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Citizens of Minden gathered in front of Woo’s barber shop on Sunday in order to take part in a march to raise awareness for the racial injustices that the black citizens of Minden have experienced. A rally took place at the march’s end in front of the Civic Center where leader’s of the black community voiced their concerns of the racial injustices that take place here.

“This is a collection of a movement of 27 different organizations who have come together to say to the people of Webster Parish that we look forward to a new day. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

We want to do something today about what’s wrong with what has gone on. This is a fresh start for us,” said Reverend Dr. Bobby Williams, MC for the event.

He soon passed the mic over to Johntoria Stewart who took the time to express what it’s like being a young black mother in Minden. “As a young person, here in Minden Louisiana, raising a two year old son. I have to tell my son that in the friendliest city in the south, I have to let him know, my son, you can’t go out there to Sonic. You can’t hang with them, they ain’t going to treat you the same,” said Stewart.

“My son, you can’t be up there at the parks on Sunday, they ain’t going to look at you the same. My son, I need you coming home at night and on time. I don’t want to have to watch no paper, I don’t want to

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Local citizens took to the streets in order to protest racial injustice here in Minden at a march and rally on Sunday.

look at my phone, I don’t want to have to hear a siren. Sixteen years from now I don’t want to be any of these mothers. I don’t want to be any of them and it’s going to end today. Whether or not y’all hear us for real, we’re here. Every single person, we are here. Whether or not you see us. We are here.”

Soon after Stewart’s mother and one of the event organizers Nicole Stewart came forward and shared her experience of police mistreatment that she says took place here in Minden less than a month ago. She describes a situation that took place at the Family Dollar on Homer Road where she was harassed by a cashier for buying too much toilet paper and

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had the police called on her.

So you can understand my dismay, as I just went to a store here in Minden, on April 23, 2020, to buy some toilet paper. I walked in trying to get in and out, because I have a son, Nicolas Stewart, who is medically fragile. He can’t handle a respiratory infection.

So I can’t leave the house like everyone else can leave the house, but I left the house on April 23, 2020 thinking I’m going to pop in and pop out and get back to my baby,” said Steward, buying for herself and her family, said she got four packs of toilet paper after checking for signs that suggested a limit, looking for a sales associate to ask, and finding then none.

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She then states that the cashier told her that she couldn’t buy that much, and after a few more exchanges, told her that she just wanted to buy one.

“As I did it I said, ‘Mam I understand,’ but I said it softly, but very matter of factly, ‘but what you’re not going to do, is talk to me any kind of way.’” I didn’t holler. I didn’t yell. I said it just like that.

I picked the tissue up, put it on the counter top, then she tells me to my face, ‘Then you won’t be buying anything today, I refuse to serve you,’” said Stewart.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A library at Louisiana State University named after a former school president who advocated for segregation will be renamed, school administrators and black student leaders said.

The decision to change the name of Middleton Library at the university in Baton Rouge was announced Wednesday evening, news outlets reported. The change is pending the approval of the LSU Board of Supervisors, which is sched- WERNER uled to meet June 19.

“I do expect it will pass,” LSU Board of Supervisors Chair Mary Werner told The Advocate.

The library was named after Troy H. Middleton, who served as president at the school from 1951 until 1962. He’s known for writing a letter in 1961 to former University of Texas Chancellor Harry Ransom in which he explains efforts to keep white and black students apart at the school, news outlets reported.

“He wrote, ‘Our Negro students have made no attempt to attend social functions, participate in athletic contests, go in the swimming pool, etc. If they did, we would, for example, discontinue the operation of the swimming pool,’” Frank James Price wrote in a biography about Middleton, WAFB-TV reported.

Gov. John Bel Edwards, an LSU alumnus, said Thursday that he supports the library renaming.

“We cannot change what has happened in the past and this does not erase a history of racial injustice. But we can choose to no longer glorify a time of racial segregation or those who sought

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Second Front MARCH: PROTESTS CONTINUE IN DOWNTOWN MINDEN Continued from Page 1 back on the shelves, and as Stewart did so, was continuously told her to get out of the store.

“By the time I turned the ignition on and put my car in gear, I was surrounded by police. Not one police, not two police. Three, four, five, six, police cars surrounding me. I still to this day, do not understand why nor have I gotten any answers,” said Stewart.

She stated that while some of her altercations with the police officers were professional, a white officer in particular was not.

“Before he gave me back my driver’s license he took a picture of it.

And I don’t know why he would take a picture. And then he banned me from that store for life. Told me if he ever came back, he was going to put me in jail. When I explained to him what happened, he turned around and started threatening me. He told me he didn’t have to answer not one of my questions, and if I asked him anything, he was going to put me in jail. So he was a bully, he tried to bully me,” said Stewart.

“He told me, and I quote, ‘You got an attitude here with me, I can imagine the attitude you had in the store with that woman.’ I said, ‘I did not have an attitude sir, I said I’m confused, and I’m very passionate when I believe in something, so I’m questioning you because I don’t understand.

I was only trying to put my car, and I was about to…’ And he interrupted me and said, ‘You’re not about to do anything if you don’t leave right now.

I’m going to put handcuffs on you right now and Imma put you in jail.’”

After the altercation, Stewart wanted some answers. “My question is where was the protect and serve. If you knew I wasn’t doing anything wrong, why didn’t anybody pull that police officer to the side and hey man, you’re going too far,” said Stewart.

“Because when I talked to other police officers, they told me that they went too far. But I still have not had this question answered. Why did he take a picture of my driver’s license? Who was this man that came to me?”

After reaching out to Terika Williams-Walker of Dist. B, given that her district, Dist. A. is currently without a sitting Councilman, Stewart was directed to go and speak with the Mayor about the incident.

“I tried to come up here, and they told me he wasn’t here, but then he came out, and he was standing right three, right there in that window, right behind the fountain, on his phone,” said Stew-

art.

“I tried to reach out to the police chief. He would not see me. I wrote a four page complaint, got a copy of it. They told me he’d get off at three o’clock. I said okay I’ll call at 2:30. My call was forwarded to his voicemail, I left that voicemail.

It’s what, June 14th. April 23rd to June 14th, somebody shoulda called me back by now.”

Near the end of her speech, Stewart also revealed that during her calls to district management, she discovered that the limit to how much toilet paper she could buy was four, which would make the entire altercation over nothing.

“But the hard part about it is, when I talked to other managers at other stores, they told me that the limit was four, so she never should have did it. And nobody has reached out since I talked to district management.

So that’s what I’m here to tell you. We got to stand together, we have no other choice. But in my faith, Imma let you know, I always let God be God, and it has already been done,” said Stewart.

Sam Mims, former Minden Juvenile Officer took to the mic to offer his unique perspective of being on the force in Minden.

“I grew up in this town.

When I grew up here in this town, this joker was racist and divided then, and it’s racist and divided now,” said Mims.

“I came back here, because the lord told me to come. And there are some days where I have a talk with him and say why did you send me back to this tiny little town, and it’s like Mordecai told Esther, you have been sent to the kingdom for such a time as this. It is time for things to change, and it is time for us to act like it.”

He also brought special attention to Darnella Frazier, the 17 year old girl who filmed George Floyd’s death.

“I not only want you to remember George Floyd’s name. I also want you to remember Darnella Fraiser. Because if it wasn’t for her, we wouldn’t be here.

We wouldn’t have seen the video,” said Mims.

Rev. B. J. Martin, spokesperson for the event, was next to speak, and while acknowledging the injustices that many others have faced in this nation, he brought the attention back to the injustices that they themselves face hear in Minden.

“We come today not simply because of George Floyd, Ahmed Aubrey, and so many others who have suffered great injustice in this nation. We come today not simply because of other egregious wrongs that blacks and other minorities have suffered in this nation.

But we also come because of the racism and prejudice in this city. While Midnen has claimed time to be the friendliest city in the south, the reality is quite different. Behind many of the smiles, lie an evil heart,” said Martin.

“I have been told by many others of many positions and other professionals, who have been recruited to come to Minden, who observe very quickly that Minden is very racist.”

“I personally had the experience of a new pastor coming to town for one of the white churches. He came by to talk to me, we talked a while, and then he said to me, this town is the most racist town I’ve ever lived in, and he hadn’t been here but a couple of weeks.

WILL PHILLIPS/MINDEN PRESS-HERALD You may live here and Local citizens took to the streets in order to protest racial injustice here in Minden at a march not see it, but those who and rally on Sunday. come in from the outside “The problem is right see it, and they see it very Williams-Walker of Dist. franchise your vote. BeB was the last person to cause by us not attending here so we came right quickly.”

He then pivoted to say speak, stating that the a Council meeting, that’s here. So when we have that in order for people changes that needed to a disenfranchisement of Council meetings, show to change the way that take place in order for your vote. Because we up right here. Because things are, the most im- Minden to move forward need someone that the when they don’t see you portant thing they can do needed to take place right people want to represent they feel like you don’t Dist. A. Dist. A didn’t elect support us. Although we is practice their right to there at City Hall.

“We came to City Hall me, so I’m not the one are your voice, they need vote.

“If you’re sick and tired today because it’s hap- that’s supposed to cast to see your face. They of being overlooked, dis- pening right here. This is the vote for them, and need to know that we are respected, mistreated, where they are making it’s sure isn’t your Mayor,” united, we stand together.” and abused. If you’re sick the decision, to disen- said Walker. and tired of being sick and tired, then you need to do two things. Number one, you need to register to vote, then number two, you need to vote,” said Martin.

“We cannot guarantee that the person we support will get elected. But if we stick together, we can guarantee that the one we oppose will be defeated.

We can’t guarantee the election, but if they dont stand with us, we can guarantee their defeat if we get together, register and vote. And until we do that, we will remain, disrespected. When they disrespect our representatives, they disrespect us.

When they abuse our representatives, they abuse us. We have to stand and say, it’s time for it to stop.”

Martin also took some time to fund-raise for their movement to retain a lawyer. “When you are organizing a movement, you need to have some legal advice. You need somebody who can tell you what the right way is, what the most efficient way is, and also who can tell you when those you are fighting against are violating the law, and you can stop them with the courts. Therefore we need to set up a defense fund so that we can retain a lawyer. Who can help us with legal advice, so that the next moves we make will be the right moves, and the most efficient moves, and the moves that move us in the direction that we’re trying to go.”

For those wishing to contribute, they can contact Ben Martin at benjoemartin@gmail.com.

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OBITUARIES

Keith Alan Tilley Graveside services for Keith Alan Tilley, 41, of Jonesboro, were held Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 2 p.m., at Ebenezer Cemetery in Castor. Bro. Austin Hand officiated. Visitation was from noon until 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at Rockett Funeral Home in Ringgold.

Keith was born Dec. 28, 1978 in Shreveport, and passed away June 3, 2020 in Jonesboro.

He was preceded in death by his dad, Thomas Tilley;

paternal grandparents, Levet and Dorothy Tilley; and maternal grandparents, Clarence and Mildred Bolyer.

Left to cherish his memory include his mother, Martha Valentine of Castor; son and daughter-in-law, Tommy and Kaitlyn Tilley and their children, Regan and Maverick, all of Doyline; daughter, Kimberly Tilley of Castor; twin brother, Kevin Alton Tilley of Jonesboro; sisters, Connie Dunham of Flatwoods, and Angel Tilley of Castor; and a number of other relatives and friends.

Pallbearers were Joseph Norman, Jackie Jordan, Tony Bedgood, Scott Harper, Gary Phelps, and Jamie Hobson. Honorary pallbearers were Damien Canape, Lindsey Dragoo, and Scotty Farve.

COVID-19

Louisiana misses goal on virus testing at nursing homes BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana fell short of its goal to test all the state’s nursing home residents and employees for the coronavirus by the end of May, raising questions about whether testing plans aimed at keeping tabs on those most vulnerable to the pandemic are achievable.

Nearly 78% of Louisiana’s 23,445 nursing home residents have been tested for the COVID-19 disease caused by the coronavirus, according to data provided to The Associated Press by the state health department.

Only 61% of the workers at the facilities — those who are coming and going from the nursing home and could bring the virus in with them — have received COVID-19 tests, the data shows.

That falls short of Louisiana’s goal in the testing plan it submitted to federal officials last month.

Nursing homes account for more than 40% of COVID-19 deaths in Louisiana. In its submission to the federal government, Louisiana detailed expectations that everyone in the state’s 278 nursing homes would be tested for the virus by May 31, even if they do not show symptoms.

And the state promised subsequent testing of employees and residents whose results came back negative, as a way to continue monitoring sites that have become hot spots for virus outbreaks.

The health department said it is making significant strides in minimizing infection and spread in nursing homes, with more than

500 visits to facilities, nearly 53,000 testing kits distributed and infection control and testing teams specifically targeting sites that need assistance.

“The end of May was always a very ambitious goal,” Louisiana Department of Health spokeswoman Aly Neel said Thursday in an interview. “That said, we are making progress. The data shows that. There have been some obstacles, including some nursing homes not accepting our offers of support.

We do continue to reach out to all nursing homes.”

Twenty-two nursing homes are not complying with the state’s testing plans, according to the health department. That means they either don’t have plans to test everyone on site, or they aren’t sharing information about their testing plans with the state, even though the state has offered assistance to do the testing. Neel did not provide the names of the facilities, but said 8% of Louisiana’s nursing home residents live at those sites.

Meanwhile, testing the workers who represent one of the main ways to transmit the virus into a nursing home appears to have hit some resistance.

“Anecdotally, we have heard that some nursing home facilities are more hesitant to test staff, because of the staffing challenges that they’re facing. We’ve also heard anecdotally from staff who are worried about what it could mean for their job security, who are worried about what it could mean for their

insurance,” Neel said.

Gov. John Bel Edwards hasn’t required that Louisiana nursing homes test every resident and employee. But the Democratic governor’s administration is strongly encouraging such testing and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended it.

The state is offering testing kits and lab analysis to nursing homes, and is going in to help with the swabbing if needed.

For most people, the highly contagious coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up within weeks.

But for some, especially older adults and those with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness and be life-threatening.

Nearly 45,000 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Louisiana, according to the state health department, and 2,883 people have died. More than 1,200 of those deaths have been among nursing home residents, according to the department’s data.

Nursing homes have taken different approaches to testing, with some signing their own agreements with labs and others relying more heavily on the state for help.

CCI runs six nursing homes across south Louisiana, mainly in the Acadiana region. The company started symptom-based testing in April and then expanded that last month to regular testing of employees and residents, said Bob Richardson, CCI’s chief compliance officer.

Everyone at the six nursing homes have been tested more than once, he said.

“We’re testing often,” Richardson said.

Three residents have died from COVID-19 at a CCI nursing home in Lafayette.

While a handful of the company’s facilities have used state assistance for swabbing, CCI’s nursing homes have worked out their own agreements with a private lab to do most of the tests, he said.

“We’re just doing everything we can to take care of our residents to the best of our ability,” Richardson said.

LIBRARY: LSU to change library name amid protests Continued from Page 1 to discriminate against our African American brothers and sisters,” the Democratic governor said in a statement.

The announcement of the name change comes just days after the university came under fire for its response to a video online, according to news outlets. The video, tweeted by actress and activist Skai Jackson, showed an incoming LSU freshman using a racial slur.

LSU’s official account responded saying it was “subject to constitutional limitation” in how it could take action on free speech. The school later apologized in a series of tweets, and vowed to meet with black student

leaders to investigate and take action.

It’s unclear what consequences the incoming student might face. LSU Interim President Tom Galligan said he could not give specific information, citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, The Advocate reported.

Galligan later tweeted that he was meeting with board and campus leaders several times earlier this week.

“Our goal is to erase symbols of things that exemplify a racist past,” Galligan said. In addition to the name change, a bust of Middleton and anything associated with his name at the library are expected to be removed.

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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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According to the Cen- ten about pain. ter for Disease Control, According to Compre“falls are the leading hensive Pain Specialists, cause of injury and death “pain not only affects in older Americans.” more Americans than diAbout 4:00 AM on June abetes, heart disease and 4th I fell out of bed. cancer Can you believe that? comAt the age of sevenbined ty-two I fell out of bed b u t -- the first time since I w o r kwas a young child which e r s gave me nightmares l o s e then that I was falling an avfrom the moon! erage I guess I was too close of 4.6 to the edge of the bed. hours Anyway it really shook p e r me up thinking I might SARAH week have bleeding on the HUDSON-PIERCE of probrain! ducI was fortunate to have t i v e a friend who drove me to time due to pain and 20 my primary care doctor percentage of Ameribut since everyone fears cans pain disrupts their the virus I was examined sleep a few nights a week on the parking lot -- no or more and 80 percent ex-rays -- and would you of people in the United believe I was too dehy- States will experience drated for the nurse to back pain at some point draw blood. in their lives. Besides But now four days lat- the common cold, back er I am hardly sore ex- pain is the number one cept for my chronic back reason people visit their pain but now on to some family doctors.” thoughts that I have writThe bottom line is that

we can’t get through this life without a little pain but that doesn’t diminish the pain that I have experienced for the past five years. Anyone who has suffered back pain can identify with the misery that goes with not getting a good nights sleep.

Not only has back pain become more intense, interrupting my quality of life for the past few years, it has taken all the grit, raw courage and determination as I struggle to write the stories that are so much a part of who I am however I am blessed to be able to get a few prescriptions for pain medication.

I feel I have a mission to leave a legacy for my family and for those who might appreciate my slant on life.

Anyone who thinks that pain is just in the head needs to think again -- although I do believe that Bill Moyers, best selling author of Healing and the Mind,

was right in teaching that there is a strong connection between the mind and the body!

Ever since 1976 when we lived in Cleveland, Arkansas, where our youngest son, Jeremy, was five months old, I experienced my first bout of back pain, which lasted about a week, I learned that I could only find relief by lying flat on my back on the floor -- often on a heating pad and accompanied by muscle relaxers.

Since then I’ve discovered other exercises that offer relief within minutes.

I always thank God when I awake without any pain even though my relief may be temporary!

Almost everyone I talk to about my back pain knows exactly what I am talking about!

After numerous tests and x-rays and an MRI the conclusion was reached that surgery really isn’t an option. I don’t really want surgery

but I would like a quick fix that would get me on the road to recovery!

Just to have a few hours of life without pain makes me euphoric! Just to know that others have experienced our kind of pain – whether physical or emotional gives us strength to go on which leads me to my bottom line!

I believe it takes experiencing deep pain to help us grow – to become who we were meant to be – so that we can reach out and lend support to those who need it most and it’s when we drop our barriers and allow others into our private world that we are joined together as one large family. I am just grateful that it appears that my recent fall didn’t permanently injure me.

Contact Sarah at sarahp9957@aol.com

STRANGER FROM A STRANGE WORLD

Anti-Social Media The headline isn’t to suggest I’m against social media. The jury is still out on that. Rather I contend that social media makes us less inclined to participate in traditional conversation and so we are really being anti-social. Social media strikes me as the quintessential oxymoron. When I see friends and family members pecking away at their phones while I’m attempting to initiate conversation, I’m tempted to repeat the criticism so often directed at me to “Be social.” I don’t because I never liked to hear it either. And they are so tethered to their handheld devices that nothing can tear them away.

Certainly nothing as prosaic as old-fashioned conversation.

I was relatively late to social media, starting a Facebook page in 2015. I left a job knowing I was on the cusp of moving south and realized the only way to keep up with interesting young friends I would no longer be working beside was to stay in touch via the internet. I remember my daughter Claire had something called a Myspace page as a teen. But she used foul language on it and a friend’s grandma suggested her impressionable granddaughter shouldn’t play with Claire. But old wrongs have since been forgiven and Claire’s onetime Myspace friend is now a Face-

book friend. among my social media friends I think the people most ad- and want to read the posts of dicted to social media are the people who think differentones with too many accepted ly than me. As long as they’re friend requests. The people fol- lucid and witty. I just have to lowing too many people. They be careful upon what posts I should winnow the bestow the blue and herd. Assessing the white thumb-up Like quantity of my Faceso as not to offend book friend’s friends friends of a different (some show total political stripe. Besums, others reveal cause some are quick only mutual friends), to take offense.

I see they range from If I’m out of town 4,951 to 34. That for a few days, I’m DIRK ELLINGSON high number must okay without checkbe some sort of staing social media. tistical aberration. That person In order to look at Facebook, is far from the worst offender I have to fire up the laptop at I know who wields a modern home. My flip phone lacks inphone. ternet powers.

The most blatant social meI was also relatively late to dia addict I know for ignoring owning a cellphone. I don’t others while staying glued to remember the precise year I the phone ranks fourth among starting carrying a portable my friends for total number of telephone but I remember how friends. I can see she recent- shocked friends were when ly crested 3,000. Cannon fire I didn’t have one. My stepcould not distract her from daughter Amanda expressed scrolling through the machine the funniest rebuttal to their gun fire of new posts. I’m older concerns about my phonethan her but I don’t think I even less state when she said, “Well know 3,000 people. who’d call him!?”

My friend list holds around But the flip phone is cool for 200 people. Many rarely post. its durability, its nostalgic apMany post updates and witti- peal, and its eponymous flip. cisms frequently. I can scroll It’s like a Star Trek communithrough the latest in minutes. cator. One friend saw me take I don’t unfriend the political- it out of my pocket and wailed, ly offensive. I treasure diver- “Oh Dirk, a flip phone? We sity (and the outright weird) need to talk.”

It was several months after I secured my first full-time job in 1984 that I even invested in a landline phone. Just didn’t need one. I rented the back half of a house (I called my residence the half-house but people always misunderstood that I lived in a halfway house) across the street from a pool with a payphone I could use when needed. I was undaunted even though this was around the time payphone fees skyrocketed from a dime per call to a quarter. Yet I could afford the occasional call. Half-house rent was only $140 a month. I had an electric typewriter but no computer.

The pandemic isolation forced us to rely even more on our cellphone lifelines. The oft paraphrased quote of Karl Marx states, “Religion is the opium of the masses.” The full translation reads, “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” That’s from the 19th century. You could substitute social media for religion in the 21st. Distraction from our grim existences.

Television was my opiate.

Not as much as it used to be but it’s still a challenge. Even if I’m not watching it, so long as the volume is not too loud

the background sound doesn’t bother me. But the audio from social media posts is often piercing yelling or grating warbling and always unwelcome.

Sometimes multiple people with multiple phones are playing different posts in the same room. Please make it stop. I’m so often forced by others to endure videos that are “hilarious” or “awesome” when they are rarely either that it just makes me want to throw in the towel on showing even courtesy interest.

Most of the local compliments I receive for my column are from people around my age. The demographic getting long in the tooth. Perhaps they too are disheartened by these kids and their phones. Or even our contemporaries and their phones. Perhaps the handheld devices are an escape from the grumpy tirades of we marauding curmudgeons who fondly recall a time when phones were used for talking. It was a poor substitute for chatting in person but could be relied upon if necessary. Say if you were quarantined during a pandemic or something.

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

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FUN & GAMES

On This Day In History 2010 - The world’s first country-wide total tobacco ban goes into effect. Bhutan banned the cultivation, harvesting, production, and sale of tobacco and tobacco products. It is still legal in the South Asian country to smoke in a private setting, but obtaining tobacco products legally is close to impossible.

1976 - South African police kill hundreds of protesting schoolchildren.

An estimated 20,000 youth were protesting against the introduction of Afrikaans as the languages of instruction in their schools when police officers started firing into the crowd. The “Soweto uprising” is today commemorated on Youth Day each year.

1967 - The Monterey Pop Festival opens. The See, HISTORY, Page 7

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HISTORY

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three-day concert event featured historic performances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Ravi Shankar, and Janis Joplin.

1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. The Soviet cosmonaut completed 48 orbits on board the spaceship “Vostok 6” before returning safely to Earth. The former textile worker was declared “Hero of the Soviet Union” and received the United Nations Gold Medal of Peace.

1960 - Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho is premiered. The horror-thriller starring Anthony Perkins and Vera Miles has become one of the classics of the genre.

The shower scene is one of the best-known murder scenes in the history of film.

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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Sports

JJ Marshall, Sports Editor jjmarshall@press-herald.com

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YOUTH

REC CENTER RESULTS

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Second gameday sees flurry of big scores, bigger smiles JJ Marshall

jjmarshall@press-herald.com Softball and baseball at the Rec has continued to go off without a hitch as we enter the second week of action.

Here are the latest results.

BOYS Dixie AA Rippers 15 Bulldogs 2 Michael Smith’s home run was the cherry on top for the Rippers in their first win of the year.

Dakota Streetman led the Rippers with four RBI, while Grey Meeker, Jace Walker and and Evan Walker combined four seven RBI in the win.

AC Services 12 Pitman’s Leather 5 Colton Miller went threefor-three with four RBI to help AC pick up their first win of the year.

Xander Sparks pitched in with three RBI for AC Services.

Maddox Snider had a triple and three RBI for Pitman’s as they fell to 0-2 this season thus far.

Dixie A Webster Machine 21 Little Lions 10 Jace Haulcy, Ryder Hollingsworth and Beaux Monday all had home runs as Webster exploded for seven runs in each inning.

Warren Johnson notched a homer of his own for the Lions.

11-12 Boys Mudcats 9 Prospects 8 Anthony Snodgrass and Mason Anderson helped the Mudcats pick up the win in a thriller over the Prospects.

Malach west picked up the win on the mound for the Mudcatsm combining with Gage Mosbley for an excellent performance from the rubber.

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OUTDOORS

HARRIS: Old column triggers memories

Glynn Harris

Special to the Press-Herald (Thirty years ago, I was hired to write humor columns for the now defunct Louisiana Conservationist magazine.. Recently, a friend was using the down time created by Covid 19 to clean out his files. He found some of those old magazines, called me and offered them to me.

Here’s one of my favorites from three decades ago…)

“Contrary to nasty rumors being spread about me, I’m not all that old. It’s just that I seem to possess the uncanny ability to dredge up and bring into focus vivid details of things that happened to me long ago. It thus seems a paradox that I can’t ever seem to remember where I laid my glasses. It takes very little to set me off on a stroll down memory lane taking with me, kicking and protesting, whoever happens to be in earshot.

“My most recent, if reluctant, companion for a trip down the lane was Melissa, our resident teenager. She had no choice because a brief but savage storm had zapped us, rendering inoperative everything electrical. That included TV, stereo and jam box.

“With no juice, there were no Night Courts reruns; no screeching disc jockey spin-

ning ditties such as “I’m To Broke to Pay Attention, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.’

“Boredom was closing in on her, so I came to the rescue. Sitting her down, I began blazing a trail down memory lane, kicking off with a phrase teens love to hear from the lips of their parents….’When I was your age…’

“Not wanting to appear overly eager to hear my ‘back when’ stories, she cleverly masked her glee with a facial expression like the one you get when the dental assistant comes to the door, calls your name and says ‘Ready for that

root canal?’

“Back when I was your age, we didn’t have electricity, television, running water, indoor plumbing or stereo but boy, did we have fun!

(I’ll bet.)

“You wouldn’t catch us sitting around the house getting bored. No sir-ree; we’d go down to the creek and catch us some frogs, crawfish and bugs…

(I think I’m going to be sick…)

“We’d take the shovel and tomato can out behind the barn and dig in the cow patties for fish bait. Then we’d go

catch us a bunch of mudcats.

(Well, WHOOP-de-DOO.) “Then we’d go snipe hunting down in the deep woods after dark. You talk about scary, especially when the rest of the kids went off and left you all alone there in the dark, holding the sack and waiting for a snipe. Bet you’d get a kick out of that, wouldn’t you?

(I can’t believe I’m missing Three’s Company.)

“And the games we played – deer and dog, red rover, pop-the-whip. Then for some real excitement, we’d sneak out after dark and turn over the neighbor’s privy.

(Dear Lord, PLEASE make the electricity come back on.)

“If you can find an old tire tube, I’ll make us a slingshot.

When I was your age, we’d get us a pocketful of rocks, take out slingshots and shoot snakes, turtles and frogs.

(Personally, I’d rather have chicken pox.)

“Without warning, the electricity came back on and, like a shot, she was up and to the television.

“Wait, I didn’t get to the good part about how we used to make flying jennies and cars out of snuff bottles. By the way, have you seen my glasses?

(You’re wearing them.”

“Oh….

NCAA FOOTBALL

TRANSFERENCE

Bulldogs Add Five Transfers for 2020 RUSTON – Louisiana Tech football head coach Skip Holtz announced on Friday the addition of five transfers who will be part of the 2020 roster.

Joining the Bulldogs who inked in the early signing period back in December are quarterback Luke Anthony, wide receiver Jerrod Means, offensive lineman Donavaughn Campbell, de-

fensive tackle Gerald Wilbon and defensive back Khalil Ladler.

“With a large senior class last year that graduated, we lost a lot of experience,” said Holtz. “In this recruiting class, we wanted some freshman to help build our program long term. We also felt we needed some upperclassmen who could contribute right away.”

Anthony is a graduate transfer who played the last three seasons at Abilene Christian. The Dallas, Texas native threw for 6,320 passing yards and 51 touchdowns with the Wildcats with a career 64 percent completion percentage.

He started in 11 games last season at ACU, throwing for 2,525 yards and 17 touchdowns and was a 2019 CoSIDA Academic All-District and Southland Conference All-Academic honoree.

Means spent his freshman campaign at Tennessee where he saw limited action for the Volunteers, spending time at defensive back.

He is projected to play at wide receiver for the Bulldogs.

The Hampton, Georgia native was rated as the seventh best wide receiver in the state of Georgia as a high

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REC: Scores and recaps from Rec Center

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Continued from Page 8 Timberwolves 2 Reagan Feazell had one home run and three RBI in a big night for the Outlaws from the plate, who got hits from Ray Kyler, Blake Bower and Cash Frizzell.

Feazell also picked up the win on the mound, striking out five batters in four innings.

Logan Winfield and Jaiden Combs had hits for the Timberwolves.

AAA Tomahawks 9 Royals 5 Cason Dillard and Tristain Grigsby hit extra base hits, driving in runners to help the Tomahawks pick up their first win this year.

Carson Whitehead led the Royals with two hits and one RBI. Webster Machine 16 Braves 9 Bo Bailey had two RBI and Trent Clemons pitched in with

one to help Webster stay perfect thus far this year.

Dixie Boys Minden Webster 7 Lakeside 4 Ryson Ranger and Seth Mangram each hit doubles to help Minden take down Lakeside.

Hunter Sutton and Jordan Isbell each had hits for the Warriors.

Jakobe Jackson picked up the win on the mound for Minden, going three innings with an incredible nine strikeouts.

GIRLS Dixie Angels Sweet T’s 8 Diamond Divas 5 Kailee Hamilton’s home run proved to be the difference as the Sweet T’s took down the Divas.

Ella Wood had a triple to go along with two singles for the Diamond Divas.

Pink Sox 12 Pink Panthers 0

Emmaline Harmon hit a home run along with two other hits to help the Pink Sox take down the Panthers.

Layla Holford, Addi Ramsey and Ellie Kate Perryman were all also perfect from the plate, going three-for-three each in the win.

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.

Hustlerz 10 Untamed 0 Emilee Ware hit one home run, and Madisyn Jernigan had two hits to lead the Hustlerz to the win.

Ponytails Southern Flair 13 Diamonds 7 Lindsay Ryan had three hits to lead Southern Flair to a win at the Rec Center.

Lizzie Balkom and Sky Savage both had two hits a piece at the plate to help Southern Flair to victory.

Brooke Edwards had one hit for the Diamonds, who stormed back to score seven runs in the final two frames to make a game of it.

Ryan struck out eight batters in four innings on the mound in the win.

Belles Minden 3 North Webster 2 Leigha Gilbert’s two hits combined with Baleigh Haulcey’s triple to help Minden take down North Webster.

Kylie Ryan and Haulcey combined for six strikeouts on the mound for Minden to pick up the win.

Aniyah Davis had one triple and Anekah Coleman had a double for North Webster.

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Continued from Page 8 school senior in 2019.

Campbell is a graduate transfer from LSU. He appeared in 15 career games

for the Tigers.

Prior to heading to Baton Rouge, the Ponchatoula, Louisiana native was the top offensive guard prospect in the state as a high school se-

nior in 2015.

Wilbon is another graduate transfer who played in 36 career games for the Texas Longhorns, totaling 19 tackles with one fumble recovery.

The Saint Rose, Louisiana native was ranked as the No. 39 defensive tackle nationally and the No. 32 overall prospect in the state as a high school senior in 2015.

Lastly, Ladler heads to Ruston as a grad transfer after playing in three seasons for Virginia Tech.

He appeared in 39 career games, having a breakout season in 2018 with 66 tackles in 11 starts.

The Stone Mountain, Georgia native was ranked as the No. 26 cornerback in the country out of high school in 2015.

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LOCAL NEWS

Gas prices on the rise for JOY: Town and Country pet therapist passes away the seventh week in a row

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Town and Country’s resident Pet Therapist, Joy, whom the staff and residents adopted as a stray, has recently passed away after a hard fought battle with cancer.

Continued from Page 1 bring much joy to the lives of so many. This homeless puppy was adopted by the residents and staff at Town & Country Health and Rehab. She was given the name Joy, a large home, a big family, lots of love and a purpose as she effortlessly became Town

& Country’s Pet Therapist. It is unexplainable how Joy learned her job so quickly and it would appear that she was smiling as she pranced herself throughout the facility.

She made fast friends with everyone and she loved the residents especially the ones who would sneak her a treat or two.

Sadly, Town & County Health and Rehab lost Joy on May 20, 2020 after a hard-fought battle with cancer. Joy lived her life with purpose and showed her gratitude for being loved every day of her life.

She was forever grateful for being rescued when she needed someone to love, but what she prob-

ably never realized is that she had actually rescued so many herself. They say a good dog is hard to find but even harder to let them go. Town & Country Health and Rehab will dearly miss their beloved Joy but they feel blessed to have known her and to have called her family.

(June 15, 2020) - Louisiana gas prices have risen 5.0 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.77/g today, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 2,436 stations. Gas prices in Louisiana are 15.7 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 50.8 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.

According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Louisiana is priced at $1.49/g today while the most expensive is $2.96/g, a difference of $1.47/g.

“As gasoline demand continues on the road to recovery, the national average has advanced for another week, making it seven straight weeks of rising gas prices as the easing coronavirus situation inspires more Americans to hit the road,” said Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy.

The national average price of gasoline has risen 4.7 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.09/g today. The national average is up 23.3 cents per gallon from a month

ago and stands 57.7 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.

“Data from Pay with GasBuddy shows U.S. gasoline demand rose 2.4% last week to its highest level in over three months, giving renewed confidence that amidst OPEC’s crude oil cutbacks, supply will remain in check. I expect the upward trend to continue across most of the country ahead of July 4, with prices perhaps rising another 10-20 cents by then. The one thing that could bring restraint to rising gas prices is if we see a significant second wave of COVID-19 cases, but for now, I’m optimistic that won’t happen,” said DeHaan.

GasBuddy is the authoritative voice for gas prices and the only source for station-level data spanning nearly two decades.

GasBuddy’s survey updates 288 times every day from the most diverse list of sources covering nearly 150,000 stations nationwide, the most comprehensive and up-to-date in the country.

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Sealed bids will be received in the office of the Webster Parish School Food Service until 4:00 P.M., Monday, June 29, 2020 for milk, frozen dairy items, for frozen and canned fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, poultry, other foods, bread products, supplies and other foods to be used in the school year September 1, 2020 through August 31, 2021.

Bids will be opened in the School Food Service Office at 9:00 a.m. on June 30, 2020, and all bids received after the submission deadline will be returned unopened.

Price quotations will be received for fresh produce beginning Thursday July 30, 2020 until 2:00 p.m.

Thereafter, quotations will be received on the first Thursday of every month for a period of one month.

Complete specifications and further information may be obtained from the School Food Service Office, Webster Parish School Board Office, 1442 Sheppard St., Minden, LA, 71055, or P.O. Box 520, Minden, LA, 71058-0520, (318) 377-1336.

Webster Parish School Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids and waive any informalities.

Public Bid Opening.

Webster Parish School Board is an equal opportunity employer.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination against its customers, employees, and applicants for employment on the bases of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, gender identity, religion, reprisal and, where applicable, political beliefs, marital status, familial or parental status, sexual orientation, or if all or part of an individual’s income is derived from any public assistance program, or protected genetic information in employment or in any program or activity conducted

or funded by the Department. (Not all prohibited bases will apply to all programs and/or employment activities.)

If you wish to file a Civil Rights program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, found online at http://www.ascr. usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust. html, or at any USDA office, or call (866) 6329992 to request the form. You may also write a letter containing all of the information requested in the form. Send your completed complaint form or letter to us by mail at U.S. Department of Agriculture, Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 202509410, by fax (202) 690-7442 or email at program.intake@usda.gov.

Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have speech disabilities and wish to file either an EEO or program complaint please contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339 or (800) 845-6136 (in Spanish).

Persons with disabilities, who wish to file a program complaint, please see information above on how to contact us by mail directly or by email. If you require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) please contact USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TDD).

USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Webster Parish School Board Johnny Rowland, Superintendent May 22, 2020 May 29, 2020 June 2, 2020 June 16, 2020 Minden Press-Herald

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS WEBSTER PARISH POLICE JURY 2020 GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL BID 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

The Sibley Town Council met in regular session on Monday, June 8, 2020 at 6pm in the Sibley Town Hall Meeting Room.

Members present were Mayor Jimmy Williams, Aldermen Helen Chanler, John Langford, Larry Merritt, Alan Myers and Robert Smart.

Mayor Williams opened the meeting in prayer; then led the Pledge of Allegiance.

Helen Chanler motioned to adopt the minutes to the May 11, 2020 Regular Meeting as read, Larry Merritt seconded.

Motion carried.

Larry Merritt motioned to add Resolution No. 2020 - 07 concerning Sales Tax Collections to the agenda under new items. Robert Smart seconded.

Motion unanimous.

Robert Smart motioned and Helen Chanler seconded, to open a Public Hearing to

discuss: (1) Proposed 2020 Amendment to Ordinance No. 126-P titled AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE BUDGET FOR THE TOWN OF SIBLEY, LOUISIANA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2020.

(2) Proposed Ordinance No. 126-Q titled AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE BUDGET FOR THE TOWN OF SIBLEY, LOUISIANA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2021.

(3) Proposed Ordinance No. 147-C titled AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING COMPENSATION FOR MUNICIPAL ELECTED OFFICIALS AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES FOR THE TOWN OF SIBLEY, LOUISIANA, AND PROVIDING IN CONNECTION THEREWITH After some discussion, Alan Myers motioned to return to the regular meeting.

Helen Chanler seconded, motion carried.

John Langford motioned, Alan Myers seconded, to bring proposed 2020 Amendment to Ordinance No. 126-P to a vote: Yeas: 5 - Helen Chanler, John Langford, Larry Merritt, Alan Myers, Robert Smart Nays: 0 Absent: Abstain: 2020 Amendment to Ordinance No. 126-P was adopted.

0 This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer Larry Merritt motioned, Helen Chanler seconded, to bring proposed Ordinance No. 126-Q to a vote: Yeas: 5 – Helen Chanler, John Langford, Larry Merritt, Alan Myers, Robert Smart Nays: Absent: 0 Abstain: Ordinance No. 126-Q was adopted.

0 John Langford motioned, Alan Myers seconded, to bring Ordinance No. 147-C to a vote: Yeas: 5 - Helen Chanler, John Langford, Larry Merritt, Alan Myers, Robert Smart Nays: Absent: 0 Abstain: Ordi-

nance No. 147-C was adopted.

Robert Smart motioned to adopt Resolution No. 2020 - 05 requesting assistance from the Webster Parish Police Jury for culvert installations for 2020.

Helen Chanler seconded, motion carried.

Alan Myers motioned to adopt Resolution No. 2020-06 appointing Mayor Jimmy Williams, Mayor Pro-Temp Larry Merritt and Clerk Sherry McCann as the designated authority for the Safe Deposit Box at Gibsland Bank and Trust.

John Langford seconded. Motion carried.

Robert Smart motioned to adopt Resolution No. 2020 - 07, opposing proposed legislation that transfers the administration and collection of local Sales & Use Taxes to the Louisiana Department of Revenue. John Langford seconded. Motion carried.

Larry Merritt gave the May 2020 Activity Report for the Sibley Volunteer Fire Department. No one from the Sibley Police Department was present. The Board acknowledged receipt of the May 2020 Financial Statements.

Under Mayor’s Report, the mayor updated the water park, Sewer Plant project and LMA Convention cancellation. Requested prayer for our leaders and our country.

Alan Myers motioned to adjourn, Helen Chanler seconded. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned.

Attest: Jimy Williams Mayor Sherry McCann Town Clerk June 16, 2020 Minden Press-Herald

TOWN OF SIBLEY 2020 AMENDMENT ORDINANCE NO. 126-P AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE BUDGET FOR THE TOWN OF SIBLEY, LOUISIANA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2020, The budget must be amended when total revenue and other sources in addi-

tion to projected revenues and other sources for the remainder of the year are failing to meet the total budgeted revenues and other sources by five percent or more.

The budget must also be amended when the total actual expenditures and other uses in addition to projected expenditures and other uses for the remainder for the year are exceeding the total budgeted expenditures and other uses by five percent or more.

WS BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Sibley, Parish of Webster, State of Louisiana, that the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019 and ending June 30, 2020 be amended as follows: SECTION II. ORDINANCE NO. 126-P SECTION II. POLICE D E PA R T M E N T Revenue: Line Item: Police Department Fines Total Revenue: B u d g e t ed: $100,000 $217,600 Amendment: $ 60,000 $177,600 Expenditures: Line Item: Other Salaries Ticket Expense Transfer to GF (court cost) Total Expenditures: Budgeted: $ 74,550 $ 21,000 $ 20,000 $220,675 Amendment: $ 47,500 $ 15,000 $ 10,000 $177,600 SECTION III. If any provision or item of this amendment or application thereof is held invalid such invalidity shall not affect any other provisions, items or applications of this ordinance or of the original ordinance, which could be given effect without the invalid provisions, items or applications and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are hereby declared severable.

SECTION III. This amendment to Ordinance No. 126P was introduced on May 11, 2020, a public notice was posted on May 12, 2020 and a Public Hearing was held on June 8, 2020. This amendment was read and considered on June 8, 2020 at an open

regular session of the Board of Aldermen. Upon a motion made by John Langford seconded by Alan Myers the following vote was taken: YEAS: 5 - Helen Chanler, John Langford, Larry Merritt, Alan Myers, Robert Smart NAYS: O ABSENT: 0 ABSTAIN: 0 Attest: Sherry McCann Sherry McCann, town Clerk Jimmy Williams, Mayor June 16, 2020 Minden Press-Herald

ORDINANCE NO. 147-C AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING COMPENSATION FOR MUNICIPAL ELECTED OFFICIALS AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES FOR THE TOWN OF SIBLEY, LOUISIANA, AND PROVIDING IN CONNECTION THEREWITH BE IT ORDAINED AND ENACTED by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the Town of Sibley, Louisiana, in regular session duly convened on June 8, 2020 as follows, to-wit: SECTIONI. Effective July 1, 2020, the compensation and salary of the Mayor, Chief of Police, Town Clerk and Board of Aldermen is hereby set, as required by La. R.S. 33:404.1 and 404G as follows: Town Clerk $44,200 annually SECTION II. The Town Clerk receive raises based on merit and performance on the job annually and condition of the fiscal budget.

SECTION III. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

SECTION IV. If any provision or item of this ordinance or the application thereof is held invalid such invalidity shall not affect any other provisions, items or applications of this ordinance or of the original ordinance, which could be given effect without the invalid provisions, items or applications and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are hereby declared severable.

SECTION V. This ordinance shall

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be effective on July 1, 2020. This ordinance was introduced on May 11, 2020, a public notice was posted on May 12, 2020 and a Public Hearing was held on June 8, 2020. This ordinance was read and considered on June 8, 2020 at an open regular session of the Board of Aldermen. Upon a motion made by John Langford seconded by Alan Myers the following vote was taken: YEAS: 5-H. Chanler, J. Langford, L. Merritt, A. Myers, R. Smart NAYS: O ABSENT: 0 ABSTAIN:_0 Jimmy Williams, Mayor Attest: Sherry McCann, MMC, Town Clerk June 16, 2020 Minden Press-Herald

TOWN OF SIBLEY ORDINANCE NO. 126-Q AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE BUDGET FOR THE TOWN OF SIBLEY LOUISIANA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2021 BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Sibley, Parish of Webster, State of Louisiana, that the budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2021, be and it is hereby adopted as follows: TOWN OF SIBLEY ORDINANCE NO. 126-Q SECTION I. GENERAL FUND REVENUE: 2020 - 2021 Budget EXPENDITURES: 2020 - 2021 Budget Property Tax $60,000 Mayor’s Salary $14,560 Sales Tax $136,000|Alderman’s Salary $20,400 Franchise Tax $30,000||Other Salaries $64,910 Occupational License Tax $30,000 Payroll Tax $7,700 Rent Income $4,800 Employee Benefits $19,000 Miscellaneous $1,500| Office Supply & Postage $8,000 LMA Travel Reimbursement $0 Utilities $36,000 Interest Income $10||Audit & Accounting $4,800 Civic

Center Revenue $12,000| Legal Fees $4,000 Mayor’s Court $8,000 Office Publications $2,000 Beginning Fund Balance $100,000 Building Maintenance $7,000 LAMP Oil & Gas $22,000 Insurance $24,000 TOTAL GENERAL FUND REVENUE $404,310 Dues $1,000 LMA Travel $0 Travel $1,500 Employee Training $9,000 Uniforms $1,000 Mayor’s Court $2,100 Parks & Beautification $11,000 Miscellaneous $2,500 Equipment Maintenance $5,000 Coroner $4,000 Contingency Fund $14,170 Capital Outlay $54,670 Transfer to Police Dept. $72,000 Civic Center Expenses $10,000 $4,000 TOTAL GF EXPENDITURES $404,310 IRA TOWN OF SIBLEY ORDINANCE NO. 126-Q SECTION IT. POLICE DEPARTMENT REVENUE: Sales Tax Transfer from General Fund PD Fines Miscellaneous Donations $500 Beginning Fund Balance TOTAL PD REVENUES 2020 - 2021 Budget EXPENDITURES: 2020-2021 Budget $34,000 Police Chief Salary $ 2 3 , 0 0 0 $76,570) Other PD Salaries $70,620 $80,000 IRA $5,000 Payroll Tax $7,700 $700 Supplemental Pay P/R Tax $1,400 Employee Benefits $13,500 $5,000 Supplies $ 2 , 0 0 0 $201,2701 Insurance $24,000 Dues $200 Office Supplies & Postage $1,000 Gasoline $8,000 Vehicle Maintenance $3,000 Uniforms $1,200 Equipment $1,500 Miscellaneous $6,000 Ticket Expense Donation Expense Transfer to GF (Court Cost Travel Audit & Accounting Contingency Fund TOTAL PD EXPENDITURES $16,800 $700 $16,000

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$750 $3,400 $0 $201,270 TOWN OF SIBLEY ORDINANCE NO. 126-Q SECTION III. REVENUE & OPERATING REVENUE: Collections DHH Safe Drinking Water Sales Tax (Commercial) Tapping / Service Charges Miscellaneous Interest Income Grant Income Beginning Fund Balance Waterworks Cash Waterworks LAMP Vehicle LAMP Fund TOTAL R/O REVENUE 2020-2021 Budget EXPENDITURES: 2020-2021 Budget $195,000| Salaries $ 5 8 , 3 2 5 $7,400|IRA $1,150 $2,000 Superintendant Salary $14,800 $3,500 Payroll Tax $5,600 $1,000 Employee Benefits $11,000 $150 DHH Safe Drinking Water $7,400 $0 Sales Tax (Commercial) $2,000 $60,000 Utilities $18,000 $25,000 Office Supplies & Postage $4,100 $30,805| Audit & Accounting $5,000 $0 Office Publications $400 $324,855 Insurance $15,500 Dues / Certifications $600 Uniforms $2,000 Miscellaneous $5,000 Gasoline $5,000 Vehicle Maintenance $3,000 Maintenance & Repair $35,000 Vehicle Fund LAMP $5,000 Chemicals & Supplies $50,000 Add’l Transfer to SOM $15,000 Grant Expense $0 Contingency $60,980 TOTAL R/O EXPENDITURE $324,855 TOWN OF SIBLEY ORDINANCE NO. 126-Q SECTION IV. SEWER OPERATING & MAINTENANCE REVENUE: 2020 - 2021 Budget | EXPENDITURES: 2020 - 2021 Budget Collections $153,000 Superintendant Salary $28,500 Add’l Transfer from R/O $15,000 Payroll Tax $2,200 Interest Income $50 IRA $850 Beginning Fund Balance $4,000 Employee Benefits $8,500 TOTAL SOM REVENUE $172,050 Utilities

$18,000 Office Supplies & Postage $400 Audit & Accounting $800 Insurance $3,500 Dues / Certifications $200 Uniforms $2,000 Miscellaneous $3,000 Gasoline $4,500 Vehicle Maintenance $2,000 Maintenance & Repair $30,000 Chemicals & Supplies $10,000 Lab Fee $3,700 Bond Payments $33,000 Contingency $20,900 TOTAL SOM EXPENDITURI $172,050 SECTION V. FIRE DEPARTMENT REVENUE: Fire Insurance Rebate Sales Tax Fire District #2 Police Jury Annual Miscellaneous Interest Income Grant Income Beginning Fund Bal. + LAMP Total Fire Department Revenue 2020 - 2021 Budget EXPENDITURES: 2020-2021 Budget $7,400 Utilities $ 3 , 5 0 0 $68,000||Audit / Accounting $1,600 $70,000| Insurance $27,000 $0 Miscellaneous $2,000 $0 Capital Outlay $5,000 $175 Supplies $10,000 $0 Gasoline $2,000 $215,000 Maintenance & Repair $ 2 5 , 0 0 0 $360,575 Fire Truck Expense $6,000 Truck Lease Payment $43,292 Firefighter Annual Reimb $15,000 Grant Expense $0 Contingency $220,182 TOTAL FD EXPENDITURES $360,574 TOWN OF SIBLEY ORDINANCE NO. 126-Q SECTION VI. SALES TAX REVENUE: Collections DOTD Interest Income Miscellaneous Beginning Fund Balance TOTAL SALES TAX REVENUE 2020 - 2021 Budget EXPENDITURES: 2020-2021 Budget $340,000| Salary $ 2 6 , 5 5 0 $3,100||Other Salaries $30,250 $90 Payroll Tax $4,400 $0 IRA $0 $170,000 Employee Benefits $6,000 $513,190 Audit & Accounting $1,700 Insurance $9,200 Uniforms $3,500 Miscella-

neous $1,000 Capital Outlay $68,000 Streets $34,000 Gov’t Capital Loan $6,917 Transfer to General Fund $124,000 Transfer to Police Dept $31,000 Transfer to Fire Dept $62,000 Contingency $104,673 TOTAL ST EXPENDITURES $513,190 TOWN OF SIBLEY ORDINANCE NO. 126-Q SECTION VII. If any provision or item of this ordinance or the applicatoin thereof is held invalid such invalidity shall not effect any other provisions, items or applications of this ordinance or of the original ordinance, which could be given effect without the invalid provisions, items or applications and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are hereby declared severable.

SECTION VIII This ordinance shall be effective on July 1, 2020 This ordinance was introduced on May 11, 2020, a public notice was posted on May 12, 2020 and a Public Hearing was held on June 8, 2020..

This ordinance was, read and considered June 8, 2020 at the June 2020 open regular session of the Board of Aldermen.

Upon a motion made by Larry Merritt seconded

by Helen Chanler the following vote: YEAS: 5 - Helen Chanler, John Langford, Larry Merritt, Alan Myers, Robert Smart NAYS: 0 ABSENT: 0 ABSTAIN: 0 INT Jimmy Williams, Mayor Anellian Attest Sherry McCann Sherry McCann, MMC-Town Clerk June 16, 2020 Minden Press-Herald

Circle K Stores Inc. is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of low alcohol content in Webster Parish at Circle K Store #2707779 located at 1400 Shreveport Road, Minden, LA 71055-3711.

Randy Horne, Circle K Stores Inc. Assistant Secretary June 16, 2020 June 19, 2020

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PUBLIC NOTICE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (LDEQ) WEBSTER PARISH POLICE JURY/WEBSTER PARISH SOLID WASTE LANDFILL ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLETENESS DETERMINATION The LDEQ, Office of Environmental Services, has reviewed a Solid Waste Permit Application for a Type I/II Landfill/Surface Impoundment from Webster Parish Police Jury, 493 Landfill Road, Minden, LA 71055 for the Webster Parish Solid Waste Landfill and determined that it is administratively complete.

The application was received on May 18,2020. The facility is located at 493 Landfill Road in Webster Parish.

Webster Parish Police Jury proposes to renew its Solid Waste Permit Application for its Type I/ II Landfill/Surface Impoundment with no modifications.

Inquiries or requests for additional information regarding this application should be directed to Solid Waste Permit Division, LDEQ, P.O. Box 4313, Baton Rouge, LA 70821- 4313, phone (225) 2193516.

Persons wishing to be included on the LDEQ permit public notice mailing list or for other public participation related questions should contact the Public Participation Group in writing at LDEQ, P.O. Box 4313, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4313, by email at DEQ. PUBLICNOTICES@LA.GOV or contact the LDEQ Customer Service Center at (225) 219-LDEQ (219-5337).

Permit public notices can be viewed at the LDEQ permits public notice webpage at http://www.deq. louisiana.gov/ public-notices and general information related to the public participation in permitting activities can be viewed at www.deq.louisiana.gov/page/ the-public-partici-

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Alternatively, individuals may elect to receive the permit public notices via email by subscribing to the LDEQ permits public notice List Server at http://louisiana. gov/Services/ Email_Notifications_DEQ_PN/.

All correspondence should specify AI Number 85534, Permit Number P-0165R2-M7, and Activity Number PER20200002.

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Per LA Gaming Regulation - Title 42 Part III, Section 4315, chips with cash value that were obtained at DiamondJacks Casino ñ Bossier City, LA, and that have not been discontinued previously, may be redeemed by the rightful patron thru September 28, 2020.

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