, Patrick Jester, Nick McCullough, and Chandler Shields.

Visitation is scheduled from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 27 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Minden.

Family wishes to thank CHRISTUS Highland, Dr. Albert Krause and nurses-especially Mary, LA Home Health, and NWLA Regional Hospice.

If desired, memorials may be made to the Salvation Army or Boy’s Town.

Rose-Neath Funeral Home 211 Murrell Street Minden, Louisiana 71055 (318) 377-3412

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OTHER OPINION

How to usher in Louisiana’s ‘Roaring 2020s’ The Roaring 20’s were a time of unprecedented economic prosperity in America. A century has since passed. Can Louisiana and its oil and gas industry experience roaring economic prosperity once more?

Let’s take a look. One hundred years later, our nation’s economy is booming. Unemployment is at record lows, the stock market is at record highs, and it seems that everywhere you look, President T r u mp’s business acumen has acted like a shot of adrenaline for America.

Energy p ro d u c e r s are no exc e p t i o n . GIFFORD Reforms of BRIGGS rules and regulations that had previously hindered industry growth have expanded offshore drilling, streamlined the pipeline permitting process, and made the United States an oil and gas powerhouse once again.

Is that federal leadership enough to usher in a roaring 20’s decade for our state?

Considering our natural blessings, we are well-positioned for prosperity. Louisiana’s trifecta of oil and gas assets are a case in point. First is

Louisiana’s natural gas giant: The Haynesville Shale. Recently Louisiana’s northwest formation had the second-highest new-well gas production per rig in the nation. Our abundant resources don’t stop there - we are also home to assets in the Gulf of Mexico and vast resources ready to be tapped in South Louisiana.

Secondly, the Bayou State has a strong and expansive pipeline infrastructure. Pipelines are the safest, most secure way to transport product across vast distances. New York is now facing pricing, employment, and development woes simply because they do not have the pipeline capacity or willingness to move resources.

Finally, our LNG export capacity is a strength unique to our state: instead of simply refining natural gas, we now liquefy and export it all over the globe. LSU’s Center for Energy Studies estimates that Louisiana’s LNG projects could total nearly $100 billion in capital investment, potentially ushering in 20,000 construction jobs and 1,500 full-time jobs at Louisiana terminals once completed.

These three key assets have positioned Louisiana to play a defining role in the United States’ move toward permanent energy independence in the global market, but considering our current realities more must be done on a state level by Lou-

“Considering our natural blessings, we are wellpositioned for prosperity.

Louisiana’s trifecta of oil and gas assets are a case in point.

First is Louisiana’s natural gas giant: The Haynesville Shale. Recently Louisiana’s northwest formation had the second-highest new-well gas production per rig in the nation.” isiana leadership to enable our oil and gas industry to succeed.

South Louisiana energy activity continues to lag behind energy-producing regions all over the country. Our toxic legal environment and tax structure have crippled investment, taking Louisiana families away from the state in droves. It is time we bring them back.

But how?

We can learn from other oil and gas producing states. Our Lone Star neighbor has undertaken strategic, long term measures to fix its’ legal and regulatory framework, and they now boast a simpler tax environment. As a result, they have experienced steady investment both inside and outside of the oil and gas industry, and families all over the nation are becoming newly adopted Texans.

Perhaps we are learning from our prospering neighbors and will experience that decade of strong Louisiana growth. In the gall of 2019, Louisiana voters sent a strong message to the capitol that we want bold action for a better Louisiana. It’s time for change.

This newly elected body of legislators has the momentum and vision necessary to tackle substantive reforms. They have the potential to put an end to the rampant lawsuit abuse that has put a moratorium on oil and gas investment and turned Louisiana communities into ghost towns. They have the potential to transform our tax structure, making it fairer, more competitive, and attractive to outside businesses. They have the potential to get Louisiana’s oil and gas industry roaring again.

LOGA sees great opportunities arising and is optimistic about what is possible in the coming year. From the 4th floor to the House and Senate floors, we are looking forward to working with everyone to create the nation’s leading oil and gas industry and ushering in Louisiana’s very own roaring 2020s.

Gifford Briggs is president of the Louisiana and Gas Association.

OTHER OPINION

Freedom for $5.30 — and this time Mexico really is paying for it Back in 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump promised that Mexico would pay for his proposed border wall. Turns out Mexico wasn’t interested, so Trump eventually resorted to declaring fake emergencies and illegally misappropriating money from the military budget.

He’s spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars per mile on a barrier that, Samuel Lovett of the Independent reports, migrants are scaling with $5.30 ladders (when the wind isn’t blowing it over for them, making l a d d e r s THOMAS unneces- KNAPP sary).

Yes, based on the price of rebar at a local hardware store on the Mexican side of the wall, $5.30.

What a refreshing lesson! No matter how much money politicians like Trump spend trying to restrain and impoverish the people they stole it from, those seeking freedom and prosperity find ways to win through -and to do so for far less.

The wall was always a dumb and evil idea.

Dumb, because it was never going to “work.” The US has 95,500 miles of border and

coastline. If people want to get in, they’re going to get in, even if every member of the armed forces and every sworn law enforcement officer in the country is re-assigned to nothing but “securing the border.”

The only reliable way to keep people out is to turn America into such a crappy place that nobody wants to come here.

Which, admittedly, is something our politicians are always hard at work on.

Evil, because even if it DID “work” the result would be less freedom, a slower economy, and worse lives for everyone on both sides of it. Capital

-- including “human capital,” aka labor -- naturally flows to where it can be most profitably invested. If that flow is impeded, we’re all worse off.

Well, not all of us, I guess. The corrupt politicians doing the impeding, and their crony corporate welfare queens, make bank at the expense of the other 99% of us. Which is as good an explanation as any, and better than most, for Trump’s wall fetish.

Those $5.30 rebar ladders are, a huge practical benefit to their direct users. But they’re of double benefit -- practical and political -- to the rest of us.

As a practical matter, the immigrants who come over, under, around, or through the wall make our lives better.

As a political matter, the ease with which they’re exposing Trump’s multi-billion-dollar boondoggle for what it is makes it less likely that future politicians will waste our money on similar idiocy.

Thomas L. Knapp (Twitter: @thomaslknapp) is director and senior news analyst at the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism (thegarrisoncenter.org).

He lives and works in north central Florida.

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FBLA Members Outstanding Performance at District Conference

Food: cereal, fruit, pasta Household goods: sheets (twin and full), pots, pans, skillets Clothing: Men’s pants (waist 36), men’s boots/ tennis shoes and underwear

Buds & Blooms Educational Seminar The Piney Hills LA Master Gardeners will host their annual Buds & Blooms educational seminars Feb. 29 at the First United Methodist Church, located at 903 Broadway Street. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. and lectures will run from 9 a.m. until noon.

Cost to attend is $15. For more information, please call 318-464-0594, 318371-1371, or visit www. phlmg.com.

42 Years of Pastoral Service Valley Springs baptist Church is honoringt pastor Ray D. Jiles for 42 years of pastoral service.

The service will be help on March 1 startng at 2:30 p.m. with Special Guest Pastor marandalous Holland of St. james Baptist Church. The service is located at 212 Fuller Road in Minden.

Pop-Up & Plates Clothing Fundraiser Community First High School will be holding a pop-up shop an BBQ plate sale for a clothing fundraiser on March 7 starting at 8 a.m. and ending at 2 p.m.The plates will be $10 and will include chicken, sausages, and sides. It will be located at 202 Miller Street in Minden.

Annual Ushers’ Day Annual Ushers’ Day to be held at Union Grove Baptist Church on Sunday, March 8. starting at 3 pm. The guest speaker will be Pastor Anthony Abney and White Oak Baptist Church of Homer, LA.

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Members of Lakeside Jr/Sr High School’s FBLA organization recently competed in the District I competition held at BPCC. LHS members brought home an impressive eight Superior awards and 14 Excellent awards. The Superior winners now have an opportunity to participate in the state competition held in Lafayette the end of March.

Those attending the District conference were (in no particular order) Sara Osborne, Lainey Childers, Kaylee Cruise, Austin Nunn, Alaina WIllis, Amanda Long, Anna Grace Osborne, Brittany Odom, Cassie Mosley, Ja’Corla Curry, Julie Ortega, Jayde Burke, Fatima Servin, Jacob Chumley, Ariel Stanaland, Jenna Comeaux, Angie Futch, Karli Gotshall, Garcyn Brewster, Frances Robinson, Johnna Austin, Sarah Parnell and Callie Tippen.

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The kitchen was with cornbread. It closed for the week- was a time-consumend. ing dish, as first you Well, not totally brown the ground closed, but since my beef and onion, peel oven was out of com- and cut up all the vegmission, it etables, with might as well the exception have been of frozen okra closed. and corn and What can canned green a baker do beans and put without an it all together, oven? Actuseason and ally, I’m not cook till all a professionthe veggies al baker, but FANNIE MOORE are tender. since that is I turned the my favorite part of oven on to pre-heat, cooking, I am at a loss stirred up the cornwhen I can’t bake. bread and was about I had the ingredi- to pour it into the pan ents to make a pine- when I decided to apple sour cream pie, check the oven. It had but, no crust, there- not come on. So, what fore no pie. I suppose else could I do but fry I could have made a the bread? We had pudding instead, but some good looking you know, pudding cornbread “fritters”, just isn’t quite the but they just weren’t same as pie. There- the same as the baked fore, we had no des- bread would have sert. (But, truthfully, been. we probably didn’t One thing about need it anyway,) cooking is that one Not only did I miss must learn to impromy pie which I was vise. So that’s what we craving, but I also had have been doing for to fry my corn-bread a few days. Take-out instead of baking it. served us well for our I had spent a good Sunday meal when bit of time preparing a our son picked up a pot of vegetable beef great meal for us. No soup and was look- oven required! ing forward to enjoyMonday evening we ing a bowl of soup just happened to have

tickets for fish dinners. The youth group from an area church was raising funds for a mission trip by selling the dinners. So, by picking that up it saved some more time in the kitchen.

Later, a serviceman was able to make a call and Viola, my oven is in operational mode again.

A school group, as a fundraiser, was recently taking orders for strawberries. Recalling all the good Louisiana strawberries we had enjoyed over the years prompted me to order a flat.

We have made several trips to the Hammond area in the past to purchase the fresh berries, just out of the patch. There’s not much that tastes better than the locally grown strawberries, just washed and eaten out of hand. We took our RV and stayed a few days in the area and enjoyed driving around just to look at all the farms with row after row of beautiful red berries.

One of our first trips was when Mama was living with us. She was not one that liked

to travel, but she did enjoy the trip down for strawberries.

Another memorable time was when some friends went down with us to attend the Strawberry Festival in Ponchatoula. That was a trip full of experiences.

Before we had traveled 30 miles from home, our friends had a blowout on their RV. We pulled over and looked at the damage, not only to the tire but also the trailer. We eased on down the highway and pulled off in a church parking lot where the men changed the tire.

After putting the extra on, we had to go on to the tire store to buy another, but he decided to buy two.

They had to get one from Shreveport so we parked on their lot and waited. By then, it was getting near lunchtime, so we prepared a quick lunch and ate so that when they got the tires mounted, we could get on the road.

We made it to our RV park without any more mishaps and after getting set up, we drove over to Ponchatoula to check out

the area so we would know our way around when we arrived the next morning for the parade.

We enjoyed the parade, visited the vendors, looked up the best places to purchase strawberries, ate strawberry ice cream and had a great day.

Toward the end of the day, we purchased several flats of berries to bring home, for us and for other friends who had requested them.

Early the next morning, we drove back over and vendors were selling their berries for five dollars a flat. These were only good for making jam as they were ripe and had to be used immediately.

We left lots of beautiful, tasty berries, but enjoyed ours immensely when we got home.

And now, that the oven is working again, I must go to the kitchen and make my pie.

Fannie Moore is a journalist who lives in Shongaloo where she enjoys writing on a variety of subjects.

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Minden Rec Basketball Leauge winners

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Tiders fall to Ellender Ellender 69 - minden 52 Lady tiders finish season in the second round with loss at home

JJ Marshall

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jjmarshall@press-herald.com Minden’s Little League Basketball program has wrapped up the regular season.

Here are the winners from each age group: 11-13 Boys Minden 9-10 Boys LA Warriors 7-8 Boys LA Warriors 5-6 Coed Tarheels 10-14 Girls Homer 7-9 Girls Red Hot Divas

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BRACKETS ARE IN: Doyline, Lakeside seek deep playoff runs

Issues with turnovers and rebounding came back to haunt the Lady Tiders in the worst possible time as Minden fell to Ellender 69-52 in the second round of the playoffs.

“Our kids competed and played hard,” Minden head coach Jacob Brown said. “We got more stops than it showed.

Just gave away turnovers and second-chance opportunities.”

Ellender jumped out to a 22-9 lead after one quarter.

“A lot of our mistakes weren’t on the initial possession,” Brown said. “It was the second or third chances that got us.”

Ellender bombed away from three and took advantage of Minden mistakes to take a 39-28 lead into halftime.

“They played at a pace that we didn’t need to be at,” Brown said. “They’re good at that.

They force you to get at that pace.”

Janiya Reed led Minden with 20 points and finished her career in two seasons with over 800 total points scored.

“Our girls played their tails off,” Brown said. “We’ve never questioned how hard these girls play.”

Shakayla Carter finished with 18 points and Jazz White had seven.

“I’m so thankful for our community to have come out and create a great environment for us,” Brown said.

DOUGLAS BLOW//COURTESY PHOTO

Janiya Reed finished her Minden High career with over 800 points in just two seasons, scoring 20 points in her final game against Ellender on Monday night.

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jjmarshall@press-herald.com Lakeside captured the #21 seed in the Class 2-A playoffs and will travel to #12 Bunkie in the first round of the playoffs on Thursday at 6:30.

Doyline captured the #2 seed in Class B, earning themselves a first-round bye.

The Panthers will play the winner of #15 Mt. Hermon and #18 Choudrant.

The second round games will most likely take place next Monday or Tuesday, March 2 or 3.

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Left: Kelvaneisha Miller drives to the basket in Minden’s second-round playoff game against Ellender.

Right: Shakayla Carter finished with 18 points against Ellender on Monday night at The Palace.

NCAA

No. 2 Baylor women clinch share of tenth straight B12 title MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Baylor is accustomed to Big 12 regular season women’s championships.

For Te’a Cooper, it’s her first.

Cooper scored 17 points and No. 2 Baylor clinched a share of its 10th consecutive league regular-season title with a 64-39 victory over West Virginia on Monday night.

“Listen. Always remember this,” said Baylor coach Kim Mulkey. “Losing will put you in the grave, but winning never gets old.”

Cooper led South Carolina in scoring a year ago at 11.9 points per game before coming to Baylor as a graduate transfer. She has fit in nicely for the Lady Bears, emerging as their second-leading scorer. She scores nearly 14 points per game on a team that has five players averaging in double figures.

“She thinks her best opportunity to play at the next level is with the ball in her hands,” Mulkey said. “And I think that’s why she came. Of course she wants to win.”

For Baylor, the share of another title was business as usual.

The only sign of celebrating on the court was after the game. Lauren Cox and several teammates emerged from the lockerroom to sign a few autographs, pose for some pictures and share hugs with fans from both teams.

It’s the fourth regular-season title for Cox, a 6-foot-4 senior who finished with 12 points and nine rebounds.

“That’s one of the reasons why I came to Baylor, to win championships,” Cox said. “At this point it’s kind of expected and that’s how we work every day in practice.”

Baylor (26-1, 15-0 Big 12) cemented the top seed in the conference tournament and won its 56th straight regular-season conference game.

That’s one short of sixth alltime in NCAA history as UConn won 57 in a row from 200812.

Baylor also won its 44th straight road game in the conference, the nation’s third-longest such streak in the regular season.

The Lady Bears can clinch the title outright with a win Saturday or with a loss by second-place TCU to Texas on Wednesday.

“I’ve always put more emphasis on the regular season than the conference tournament,” Mulkey said. “Anybody can get on a roll and win three or four games in the conference tournament. But when you do it for an entire regular season that means you’ve done something. We’re going to enjoy that long plane ride home.”

Defending national champion Baylor didn’t look as dominating as it did in a 40-point win over the Mountaineers on Jan. 18 in Waco, Texas. Baylor went ahead by double digits just before halftime and opened the third quarter on a 13-0 run to win comfortably.

UP NEXT Baylor hosts Kansas State on Saturday. The Lady Bears beat the Wildcats 54-40 on Feb. 8 in Manhattan, Kansas.

West Virginia plays at Iowa State on Saturday. The Mountaineers took their earlier meeting 79-71.

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BASEBALL SEASON RETURNS THIS WEEK JJ Marshall

jjmarshall@press-herald.com Sunlight is trickling back into our regular routine, basketball season is widdling down to tournament time, and perhaps Webster Parish’s strongest sport (baseball) is gearing up to take center stage.

We will be previewing each team in the area as they begin their quest for district championships and state tournament runs.

First, Minden High.

The Crimson Tide lost a lot of firepower last season, in-

cluding All-Parish MVP Camron Dollar.

Luckily the factory keeps churning out highly skilled baseball players at Minden High.

We are junior and senior oriented team--expectations are high,” Minden head coach Ben Bower said. “Hopefully we can build off of last years successes.

They will have to get off to a strong start to do so.

“We have a tough schedule coming up this weekend -- Thursday we play Ouachita Christian at home at 5 p.m.(this is part of the North Desoto tournament) and Sat-

urday we play 5A Ouachita Parish at 2:30 in North DeSoto and 4A Leesville at 5 p.m.

“We’re looking to take the season one game at a time and go from there. Baseball season is a grind. You have to take it one pitch at a time/ one out at a time and try not to worry about the next game.

Win the one you are in.”

Minden will rely heavily on top performers from last season like Trevor McClean and Carson Fields. Austin King is primed for a breakout season as well. He was incredible on the football field this season and looks to be reaching his lofty potential already.

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On This Day In History 1993 - A car bomb explodes below the World Trade Center in New York. The attack was carried out by a group of Islamist militants. 6 people died in the blast.

1991 - The world’s first web browser is presented to the public. The browser “WorldWideWeb” (later renamed “Nexus”) was developed

by Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the internet.

1920 - The first German Expressionist film is premiered.

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