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Joe LeBlanc Food Pantry starts summer feeding program

“Tying Our Community Together”

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The Greater Minden Chamber, in partnership with the City of Minden and the Webster Parish Convention and Visitors Commission, have started a campaign titled “Tying Our Community Together,” with a focus on bringing the community and it’s businesses together during the beginning phases of re-opening.

“Tying Our Community Back Together is a campaign that the Minden Chamber of Commerce, along with our partners Minden Main Street, Webster Parish Tourism, and the Minden Economic Development department, created to get our community back as one again,” said CEO/President of the Greater Minden Chamber, Jana Morgan.

For the campaign, all businesses will be given two ribbons once they have notified the Chamber that they would like to participate. Businesses can then take videos and photos of themselves tying the ribbons and posting them on their social media pages in order to let people know they are involved with the campaign.

Once it is safe to publicly meet again, the Chamber will then hold a ceremony in Downtown Minden where all

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Serena Gray, Jana Morgan, Terry Gardner, Mahala Hutto, and Phillip Smart holding a tied together ribbon to celebrate the beginning of the Greater Minden Chamber’s campaign titled “Tying Our Community Together.”

of the businesses will gather downtown and celebrate an official ribbon cutting together.

“The businesses will bring their ribbons that they tied together to start the campaign, and we’ll all join together and tie our ribbons together and become one community again,” said Morgan.

The director of Minden’s

Economic Development Department, Phillip Smart, said, “I think it’s a great idea that Jana came up with and we’re happy to partner up with her.

Normally you see the cutting of the ribbons, but the tying of the ribbons represents coming back together, reuniting, and making our local community and economy thrive. I’m excit-

ed about it.”

Businesses wishing to contact the Greater Minden Chamber in reference to the campaign can call their offices at 318-377-4240 or email them at president@mindenchamber. com.

An inside look on the Louisiana Legislative Session from State Rep. McMahen

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that would normally span three months into one along with the uncertainty surrounding State Representative Wayne cost projections for the State’s COVID-19 response McMahen of Dist. 10 have made creating a spoke with Minden budget more difficult Press-Herald in order than in previous years. to provide an inside “The thing I’m conlook at what’s going on cerned about now, and in Baton Rouge during I think everybody is a the Louisiana Legislalittle bit, is I don’t know tive sessions. exactly whether we can McMahen stated get a budget out in the that his main concern MCMAHEN next two weeks. Some for the remaining two people are thinking weeks of the session is getting a budget made for the that it will get passed before state. The time constraints that June 1 and some people think come from limiting a session we may have to reconvene,

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though I’m still optimistic that we can get a budget in place before June 1st,” said McMahen.

McMahen specified that Louisiana won’t truly know how much the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the state economically until later in the year.

“We won’t know that till later this year when we get through the COVID-19 incident and see how the businesses recover. Right now we’re trying to be conservative and air on the side of caution realizing we can always adjust up if we see revenue coming back in. With the

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price of oil and gas as low as it is and the fact that we’ve been in the middle of this COVID event and nobody’s been working it’s just really hard to nail where we’re at from a financial standpoint,” said McMahen.

He also stated that they were trying to get legislation in place so more businesses can open back up quickly and safely, and to make it more appealing for the businesses in the oil and gas industry to stay in the state.

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On Monday, May 18, the Joe LeBlanc Food Pantry started their Summer Feeding Program.

The purpose of the program is to serve children under 18 in Minden drive up/takeout grab and go meals.

“We are so excited to start this program in our neighborhood.

Through our partnership with the Northwest Louisiana Food Bank we are able to provide this food to children in our community that are going without meals during the summer months,” said Jessica Lewis, director of the JLFP. This program will run from the hours of 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. every week, Monday through Friday, during the summer. No paperwork is required. Pickup will be at the food pantry door on E. Crestview street.

Due to waivers in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, children do not have to be present to pick up meals. The location for the pick up is at 814 Constable Street, though the JFLP specifies that individuals there for distribution need to go to the side door located on E. Crestview.

“I have felt very strongly since we moved into this area back in 2016 that there was a need here.

We have kids outside all day long that are not going home for meals and are even knocking on our doors asking for food during the day. To be able to meet that need through the Food Banks Summer Feeding Program will be such a blessing to these kids,” Lewis.

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Second Front LEGISLATION

Louisiana House votes to expand Session: The focus of everyone is getting things back to normal medical marijuana program (The Center Square) – Friday was a busy day at the Louisiana House of Representatives, though most of the bills lawmakers sent to the state Senate were approved without controversy.

Perhaps surprisingly, given the vigorous debate on the subject during past sessions, a measure to expand the state’s medical marijuana program was swiftly approved by a 76-15 vote. House Bill 819 by Rep. Larry Bagley, a Stonewall Republican, adds nine conditions for which doctors can recommend medical marijuana products; Louisiana’s program does not include raw marijuana that can be smoked.

The bill also gives doctors discretion to recommend medical marijuana products for any condition a doctor “considers debilitating to an individual patient and is qualified through his medical education and training to treat.” Bagley said Friday he wanted to give patients options other than opioids to treat pain.

Representatives also voted 80-15 to advance

Bagley’s House Bill 792, which requires the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules allowing delivery of medical marijuana to patients by employees or agents of the pharmacy.

Other measures House members asked their Senate colleagues to consider include: House Bill 689: Would extend for three years the ability of public colleges and universities to set their own fees.

Louisiana is one of a few states that require legislative approval before public universities can raise tuition. That isn’t changing, but supporters say having control over other fees is a way to let college leaders have some autonomy over fiscal affairs and run their school more like a business.

Still, some lawmakers say they want to protect their constituents from paying higher prices for higher education. An amendment was added to House Bill 689 that would require college leaders who raise fees to come to the legislature’s joint House and Senate bud-

get committee to explain why.

House Bill 676: Would prohibit public colleges and universities from withholding a student’s transcript because the student has an outstanding debt with the institution or a federal loan in default.

House Bill 469: Would change how state government calculates its expenditure limit. Spending growth would be limited to 5 percent per year. The change would require voters to approve a state constitutional amendment.

House Bill 269: Authorizes the use of the state’s Budget Stabilization Fund, better known as the “rainy day” fund, for state costs associated with a federally declared disaster. This change also would require voter approval of a constitutional amendment.

House Bill 592: Authorizes the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority to incur debt and issue bonds with approval from the State Bond Commission.

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Gas prices on the rise in Louisiana STAFF REPORT Minden Press-Herald

Louisiana gas prices have risen 0.5 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $1.60/g today, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 2,436 stations. Gas prices in Louisiana are 6.7 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 86.2 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The cheapest station in Louisiana is priced at $1.27/g today while the most expensive is $2.96/g, a difference of $1.69/g.

“The recovery in gasoline prices has continued across much of the country thanks to recovery in fuel demand as states re-open and motorists get out of the house as temperatures are more

conducive to outdoor activity. Oil prices continue to follow the gasoline-led recovery, with challenges still seen for portions of the refined oil barrel, including diesel and jet fuel,” said Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy.

The national average price of gasoline has risen 2.0 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $1.86/g today. The national average is up 7.9 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands 99.0 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.

“It’s been a dramatic turn of events- a month ago, gasoline was the least wanted portion of the barrel, and refiners acted quickly to respond to gasoline demand that dropped in half,

but now as cabin fever hits Americans, gasoline demand has rebounded notably, which has caused oil prices to follow. Expect the uptick to continue as we approach Memorial Day, but prices will still set multiyear lows for the holiday and may for a good portion of the summer as well, so there should remain optimism with motorists- summer gas prices will remain quite low compared to previous years,” 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.

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can be put in place to get Louisiana back working, and making sure we don’t lose any more of the oil and gas industry that’s here. We have some legislation put in place to try and retain the oil and gas industry here and make them feel comfortable moving forward. We gotta get those guys back up and going to get the revenue coming back in and we sure can’t jeopardize the chances of them picking up and moving to another state,” said McMahen.

“The other part is just getting businesses back

open in a safe manner, but at the same time in a way where they can start paying their employees as the PPP money roles off.

I think that’s the focus right now of everyone, getting back to normal, in the most efficient and safe way that we can and as quick as we can.”

As far as the day to day life at the capitol, McMahen stated that they are still taking precautions to ensure the safety of everyone’s health, and that a positive effect of the restrained work environment was that everyone was focused on their objective.

“Everyone’s still trying to be cautious. It’s a little more cumbersome, but everyone is zeroed in and focused on getting the job done. A lot of the stuff that went along with the normal session, such as afternoon events, are all gone, so we don’t have any distractions other than dealing with what we need to do for the state.

I think everybody’s pretty focused on getting the main things in place, so we can move forward, get past this COVID event, and get back to what we call normal in Louisiana,” said McMahen.

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Webster & More OBITUARIES

Sandra Gale Wiggins

Graveside services for Sandra Gale Wiggins, 60, of Heflin, LA will be held Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 10:00 A.M. in Bistineau Cemetery, Heflin, LA under the direction of Rockett Funeral Home, Ringgold, LA. Officiating will be Bro. Louie Forester.

Sandy was born January 24, 1960 in Dallas, TX and passed away May 9, 2020 at her residence in Heflin, LA. She was a loving mother and grandmother. Sandy loved tending to her

Bebe Joy Gallender Gulley Mrs. Bebe Joy Gulley, 87, passed away Saturday, May 16. A graveside service for family members will be held at Farmerville Cemetery in Farmerville under the direction of Roseneath Funeral Home with Rev. Kathy Wafer officiating.

Mrs. Gulley was born in Jonesville, Louisiana on July 23, 1932, and grew up in Ferriday, Louisiana. She graduated from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana and married the love of her life, Ed H. Gulley in 1954. They settled down and raised their family in Minden, Louisiana, where she was a resident for 55 years. She was an active member of Lakeview United Methodist Church, participating in both the church choir and the bell choir and serving as church secretary for many years. She spent the majority of her career working as a secretary at Morton Thiokol, and most of her retirement joyfully working with Ed at his

Bettye Holland Crawford Bettye Holland Crawford, returned to her Spiritual Home on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, while peacefully sleeping in her bed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Bettye was born in Opelousas, Louisiana on March 1, 1927, to Juanita Holland Clay and Charles Clay.

Although Bettye’s mother died in childbirth, Bettye was adopted by her mother’s brother and his wife, Castle Overstreet and Eva Rathburn Holland. Subsequently, Castle Overstreet and Eva brought Betty’s two older sisters, Helen and Lee Alice, to live with them in Shreveport and Minden. Their happy, loving home was completed with the birth of their baby sister, Peggy.

Bettye attended Byrd High School in Shreveport and received her high school diploma from Minden High School in 1944.

She attended Centenary College in Shreveport and attained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education, was the Recording Secretary/Historian of her sorority, Zeta Tau Alpha, earned her maroon jacket in the Centenary Chorus under its beloved choir director, Cheezy Boran. Bettye graduated from Centenary, with honors, in 1948, and thereafter was a first grade teacher at A. C. Steere in Shreveport.

In 1950, she met and married Wayne Scott Crawford and they moved to Minden, Louisiana, where they raised their three children, Scott, Douglas and Sally.

Bettye was a member of the Minden Junior Service League and taught the two year old Sunday School

Joe Maurice Odom, Jr. Funeral services for Joe Maurice Odon, Jr. will be held Friday, May 22, 2020 at 10 a.m. at Rose-Neath Funeral Home Chapel in Minden, Louisiana with Rev. Gary Faircloth officiating. Interment will follow at Gardens of Memory in Minden, Louisiana. The family will receive friends from 5 until 7 p.m. Thursday, May 21, 2020 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Minden.

Joe was born March 13, 1948 in Minden, Louisiana and entered into rest May 18, 2020 in Minden, Louisi-

flowers and her Momma’s fried chicken.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Huey Wiggins and Doris Morrow; children, Dustin Wiggins and Brandy Ricketson; and a brother, Ronnie Wiggins.

Left to cherish her memory include her daughter, Corissa Ferguson, and Hollis Manshack of Ringgold, LA; brother, Allen Wiggins and wife, Carolyn of Minden, LA; sisters, Rene Tate and husband, Terry of Minden, LA, Sharon Maness and husband, Wade of Sibley, LA, and Lisa Harris of Minden, LA; grandchildren, Alexus and AJ Ricketson, Dawson Wiggins, and Aria Manshack; and a number of other relatives and friends.

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auctions. She loved to dance, particularly the jitterbug, and was revered for her version of Indian Love Call on the piano.

She is preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Ed H. Gulley, and by her parents, Alcied and Jessie Gallender.

She is survived by her sister, Patty Carnette of Natchez, Mississippi; daughters, Deah Gulley and husband Terry Miles of New Orleans, Louisiana, Jeanie Brown and husband Kent of Minden, Louisiana; son, Paul Gulley and wife Amanda of Minden, Louisiana; grandchildren, Eric Gulley, Mitzi Summers, PJ, Peyton, and Mackenzie Gulley; great-granddaughters, Caylee and Emilee Gulley, and great-grandsons, Tanner and Jon-Patrick Gulley.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Lakeview United Methodist Church, 301 Lakeshore Drive, Minden, Louisiana 71055.

Rose-Neath Funeral Home 211 Murrell Street Minden, Louisiana 71055 (318) 377-3412 class at First United Methodist Church in Minden for 30 years.

Bettye was a member of the Minden Garden Club, and participated in bible study and book club.

Bettye’s immortal Soul is now reunited with her family and friends who predeceased her, including, her husband, Wayne Scott Crawford and two of her sisters, Helen Poe, Lee Alice Finnell and her brothers-in-law, Edgar Allen “Jack” Poe and Lewis Finnell, her parents, Juanita and Charles Clay, Castle and Eva Holland.

She is survived by her children Scott Holland Crawford, Douglas Wayne Crawford, Sarah Elizabeth Crawford Olson, her son-in-law Michael Olson, her sister, Peggy Padgham and brother- in-law John Padgham, her grandchildren, Catherine Holland Crawford, Matthew Wesley Chambers, Wendy Kelly, Summer Holland Crawford Vandingo, husband Joe, Castle Nathan Scott Crawford and Caroline Elizabeth Olson, and great grandchildren John Wesley Chambers and Mary Huntington Chambers; nieces and nephews James Poe and his wife, Debra, Paula Poe O’Neil, and her husband, Larry, Mary Juanita Poe, the Reverend Eugene Finnell and his wife, Janet, Andrew Finnell and his wife, Susan, John Holland Padgham and his wife, Cyndi, Steven Marsh Padgham, the Reverend Juliet Spencer and her husband, Jimmy, and many great nieces and nephews.

In order to keep our family, friends and loved ones safe, there will be no memorial gathering at this time.

We do ask that you keep our family in your thoughts and prayers, and we ask that you comply with social distancing guidelines in order to keep yourself and your loved ones safe.

Memorials May be made to First Methodist Church of Minden, LA in Bettye’s name or your charity of choice. ana. Joe retired from Bell South Telephone Company after 31 years of service.

He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Renee Adcock Odom, son Joey Odom (Susan), daughter Angela Odom Varnell (Jonathan), sister Debbie Odom Baird (David), grandchildren Tiffany Odom (fiancé Adam Woodall), Brittany Odom, Sarah Dodd, and Slade Varnell, niece and nephew Jennifer Baird Schuster (Jason) and Jeremy Baird, great nephews Nicholas Baird (Kaytlynn) and Gavin Schuster, and great great nephew, Oliver Baird.

Rose-Neath Funeral Home 211 Murrell Street Minden, Louisiana 71055 (318) 377-3412

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LOUISIANA SPOTLIGHT

Privacy worries could derail virus tracking plans Worries about the breach of individual privacy rights could undermine Louisiana’s ability to quickly pinpoint those who have encountered someone infected with COVID-19, a tracking plan that public health experts say is critical to slowing the spread of the coronavirus disease.

Gov. John Bel Edwards has started reopening much of Louisiana’s economy, saying residents have done well with staying home and apart from others that the state’s no longer at risk of overwhelming its hospitals with COVID-19 patients.

Loosening restrictions means more people are moving around, visiting salons and restaurants, attending churches and encountering others. To avoid overwhelming spikes in coronavirus cases, infectious disease specialists say, requires robust testing to locate virus hot spots and widespread contact tracing to determine who has come into close contact with someone infected so they can be urged to self-isolate.

Dr. Alex Billioux, leader of Louisiana’s public health office, said he knows some people will find the process of contact tracing “scary,” to be asked about their interactions with people and businesses or to find out someone else has shared information about where they’ve been.

“The goal here, though, is to help protect you. The goal here is to identify where you have risk,” Billioux said.

But word that the Edwards administration hired nearly 300 contact tracers on top of 70 already employed — and could eventually build up to 700 disease detectives to track the virus— quickly raised concerns about collecting personal medical information and spreading it improperly.

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Raymond Crews, a Shreveport Republican, told health care officials he’s heard a lot of reluctance MELINDA to contact DESLATTE tracing from people who “put a big, big premium on liberty.”

“My constituents are very leery. They think it opens a Pandora’s box and it’s going to be very scary,” Crews said.

Realizing that widespread reluctance to respond to contact tracers could hamper Louisiana’s efforts to contain the virus, Edwards has appealed to people to be “good neighbors” by participating.

The Democratic governor

said people who test positive for the coronavirus will be asked to identify people they recently came into close contact with for 15 minutes or more. A contact tracer, working from home, will call those people and tell them they should get tested if they’re symptomatic and should isolate for 14 days even if they’re not showing symptoms.

“You can rest assured that your information will remain confidential,” Edwards said.

Billioux stressed the contact tracers will follow federal laws for protecting personal health information. He said the information collected is held in a private system similar to those used by hospitals to store health data.

“We’re not revealing any details of the individual that they came into contact with,” Billioux said.

Public health agencies have used contact tracing to track and combat the spread of other infectious diseases for years, drawing little attention. Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, a doctor, said the nation has laws governing the process.

“Privacy is absolutely of greatest importance. Fortunately, we have 25 or 30 or even 40 years of privacy law that we have seen work,” Cassidy said in a conference call with reporters. He added: “We have to reopen the economy safely, and

we have to do it in a way which both balances the safety and the reopening. And the way to do that is to know who may be infected.”

Rep. Jack McFarland, a Winnfield Republican, said contact tracing concerns are rampant on social media, and he’s been inundated with emails and phone calls from people resisting the idea.

He said the state hasn’t done enough to explain that the contact tracing will be done by phone, that participation will be voluntary and that the “government can’t come into your home and lock you up.” He also said more should be done to explain the benefits to slow the virus’s spread.

McFarland acknowledged he’s not yet “completely comfortable” with contact tracing, and he anticipates the state will have trouble getting some people to participate.

“Once people make up their minds, it’s hard to change them,” he said. “The public’s perception is this is big government, an invasion of our privacy. Somebody’s got to do a better job of changing that perception or it’s not going to be successful.”

Melinda Deslatte has covered Louisiana politics for The Associated Press since 2000.

OTHER OPINION

Michelle Malkin: Protect your family From fearmonger Fauci This Mother’s Day weekend, my family defied government pandemania. We drove out east from Colorado Springs to the tiny town of Calhan for a lovely little hike in the purple-andgold-hued Paint Mines archeological district. Unmasked, we basked in the sunshine, fresh air and freedom. The park was teeming with moms like me who put family bonding over “social distancing.”

We were not alone — and that was a glorious thing.

There is nothing public health fossil Dr. Anthony Fauci can do or say to stop me from making the best choices for my children’s health, sanity and resilience. He appeared before the Senate on Tuesday to heckle states like Colorado not to get back to business — back to life — too soon and too quickly.

“Needless suffering and death” will occur, he told The New York Times. “I think we better be careful (that) we are not cavalier in thinking that children are completely immune from the deleterious effects,” he testified.

Irked by Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul’s very necessary reminder that no federal infectious disease bureaucrat is the “end-all” decider of our fate, Fauci warned against reopening schools because children in New York are “presenting with COVID-19 who actually have a very strange inflammatory syndrome, very similar to Kawasaki syndrome.”

How dare you accuse us parents of being “cavalier” with our children’s health, Fauci, when you are scaring them with dubious, unverified claims connecting a few cases of an alleged

mystery pediatric disease to the coronavirus?

How dare you toss around so cavalierly the uncorroborated specter of “Kawasaki syndrome” (a rare but treatable disease) while untold numbers among the 57 million K-12 students suffer from the effects of panic-induced anxiety, depression, phobias and isolation?

Here are some actual facts about Fauci’s Kawasaki hype: Peer-reviewed studies over the last several years have identified multiple theories of the inflammatory d i s e a s e ’s etiology, including genetic factors, environmental triggers, superantigens, bacterial infections and MICHELLE viruses. A MALKIN blinded, case-control retrospective study on kids at Children’s Hospital in Denver investigating whether one strain of human coronavirus infection was a factor among Kawasaki syndrome patients “failed to demonstrate an association.”

The Mayo Clinic diseases and conditions information website states that “scientists don’t believe the disease is contagious from person to person.” Moreover, the Mayo Clinic states: “Kawasaki disease is usually treatable, and most children recover from Kawasaki disease without serious problems.”

The truth is that Fauci is misleading American families and

educators through arrogant acts of both omission and commission. The Kawasaki lie is not his first or last lie. Before he embraced masks for all, he smugly dismissed the measure in March during a “60 Minutes” interview because it would “make people ‘feel’ a little bit better, and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection people think that it is.” Now, he says, face coverings must be a “should be a very regular part” of our daily lives Dutiful reporters ignore the flip-flop, slavishly acting as stenographers for Fauci and the rest of the dishonest “deep state.”

“Masks are here to stay,” The Washington Post Lifestyle section chirped last week. To which I say: Hell, no.

As a responsible parent and citizen, I will not let terror rule my children’s lives. I speak from heart-wrenching personal experience over the past five years as my teenage daughter, already battling chronic pain and joint hypermobility requiring multiple surgeries, also suffered from severe clinical OCD that left her unable to do mundane things — like use a public bathroom, eat out at a restaurant or ride in a crowded vehicle. She lost friends. She fell into depression. Her physical and emotional health deteriorated. She was homebound, helplessly trapped in the worst kind of self-imposed lockdown.

Thanks to a brilliant and effective doctor, she learned to confront her fears instead of cowering from them. She learned that avoiding risks at all costs carries its own unacceptable risks. Every member of my family benefited

from embracing the exposure therapy ethos. We cannot hide from germs, people or adversity. My daughter has remained strong in the face of mass hysteria and refused to withdraw from the world — working, seeing friends and living life.

As Dr. Judy Mikovits, author of “Plague of Corruption” and star of the documentary, “Plandemic,” which social media platforms have banned everywhere, “Fear is a very powerful immune-suppressant.” By holding our children hostage, federal scare-mongers with vested financial interests and ideological agendas are making our most precious and vulnerable members of the American family sick.

Here in Colorado Springs, two cadets at the Air Force Academy committed suicide while on extreme lockdown.

In Ohio last month, 12-yearold Hayden Hunstable committed suicide after suffering in a “perfect storm” of loneliness under quarantine, his family said.

Isolation was a “hidden killer and equally as shocking and horrific as what is happening on the front lines of this disease.”

Where is Fauci’s concern for these invisible victims of the invisible enemy? He’s apparently too busy preparing to jab a new generation of young guinea pigs with his BFF Bill Gates’ shots. To which I again say: Hell, no.

Teaching your children to live rationally and fearlessly, through words and deeds, is the most potent vaccine we can give them.

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

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INSPIRATION

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

The joy of writing, of reaching out!

The thrill of writing is getRipping open the enveting a story published is be- lope, from Richard Schneiyond compare! der, the editor, one Saturday It’s just like Erma Bombeck morning in late March, 1994, said; “it’s not the money that while living in Plain Dealing, you make but knowing that I was so overcome with emoyour words have reached tion that I cried all day long people you may never meet.” impulsively saying to myself I shall never forget the -- “I must be worth somethrill I felt when I thing after all.” published my first Those words poem, at the age shocked me beof thirty-one while cause I didn’t know living in Mountain I felt so defeated at Home, Arkansas in that time. I guess 1981. I jumped for my self-esteem had joy when I opened been lacking all of the magazine that my life but writing published my poem, is something I’ve while still in the post aspired to do beginoffice! I told everyning in high school one, including the SARAH when our speech HUDSON-PIERCE postmaster! teacher, Shirl White, It was just a simple encouraged us to little poem but the submit essay pieces excitement lives on with me! to The Freedom Foundation I’ve made very little mon- Essay Contest located in Getey writing, having sold just a tysburg, Pennsylvania. very few pieces but I shall alA turning point happened ways remember when I sold to me when I felt chills when a story to Guidepost mag- I heard a student read her azine, founded in 1945, by winning essay aloud, ton our Norman Vincent Peale, the weekly all-school assembly, author of The Power of Pos- at McLain High in Tulsa, itive Thinking!

Oklahoma. Those motiva-

tional assemblies may be a relic from the past.

When I heard her read I said to myself “next year I want to win the contest!”

I didn’t write anything all year, but just days before the deadline, in 1965, I woke up wide-eyed at the orphanage and wrote as fast as could! A few days later I went to look at the showcase where the winners pieces’ were on display! I spotted a third place ribbon on my essay and I felt just as good as if it had been a blue ribbon! It happened again during my senior year!

Writing has made all the difference in my life!

It helped me cope, to keep from completely going off the deep end, when I suffered a breakdown in Mountain Home, Arkansas, at the age if thirty-one, Had it not been for writing, I don’t know who I would be today!

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Oil, tourism, seafood, all hit in Louisiana virus fight NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Every Labor Day weekend, St. Mary Parish celebrates two industries at a tourist event with a seemingly improbable title: the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival.

With a shrimp in a hard hat clinging to an oil derrick as its logo, the festival may the best example of how diverse economic interests mesh in south Louisiana — and how attempts to curb the spread of COVID-19 have visited a kind of triple economic whammy on the state.

A worldwide oil glut was pushing down prices even before the pandemic fight lowered energy demand, contributing to layoffs. Festival-driven tourism has dried up, meaning more lost jobs. And one major tourist draw — cuisine built around fin fish, shrimp, oyster and crabs — also is suffering.

“May is normally our busiest month, and it’s terrible,” said Harlon Pearce, owner of a seafood processing business in suburban New Orleans, where restaurants are limited to takeout service and major spring and summer festivals have been canceled. “You have Jazz Fest, you have French Quarter Fest, Mother’s Day. It’s a tough time. Us not having any of our major events this year for tourism is going to be a killer.”

The board that runs the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in Morgan City, roughly 80 miles (130 kilometers) west of

New Orleans, hasn’t made a final decision on whether to hold a 2020 festival. Even if the show goes on, local seafood dealer Daniel Edgar said, “There’s not going to be a whole lot to celebrate.”

South of New Orleans, in the barrier island community of Grand Isle, marina and hotel owner Buggie Vegas said he recently reopened his hotel after being closed for weeks as access to the island was restricted and a curfew was imposed. He estimates about half of his 26 rooms were booked on a recent weekend, instead of the normal full house in good weather.

Visitors spent $15 billion in Louisiana in 2018 according to the state Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, and the hospitality and leisure economy accounted for more than 240,000 jobs as of February. In March, however, hospitality and leisure jobs dropped by 8,400, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission, the state’s labor department.

Recreational fishing is picking up on the coast, but Vegas has noticed a drop in charter fishing that he attributes, at least in part, to oil-related layoffs.

“The oil companies laid off a bunch of people for the oil price. And that’s a lot of their entertainment,” Vegas said.

Shrimper Acy Cooper said coastal communities rely on the oil workers and the shrimp-

ers. “If we don’t make any money, they don’t,” he said.

The state seafood promotion board estimates the industry’s economic impact at $2.4 billion. Now, shrimp boats remain docked at Morgan City on the Atchafalaya River in St. Mary Parish, seafood dealer Edgar said. His family-run business is still operating, finding markets for crawfish and crabs, but many wholesalers he deals with have shut down and business is unpredictable, he said.

Cooper, president of the Louisiana Shrimpers Association, estimates only about 5% of shrimp boats are going out.

“Just about everything’s shut down right now, with the price of oil,” said Mark Cognovech, a member of the governing council in Plaquemines Parish, at the state’s southeastern tip.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission reports that direct employment in oil and gas is about 34,000. The estimated payroll is more than $3 billion, according to the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association. But large employers have informed the state labor department of hundreds of oil- and gas-related layoffs because of COVID-19 uncertainty. The association’s director, Gifford Briggs, said the number of lost jobs tied directly to oil and gas employment could surpass 23,000 in the coming months, based on a survey of members.

Louisiana was an early

Southern hot spot in the nation’s coronavirus outbreak.

Gov. John Bel Edwards recently began easing restrictions on dine-in restaurants and public gatherings.

Looking ahead, Edgar doesn’t foresee a quick turnaround, even as restrictions are eased. Restaurants still can’t fill to capacity under social distancing guidelines. And some would-be patrons, mindful of the disease, won’t show up, Edgar said.

“A lot of people aren’t going to want to get in big crowds,” Edgar said. “Even if you open the restaurants tomorrow.”

And the pain could linger.

In New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell has acknowledged that Carnival season parades and public celebrations leading up to Mardi Gras — Feb. 16 next year — may have to be canceled.

As for the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival?

“We go back and forth, back and forth,” said the festival’s board chairman, pawn shop owner Charlie Solar Jr. He described the current status as “on hold” but acknowledged that it’s an uncertain term. “‘Hold’ is the word we’re using now,” he said. “Who knows?” apnews.com

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OUTDOORS

CRAPPIE STORIES GO DEEP FOR POST SPAWN CRAPPIE

Fishing deep brush piles this time of year can produce plenty of big crappie.

Glynn Harris

Special to the Press-Herald “Okay”, said Matt Loetscher, “we’re on top of the brush pile. Drop your shiner straight down and you ought to get a bite.”

Loetscher’s comment was directed at me and I did exactly what he suggested.

The shiner had no sooner descended to the brush pile when I felt the bite.

Setting the hook, I hauled the chunky crappie to Loetscher’s waiting landing net.

This was one of more than 40 crappie our party of four outdoor communicators hauled aboard in little more than two hours of fishing Toledo Bend a couple of summers ago.

We were there at the invitation of Johnny Wessler, Executive Director of Louisiana North, a marketing coalition for 29 parishes in north Louisiana. Our trip to Toledo Bend was the final leg of our four-lake excursion across north Louisiana.

We visited lakes Claiborne, Caney, and Cad-

do in October with Toledo Bend scheduled next on the docket. However, flooding rains postponed our trip to the Bend until the following year and thanks to Living the Dream guide service, guide Matt Loetscher in particular, we were exposed to one of the hottest tickets in this part of the country, that being catching Toledo Bend crappie hand over fist.

Loetscher is one of eight full-time guides working for Living the Dream and he is one of the best. We fished over planted brush Loetscher had placed in strategic locations around the lake and at each stop, the crappie were cooperative.

“Generally throughout the summer, the brush piles will produce for us. We cut a bunch of trees, willows and sweet gums in particular, and the fish really relate to this cover we provide.

These two species of trees have plenty of foliage and provide cover and shade for the crappie. The brush draws bait fish and this concentrates the crappie into small areas,” said Loetscher.

The brush piles are not randomly dropped into the lake requiring incidental location of the piles. As each tree is lowered into the lake anchored by a concrete block with empty plastic jugs at the top of each tree to cause it to stand upright, a GPS (global positioning system) mark is put on each top so that guides can put clients right on top of each brush pile.

“Some folks like to use Christmas trees as cover to attract crappie, and these work okay. However, the trees we use – we’ll build as many as 200 brush piles a year – have lots of natural foliage which tends to stay on the brush for a long time,” Loetscher said.

The trolling motor Loetscher uses has a GPS system built into it and while the guide is busy keeping hooks baited and netting fish, the trolling motor keeps the boat on top of the brush pile.

How does Loetscher know where to place his brush piles? Are they dropped randomly into the lake with the outside chance crappie will

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find them?

“I do lots of research, spend hours studying topographic maps and I spend time graphing with my sonar and imaging to find areas more likely to attract fish. If I find a spot where there are some fish hanging around natural cover such as stumps or brush, I’ll enhance that spot with the brush I plant there,” Loetscher said.

In spring, crappie are attracted to shallow water where spawning takes place.

However once the spawn is done, the fish migrate to deeper water looking for shade and shelter where there is plenty of forage to help them recover from the rigors of the spawn.

Loetscher and the other guides at Living the Dream guide service work hard to provide a good fishing experience for clients. It must work because the previous year, Toledo Bend gave up 45,000 crappie credited to clients served by the guide service.

To get in on the action, contact Living the Dream at www.ltdguideservice.com.

NCAA BASKETBALL

Konkol named LABC Coach of the Year RUSTON – Louisiana Tech men’s basketball head coach Eric Konkol garnered his second Coach of the Year honor as the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches (LABC) announced on Friday he was the recipient of the Tommy Joe Eagles Award.

The award, named after the former Bulldog head coach, is given to the top head coach in major college basketball in the state of Louisiana. A month ago, Konkol was also named the state coach of the year by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA).

In the shortened 2019-20 season, Konkol helped lead LA Tech to a 22-8 overall record, the most victories of any Conference USA team and of any Louisiana Division I team.

The Bulldogs also finished with a 13-5 league record, finishing in a tie for second place.

The ‘Dogs, who had the highest NET ranking and highest KenPom ranking of any C-USA squad, had several marquee wins, including a 74-

67 victory in non-conference at Mississippi State which ended their SEC-leading 26game non-conference winning streak.

The biggest one in league play came at North Texas, winning 73-71 to hand the C-USA regular season champions their only conference home loss.

LA Tech finished with seven road wins to go along with its 15-1 home record. They were one of only eight teams in the country to rank in the top 40 in FG percentage and FG percentage defense.

Konkol, who earned career win No. 100 this season, becomes the fifth head coach in program history (Michael White – 2014, Kerry Rupp – 2010, Keith Richard – 1999 and Andy Russo – 1984, 1985) to earn LABC Major College Coach of the Year honors.

The LABC announced its awards via social media in lieu of its annual banquet in Baton Rouge being canceled due to the public health threat of COVID-19.

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Virus has NFL prospects pondering threat of a lost season COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joe Burrow was a competent if unspectacular quarterback as a backup at Ohio State and during his first post-transfer season at LSU. In 2019, he transformed into Super Joe. Imagine if a pandemic had shortened or wiped out that last, golden season for Burrow, who won the Heisman Trophy and led LSU to the national championship. Would he still have emerged as the first overall NFL draft pick who is now being hailed as the savior of the woeful Cincinnati Bengals?

These times have brought an extra level of anxiety for current college players hoping for a Burrow-like season or at least one that will raise their profile with NFL scouts. The virus threat did away with spring football and in-person workouts on campus. And nobody can say yet what the 2020 season will look like, or if there will be one at all.

“It’s a nightmare, to be honest with you,” said Ohio State’s Josh Myers, a second-team All-Big Ten center last year and an NFL prospect. “That’s time we can never get back.”

“It’s a critical (year) for development, getting that

much more experience and elevating our games to an even higher level,” said Myers, a fourth-year junior.

“So even the thought of not playing this season is terrifying and absolute worst-case scenario.”

There are examples all over the NFL of how important one college season can be. Dwayne Haskins Jr. — who beat out Burrow as the starter at Ohio State, leading Burrow to transfer — went from backup to one-year superstar in 2018. He threw for 50 touchdowns and led the Buckeyes to a 13-1 record and Rose Bowl victory.

The 15th overall pick in the 2019 draft, he is now the presumptive starter for the Washington Redskins.

For Burrow’s part, he acknowledged becoming a different and far better player in one year.

“I wasn’t very good my junior year,” he said. “You know, it’s pretty simple. I worked really hard to get better.”

Burrow didn’t have the challenge of being sheltered at home for a long stretch, missing spring practice and being left to his own devices to work out, eat right and study film in preparation for a season that might not happen.

Penn State tackle Will Fries announced in December he would return for a fifth year, long before the pandemic changed everything. He insisted he doesn’t regret the decision.

“I mean, there’s nothing I can do about it,” said Fries, who was All-Big Ten honorable mention in 2019. “At the end of the day, I can’t worry about it. All I can do is just get myself better every day.”

Myers and fellow Ohio State lineman Wyatt Davis, an All-American who passed up the draft to come back for a fourth year, are unequivocal about their need for a 2020 season, whether it involves playing in empty stadiums, extreme quarantining and even signing a waiver of liability.

“I was looking so forward to this season, because I felt like last season I was just barely breaching the surface,” said Davis, the grandson of Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame defensive end Willie Davis. “I know this is a very big year for me.”

Since shutdowns interrupted spring football practices in March, coaches around the country are trying to stay on top of their squads with video meetings and calls. Still, it’s mostly left to players who are 18, 19 and

20 years old to keep themselves in game shape and act right.

That thought worries Mickey Marotti, the Ohio State strength and conditioning guru who usually oversees offseason workouts.

“When you lay in bed (at night), you’re just like, oh I hope everyone is doing what they’re supposed to do,” he said.

College football teams

typically start preseason workouts in early August.

Some Power Five schools, including LSU, are making plans to reopen their on-campus facilities to players next month without a firm plan in place to bring students back to campus this fall. The NCAA says campuses will have to be open before fall sports can commence.

Mike Hart, Michigan’s all-time leading rusher who

now coaches running backs at Indiana, thinks players who ultimately have the mental toughness to play beyond college will get there and be ready to play whenever the opportunity arises.

“If you want to play in the NFL, this is really an NFL schedule,” said Hart, who spent three seasons with the Indianapolis Colts. “This is what it’s like. You train on your own. You have to be on your own.”

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FUN & GAMES

On This Day In History 1963 - Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail is published. King used the open letter to defend his nonviolent resistance against racism and segregation. It became one of the central texts for the civil rights movement in the United States.

1962 - Marilyn Monroe performs her famous rendition of Happy Birthday.

Monroe gave her sultry performance, which was to be her last, at a party for U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The two are believed to have been engaged in an affair.

1959 - The North Vietnamese Army begins organizing the Ho Chi Minh trail. According to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), See, HISTORY, Page 9

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the system of supply routes used by the “Vietcong” was “one of the greatest achievements of military engineering of the 20th century.”

1919 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk sets off the Turkish War of Independence. The fight against the allies of the Triple Entente ended some four years later. The Republic of Turkey was founded, and Atatürk became its first President.

1743 - Jean-Pierre Christin invents the Celsius thermometer.

The centigrade temperature scale, which is based on the freezing and boiling point of water, is used by most countries around the world. Exceptions include the United State, Belize, and Palau.

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The Sibley Town Council met in regular session on Monday, May 11, 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.

Robert Smart motioned to adopt the minutes to the March 9, 2020 Regular Meeting as read, Larry Merritt seconded.

Motion carried.

No New Items were added to the agenda.

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 was introduced.

John Langford motioned to set a public hearing for June 8, 2020 during the June Regular Meeting.

Helen Chanler seconded, motion carried.

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 was introduced. Robert Smart motioned to set a public hearing for June 8, 2020 during the June Regular Meeting. Alan Myers seconded, motion carried.

FOR MUNICIPAL ELECTED OFFICIALS AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES FOR THE TOWN OF SIBLEY, LOUISIANA, AND PROVIDING IN CONNECTION THEREWITH was introduced. Larry Merritt motioned to set a public hearing for June 8, 2020 during the June Regular Meeting. John Langford seconded, motion carried.

Robert Smart motioned to adopt

Resolution No. 2020-04, increasing rates for water and wastewater required based on the LRWA rate study. Helen Chanler seconded, motion carried.

Larry Merritt gave the March and April activity reports for the Sibley Volunteer Fire Department. The annual bass tournament has been canceled and no decisions have been to reschedule.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer Chief Jeremy Robinson gave the monthly activity report for the Sibley Police Department.

The board acknowledged the March 2020 financial reports.

Under the Mayor’s Report, CleanUp Day has been rescheduled to Saturday, May 23, 2020 and the Governor has made the announcement to enter Phase I of reopening the state.

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

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