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(Left) At the intersection of East Todd and Drew lane officers seen blocked off because of a tree that fell due to a severe weather storm that came through Webster Parish, leaving most of the city without power and Internet on Friday and Saturday for some. (Right) An entirely uprooted tree at the entrance to Victory Park.
State Rep. McMahen gives update on Louisiana regular session
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One of the main things McMahen and other State Representatives are focused on is enAfter spending the week suring that Louisiana gets back hearing bills in committee, to work as quickly and as safely State Representative of Dis- as possible. “I think the majority of the trict 10 Wayne McMahen took the time to share the progress Republicans are ready to start opening the state up they’ve been making toto some extent. Not wards trying to get Lounecessarily everyisiana’s economy back where, but we gotta up and running again. do that at some point “It was a productive in time. I don’t think week. Everybody is bewe can wait this thing ing safe, everybody is out until we get a cure, wearing their masks, but we have to do it in taking precautions, and a manner where we social distancing. In- MCMAHEN don’t take any risks,” stead of having a committee meeting in one room, said McMahen. “I think there’s an opportuniwe’re doing it in two committee rooms and spreading ev- ty to open up parts of the state erybody out. It’s a little cum- where the incidents are low. I bersome, but it’s working, and don’t think we can do it overwe heard a lot of bills in com- night. I don’t think we can flip mittee this week. It was a pretty a switch and expect everything good first week back, I think we to go back to normal. We have accomplished a lot,” said Mc- to do it slowly and we have to do it cautiously in a manner Mahen.
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where we don’t jeopardize people’s health.” While keeping people’s health a priority, McMahen also stressed that if Louisiana takes too long to open back up, it will only make the process of doing so more difficult. “The unemployment rate jumped up, and I think that can go back down fairly quickly, but the longer we put things off, the harder it’s going to be to get things going again, and the more debt we will incur. It’s going to be a bigger hole we have to dig out of. If I thought we could wait two more weeks and things would change a lot, I would be for that, but I just don’t see two to four weeks of sheltering in and not opening businesses making a lot of difference in the course of this disease right now. I think the curve is pretty flat and the numbers are trending in the right direction. I just think it’s time we start going
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back to work.” McMahen also stated that on Monday, the Revenue Estimating Conference will meet and will start getting some projections of what the State’s budget will look like for this year, and as expected, the spending Louisiana has had to do in order to help its citizens in the wake of the pandemic has increased drastically. “They’re projecting somewhere between a 500 million and 1.2 billion dollar deficit just because of COVID-19 this year,” said McMahen. He also stated that the federal and state government have done a good job of helping Louisiana get through the Pandemic, and is optimistic that Gov. John Bel Edwards will announce plans to start reopening Louisiana on Monday. “The federal government has been a big help, and the state has stepped up and helped un-
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Perhaps unsurprisingly at this point, the most recent City Council Meeting went much like the previous ones dating back to April, where only Councilmen Keith Beard of Dist. D and Pam Bloxom of Dist. E. were present. Due to this, there were not enough present Council mem- GARDNER bers to hold a quorum. The next Council Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 13 at 2 p.m. When asked for comment, Councilman Beard signaled his frustration with the absences of his colleagues but decided to hold his tongue until he better prepared his statements. “I have a lot of comments I want to make, because I’m exasperated, I’m frustrated, and so are the majority of citizens in this city, but I think it’s best I don’t’ say it because I don’t have it prepared,” said Beard. He later stated that he would possibly prepare something for Wednesday’s Council Meeting to share with the citizens. Mayor Terry Gardner also addressed the storm damage that Minden experienced last Friday, which took out power and internet for nearly the entire city. We had a terrific amount of storm damage. We’re still a very blessed community and city because we didn’t have a lot of the damage that other places had,” said Gardner. He also took the time to recognize the City Employees who worked hard to repair the city after the storm. “We have some amazing city employees. When they’re on call, or even when they’re not on call, they show up, because they know they have a respon-
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US approves new corona virus antigen test with fast results (AP) - U.S. regulators have approved a new type of coronavirus test that administration officials have promoted as a key to opening up the country. The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday announced emergency authorization for antigen tests developed by Quidel Corp. of San Diego. The test can rapidly detect fragments of virus proteins in samples collected from swabs swiped inside the nasal cavity, the FDA said in a statement. The antigen test is the third type of test to be authorized by the FDA. Currently, the only way to diagnose active COVID-19 is to test a patient’s nasal swab for the genetic material of the virus. While considered highly accurate, the tests can take hours and require expensive, specialized equipment mainly found at commercial labs, hospitals or universities. A second type looks in the blood for antibodies, the proteins produced by the body days or weeks after fighting an infection. Such tests are helpful for researchers to understand how far a disease
has spread within a community, but they aren’t useful for diagnosing active infections. Antigen tests can diagnose active infections by detecting the earliest toxic traces of the virus rather than genetic code of the virus itself. The FDA said that it expects to authorize more antigen tests in the future. Quidel said Saturday that the test can provide an accurate, automated result in 15 minutes. The FDA’s emergency authorization “allows us to arm our health care workers and first responders with a frontline solution for COVID-19 diagnosis, accelerating the time to diagnosis and potential treatment,” Douglas Bryant, CEO of Quidel, said in a statement. A genetic material test by Abbott Laboratories used at the White House also takes about 15 minutes. The company said it specializes in testing for diseases and conditions including the flu and Lyme disease. Quidel stock has more than doubled in value since the beginning of
the year, closing Friday at $158.60. The U.S. has tried to ramp up testing using the genetic method, but the country’s daily testing tally has been stuck in the 200,000 to 250,000-perday range for several weeks, falling far short of the millions of daily tests that most experts say are needed to reopen schools, businesses, churches and other institutions of daily life. That’s led White House adviser Dr. Deborah Birx and other federal officials to call for a “breakthrough” in the antigen tests. “There will never be the ability on a nucleic acid test to do 300 million tests a day or to test everybody before they go to work or to school, but there might be with the antigen test,” Birx told reporters last month. Recently, the National Institutes of Health announced $1.5 billion in research grants aimed at fast-tracking the development of rapid, easy-touse testing approaches — including antigen tests — by the fall.
Council: Next meeting scheduled for Wednesday, May 13 Continued from Page 1 sibility to take care of our city and take care of our citizens, said Gardner. “When something like this happens, we all come together as a family and support one another.” Councilman Beard
also expressed his gratitude saying, “I do wanna say how much I appreciate all the folks in the city who are doing their jobs. Thank you so much,” Gardner also stated that if anyone is still without power, they should check to see if their meter box is intact, and if not,
to contact the city or an electrician. The next Council Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 13 at 2 p.m. It can be accessed by visiting the City’s Youtube channel titled City of Minden - Feels Like Home.
Session: Parts of Louisiana may open back up, but won’t go back immediately to “normal” Continued from Page 1 employment and helped the businesses with PPP loans and EIDL loans. I really can’t fault the governor. I think he’s done a good job. I just hope he realizes that now is the time that we have to start transitioning back to work. I’m sure he’s working hard at that, so I’m going to be optimistic until we see something different,” said McMahen. He did note that while parts of Louisiana may be opening back up, things won’t immediately go back to how they were before the pandem-
ic. Businesses like restaurants may have to be at significantly reduced occupancy and people will still need to adhere to the health guidelines that the state has announced such as wearing a mask in public and standing six feet apart. “We’re going to have to continue to do that going forward until there’s a vaccine for this disease. We could be a year away from being able to let up on that. We still have to do what we’ve been doing. We’ve got to wear a mask, we’ve got to social distance, we’ve got to wash our hands, we’ve got to disinfect surfaces
regularly, and be cautious,” said McMahen. “I don’t like wearing a mask, but I’ve been wearing one in Baton Rouge. If you are in a conversation, it’s been proven that if both of you have a mask on, the chance of one of you being sick and spreading it to the other goes down. So we definitely can’t let up on that. We can’t give this virus any advantage over us that we can prevent.” The 2020 Regular Session for the Louisiana House of Representatives began on May 4 and will have Final Adjournment no later than Monday, June 1.
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GAS BUDDY REPORT
Gas prices remain the same this week in Louisiana
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Louisiana gas prices are unchanged in the past week, averaging $1.60/g today, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 2,436 stations. Gas prices in Louisiana are 11.0 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 87.5 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Louisiana is priced at $1.18/g today while the most expensive is $2.96/g, a difference of $1.78/g. “Gasoline demand continues to rebound across the U.S. as more states re-open, with a week on week rise of nearly 5%, according to data from GasBuddy’s free payments card. The boost in demand has led oil and gasoline prices to rally, and as long as states continue to loosen restrictions, it’ll mean more motorists on the roads and filling their tank,” said Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. The national average price of gasoline has risen 6.4
cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $1.83/g today. The national average is down 1.1 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands 102.8 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. “Most states saw prices rise last week, but yet again Great Lakes states, which were the largest beneficiaries of ultra-low prices, saw the most pain as retail gasoline prices fall back into their normal territory against the national average. For now, the continued recovery in gas prices will nearly completely depend on improvement in the coronavirus situation, so long as refineries boost production again as demand continues to rise again.,” 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.
OBITUARIES
Slade Thomas Billups Slade Thomas Billups, 6 months old, gained his wings on Sunday May 3, 2020. He was born in Minden, Louisiana on November 4, 2019. He was a happy little soul and his mommy and daddy’s world. Slade fought extremely hard from the time he was conceived. He was the strongest little boy and was happy throughout his journey. Slade loved to be outside in the sunshine and playing with his big sister. He was a dare devil and loved being tossed in the air. He had the sweetest little grin, he lit up any room he was in.
He is survived by his mommy, Mariah Ray; his daddy, Justin Billups; his big sister, Vada Ann Solano; his YaYa, April Nixon; his PopPop, David Nixon; his Noni, Kristal Bolyer; his Pappaw, Dennis Billups; his Pappaw, Todd Butler; several sets of great-grandparents; and many, many aunts, uncles, and cousins. Visitation will be held at Haughton First Baptist on Thursday May 7, 2020 from 11am to 2pm and the graveside service will be held at Haughton Cemetery at 3pm. The family asks for donations to be made in Slade’s memory at https://giving.ochsner.org/Views/dp/donate/controller.cfm?CAMPAIGN=Slade_Billups for Ochsner PICU who took such amazing care of their sweet baby. Flowers are also welcome in memory of Slade Thomas.
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LOUISIANA SPOTLIGHT
Legislative session moves quickly, with less input The Louisiana Legislature’s return to session during the coronavirus pandemic came with irritation over masks, disagreements over what bills are essential and less public engagement in the lawmaking. Significant changes to law are moving quickly, with legislators trying to cram bill passages that would have stretched over months into the remaining four weeks of session. Bills are advancing even as lawmakers expressed concern about their implications, with sponsors promising to “clean it up” and tighten language later. The fast-tracked process comes as some Democratic lawmakers refuse to attend the session because of the coronavirus outbreak — and with noticeable absences from advocacy groups, lobbyists and the general public who regularly packed hearing rooms in the days before Louisiana became one of the nation’s virus hot spots. As more people try to watch the legislative process from afar, livestreams of hearings have failed, bill amendments haven’t always shown up online and the Legislature hasn’t created a way for people to testify remotely. Written testimony is filed in the legislative record and circulated to lawmakers, but not regularly read aloud or provided for non-legislators to read. Senate President Page Cortez said he thought the legislative ses-
sion’s return is “going great. I have not had any negative feedback from any senators or from any of the stakeholders.” The Lafayette Republican said he doesn’t see the approach as limiting access, though he acknowledged some people may not be attending hearings in person because they’re not “moving out and about even if they can.” He said those who don’t want to go to the Capitol could send an email or call lawmakers to discuss bills. The first week of legislative action included discussions of the virus’s MELINDA impact on DESLATTE the economy, state budget, education and health services. It also included debates over whether to ban handheld cellphone use by drivers; whether to remove the mandatory age limit for constables and justices of the peace; and whether to adopt daylight savings time year-round if Congress allows such a change. A Senate committee spent hours Thursday night debating a proposal sought by the oil industry to nullify parish lawsuits
against oil companies for damage to coastal wetlands. Supporters argued the timing was critical because the oil industry is struggling with the impact of the virus and a steep drop in oil prices. The lawsuits are “going to put a nail in the coffin of an industry that I believe is vital,” said Sen. Sharon Hewitt, a Slidell Republican, before a 4-3 vote sent the bill to the Senate floor. Opponents said the oil industry was trying to seize an opportunity in a chaotic time. Parish officials in opposition said they were stunned to leave virus emergency response efforts for such a debate. “This here tonight is ridiculous,” said St. Bernard Parish President Guy McInnis. “We’re having a worldwide pandemic, and we’re here having a fight.” Lawmakers pushing measures criticized as unrelated to the virus suggest they have time to fit these types of discussions into the session because not every committee is preoccupied with the budget or virus-related bills. “Every bill creates more meeting time, more occupants at the Capitol and more human interactions. Committee chairs should ask: Is this bill worth the risk of making someone sick? Why can’t it wait?” wrote the nonpartisan Public Affairs Research Council in a report recommending how to handle business safely and with public input.
Cortez and House Speaker Clay Schexnayder have staggered committee hearings to lessen building traffic. Cleaning measures have increased, with tables wiped down and seats sprayed between speakers to committees. Plexiglass partitions were installed in the House chamber between seats. Temperatures are taken to enter the building. The House and Senate are offering lawmakers, staff and the public masks and gloves. But while masks are “encouraged,” no one is required to wear one in the Louisiana Capitol — even as Gov. John Bel Edwards repeatedly calls on residents to do so when encountering people outside of their households. Democratic lawmakers are wearing masks, while Republicans are mixed in whether they use a face covering. Even those wearing masks aren’t necessarily following the public health guidance on how to use them. And people without masks are talking closely in small groups, though that puts people at greater risk of contracting and spreading the virus.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Melinda Deslatte has covered Louisiana politics for The Associated Press since 2000. Follow her at http:// twitter.com/melindadeslatte
OTHER OPINION
Michelle Malkin: Big Google is watching your children Schools remain shuttered across the country, 30 million Americans are out of work, and food banks are running low, but the edutech sector is booming. Silicon Valley companies are feasting on an exploding client base of quarantined students held hostage to “online learning.” Big Google is leading the way — and that is not OK. Unsuspecting parents cheering all the software and hardware donations during the pandemic shutdown have no idea the privacy price their children are paying. This isn’t charity. It’s big tech recruitment of vulnerable generations of future Google addicts. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Google inked a deal to provide 4,000 “free” Chromebooks to students, along with “free” Wi-Fi to 100,000 families. In Kentucky, the Jefferson County public schools gave away 25,000 Chromebooks. In Philadelphia, public officials earmarked $11 million to purchase 40,000 Chromebooks for homebound kids. Google CEO Sundar Pichai crowed a few weeks ago that the company now has 100 million students and educators hooked on Google Classroom. Bent on conquering the virtual meeting market, the online giant announced that its premium Google Meet videoconferencing features are now free to all 80 million customers of its G Suite for Education apps through the fall. Google Meet is racking up 2 million new users a day as school districts abandon Zoom, the dominant virtual meeting app that recently admitted “mistakenly” routing non-Chinese calls through its Beijing-based data
centers. But if educators think Google will provide more protections for American students than the ChiCom government, they’re blind, dumb or bought off. As I’ve chronicled regularly in this column over the past decade, the Silicon Valley giant has repeatedly breached federal privacy laws to extend its tentacles into children’s emails, browsing habits, search engine activity, voice memos and more without parental consent. Google’s information predators have previously admitted to unauthorized scanning and indexing of student email accounts and targeted online advertising based on search MICHELLE engine acMALKIN tivity, as well as autosyncing of passwords, browsing history and other private data across devices and accounts belonging to students and families unaware of default tracking. A new lawsuit seeking class-action status against Google filed in Illinois serves as a warning to all the millions of families enthralled by their pandemic-gifted Chromebooks. Father-of-two Clinton Farwell alleges that Google illegally collected personally identifying biometric information from his children through their public school-issued Chromebooks (loaded with G Suite for Education apps) dating back to 2015.
His suit lays out how Google has “infiltrated” K-12 education with hardware and software primarily targeting students under the age of 13, whose face templates and voiceprints are illicitly collected, along with their: physical locations; websites they visit; every search term they use in Google’s search engine (and the results they click on); the videos they watch on YouTube; personal contact lists; voice recordings; saved passwords; and other behavioral information. Despite signing a “Student Privacy Pledge” promising not to collect, share and retain private personal data, Google Chromebooks scan students’ faces and unique acoustic details of students’ voices to identify them by name, age, gender and location while using Google platforms. Farwell realized his kids’ biometric data was being stored in a vast database when he discovered they were required to speak and look into the laptops’ microphones and cameras in order to use the school products and apps. A similar lawsuit by the New Mexico Attorney General’s office filed in federal court in February exposed how Chromebooks and G Suite for Education apps mined students’ Gmail accounts for advertising purposes. The New Mexico AG’s brief also bolstered my previous exclusive reports, based on whistleblowing by Missouri teachers Brooke Henderson and Brette Hay, on Google’s access to student profiles and family computer passwords through the default Chrome Sync function — which can only be blocked by creating a passphrase buried in settings
that school officials never inform students about (let alone their parents left in the dark from the moment schools require kids to create Google logins as early as kindergarten). And now governments are entrusting Google to help develop contact-tracing technology on the promise that they won’t collect location data, won’t exploit data for commercial purposes, and won’t grant access to unauthorized parties? Fox, meet henhouse. Regulatory slaps on the wrist by toothless federal agencies have done nothing to deter the deceitful data usurpers. Why hasn’t every other state attorney general filed a similar suit? Where is Congress, which passed the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to prevent exactly the kind of routine marauding of students’ digital lives perpetrated by Google and other EdTech vultures? Instead of pushing back, Congress passed the “Every Student Succeeds Act” and the “Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy Act” — deceptively titled bills expanding third-party access to sensitive personal data. The Invisible Enemy is right under our noses, in our homes and on our kids’ laptops. Instead of removing children en masse from their classrooms in the name of public health, responsible adults should be de-platforming Google’s privacy pillagers from every school in America in the name of public safety. Michelle Malkin’s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com.
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Until further notice, the Around Town section of the Minden Press-Herald will be put on hold due to events being cancelled as a precaution to the spread of COVID-19 SPRINGHILL EVENT
A tribute to my adopted daughter on Mother’s Day Though my fifty year old It was as good as done! adopted daughter, Robin, The thought would not didn’t arrive on Mother’s leave my mind when I later Day, she is a gift that has kept went into an orphanage, as on giving, lighting up my life it became increasingly difeleven years before she was ficult for our mother to proborn. vide for us due to her disabilI was ten years ity. old in South West It isn’t easy raising City, Missouri. My yourself when you daddy has just died are born to a mother at home. Our twenwho never matured. ty-two year old minBy the grace of God ister, Wayne EarI am here because nest, and nineteen neighbors matched year old wife, Linda, up my mother and were getting ready father, after both of to move so they gave SARAH their surviving parus a tiny black and HUDSON-PIERCE ents died in 1944 in white television on the backwoods near which I watched a beautiful Sulphur Springs, Arkansas. Loretta Young movie. When I went to the orThe star had adopted some phanage, I told only one poor children. close friend about my desire Overcome with emo- to one day adopt because I tion I sat down outside on secretly wanted to be adoptour kitchen step, facing the ed myself. woods, and said to myself That dream remained in“that’s what I will do when I tact. grow up! I will adopt a child!” When I got married at
nineteen in 1967, I had a mission to accomplish. I told my minister husband of my desire. He followed my lead. During the last church service we attended on a Wednesday night in Coy, Arkansas, in August of 1969, Doyce Hall, a minister from Little Rock, Arkansas visited our church. He was holding his precious adopted six month old baby girl. Without hesitation I approached him and asked how he received her. He jotted down the doctor’s name and address. The next day my husband and I called the doctor. Lo and behold, he said he thought he might have a child available for adoption. That same day we moved to Mountain View, Arkansas. While waiting for our baby to be born, I pinched myself, to be sure I wasn’t dreaming. It seemed too good to be true!
Within three months we had our precious, two day old baby daughter, Robin, who was conceived in my heart when I was ten years old! Fifty years later, she is not only my only daughter but my best friend. Looking back I am in awe. I ask what if Brother Hall had not visited our church that night or what if we had moved a few days earlier? God knew what I needed most as part of His plan for my life. Adopting Robin satisfied that yearning deep inside my heart to be adopted myself. My life has been checkered and made complete by these breathtaking moments when God stepped out of the woodwork getting me to the right place at the right time. Contact Sarah at sarahp9957@aol. com
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BIRD’S EYE VIEW
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Special to the Press-Herald Jack Miner has been dead for more than half a century. Called the “Father of Conservation” for his pioneering work banding ducks and geese and in providing a sanctuary for migrating waterfowl, a statement attributed to him still rings as true today as it did then: “If I can get a child to love a bird, that child will love his fellow man.” God in His infinite wisdom knew what He was doing when He placed birds on the Earth. Some birds were placed here for man to harvest; to allow humankind to experience the essence of nature in the harvest; to allow us to experience the essence of nature in the hunting of wild fowl; for the bounty they afford on the dining table. Others are here purely for ornamentation; for their ability to stir the senses with sweet trills and warbles; for the sheer fun and enjoyment afforded by spending a few quiet moments simply watching birds do what birds do. I am indeed fortunate. My father taught my brother, sister, and me the thrill and suspense of hunting ducks when we were just youngsters. Watching a pair of wood ducks come barreling down through the cypresses at dawn is something that still gives me goose bumps. Later, hunting doves and quail would be added to my menu of fun things to do outdoors. In recent years, the pursuit of the wild turkey has been a consuming passion. As much as I enjoy hunting various species of wild game birds, another childhood experience has enabled my fascination with birds to be more than one dimensional. As much as I enjoy hunting, the gentle sport of bird watching, something I learned from a wise and sensitive mother, has given me untold hours of delight. For ten successive Aprils, my wife, Kay, and I watched
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Watching birds, like this blue heron, can give us hours of pleasure. in wonder as a male painted bunting visited our backyard feeder, occasionally joined by a shy female. They were predictable – tax time meant painted bunting time. It has been more than 10 years since I last saw a painted bunting. I find a measure of solace, albeit small, in hearing from friends who report that they are enjoying watching painted buntings on their feeders. As a consolation prize, my feeder is dotted with a splash of color – the bright vermilion of the male cardinal; the metallic blue of indigo buntings and last week the black, white and red combination of rose-breasted grosbeaks passing through. Down on the creek there
is color. Yellow predominates. Shy, secretive hooded warblers pop up on a branch overhead and just as quickly flit away. Prothonotary warblers, their yellow as brilliant as melted butter, skim low over the water flying from tree bole to cypress knee. My gaze has not missed the nesting birds around the yard. On the pond in the pasture across the road, I once watched a pair of wood ducks rearing half a dozen fledglings. The babies followed their mother over the pond’s surface, darting like wind- blown thistle down. In a box on the utility pole, four soft blue eggs of the bluebird wait until the time is right for delicate pink
hungry baby birds to hatch. Kay and I had the privilege of observing six little tufted titmice emerge from speckled eggs in another box. We watched as the parents diligently fed them until fully feathered, they were ready to leave the nest. Our goal was get to see when the baby birds fledged. Unless you have your eyes trained on the box during the two minute span when they leave the nest, you’re out of luck. Unfortunately, we missed the show because they left one brief moment when we were not watching. “One key to the human heart is in wild creatures.” Jack Miner said that too. I wish I could have known him.
If everything was perfect all the time, would anything ever be good? Would we ever grow? It’s hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel during the COVID-19 lockdown. But, with more time to myself than usual, I’ve began to see the forest for the trees. No, we don’t have any sports to watch, but young folks are being exposed to greatness from the past. People who never saw Michael Jordan play are getting schooled on His Airness. We’re finding new ways to connect with one another, whether it be in the form of Zoom video conferences or sharing a picnic blanket from a healthy six feet apart. I’ve connected with more people from my past in these last few months than any time I can remember, and it’s because now, more than ever, I value connection above all else. Before the shutdown, I was content to be alone in my apartment. I looked for any excuse to keep away from people. Now, I’d give anything to be outside with others. You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. It’s a difficult sentiment to square as nearly 100,000 people have lost their lives to COVID-19, but their deaths don’t have to be in vain. My hope is that we do not return to normal, because normal wasn’t good enough to begin with. I’m seeing compassion,
people doing their best to help one another and a general willingness to be a better friend or neighbor. It takes pain to see true growth. Any coach can tell you that success doesn’t just arise from nowhere. It takes struggle. It takes will, determination and might. Ultimately, it takes a lot of losing. I’m borderline obsessed with ‘The Last Dance’ at the moment, so forgive my relentless analogies to the new Michael Jordan documentary. But, he was cut from his high school basketball team. We forget that it took him seven seasons of being bullied by the Bad Boy Pistons before MJ became the legend we know him as today. It took years of struggle before he came to value what any great athlete will tell you is the most important trait you can have in team sports: a willingness to trust your teammates. It took MJ trying to do it by himself and losing before he became willing to pass to the open man. Once he was lost, then he found John Paxon. While we may be adrift as a society today, I believe the seeds are being sewn for a better future. One where we cherish the things we have instead of what we want. Where we value each other, being connected and giving and helping. It is the only way out of this nightmare, and the only way to make it mean anything.
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Making it safe for America’s professional sports teams to start playing games is one thing. Making sure athletes are in game shape is another. The coronavirus pandemic brought sports to a halt, but stay-at-home orders are starting to be eased and a handful of NBA teams are opening practice facilities. For players, the difference between merely working out and playing games will be a significant jump and experts say things shouldn’t be rushed. With athletes unable to simulate game or even practice activity at home, they will need time before resuming competition. “Whatever the amount of time is, just know that players will have the input and say so because we’re the ones that’s playing, and that comes first,” said Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris Paul, president of the National Basketball Players Association. “We don’t ever want to put guys in a situation where their injury risk is high. It varies from player to player. But it’s at least got to be three to four weeks.” Charlotte Hornets coach James Borrego said players could be at different points based on their access to equipment. “There’s veterans out there that may have a court in their home, in their facility and they’re probably a little bit more ready to go than others,” he said. “I think we’re talking weeks. This isn’t something where after one week these guys are ready to go.” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has said on multiple occasions he believes a two- to three-week train-
ing camp would be needed before the season resumes. Many hockey teams have had trainers send at-home workout routines to players, but few if any have been on the ice in months. “As much as I could mentally be in game mode, your body’s not ready for it if you don’t get a full offseason of training and if you don’t get to play a long training camp with like seven exhibition games,” Los Angeles Kings defenseman Drew Doughty said. “If you only get a week training camp with a couple exhibition games, you’re going to ruin your body.” Edmonton Oilers forward Alex Chiasson said it is on the athlete to be ready. “That’s going to be on us,” he said. “We’re professional athletes. We’ve got to make sure we prepare. It’s not easy, but it is what it is, and we’ve got to deal with the situation as best as we can.” While basketball and hockey were nearing their playoffs, baseball was in spring training when things were shut down. It created a particular wrinkle for pitchers, who tend to train methodically toward full games. Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzore said he expects another period that resembles spring training before games are played. “The most important part of any spring training is preparation for your pitchers, especially your starting pitchers,” Rizzore said. “Whenever you have to expedite a spring training, that’s probably the most impactful decision that you have to make: How to ramp them up.” Baltimore Orioles GM
Mike Elias agreed. “When baseball does come back, you have to worry about guys going a very small number of innings,” he said. “I don’t know that we’ve come up with a solution to that. ... The public health guidelines makes it tough to do it without a training staff and coaches. Some of the pitchers are throwing into nets in their backyards and hitters are hitting off the tee.” Tampa Bay catcher Mike Zunino said the pitchers were his biggest concern. “The biggest worry is injuries,” he said. “It’s one of those things, I think guys are staying in shape, they’re throwing now. Hopefully a few weeks is enough. I think we’ll have to be smart as the season opens to keep guys fresh.” Dr. Mike Reinold, senior medical adviser for the Chicago White Sox, said the challenge for pitchers has been how to at least maintain what they gained from their previous spring training progression. “It will take around three weeks to get a starting pitcher likely ramped up to five innings, but that assumes that they have done the work to maintain themselves and are ready to even start that progression,” he said. Reinold said preparing is complicated because there is no return date set: “They need to know when to peak.” “That’s a big, important concept when we’re trying to get our athletes ready for a competitive season that they’re building for,” he said. “This is the first time in my career that we’ve ever not had that.” Pittsburgh Pirates manag-
er Derek Shelton said assessing each player’s condition after the layoff will be a key part of getting things rolling again. He said those conversations are happening even now. “We don’t need a soft-tissue (injury) because guys were a little bit behind,” he said. “That’s why the openness of the player and the conversations we’re having now are so important so we have a baseline coming in.” Milwaukee Brewers general manager David Stearns said a second preseason probably wouldn’t need to be too long once it’s deemed safe. “Once it’s safe, we can turn this thing on pretty quickly,” he said. Elias agreed: “We will be ready, and baseball will be ready for America when America is ready for us.”
RUSTON, La. – Spring commencement has been delayed to August due to the public health threat of COVID-19, but Louisiana Tech Athletics is offering good news to spring graduates in the form of free 2020 football and basketball season tickets. Graduates can redeem their tickets, which are available for the 2020-21 athletics season, by clicking here. Tickets are limited to one per graduate. The deadline to claim free tickets is June 1, 2020. “Our 2020 spring graduates certainly had a unique final quarter in Ruston,” said Louisiana Tech Director of Athletics Tommy McClelland. “This is a goodwill effort from Louisiana Tech Athletics and the least that we can do to assist in bringing them back to campus after graduation. We look forward to seeing our young alums at games in the year ahead.” Young alumni (Ages 20-29) who are not 2020 spring graduates can purchase football season tickets for $90 per seat with a $50 donation that covers two seats. Young alumni
season tickets for women’s and men’s basketball are $50 each and seats are located in Section 108. LA Tech announced last week that the season ticket renewal deadline has been extended to June 30. Current football season ticket holders can access their accounts ONLINE to renew their seats for this upcoming season. Those looking to purchase season tickets should click HERE or visit latechsports. com/tickets. Those with questions or concerns regarding 2020 Football season tickets should contact Director of Ticketing Sara Powell Harper at spharper@latech.edu or (318) 257-5329. The Bulldogs went undefeated at home in 2019 and recorded a 10-3 overall record, the first 10-win season since 1984. One of those victories was a 14-0 shutout over Miami (Fla.) in the 2019 Walk On’s Independence Bowl. The program has now won six bowl games in six consecutive years (2014-19), the longest active streak in the nation.
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On This Day In History 2008 - A massive earthquake rocks China. The magnitude 7.9 quake left some 69,000 people dead, 18,000 missing, and 4.8 million homeless. It was the deadliest earthquake in China since 1976 when the Tangshan earthquake killed over 240,000 people. 1998 - Violent clashes follow the killing of four protesters in Jakarta, Indonesia. The riots eventually led to the resignation of President Suharto. 1994 - The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ends. With the signing of the Bishkek Protocol a week earlier, Armenian and Azerbaijani diplomats had formalized the ceaseSee, HISTORY, Page 9
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1982 - A Spanish priest attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Juan María Fernández y Krohn opposed the reforms initiated by the Second Vatican Council and believed that the Pope was a Communist agent. John Paul II escaped with minor injuries.
1941 - The world’s first programmable, fully automatic computer is presented. The Z3 was designed by German inventor, Konrad Zuse. The original machine was destroyed in an air raid. A replica can be seen at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
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