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Peaceful rally against racial injustice to take place this Sunday STAFF REPORT Minden Press-Herald

A peaceful march and rally against racial injustice put together by leaders in the black community is being held this Sunday. The march will start in front of Woo’s Barber Shop, located at 401 Martin Luther King Dr, Minden, LA, and will continue through the streets until ending in front of Minden City Hall.

“There are issues in the communities of people of color much like those that are taking place nationally here in Minden, Louisiana. Therefore, we are joining the international human rights movements in an effort to do our part in bringing an end to the systematic racism that has been embedded into the structure of our society,”

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said one of the event organizers, Nicole Stewart.

“Everyone will peacefully march together; however, if you are unable to march, you can meet us at the Minden Civic Center at 1:30 p.m. to participate in the rally.” The rally Stewart is referring to is one that will take place in front of Minden City Hall after the march.

The march officially starts this Sunday, June 14, starting at 1 p.m., though it is recommended to those attending to arrive around 12:45 p.m.

The march will begin at 401 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive (across from Woo’s Barber Shop) down Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, right on Shepherd Street, left on East Union Street, left on Gleason Street, and then make a right to Minden City Hall.

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A ribbon cutting for The Velvet Home and Co. was held on Tuesday in order to provide a warm welcome for the new local business in Minden. Store Owner Misty Robinson said, “I am so excited for this adventure! God placed this business on my heart two years ago, and I am so happy to finally see this dream become a reality. We are so happy to be a part of the charming downtown Minden, and cannot wait to see where Velvet Home & Co. takes us. Our doors are now open, and we look forward to serving to community for all of your home decor needs!”

Louisiana lawmakers start over on rural internet legislation (The Center Square) – Louisiana legislators on Wednesday started over on an effort to encourage high-speed internet access in rural areas.

Sen. Beth Mizell, who authored a bill with the same goal that lawmakers approved during the regular session, said Gov. John Bel Edwards intends to veto that measure because it could lead to lawsuits against the state.

The Federal Communications Commission has established the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund

to distribute $20.4 billion over 10 years to places with limited or no broadband access, and state officials hope to bring some of that money to Louisiana. Senate Bill 406 allowed rural electricity co-ops to partner with broadband providers and use their existing infrastructure to deliver internet service.

But a provision added to Senate Bill 406 limited its scope to areas that are entirely unserved by broadband. That restriction of competition violates the

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Telecommunications Act of 1996 and could lead to litigation, according to Association of Louisiana Electric Cooperatives CEO Jeff Arnold Senate Bill 10 of the current special session includes the main provisions of Senate Bill 406 but allows co-ops to get into the internet business in areas currently both served and unserved.

That change allows the state’s co-ops to get on board, Arnold said.

“Ingredients get thrown in the sausage as we’re

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making it,” he said, referring to the legislative process. “This wasn’t Best Stop boudin when it came out. It might have been the corner store boudin.

Sometimes it’s good, but not as good as Best Stop.”

Sausage-making metaphors aside, the new legislation still faces opposition. Cheryl McCormick, CEO of the Louisiana Internet and Television Association, said the legislation should remain focused on unserved areas since that’s the intent of the federal program. She

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also said a reporting provision in the bill, which Mizell said is meant to identify unserved areas, “raises severe antitrust considerations” by asking for specific information some companies would prefer not be made public.

AT&T and the Louisiana Farm Bureau also turned in red cards indicating opposition but did not testify Wednesday.

“The Governor met with Senator Mizell and expressed his concerns

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with SB 406 as it was finally passed,” Edwards spokeswoman Christina Stephens said by email.

“She worked with us on the language that was adopted in committee today and the governor is fully supportive of the approach she is taking.”

The special session began right after the regular session ended June 1 and may last until the end of the month.

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Alarming rise in virus cases as states roll back lockdowns NEW YORK (AP) — States are rolling back lockdowns, but the coronavirus isn’t done with the U.S. Cases are rising in nearly half the states, according to an Associated Press analysis, a worrying trend that could intensify as people return to work and venture out during the summer.

In Arizona, hospitals have been told to prepare for the worst. Texas has more hospitalized COVID-19 patients than at any time before. And the governor of North Carolina said recent jumps caused him to rethink plans to reopen schools or businesses.

There is no single reason for the surges. In some cases, more testing has revealed more cases.

In others, local outbreaks are big enough to push statewide tallies higher. But experts think at least some are due to lifting stay-at-home orders, school and business closures, and other restrictions put in place during the spring to stem the virus’s spread.

The virus is also gradu-

ally fanning out.

“It is a disaster that spreads,” said Dr. Jay Butler, who oversees coronavirus response work at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“It’s not like there’s an entire continental seismic shift and everyone feels the shaking all at once.”

That is also happening globally. Places that suffered early on such as China, Italy and Spain have calmed down but Brazil, India and other countries that were spared initially are seeing large increases.

The world is seeing more than 100,000 newly-confirmed cases every day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, The virus first landed on the U.S. coasts, carried by international travelers infected abroad.

For months, the epicenter was in northeastern states. More recently, the biggest increases have been in the South and the West.

The AP analyzed data compiled by The COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer organization that collects coronavirus testing data in the United States.

The analysis found that in 21 states as of Monday, the rolling seven-day average of new cases per capita was higher than the average seven days earlier.

Some worry the situation may get worse as social distancing restrictions lift and more people gather. One concern is that large recent racial justice protests across the country might spark at least some spread of the virus.

Here’s what’s driving increases in some of the states with notable upticks: TEXAS Few states are rebooting faster than Texas, where hospitalizations surged past 2,100 on Wednesday for the first time during the pandemic. That’s a 42% increase in patients since Memorial Day weekend, when beachgoers swarmed Texas’ coastline and a water park near Houston opened to big crowds in defiance of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s orders.

Texas’ percentage of tests coming back positive has also jumped to

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Louisiana legislators advance ‘standstill’ state budget enhanced by federal pandemic relief (The Center Square) – The Louisiana House of Representatives unanimously approved a state spending plan Wednesday, closing a $900 million shortfall with help from federal pandemic aid.

The spending bills now head to the state Senate.

Veteran lawmakers called the approval an “easy vote” compared to some of the fights they’ve had over budgets in past years. But in an unprecedented and unpredictable economic environment, they said, they might have tougher decisions to make next year or even later this year.

“This [federal] money will not be there next year,” Rep. Jerome Zeringue, R-Houma, said.

While the federal CARES Act funding is meant to help pay for the state’s response to COVID-19, not to plug budget holes, regulators allow states to consider payroll costs for public health and public safety employees since the pandemic began “substantially dedicated to mitigating or responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency.” So officials are using federal money to help fund those departments, freeing up state general fund dollars

for other areas.

On paper, the proposed operating budget spends more than $34 billion, a $4 billion-plus increase over last year. All spending bills approved Wednesday, including those funding the legislature and judiciary, total nearly $40 billion.

But lawmakers say the apparent increase is misleading because federal funds are counted twice.

Rep. Jerome Zeringue, the Houma Republican who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, called it effectively a “standstill budget.”

“Any sensible person would not send that money back to Washington,” said Rep. Lance Harris, an Alexandria Republican and one of the body’s most outspoken fiscal conservatives.

But Harris implored his colleagues to start thinking about ways to “shrink the size of government” in case the economy doesn’t bounce back quickly enough to sustain the current rate of spending. There is a strong possibility the state will face another revenue shortfall next fiscal year, or even later this year, lawmakers said.

“Based upon the numbers that we’re seeing right now, it looks like

there is a probability that there may be a shortfall,” Zeringue said.

There is still the possibility of additional federal aid, though state lawmakers can only guess at how much money might be sent to Louisiana and what strings might be attached.

Rep. Blake Miguez, an Erath Republican, argued lawmakers should support the various tax cuts, incentives and subsidies that many GOP members are backing in hopes of spurring a quicker economic recovery.

Legislators already have approved using CARES Act money to create a $300 million grant fund for small businesses. Gov. John Bel Edwards has not yet announced whether he will sign the bill.

“If we don’t support those initiatives,” Miguez said, “it’ll be a lot rougher.”

But Rep. Tammy Phelps, a Shreveport Democrat, warned lawmakers to be wary of those bills, many of which will decrease state revenue for a promised economic boost that critics say might not materialize.

“Those things do add up,” she said.

levels that are among the nation’s highest. State officials point to hot spots at meatpacking plants and prisons in rural counties, where thousands of new cases have cropped up, but have not offered explanations for a rise in numbers elsewhere.

Abbott, who has recently begun wearing a mask in public, has shown no intention of pumping the brake on reopening a state where protesters in May pressured him to speed up the timeline on getting hair salons back in business.

On Friday, Texas is set to lift even more restrictions and let restaurant dining rooms reopen at nearly full capacity.

ALABAMA In Alabama, outbreaks in nursing homes and poultry plants helped drive state numbers upward, though there was a drop more recently. But that may change — there is evidence of community transmission in the capital, Montgomery, which has become an emerging hot spot, said State Health Officer Scott Harris.

“I think reopening the

economy gave a lot of people the wrong impression ... that, ‘Hey everything is fine. Let’s go back to normal,’” Harris said.

“Clearly, it is not that way.

Really, now more than ever we need people to stay 6 feet apart, wear face coverings and wash their hands.”

Montgomery hospital intensive care units are as busy as during flu season.

“I can assure you that Montgomery’s cases are not going down, and if our community does not take this seriously, the virus will continue to spread, and at some point, our medical capacity will reach its limit,” Dr. David Thrasher, director of respiratory therapy at Jackson Hospital, said in a statement.

ARKANSAS Arkansas has also seen increases — in cases, hospitalizations and the percentage of tests that come back positive. But the state’s situation is a complicated story of different outbreaks at different times, said Dr. Nate Smith, director of the Arkansas Department of Health.

After a peak in April, levels were low until spikes began about three weeks ago — mainly in the cities of Rogers and Springdale in the northwest and in De Queen further south. The cases have been concentrated among Hispanics and those who work in chicken production facilities, which never were closed.

Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday said the state will move into a new phase of reopening, starting Monday.

LOOKING AHEAD Experts are wondering what will happen in the next week or so, in the wake of nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police.

The protests were outdoors, which reduces the likelihood of virus spread, and many participants have worn masks and taken other precautions. But it’s a lot of people close together, chanting, singing and yelling.

“Hopefully we won’t see a big spike. But those data aren’t in yet,” Humble said.

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OBITUARIES

Frederick Warren Fory, Sr. Fredrick Warren Fory Sr. was born September 27, 1936 in Shreveport, LA to William “Bill” Fory and Helen Larrison Fory McCarley. He gained his heavenly wings at home in Princeton on June 8, 2020 surrounded by his loving family. Fred was raised by his grandmother, Sue Bond Fory Winn, after his father was deployed to fight in WWII. Visitation will be Thursday, June 11 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. at Rose Neath Minden. Graveside services will be held Friday, June 12 at 11:00 at Point Chapel Assembly of God Cemetery in Doyline. Officiating will be Rev. Bill Stroud with a word from Fred Fory Jr. Fred attended Fair Park High School in Shreveport before joining the Army. He served in Korea where his job was to recover our fallen soldiers. A book, Soldier Dead, was inspired and written by local author Mike Sledge about Fred’s job in the service.

Fred worked at Peterson Sales in Shreveport, was a welder and carpenter for many years, worked as Supervisor for the Bossier Housing Authority, the quality control inspector for Loggy Bayou Tree-stands.

Fred was an avid hunter, trapper, fisherman, bow-

Mary Sue Norment Mary Sue Norment. 79, of Magnolia, AR passed away Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at Wentworth Place Griffin House in Magnolia.

Mary was born January 28, 1941 in Statesbury, WV to the late Clarence Woodrow “Joe” Duncan and Mary Madaline Wees Duncan. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in McNeil, AR and was a retired housekeeper.

She is preceded in death by her parents; husband Herbert Norment; brothers Clarence Woodrow “Buddy” Duncan and James Howard “Jimmy” Duncan; sisters Barbara James and Nancy K. Duncan.

Mary is survived by her son William Herbert “Bill” Norment and wife Jackie of El Dorado; daughters Jeanette Beeson and husband Bob and Mary Chapman of Magnolia; brothers Billy R. Duncan and wife Donna, John Samuel “Sammy” Duncan of Mt. Hope, WV, and David Mikael “Mike” Duncan of Columbus, OH; sisters Connie Jo Craddock, Patty M. Logan and husband Sam of Mt. Hope, WV, and Ruby C. Swigart and husband

Jackson M. Miles, Sr. Graveside Memorial Service for Jackson M. Miles, Sr., age 86, will be held on June 17, at 1:00 p.m. at Minden Cemetery in Minden, LA, with Rev. Fred Wideman officiating.

Mr. Miles was born on June 12, 1933, to Kirtley J. Miles and Eris Monzingo Miles, and died at his home on April 17, 2020 surrounded by loved ones.

He played high school football and was on the swim team. Following graduation from Minden High School in 1951, he attended Louisiana Tech University and graduated with a degree in petroleum engineering in 1959. In 1954 he married the love of his life Dana Davis

hunter, and participated in competitive archery, where he took home numerous awards, including several state championships. He taught gun and bow safety to children, as well as adults. Fred was well known for his “trick shooting” with his bow and arrows. He was president of The Louisiana Bowhunters Association, and a member of the National Field Archery Association, Bossier Bowhunters, and Red River Archery Club.

He was preceded in death by his son Daniel R. Fory, parents, stepfather Morris McCarley, stepmothers Nadine Cobb Fory and Ursula Fory, sister Sally Fory Williams, grandsons Jason Fory and Daniel Fory II and baby brother John McCarley.

Fred is survived by his beloved wife of 64 years, Emma Davenport Fory, children Fred Fory Jr (Karen), Tim Fory, Joy Fory Davis (Mark), and Lori Fory, daughter-in-law Debra Liles Fory, sisters Joyce Fory Stark (Wayne), Billy Lynn Fory Raybourn (Russell), stepsister Katja Krietner Rountree, brother Russell Fory (Sirlina), 24 grandchildren (spouses), 45 great grandchildren (spouses), 10 great-great grandchildren and a host of other family and friends.

Pallbearers will be Jeremy Evans, David Recchia, Mark Davis, Ben Gray, Kevin Hill T. J. Fory, Stetson Davis, and Corbin White.

Honorary pallbearers will be Jimmy Scaife, Steve Powell, Terald Vidrine, Buster Duraczynski, Dale Fletcher, Chris Braumiller, and Yvette Deem.

Frank of Diamond, OH; grandchildren Michael R. Norment and wife Kerrie, Bobby H. Beeson and wife Nicole, Brena A. Ainsworth of Magnolia, Nicole Greer and husband Danny, Carlie B. Austin and husband Tyler of El Dorado, Brandi Melancon and husband Damian of Hester, LA, Kellie M. Randall and husband Jim of Benson, NC, and Tiffany A. Lowery and husband Casey of Coats, NC; eighteen great grandchildren; 23 nephews and nieces; and a host of extended family and friends.

Graveside services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 13, 2020 at the Bistineau Baptist Church Cemetery in Heflin, LA with Bro. Ken Williams officiating under the direction of Lewis Funeral Home, Inc. in Magnolia, AR. Signing of the guest book and viewing will be Friday, June 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p. m. at the funeral home.

The family requests memorial donations be made to First Baptist Church, 451 Gum, McNeil, AR 71752 or to Life Touch Hospice, 2301 Champagnolle, El Dorado, AR 71730.

To sign the online guest book to share a memory visit www.lewisfuneralhome.biz

and had three beautiful children. Together they traveled the world for Jackson’s job, living in Scotland, Ireland, and Australia to name a few. Retirement from the oilfield brought him and his family to Texas. He loved watching sports, especially his Dallas Cowboys.

He is preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Dana. He is survived by his children, Chip (and Darla) Miles of Weatherford, TX, Davis (and Sandy) Miles of Corsicana, TX, and Missy (and Brad) Coffelt of Whitney, TX, and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The family would like to thank Sally Bullard, with Divine Home Health, who was his friend and caregiver these past few years.

In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials be made to your own home church as a way of honoring and remembering him.

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Washington Post: Calls to defund police about fostering change, not lack of law enforcement Weeks of sustained anger and grief after the police killing of George Floyd have reignited a public debate over police brutality in the United States.

Alongside demands for police reform, another demand has surfaced: Defund the police.

This provocative slogan at its most constructive represents a welcome call to reimagine public safety in the United States.

As peaceful, impassioned protests show no signs of receding and polls show high levels of approval for police reform, the moment feels ripe to overhaul police departments and procedures. On Monday, congressional Democrats unveiled a major police reform bill, and several state and local bills are being considered throughout the country. Advocates and political leaders are right to focus on concrete reforms — especially those that don’t require massive spending increases, such as updating standards on use of force and increasing transparency around police misconduct.

But while pursuing such reforms, we also should take on

“The pandemic is prompting reimagining on many fronts, from education to health care to support for the unemployed. In this context, it makes sense to reconsider our goals for public safety and the kinds of institutions we think would best achieve them.” the more fundamental questions posed by the “defund” movement. Police reformists and defunding advocates agree on plenty, but where the former ask how police can most effectively be improved, the latter ask: Are there non-policing solutions to society’s problems? Is this the safest America we could have?

The pandemic is prompting reimagining on many fronts, from education to health care to support for the unemployed.

In this context, it makes sense to reconsider our goals for public safety and the kinds of institutions we think would best achieve them. It makes sense to consider changes to ways of doing things that were never optimal but have seemed, until now, so baked-in as to be beyond questioning.

Are we really safer in a world where armed police respond to mental health emergencies, or can we imagine communities in which those struggling with mental illness are met with expert and reliable services? Are we safer when homelessness is met with criminalization, not compassion and housing?

Are there ways to fund local governments so that they are less financially dependent on extracting fees from citizens?

Asking these fundamental questions — and not being anchored in existing institutions for answers — is what the moment requires.

This conversation, in other words, is not just about budgets. It is true that, as the pandemic-inflicted economic crisis forces painful cuts in state and local spending, on-

lookers are rightly alarmed at plans to slash social services while sparing police budgets.

Outrage over such priorities led the mayors of Los Angeles and New York City to pledge to shift some funding from police departments to social services. But it would make sense in many cases to invest in constructive alternatives at the same time or before existing institutions are downsized.

The process should be led at the community level, because every community’s strengths and needs are unique, but a broader national conversation can expand our ideas of what is possible and what we deserve.

Ultimately, the call to defund the police should be understood as a call to reinvest in communities and explore new solutions. It asks us to draw on our resources and creativity and to be clear-eyed about the most problematic and painful parts of our policing history.

At its core, it is an expression of relentless optimism — in response to the suggestion that things could be a little less bad, it says: We can do so much better.

OTHER OPINION

Michelle Malkin: The monumental campaign to #CancelAmerica Across our looted plain, statues are under siege. Smashed.

Spray-painted. Shrouded. Expunged. In the name of social justice, we are witnessing the systematic eradication of history. Edifice vigilantes will not rest until all monuments of Western civilization fall.

It matters not whether the targets were guilty of the tired old charges of patriarchal oppression and institutional racism. It only matters that marble and granite tributes to dead white men be replaced with garish “Black Lives Matter” street murals and St. George Floyd altars.

Trillions of tax dollars have been spent on America’s War on Poverty. We’ve had four decades of affirmative action. A black president held the White House for eight years, with a black First Lady, black attorney general, black homeland security secretary, black transportation secretary, black education secretary, black U.N. ambassador, top black senior advisers, and more than 400 black presidential appointees. It’s never enough.

The current president has forked over criminal justice reform, expanded the “Opportunity Zones” money pit, increased funding for historically black colleges and universities and obsesses endlessly about the “black unemployment rate.” At the urging of his pandering son-in-law, Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump is now promising to deliver leftwing “police reforms” first—instead of protecting law enforcement officers and their families

in the crosshairs of violent antifa and Black Lives Matter extremists.

But it’s still not enough. The monuments must fall.

Here are just a few examples of the indiscriminate ignorance fueling the “Topple the Racists” movement here and abroad: —In the heart of downtown Colorado Springs, an elegant statue of the city’s founder was defaced last week with multiple “BLM” graffiti tags. General William Jackson Palmer was an extraordinary e n g i n e e r, railroad builder and philanthropist who fought for the Union in the Civil War as a MICHELLE 25-year-old MALKIN cavalryman. He won a Medal of Honor for his leadership during a key battle in 1865. After moving to the Rockies and earning enormous wealth, he quietly gave half of his fortune away — including substantial donations to historically black Hampton University in Virginia, which was founded to educate freed slaves.

—In Denver, last week, agitators vandalized a 1909 monument standing outside the Capitol building with swastikas and “FTP” (f—-k the police) slogans. The statue depicts a Union soldier and honors Coloradans who fought and died

in the Civil War. —In the U.K., an anti-Trump outfit disseminated a hit list of statues that must be torn down, including one of former Prime Minister Earl Grey, who presided over the outlawing of slavery. The history erasers have already forced the University of Liverpool to rename its Gladstone Hall to remove reference to the former prime minister and Liberal Party leader William Gladstone. His father was a slave owner, so the monument police have decided that nothing else Gladstone achieved or espoused in four terms in office matters because he did not adequately renounce, disavow and atone for the sins of his father.

So, should Confederate displays, colonial landmarks and slaveholders’ visages be deepsixed to assuage the #CancelAmerica culture? How do we confront past history if we dismantle it? How does pretending away an entire generation of Americans and their progeny promote “healing”?

And where will it end?

Virginia’s governor, Ralph “Blackface” Northram, announced plans to tear down the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, despite the commonwealth’s legal guarantee in 1890 to hold the statue and pedestal “perpetually sacred to the monumental purpose” and to “faithfully guard it and affectionately protect it.” A circuit court issued a 10-day injunction against the landmark’s removal on Monday. But liberal lawyers are outraged that the law might actually, you know,

matter.

“I am struggling to understand why the constitution doesn’t *compel* the statue’s removal,” ACLU lawyer Matt Segal fumed on Twitter, “let alone permit its presence.” Oh, and which country’s constitution might that be, Segal?

A Texas Ranger statue was yanked from Love Field in Dallas. Jacksonville, Florida, is purging all Confederate monuments. NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace has declared his intent “to get rid of all Confederate flags.” The National World War II monument was spray-painted with “Do Black Vets Count?” and the steps of the Lincoln Memorial were tagged with “Yall Not Tired Yet?” Yes, I am tired. Tired of watching Americans apologize for their founders and fighters.

Tired of thought police, speech police and memorial police imposing 21st-century standards on public and private figures from two and three centuries ago. Tired of collective groveling that will buy no goodwill.

Tired of ingrates who will not stop at “reimagining” America until there is no America left.

In the past, when oncemighty civilizations fell, their statues — like Ozymandias — outlasted them. Now, the barbarians destroy the monuments before time can erode them. What a “colossal Wreck” are we.

Michelle Malkin’s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com.

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Dr, Lynn Jones, pastors a church

and the game of basketball. Ea-

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LIFE IN A PANDEMIC

Movie theaters, shuttered for months, plan July reopening NEW YORK (AP) — After three months of near total blackout of cinemas nationwide, movie theaters are preparing to reopen — even if it means only a few titles on the marquee and showings limited to as little as 25% capacity.

AMC Theaters, the world’s largest theater operator, said Tuesday that it expects to have 97-98% of its theaters worldwide reopened by mid-July. The National Association of Theater Owners, the trade group that represents exhibitors, expects some 90-95% of cinemas around the world will be opened by mid-July.

A lot is still “fluid,” as AMC Entertainment’s chief executive, Adam Aron, said in a call Tuesday with investors. But provided flare ups of the coronavirus don’t unmake plans, the industry is gearing up for a dramatic resumption of widespread business just in time for Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” The Warner Bros. thriller, the latest from arguably Hollywood’s most passionate defender of the big-screen experience, is slated for release July 17.

Warner Bros. didn’t comment late Tuesday, and the

most recent trailer for “Tenet” was notably vague on its release date. But theater owners are cautiously optimistic that “Tenet” will hold where it is.

Aron said that AMC’s conversations as recent as Monday with Warner Bros. and Disney, which has “Mulan” slated for July 24, have been reassuring.

The larger question might be whether moviegoers feel safe returning to theaters. Health officials have warned that large indoor gatherings are risky.

Broadway theaters will remain dark through at least early September. It will be up to movie theater operators to convince moviegoers that it’s safe to once again sit in the dark among strangers.

Only recently have state guidelines allowed the reopening of theaters in California (including in the country’s top market, Los Angeles, where local officials have yet to agree).

In New York City, open cinemas come in phase four of its reopening schedule; it began phase one only on Monday.

Aron granted New York theaters, which constitute the second largest market, may not open in time for “Tenet.”

Theaters have slowly been

reopening in other areas of the country, while a renaissance of drive-ins has flourished. Cinemark, which operates about 6,000 U.S. screens has said it will begin reopening in late June and fully reopen by July 10. Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas, the world’s second-largest chain, is also tracking for a July reopening.

But AMC’s announcement Tuesday signaled the most ambitious and widespread plan for a resumption of business.

“After a period of time where billions of people have endured confinement and limited social interaction, we believe that there will be a significant pentup demand to get back out in the world,” said Aron. “Having said that, we’re under no illusions. The waters will be choppy. There may be unforeseen tosses and turns to be navigated through. And full recovery may take quite a while.”

AMC, like other chains, expects to limit audience sizes to facilitate social distancing, including keeping cinemas 25-50% full and blocking out seats. Cinemas will be regularly cleaned. Ordering concessions will be possible from an app.

As a kind of test case, AMC has

already opened 10 theaters in Europe. Three theaters in Norway sold 83% of available tickets, said Aron.

Although 25% capacity may sound like an untenable business model, Aron said movie theaters are usually part-empty, calling them — unlike typically sold-out Broadway theaters — “a church built for Easter Sunday.” He was optimistic box-office returns wouldn’t be badly jeopardized, especially since 12-20 screen multiplexes will likely be showing only a handful of films. With so many working from home due to the pandemic, moviegoing may also not be as focused on Friday and Saturday.

Before “Tenet” arrives, theaters will play — just as those that are currently open are showing — recent and classic catalog offerings. The Russell Crowe thriller “Unhinged,” from Solstice Studios, is also set for July 1. Shortly after AMC’s announcement, Sony Pictures said it will roll out the romantic comedy “The Broken Hearts Gallery” on July 10, only in theaters.

“We have faith in a theatrical rebound, and we look forward to being there right out of the

gate with our exhibition partners’ anticipated reemergence, as — and when — state-bystate safety guidelines are met,” said Josh Greenstein, president of Sony’s Motion Picture Group.

The prolonged closure has had a crushing effect on theater chains, forcing the furloughing and firing of tens of thousands of workers. Rumors of bankruptcy have swirled around AMC. On Tuesday, it said it lost $2.18 billion in the second quarter. Ticket sales have overall been on a slow decline. Aron acknowledged some cinemas will stay shut.

Though a handful of movies have been steered to streaming or on-demand platforms during the pandemic, most studio films have been postponed until theaters reopen. Universal Pictures has moved more aggressively to put digitally distribute some of its films, drawing the fury of theater owners.

AMC, which previously said it would cease playing Universal releases, said Tuesday that it remains in “active negotiations” with the studio but that no Universal movies “are currently on our docket.” www.apnews.com

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I wrote this almost 8 years ago about a very special person - a real Dubach Legend Jimmy Newsom. Jimmy passed away recently. He almost hung a hundred on ‘em. I was betting that he would. May he be welcomed into the open arms of our Loving Savior.

He and his wife, Miss Fern, have lived there as long as I can remember – in the little house on Hico Road in Dubach with the all the beautiful flowers and the manicured lawn so thick I probably still couldn’t pedal my bike through it.

Since, like me, they aren’t getting any younger, I try to visit with what Tom Brokaw called the Greatest Generation every chance I get.

But, it was really something Miss Fern said this past summer that sparked my curiosity.

She mentioned that Jimmy wouldn’t be at the Fourth of July fireworks show at James Lake because “it reminded him of the war.”

Now 90, the war started for a 20 year-old Jimmy in 1942 when, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the

Navy.

I asked him why he chose the Navy. In his deep baritone voice, he smiled and said, “I figured, in the Navy, I would at least be on a ship and have a bunk or a hammock to sleep in. In the Army, they sleep on the ground.”

With a couple of years of college under his belt, exceptional eye sight and hearing, the Navy sent him to San Diego, CA to train as a sound man. It was his first time to leave Louisiana.

The British had developed a new technology called sonar which was instrumental in detecting enemy submarines.

Jimmy Newsom was one of the first Americans to be trained by the British in the use of sonar.

“I was sent to Norfolk, VA and assigned to be the sound man of the DD 155, the U.S.S. Cole. It was a WWI vintage four-stack destroyer and a bucket of rust very much expendable in the eyes of the U.S. Navy.”

“When we got to Norfolk, the Cole Boat, as we called it, was in dry dock for repairs. It

had just returned from landing 100 U.S. Rangers under heavy German fire in North Africa. It earned a Presidential Citation for that.”

“Despite its age and condition, the crew loved that boat. We were getting ready to begin convoy duty with it in Europe. My job was to locate enemy subs and to direct depth charges that would destroy them. It was a very important job because your life and the lives of your shipmates depended on your skill, knowledge, and operation of your unit.”

“The Germans had developed acoustic torpedoes that would track the disturbance made by a ship’s propeller. If I heard a German torpedo, we had some depth charges set to explode in shallow water so it would confuse and divert the torpedo off course. War is like a game of chess - always trying to outdo the opposition.”

During one of Jimmy’s missions in the Mediterranean, the Cole was in support of the invasion of Salerno, Italy. German bombers became mixed in with planes carrying U.S.

paratroopers.

“Confusion reigned to the extent that our ships shot down some of own bombers and whatever else flew over.

For the next three days and nights we shelled the beach and waited to see if our troops were going to be able to hold the beachhead. They stayed!”

“When the war was over, I found out that one of those troopers we put ashore was Bill Reppond, a hometown friend of mine from Marion, La.” The U.S. “Cole Boat” was decommissioned and Jimmy was assigned to the U.S.S. Sarsfield and was getting ready to go to Japan to fight when the bomb was dropped that ended the war.

Miss Fern stepped in to say that lunch was ready. I had one last question for the old sailor. I asked him if he thought he was indeed a member of the Greatest Generation.

He looked down, paused for a minute, looked up and said: “No, not really… If the same thing happened again today, if we were attacked, I’d do it again. And so would you!”

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Today I woke up with a very grateful heart Today I woke up with a very grateful heart. As I look back at our past, we have gone through a lot of trials, failures, sorrow, blessings, happy times and lots of laughs.

A lot has happened during the past 51 years of my life. I ask myself, “Would I change any of it?” I think that I would like to change a few years of things we went through, but really the journey we have been on has made us what we are today.

I don’t think I would be who I am without it.

I come from a big family and lately I have been thinking about all the great times we had together growing up.

As I started my first attempt at a very small garden this year, I remember going to my Grammy’s in Canada and picking out of her huge garden every summer. They would send all of us cousins outside with a butter dish and tell us to go pick strawberries for supper.

These strawberries weren’t normal strawberries. They were very small.

They were called field or wild strawberries.

We would spend hours out there picking, because we ate more than we picked. Now that I think back on it they knew this and knew we would stay out of their hair all afternoon.

I also came from an alcoholic family.

TINA My whole dad’s SPECHT side of the family were alcoholics.

We always had what we needed, never went without, but it wasn’t fun to watch my mom and our family go through this.

This is why I choose not to drink to this day. I don’t want to go down the same road that my family did.

In all honesty, I did drink early on in my adult life, and enjoyed it too much.

By the grace of God, and His salvation, my life has changed for the better. I really don’t like to be around anyone that drinks a bunch, because I know what it can turn into.

I believe because of all the things I have gone through in my life, it has made me a better person. I am not perfect by any means, but I have big goals and dreams to where I want to be, and nothing and no one will stop me.

My husband and I have big goals and dreams for us and our family. We know we are on the right path to where we want to be. The path is not always easy, but when you know you are on the right path I believe the devil gets mad and tries to throw road bumps in the way to get you off track.

People think that because we are Christians, we won’t have trouble and things will go smoothly. The problem is we are all human and have free will to do what we want.

Sometimes, we don’t always do the right thing. We are all a work in progress.

Give others grace along the way like God gives you grace.

As the summer begins, and you open your eyes each morning, spend a minute or two with the Lord and tell Him how thankful you are for all that you have.

Tell Him how thankful for your family you have, thankful for the job you get to go to each day, thankful for your health.

I can go on and on but know this, we are always going through a season in life.

We may be at the bottom of the mountain, going up the mountain or sitting at the top.

Wherever you are, stay humble and grateful. Focus on your goals and dreams and you will accomplish much.

Blueberry Lemon Poppyseed Broccoli Salad Ingredients 8 cups chopped broccoli 1 cup fresh blueberries 1/3 cup dried blueberries 1/2 cup cashews 1/4 cup chopped green

onions 1 tablespoon lemon zest 1 cup Lemon Poppyseed Dressing Lemon Poppyseed Dressing 1/2 cup mayonnaise 1/2 cup sour cream 1 tablespoon sugar 2 teaspoons poppy seeds 1 tablespoon lemon juice Instructions Add all the ingredients to the Lemon Poppyseed dressing together in a bowl and whisk together. Set aside.

Add Broccoli, blueberries, dried blueberries, cashews, green onions and lemon zest in a bowl.

Drizzle the lemon poppyseed dressing onto the broccoli salad and mix. refrigerate until you are ready to serve.

Tina Specht is co-owner of the Minden Press-Herald. She shares her thoughts and recipes each Thursday.

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Many people love the smell of It’s hot and loud. Too much of freshly mown grass. Not me. It’s a Yang environment for a Yin an olfactory reminder that my person like me. That’s another yard too likely needs mowing. I problem I have adapting to the always said I preferred shovel- south. It’s most often bright, ing snow to cutting grass on the loud and hot. I like things dark, chore chart, but even in Mis- quiet and cool. souri you did much more of the Local Minden repair last year latter than the former. If I had kept the hobbled Lawn-Boy to shovel snow weekly cutting grass for for a season then likejust a few weeks. ly it too would’ve beThen it checked out come an odious task. again and wouldn’t Running out the gas start. Back to the from the mower at the shop. Then back to end of autumn’s final mowing. Back to cut was a satisfying not cooperating. annual ritual. In Mis- DIRK ELLINGSON ack to the shop souri that happened in for still more reearly October. In Louisiana it’s pair. All in 2019. Three trips. I later in November. And starting dropped $167.21 on the beast up the mower for a new season last year. Combined with Misof grass cutting in March? I find souri servicing, that’s a total that depressing. of $318.62 and there we might In late 2015 prior to my mi- be approaching fiscal territory gration south, I took the ven- where it’s cheaper to invest in erable Lawn-Boy to a Missou- a new push mower. I’ve nevri shop for servicing prior to er considered a riding mower. winter hibernation. That cost Never even piloted one. They’re $151.41. That sleep of custom- more expensive and I’ve always arily a few months extended to had yards with challenging three years after our move be- geometric corners, hills, slopes, cause we lived in a rental house and obstacles I’m more likely where lawn care was provided. to navigate around or run down The Lawn-Boy sat covered in than to move. a shed, albeit a doorless shelLawn mowing was one of the ter, just waiting for the phone few ways to generate income to ring. I’m certain in addition for a teen boy in the 1970’s and I to the accumulated grime that cleared $5 to $8 per yard. Some rats from an abandoned house customers insisted I bag the next door also visited frequent- grass, a real affront to my interly. In 2018 we bought a house est in and dedication to yardof our own with a lawn of our work. You had to empty the bag own. Rousing the long dormant every couple of rows. Even my Lawn-Boy the following spring dad didn’t require this sort of proved hopeless and so it was meticulous nonsense. Plus, the off to the small engine repair ground up grass is good mulch shop. for the green blades to regrow They regarded my Lawn-Boy ensuring the cycle can continas a museum piece. One fellow ue. Why waste that organic fersaid, “These things are bullet tilizer in a trash bag? proof.” I asked why you didn’t A friend was horrified I didn’t see them much anymore. He automatically bag the mown repeated, “Because they’re bul- grass. And he said I should be letproof.” I guess that’s bad for doing something called edgbusiness. The market demands ing. I wasn’t doing that either. constantly updated dispos- If I didn’t have lawn pride, I able goods like delicate mod- certainly didn’t have sidewalk ern phones and computers. pride. He made his teen daughConsumers want what they’re ter edge and she and I commismade to believe is the latest and erated over her dad’s stringent greatest. lawn standards.

My dad Roger, who did not As teens, my brother Eric and pass on his talents for mechan- I despised the chore. He cut the ical repair to me, kept his old back yard and I cut the front. He Briggs and Stratton push mow- had more square footage but I ers running for decades. He be- had hillier terrain. We learned stowed upon me the Lawn-Boy to lower the wheels to give the and I assumed it too would run yard a proper scalping which for years. Plus, I never want to in theory would require less spend money on new mow- frequent cutting. But we didn’t ing gear. I don’t enjoy the task. always conspire on synchro-

nous wheel height and Roger detected that the backyard grass was chopped a different level than the front. Sometimes we sliced it so short it would die off in dry August. That was okay with us but not our father. He had tougher standards. But he didn’t make us bag and edge.

Never a yardwork perfectionist but always a goodenough-onist my disdain for lawn mowing continued into my adulthood. I participated when needed and to keep from receiving threatening letters from the city. Eric turned lawn neglect into an art form when he lived on rural property and I saw firsthand what

could happen if you really let a lawn go. The plants took over.

There was vegetation growing through his exterior roof and leafing through a crevice inside the living room. Like a weird houseplant with roots outside.

Soil eroded under his front entry and the concrete porch eventually seceded from the house. His property was clearly in decline and yet he continued his strict policy of non-interference. He has since married and moved and his wife Erin is responsible for all the yardwork.

This year I yanked the LawnBoy cord before winter had officially ended with trepidation and dread that another trip to

the small engine repair shop was in my near future. Much to my surprise and delight, it started without protest. It mowed without rebellion. It’s going good in recent weeks. Like the temperamental motorcycle, I only feed it premium gasoline.

Summer is nearly here and cutting grass is probably my least favorite weekly task, yet I’m proud the Lawn-Boy is still at it.

And I suspect the going rate today were I to hire a teen laborer would be a lot more than $5 to $8.

Dirk Ellingson is a minden, la resident and is currently a pharmacy technician at the local walgreens.

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YOUTH

Little League is back!

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jjmarshall@press-herald.com Baseball has returned to Webster Parish as the Rec Center baseball leagues hit the ground running this week. Here are the results from this week’s action.

BOYS 14-U Webster 20 Premier 1 Jakobe Jackson went for two hits including one home run in the win for Webster.

Bryson Ranger also had two hits. Kaydor Williams led Premier with two hits of his own.

Zander Powell, Landyn Huddleston and Jackson led the way on the mound for Webster, allowing just one run and five hits on the

day.

AA Shotcallers 5 AC Services 4 The Shotcallers held off a late run by AC Services to take the first win of the season.

Gavin Basinger had one triple, and Levi Ray led the Shotcallers with two hits.

Zander Sparks knocked in two late RBI to help AC Services back in the game, but it wasn’t enough to get past the Shotcallers.

Shotcallers 8 Pittman’s Custom Leather 4

Brantley Foster and Everett Tucker had two RBI each to lead the Shotcallers to their second win of the season and their second win of the day on Tuesday.

Gunner Pittman had

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Building bubbles: Cautious first steps toward football season College football is scheduled to kick off in less than three months and there are plenty of reasons to be hopeful that games will be played Labor Day weekend.

Universities across the country are taking the first cautious, detailed steps toward playing football in a pandemic, attempting to build COVID-19-free bubbles around their teams as players begin voluntary workouts.

“I think the start of the race has a lot to do with how

you finish it,” Baylor athletic director Mack Rhoades said.

Thousands of athletes will be tested for COVID-19, though not all. Masks will need to be worn — most of the time. Some schools will have players pumping iron this week. Others are waiting a few more weeks.

“There’s an element of this that’s kind of like building an airplane as you fly it in that we’re learning so much more really every week,” Notre Dame football team Dr. Matt Leiszler said. “But it’s a moving target at times.”

For months, health officials including the NCAA’s chief medical officer have said widespread and efficient COVID-19 testing is pivotal to bringing back sports. Now that exists, and at many schools every player will be tested before they are permitted to enter a team facility.

Texas A&M athletic director Ross Bjork said the school has conducted just under 500 tests on coaches, staff and athletes since May 18. The Pac-12 is the only major college football conference in which all the members have agreed to test all returning athletes for COVID-19.

Athletes testing positive for the disease have already been reported at Arkansas State, Marshall and Oklahoma State and elsewhere.

Expect that list to grow, and there is no standardized

protocol for testing under the most recent NCAA guidelines, which is why plans are different from school to school. Missouri initially announced it would not test all athletes for COVID-19, then said it would. Michigan State will give its athletes two PRC tests (often done with a nasal swab), with a seven-day quarantine in between, before they cause use team facilities. Tulane will be giving every football player PRC and antibody tests.

“You know, there’s nothing that says my testing is going to protect my guys any better than their screening is going to. We don’t know,” said Dr. Greg Stewart, team physician for Tulane’s athletic department. “And probably for most of the schools across the country, you know athletic departments are the canary in the coal mine.”

Defending national champion LSU is testing each athlete for coronavirus antibodies upon arrival to campus; some will also get a PCR test to check for an active infection. A positive antibody test at LSU will trigger a PCR test and a positive PCR test means that player will have to isolate for a period of time.

Shelly Mullenix, LSU senior associate athletic director and director of wellness, said some players who test positive for antibodies but negative for active infection will also be isolated depending on symptoms or risk of previous exposure. All players were prescribed a seven-day “quasi-quarantine,”

Mullenix said, after receiving their antibody tests.

Having players return to campus infected is worrisome but inevitable. The protocols being put in place are designed to catch and address that. The real challenge is keeping the players from getting infected after they return.

At Notre Dame, football players will be housed in single rooms at the on-campus Morris Inn hotel. They will face temperature screens and a health questionnaire every time they want to enter a facility to work out.

Notre Dame is planning to structure workout groups by academic schedules. Other schools are using a mix of factors such as keeping friends, roommates or position groups together.

“But you also have to think about things like, do you want all of your quarterbacks with the same group?”

Wake Forest athletic director John Currie said.

As the small groups avoid infection they can be merged to form bigger groups.

“We think we’re going to create four pods,” Stewart said of Tulane’s plan. “We’re going to have the offense that is on campus as a pod.

The defense that is on campus is a pod. Special teams that is on campus is a pod.

And those that live off campus are a pod.”

While the workouts are voluntary, athletic staffers will be setting up strict schedules and moving equipment to allow for appropriate social-distancing.

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Continued from Page 8 two hits for Pittman’s as did Colton Cooper.

Dixie Youth Outlaws 12 Mudrats 7 Kyler Monk and Brock Case led the Outlaws at the plate as they scored nine runs in the fifth inning to secure their first win of the season.

Logan Taylor had one hit for the Mudrats.

Timberwolves 14 Prospects 0 Stills had three hits for the Timberwolves in the win.

Jacob Jefferson had one triple for the Prospects.

AAA Wonder Boys 9 Tomahawks 8 Sawyer Harris had two hits and Bryson Finley had one triple as the Wonder Boys scored nine runs in the second inning to seemingly put the game to bed .

But Tristan Grigsby and Riley Lester led the Tomahawks to a comeback that fell just short with one hit each in the loss.

Webster Machine 8 Royals 7 Kaiden Kinsey led Webster to their first win of the year with two hits. Bo Bailey was excellent on the mound for Webster, striking out four batters in just two innings while allowing zero hits and no runs.

Carson Whitehead and Tate Fegley led the Royals with one hit each.

GIRLS Belles Minden 7 North Webster 5

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Minden scored five runs in the first inning to jump ahead as Kambree Fizzell’s triple and Leigha Gilbert’s double helped Minden keep the lead.

Kylie Ryan had one hit for Minden as well.

Dixie Angels Diamond Divas 12 Untamed 0 Anna Grace Vining picked up right where she left off last season, starting this one with a home run to lead the Divas to a big win on Tuesday.

Peyton Malone had two doubles and Landry Edwards had one extra-base hit of her own.

Bella Powell and Ellie Earnhardt combined for the win on the mound.

Darlings Diamond Divas 3 Pink Panthers 0 Kenzie Pamintuan and Ella Wood each hit home

runs for the Divas, who got hits from Rhea Waller, Zoey Shirley and Aleena Rollings as well.

Katlyn Hamiter, Lilly McLemon, Jaliyah Armstrong and Ragean Blanchard had hits for the Panthers.

Pink Sox 17 Sweet T’s 14 Emmaline Harmon, Ellie Kate Perryman, Layla Holford, Anniston Igo and Peyton Wood each had three hits for the Pink Sox, but Addi Ramsey’s home run proved to be the difference in the win.

The Sweet T’s were led by Kailee Hamilton, Jayla oyner and Kiley Kimble who each had three hits on the night.

Ponytails Chaos 15 Diamonds 3 Gabby Brown, Ella Heflin and Serenity Hartwell each had hits for Chaos in the win.

NCAA FOOTBALL

BUBBLE: NCAA working towards solutions to get season started on time Continued from Page 8 Masks will be required at times, though not necessarily when they work out. Bjork said Texas A&M will clean workout rooms after use, though the locker rooms at many schools will remain closed.

Southeastern Conference schools agreed to allow voluntary workouts starting Monday. The Big 12 and Pac-12 have set June 15 as their opening date. Other conferences, such as the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference, are letting schools figure out what’s best for themselves. Ohio State and Iowa in the Big Ten started voluntary workouts Monday, along with Louisville in the ACC. Oklahoma from the Big 12 is waiting until July 1, sticking with a plan it was working on before the NCAA last month cleared the way for voluntary workouts starting June 1. The Sooners didn’t see benefits in rushing but

others decided the sooner the better.

“We wanted to actually go as early as we could because if we did have a problem, then you could you could actually manage it in with a lot more time,” Bjork said.

Schools hope to transition to required team activities in mid-July. A copy of the the Football Oversight Committee’s six-week plan includes a typical four-week preseason practice schedule preceded by two weeks during which teams can do up 20 hours per week of weight training, conditioning, film study, meetings and walkthroughs with coaches.

Players would not be permitted to wear helmets and pads during walk-throughs, but a ball could be used for instruction. The plan, which still needs to be approved by the Division I Council, was obtained Monday by The Associated Press and first reported by Sports Illustrated.

Of course, there is only

so much schools can do to manage 18- to 22-year-old football players.

“What you worry about ism this is two hours a day, right?” Rhoades said. “And so what are student athletes, what are young men as it pertains to football, doing the other 22 hours?”

The message coaches, administrators and medical staff are trying to get across to their players is their behavior is an important as testing, screening and disinfecting. Limit the exposure to people outside the team bubble. That night out at the bar or the weekend trip to the beach could lead to an infection that sets back the whole team — or something worse.

“What we’re trying to impress upon them,” Stewart said, “is that if this season is important to you, then you have to do things different this year than you have done ever before and maybe even ever again.”

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On This Day In History 2016 - Mass Shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida Kills 49 People. In what is now thought to be one of the deadliest incidents of violence against LGBTQ people in history, the shooting committed by 29-year old Omar Mateen is also the second deadliest terrorist attack on US soil since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

1994 - The world’s largest twinjet takes off on its maiden flight. The Boeing 777, or Triple Seven, typically transports up to 451 passengers. It is one of Boeing’s commercially most successful planes.

1991 - Boris Yeltsin becomes Russia’s first President. After the end of the Soviet Union, Yeltsin launched radical See, HISTORY, Page 11

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economic reforms that aimed at dismantling socialism and restore capitalism.

1987 - Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall”. The U.S. President held his famous speech near the Berlin Wall, one of the most important symbols for the division between East and West during the Cold War. The wall was dismantled in 1989, but many observers doubt that Reagan’s famous catchphrase had any impact on this decision.

1964 - Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison. The South African anti-apartheid activist spent 27 years in prison. In 1993, he received the Nobel Peace Prize and one year later he became President of South Africa.

COMICS BABY BLUES | RICK KIRKMAN AND JERRY SCOTT

BLONDIE | DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL

BEETLE BAILEY | MORT & GREG WALKER

FUNKY WINKERBEAN | TOM BATIUK

HI AND LOIS | BRIAN WALKER, GREG WALKER AND CHANCE BROWNE

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE | CHRIS BROWNE

SAM AND SILO | JERRY DUMAS

MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM | MIKE PETERS

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MAKING RIGHT CHOICES IN LIFE

We all stand at crossroads in life! At all ages, we have to make crucial decisions! How can we decide which is the ‘right’ decision? How can I really know? How can I find out before I make a mistake? It is very difficult with all the noise in the world around us. They tell us to compromise our integrity, abandon our Christian values, barter our convictions and exchange our devotion to the Lord for quick thrills or the latest cause!

We all have ‘gambled with life’ at various times, and probably we have made costly mistakes. Let’s not repeat it! OK? The world clamors for our attention. They flirt with us, flatter us with their pep talk, they even scream at our allegiances.

So, how do we know, who

UPWARD LOOK

do we go to, and how can we really trust what we hear – with our life, with our future, and our eternal hope?

Proverbs 3: 5-6 has long been a guide post for me!

When I first became a Christian in college, my pastor gave Bill Crider me a Bible and urged me to write this passage down in the fly leaf of it. I memorized it and have leaned on it for wisdom, strength, confidence and assurance through the years. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not onto your own understanding.

In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.”

The world whispers

sweet notions about ‘come, play with me in the streets of life’; He will even taunt you for not embracing his worldly pleasure. But wisdom continues to shout out to us from all corners of life to “embrace her teachings and live a full, enriched life, one that honors God and our neighbors.

Paul writes this to his dear friends – the Ephesians 4: 22-24: “You were taught to leave your old self --to stop living the evil way you lived before (you knew Christ). That old self becomes worse because people are fooled by the evil things they want to do.

But you were taught to be made new in your hearts, to become a new person –

Holy and Blameless

“For He chose us in Him,

an unblemished sacrifice,

our own efforts, but is be-

before the foundation of the

pure and unspotted by sin.

cause we are in Christ.

world, to be holy

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fection is not pos-

His sight. In love”

sible on this earth,

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the believer is to

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daily pursue holiness through the

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us is so that, as we stand before

sanctification, setMax Hutto

Lord Jesus, You are the holy,

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I am made holy and blameless not by my actions but solely in Christ.

ting aside sin and becoming

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His throne, we will be holy

Christlike. Yet our holiness

and blameless in Christ. To

and blamelessness before

be blameless is to be like

God is not our doing, or by

Max Hutto is a Baptist Minister and a resident of Minden.

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INSPIRATION

Divine Instructions The first thing you learn of bread rained down from as a child in school is how to heaven. He provided simple follow instructions. It seems instructions to the people. that as we get oldThe first of the er we tend to forlords instructions get the lessons of was to gather only the past. Well I’m what you needed. here to tell everyThe second was one today that it to not save any is time to go back for the next day to school. In the unless you were book of Exodus gathering for the God wanted to sabbath. Howevsee if the children er the children of of Israel could Bernard Harris III Israel still felt the follow some simneed to test the ple instructions. He pro- limits of Gods rules. What vided with food in the form the children of Israel didn’t

realize is God gives us instructions to empower us.

Gods instructions aren’t there to hold us back but to propel us forward. When we follow Gods instructions we walk in his righteousness and in his authority. I pray today that as we walk through life we walk in Gods instructions. I pray that we would all go out into the world spreading the good news of his glory, grace, and love.

Bernard Harris III is a Haughton firemAN AND A LOCAL RESIDENT OF MINDEN

made to be like God – truly good and holy.” While the world around you is tempting you to “come along with us… party and throw your lot with us” (Prov 1: 10-14).

Paul, like Solomon, says: “Don’t do it! Listen to the Lord speaking to your inner self. Wisdom is shouting (also) in the streets of life all around us, wanting to pour her heart into our lives.” We are new creations, with the ‘mind of Christ’; we are being transformed by renewing our faith in the Christ who gave His life for our free salvation.” (Prov 1-3).

Peter, too, shares challenges for us to allow the Lord to direct us in all our decision-making. 1 Peter 1: 14-15: “Now that you are obedient children of God, do not live as you did in

the past. You did not understand, so you did the evil things you wanted.

But be holy in all you do, just as God, the One who called you, is holy.” Allow this inner voice (Holy Spirit) to lead, to wooo, and show you truth as you travel down this winding road of life.

Even though the world roars at your heart’s door and makes all kinds of promises to you – Scripture teaches: ‘it will always lead you astray into a deep pit and take away the lives of those who follow.”

(1:19). Not so with Jesus, the Master Guide, who wants to help each of us along our journey.

Listen, do you hear Him…gently knocking at your heart’s door? He is softly and tenderly calling your name…. ”come,

follow Me and I will direct your life.” The world may promise you a party every night, but Jesus promises eternal life with the Heavenly Father and a quiet feast that is endless. Decision time is here: Which voice will you choose to heed and follow? In the name of Jesus, choose Him and live. Jesus said, I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly (to the fullest). John 10:10. (If you know a graduating senior – high school or college – consider giving them a copy of this).

Bill Crider is Chaplain of Minden Medical Center

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News STOCK MARKET

Stocks fall sharply on Wall Street as investors turn jittery (AP) - Stocks and bond yields are down sharply on Wall Street as optimism that the reopening of businesses would drive a relatively quick economic recovery fades amid rising coronavirus cases in many U.S. states and countries.

The S&P 500 was down 3.9% in midday trading Thursday, extending its losses into a third straight day. The benchmark index is now on track for its first weekly drop in four weeks.

Nearly all of the companies in the S&P 500 were down. Technology, financial, industrial and health care stocks accounted for much of the market’s broad slide. Energy stocks were the biggest losers as crude oil prices fell sharply. Bond yields fell and the price of gold surged as worried investors shifted money into the tradition-

al safe-haven assets.

MGM Resorts International and PVH, owner of the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands, were among the biggest decliners. Each was down more than 12%.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1,259 points, or 4.7%, to 25,730. The Nasdaq composite, which was coming off an all-time high, slid 3%. Small company stocks continued to bear the brunt of the selling.

The Russell 2000 index was down 5.6%.

European and Asian markets also fell. The global markets sell-off came a day after the Federal Reserve warned that the road to recovery from the worst downturn in decades would be long.

The sell-off this week marks a reversal for the market, which rallied 44.5% between late March

and Monday, a scorching rate that many skeptics said was unsustainable and didn’t reflect the dire condition of the economy. Only a day ago the Nasdaq closed above the 10,000-point mark for the first time.

Emergency rescue efforts by the Fed and Congress helped arrest the market’s staggering 34% skid in February and March. Since then, the market had been riding a wave of investor optimism that the economy will bounce back by the end of the year, if not sooner, as businesses reopen and people go back to work. But confidence in that scenario is waning as infections and fatalities continue to climb in the U.S. and elsewhere.

In the U.S., Texas and Florida were among the states reporting jumps in the number of corona-

virus cases after precautions were relaxed last month. The total number of U.S. cases has now surpassed 2 million.

Anxious investors shifted more money into government bonds Thursday, sending yields broadly lower. The yield on the 10-year Treasury yield slid to 0.67% from 0.74% late Wednesday, a big move. Last Friday it briefly moved above 0.90%.

Gold for August delivery climbed 1.5% to $1,745.80 an ounce.

Oil prices fell sharply.

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for July delivery was down 8.9% at $36.09 a barrel.

Brent crude oil for August delivery was off 7.1% at $38.76 a barrel.

Markets in Europe were broadly lower. France’s CAC 40 slid 4.7% and Germany’s DAX dropped 4.5%. Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 4%. Stock markets in

Asia closed lower.

The Labor Department said Thursday that about 1.5 million people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, another sign that many Americans are still losing their jobs even as the economy begins to gradually reopen. The latest figure marked the 10th straight weekly decline in applications for jobless aid since they peaked in midMarch when the coronavirus hit hard. Still, the pace of layoffs remains historically high.

Other jobs data have been more encouraging.

A report on Friday showed that the U.S. job market surprisingly strengthened last month as employers added 2.5 million workers to their payrolls. Economists had been expecting them instead to slash another 8 million jobs.

That report helped

stoke optimism among investors that the economy can climb out of its current hole faster than forecast. But the Fed estimated Wednesday that the economy will shrink 6.5% this year, in line with other forecasts, before expanding 5% in 2021. It also expects the unemployment rate at 9.3%, near the peak of the last recession, by the end of this year. The rate is now 13.3%.

The central bank said it would keep providing support to the economy by buying bonds to maintain low borrowing rates and forecast no rate hike through 2022, which could make it easier for consumers and businesses to borrow and spend enough to sustain an economy depressed by business shutdowns and high unemployment.

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SUCCESSI O N O F JULIAH M. ADAMS PROBATE NO. 17037 26TH. JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT WEBSTER PARISH, LOUISIANA NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE is given that the Executor of this succession has petitioned this Court for authority to sell immovable property belonging to this succession at private sale to Melissa Ann Gruner for the sum of One Hundred Twenty Thousand and No/100 ($120,000.00) Dollars cash, with the succession to pay up to $5,800.00 of the closing costs, the real estate commission in the sum of $7,200.00, pro-rata property taxes (if any), and miscellaneous items of approximately $1,150.00.

The property is described as follows: Tract A: That certain tract of land, together with all buildings and improvements thereon, located within Webster Parish, Louisiana, and being two (2) acres, more or less, situated in the south half of the Southwest Quarter (S/2 of SW/4) of Section 7, Township 19 North, Range 8 West, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the South line of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE/4 of SW/4) of Section 7, Township 19 North, Range 8 West, and the North right-of-way of U. S. Highway No. 79 and run North 37 degrees 23 minutes East along said rightof-way 210 feet; thence run West 420 feet; thence run South 37 degrees 23 minutes West to the South line of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of SW/4) of Section 7; thence run

East 420 feet to the point of beginning as indicated on plat of survey prepared

by Doyle P. Sanders, Registered Land Surveyor, dated November 6, 1968, and attached to that certain credit deed whereby Minnie Sholes Sands, et al sold this property to John Thomas Morris, et ux, recorded under Registry No. 215685 of the Records of Webster Parish, Louisiana.

And Tract B: Begin at a fence corner and rightof-way monument marking the point of intersection of the West right-ofway (North) of U. S. Highway No. 79 and the South line of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE/4 of SW/4) Section 7, Township 19 North, Range 8 West, Webster Parish, Louisiana, said South line marked by a fence as shown on survey by Doyle P. Sanders, November 6, 1968, and run South 89 degrees 55 minutes 06 seconds West 387.28 feet along said fence and property line to an existing fence corner; thence run North 37 degrees 18 minutes 06 seconds East 210 feet to a 5/8 inch iron rod for the point of beginning; thence run North 29 degrees 31 minutes 12 seconds East 98.33 feet to a set ¾ inch iron rod; thence run North 89 degrees 55 minutes 06 seconds East 519.55 feet to a set PK nail in the centerline of U. S. Highway No. 79; thence run South 37 degrees 47 minutes West 108.3 feet along said centerline to an existing PK nail; thence run South 89 degrees 55 minutes 06 seconds West 501.65 feet to the point of beginning, containing 1.00 acre, more or less, as shown by plat of survey dated January 15, 1999 prepared by Paul W. Culpepper, Registered Land Surveyor.

FURTHER NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT any of the heirs or creditors who oppose the proposed sale must file his oppo-

sition within seven (7) days, including Sundays and holidays from the day on which the last publication of this notice appears.

BY ORDER of the 26th. Judicial District Court, Webster Parish, Louisiana, on this 19th. day of May, 2020.

By:WEBSTER PARISH CLERK OF COURT

PUBLIC NOTICE

Minden Planning Commission Meeting July 2, 2020 – 10:00 a.m.

Pelican Room Minden City Hall On the agenda is a request from Larry W. Devers for a zoning change from R-3 (Single Family Residential) to M-1 (Light IndusMay 22, 2020 trial) on property June 12, 2020 owned by him Minden Press-Herald located at 1323 Anyone claim- East Street. purpose ing to be or know The the whereabouts of this zoning of Ashlee Elaine change is to be Danforth, please able to construct contact Attorney a storage building Tiffany N. Sand- for personal use ers at 318-443- on the property.

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June 9, 2020 2.57 ACRES – June 12, 2020 TRACT 576.29 X Minden Press-Herald 195 X 576.29 X 195 FT. IN NW/4 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS OF NW/4 SEC. 34-19-9 WEBSTER PARISH POLICE All interested parties will be given JURY 2020 GASOLINE a chance to be heard.

AND DIESEL June 12, 2020 FUEL BID June 19, 2020 The Webster Parish Police Jury solicits sealed bids for: 2020 GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL BIDS The proposals must be in the hands of the undersigned no later than 2:00 p.m., Thursday, July 9, 2020 - in the Courthouse House Annex meeting room of the Webster Parish Police Jury, 401 Main Street, Minden, Louisiana 71055.

The bid forms and specification sheets are available at no charge in the office of the Secretary–Treasurer, Webster Parish Policy Jury.

Successful bids will be approved at the Regular Meeting, Webster Parish Police Jury on August 4, 2020.

The Webster Parish Police Jury is a tax-exempt governmental agency.

The Webster Parish Police Jury abides by the requirements of the Louisiana Bid Law. ALL BIDS SUBMITTED MUST BE CLEARLY MARKED. Webster Parish Police Jury Lisa Balkom Secretary-Treasurer June 12, 2020 June 16, 2020 June 26, 2020 July 3, 2020 Minden Press-Herald

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NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON PROPOSED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND NADEL AND GUSSMAN RUSTON, LLC The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and Nadel and Gussman Ruston, LLC (Respondent), Agency Interest Number 173760, have entered into a proposed settlement agreement, Settlement Tracking No. SA-AE-19-0070, concerning the State’s allegations of environmental violations

by Respondent at its facility in Webster Parish, Louisiana, which allegations are set forth in Notice of Potential Penalty, Enforcement No. AE-PP-14-01200, and Amended Notice of Potential Penalty, Enforcement No. AE-PP 14-01200A. The Department of Environmental Quality will accept comments on the proposed settlement for the next forty-five (45) days. The public is invited and encouraged to submit written comments to the

Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, Office of the Secretary, Legal Division, Post Office Box 4302, Baton Rouge Louisiana 70821 4302, Attention: Jay L. Glorioso, Attorney. All comments will be considered by the Department of Environmental Quality in reaching a decision on whether to make the settlement final.

Terms and conditions of the proposed settlement agreement may be reviewed on the Department of Environmental Quality’s website at www.deg. louisiana.gov; by selecting About LDEQ, Enforcement, and Settlements. The document may also be viewed at, and copies obtained from, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.

Public Records Center, Room 127, Galvez Building, 602 North Fifth Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802.

To request a copy of the proposed settlement, submit a completed Public Record Request Form (DEQ Form ISD-000501). The form and instructions for completion may be found on the DEQ_ Website at the following address: http://deq. louisiana.gov/assets/docs/General/PublicRecordsRequestForm. pdf, or by calling the Customer Service Center at 1-866-896-5337.

P u r s u a n t to La. R.S. 30:2050.7(D), the Department of Environmental Quality may hold a public hearing regarding this proposed settlement when either of the following conditions are met: 1) a written request for public hearing has been filed by twenty-five (25) persons, by a governmental subdivision or agency, or by an association having not less than twenty-five (25) members who reside in the parish in which the facility is located; or 2) the secretary finds a significant degree of public interest in this settlement.

For further information, you may call the Legal Di-

vision of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality at (225) 219-3985.

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