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HIT THE BOOKS! Glenbrook back in the classroom this week
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Trump issues executive orders to extend pandemic relief
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School is back in session for the students at Glenbrook School. Students this year are facing changes and challenges not familiar to anyone before them, so some of Glenbrook’s students from a variety of different grades took some time out of their busy school schedule to share some of the changes that they experienced when returning to school. The four students that were interviewed include Eastland Carrigan, a Senior, Haley Self, Junior, Treat Miller, 5th Grade, and Emma Fox, 2nd Grade. While some may think that the “extended summer break” would be seen as a positive by most students, most were quick to admit they were looking forward to school coming back into session in order to be able to see their friends again, something a lot of them had been doing less due to the pandemic.
tained. Another interested business owner stated, “We’re going to need a good road because people aren’t going to want to come down through there and dodge potholes to come access businesses for us to thrive in that area.” Dist. 3 Juror Daniel Thomas stated that an avenue to potentially getting the road fixed was to contact local representatives Wayne McMahen and Robert Mills, as they play a large role
President Donald Trump’s end run around Congress on coronavirus relief is raising questions about whether it would give Americans the economic lifeline he claims and appears certain to face legal challenges. After negotiations with lawmakers on the next package of pandemic economic assistance hit a wall, Trump used what he said were the inherent powers of the presidency to forge ahead on tax and spending policy that Congress says it is granted by the Constitution. Trump asserted he had the authority to defer payroll taxes and extend an expired unemployment benefit, although at a lower amount than what the jobless had been getting during the crisis. The president contended his orders “will take care of pretty much this entire situation, as we know it.” But the orders appeared to carry less weight than Trump promoted and cut federal relief spending by shifting more onto the shoulders of struggling states. Critics said the actions crossed a legal line and fell well short of what is needed to help right the fragile economy. The moves were framed by the White House as the president breaking through the Washington gridlock in order to directly distribute aid. Advisers hope it will sustain an economic recovery that Trump likely needs to defeat Democrat Joe Biden in November. Trump took full credit for the measures, which he signed at his New Jersey golf club on Saturday after congressional talks broke down this past week. Democrats initially sought a $3.4 trillion package but said they lowered their demand to $2 trillion. Republicans had proposed a $1 trillion plan. Trump accused Democrats of trying to spend more than was
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Glenbrook Elementary Students return to a more spacious classroom setting for their first full week back to school.
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Business owners meet Police Jury to discuss Goodwill Road
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A group of prospective business owners and investors came to the monthly Police Jury meeting in order to reach out to them about some concerns they had about the properties infrastructure and to see if they could help contribute to seeing some of these improvements being made. When explaining to the Jury why he wanted them to come and speak, Dist. 8 Juror Nick Cox stated. “The number one
reason is the road, but the number 2 reason I wanted them to come, and we put it under the economic committee, is because there’s a lot of good things going on in our parish out there off of Goodwill Road. So I thought it would be a good opportunity for them to tell us what all is going on out there,” said Cox. Craig Watson, owner of Impressions Advertising Specialties, was the main one representing the groups concerns to the Jury. When it came to the concern of the road, Watson
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stated that part of the problem was trying to find out who owns it. “The road is far worse than anything I’ve been on in Webster Parish. I reached out to the state, and after lengthy conversations, the state says they don’t own it,” said Watson. “I really don’t know who owns it. It may be that we all own it and don’t know it, it may be the land owner that we bought it from owns it, and it may be the state.” Watson stated that the state has marker’s out there and has the property mowed and main-
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RELIEF: Trump signs executive order to help Americans hurt financially during pandemic Continued from Page 1 needed and adding money for priorities unrelated to the pandemic. He said local aid amounted to “bailout money” for states and cities “badly run by Democrats for many years. ... And we’re not willing to do that.” The president wants to continue paying a supplemental federal unemployment benefit for millions of Americans put out of work during the outbreak. But his order called for up to $400 payments each week, compared with the $600 that people had been receiving. Trump said states would cover 25% of this money even as many are dealing with major budget shortfalls. Trump said earlier that the federal contribution would be redirected from disaster relief money at the Federal Emergency Management Agency — dollars not likely to last more than two months. Shifting FEMA disaster funds also would occur as the peak of hurricane season looms and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns of an “extremely active” season already underway.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the $100 share from states would come from from an earlier pool of federal money and that Trump may waive the requirement about how it can be used. Many states are already facing budget crunches caused by the pandemic. Asked at a news conference how many governors had signed on to participate, Trump answered: “If they don’t, they don’t. That’s up to them.” Trump expressed a different view on Sunday night, following a day of state officials questioning how they could afford even $100 per person in additional weekly payments. He told reporters as he returned to Washington that states could make application to have the federal government provide all or part of the $400 payments. Decisions would be made state by state, he said. Several state officials questioned how Trump’s initial proposal would work and often expressed doubt that they could afford to participate at the level Trump initially set without using federal
funds. Christina Stephens, a spokeswoman for Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said: “Right now we are reviewing the President’s order to determine exactly what the impact to the state would be.” Trump also acted to defer payment of the payroll tax, a long-pushed goal that had little support from either party on Capitol Hill, and federal student loans. His order on housing is not a guarantee against eviction, as he claimed, but instead directs the departments of the Treasury and Housing and Urban Development to identify money that could help those struggling to pay their monthly rent. Trump said the employee portion of the payroll tax would be deferred from Aug. 1 through the end of the year, and he raised the possibility of making it permanent, though experts said he lacked that authority. The temporary deferral would not directly aid unemployed workers, who do not pay the tax when they are jobless. Employees would need to repay the federal govern-
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GOODWILL RD: Businesses and Police Jury meet to discuss options Continued from Page 1 in the allocation of resources for the parish. “Teddy has a real good relationship with the state, and he’s saying that they’re going to have somebody higher up to give them money to improve that road. So if I were you guys, I’d call Dr. Wayne McMahen and I’d get them out there,” said Thomas. Watson stated that he had already contacted these representatives, and that they gave him an estimate of 3-8 years for the road to be completed. Part of his reason for coming before the Police Jury was to expedite that process. “I have spoken to both of those guys, and what they’re telling me now is that at best 3 years, maybe as long as 8 years by the time it goes through appropriations… so it’s not very promising, and that’s going to be the very thing that stifles this. It’s happening now, and we don’t need to be waiting around and let it wither on the vine,” said Watson. He encouraged the Jurors to contact the representatives as well, saying that the more people that speak up and show interest in the area, the more likely they are to see re-
sults sooner. “The louder we holler, the better chances are we’re going to get it. If it’s just us four or five people right here, it’s gonna fall on deaf ears,” said Watson. A concern that was brought up during the discussion was that of fire safety. Brian Williams pointed out that there is not a water system that reaches out there, and the private ones that the businesses are planning wouldn’t be enough to handle the businesses in case of emergency. “As you increase property taxes, everybody in that district, their fire insurance is going to escalate dramatically, because we cannot protect this. The water system in place can not protect this,” said Williams. “We need a water system that can handle all the businesses with additional fire plugs in there, because if not, you may increase the property value and the property taxes, but everybody with fire insurance is going to escalate in this area because the water systems, with everyone doing their own, is not going to help this.” Even with these concerns being brought up,
the Jury seems eager to try and find a solution. Police Jury President Jim Bonsall himself stated that addressing infrastructure needs to accommodate that growing area of the parish has been an onagain-off-again subject for as long as he’s been on the Jury. “We’ve gotta figure this out. We’ve talked about this on and off for fourteen. I’ve been on the Jury for fourteen years and that’s all we ever do is talk about it. We’ve got to fix this thing.” While there were many concerns regarding the expenses of potentially expanding infrastructure, it seemed as though Bonsall sees the growth of that area as inevitable, and thus should be addressed sooner rather than later. Bonsall stated, “I do believe that this is spilling over from Bossier Parish, and I believe that it is going to grow, and I believe that it is going to create some good opportunities, but it is going to create a lot of expense. We need to get this deal fixed and we need to figure out how we’re going to address it, and we need to do that right now. Before we got five miles of roads that people have got businesses looking at us to fix their infrastructure.”
ment eventually without an act of Congress. The president was silent on Saturday on how he would fund Medicare and Social Security benefits that the 7% tax on employee income covers. Democrats seized on the possible threat to Social Security as a signal that Trump wanted to cut the social safety net. On Sunday night, in the wake of that criticism, Trump told reporters the money would not come from Social Security but from the Treasury if the government didn’t require workers to repay the taxes. Again, that would require congressional action. “If the Democrats want to challenge us in court and hold up unemployment benefits to those hardworking Americans who are out of a job because of COVID, they’re going to have a lot of explaining to do,” Mnuchin said. Both the White House and congressional Democrats indicated Sunday they wanted to resume negotiations, but no talks were scheduled.
State Senator Robert Mills Works To Protect Religious Liberties Of Patients STAFF REPORT Minden Press-Herald
District 36 State Senator Robert Mills has authored a bill that adds members of the clergy to the list of mental health support personnel allowed access to patients in hospitals, nursing homes, and adult residential care homes during a state declared public health emergency. “We need to act on this issue immediately,” said Senator Mills. “Just last week the Trump Administration … announced the resolution to a religious discrimination complaint filed against Prince George’s Hospital Center of the University of Maryland Medical System. Suzanne Marcus filed the complaint after her critically injured husband was denied a visit from his priest by the hospital. With assistance from the Office of Civil Rights and with guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, her husband was able to receive the visit from his priest and the University of Maryland Medical System now has a consistent policy at all of their hospitals allowing clergy visitations.
It’s vital that we act now on this guidance from the federal government.” Senator Mills’ newly authored bill would require inpatient healthcare facilities to provide patient or resident access to members of the clergy for prayer, mental health support or religious counseling, the sacraments of Holy Communion, anointing of the sick, and last rites, and any other customary religious service that is normally offered to patients. The bill also provides protections for members of the clergy, as well as the inpatient healthcare facility. Any member of the clergy who wishes to minister to a patient or resident must volunteer to enter the facility and comply with a list of requirements in order to ensure the safety of the patients. “Hospitals and nursing homes around the state are operating with inconsistent policies regarding patient access to clergy,” stated Senator Mills. “This bill, as drafted, would protect the religious liberty of patients at hospitals and residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities.”
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Albert ‘Bubba’ Babin, Jr.
Graveside services for Albert “Bubba” Babin, Jr. will be held 10:00 a.m. Saturday, August 8, 2020 at Evergreen Cemetery in Minden, Louisiana under the direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Minden, Louisiana. Officiating will be Rev. Jim Phillips. Visitation will be Friday August 7, 2020 from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. at Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Minden. Bubba was born November 10, 1949 in Opilika, Ala-
bama and entered into rest August 5, 2020 in Minden, Louisiana. He was preceded in death by his father, Albert Babin, Sr.; mother, Mary Babin; and first wife, Donna Henderson Babin. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth Babin of Minden; daughters, Tonya Sheppard of Minden and Tara Roberts of Sibley; sister, Jennie Copeland of Elm Grove; brother, Danny Ray Babin of Minden; five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Rose-Neath Funeral Home 211 Murrell Street Minden, Louisiana 71055 (318) 377-3412
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“I was actually very excited to come back to school. Mostly for the social aspect of it, but just to see everybody and get back to normal life, and not be quarantined inside the house all day,” said Self. “When you’re not doing it, you’d think, oh, I’d just love to have school off for that long. But it’s weird, you just have nothing to do for that long.” While all the students were happy to see their friends again after such a long time, some of the changes make it so it isn’t exactly like it was pre-pandemic. Students are now wearing masks at all times and are more aware about the distance between them and others. “We haven’t seen people in a long time, and
you’ve just been stuck in your house for months. These are the first people you’ve seen in a long time and they’re your friends, but it’s a little weird seeing everyone behind masks and you can’t really tell who they are,” said Miller. One of the most stark changes that the students talked about was that of temperature checks now being done at the door. Students have to wait in order to enter the building until they interact with a no-touch kiosk that checks their temperature. “We have to get our temperature checked whenever we come to school and get a little sticker saying we scanned,” explained Self. While temperature checks play an integral role in helping catch people with the disease before they can potentially
spread it to others, Carrigan mentioned that he misses just being able to come to school and go to his class room. “I came in before 7:50 on my own time. I would just head to homeroom and everything was fine,” said Carrigan. On top of temperature checks, one of the other common changes mentioned was the requirement for most students to wear masks throughout the school day. The students all seemed to understand the necessity of wearing masks in order to reduce potential spread, though that isn’t to say that it won’t take some time for some to get accustomed to the change. “The mask kind of stresses me. I have panic attacks with those. I just feel like I can’t breathe with them. I mean I know we have to wear them
for our safety, but when I wear them in public it freaks me out,” said Carrigan. One major change noted amongst the elementary students was having their grades divided up with little to no interaction. Grades were divided before, but now students aren’t able to mingle with the other half of their grade like they used to. Fox mentioned this during her interview, but also stated that it would give her the opportunity to make new friends. “My closest best friends are in the other class, and I’m not going to be able to play with them. But I have a lot of my friends in my class that I don’t really get to play with often, so I’m excited just to know them better and play with them a lot,” said Fox. “I’m looking forward to being able to go back to
school and see everyone really. It’s the hardest part about quarantine really.” Miller mentioned some of the smaller changes to everyday life that most people wouldn’t think out. For instance, the casual act of sharing a pencil with a classmate in need is a thing of the past when trying to keep contact between students to a minimum. This also led to Glenbrook choosing to avoid the use of lockers this year in order to not have crowding in the hallways. “We have to carry everything in our backpacks this year, we have to bring them with us everywhere we go. Because we have all of our books in there, and we don’t have lockers this year because of crowding in the halls,” said Miller. While classes are for now being primarily
taught traditionally in their classrooms, Self stated that they are still prepared to go back to remote learning in the case of another shutdown. “We are preparing to go back online if we have to, if another shutdown happens, but as of now, we’re doing mostly everything in person,” said Self. When asked, all the students stated that they felt safe in Glendbrook’s reopening strategy. Even though some of the changes are inconvenient, the students seemed to understand that they are necessary. “I think Glenbrook is doing a really good job of keeping all the students safe. We have to take the preventative measures set out by the CDC and the state, and I think we’re doing a very good job of that,” said Self.
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Nursing homes have vulnerability from staff As Louisiana tries to protect vulnerable nursing home residents from coronavirus outbreaks, the facilities still have a significant source of risk for new infections. Hundreds of employees coming and going each day have refused to take a virus test. Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration ordered nursing homes to regularly test residents and workers for the COVID-19 disease caused by the coronavirus or face financial penalties. But while nursing homes have to provide the testing, residents and staff can refuse to participate. Testing refusals haven’t been a problem with residents, according to the latest data provided to The Associated Press by the Louisiana Department of Health, which shows all but a few of the state’s nearly 24,000 nursing home residents have been tested for COVID-19. But 700 employees of the facilities had spurned the available testing in the July 22 data. Testing refusals represent only 2% of Louisiana’s nearly 31,000 nursing home workers, but they still offer hundreds of ways the coronavirus can enter nursing homes through some of the only people allowed to enter and exit the facilities on a regular basis. Nursing homes are closed to visitors. The coronavirus pandemic ravaged Louisiana’s nursing homes in the earliest days of
the state’s outbreak, and the facilities — packed with elderly residents most at-risk for serious effects from the virus — remain one of the most susceptible settings to rapidly spreading infections. More than 1,600 Louisiana nursing home residents have died from COVID-19, more than 40% of the state’s deaths from the disease, according to health department data. The department didn’t provide a list of specific nursing homes where employees have rejected testing, but the agency’s data shows they work in three of the state’s nine health regions — the New OrleMELINDA ans, Baton DESLATTE Rouge and Monroe regions. Of the 700 workers who refused tests, 338 work in the four-parish New Orleans region, representing about 9% of the nursing home employees in the area. Louisiana announced in mid-June that it had toughened its coronavirus testing requirements for nursing homes, after some facilities didn’t follow earlier voluntary testing standards recommended by the state. Nursing homes that don’t
follow the testing policy face the risk of restrictions on admitting new patients, civil penalties or withholding of Medicaid payments. “Our testing approach has been to ensure that every patient inside a nursing home is tested for COVID-19 at least once, and then to support facilities with regularly testing of staff on a weekly basis,” department spokesman Kevin Litten said in a statement. Any staff member who tests positive must isolate and not enter the nursing home while contagious, Litten said. Any nursing home that has an employee test positive must do a new round of patient testing to determine if there are new infections in the facility. The health department hasn’t explicitly called for workers who refuse testing to be fired — but it warns in its testing policy that those employees put “residents and the employer at risk if they continue to work at the facility.” Litten said the department’s heard several reasons for nursing home employees rebuffing the tests. He said some workers seem to object to the invasive testing procedure, while others aren’t at work on testing day or are already isolating because of a previous positive test. Some people work at multiple nursing homes and don’t need to get tested at both locations. People who have tested
positive, isolated and then returned to work after symptoms disappear also aren’t usually asked to test again, Litten said. But he said some nursing home employees may be refusing because they worry they’ll test positive and lose their income by having to stay home and quarantine. Mark Berger, executive director of the Louisiana Nursing Home Association, said the organization’s member facilities have adopted policies to address workers who won’t get tested for the virus, which can include placing the employee on leave or firing them. “While the policies are specific to the individual facility, the overall goal of all facilities is to protect the health, safety and well-being of the residents,” Berger said in a statement. He noted 98% of workers have undergone testing: “This is an incredibly high testing percentage, especially considering the refusal number may include individuals who previously tested positive and have fully recovered.” Still, testing refusals leave cracks in efforts to keep nursing home residents safe in the pandemic.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Melinda Deslatte has covered Louisiana politics for The Associated Press since 2000. Follow her at http://twitter.com/melindadeslatte
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Michelle Malkin: Fact Check: Yes, the mob is coming for you Fact check: ADL = All Damned COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. — In June, America’s mass media Lies. AP = Anarchist Propaganda. propaganda machine endangered CNN = Chaos-Nurturing Network. Since this agitprop campaign the public by spreading insidious “disinformation” — while purport- two months ago, armed extremists allied with antifa and BLM have ining to debunk “disinformation.” The New York Times, NBC News, deed staged escalating incursions CNN and the Associated Press con- into the heartland. Yes, the mob is verged nine weeks ago to persuade on the move. Yes, the mob is tarreaders and viewers that neither geting “suburban neighborhoods antifa rioters nor Black Lives Mat- and white communities.” Yes, the ter militants were fanning out from mob could turn up at your home at any time. major urban areas into flyover And no, country. Law enforcement bullein the age of tins and citizen alerts about the American anmetastasis of violent demonstraarchotyranny, tions all amount to “misinformayou cannot tion,” “bad information,” “false inrely on the poformation,” “unfounded rumors” lice, nor electand “conspiratorial content,” the ed officials Gray Lady scoffed. (Democratic NBC News and CNN exploited a or Republisingle fake antifa Twitter account can), nor even to dismiss nationwide concerns of m a i n s t re a m domestic terrorism as “viral misS e c o n d information.” Amendment The AP blasted “baseless theo- MICHELLE organizations ries” about encroaching violence MALKIN in Washingand castigated “conservative news outlets and pro-Trump social me- ton, D.C., like the National Rifle dia accounts” for reporting on Association to stand with you in your time of need. them. Just two weeks after the Denver In short: Don’t worry. Be happy. police purposely stood down and Blame Righty. The “progressive” Anti-Defama- watched my friends and I come tion League — headed by Jona- under attack by BLM and antifa at than Greenblatt, a Clinton/Obama a “Back the Blue” rally, Colorado official and former George So- Springs police sat by and did nothros-funded operative — amplified ing on Monday night as a residenthe fraudulent media campaign. tial neighborhood was shut down “There has been no evidence of an- by cop-hating provocateurs. Tottifa or Black Lives Matter organiz- ing AR-15s, carrying walkie-talkies ing or carrying out attacks on sub- and openly defying state laws urban or white communities,” the prohibiting targeted picketing, ADL declared, and the “large-scale the mob marched unobstructed protests following the murder of into the streets of Pulpit Rock to George Floyd” were “overwhelm- the private home of a Colorado Springs Police Department officer. ingly peaceful.”
He had been cleared by a grand jury a year ago in a police-involved fatal shooting of an armed robbery suspect. Local news outlets filmed blackclad BLM menaces in camo and combat boots ignoring cops’ orders to stop blocking motorists. Militants cursed, threatened and waved their weapons at law-abiding citizens, one of whom called 911 for help once the mob let him through. No officer came to assist. Instead, CSPD officials posted on Twitter that they were “reminding” the mob “to not block the streets” and were issuing two “shelter in place” orders advising residents to “stay indoors; please lock and stay away from windows and doors.” “Protect and serve” has been replaced with “Tweet and retreat.” Run and hide. Kneel and grovel. If it’s coming to my once-solidly conservative community, it’s coming to your town, too. Former City Councilman Sean Paige condemned the fecklessness: “We have a ‘law and order’ Mayor In Colorado Springs, right? So why is John Suthers letting thugs get away with this kind of dangerous/threatening nonsense in residential areas?” Twitter user Sandi K. responded to the CSPD police posts: “Announcements? Reminders? How about arrests? Pathetic response by law enforcement. Unbelievable!” Another enraged citizen asked CSPD: “(H)ow are the masked protestors who are in full tactical gear and standing down vehicles with their hands on the stocks of their rifles not menacing?” I asked Lt. James Sokolik, CSPD public information officer, why no
one was arrested. “We monitored” the protest “extensively,” he told me, and made an “ultimate decision not to intervene” because “it took care of itself.” That passive language echoes the Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen’s diffident downplaying of the riot at the “Back the Blue” rally as having “devolved” on its own, with no one and no entity actually accountable. “But I don’t want to give the impression that this was some sort of blase thing,” Sokolik warbled. Oh, no. Who would ever get that impression? After all, the situation was being monitored. Colorado Springs native and Benghazi Marine hero John “Tig” Tiegen, who works with the nonprofit Faith Education Commerce United, rejects such abject passivity in the face of extreme aggression. “You shouldn’t have to hide in your own house and be held against your will for fear of bodily harm or death,” he told me. He issued a call to action when he heard of the mob hijacking of Pulpit Rock. A large group of his friends joined him to defend and protect the homeowners from direct assault: “We were definitely a force and the neighbors were glad we were there.” “It’s time to stop living in utopia instead of reality,” Tiegen counsels. Amen. Reject the lies. Ignore the smears. Lock, load and lean on each other. Domestic tranquility, like anarchotyranny, doesn’t just happen on its own.
Michelle Malkin’s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail. com.
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have for generations to come. If we don’t tell our stories in our words they will never be told. The motivational speaker,. Tony Robbins, said “a life worth living is worth recording.”
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BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
Happy Birthday to Josephine Savell
On July 29th, we celebrated our
plained and takes what life deals
sweet Mama who turned 97 years
out through her Faith in God. All
old! She is a strong lady with very
6 of us children are grateful and
strong Faith in God which has
fortunate to have had such caring
helped her through so many trials
and loving parents who always
and tragedies in her life… from the
put us first and were always there
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of two daughters at 6 and 8 years
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BIRTHDAY JOSEPHINE SAVELL!
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WE ALL LOVE YOU VERY MUCH!.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Zion Williamson’s rookie season is ending without a playoff berth. It’s not an uncommon stop on the NBA learning curve. Even for No. 1 draft picks, like Williamson was a year ago, winning takes time. The last player to go from being the top overall selection one year to a playoff-game starter the very next season was Derrick Rose -- more than a decade ago. LeBron James needed three years to make the playoffs. John Wall needed four seasons. So did Kyrie Irving, his wait ending in large part because James returned to Cleveland. Williamson is about to learn what that process is like. The New Orleans Pelicans are out of playoff contention, something they pretty much knew was the case after a loss to San Antonio on Sunday afternoon -and something that became mathematically certain that night, when Portland beat Philadelphia. “What I see is what everybody else on the planet sees: that he’s a hard-working, aggressive player,” San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said of Williamson. “Competes at the highest level. Very
If you have kept up with my writing and broadcasting for the past bunch of years, I don’t have to tell you of my interest in song birds. One of the pleasures I enjoy is to sit on my back porch, bird book, binoculars, camera and cup of coffee in hand and enjoy all the flit and flutter that is going on in my back yard. I keep my bird feeders filled, one for hummingbirds and one for song birds that are making sure they’re not going hungry. Several species are regulars, some almost too regular. I don’t know how many blue jays have been reared in the trees and bushes around the yard but I sometimes see as many as seven or eight at a time scarfing down sunflower seeds. One thing rather comical is to watch either a fledgling from this year of a teenager who lives in his mother’s basement, a bird fully as large as a grown-up jay,
explosive, very quick, very strong. He’s learning the game like any other young player, but very willing and quite a young prospect.” The Pelicans have two games left, both meaningless in terms of the playoff picture, and given how cautious they were with Williamson this year it could very easily mean that he has played for the last time as a rookie. If his rookie season is done, here are the final numbers: 22.5 points and 6.3 rebounds per game on 58% shooting, albeit in only 24 games. There are many rookies over the years who averaged more points and grabbed more rebounds, but none of them scored as much, rebounded as often and shot as well — the big difference — as Williamson this season. Williamson was asked Sunday what he learned from a year that included injury, frustration, a pandemic and racial strife. He took several seconds before answering. “Just live life, moment by moment,” Williamson said. “Learn from each moment, learn from each experience and just take those lessons and apply it to your life.”
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sitting and fluttering its wings begging for a parent to offer him a morsel. Big baby. Others that are regular daily visitors are cardinals. We were somewhat excited when we watched a female cardinal making regular trips to a gardenia growing just outside my office window. Upon investigating the shrub, I spotted a nest; they reared a brood of little cardinals within spitting distance of my window Others have taken advantage of the free lodging we have provided in the form of three bird boxes I have hung around the yard. First, there was a tufted titmice pair that reared a brood of six little fluffy fellows in one of the boxes.
Next, a pair of Carolina wrens liked a box I mounted on the back fence, not that wrens needed a traditional nesting site. I have had them make nests in an old pair of boots on the porch, in my wife’s hanging basket by the front door and one time wrens kept me off the lake for a few weeks when they built a nest under the seat of my bass boat. A rather sad commentary happened with our bluebirds. I have a box mounted on a pole out front and I was pleased to note that bluebirds began building a nest. Soon there were four pretty blue eggs in the box. I would periodically check to see if the eggs had started to hatch and be-
came worried after several weeks when there were no baby birds in the box and it appeared they had been abandoned. There is a feral housecat that hung around the yard and I assumed that perhaps the cat had caught the female bluebird, so it was with a bit of regret that I removed the nest and abandoned eggs. Within a week, bluebirds began constructing another nest and soon, there were four eggs. I was relieved that finally I’d have a clutch of baby bluebirds to watch out for. I was pleased to see that one of the eggs hatched and I kept an eye out for the others to follow suit. I walked out one morning to check on my birds and found the lone baby bird dead and the eggs missing. What happened? I have no idea except I know I won’t be watching four little bluebirds try their wings. I have spotted a new bird I had never seen around the back yard feeder. I thought at first Iwas looking at some species of miniature woodpecker because the little dark gray and white bird flew with the same undulating up and down way a woodpecker flies. When it lit on the trunk of a backyard oak, it scooted up the trunk just like a woodpecker. Checking my bird book, I learned I was looking at a white breasted nuthatch, a bird I had never seen. So far I have not been able to get a photo of the bird but I’m not giving up just yet because I’ve seen it several times This blasted coronavirus has curtailed so much of what we’ve been able to do but at least I have my back porch, my bird book, binoculars, camera and coffee to keep me occupied.
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On This Day In History 1999 - Last Total Solar Eclipse of the Millennium. The eclipse was visible from Europe, most of Asia and Africa and in parts of North America. Because of its path through heavily populated parts of the world, the solar eclipse is thought to be one of the most viewed eclipses in recorded history. 1992 - Mall of America Opens its Doors to Shoppers. Located in in Bloomington, Minnesota, the mall is the largest shopping Mall in the United States. Spanning 4,870,000 sq ft, it has an indoor theme park and attracts about 40 million visitors each year. 1962 - The Soviet Space Agency Launches Vostok 3. The spacecraft was piloted by Andriyan Nikolayev, the first cosmonaut to have orSee, HISTORY, Page 8v
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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID SEALED BIDS, addressed to the Village of Doyline, at 624 College Street, Doyline, Louisiana, 71023 will be received until 10:00 A.M., Tuesday, September 1, 2020 for PILGRIM REST ROAD RECONSTRUCTION, FY2019 LCDBG PUBLIC FACILITIES PROGRAM, CONTRACT NO. 2000477899. The bids will then be publicly opened and read aloud in the Village Chambers. Contract Documents including bid proposal forms, plan sheets, and specifications for the Project may be viewed and downloaded free of charge (with the option to purchase hard copies) at www. civcastusa.com. Contract Documents (PDF format) are available on CD for a non-refundable price of $50.00 from KSA Engineers, Inc., 1111 Hawn Avenue, Shreveport, LA 71107. Addenda will be posted at www.civcastusa. com. You will be notified of addenda automatically through email if you downloaded your plans and specifications via civcastusa.com. Please submit questions for the Project 72 hours prior to bid opening through www. civcastusa.com
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MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING WEBSTER PARISH POLICE JURY August 4, 2020 M E M B E R S PRESENT: Jim Bonsall, President; Vera Davison, Vice President; Beverly Kennon, Steve Lemmons, Steve Ramsey, Nick Cox, Randy Thomas, Bernard Hudson, Bruce Blanton, Ed Jordan, Allen Gilbert and Daniel Thomas Mr. Jim Bonsall called the meeting to order and asked Mr. Nick cox to open the meeting with prayer. Mr. Bernard Hudson led in the Pledge of Allegiance. Mr. Bonsall then asked for additions to the agenda. Mr. Steve Ramsey moved, seconded by Mr. Bruce Blanton to approve the following addition to the agenda: adjudicated property on Baker Street in Springhill, LA. Motion carried unanimously. There were no comments from the audience concerning the agenda.
Ms. Beverly Kennon moved, seconded by Mr. Allen Gilbert to approve invoices for payment pending review by Juror Beverly Kennon. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Ed Jordan moved, seconded by Mr. Daniel Thomas to adopt the minutes of the July 7, 2020 Road Committee, Administrative Committee, Building and Grounds Committee, Environmental Committee, Finance Committee, Economic Development Committee and Regular Meeting. Motion carried unanimously. Mrs. Amy Tynes, CPA with Allen, Green and Williamson presented the 2019 Audit of financials for the Webster Parish Police Jury. Mr. Steve Ramsey moved, seconded by Mr. Steve Lemmons to approve the audit report as presented. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Ed Jordan moved, seconded by Mr. Randy Thomas to adopt the millage rates for Webster Parish Police Jury for 2020, Webster Parish Police Jury Resolution 0082020. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Vera Davison moved, seconded by Mr. Ed Jordan to approve Webster Parish Police Jury Resolution 009-2020 which calls for a Special Election to be held on March 20, 2021 to fill a vacancy in the office of Constable, Justice of the Peace District #3 of Webster Parish. No one filed for the vacancy for the November 3, 2020 election. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Steve Ramsey moved, seconded by Mr. Bernard Hudson to accept the bids for Franklin Road and Art Camp Road recommendation from parish engineer, Brad Graff. Regional Construction Co. was the lowest bidder. Comstock Oil & Gas will pay for the damages to these parish roads. Patrick Jackson, parish atty will issue to proceed once payment is received from Comstock Oil & Gas. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Daniel Thomas moved, seconded by Mr. Bruce Blanton to approve Fuel bids for the remainder of 2020, Waller Petroleum was the lowest bidder.
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