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JANUARY 2020 • VOLUME 14 • ISSUE 1

CONT HOME + LIVING

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16 CHATEAU CHIC

Classic Elegance on the Bayou

22 THE OBSERVER Keep Going, Day-By-Day

24 ViCi HOOPS

Much more than a game of Hoops.

FOOD + FUN

Page 32

32 A PROJECT OF PASSION

Monique Menard supports her community through various projects.

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MIND + BODY

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44 EVERYBODY’S FAVORITE TWINS Sherry and Cherry Wilmore use social media as a way to help others stay informed.

50 WE SUPPORT A HEALTHIER FUTURE

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ENTS EXTRAS

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WORD ON THE STREET The fear of being replaced caused Ron to read the teleprompter expeditiously.

Brick expeditiously threw a trident in order to win the tussle with the rival news anchors.

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Hope in the New Year

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52 UNDER THE SCOPE

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56 SCENE IN

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EDITOR’S NOTE |

MARY DOWNER DITCH • MANAGING EDITOR OF POV

HOPE IN THE NEW YEAR “One little spark of inspiration/ is at the heart of all creation.”

When it comes to inspiring our youth, ViCi Hoops plays an integral role in shaping young lives and leaving a long-lasting impact on the children that play the game of basketball.

The sports program has grown over the years to include both boys and girls basketball teams.

Learn why it’s so much more that just shooting hoops starting on page 24

- One Little Spark, by Richard & Robert Sherman 2020. Whoa. Crazy to think another year, and most notably, another decade has passed us by.

At the end of every year, I like to reflect on the previous 365 days.

But this time, my mind is taking a trip back an entire 3,650 days.

In 2010, I had just become the managing editor of Point of Vue after being in sales of the magazine since 2007. Over the next few years, I moved to Interactive Media Planner before leaving in 2013 to explore the world of marketing in the oil and gas industry. By 2015, I found my way back to Rushing Media, again serving as Interactive Media Planner, before assuming my current role as managing editor once again.

In my personal life, I married my best friend John in 2013 and we welcomed our son Jackson in 2014. I almost can’t recall a time when the two of them weren’t a part of me.

Becoming a wife and a mother have been the best parts of the last decade. Our family is little but perfect in our eyes. They are the inspiration for me to dream big, set unrealistic goals and strive to absolutely crush them.

Every January we bring you a new group of dreamers whose minds are full of inspiration. They are setting out to change the world around them, make an impact on their communities and redefine our way of thinking.

Tucked away in a shopping center on the corner of West Main and Morgan Streets sits an unassuming store run

by Monique Menard. Originally a small corner store that sold liquor and cigarettes, Monique recognized that she could bring so much more to a community that desperately needed it. Her store is now a part of Live Healthy Houma’s Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy mission.

Read about Monique’s hopes for the program starting on page 32.

On page 44, we introduce to Everyone’s Favorite Twins, Sherry and Cherry Wilmore. The social media mavens are taking Facebook by storm with their informative, yet entertaining videos. Their goal is to educate the community about important issues using plain language, utilizing their platform as to reach as many people as possible.

Each of these stories has brought me hope in it’s own way for the new year and new decade to come. I hope you, too, are able to take away a spark of inspiration to kick off your year on the right foot. POV

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CHATEAU CHIC | 16 Classic Elegance on the Bayou

THE OBSERVER | 22 Keep Going, Day-By-Day

ViCi HOOPS | 24

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Classic architectural details and grand features give the home of Mark and Kayce Danos a timeless elegance and familiar sense of history.

Built to resemble Nottoway Plantation, the home’s stately white pillars, wide porches and spacious scale pays homage to the South’s largest antebellum home. Donning traditional exterior colors and elegant ironwork, their bayou side home is a true Southern gem.

Upon purchasing the home in 2017, the couple made plans to lighten the dark interior as well as add pops of color to reflect their young family’s style.

They enlisted the assistance of Kayce’s cousin and interior designer, Brandon Branch to execute their vision. “Brandon was so easy to work with, and because we are family it made it that much more fun and enjoyable,” says Kayce.

A light color palette combined with new lighting, draperies and elegant furnishings completely transformed the space. The Danos family utilized the talents of painter Anthony Trosclair and Everything Upholstered to bring their vision to life. Stunning color combinations and patterns keep the mood fun yet elegant for this family of seven.

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The upstairs family room is a family favorite. A colorful commissioned piece of art by Stacie Theriot completes the space.

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KEEP GOING,

DAY-BY-DAY It’s January. Again.

Doesn’t it feel like we just finished starting a new year? And here we are, starting a new year all over again.

A different year, but somehow so many things the same.

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Time is flying, I said at the beginning of last year. Here I am, saying the same thing again this year. It was the sentence I swore I’d never say. The younger version of myself laughed at the older people who said time would one day feel like it flies by with wings for which you’d do anything for them to hold still.

And here I am, clutching to the wings of time, begging the moments to linger just a little longer.

There’s the boy in high school in my house that keeps talking ACT scores and college preferences. He talks so fast, dreaming of his “one day” that he doesn’t notice my watery eyes when he talks of leaving here. He’s so busy looking forward that he can’t see me looking back and remembering the times when I thought he would stay little forever.

How many times have I stood in the same kitchen, making the same breakfast? I’ve asked the same question for years. “You want a dipping egg or scrambled?” I asked it when I had to help them sit on the seat, and I ask it now, when they’re perfectly capable of getting on their own seat and even cooking their own egg. Their sweet cherub faces have grown leaner and older. So has mine.

The older, wiser mom whose kids are all grown told it to me years ago and it rings in my head on days when I’m not sure I’m doing a single thing right.

“How did you do it in the day-to-day?” I asked.

“I just did it day-to-day,” she said.

So in the blur of years, it’s how we spend each day that counts.

A year seems impossible to conquer, but the day is only a few hours long, a more manageable goal.

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“Our fears will stop us from what we can really do every time.”

It’s what I want to tell the one in my house whose fears feel bigger than his future. That I see who he could be, just keep going. The giving up is pulling you backward, but if you push forward, you’ll realize your fears were so small compared to the brightness of your future.

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Mother Teresa said it like this: “Abandoning Loreto (her convent) was an even harder sacrifice for me than leaving my family that first time in order to follow my vocation. But I had to do it. It was a calling. I knew where I had to go; I did not know how to get there.”

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Stepping outside of the safety of her cloistered walls is where she met a world in poverty who so desperately needed someone to take each day and give it to them. But she never forgot where love starts. She loved a world, but reminded the world where love begins.

“Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.”

So I’ll be at my home. Cooking the same eggs and toast. Giving smiles to each member, encouraging them forward, letting them know they’re loved here so they can go out there and love others. I’ll smile so they know their fears are conquerable, and when you face them, you’ll realize they weren’t as big as they were in your imagination.

So go on and conquer the world, because I’ll be right here. Smiling and loving and believing. And while the years etch their telltale lines in my face, I’ll be the one who is counting the days and making each day count.

I’ll tell you to step out when it feels safer to stay in. I’ll wipe my eyes and dream of your future with you.

Because one day you’ll be the one telling me how time flew, and where did each day go? And I’ll tell you the days were spent conquering fears and flying with the wings of time. POV January 2020 23 povhouma.com

Much more than a game of Hoops

BY KEELY DIEBOLD PHOTOS SUBMITTED Listen to any legendary athlete talk about how they worked their way to the top, and you’ll probably hear stories of them beginning their sports careers at a very early age.

Take LSU quarterback Joe Burrow, for example, whose athletic talent reportedly became clear to his youth coaches while he was in third grade. By the time he was in fourth grade, the future Heisman Trophy recipient could read defenses and adjust plays accordingly: a rare ability for someone his age.

If this proves anything, it’s that sports can play an integral role in shaping young lives and leave a long-lasting impact that goes beyond the game. This impact is what all youth sports programs hope to achieve, and ViCi Hoops is no exception.

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ViCi Hoops is a local volunteerbased basketball league for children in fifth through seventh grade that strives to introduce them to basketball skills and build those skills while simultaneously providing them with life lessons.

“The biggest goal is to develop these kids and the skills that they need to play basketball later on in life, so we take them from a developmental stage and move them to kind of middle-of-theroad...and then hopefully progress them to accelerated, and then they can go and play at Vandebilt or Terrebonne or H. L. [Bourgeois] or wherever they decide to go to school,” Bradley DeRoche, a ViCi Hoops volunteer, says.

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The program was introduced three years ago as developmental league for local boys. In its first year, it had 78 participants.

In 2018, it introduced a girls league. Now, ViCi Hoops consists of 148 participants across a three-team girls division, a sixteam junior varsity boys division and a four-team varsity boys division.

The program runs from early January through late February, with games played every hour from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays at Vandebilt Catholic High School.

In order to join the program, participants pay a $40 fee that covers a warm-up shirt, a jersey and league expenses.

ViCi teams are built off of assessments of players. The league’s coaches run participants through drills like shooting, free throws and layups and evaluate them based on their skill levels. Then, they place players on teams in a way that creates evenly-matched rosters.

“Say [with] the varsity, for example, we have four kids that really stand out. Each team is going to have one of those kids,” Bradley says.

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Bradley believes that teams playing other teams with equivalent talent helps athletes to become better at basketball more than playing dominant teams does.

“If [your best players] are playing with each other and you’re beating a team 70-10, no one in that game got better,” Bradley says.

While ViCi Hoops is a league centered on developing basketball players, the sport ultimately serves as a platform for teaching the young athletes lessons in hard work, teamwork and sportsmanship, as well as Christian values.

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Bradley says he sees such values implemented in the way that players support one another. Athletes who have been in the league longer often assist those who are new to the league and inspire them to strive for more.

By welcoming young athletes who are beginning to transition out of elementary school, ViCi Hoops is picking them up at an impressionable age. Bradley says that this age range is where they will begin to grow and develop to play junior high and high school sports.

“It’s teaching them a lot, how to win gracefully, how to lose gracefully, how to compete, sportsmanship, helping each other up,” Bradley says.

Bradley says that children who choose to go out of their comfort zone to try sports like basketball are “brave.”

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“Kids are brave, and they’re taking big steps coming [to] try something difficult for the first time, knowing that some of these kids in here are

really good...but they still work hard...and they try to improve and get better,” Bradley says.

Above all, ViCi Hoops is a league that tries to offer parents peace of mind that their children are receiving mentorship from coaches and a wide variety of lessons beyond only basketball.

Bradley says that everything the league does serves toward helping its athletes grow, even if basketball is not in their futures.

“They might not even play basketball in eighth grade, but that’s fine.

They’ll learn other things that may translate over to band, or translate over to dance team or soccer or other sports. It’s not just about basketball,” Bradley says.

Who knows whether ViCi Hoops or similar youth basketball programs will produce the next Michael Jordan. The league does, however, promise inspiration that may stick with its young athletes for a long time to come. POV

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BY DREW MILLER How do you integrate yourself into an unfamiliar community?

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It all started when Monique came to Houma for Mardi Gras 2017 to help her brothers Askar and Moe run the corner store located at 7472 W. Main St. She visited the store here and there, but it wasn’t until around that time that she started getting to better know the local people and help her brothers cater to their needs.

“Originally it was just a corner store that sold just liquor, beer and not too many food items,” she recalls. “And then when we stepped in; we slowly but surely put all of our little ideas together.”

One of the first needs of the community the family addressed was the lack of hair supplies accessible for the people in the area.

“When I had come back Askar was like, ‘I want you to help me with hair.’ And in less than six months,

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I pretty much knew everything that needed to be known about this hair,” Monique says. “This area really didn’t have a hair store where they can walk up and get their hair supplies; they have to get rides. This is just easier for most of the people that cannot drive.”

“We don’t raise our costs up because it does cost too much,” she continues.

“Everyone deserves to be beautiful.”

Monique says that since the store opens as early as 6:30 a.m., it gives the barber shop across the street a chance of having its chairs full earlier than normal, therefore it started opening earlier.

In fact, she says all the surrounding businesses are starting to work hand in hand.

Houma Beauty is also working with Live Healthy Houma, a part of LSU AgCenter’s Healthy Communities initiative, a work group consisting of various local entities.

Live Healthy’s mission is to “improve the quality of life for all citizens of Downtown Houma through policy development, environmental change and lifestyle programs that promote healthy living.”

Last year, the corner store became a Live Healthy’s Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy location, introducing healthier grocery goods into the community. The grocery store is now equipped with fresh

produce, healthier snack alternatives and signage to help educate its patrons on the benefits of eating healthier.

“Because I like kids,” Monique answers on why she decided to partner with Live Healthy. “I see a lot of sad cases in this environment. With Live Healthy, if we can help control the obesity rate, that healthy lifestyle is going to trigger a better educational choice because they’re going to mingle with different kinds of people.

They’re going to be more inclined to go to the gym...That right there in itself is just a completely different atmosphere.”

Amanda Gibson, a nutrition agent with the LSU AgCenter and the facilitator of Live Healthy Houma, says she was looking for a great location for Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy when she stumbled across the store after noticing they sold groceries, too.

“I was going into different convenience stores, but people are always skeptical of a free thing...Then we came in here and presented the idea to Monique, and since then it’s been wonderful,” she says. “This is the perfect location because across the bayou is the High Rise, so it’s a good resource for them. Also, the store helps the lower-income community that surrounds it.”

Monique aims to expand the store, too, adding more groceries and any other

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Her passion and care for the community drives Monique to help in any way she can, whether it’s holding free cookouts in the store’s parking lot, listening to her customers’ problems and consoling them, rewarding nearby children for good grades or giving those in need food when they’re hungry or coffee when

they’re cold. “You’re not just $1.10 in this store,” she says. “You’re human.”

Growing up in poverty, Monique was helped by people in her life that showed her possibilities and opportunities outside of what she knew. She now hopes to pay that forward.

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3. Cook pasta according to package directions, omitting salt and

fat. Drain in a colander over a bowl, reserving 1 cup cooking liquid. Combine squash mixture, pasta, and 1/4 cup cheese in an 11 x 7-inch baking dish coated with cooking spray, tossing gently to combine.

4. Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add flour;

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The Lake Charles natives have made a name for themselves on Facebook through a video-based social media blog known as “Everybody’s Favorite Twins” that has garnered over 1,000 likes. The blog’s purpose is to offer people information relevant to them in a way that is engaging and easy to understand through an outlet that is the primary source of news for many individuals.

Everybody’s Favorite Twins produces videos that cover everything from sports, to fashion, to cooking, to heavier topics like foster care and human and sex trafficking.

Some of their most recent work involves coverage of the 2019 election cycle.

The twins interviewed candidates like Lafourche District Judge hopeful Rene Gautreaux, Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson and Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Tim Soignet, as well as First Lady Donna Edwards.

Cherry and Sherry choose to cover “hot topics,” but they strive to remain unbiased in their reporting.

“We wanted to bring candidates to the regular, ordinary person who may not always be paying attention to politics, and to the underserved so they can understand who they’re voting for. You decide who you’re voting for. We just give you the information,” Sherry says.

Their goal is to become the source to which people turn when they are looking for information about what is going on in their communities.

“We don’t want to be like an amendment. You know how they have those amendments on the ballot, and no one understands the language of the amendment?” Sherry says. “We wanted it to be very laymen’s terms, broken down for the common man and person to understand what it means.”

The twins describe themselves in a multitude of ways: multifaceted, funny, open, positive, quirky and personable. Sherry says they have grown both as individuals and together to become the women they are today. Above all, they are two women trying to understand life and recognize their purpose and passions.

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The idea behind Everybody’s Favorite Twins was born out of that passion, specifically for service and knowledge.

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In 1991, when the twins were six years old, they entered foster care for the first time. They were placed in a group home for a few days before moving to their first foster home, located on a farm.

It was there that they developed their love of knowledge, which they attribute to days spent watching Jeopardy with their neighbor. In addition, their foster mother taught them how to read using canned goods in the cabinet.

Around age 10, Cherry and Sherry left that home and returned to their former group home for a month. Afterwards, they were transferred to the MacDonell Children’s Home in Houma.

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Cherry moved to a new foster home later that year, while Sherry remained at the group home.

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The twins view their time in foster care as a part of their lives, not the entirety. Cherry says they do not want to be defined by it.

“It was a chapter, it might even be two or three chapters of our book, but it is not our totality, and so because of foster care, I think we realized that we were the authors of our own destiny, and we get to write our story our way and our voice is very important,” Cherry says.

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Cherry and Sherry says that because they understand the complexity of foster care, they understand the complexity of situations and of people as well. Just as people who have not been involved with foster care may not understand it in its entirety, people do not always understand issues that have not affected them.

Thus, the twins strive to educate people about issues or concepts of which they may not be aware.

“Everybody’s Favorite Twins is about educating you about what you didn’t know,” Cherry says.

“And maybe some things that you didn’t know because you just didn’t know. It’s not because you didn’t care. You just didn’t realize it,” Sherry says.

The twins use a conversational style in their videos, avoid being confrontational and speak to individuals knowledgeable in specific fields, as they feel this is the most effective way of educating people.

As they advance their work, Cherry and Sherry hope people will see them as bridge-builders, while also remaining lighthearted and fun.

For example, future projects include bridging gaps between minorities and law enforcement, as well as spotlighting individuals like local artists, musicians and authors.

“We see the future of Everybody’s Favorite Twins expanding to a point where we get to bring more people…do more one-onone interviews, more community-based,” Cherry says.

Cherry and Sherry describe themselves as “yin and yang,” as they find balance in one another that translates into their work through Everybody’s Favorite Twins.

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We can thank #1 Scotsman and poet Robert Burns for putting “Auld Lang Syne” down on paper in 1788. It was an old song he heard sung by an old man, and he added some lines to make it fit the melody of an old folk song. So, all around it’s pretty old. And it’s sung on New Year’s and graduations and farewell addresses to make us think of old times. In fact, “auld lang syne” is kinda Scottish slang for “old long since.”

And when people sing the line of the chorus, “For the sake of auld lang syne,” they’re meaning “For the sake of old times.”

But when we reminisce on New Year’s Eve and wax melancholic with old friends about the old times, we often get so distracted by the fireworks and champagne and rich food and what’s happening in Times Square and of course, our smart phones, that we all too often forsake true conversation about the old times. So, here are some champagne-proof reminiscence-starters about the old times to share with your family and friends during the New Year. For the sake of old times, do you remember when…

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• It was the thought that counted not where you could spend the gift card balance?

• There were four channels on TV rather than four TVs in the house?

• Clouds held rain and not data?

• Church candles were lit by wick fire and not the click and spark of a charcoal lighter?

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• The Jedi returned, the Ewoks threw a dance party, and that was the end of the story?

• Green marshland grew all the way to lines of oak trees at the coast with no briny water and no well heads in sight?

I hope these prompts help you get New Year’s reminiscing started. Be aware that “Auld Lang Syne” is typically sung by groups of people hugging and kissing in diverse chemical states of toasting each other. So, though you may have heard the lines “Old Bland Hinds,” “Goat Gland Rind,” “Toad Canned Slime,” “Bold Hand Signs,” or, at halftime of an LSU bowl game, “Gold Band Line,” you’ve simply heard your chemically toasted friends and family trying to sing “Auld Lang Syne.” And that’s a fitting tradition, as Robert Burns was known in his day to be toasted every now and then.

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NATIONAL PIE DAY IS JANUARY 23

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• The origin of pie traces all the way back to ancient Egypt.

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Congratulations to Paula Neil for winning last month’s contest.

ANSWERS TO LAST MONTH’S CONTEST 1 Colored Nutcracker’s pants 2 Added Santa 3 Removed light bulb 4 Changed the color of the bow 5 Added elf on the mantle 6 Removed the fireplace andirons

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