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effective Monday, March 16 resuming Monday, April 13, as Louisiana seeks to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the state. As of mid-day Friday, Louisiana has 33 presumptive positive cases of COVID-19. “We are at an inflection point now and we are going to take bold
Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a proclamation that among other actions immediately halts any gathering of more than 250 people until Monday, April 13, closes all K-12 public schools statewide
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s governor planned to postpone the state’s presidential primaries due to fears of the coronavirus, an aide said Friday, which would make it the first state to do so. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards planned to sign an executive order delaying the April 4 primary until June 20, said his spokeswoman Christina Stephens. “We are experiencing community spread of coronavirus in Louisiana, and the governor is taking decisive ARDOIN action to slow its progress,” Stephens said on Twitter. Louisiana also postponed elections in 2005 after hurricanes Katrina and Rita and in 2008 after hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Early voting in Louisiana’s election was scheduled to start in a week. But with a large number of elderly poll workers and worldwide concerns about people gathering in groups, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, who asked Edwards to sign the executive order, said he didn’t feel comfortable continuing with the election plans. “This weighty decision has been made out of an absolute abundance of caution for Louisiana’s voters, voting officials and the general public as a whole,” said Ardoin, a Republican. As of Friday, the number of residents testing positive in the state had jumped to 33, centered largely in the New Orleans area, according to the state health department’s latest figures. The positive tests are awaiting confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of parishes with infected residents has grown to eight, with most of those in the New Orleans area, but one case has been identified in northwest Louisiana, in Caddo Parish.
action to minimize the further spread of this illness,” Edwards said. “That is why I am issuing this order today, ending all events of more than 250 people, closing our schools, and reducing the amount of face-to-face public interaction at state government buildings. “In a separate executive order, I will grant Secretary of State Kyle
Ardoin’s request to move our upcoming elections for April and May to June and July. The limits on gatherings of 250 people or more statewide is based on federal CDC guidance given the community spread which we are currently experiencing. These steps are necessary to protect the health and safety of the people of Louisiana from the risk of COVID-19.”
Man jailed for Claiborne Parish hit and run murder
‘Raise a glass’ Mar. 17 Alcohol sales to begin in Minden on St. Patrick’s Day WILL PHILLIPS Minden Press-Herald
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Tuesday, Mar. 17 marks the day that those in the Minden City Limits, with proper permits, can start selling alcohol. Coincidentally, the ordinance will be coming into effect on St. Patrick’s Day. “We wrote the ordin a n c e three or four times. Mr. Minifield reviewed it, we made changes, and went GARDNER back and changed it again,” said Minden Mayor Terry Gardner. “The ordinance covers just about anything that anybody will want to open in town, whether it be a sports grill, a straight bar, a liquor store.” While Mar. 17 is the day it will be officially legal, not all businesses in Minden that plan to start selling alcohol have received their permits, but that hasn’t stopped some of Minden’s businesses from preparing their stores so the moment they do get their permit, they can hit the ground running.
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Some of these businesses include Smoking J’s BBQ and Bon Temps. Josh Hilton, General Manager of both locations, described how he was preparing his businesses to handle new inventory. For the Smoking J’s location, Hilton said, “We’ll be meeting with all four of our drink vendors tomorrow morning to take our twelve doors were we’ve been selling Gatorade, milk, waters, cokes, etc., and we’ll be consolidating that down to six doors, to make room for six full doors of beer at Smoking J’s.” In regards to the Bon Temps location, Hilton said, “We’re gonna create a walk-in cooler, [that] is our goal, where the ice freezer was. So, we’re rearranging to create more doors out of what we had to get ready to sell.” While he stated that there was a bit of a delay with scheduling a walk-in with the state for his permit potentially preventing him from opening right on Mar. 17, all of his cashiers already have ABL cards. The new rules regarding
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A West Monroe man has been arrested for a December 2019 Hit and Run fatality. “Early this morning, Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigation arrested 29-yearold Timothy Howell of West Monroe,” Troop G Public Affair Officer Brent Hardy said. “Howell was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center as a fugitive from Claiborne Parish. He will be extradited to Claiborne Parish Detention Center and charged with second degree murder. No further information is available at this time.” On December 10, 2019, shortly after 3:00 a.m., Troopers assigned to Louisiana State Police Troop G responded to a reported hit and run fatality crash at the intersections of Louisiana Highway 146 and Louisiana Highway 533. “During the investigation, it was determined the fatality was not from a vehicle crash,” Hardy said. “Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations responded to the scene to investigate the incident which claimed the life of 44-year-old Jason Staples of Homer.”
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The Leadership Webster Class of 2020 gathered to learn about the Economic Development side of Minden. This included a presentation from the Economic Development Director Phillips Smart, traveling to Fibrebond and hearing from their CEO Graham Walker, and a few though experiments about bringing businesses to Minden.
MADRID (AP) — With Italy already submerged in a national quarantine, Spain took a major step Friday toward a similar lock-down as it struggles to ride the wave of the coronavirus pandemic spawning illness and fear around the globe. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said his government will declare a two-week state of emergency on Saturday, giving itself extraordinary powers including the mobilization of the armed forces, to confront the COVID-19 outbreak. “It’s an emergency that affects the life and health of all,” Sánchez said, adding that he is preparing a battery of measures to brace the nation for an even bigger jump in infections indicated by the rapidly increasing contagion curve. The positive cases could be over 10,000 by next week, the prime minister warned in his televised address, from more than 4,200 confirmed by midday Friday. A total 120 people have
died, and 189 have been declared as recovered. A state of emergency allows the central government to limit free movement, legally confiscate goods and take over control of industries and private facilities, including private hospitals. It’s only the second time that the government has evoked it since the return of democracy in the late 1970s. The other was declared during a 2010 air traffic controllers’ strike. Over 60,000 people awoke Friday in four towns near Barcelona confined to their homes and with police blocking roads, in the country’s first mandatory lockdown. The southeastern region of Murcia since announced it was locking down coastal areas popular with tourists. More than 62 countries, including neighboring Morocco, have restricted arrivals from Spain, which has so far only stopped flights with Italy. On Friday, the BritSee, VIRUS, Page 3
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Louisiana will impose restrictions on visiting nursing homes, prisons and jails over the next 30 days, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday. The details will be announced soon, Edwards said during a joint news conference with U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams. Adams was in Baton Rouge on a visit scheduled before the recent coronavirus outbreak. “I hope that the people who are out there who are inconvenienced and unable to visit a loved one will understand we’re doing this for the protection of their loved one,” Edwards said. Edwards and Adams noted that most people are not at high risk of serious complications from COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, but urged everyone to take proper precautions to help protect people who are in high-risk groups, such as older people and those with chronic health conditions. Adams stressed that people should under-
stand their own risks and those of their organizations, which are explained at coronavirus.gov, and how those factors should affect their plans. “Preparing doesn’t mean panicking,” he said. To the extent that they can while remaining consistent with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, people should go about their lives as normal, Edwards said. His advice comes amid the cancellation of numerous events as Louisiana enters the spring festival season, which is important to the state’s tourism industry and related businesses. “If you’re sick, stay home from work,” he said. “If you’re not, go to work.” Adams praised President Donald Trump’s “bold and aggressive action” combating the spread of the coronavirus, including a 30-day restriction on travel from much of Europe Trump announced Wednesday night. Adams clarified that the restrictions do not apply to U.S. citizens, a distinction Trump did not make clear in his national address. “Now is not the time to
politicize situations,” Adams said, in response to a question about Trump’s statements in recent weeks about the virus and the federal government’s response to it. Originally, China was the source of most new infections, he said. Now Europe, specifically Italy, is “the new China.” “We are shifting from a containment posture to a mitigation posture,” Adams said. “We’ve got the coronavirus in our communities. What can we do to lower the impact of it, [and] to slow the spread of it?” For most people, that includes washing hands frequently with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Hand sanitizer is a useful backup but is less effective and harder to acquire right now, Adams noted. Adams said public officials should be “really careful when we’re talking about closures.” For example, if you close a school, you need a plan for where the children will go and who will take care of them. “I felt very reassured by what I heard from the state department of
health here in Louisiana about the availability of testing,” Adams said. At the same time, resources are limited and people who are not sick don’t need to be tested, he added, urging people to contact a health care professional to discuss if testing is appropriate for them. As of Thursday morning, Louisiana had 14 “presumed positive” cases that had not been confirmed by the CDC, state officials said. “Community spread,” meaning spread of the virus that is not related to travel, is believed to be happening in the New Orleans area. COVID-19 is the official name of the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Symptoms of COVID-19 can include fever, coughing and trouble breathing. Most people who have COVID-19 develop only mild symptoms. But some people, usually the elderly and those with other medical complications, develop more severe symptoms, including pneumonia, which can be fatal.
Virus: Italy says restrictions have not slowed spread Continued from Page 2 ish government advised against all but essential travel to Spain’s La Rioja, parts of the Basque Country and the Madrid region, which has seen more than 2,000 positive cases of the new virus. With hospitals rapidly filling up, the Spanish capital is a source of particular concern. Unlike China, which cracked down quickly to restrict movement by people, Italy, Spain and other European countries have taken a more measured approach to strike a
balance between the public health crisis and individual freedoms. Italian authorities have acknowledged that escalating restrictions have been unable to contain the virus. Italy this week has gone into complete quarantine with authorities threatening to impose heavy fines and even jail time for those who break it. The Madrid regional vice president said Friday that the capital is in dire need of medical supplies, despite announcing an unprecedented plan to reshuffle the region’s
health system that included pooling intensive care units from both public and private hospitals and even considering creating additional hospital rooms in hotels. At least two hotel chains have offered their premises. “We can’t let more days go. We already know what’s going to happen tomorrow and the day after tomorrow because we have the examples of China or Italy,” Ignacio Aguado told Spanish public broadcaster, TVE. “This is a silent hurricane.” The streets of downtown Madrid, normally
bustling with commuters on an average Friday morning, were almost empty as the message from authorities to stay home took hold. The city’s mayor issued a decree to ban the outdoor seating for café terraces and was considering the closure of bars in a city that loves its tapas and ‘cañas’ (smallsized beers). Authorities had already closed museums and sports centers, sent home nearly 10 million students and has asked people to work remotely, while limiting crowds at public events in high-risk areas.
Sales: Other items to be affected, Gardner says Continued from Page 1 alcohol sales aren’t just making local businesses change, it’s also bringing in new ones. Mike Elshout, owner of Mike’s Hometown Spirits, will be opening a new location in Minden inside the old Rite Aid Building on Homer Road. With all that extra space, Mike said that he had some new plans in store. “It’s three times larger than the building that we’re in now, so we’re planning on having a really nice store,” he said.
“We’ll have daiquiris, a greater wine selection, more of a liquor selection than what we have now, and we’ll have a drivethrough. “We plan on opening sometime in May, and we’re going to have basically what we have here [at the Dixie Inn location,] but we’re putting in a full kitchen. So we will be doing lunches, plate lunches, carry out. We’ll put in tables to sit down and eat, and in the future, we will be doing crawfish and barbecue.” Gardner said that he
thinks the sale of alcohol will provide an economic boon for Minden. “I think with alcohol becoming available to serve or sell on Mar. 17 will be an economic tool for Minden,” he said. “I think what you’ll see is that when people are able to purchase adult beverages, you’re going to see added sales. If they bought their adult beverages over in a neighboring city, while they were there they would get their milk, potato chips, whatever the case may be. But now they’ll be purchasing
those additional items in Minden.. “Anytime you can buy additional items in Minden, that increases our sales tax revenue. With our sales tax revenue increasing, that will enable the city to do other things for the city such as infrastructure or things such as that.” For more information regarding the ordinance itself or applying for an alcohol permit, visit the City of Minden’s website at mindenla.org.
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CDC: Centers for Damaged Credibility I think I’m where most sane people are on the coronavirus outbreak: n Concerned but not panicked. n Calm but not apathetic. n Taking reasonable precautions but remaining skeptical of what all the purportedly “best experts” here in the United States are telling us about every aspect of their belated crisis management and response (especially on their pimping of vaccine development to prevent the disease). Here are some plain, nonhysterical facts: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is a bloated federal government agency with a long history of incompetence, fraud, secrecy, mission creep and shady alliances with both social justice causes on the left and private corporations on the big business right. The “deep state” of entrenched bureaucrats embedded in the Beltway bowels is alive and thriving at the CDC. The unelected elites who’ve occupied top offices at the public health-industrial complex are hostile to public scrutiny while clamoring for ever-ballooning budgets. Their recommendations have often been detrimental to citizens’ well-being and freedom. And, yes, many of the scientists who work there are rabidly anti-conservative and anti-Trump. It’s a brazen lie that President Donald Trump “slashed” CDC funding, which is being used as an excuse for the agency’s coronavirus unpreparedness. Cognitively impaired and truth-challenged Joe Biden made the claim during last week’s Democratic debate that these purported “Draconian cuts” put Americans at risk. But Trump’s budget proposal to cut some sliver of CDC fat has nev-
er been enacted, and Congress increased funding, instead. At nearly $7 billion, CDC’s annual budget is more than 200% larger than it was two decades ago. On top of that, a shady big business lobbying group called Corporate Friends of CDC has raised hundreds of millions of supplemental dollars — which raises serious conflict-of-interest issues. In 2007, Sen. Tom C o b u r n ’s fiscal audit of the agenc y discovered vulgar expenditures including CDC syphilis prevention funds spent MICHELLE to host a MALKIN “safe-sex ” event with a porn star, CDC HIV/AIDS prevention funds spent on a transgender beauty pageant, and $45 million in CDC funding spent on conferences featuring prostitutes, protests and beach parties. Despite the flood of money, the agency been caught flat-footed on outbreak after outbreak. They squander untold millions on other health threats in favor of pushing gun control and nanny state hobby horses (TV violence, helmet laws, video games, anti-bullying campaigns and explicit sex education, for example). CDC has one primary job — Disease Control — but has managed to botch it without ever learning from past failures. Let me remind you of some of the CDC’s long history of royal screw-ups: —The notorious 1976 swine flu vaccine scandal was catalyzed by mass hysteria whipped up by CDC junk scientists clamoring for more money;
Congress obliged and nearly 45 million Americans were unnecessarily jabbed with a vaccine for a disease that had fizzled by the time the shots were ready. The vaccine resulted in an increased risk of developing Guillain-Barre syndrome — leading to muscle weakness and paralysis. n In 1999, the CDC misspent $22.7 million appropriated for chronic fatigue syndrome and was investigated in 2001 for squandering $13 million on hepatitis C research. —In 2000, the agency essentially lied to Congress about how it spent up to $7.5 million earmarked each year since 1993 for research on the deadly hantavirus. “Instead, apparently without asking Congress, the CDC spent much of the money on other programs that the agency thought needed the funds more,” The Washington Post disclosed at the time. The diversions were impossible to trace because of shoddy CDC bookkeeping practices. n In 2009, the CDC recalled 800,000 doses of swine flu vaccine for children ages 6 months to 3 years after the products manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur failed potency tests. n In 2012, the CDC’s main building housing infectious anthrax, SARS and monkeypox gases was discovered to have been leaking deadly pathogens due to a flawed engineered airflow system. n In 2014, the CDC’s lackadaisical response to Ebola virus gave the greenlight to Patient Zero Thomas Eric Duncan and infected medical personnel to board commercial airlines while ill — exposing untold numbers of travelers to the deadly disease. Expensive isolation chambers that had been subsidized by taxpayers to the tune of $15 million sat buried
in a Georgia warehouse. n For the past few years, the agency has employed a fear campaign to induce Americans to get regular flu shots (formulated based on guesswork) using flawed statistics and despite international scientific conclusions that there is “no evidence” to support the CDC’s assumptions that the vaccine reduces transmission of the virus or the risk of potentially deadly complications. n Just this week, the Informed Consent Action Network reported astonishing results from its lawsuit against the CDC to obtain scientific documentation for the agency’s claim that “vaccines do not cause autism” — specifically for the first seven vaccines given to your child in their first six months of life. CDC had stonewalled, and then finally produced 20 studies — 18 of which were irrelevant to ICAN’s public records request and two of which suggest that vaccines may indeed cause autism. In other words: The CDC is lying while continuing to smear vaccine critics as “conspiracy theorists” and public health threats. As if to underscore my point about this agency’s misdirected priorities and rank political pandering, the CDC director this week found it more urgent to condemn Republicans as racist for accurately describing the origins of the virus from Wuhan, China, than to do his job. Informed diagnosis: The “best people” — who have now been rewarded with more than $8.3 billion in new “emergency funding” — are not in charge.
Michelle Malkin ‘s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com.
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Caution, not fear, should be exercised in wake of COVID-19 It seems these days the only thing to talk about is COVID-19. As of this writing, events around the United States have been canceled. To some, this may seem like a gross overreaction. I was one of the first to lament the cancellation of NCAA basketball tournaments. However, I have since thought things through and realize that cancellations are not necessarily for the protection of the attendees, but the protection of the healthcare system in the United States. COVID-19 is not a more severe virus than the flu, or some other outbreak. But our healthcare system is not well-equipped to handle it right now. If there was a pandemic outbreak in the United States, it would overwhelm hospitals and other healthcare providers. We will not eradicate COVID-19 through the efforts taking place over the past week. We will, however, slow
down the spread to where our healthcare system can hopefully handle the outbreak. A mass, nationwide infection would cause emergency rooms to be full to overflowing. Other primary care facilities would be overwhelmed as well. Gone are the days where people wait to make sure they are “sick sick” before going to a healthcare p r o v i d e r. DAVID The first feSPECHT ver or other symptom means a trip to a doctor. Slowing down the spread of COVID-19, in this light, makes a great deal of sense. Unfortunately, the unintended consequence of this action is widespread overreaction and panic. People have rushed
to the stores and bought out essentials for fear of quarantine, much like when a natural disaster happens or severe weather is forecast. Fear-based decision making is dangerous. It is why Franklin Delano Roosevelt said during his first inauguration, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” COVID-19 will have a greater effect on the very young, the elderly and those with underlying health problems — much like influenza. It is important to be healthy. So what should we do? First, we should follow the proactive steps recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to protect the health of ourselves and those around us, including: n Staying home if you are sick. n Covering your cough. n Washing your hands frequently and thoroughly with soap and water, or with a hand
sanitizer containing at least 60% alcohol if soap and water are not available. n Disinfecting frequently touched surfaces. n Avoiding close contact (within six feet) with those who are sick. Second, we should not panic. We should be vigilant, but not fearful. Decisions based on fear are more often than not, the wrong decisions. Third, we should cautiously get on with our lives. The last thing we want to do is collapse our economy. Caution does not equate inactive. Eventually, COVID-19 will run its course and things will hopefully return to normal. But, there will always be another potential crisis on the horizon. Let’s learn from this one and not overreact during the next.
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Food: mac & cheese, crackers, milk (canned or powdered) Household goods: full sheets, pots, pans, skillets Clothing: Men’s pants (waist sizes 32-36), men’s shoes/ tennis shoes and underwear
Open House/Celebration of Service Holly Springs Baptist Church is holding an open House, March 14 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and a Celebration of Service on Sunday March 15 starting at 11 a.m. Lunch will follow a morning service. The event will continue on into the afternoon with the bluegrass gospel group the Blake brothers. The church is located on 854 highway 79 in Minden.
Pine Grove Baptist Church 162nd Anniversary Pine Grove Baptist Church will be holding its 162nd Anniversary on Sunday, March 15 starting at 11 a.m. The special guests for the event will include Minister Rodney Dale Johnson and Reverand Robert Whitaker, Pastor.
Ark-La-Tex Daylily Club The Ark-La-Tex Daylily Club will be meeting March 15th at 2:00 p.m. at the Betty Virginia park pavilion room. The meeting address is 3601 Fairfield Avenue, Shreveport, Louisiana. This event is free and open to the public. For any public inquiries, please contact Rebecca LaCroix at b3rebec@gmail.com.
Taste of Mt. Pisgah Mt. Pisgah C.M.E. Church presents its Fourth Annual Taste of Mt. Pisgah, held on March 21 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Minden Community House. for more information, call 377-0060 or 288-1350.
2020 Hunger Fest and Dessert Auction The Minden First United Methodist Church will be holding a 2020 Hunger Fest and Dessert Auction on Thursday, March 26, 5:30 PM. The meal is $5.00 and consists of soup, crackers, & iced tea. The auction will include hams as well as all kinds of desserts with Richard Campbell and Ken Warren will serve as auctioneers. Tickets may be purchased at the door or from UCAP at 204 Miller St. All proceeds benefit UCAP.
Community Gospel Singing Kings Corner Assembly of God Church will be holding their 1st Qtr Community Gospel Singing on Mar. 28 starting at 2:00 p.m. The public is invited to bring their instrument and their voice and join them in an afternoon of southern gospel singing. The church is located at 990 Kings Corner Road in Sarepta.
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b1BANK brought a Gumbo luncheon to Project Reclaim earlier this week. b1 also held a money management and banking careers workshop for the members of Project Reclaim as well.
BPCC, Centenary team up for domestic violence, sexual assault lecture Bossier Parish Community College and Centenary College of Louisiana have partnered to provide a lecture and panel discussion aimed at spreading domestic violence and sexual assault awareness in the Northwest Louisiana region. ‘Real Talk’ will be held Tuesday, April 7, 2020, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Stephen W. Slaughter Theatre (Building C) on the BPCC campus, 6220 E. Texas St., Bossier City, LA. This event is free and open to students, faculty, staff, and the general public. Leading the ‘Real Talk’ will be keynote speaker Heather Boucher, Centenary Po-
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lice Detective. Boucher is a BPCC criminal justice graduate and currently serves as a board member of the Centenary College Student Success Team, the Caddo/Bossier Do mestic Violence Task Force, and the NW Louisiana Sexual Assault Awareness Board. Through her extensive policing career, she has been awarded the Medal of Valor, The Trey Hutchinson Award from the Caddo/Bossier Domestic Vi olence Task Force, and Ally of the Year from the Louisiana Foundation against Sexual Assault.
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The guest speaker for the Lion’s Club this week was one David Cresson, the Executive Director and CEO of the Coastal Conservation Association of Louisiana. he used the opportunity to speak about the actions the CCA takes to conserve the coast of Louisiana and the wildlife that live in these habitats.
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Our stories have meaning As I tripped and fell over an tian writer’s conference in exercise machine at a friend’s 2010 when a young woman aphouse, late Friday night on proached me and told me how March 6th, I tried to brace my grateful she was that I had told head because I had flashbacks my story that day because her hearing how my mother, Mar- daughter had been in an aucella May Morris-Hudson, tomobile accident that caused fell through an underground her to be disabled for life yet dugout in 1908 in Oklahoma, she was soon to become a new during the Land Rush, when mother. she was 2 years of age and how A year later I saw her again she lapsed into a coma, caus- and she said that somehow ing a brain trauma that would it was working out with their permanently handifamily and the new cap her for life. grandbaby. After my fall I imIt helps knowing mediately asked someone else has exfor an ice pack for perienced what you my head and began are going through. praying that I would Not long after that be OK, as my daughexperience, I was ter rushed me to the sitting in a doctor’s North Caddo Medical waiting room next Center emergency to a young woman. room in Vivian. Being the perpetual After numerous ex- SARAH storyteller that I am, I rays, it appears that HUDSON-PIERCE began telling the stoI am going to be OK ry about my mother’s even though both eyes are bad- brain trauma. ly bruised. The woman was speechless. After my fall I knew I must After I finished she said work my accident into what is “there’s a reason you just told a larger story -- the tragedies me that story. I am helping of head injuries that often last my sister-in-law, who was for a lifetime, injuring a child’s brain-damaged in an auto acself-esteem. cident and I am trying to help I was stunned, after sharing raise her teenage daughter.” my mother’s story, at a ChrisShe confirmed how import-
ant sharing my mother’s story really is. It took me a long time to find out what happened to my childlike mother but one thing I will always know she loved me so much and wanted to do better but didn’t knowhow. I shall never forget her blinding tears when we went to an orphanage after our father’s death. I would probably not be here today had it not been for my parent’s neighbors matching my parents up after my maternal grandfather died leaving my thirty-nine-year-old mother with no family support system. My paternal grandmother also had just passed away leaving my already ill father with no one to care so it was an easy match. But anyway my sister, Alice, and I came into this world in a most unusual setting and we both vividly remember the taunts and stares of other children because of our funny clothes and everything that goes with being poor. Children can be cruel. I don’t think anyone knew what had happened to my mother but the schoolyard bullying hurt us both to the core. Being a child is hard enough
but standing out in a crowd hurts but what we go through can make us stronger if we have faith in the God who created us. What I am here to say is that what happens to someone else can just as easily happen to us. To think not is to be naive. I recall one summer in the early 80’s when three young people in this area had accidents that caused them to lapse into a coma resulting in permanent brain damage. Sometimes just hearing someone’s story gives us the courage to go on. We should not be so afraid to reach out, to share where we came from. Whatever happens to us can be a tool we can use to lift someone to their feet, out of depression, and onto a brighter day -- one step at a time. Where my story leads I do not know but I know that God sometimes steps out of the woodwork making his presence known, placing people in our path, letting us know that we are not alone and that “we are angels flying with only one wing and we can only fly embracing each other.” Contact Sarah at sarahp9957@aol. com
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NCAA TOURNAMENT LEADS LONG LIST OF CANCELED EVENTS JJ Marshall
jjmarshall@press-herald.com The Lady Tiders are 3-0 in district this season after an impressive sweep of opening week. Minden capped off the three-game district win streak with a 17-2 win over Booker T. Washington. Alivia McKenzie picked
up the win on the mound, striking out five batters. McKensie, Kendal Lynn and Ada Gilbert each had two-for-three nights at the plate. Ella Floyd, Kristen Smith and Gabby Salas each had one hit. Gilbert’s two hits included one inside-the-park home run, and McKinsey had one triple.
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Glenbrook downs Bradley, 10-1
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jjmarshall@press-herald.com Glenbrook jumped out to an early lead over Bradley and took home a 10-1 victory on Thursday. Glenbrook put up three runs in the fifth inning. The Apaches big bats were led by Peyton Wells and Sammy Feaster, each driving in runs
in the inning. Cale Hollis led things off on the hill for Glenbrook. He went six innings, allowing one run on one hit and striking out 11. Glenbrook Apaches Varsity saw the ball well today, racking up seven hits in the game. Wells and Maddox Mandino each managed multiple hits for the Apaches.
The world’s sports schedule cratered at warp speed Thursday, with one of the biggest events on the U.S. calendar, the fun-filled and colorful college basketball tournament known as March Madness, becoming the first mega-event to be scrubbed due to fear of the spread of the coronavirus. Leaders at all levels of sports, including the NCAA, NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball, golf, tennis and soccer, decided the risk of playing games with the threat of the virus hanging over them was too great despite the billions of dollars — to say nothing of the trophies, pride and oncein-a-lifetime experiences — hanging in the balance. By late in the afternoon of an extraordinary, headline-a-minute day across a pandemic-rattled globe, the NCAA, which regulates March Madness and virtually all major U.S. college sports, basically had no choice. With conferences and individual teams calling off their basketball seasons at breakneck pace, the NCAA followed suit. They scrapped all college winter and spring championships, the highlight of which is the men’s basketball tournament — a three-week extravaganza that stands as the biggest event this side of the Super Bowl on the U.S. sports calendar. The cancellation leaves a massive hole in American sports — from campuses across the country, to a growing passel of sports-betting businesses that rely on college hoops money, to say nothing of the hearts of players who were poised to get their first, or last, or only chance to shine on the big stage. All of it was to be covered by CBS and its partners; about 80 percent of the
NCAA’s $1.05 billion annual budget is bankrolled by the money the networks pay to present the 68-team tournament over the air, on cable and online. “This is bigger than a sport or championship,” said Kansas University coach Bill Self, whose team would’ve been the likely favorite to win it all. Hours earlier, Kansas and Duke had each taken matters into their own hands, announcing they wouldn’t be sending any of their teams to games, no matter the stakes. It wasn’t even the most jaw-dropping moment of the morning. That came, fittingly, at one of the world’s most renowned sports venues — Madison Square Garden — where at halftime of a Big East Conference tournament game, the PA announcer came on and said the tournament had been called. By then, every major conference, and virtually all of the minor ones, had done the same thing. They were prompted in part by the NCAA’s decision a day earlier to hold all its tournament games — which had been scheduled to start next week in nine cities and close April 6 at a 71,000-seat stadium in Atlanta — in front of friends and family and limited “essential” personnel. Only 24 hours later, with the stock market tanking, mixed messages coming out of Washington and no promise of quick relief being offered by world health experts, it became even more clear that gatherings involving thousands of people were hard to justify. Also clear: The NCAA would have trouble assembling an equitable bracket for its tournament, given that most games designed to suss out the most-deserving teams and automatic qualifiers had already been scrubbed. “I’m not a researcher in immunology or infectious disease, but those who are engaged at the NCAA level provided some stark information yesterday,” said Greg Sankey, the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference. The March Madness news meant it will be a world free of basketball for the foresee-
able future. A day after the NBA put its season on temporary hiatus, a second member of the Utah Jazz — Donovan Mitchell — tested positive for the coronavirus. The league said its suspension would last for at least 30 days — possibly a conservative guess, as teams undertake the task of identifying any player or referee who has had recent contact with the Jazz, then putting them into isolation for the required two weeks. “What would kill the NBA season is if more players catch it,” Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said in an interview on CNBC. He called the hiatus a matter of “us being vigilant, as all businesses should be. Businesses are going to have to be incredibly vigilant, and that’s hard.” The NHL also suspended its season, though it did not report any positives for COVID-19. Major League Baseball scrapped spring training and postponed the start of its season, currently scheduled for March 26, for at least two weeks. The PGA Tour decided Thursday night to scrap the rest of The Players Championship and shut down its other tournaments for the next three weeks. Commissioner Jay Monahan had said earlier Thursday there would be no fans at the TPC Sawgrass for the final three rounds, or at the next three tournaments on the PGA Tour schedule. The tour changed its mind late Thursday, with no immediate word whether The Players Championship — the premier tournament run by the PGA Tour, offering a $15 million purse — would be rescheduled. The LPGA Tour postponed three tournaments, beginning next week, including its first major of the season. Tennis will also be canceling events. The ATP called off men’s tournaments for the next six weeks; the WTA said its tournament in South Carolina, set for April 6-12, would not be held as scheduled, with decisions about the rest of the season to come in the next week. NASCAR announced it would race the next two
weekends, in Atlanta and Miami, without fans, and IndyCar made the same decision for its race this weekend in St. Petersburg, Florida. Horse races were going on in several states, though without fans in the stands — leaving the parimutuel wagers to be made online; organizers of the Kentucky Derby were moving forward with plans for the May 2 race. The NFL, never off the radar even in the depths of the offseason, announced a number of changes and cancellations on its schedule of meetings, fan fest and scouting trips — all related to coronavirus. The U.S.-based Major League Soccer said it would shut down for a target period of 30 days. Earlier in the day, soccer leagues and teams scrambled to make changes: —Belgium’s soccer league backpedaled on an earlier decision, and decided to close stadiums to fans. —A Champions League game involving Real Madrid was postponed after the Spanish team puts its players in quarantine. —Dutch soccer authorities canceled all matches through the end of the month, including friendlies against the United States and Spain. —Also, a second player from Italy’s top soccer division tested positive. All sports in that hard-hit country have been suspended through April 3. For once, there were no major announcements coming out of Tokyo, where conflicting messages about the status of this summer’s Olympics have come out of the country, and the IOC, for weeks. Instead, the IOC went ahead with its ceremonial lighting of the Olympic flame, an event held in front of the ruined Temple of Hera in Ancient Olympia. “We are strengthened ... by the many authorities and sports organizations around the world which are taking so many significant measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus,” IOC president Thomas Bach said.
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On This Day In History 1991 - The Birmingham Six are released. The 6 men had been wrongly sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for the IRA Birmingham pub bombings. 1979 - Factory Plane Crash in China. At least 200 people are killed when a plane crashes into a factory in China. According to some sources, the plane had previously been stolen by the pilot who was not qualified to fly it. 1960 - The leaders of Germany and Israel confer for the first time. 15 years after the end of World War II, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Israeli Prime Minister See, HISTORY, Page 8
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David Ben-Gurion met at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. 1942 - For the first time in history, a dying patient’s life is saved by penicillin. Although some claim that the pioneering trials at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England resulted in the first cures using penicillin, Orvan Hess and John Bumstead are generally credited with the first documented successful treatment. 1910 - The Lakeview Gusher causes the largest accidental oil spill in history. The spill lasted 18 months and 9 million barrels of crude oil were released.
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371 and Frazier Road. A new 8” gravity sewer main will be inEARLY NOTICE stalled to convey AND PUBLIC wastewater flows REVIEW OF A from the existing PROPOSED AC- lift station site to TION IN FLOOD- the new lift staPLAINS AND tion. A new 3” WETLANDS force main will be All interested installed from the Agencies, Groups new lift station to and Individuals the existing disThis is to give charge point on notice that the 4th Street South Town of Sibley and will replace is conducting an the undersized 2” evaluation as re- force main. The quired by Execu- new lift station tive Order 11988 on Frazier Road and 11990, uti- will be a duplex lizing as a guide- submersible type line procedures installation with established in concrete wet accordance with well, submersible HUD regulations pumps, valves, at 24 CFR 55.20 piping, level conSubpart C Proce- trols, top slab with dures for Making access cover, Determinations fencing, and ancilon Floodplain lary site improveand Wetlands ments. Since the Management, to existing lift station determine the po- will be rehabiltential affect that itated in place, its activity in the bypass pumping floodplains and will be required wetlands will have at all times during on the human en- c o n s t r u c t i o n . vironment for the Construction of Town of Sibley’s the proposed FY 2019 Louisi- i m p r o v e m e n t s ana Communi- will eliminate the ty Development above described Block Grant for deficiencies and sewer improve- will enable the ments. Town to comply The Town propos- with provisions es to completely of the Louisiana rehabilitate all State Sanitary mechanical com- Code, The Recponents of Lift ommended StanStation No. 14 on dards for WasteSherwood Lane water Facilities and at Lift Station (Ten States StanNo. 6 on Johnson dards), and the Street. Rehabil- Town’s LPDES itation work at Wastewater Perthese two lift sta- mit (LA0075396). tions will consist These improveof replacement of ments will directly both submersible benefit all resigrinder pumps dents within the and motors, Beneficiary Areas valves, piping, by eliminating level controls, and unsanitary condielectrical control tions, eliminating panels. The Town wastewater overproposes to re- flows/bypasses/ place Lift Station backups, and No. 9 on Jones reducing risks to Avenue as that public health and lift station is cur- safety due to porently located in tential disease the roadside ditch t r a n s m i s s i o n . and is susceptible The proposed imto flooding. The provements will new lift station on have a beneficial Jones Avenue will impact on water be a packaged quality in nearby duplex submers- Dorcheat Bayou ible grinder type and Lake Bistininstallation with eau. The Town integral fiberglass will own, operwet well, pumps, ate and maintain valves, piping, the proposed controls fencing i m p r o v e m e n t s . w/gate, and ancil- This project is not lary site improve- site-specific. ments. The Town There are three also proposes to primary purposreconstruct Lift es for this notice. Station No. 13 at First, people who a lower elevation may be affected site approximate- by activities in ly 500’ west of the possible floodcurrent lift station plains and wetsite. This reloca- lands, and those tion will ensure who have an inthat wastewater terest in the prono longer backs tection of the natup into residenc- ural environment es on LA Highway should be given
an opportunity to express their concerns and provide information about these areas. Second, an adequate public notice program can be an important public educational tool. The dissemination of information about floodplains and wetlands can facilitate and enhance Federal efforts to reduce the risks associated with the occupancy and modification of these special areas. Third, as a matter of fairness, when the Federal government determines it will participate in actions taking place in floodplains and wetlands, it must inform those who may be put at greater or continued risk. Written comments must be received by the Town at the following address on or before March 30, 2019: Town of Sibley, Post Office Box 128, Sibley, Louisiana 710730128, Attention: Honorable Jimmy Williams, Mayor, during the hours of 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Comments may also be submitted via email at sibleytownhall@ bellsouth.net. Jimmy Williams, Mayor Environmental Certifying Officer Town of Sibley March 14, 2020 Minden Press-Herald
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