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The guest speaker for the 68th Night at the Museum held at the Dorcheat Historical Museum was Adolf Wesselhoeft.

Wess was a member of the United States Airforce, and the fact is surprising after understanding the life that he lived as a young child, experiencing the Second World War first hand.

Both of Wess’s parents were from Germany and came to the U.S. and they met in Chicago where Wess was born only a short time later in September of 36’.

As he tells it, his time in America was that of a typical American boy.

“They never spoke to me in German, just in English, so I grew up as an American boy,” said Wesselhoeft. “By the time I was six, I finished first grade and we said the Pledge of Allegiance every morning when I went to school.”

Even in his early years Wess could always recall being fascinated by airplanes and had a dream to become a pilot. “One of the things that interested me was flying and planes. In my yearbook that I still have, I drew a little picture of an airplane,” said Wess.

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Adolf Wesselhoeft was the guest speaker for the 68th Night at the Museum, where he spoke about his life as a child during WWII.

After World War II had started, unfortunately, Wess’s family became a bargaining chip in the United States negotiations to try and get some of their citizens back.

“President Roosevelt had a problem with the people that were trapped under Hitler. So he had to figure out how he

could get the American people back,” said Wess.

“So he came up with the idea to see what there was for Germans that he could maybe trade. And so my parents were declared as enemy aliens, and I was a volunteer somehow, they listed me as a volunteer anyway.”

For a while, his Dad was put into a prisoner of war camp, and he had to live alone with his mother. However, this didn’t mean that the Father was the only one harassed by the government. “While I was with my mother, the FBI came See, MUSEUM, Page 3

Louisiana lawmakers approve more than $1 billion in infrastructure spending, pending funding (The Center Square) – Louisiana legislators on Monday gave final approval to more than $1 billion worth of infrastructure projects that are supposed to go forward if and when enough money is available.

“We go as far as the dollars will get us,” said Shawn Wilson, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.

There was little discussion at Monday’s meeting of a joint House and Senate committee focused on transportation and public works. Officials had pre-

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BATON ROUGE--Gov. John Bel Edwards on Monday disclosed the first case of coronavirus in Louisiana, a Jefferson Parish resident who was hospitalized in Orleans Parish.

While the case of covid-19 has yet to be confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control, the state is treating it as a “presumptive positive,” he EDWARDS said.

“Now together we all—as a government, as health care systems and providers, as schools, businesses and as neighbors—must take action and be vigilant to prevent the spread of this virus in our great state,” Edwards said.

Edwards made the announcement as he addressed the Louisiana Legislature to begin this spring’s session.

Edwards told returning legislators, as well as 45 freshman representatives and 20 freshman senators, that the state can move forward only through bipartisanship, especially in areas where it does worse than other states, including education and the cost of auto-insurance.

Edwards, the only Democratic governor in the Deep South, won re-election last fall. Republicans gained more seats in the Legislature and now have a supermajority, or two-thirds of the seats, in the Senate. They are now only two seats away from holding a supermajority in the House.

One of the biggest issues that the Legislature will face this session is how to lower insurance premiums.

Louisiana residents pay the second highest auto-insurance rates in the country, behind only Michigan. Little has been done

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Lawmakers race to respond to outbreak; Trump comes to Hill WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that House Democrats will stay at work this week as “captains of the ship” confronting the coronavirus outbreak as President Donald Trump came to Capitol Hill to confer with Senate Republicans about his proposed payroll tax relief.

The Trump administration and lawmakers are racing to respond to the epidemic and the related financial storm in what appears to be a mounting political and policy standoff over the best approach.

Democrats are preparing a package of aid that includes unemployment insurance and sick pay for working families struggling to keep paychecks coming as the outbreak disrupts workplaces. A vote could come as soon as this week or push to mid-March.

“We are the captains of the ship,” Pelosi said during the closed-door meeting, according to a person in the room unauthorized to discuss the private caucus and granted anonymity. “We are the last to leave.” But time is short as Congress heads toward its scheduled break next week.

Meanwhile, lawmakers were given new instructions on how to protect themselves at the Capitol, with the House’s attending physician asking them to stop shaking hands or touching people during greetings — he recommended the split-fingers

Star Trek greeting instead.

Crowds are the norm in the Capitol and handshakes are coin of the realm there, even between political foes.

But about a half dozen lawmakers have placed themselves in quarantine after being exposed to someone who had the virus, and the norm has been upended.

During House Democrats’ closed session, one lawmaker, Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Ca., who is a doctor, noted that the average age in Congress is 57, some lawmakers have underlying health conditions and their work requires them to fly back and forth between home and the capital.

Still, Pelosi implored lawmakers to keep working to strengthen the country’s defenses. Rather than picking up their own coffee and snacks for the breakfast meeting, lawmakers were served by staff from the buffet and warned off touching the serving utensils.

Trump met health insurers at the White House earlier and vowed to help the beleaguered cruiseship and airline industries.

His top economic advisers accompanied him to Capitol Hill to brief Senate Republicans on his plan to ask Congress to pass payroll tax relief and other quick measures. On Monday, the president told reporters he is seeking “very substantial relief” to the payroll tax. Trump also said

he was seeking help for hourly-wage workers to ensure they’re “not going to miss a paycheck” and “don’t get penalized for something that’s not their fault.”

But so far, the president’s approach, based on tax breaks, is receiving a cool response from Democrats as well as Republicans from his own party who say it’s too soon to consider fresh spending from Capitol Hill.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opened the chamber saying only that Republicans “look forward to discussing” the ideas “so we can all consider the best ways to move forward.” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and adviser Larry Kudlow are expected at the weekly GOP lunch.

The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, said the virus outbreak demands a “health care” solution. Democrats are proposing affordable testing, more unemployment benefits and paid leave for working families affected by the virus.

“The administration seems to believe that the answer to any problem is another tax cut,” Schumer said. “The best way to ensure economic security for the American people is to deal directly with the coronavirus itself.

It was not immediately clear how Trump was aiming to provide assistance to employees weighing whether to stay home because of illness — a crucial aim of public

health officials seeking to curtail the spread of the virus.

One mechanism, backed by the Trump-allied National Association of Manufacturers, involves a proposed tax credit for employers who pay employees who are quarantined.

Trump stepped forward with the contours of an initiative Monday after markets dropped sharply and as the outbreak spread. markets recovered from some of the losses Tuesday, reacting positively to the prospects for an economic boost from Washington.

Several Trump confidants have disclosed they are isolating themselves after potential exposure to the virus; one lawmaker traveled with the president from Florida on Air Force One on Monday; another was his justtapped new chief of staff.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, which monitors financial markets, encouraged employees at its Washington headquarters to work from home after an employee there had respiratory symptoms and was referred for coronavirus testing.

And Defense Secretary

Mark Esper postponed a trip to India, Pakistan and Uzbekistan that was to begin Monday, citing the coronavirus crisis, Pentagon press secretary Alyssa Farah said Tuesday. She said he would remain in the U.S to help manage the Pentagon response.

At the Capitol, Democratic lawmakers were told by the House chief administrative officer behind closed doors that the office could support up to 10,000 staff members teleworking if need be.

Laptop orders were being expedited and cyber-security measures reviewed.

Trump returned to Washington on Monday accompanied by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who later went into a voluntary quarantine. He was one of several GOP lawmakers who were exposed to a person at last month’s Conservative Political Action Conference who tested positive for the virus. His office said he was “mid-flight” on Air Force One when CPAC informed his staff that he had been in contact with the attendee who had the virus.

Once the plane landed, Gaetz was immediately tested.

Vice President Mike

Pence, who also spoke at CPAC, said he has not been tested for the virus.

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Trump has not been tested because he has not had “prolonged close contacts” with any patients and “does not have any symptoms.”

The White House has been convening meetings with an array of travel and healthcare industry representatives, and was set to host Wall Street executives at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the economic fallout of the epidemic.

Vast numbers of visitors come to the Hill, especially at this time of year when advocacy groups arrange “fly-in” trips to lobby and speak to lawmakers, and school groups descend for tours.

In one manifestation of lawmaking in the age of the coronavirus, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., approached a Republican colleague on the House floor Monday for a routine congratulatory handshake after the chamber approved a bill expanding a visa program. “Shake or bump?” Neal asked Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D. The two men bumped elbows.

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Session: Edwards pushes funding boost for education Continued from Page 1 in the past four years on this front, and lowering rates ranks high on the agendas of both Edwards and Republican lawmakers.

“Auto insurance costs too much in Louisiana, period,” Edwards said.

Edwards would like to shift from auto-insurance rates being based on an individual’s sex, profession and other personal aspects. He proposes having flat basic rates that fluctuates with an individual’s driving record.

He said, for instance, that some insurers now charge higher rates to widows, people with poor credit scores and even deployed servicemen.

“We have 130 guardsmen currently mobilized, and we are about to have nearly 2,000 more deployed at the end of the year,” Edwards said. “And we should do everything in our power to make sure they are not penalized when they return.”

Republicans lawmakers have said they will continue to try to reduce premiums by changing the state’s litigious climate. Edwards said he was willing to seek compromises with the Republicans in that area, known as tort reform.

Edwards’ proposed budget for the next fiscal year, starting July 1, makes new investments in education at every level. Edwards said that early childhood education is his top priority with his budget proposal including an additional $25 million for it. Edwards believes that the seeds for a college education are laid in preschool.

Edwards budget proposal also includes $39 million

in new funding for K-12 education. Edwards recommends that all $39 million be committed to additional teacher pay raises.

“Before the end of my second term, we will have raised teacher pay to at least the Southern regional average,” he said. “We took the first step last year by giving educators & support workers their first raise in a decade. But we aren’t done yet.”

Edwards committed to fully funding the TOPS scholarship program and included a $30 million increase in his budget for higher education.

“For 10 years, Louisiana disinvested in higher education more than anyone else in the country, and we suffered the consequences” Edwards said. “For the next 10 years, let’s commit to reinvesting in higher education in order to strengthen our state.”

Louisiana is one of five states that has not adopted a state minimum wage. The minimum stands at $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage. Edwards aims to raise this to $9 an hour by January 2021 and then raise it to $10 an hour by July 2021.

Edwards also mentioned equal pay for men and women. Edwards said he plans to support a bill by Rep. Barbara Carpenter that would “prevent employers from retaliating against employees who discuss or disclose their salaries” in hopes of closing the pay gap between men and women. Louisiana has the country’s largest pay gap, Edwards said.

Edwards has pushed for a high minimum wage and for gender pay equality in the past but has not gotten far on those issues with Republican lawmakers.

Museum: Traded to the Enemy is available for purchase at the Dorcheat Historical Museum Continued from Page 1 in and they were looking for something. They started opening all the cabinets and drawers, dumping everything on the floor. Never did figure out what they were looking for, but then they left again,” said Wess.

After some time his dad had returned, but soon after they were on a train to an internment camp in Texas. “They put us on the train to Crystal City in Texas.

When we got to the camp, we were basically the first ones there, then the Japanese and also the Italians. In the time of history, we know that the Japanese were recognized for being interned, and also the Italians were recognized by the government. But the Germans have never been recognized that they were interned. Why? I have no idea.”

Wess stated that they were there for roughly a year, before being sent to New York, and then being put on a Swedish ship to be taken for the trade between the U.S. and Germany. “We were put on that ship and taken over the Atlantic. Now this was in Feb, not exactly the nicest weather, I was seasick for half the trip,” said Wess.

“The exchange took place in Portugal. Who we were traded for I have no idea, but there were wounded soldiers, diplomats, business people and so forth.”

After returning to Germany, Wess and his family returned to the village of Hamburg, given that that is where his family had come from. However, to say that the family had a happy welcome home would be inaccurate at worst.

“It started the day we got there, with the bombing,” said Wess.

With bunkers not being an option due to people

being trapped after seeking shelter due to the debris, Wess’s family had to find an alternative means of dealing with the bombings.

“We decided to move out of the way, because they never changed their plan. They flew right up where the Germans had lined up the artillery, so we knew exactly where they were going to come exactly the same way,” said Wess.

“When they did that we had enough time to move out of the way. My mother always had all the clothes ready, and I could hardly move from all the stuff she put on me.”

On top of the near-constant bombing, they also had the hardship of simply getting the bare necessities.

“That was a pretty rough time when there was no food available because the stores didn’t have anything.

So basically what we lived on was the black market,” said Wess.

He even told a melancholy tale of finally getting his American Bicycle back after coming to Germany, but never being able to rise it due to its value.

“Now the bicycle I had in Chicago finally caught up with me, so I had my American bicycle. I never rode it because it was too valuable in trade,” said Wess.

While it was a difficult time, his family ended up making it through the war, and a few years after Wess ended up returning to America, on his own this time, where he would end up joining the American Airforce.

For more details of his life during the war and after returning to America, it can be found in his book “Traded to the Enemy” which is available at the Dorcheat Historical Museum.

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OTHER OPINION

The differences between rights and wishes Sen. Bernie Sanders said: “I believe that health care is a right of all people.” He’s not alone in that contention. That claim comes from Democrats and Republicans and liberals and conservatives. It is not just a health care right that people claim. There are “rights” to decent housing, decent food, a decent job and prescription drugs. In a free and moral society, do people have these rights?

Let’s begin by asking ourselves : What is a right?

In the standard usage of WALTER E. the term, WILLIAMS a “right” is something that exists simultaneously among people. In the case of our U.S. Constitutional decree, we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our individual right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness imposes no obligation upon another other than the duty of noninterference.

As such, a right imposes no obligation on another. For example, the right to free speech is something we all possess simultaneously. My right to free

“Sanders’ claim that health care is a right does impose obligations upon others. We see that by recognizing that there is no Santa Claus or tooth fairy who gives resources to government to pay for medical services.” speech imposes no obligation upon another except that of noninterference. Similarly, I have a right to travel freely.

Again, that right imposes no obligation upon another except that of noninterference.

Sanders’ claim that health care is a right does impose obligations upon others. We see that by recognizing that there is no Santa Claus or tooth fairy who gives resources to government to pay for medical services. Moreover, the money does not come from congressmen and state legislators reaching into their own pockets to pay for the service. That means that in order for government to provide medical services to someone who cannot afford it, it must use intimidation, threats and coercion to take the earnings of another American to provide that service.

Let’s apply this bogus concept of rights to my right to speak and travel freely. In the

case of my right to free speech, it might impose obligations on others to supply me with an auditorium, microphone and audience. It may require newspapers or television stations to allow me to use their property to express my views.

My right to travel freely might require that others provide me with resources to purchase airplane tickets and hotel accommodations. What if I were to demand that others make sacrifices so that I can exercise my free speech and travel rights, I suspect that most Americans would say, “Williams, you have rights to free speech and you have a right to travel freely, but I’m not obligated to pay for them!”

A moral vision of rights does not mean that we should not help our fellow man in need. It means that helping with health care needs to be voluntary (i.e., free market decisions or voluntary donations to charities that provide health care.) The gov-

ernment’s role in health care is to protect this individual right to choose. As Senator Rand Paul was brave enough to say, “The basic assumption that you have a right to get something from somebody else means you have to endorse the concept of theft.”

Statists go further to claim that people have a “right” to housing, to a job, to an education, to an affordable wage.

These so-called rights impose burdens on others in the form of involuntary servitude. If one person has a right to something he did not earn, it means that another person does not have a right to something he did earn.

The provision by the U.S. Congress of a so-called right to health care should offend any sense of moral decency. If you’re a Christian or a Jew, you should be against the notion of one American living at the expense of another. When God gave Moses the Eighth Commandment — “Thou shalt not steal” — I am sure that He did not mean, “Thou shalt not steal — unless there is a majority vote in the U.S. Congress.”

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

OTHER OPINION

Welcome to ‘tired and grouchy’ week On Sunday, March 8, millions of Americans woke up an hour early, having set their clocks ahead by an hour the night before, and dug in for a week or so of bleary-eyed, irritable attempts to tweak their bodies’ natural sleeping and waking rhythms. This fatuous semi-annual “spring forward, fall back” ritual, called “Daylight Saving Time,” ranks high on my personal list of “dumbest ideas in the history of mankind.”

Why do people put up with Daylight Saving Time and obediently change THOMAS t h e i r KNAPP clocks twice a year? You may have heard that it has to do with saving energy, or making sure children don’t arrive home from school after dark or have more time to do farm work when they get home, or other such nonsense excuses.

In reality, the practice was first proposed by a George Hudson, a New Zealand postal worker and entomologist who wanted more daylight after his regular job to catch bugs, then later by William Willett, a British builder who hated having his golf games cut short by

darkness.

More than a century later, is it fair to say that Willett’s tee times and Hudson’s bug hauls were worth the 30 additional deaths (and associated $275 million in costs) that come with “springing forward” every year (according to a 2017 study in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics)?

Or the billions of dollars in other costs, including, it turns out, increased rather than decreased energy use?

Or, for that matter, the cost of the extra cups of coffee I have to add to my morning intake to jolt myself awake for the first

week or two of getting up an hour early?

I don’t think so. But then, I’m grouchy this morning. I wonder why that might be?

Changing our clocks back and forth on command doesn’t magically alter the passage of time. Basing our schedules on periodic changes to the markings on those clocks, or vice versa, won’t make our day/ night-based circadian rhythms go away, or even become less relevant (ask anyone who’s worked “graveyard shift” for an extended period -- the body doesn’t easily adjust).

As an alternative to con-

scripting everyone into these silly back and forth “Saving Time” games, individuals and groups should be left to adjust their own schedules to fit their own needs. Since I don’t collect bugs or play golf, I don’t need to get up an hour earlier in the spring and summer.

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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UC AP needs for week of March 2: Food: tuna, Vienna sausage, chicken & dumplings, beef stew, fruit, past Household goods: full sheets, pots, pans, skillets Clothing: Men’s pants (waist sizes 30-36), men’s boots/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.

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.

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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Lafayette nurse takes on ‘Naked and Afraid’ for late friend

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — When Lisa Hagan was a teenager, she moved from St. Louis, Missouri, to the small community of Henry in Vermilion Parish. Her new normal became bayous, swamps and the Vermilion River, which cultivated a love of water she still has to this day.

Now 48, Hagan splits her time between working as a cardiac and ER nurse at a Lafayette hospital and being a master captain for a boat charter company in the Florida Keys — that is, when she’s not navigating a string of Caribbean islands in the “Naked and Afraid” challenge.

Hagan had not been an avid fan of the reality TV series on Discovery Channel until her friend Julie told her to watch it a few years ago.

Julie, Hagan’s best friend from high school, watched the show and thought it was perfect for Hagan, who loved being outdoors and on the water. Julie often would join her camping and fishing but would “never touch a fish or anything,” Hagan joked in a phone interview.

So Hagan checked out the show and decided to apply in December 2018 without telling Julie. She didn’t hear back from the show for six months, and during that time Julie died from complications of breast cancer. She was 48.

“She was my best friend in high school,” Hagan said. “Life had happened in between and we didn’t see each other as much, but she was still a big part

of my life.”

A two-time breast cancer survivor herself, Hagan had visited her friend the night before in the hospital where she worked. When she came to work the next morning she learned Julie had coded overnight.

When officials with “Naked and Afraid” emailed her in the summer of 2019 to ask if she was still interested, Hagan decided to do it for her late friend.

“That was my drive,” Hagan said. “I said, ‘I was going out (of the show) in a body bag or on a stretcher.’ And that almost happened.”

‘IT WAS ALL ABOUT SURVIVAL’ The show challenges people to survive in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, all without clothing or supplies.

A typical episode introduces two complete strangers with a 21-day challenge in places like the African Savannah, a Mexican jungle or, in Hagan’s case, a string of uninhabited islands in the Caribbean Sea. “After winning her battle with breast cancer twice, one survivalist must survive 21 days in the Andros Islands surrounded by relentless tropical storms and impossible terrain as she hopes to honor her late friend’s wish for her to complete the ‘Naked and Afraid’ challenge,” reads the description of Hagan’s episode, which will air later this month.

Hagan said the experience was “brutal” and completely real.

“There’s nothing about that that’s fake,” Hagan said. “A medic had to come in when my blood sugar got too low. They told me I had to find some food. They couldn’t just give me a cracker.”

She laughed when she said that. She added that the whole crew, which included two medics, was very compassionate but could not do the work for her.

Viewers of the show know not everyone completes the challenge, and Hagan couldn’t give away that part of her experience before her episode airs on Discovery Channel at 7 p.m. on March 22.

The notable twist of the show is that no one wears clothes. Body parts are blurred for the television audience, but the nudity adds to participants’ trepidation for meeting a stranger, usually of the opposite sex, as well as the difficulty of surviving the elements.

“I had a lot of anxiety about (meeting my partner),” she said. “It was the naked part. I get along with just about anybody.

But I thought, ‘Oh my god, I want to die right now.’ We got over that quickly because it was all about survival.”

“The naked part makes it harder because you have no protection,” she continued. “I have a permanent boob scar and one on my forehead from the sun.”

‘I WASN’T GOING TO LET HER DOWN’ Once she knew she’d be on the show, Hagan started to prepare as best she could, pulling from her years as a medic in

the U.S. Army National Guard as well as her time as a teen running trout lines on the Vermilion.

“I had to brush up on some of my skills,” Hagan said.

She reminded herself how to make a primitive fire and shelter, and she started toughening up her bare feet by walking on gravel around her home in Milton.

Hagan said her challenge was unique because it was across several islands. She and her partner Joe had to navigate them to the endpoint, about 25 miles across land and water from where they started, she said.

While her past experience was helpful, Hagan relied heavily on thoughts of Julie.

“There were signs of her all along the way,” she said, her voice cracking with emotion. “I knew her spirit was out there with me. I wasn’t going to let her down.”

One sign was a hummingbird that followed Hagan throughout the journey.

“Even when I couldn’t see it I could hear it,” she said.

Hagan had a nightly ritual during her experience where she would look up at the moon and burn a piece of driftwood while she thought about at least one positive thing from the day.

“The best part (of the challenge) was tapping into yourself and finding those positive moments,” she said. “The hardest part was the bugs.”

Finding a bright side is something Hagan tries to

do even when not in the wilderness.

“Life is all about perspective,” she said. “Find something positive every day. It shouldn’t take dying or doing something as hard as surviving to do that. You should be living, not going through the motions.”

She wants her experience to inspire others to positive action, whether that’s making positive personal decisions or supporting a local organization like Miles Perret Cancer Services in honor of Julie.

“If I can use this to highlight an organization — I chose Miles Perret because it’s local — if I can use this moment to do something positive, I will,” she said. “If you don’t love your life, change it. You only get one life.”

Hagan will highlight Miles Perret while watching her episode at a public viewing party at Rock ‘n’ Bowl in downtown Lafayette. She’ll be there along with her four adult children, who had mixed feelings about mom going on a show called “Naked and Afraid.”

“The boys are a little hesitant because their friends will have to see their mom naked,” she said with a laugh. “The girls said, ‘Mom, you’re a badass.’”

Hagan hasn’t seen the episode yet and doesn’t know her Primitive Survival Rating (PSR), a score given to each cast member based on predictions and observations of survival fitness in skill, experience and mental strength.

FROM THE BACK PORCH

Grass grows on your path yonder

I have been reading down their path and daily devotionals from spend time in prayer, one of Dr.Johnny Hunt’s pouring out their hearts’ books, “The Pathway needs to their newly to Discipleship, a Year- found Savior. ly Devotion and Prayer Everyone’s path was Journal’.

My recognized. If autographed one neglectcopy is one of ed his prayer three or four time, the path I purchased would start to after hearing be overgrown him speak at a with weeds convention in and brush. If Branson. this happened, Dr. Hunt seeveryone knew lected several FANNIE MOORE he was not ministers and walking the pastors to contribute path to pray every day. weekly devotionals to If that happened somecompile an amazing one gently said, “Brothbook, including pages er, the grass grows on for a prayer journal. your path yonder.”

A recent page shared What an amazing insight into the prayer thing for one Christian life of early Christian to do for another. Not converts in Africa. condemning, but in a The new converts gentle and loving way were so dedicated in remind him that it was their prayer life that noticeable that he was each traveled a separate neglecting his prayer path through the thick- life. ets and had his separate I’m sure many of us place of prayer. Every today need that gentle day they would walk nudge occasionally and

not a harsh reprimand as is so often given.

Is the grass growing in your path?. Do your Christian brothers notice and gently remind you?

“Brother, the grass grows on your path yonder”.

It is not impossible for Christians to become neglectful in their prayer life, Bible reading and ministering to others. Often we become so engrossed in our own lives and the problems we may face along the way that we fail to reach out to others.

We are often prone to make excuses for slacking off on things we know are of importance; making excuses when our excuses may not be acceptable.

The excuse of age, illness, family duties, lack of time. None of these will be acceptable in the eyes of the most important one. He knows our age, our health sit-

uations, our family responsibilities and He even knows how much time we waste on the phone, watching TV, solving puzzles and other idle pursuits. Yet, He still loves us and expects us to stay loyal in our love and dedication to Him and His work.

I have a friend who is extremely ill, yet every time she hears of someone who is sick, she mails them a card. Oh, if only I had her dedication.

I heard today of a lovely little lady in her 90s who is determined to continue His work by sending food for funerals. She is unable to cook but keeps foods in her freezer that she can send in times of need.

Determination and dedication.

A friend at church, in his 90’s, still serves in a position, or two, at church. He rarely misses a service and is quick to call anyone who is

missing from his Sunday School department, just checking to see if they are okay. Dedication?

When we stay true to our faith, doing even the little things that are required of us to keep us on the right path, our path will remain clear of grass. However, if we neglect our purposes, our paths will soon be overgrown with briars and brambles, weeds, and grass.

Looking at these faithful people reminds me that I have begun to let the grass grow in my path. They didn’t need words to remind me, just looking at their actions was a reminder.

However, I believe they would not hesitate to give me a gentle nudge and say, “Sister, the grass grows on your path yonder.”

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

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Lady Tiders begin district play

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Reagan Lee (left) and Ella Floyd (right) led the Lady Tiders to a 21-0 win over Woodlawn on Monday.

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jjmarshall@press-herald.com The Lady Tiders begain District 1-4A play on Monday with a 21-0 win over Woodlawn in Shreveport.

Ella Floyd led the way, going three-for-three with a lead-off home run and two triples.

Reagan Lee hit a home run in her first at bat and essentially hit for the cycle, adding a triple and two doubles to her tally.

Olivia McKinsey, Ada Gilbert, Kendal Lynn, Hollyn Edge, Kristen Smith, Lauren Cheatham and Laci Cheatham all pitched in with hits for the Lady Tiders.

OLYMPICS

Effects of possible Olympic cancellation TOKYO (AP) — The tentacles of canceling the Tokyo Olympics — or postponing or staging it in empty venues — would reach into every corner of the globe, much like the spreading virus that now imperils the opening ceremony on July 24.

The International Olympic Committee and local organizers say the games are on, but the clock is ticking.

The fate of the Tokyo Games touches 11,000 Olympic and 4,400 Paralympic athletes, coaches and sports officials, local organizers, the Japanese government and national morale, international broadcasters, fans and world sponsors.

Add to this hotels, airlines and taxi drivers — and even 80,000 unpaid volunteers who will miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

“I’ve heard things about possibly the Olympics being canceled, and I think that would stink,” J’den Cox, a twotime world champion wrestler and an Olympic bronze medalist in Rio de Janeiro, told The Associated Press. “It would probably break everybody’s heart if that were to happen.”

The Olympic brand could be damaged, although the Switzerland-based International Olympic Committee may be among the least affected parties financially if the games are called off. The IOC has been resolute in its message, although it has a sever-

al-month window to decide.

“Hard to imagine this will be defined by the end of May, but it could be,” Dr. Ali Khan. an epidemiologist and dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska, told the AP in an email. “Regardless, numerous sick athletes could not lead to a very interesting games.

“From what we know from numerous other mass-gathering events including sporting events, it is very easy to spread diseases worldwide from such events — from meningitis to Zika,” Khan added.

“Besides welcoming athletes and spectators with their tiny microbes, there is and may be ongoing disease in Japan.”

Kazuhiro Tateda, an expert on infectious diseases and a member of a Japanese government panel, said the virus may not die out quickly.

“Unlike the flu that disappears with warmer weather, the response to the new coronavirus, I think, will have to continue for half a year or a year,” Tateda told Japanese broadcaster NHK on Tuesday.

The IOC has ample financial safeguards against cancellation, which has happened only in wartime since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Its latest annual report shows it has almost $2 billion in reserve that could cover running costs until the

See, OLYMPICS, Page 7

Senior Janiya Reed can add an All-District honor to her list of accomplishments.

Reed was named District 1-4A All-District First Team after leading the district in scoring at 16.2 points per game this season.

Three Lady Tiders were named honorable mentions for the All-District team.

Junior Shakayla Carter (9.7 ppg, 5.2 rpg), junior Jazz White (6.5 ppg, 4 rpg) and junior Shaniah Washington (4 ppg, 4 rpg) were each listed as honorable mentions for their work this season.

For head coach Jacob Brown, that means that despite losing top scorer Reed to graduation, he has three All-District players returning next season.

Reed played a huge part in helping Minden reach the Top-28 last season, and carried a large part of the scoring load for the Tiders this season.

Reed ended up with over 800 career points injust two seasons at Minden.

In addition to the All-District teams, Minden guard Natalie Dubose made the Class 4-A Academic AllState team.

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Minden’s Janiya Reed was tied for the most points per game in District 1-4A.

NBA

PLAYOFF PUSH

Pelicans battle Kings tonight with playoff spots on the line New Orleans Pelicans (28-36, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Sacramento Kings (28-36, 10th in the Western Conference) Sacramento; Wednesday, 10:30 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: Jrue Holiday and the New Orleans

Pelicans take on De’Aaron Fox and the Sacramento Kings in Western Conference play Wednesday.

The Kings are 20-20 in Western Conference games.

Sacramento allows 110.9 points to opponents and has been outscored by 1.9 points per game.

The Pelicans are 17-25 in conference play. New Orleans is fourth in the NBA scoring 116.2 points per game while shooting 46.2 percent.

The Pelicans won the last matchup between these two teams 117-115 on Jan. 4.

Lonzo Ball scored 24 points to help lead New Orleans to

the win.

TOP PERFORMERS: Fox is averaging 20.4 points and 4.0 rebounds for the Kings.

Nemanja Bjelica has averaged 6.8 rebounds and added 9.4 points per game over the last 10 games for Sacramento.

Brandon Ingram leads the Pelicans averaging 24.3 points and collecting 6.2 rebounds. Ball has averaged 3.3 made 3-pointers and scored 15.2 points over the last 10 games for New Orleans.

LAST 10 GAMES: Kings: 7-3, averaging 114.8 points, 43.4 rebounds, 24.4 assists, 8.6 steals and 3.8 blocks per

game while shooting 48.0 percent from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.5 points on 46.2 percent shooting.

Pelicans: 5-5, averaging 118.7 points, 49.3 rebounds, 31.3 assists, 8.2 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 47.8 percent from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116 points on 46.4 percent shooting.

INJURIES: Kings: Marvin Bagley III: out (foot).

Pelicans: Nickeil Alexander-Walker: out (wrist), JJ Redick: out (hamstring), Darius Miller: out (achilles).

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LSU’s Mays makes All-SEC Second Team Reggie Perry of Mississippi State and Mason Jones of Arkansas have been named The Associated Press Southeastern Conference players of the year.

Texas A&M’s Buzz Williams was named SEC coach of the year in his first season in the league. Williams guided the Aggies to a 10-8 conference record and finished in a tie for sixth in the league.

Texas A&M was predicted to finish 12th in the SEC when the season began.

Perry, the only SEC player to average double figure points and rebounds this season, and Jones, the conference’s top scorer at 22 points a game, each received four votes from the panel of 14 AP voters.

Both players were the only unanimous selections for the AP All-SEC first team. Joining them on the first team are Kira Lewis Jr. of Alabama and the Kentucky duo of Immanuel Quickley and Nick Richards.

Anthony Edwards, the Georgia freshman and possibly the No. 1 overall pick in the upcoming NBA draft, was the runaway pick for newcomer of the year. The 6-foot5 guard averaged 19.5 points a game.

Edwards was also named to the AP All-SEC second team along with Breein Tyree of Mississippi, Skylar Mays of LSU, Samir Doughty of Auburn and Keyontae Johnson of Florida.

The 2019-20 AP All-SEC team, with players listed alphabetically with name, school, height, weight, class and hometown (“u-” denotes unanimous selections): FIRST TEAM Kira Lewis Jr., Alabama, 6-3, 165, So., Meridianville, Alabama

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u-Mason Jones, Arkansas, 6-5, 200, Jr., DeSoto, Texas u-Reggie Perry, Mississippi State, 6-10, 250, So., Thomasville, Georgia Nick Richards, Kentucky, 6-11, 247, Jr., Jamaica Immanuel Quickley, Kentucky, 6-3, 188, So., Harve de Grace, Maryland SECOND TEAM Samir Doughty, Auburn, 6-4, 195, Sr., Philadelphia Anthony Edwards, Georgia, 6-5, 225, Fr., Atlanta Keyontae Johnson, Florida, 6-5, 231, So., Norfolk, Virginia Skylar Mays, LSU, 6-4, 205, Sr., Baton Rouge, Louisiana Breein Tyree, Mississippi, 6-2, 195, Sr., Somerset, New

Jersey ___ Coach of the year — Buzz Williams, Texas A&M Player of the year — Mason Jones, Arkansas, and Reggie Perry, Mississippi State Newcomer of the year — Anthony Edwards, Georgia — AP All-SEC Voting Panel: Parrish Alford, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo, Mississippi; Kayla Anderson, WKRN-TV, Nashville, Tennessee; Ben Briener, The State, Columbia, South Carolina; John Clay, Lexington (Kentucky) Herald Leader; David Cloninger, The Post and Courier, Charles-

ton, South Carolina; Brian Holland, WVLA-TV, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Bob Holt, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas; Cecil Hurt, Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News; Logan Lowery, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo, Mississippi; Dave Matter, St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri; Josh Vitale, Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser; Marc Weiszer, Athens (Georgia) Banner-Herald; Mike Wilson, The Knoxville (Tennessee) News Sentinel; Kyle Wood, The Independent Alligator, Gainesville, Florida.

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Tide fall late to Elysian Fields, Warriors rout Rayville

JJ Marshall

jjmarshall@press-herald.com A late score ended up costing Minden a big win against Elysian Fields in the final game of the Minden Tournament on Saturday.

The game was tied at five with Minden in the field in the top of the sixth when a sac fly scored one run for Elysian Fields.

Despite the loss, the Tide did collect six hits in the high-scoring affair. Unfortunately, Elysian Fields had 11 hits on the way to victory.

Beau Branch and Trenton Mclaughlin all managed multiple hits for Tide. Mclaughlin and Branch each had two hits to lead Minden.

The Tide fall to 2-3 after winning one game in the tournament, a 10-4 win over Linden Kildare on Friday.

Lakeside 18 Rayville 2 The Warriors are sitting pretty at 5-3 this season after a rout over Rayville.

Brian Foster led the Warriors with three hits. Cade Boley had two hits and three

CORONAVIRUS

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Minden catcher Jacob Walker tags out a runner at home in the Minden Tournament last weekend at Griffith Stadium.

RBI. Doyline 10 Rayville 0 The Panthers remain undefeated at 7-0 following a

big win over Rayville on Friday.

Hayden Engel, Cayden Mingo, and Noah Stanley each had multiple-hit games

for the Panthers.

Noah Spears picked up the win and Kyle Spears came on in relief for two innings of shutout work.

2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

The IOC’s annual reports show it paid almost $14.4 million in an insurance premium to protect against canceling the 2016 Rio Olympics and $12.8 million for a policy to cover the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

IOC President Thomas Bach was asked last week after an executive board meeting if the insurance premium has risen to as much as $20 million for a Tokyo policy.

“I don’t know,” he replied.

“It wasn’t discussed at this EB.” Wolfgang Maennig, an Olympic rowing gold medalist who teaches sports economics at Hamburg University, said the losses will be shared.

“Insurance companies will have to pay a large amount of the losses of the IOC,” Maennig said in an email to the AP. “The rest will have to be borne by the IOC.” The IOC controls the Olympics and has wide latitude to act. Its protection is spelled out in the 81-page Host City Contract, signed in 2013 with the city of Tokyo and the Japanese Olympic Committee.

The preamble to the contact states: “the Olympic Games are the exclusive property of the IOC which owns all rights ... to their organization, staging, exploitation, broadcasting, recording, representation, reproduction ... whether now existing or developed in the future, throughout the world in perpetuity.”

The contract also specifies that the IOC can terminate and withdraw from the city because of a “state of war, civil disorder, or boycott ... or if the IOC has reasonable grounds to believe, in its sole discretion, that the safety of participants in the games would be seriously threatened or jeopardized for any reason whatsoever.”

Victor Matheson, a sports economist at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, said athletes are the most vulnerable. The Olympics feature 33 sports, and many of the smaller ones have a limited following until games time.

“For athletes, their career length isn’t long and in many sports success in the Olympics is your one shot at a financial return,” Matheson told the AP. Matheson said losses by hotels and other service businesses are unlikely to be insured. The billions on government spending on venues looks like a risky investment. The loss of the Olympics would negate the difficult-to-calculate goodwill that Japan and Tokyo might have won.

An Irish bookmaker is showing odds leaning slightly toward the Olympics not going forward. Odds are 4-6 it will not open on July 24 in Tokyo, and even that it will.

Tokyo is officially spending $12.6 billion to organize the Olympics, although a national government audit office says it’s at least twice that much.

The local organizing committee budget of $5.6 billion is private money, with the rest coming from Japanese taxpayers. About $1 billion in the local operating budget is to come from ticket sales, which would be lost if the games go ahead without fans in empty stadiums.

“Some combination of the IOC, the broadcasters, and the insurers will lose big,” Matheson said. “That loss is coming out of someone’s pocket depending on how all of the contracts are written.”

Andrew Zimbalist, who teaches economics at Smith

College in Northampton, Massachusetts, said some of the venues, such as the $1.43 billion national stadium, would have “enduring value.”

“But virtually none of it would have made the list of the priority public investments,” he said in an email to the AP, adding that if the games were canceled, much of the investment would be “wasted.”

The IOC has said repeatedly the games will go on, and says it relies on advice from the World Health Organization. The WHO, the U.N. health agency, has so far resisted describing the crisis as a “pandemic,” which could force the IOC’s hand. But many experts say that threshold has already been met.

More than 113,000 people have been infected worldwide from the virus, far more than those sickened by SARS, MERS or Ebola in recent years. More than 4,000 have died.

For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.

The vast majority of people recover from the new virus.

According to the WHO, people with mild illness recover in about two weeks. Those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover. In mainland China, where the virus first exploded, more than 80,000 people have been diagnosed and more than 63,000 so far have recovered.

About 73% of the IOC’s income of $5.7 billion in the latest four-year Olympic cycle (2013-2016) was from selling broadcast rights. The U.S. network NBC makes up at least half of the broadcast payments. Another 18% of IOC income is from sponsorships.

NBC parent company Comcast said that because of insurance and the way contracts are written, NBC won’t suffer losses if the Olympics are canceled. But Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said the company would miss out on ad-driven profits, which were $250 million for the 2016 Rio Olympics. The ad profits for 2020 are expected to be larger.

NBC signed a deal to pay $4.38 billion for four Olympics — 2014 through 2020. It has a new agreement to pay $7.75 billion for the following six Olympics — 2022 through 2032.

Christopher Chase, an attorney based in New York who specializes in sports, intellectual property and media, said sponsors and broadcasters were unlikely to sue for breach of contracts if the games are not held, or the conditions were changed.

Chase, a partner in the law firm Frankfurt Kurnit, said many such contracts would have “force majeure” or “changed circumstances” clauses that spell out unforeseeable conditions that keep a contract from being fulfilled; these act as a defense for non-performance by either party, but in this case, more likely the event producer.

The IOC, much like other large properties such as FIFA and the NFL, “the last thing they want to do is refund fees or lower the cost of what the sponsorship is,” Chase told the AP. “The last thing they want to do is give any money back or charge less. So typically what they try to do is negotiate some kind of makegood or substitute benefits.”

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On This Day In History 2011 - The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster strikes Japan. The nuclear meltdowns occurred after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami. It was the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

2004 - 191 people die as several bombs explode on Madrid commuter trains. The bombings were conducted by an Islamist terrorist cell and came 3 days before Spain’s general elections.

1990 - Lithuania becomes the first Soviet republic to declare its independence. The Baltic country’s secession marked an important See, HISTORY, Page 9

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step in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

1990 - Patricio Aylwin becomes Chile’s first democratically elected president since the end of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Pinochet had been in power since a CIA-backed coup d’état in 1973.

Under his command, thousands of political opponents were interned, tortured, and killed.

1851 - Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, Rigoletto, receives its premiere. Rigoletto is one of the most popular operas of all time. The piece was premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy.

COMICS BABY BLUES | RICK KIRKMAN AND JERRY SCOTT

BLONDIE | DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL

BEETLE BAILEY | MORT & GREG WALKER

FUNKY WINKERBEAN | TOM BATIUK

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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE | CHRIS BROWNE

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