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BY TONYA D. HOLLOWAYStaff Writer

A Pierre Part native delivered an inspi-rational message on goal setting and perse-verance by sharing his life experiences as a quadriplegic to eighth grade students at Na-poleonville Middle School.

"Mr. Gene Bergeron is here to tell you about his story and about how nothing gets him down. When somebody tells him he can't, he figures out a way so he can," said Rhea Blanchard, eighth grade English Lan-guage Arts teacher.

Gene Bergeron, a native of Pierre Part and a resident of Thibodaux, accomplished his childhood dream of becoming a professional wrestler. However, it was a short lived dream due to a wrestling injury in 1997, resulting in paralysis.

Since the age of four, he aspired to be a professional wrestler. He recalled every pa-per and/or essay he had to write, whether it

was for middle or high school, was about wrestling. He said he was always active and an athlete. Bergeron played baseball, basket-ball and football.

"The only thing I wanted to do was become a professional wrestler," he said. "That was my main goal."

When he started attending Assumption High School, he began lifting weights be-cause wrestlers were huge. Graduating in 1989, he started bodybuilding and, from there, he began training to become a profes-sional wrestler.

"I had some friends who were in the lo-cal wrestling business. One was a DJ for a radio station. He asked me if I could be his bodyguard for an event. I said yes," he add-ed. "Well, I didn't know one of the wrestlers would come after me. I stoop up and I knocked the wrestler out. The wrestling promoter saw that I knocked the wrestler out. And that goal happened," Bergeron said.

Pierre Part native gives inspirational message to eighth graders

Fellow wrestling enthusiasts Hunter Arvel (L) and Simuel Lewis (R) present Gene Bergeron, former professional wres-tler and bodybuilder, with a token of appreciation on behalf of the eighth graders at Napoleonville Middle School.

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Emmie Lambert, of Pierre Part Primary, is the Parish Rice Cookery winner in dessert cat-egory.

Reese Burnett, of Pierre Part Primary, is the 4-H Grand Champion Seafood Cookery contest winner in the crawfish category.

Photos courtesy of RHEA BLANCHARD

Laura Bergeron and Gene Bergeron deliver an inspirational message about goal setting and perserverance to eighth grade students at Napoleonville Middle School.

No decision yet on park entrance signBY LINDA COOKEStaff Writer

The recreation board is studying brochures from at least three different compa-nies all of whom produce stationery signs such as the one which the board is inter-ested in having installed at the Hwy. 70 entrance to Veterans Park. Each has different fea-tures – size of letters, size and height of the sign, price and installation costs. Board members studied the colorful brochures but no decision has yet to made as to which one to choose.

Treasurer Bruce Medine re-ported that the Veterans Park account holds $153,510.89 and the Belle River account $6,267.53. President Chad Guillot said the basketball court and maintenance shed projects will begin soon.

Resident Wayne Turner ad-dressed the board concerning the basketball goal asking that

The Commissioner of Conservation will hold a hearing at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Belle River Volunteer Fire Department at 1207-A Hwy. 70 to hear testimony relative to the application of F.A.S. Environmental Ser-vices.

F.A.S. is requesting to construct and oper-ate a commercial transfer station for temporary storage of exploration and production waste fluids located in Township 13 South, Range 12 East, Section 22, in St. Martin Parish.

The application is available for inspection

Library offers sample La. online driving test

The Assumption Parish Library has sample Louisiana driving tests online. You can access on the library's website at assumption.lib.la.us at the bottom right or go to assumptionlib.driv-ing-tests org.

There are 10 automobile, six motorcycle, and one Commercial Driver's License (CDL) practice test; three online driver's manuals (car, motorcycle, CDL) along with 100-plus Depart-ment of Motorvehicle-related questions.

Hearing for F.A.S. application, in Feb.by contacting Daryl Williams, Office of Con-servation, Environmental Division, Eighth Floor of the LaSalle Office Building, 617 Norht 3rd Street, Baton Rouge.

Copies of the application will be available for review at the St. Martin Parish Council in St. Martinville and the Pierre Part Library no later than 30 days prior to the hearing date.

Verbal information may be received by calling Williams at (225) 342-7286.

All interested persons will be afforded an opportunity to present data, views or argu-ments, orally or in writing, at the hearing.

Written comments which will not be pre-sented at the hearing must be received no later than 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 5, at the Baton Rouge office.

Comments should be directed to: Office of ConservationEnvironmental DivisionP.O. Box 94275Baton Rouge, LA., 70804Re: Docket No. ENV 2015-01FAS Transfer Station ApplicationSt. Martin Parish

Assumption Parish sheriff's deputies have arrested a 30-year-old Napoleonville man accused in the Jan. 2 slaying of 63-year-old Gordon Jones Sr., of Labadieville.

Deputies arrested Anthony Ayrow at his home at 125 Al-vin St., early Saturday morning. Detectives say Ayrow was booked into the Assumption Parish Detention Center on counts of first-degree murder, convicted felon carrying a

firearm and armed robbery.Waguespack says the investigation continues.It was unclear whether Ayrow has an attorney.The Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office had previously of-

fered a $1,000 reward and Virginia Baptist Church, of Pain-courtville, and Moses Baptist Church, of Thibodaux, added an additional $1,000 for information leading to the arrest.

Napoleonville man booked in Jan. 2 slaying

Anthony Ayrow

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At first, Bergeron went by the name The Black Ninja. He did most of his training as The Black Ninja. Then it was time to make him a superstar. His name was Gino Van Damn.

"I used to mimic Jean-Claude Van Damm, so that's how I got my name, Gino Van Damn," he said.

Later, he signed a contract with World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Bergeron was on his way to becoming WCW's next superstar. He returned home after train-ing in Atlanta, Georgia. He returned to do a show at the Amelia Community Center in Amelia to send him off.

"That night, I won the match. The guy who was setting up for a loss was supposed to 'power bomb' me. Well, he didn't do that. He switched up on me and did the 'pile driver' instead and broke my neck instant-ly. That's why I'm a quad-riplegic in a wheelchair," Bergeron said.

Although the abrupt ca-reer-ending injury left the 26-year-old confined to a motorized wheelchair, it did not stop him from setting goals and persevering.

"I didn't let that stop me. After I got out of the hos-pital, I started rehab and it was a totally different world. I had to learn how to speak again, learn how to eat again, learn how to move my arms or whatever I could move," he said.

He thought about every-thing he did from weight-lifting to wrestling. Be-cause he couldn't hold a dumbbell with his hands, his wife, Laura, tied wrist bands around her husband's wrists and hooked them to a machine and worked out his arms. He couldn't bench press because he didn't have grip strength in his hands. Once again, Laura made special gloves and strapped his hands so he could bench press. Bergeron was deter-mined to persevere.

In 2007, Bergeron was asked by a wheelchair bodybuilder to compete in a wheelchair bodybuilding show in Metairie, Louisiana. He said he had nothing to lose so he decided to partake in the challenge. Bergeron began training for the body-building competition.

His first wheelchair body-building competition, NPC USA Wheelchair Champi-onship, was on June 2, 2008, in Metairie.

"I won first novice and second Masters," Bergeron said.

From his initial competi-tion in 2008, he continued to compete in the NPC USA Wheelchair Champion-ships till 2011. In 2009, he placed third in lightweight and second in Masters. Then in 2010, he placed third in

lightweight and first in Mas-ters. When he competed in 2011, he placed first in Masters and second in light-weight.

"This is the new goal. I achieved what I wanted in wrestling. I didn't make it to the top, but at least, I got there and that was my goal," the 44-year-old Bergeron said proudly.

Bergeron has a hand cy-cle, a tricycle with one front wheel and two rear wheels that is pedaled by hand.

"My new goal in which I'm trying to achieve right now is to be the fastest quad-riplegic on three wheels," he said.

He participated in the Al-zheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's at Nich-olls State University in Sept. 2014. The event was a two-mile walk. He rode his bike and his wife jogged with him. "And out of 400 people, I came out 30th," Bergeron said pleasingly.

"My next goal is to do a 5K, then, after that, a 10K. I set goals everyday. I'm here to say don't let anyone or anything stop you. If you believe in yourself, you can do it. But you have to have that faith in yourself. Don't let others influence what you do. I don't let things get to me. I get frustrated at times because I can't do certain things the way I want to, but I adapt to it. That's what life is about. You have to learn to adapt."

"If someone bullies you, don't sweat it. That's their problem. They have some-thing wrong with their con-fidence. Be you and be the best you, that you, can be. I'm living proof that you can achieve whatever you want to achieve in life, " he said.

An eighth grade student chose to make a comment instead of asking a question.

"Some students make Fs on tests and give up, yet you've been through so much. It just amazes me," Dwanna Fripp said.

"Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Things happen in life and you can't control it. Never be a quitter. It's hard work, extremely hard,” Bergeron said.

He said his wife has to do basically everything for him. She has to get him up, dress him, put him in his chair and more. He has special utensils he uses to eat. Laura has to put the utensils on his hands. He said they get things done because they are a team and life goes on.

His wife, Laura said, "You have to remember that everybody has a story. Ev-erybody has a purpose. Ev-erybody has a goal. So, you should never tease anyone because you don't know that person's story."

"We weren't married be-fore he was in his chair. I was his nurse. Just his ‘oomph’ in rehab and wanting to con-

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12/17/2014, LONNIE ROBINSON, 132 ALBERMARTE RD., LABADIEVILLE, LA, B/M, 60, FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR COURT COSTS, DTY. BRANDON GOSSER

12/17/2014, TAMMY L LUCAS, 192 HWY 1011, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, W/F, 38, FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR JEFFERSON PARISH, SGT. TYSON MIRE

12/17/2014, KAVARI BRIDGES, TELEGRAPH ST., NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, W/M, 18, SIMPLE BURGLARY; CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO PROPERTY; 3 COUNTS OF CONTRIBUTING TO THE DELINQUENCY OF A JUVENILE, DTY. BRANDON GOSSER

12/17/2014, BRADLEY N GROS, 423 HWY 400, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, W/M, 25, DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION FOR DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED, DTY. MIKE GAUTREAUX

12/17/2014, UMEKI JAMISON, 125 LITTLE TEXAS RD., LABADIEVILLE, LA, B/F, 35, 2 FAILURE TO APPEARS, DTY. ARTHUR FLOT; DTY. CODY LANDRY

12/17/2014, WEBSTER RAINEY III, 123 HWY 400, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/M, 29, TRESPASSING, DTY. ERICK TAYLOR

12/18/2014, JEREMY R JOHNSON, 263 HWY 1003, BELLE ROSE, LA, B/M, 32, DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED 2ND; OPEN CONTAINER; IMPROPER LANE USAGE, TFC. COREY PENNISON

12/19/2014, DYLAN LANDRY, 7363 HWY 1, DONALDSONVILLE, LA, W/M, 21, SIMPLE BATTERY; DISTURBING THE PEACE, DTY. ARTHUR FLOT; DTY. CODY LANDRY; SGT. BRYAN GUILLOT

12/19/2014, CHRISTIAN GARRETT, 3337 BACK MARAIS, LABADIEVILLE, LA, B/M, 28, DOMESTIC BATTERY; CHILD ENDANGERMENT, DTY. JARRED TABOR; SGT. BRYAN GUILLOT

12/19/2014, DANNY R REDDING, 161 ELAINE ST., MORGAN CITY, LA, W/M, 49, ATTEMPTED 2ND DEGREE MURDER; AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A FIREARM; CRUELTY TO JUVENILES; CRUELTY TO ANIMALS; AGGRAVATED POSSESSION OF FIREARM BY CONVICTED FELON; ILLEGAL USE OF WEAPONS; RESISTING AN OFFICER SGT. DONALD CALAMIA JR; CAPT. BJ ROCK; SGT. DEAN BLANCHARD; DTY. JARED TABOR; SGT. BRYAN GUILLOT; DTY. ARTHUR FLOT

12/19/2014, ANTHONY AYROW, 125 ALVIN ST., NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/M, 31, DISTURBING THE PEACE, DTY. ERICK TAYLOR

12/20/2014, NATHANIEL L BELL, 1111 ST. VINCENT ST., DONALDSONVILLE, LA, B/M, 35, FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR BURGLARY, DTY. SHANE CAMPO; DTY. DEAN BLANCHARD

12/20/2014, ANDRE MILLER, 3719 HWY 1, NAPOLEONVILLE,

LA, B/M, 42, DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM WITHIN 300 FT OF HOUSE, SGT. DEAN BLANCHARD

12/20/2014, XAVIER D BOUGERE, 113 FERTITTA LN., NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/M, 26, CRIMINAL TRESPASS; POSSESSION OF CRACK COCAINE; CONTRABAND IN A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY; MISREPRESENTATION DURING BOOKING, SGT. DEAN BLANCHARD

12/22/2014, JOHN T CHRISTENSON, 1030 EDNA ST., MORGAN CITY, LA, W/M, 46, DRIVING LEFT OF CENTER; DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED 2ND BY REFUSAL, DTY. GARY ELLIS JR.

12/22/2014, CALLEN RICHARD, 1900 SATURN RD., MORGAN CITY, LA, W/M, 17, 4 COUNTS OF SIMPLE BURGLARY, SGT. JOLYNELL CREPPEL

12/22/2014, KENTRELL LANG, 4779 LA HWY 1, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/M, 34, SIMPLE ASSAULT, DTY. ARTHUR FLOT

12/23/2014, DEMARCUS A WILLIAMS, 200 BLACKWELL LN., BELLE ROSE, LA, B/M, 25, 2 COUNTS OF ATTEMPT OF COURT FOR ASCENSION, TFC. COREY PENNISON

12/23/2014, ASHLEY A WILLIAMS, 118 MARSHALL LN., NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/F, 28, FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR ASSUMPTION, DTY. MIKE GAUTREAUX

12/23/2014, CASEY P PONVELLE, 119 CHESTNUT ST., LABADIEVILLE, LA, W/M, 23, DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED 3RD; CARELESS OPERATION; NO SEATBELT, DTY. BRANDON GOSSER

12/25/2014, COLETTE C ARCENEAUX, 4661 HWY 308, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, W/F, 48, DISTURBING THE PEACE BY PROFANITY, DTY. GARY ELLIS JR.

12/26/2014, TROY C CALDWELL, 3178 HWY 308, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/M, 21, FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR LAFOURCHE, DTY. DENZELL WESLEY

12/26/2014, WILLIE ARNETT, 770 HWY 402, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, W/M, 72, DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED 1ST, SGT. BRYAN GUILLOT; DTY. ARTHUR FLOT

12/26/2014, DARRELL E THOMAS JR., 6033 GRANT RD, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/M, 21, DISTURBING THE PEACE BY FIGHTING; DTY. BRANDON GOSSER; SGT. DEAN BLANCHARD

12/26/2014, STERLING E ROBINSON, 115 GOLD ST., NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/M, 24, SIMPLE BATTERY, DTY. BRANDON GOSSER; SGT. DEAN BLANCHARD

12/28/2014, BRANDI L GIROIR, 114 MITCHY ST., PIERRE PART, LA, W/F, 21, DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED 1ST; CARELESS OPERATION; NO SEATBELT, DTY. BRANDON GOSSER

12/28/2014, BARON J KNOCKUM,

6761 HWY 308, BELLE ROSE, LA, B/M, 48, DOMESTIC ABUSE BATTERY, DTY. KELLI MATHERNE

12/28/2014, BOBBY J CLARK, 2996 A HWY 1, LABADIEVILLE, LA, B/M, 51, DOMESTIC ABUSE; AGGRAVATED ASSAULT; SIMPLE ASSAULT, DTY. BRANDON GOSSER

12/29/2014, ASHTON AINSWORTH, 818 MANCHESTER MANOR, THIBODAUX, LA, W/M, 24, FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED; FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR SIMPLE BATTERY, DTY. JOSEPH FREEMAN JR

12/29/2014, ANTHONY J BENOIT, 394 N. HOLLY RD., NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, W/M, 19, DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED 4TH; CARELESS OPERATION; DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION FOR PRIOR DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED, DTY. BRANDON GOSSER

12/29/2014, TREY HEBERT, 118 DAVID ST., PIERRE PART, LA, W/M, 18, THEFT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, CAPT. DARREN CROCHET

12/29/2014, BRANDON MORRIS, 118 DAVID ST., PIERRE PART, LA, W/M, 17, THEFT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, CAPT. DARREN CROCHET

12/29/2014, LAMAR A BATISTE, 302A MAPLE ST., LABADIEVILLE, LA, B/M, 20, SIMPLE ASSAULT, DTY. JARRED TABOR; DTY. BRITTANY CAVALIER

12/30/2014, MAISON RIVERE, 1615 HWY 402, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, W/M, 20, UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY OF AN INHABITED DWELLING, DTY. JARRED TABOR

12/30/2014, ALLIE N ARCEMENT, 131 EWEN ST., PIERRE PART, LA, W/F, 24, UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY OFAN INHABITED DWELLNG, DTY. CODY HEBERT

12/31/2014, KATIE LANDRY, 934 BAYOU DR., PIERRE PART, LA, W/F, 28, THEFT UNDER $500; DISTURBING THE PEACE SGT. BRYAN GUILLOT; SGT. DEAN BLANCHARD

12/31/2014, GLENN ALEXIS, 5010 PRESS DR., NEW ORLEANS, LA, B/M, 21, POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA, DTY. CODY LANDRY

12/31/2014, VICTOR K FLOYD, 146 ANN ST., MORGAN CITY, LA, W/M, 38, DOMESTIC ABUSE BATTERY, DTY. KELLI MATHERNE

1/1/2015, RONALD CHEVIS, 310 COLLEGE ST., NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/M, 45, REMAINING AFTER BEING FORBIDDEN; DISTURBING THE PEACE BY INTOXICATION, SGT. BRYAN GUILLOT; SGT. DEAN BLANCHARD

1/1/2015, JOSE HERNANDEZ, 503 ASSUMPTION ST., NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, H/M, 42, ILLEGAL CARRYING OF WEAPONS; DISTURBING THE PEACE; SIMPLE ASSAULT, SGT. BRYAN GUILLOT

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The long-time war-den of Louisiana's state peni-tentiary said Monday he may run for governor this year, a candidacy that would add a

new twist to a field of candi-dates already filled with high-profile names.

Burl Cain, who has run the 18,000-acre prison in Angola for 20 years, said people have

encouraged him to join the list of candidates for the October election. But the Republican warden said he hasn't decided whether to jump into the race yet.

Angola warden Burl Cain says he might run for La. governor

1/1/2015, ANTHONY PATTERSON, 230 BLACKWELL LN, BELLE ROSE, LA, B/M, 50, SIMPLE ASSAULT; DISUTRBING THE PEACE BU PUBLIC INTOXICATION, SGT. DEAN BLANCHARD; DTY. KELLI MATHERNE

1/1/2015, JEREMY BOBBITT, 107 ANDRAS ST., MORGAN CITY, LA, W/M, 34, DISTURBING THE PEACE BY INTOXICATION DTY. BRANDON GOSSER; DTY. MIKE GAUTREAUX

1/3/2015, DARREN WALKER, 121 HWY 1014, LABADIEVILLE, LA, B/M, 22, UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY OF AN INHABITED DWELLING, DTY. MICHAEL SULLIVAN JR.

1/4/2015, SCOTT TEMPLET, 3747 HWY 308, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, W/M, 40, DISTURBING THE PEACE, DTY. ERICK TAYLOR

1/4/2015, DAUJANAY WILLIAMS, 3732 HWY 1, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/F, 17, DISTURBING THE PEACE BY CURSING, DTY. MICHAEL SULLIVAN JR.

1/4/2015, GARRETT M DUGAS, 1014 BAYOU DR., PIERRE PART, LA, W/M, 25, THEFT UNDER $700; DTY. GARY ELLIS JR.

1/5/2015, WAYNE J MARTIN SR., 159 DAGGS ST., PAINCOURTVILLE, LA, B/M, 38, FAILURE TO APPEAR, DTY. BRANDON GOSSER

1/5/2015, JACOB T DUGAS, 1010A BAYOU DR., PIERRE PART, LA, W/M, 28, CRIMINAL TRESPASSING, DTY. BRANDON GOSSER

1/5/2015, BRIAN P BOUDREAUX, 36915 LA 69, WHITE CASTLE, LA, W/M, 28, CRIMINA LTRESPASSING, DTY. BRANDON GOSSER

1/6/2015, MORRIS THOMPSON III, 183 DAGGS ST., BELLE ROSE, LA, B/M, 34, FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR NON SUPPORT; FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED AND CARELESS OPERATION, DTY. GARY ELLIS JR.

1/6/2015, RICKEY J FORET JR., 128 CECELIA ST.,MORGAN CITY, LA, W/M, 38, AGGRAVATED CRUELTY TO ANIMAL, DTY. BRANDON GOSSER

"As of now I'm not a can-didate at this time. I'm pray-ing about it. And I'm contem-plating it," Cain, 72, told the Press Club of Baton Rouge.

A Facebook page has been created to push a Cain candi-dacy, and large signs touting the warden for governor have popped up, but Cain said he doesn't know who started the effort.

"I didn't originate that thought," he said. "That thought's come to me from a whole bunch of different directions, and that thought has originated from people who have been to Angola and visited with us and have seen what we do and so forth and they want to see this common sense stuff."

Not on the list of those seeking a Cain campaign? His wife, the warden said.

At least four candidates are running for governor so far:

Republican Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle, Republican Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards and Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter. Republican state Trea-surer John Kennedy also said he's considering the race.

Cain said he has no time-line for making a decision and hasn't done anything to organize a campaign or raise money. "Haven't done any-thing but to just be ol' Burl," he said.

If he decided to run for gov-ernor or make any move to mount a candidacy, Cain said he'd have to resign as warden of the penitentiary. To answer questions about whether he's weighing a campaign, Cain read from a statement crafted by his staff to stay in line with civil service rules.

Warden of the prison com-monly known as Angola since

1995, Cain has been credited with improving conditions and decreasing violence at the working prison farm, which has 3,600 inmates. He's pushed the expansion of religious outreach at Angola, which has eight churches.

"Moral people don't rape, pilfer and steal. The immoral people are criminals," Cain said. "If I'm going to change the prison, I've got to get them to become moral. So where do I find morality best and quickest? I find it in reli-gion."

Cain's prison is the subject of an ongoing federal law-suit about heat levels. A fed-eral judge ruled in December 2013 that death row gets so hot that it violates U.S. con-stitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment and demanded a cooling plan. State officials are appealing the ruling.

the board consider a different type of backboard than the one already bid. The board will take the request under advise-ment.

Guillot said the lease on the Belle River park has been signed for two more years, but all agreed that it is not eco-nomical to plan improvements at that site with such a short

tinue to go and continue to succeed and continue those goals is what attracted me to Gene. Not his looks, not anything else," his wife said. "It was his personality and his oomph and his readiness to conquer anything. Never give up. Keep going."

Assistant Principal Cindy Blanchard thanked the cou-ple for coming and inspiring the students.

"We talk all the time about setting goals and how much we believe in you. This is a testament of what every single one of you have inside of you. You just need to let it come out. Great message!" she concluded.

term lease. The board briefly discussed

lights for the walking trail. Board member Day said mud tends to cover one section of the walking trail making it slippery. Measures will be taken to alleviate the problem.

The meeting ended with Guillot saying that he will gradually be phasing himself out of the board in order to spend more time with his fam-ily.

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A group of men from Pierre Part, known as The King's Men, meet every Monday night at the home of Rev. Al Davidson, of St. Joseph the Worker Church. In 2013, the group attended a men's conference in Houma led by Bishop Emeritus Sam Jacobs. While at the conference, the men met Friar Antonio Ma-ria Speedy. The men formed a friendship with Speedy and invited him to speak at one of their meetings to which he has done a few times. The King's Men have maintained their friendship with Speedy and on December 6, 2014, several members attended his ordination to the priesthood at Houma's St. Francis de Sales Cathedral with Bishop Shel-ton J. Fabre as the ordaining prelate.

Davidson and the King's Men members Ronnie LeGleu and Logi Guillot in-vited Speedy, along with Fri-ar Volantino, Sister Letizia, Brother Jonathan, and Sister Effata, whom they met at Speedy’s ordination, to join them for a day in Pierre Part for a tour and for a view of the scenery.

Volantino is the main friar and resides in Rome. He had mentioned his interest in see-ing all the beautiful scenery here because all he was used to in Rome was buildings and cement.

On December 17, LeGleu went to Houma to pick up the friars and sisters before returning home where he met up with Davidson, Guil-lot and his wife, Audrey. The friars and sisters were treated to lunch at Buddy's Drive Inn.

After lunch, the Guillots took the group out on their party barge to see the lake and wildlife.

"Our visit to Pierre Part's lakes and tributaries were the

ideal way of letting Italian founder Volantino experience the Louisiana culture and countryside," Effata said.

She said their group is al-ways touched by the commu-nity's southern hospitality.

Davidson and Volanti-no shared some wonderful spiritual discussions on their tour. The group thoroughly enjoyed all the wildlife they saw including bald eagles, ducks, and pelicans to name a few. Volantino even befriend-ed one little seagull that fol-lowed them all day with his Italian, "Hello and Hey!"

"The day was a wonderful way for us to unwind from the busy schedule we kept for Friar Antonio's Priestly ordi-nation." Effata said.

Volantino returned back to Rome the following day, where in Italy, he leads their community as their General Superior.

Antonio, originally from South Austrailia, is the Su-perior for the community of the Little Friars and Nuns of Jesus and Mary in Houma-Thibodeaux, The group was originally founded by Friar Volantino Verde in Sicily 15 years ago. Friar Antonio met Volantino while backpack-ing in Europe in 1999. Little Friars and Nuns of Jesus and Mary are in three Italian dio-cese and one American dio-cese (Houma-Thibodeaux). The group has 19 members. Their Mother General and co-foundress is Sister Ve-ronica who leads their fe-male branch in communion with their founder. Their community arrived in the United States four years ago through the invitation of the now Emeritus Bishop Mons. Sam Jacobs, and are now un-der the Bishop Mons. Shel-ton Fabre. After 15 years of hard work and sacrifi ce, the group fi nally celebrated its offi cial canonical approval

recognized by the Catholic Church at a diocesan level as a public association with an Episcopal Decree on May 30, 2014. This approval is an anticipation of the com-munity becoming an Institute of Consecrated life. Their charism, other than being contemplative like the fi rst Carmilitans, is also active in street evangelization like the fi rst Franciscans in poverty. They make the evangelical vows of total material pov-erty, chastity for the King-dom of God, and obedience to God through the Word and through their Holy Mother Catholic Church. Living in distinctly separate cloistered convents from the friars – sisters have a cloister desig-nated strictly and uniquely for the respective nuns; brothers vice versa – the group lives a semi contem-plative life in prayer, where later they leave the convent evangelizing the streets to-gether with their brothers in total poverty, simplicity, and professionalism, with a mis-sion of inviting people back to the Sacrament of the Holy Confession and Holy Com-munion.

"Friars have a radical de-sire to imitate Christ in each and every detail deeply as-piring to do so also by con-secrating the Holy Eucharist and celebrating the sacra-ment of reconciliation," says Antonio. He was the fi rst brother in his Italian commu-nity to have English as his native tongue and the fi rst from the community to be ordained into the Priesthood.

Since his ordination to priesthood, Antonio (now Father Antonio), celebrates weekend masses on an as needed basis for priests of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodeaux. During the week, he continues his min-istry of evangelization.

Pierre Part King's Men give Friars and Sisters a Tour of Pierre Part

Rev. Al Davidson, Logi and Audrey Guillot, and Ronnie LeGleu take the friars and sisters on a tour of Pierre Part's lake and tributaries.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The high-profi le payday lending fi ght in 2014 should not be repeated in the 2015 legislative session.

Hundreds of church lead-ers and community activists fi lled the halls during the 2014 legislative session in hopes of reining in the practices of an industry that locates mostly in low-income neighborhoods and offers short-term loans at high prices. Despite the pressure, legislators ended up passing a new law that better protects payday lenders.

Disappointed consumer advocates say they don't an-ticipate taking another run at the issue.

Jan Moller, director of the Louisiana Budget Project, tells The Advocate legislators spoke loud and clear and they did not want to restrict these loans.

The advocacy group for low- and middle-income families was one of the chief proponents of better regulat-ing payday loans.

"Clearly, we tried as hard as we could to educate poli-ticians about the destructive-ness of these loans and how to protect consumers, but the industry prevailed," Moller said, adding that a rerun would be futile unless many lawmakers have had a change of heart, and there's no sign of that.

Louisiana Payday Loan Association lobbyist Danny Ford said he doesn't expect any state activity on the issue this year, based on conversa-tions he's had with legislators. If legislation does surface, he said, he does not anticipate debate will be "as harsh as last time."

The upcoming session will

Intense payday loan battles are not likely in 2015 focus on state fi scal matters, and the rules limit legislators to introducing only fi ve bills that don't deal with fi nances. "I don't think anybody wants to give up one of their fi ve bills to get into that fi ght again," Ford said.

Certainly, Democratic state Rep. Ted James doesn't.

"I don't know that I want to use one (of the fi ve bills) on something that's going to go down," James said. His north Baton Rouge district has a lot of the payday loan shops.

Last year, James cospon-sored consumer measures that ultimately failed. The legis-lation, as introduced, would have capped interest rates at 36 percent. In hopes of win-ning support, James changed the bills to limit consumers to taking only 10 such loans per year.

Members of The King’s Men group in Pierre Part attend Friar Antonio Maria Speedy’s ordina-tion to the priesthood.

"As we entrust ourselves totally to the Lord's provi-dence hitchhiking our way through the Diocese and the whole world, our apostolate for excellence is found while in the vehicles of those who stop to give us a ride," says Antonio of his ministry. "We hope that our total depen-dence on God will make them refl ect on the futility of wor-rying about worldly goods." he added.

Other ways Antonio con-tinues to live out his ministry of evangelization is by giv-ing witnesses at schools and retreats to try and encourage youth to follow the Lord's teachings and dedicate their skills, time, and talents to serving Him and His people with their lives. He also goes out on the streets to invite people to the "Answering Basic Questions of Faith" evenings that are held every last Thursday of the month at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Houma. Through their attempts to live in evangelical poverty, sim-plicity, and professionalism, his community's mission is to invite those they meet along the streets to go to confession and receive holy Communion

(or to live a more sacramen-tal life). Antonio celebrated his fi rst Mass as a priest on Sunday, December 7, 2014, at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Houma.

To fi nd out more about the Little Friars and Nuns of Je-

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To get more information on The King's Men group you can contact the St. Jo-seph the Worker church of-fi ce at (985) 252-6008.

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Get High On Life By HAROLD KELLER

Hearts In Touch By RONNY MICHEL

What a Life! By REVEREND WILMER L. TODD

Keeping the Faith By Ronnie McBrayer

WaguespackPresident of La.

Assoc. of Business & Industry

Stephen

See TRADE, page 5

Center stage for free trade

Conventional wisdom can take many forms.

It can give you a blueprint for success or serve as an excuse for failure. It is regularly cited but of-ten ignored. It becomes the norm by proving itself over time but can be shattered in an instant.

Christopher Reeve, who played Superman in the movies and coura-geously battled personal health is-sues in real life, once said, “Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.”

Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart who changed the face of Main Street in America’s towns, advised everyone to “Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conven-tional wisdom.”

Rush Limbaugh was more direct when he simply said, “I reject most conventional wisdom.”

Whether or not you buy into this sort of thing, there is no dispute that the conventional wisdom in 2015 is that the newly elected Republi-can Congress and the approaching lame duck Democratic president will fight and argue most of this year without producing much substance. Important issues such as repealing Obamacare, approving the Keystone XL pipeline, repealing burdensome restrictions, making our tax code more competitive and improving our broken immigration system are all thought to be difficult to resolve anytime soon.

While that may or may not be proven true in the coming months, international trade appears to be an issue poised to break through the conventional wisdom and experi-ence success this year.

The president has recently sig-naled that he wants to aggressively push Congress for fast track author-ity and trade agreements this year, surprising some of his critics and frustrating some of his traditional allies in organized labor for his changed position on this topic.

In 2008, during a Democratic presidential candidate debate, then candidate Obama made it clear he would use the threat of opting out of North American Free Trade Agree-ment (NAFTA) all together in order to impose restrictions pushed by environmental and organized labor groups. However, more recently, he gave a speech to a group of U.S. CEOs and said, “Those who op-pose these trade deals ironically are accepting a status quo that is more damaging to American workers.”

The evolution of his position on free trade could produce immediate results. Republican leadership and the president are publicly agreeing on the need to act quickly on legis-lation to grant fast track approval of trade deals by Congress and pass a massive Asia-Pacific trade pact and larger agreement with the European Union that would explode exports to these regions.

According to a recent Politico article, the Asia-Pacific pact would cover about 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product and about a third of global trade, while the leg-islation needed to pass trade promo-tion authority could be a vehicle for several other free trade agreements.

Fast track authority has been a goal of many free trade advocates for years because it empowers the U.S. to negotiate aggressive trade agreements and bring them to Con-gress for a cleanup or down vote. Organized labor has typically op-posed this type of legislation be-cause they want to manipulate any negotiated trade agreement through

Recently, in a leading scien-tific magazine article, researchers showed a connection between lon-

ger life and prayer. The result of their investigation found that peo-ple who had faith in God and prayed lived longer

than those who did not have faith and did not pray. This is really not surprising since a person who trusts in God will have fewer worries than someone who relies on their own strength.

Let’s look briefly at two kinds of family prayer – the prayer between husband and wife, and the prayer of the whole family together. Prayer between husband and wife is such a powerful tool to keep married couples together and growing, yet, couples too often neglect it.

The reasons couples say they do not pray together, “We don’t have the time,” “It makes me uncom-

fortable,” “We don’t know how to pray together.” Put aside all of your excuses, and just start praying to-gether, no matter how awkward or uncomfortable you may feel. Your awkward feelings will gradually disappear.

Prayer will give you quality time together. Prayer helps us move into the deeper part of our lives – the important part that often gets left behind in the shuffle of our daily busyness. In prayer we open our-selves to hearing the voice of God in our lives.

We should always make impor-tant decisions with prayer. When we bring our important matters to prayer, it often gives us a necessary context for discussion outside our prayer time. So, often in life, we decide something without asking for God’s guidance.

Prayer can help couples experi-ence more intimacy in your rela-tionship. Prayer requires an hon-esty that can bring a husband and wife very close as they journey though life together. As you share

your thoughts and feelings in your prayer, you will come to know each other in a very deep and beautiful way. You will base your knowledge on a shared faith in a caring God who loves you both.

The second type of prayer is fam-ily prayer. When I was growing up, we used to have this saying, “The family that prays together, stays to-gether.” I think this is also true to-day. Jesus has told us, “Where two or three gather in my name, I am there among you.” Prayer brings a special presence of God. God be-comes the bond between praying family members.

Unfortunately, many families shrug their shoulders and say it cannot be done today. This is sad because we cannot allow our lives as believers to be dictated by the non-believing world. If we be-lieve in something, we know that to achieve that goal, we must do whatever we have to do.

Your family prayer time could be once a week, a few times a week, or even every day. It is up to you

to decide what would be best for your particular family. So, don’t use the excuse, “We cannot do it every day – that’s impossible.” Do it when you can, but make sure that you have some basic commitment about when that will be. Then, trust that God will help you be faithful to that commitment to prayer to-gether.

Structure your prayer so that even the youngest member can participate. Prayer is basically a conversation with God. You have to experiment with some forms of prayer until you find one that is good for your family.

Prayer changes us. Prayer changes others and families. Prayer changes the church. Prayer chang-es the world. Too many Christians are living off prayers prayed long ago. We, as families and individu-als, need to talk to our loving God about what is happening in our world today. Talk as a family this week and decide to start praying very soon. If you do, you will be blessed.

Zen Buddhists use a descrip-tive phrase that we who are Chris-tian should adopt as our own.

The phrase is “Idiot’s Com-passion.” It was first used by Chogyam Trungpa, a pro-vocative and controversial Tibetan who

helped bring Buddhism to the West in the 1970s. According to Trungpa, “Idiot’s Compassion” is this intense desire to help someone who is in need, but this benevolent desire blinds the do-gooder from seeing reality.

The classic example of such be-havior is the relationship between the addict and the enabler. Suppose an alcoholic friend comes to you in much suffering. Her body is racked by convulsions and tremors. She is financially used up. She is torment-ed by her disease. She begs you for a drink. You are persuaded to offer her a drink - just one drink - to al-leviate her immediate pain. You do

this, in your own mind, out of mer-cy. Yet, this act is far from merciful.

In providing the addict another drink, another high, or another hit, you have actually given her more of the poison that will ultimately take her life. This is not mercy. It is foolish cruelty. It is “Idiot’s Com-passion.” The Hebrew sages had a word for one who could not be helped. They called such a person a “fool.”

There was a time when a fool was merely an entertainer. Fools were common in the palaces of kings and queens, court jesters who made the monarchy laugh. It was not the most secure job, as the fool could easily be beheaded or disem-boweled for a bad joke. Thus, a fool was someone who not only had the job of being laughed at, but over time became anyone idiotic enough to even take such a job.

As the word and its use have evolved over time, a fool is some-one who simply “lacks good judg-ment.” Maybe it is immaturity. Maybe it is ignorance. Maybe it is inexperience or a lack of education.

It’s a person not capable of making good choices. The book of Proverbs goes further. In that ancient book of Hebrew wisdom, a fool is described a hundred or so times. The word means “fat,” “heavy,” or “thick.”

It is someone who is immov-able, stuck, unyielding, and stub-born. It is the person who refuses to “get it,” who refuses to learn, and refuses to accept correction or cri-tique. This person cannot be taught - not by people and not by his or her circumstances. In the words of He-brew scholar William Wilson, “The fool has a weak mind but confident expectations,” so it’s damn the tor-pedoes, full speed ahead, and noth-ing you say or do will make a bit of difference with such a person.

If you don’t believe me, go into business with a fool, marry a fool, move in with a fool, work for a fool, hire a fool, and you will discover it to be one of the most maddening experiences of your life. The better part of wisdom is to keep some dis-tance, for a fool is as dangerous and toxic as poison, and will suck you into a never-ending death dance.

Now, I know this can be hard wis-dom to accept, especially for those of us who are engineered to “help” others. We want to solve their prob-lems, be a listening friend, or offer a little support while they are down on their luck. In most cases, this is gracious and appropriate interven-tion, but when it comes to the fool, there is no fixing them. You might as well try to rescue a drowning man who is still fighting the wa-ter. Both the savior and saved will drown in the struggle.

No, I’m not advocating a lack of compassion for those who need some help along life’s way. I’m only calling attention to the fact that, in the words of the old Greek proverb, “Talking sense to a fool only makes you foolish.” For once you are tangled up with one who re-fuses to learn or listen, he has a way of making you look and behave like an idiot as well.

Ronnie McBrayer is a syndicat-ed columnist, blogger, pastor, and author of multiple books. Visit his website at www.ronniemcbrayer.me.

So if you come into my home right now, I will usher you into the kitchen

where we can sit around my table and drink coffee. Please don’t ask why the door to my dining room is closed.

Or if you want to sit in

the living room, that’s okay, too. I’ll move the laundry that’s not yet fold-ed and we can sit on the couch and talk. But we won’t go into the din-ing room. Should you want to sit at a table, there’s one on the patio, we can eat there. Just not the dining room.

Why would I steer you away from that room? Because it’s messy and

I’m not at all proud of what I’ve let it become. The table is covered with boxes and bags of stuff I bought at after-Christmas sales. But I have a good reason.

My granddaughter Olivia is cel-ebrating her second birthday at my house and she wants a Frozen-themed party. The day after Christ-mas, her mother Monique and I be-gan the hunt for snowflakes, silver décor and other snowy things.

I proudly showed my finds to my daughter Lauren as soon as I finished the first round of shopping.

“That’s nice,” she said. “But are you forgetting that Monique’s sprin-kle is the week before Olivia’s party. What are you doing for that?”

“I totally forgot about the sprin-kle.”

Until a couple of years ago, I had not heard of a sprinkle. While a baby shower is given for a woman expect-ing her first child, a smaller celebra-tion, a sprinkle, is planned for the second. For my family, it’s just an-other reason to eat cake.

Lauren stared at me in disbelief as I continued, “Can we get away with having a Frozen-themed sprinkle so I could just decorate the house one time?”

“You could call it a flurry,” my brilliant daughter-in-law Ashley sug-gested and I returned to the store in search of more icy, glistening deco-rations. That is why the dining room is off limits for now.

As I recently prayed a familiar scripture, Psalm 139:23, 24, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test

me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlast-ing,” a mental image of my dining room popped into my mind.

Like my home, there are areas of my heart I sometimes want to close off. I want to direct God to the ar-eas of improvement I’ve made, the growth I’ve achieved, and the far too few scriptures I’ve memorized. Then I want to steer Him away from atti-tudes that continue to crop up and the fear I entertain.

The pretty, shiny things stored in my dining room will come together to help create wonderful memories. The junk I try to hide in my heart has to go.

Ronny may be reached at rmi-chel@rtconline.com.

The Readers Digest has an arti-cle in every issue titled “The Most Unforgettable Character I’ve Ever

Met.” One such person was the greeter who welcomed Jeanne and me as we entered Oschner Hos-pital to visit a friend. She

was a tall, slender, black woman with a godly spirit.

Besides her appearance, another thing that got my attention was the jacket she was wearing. It was decorated with over 100 different medals representing places, orga-nizations, and patients which were given to her by people she met.

Jeanne was seated close to the

greeter’s station while I visited my friend. After the visit, I took a seat next to Jeanne and observed the greeter talking to another employ-ee and a very tall gentleman.

Being the curious person that I am, I approached the two ladies. Betty Wells was the greeter’s name and her friend was Joyce Anthony, also an employee. The tall man was Jim Singleton, former New Orleans councilman.

We chatted for a few minutes and I asked Betty how long she worked at Oschner’s.

“Thirty-five years,” she said, proudly, “and I love it!”

“How long have you been greet-ing people?”

“Five years, but prior to that, I spent 30 years in Environmental Services. I was going to retire, but

they asked me to stay and be the greeter.”

Wanting to know more about this special lady, I found out she was 79 years old, was born and raised in New Orleans, had graduated in 1954 from Gaudet Episcopal High School and attended Southern Uni-versity. She had three children, (two girls and a boy), five grand-children and five great-grandchil-dren. Her husband Andrew died in 1970.

She talked about her church, Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church, located on St. Charles and General Taylor.

She said that if it had not been for her family and Oschner Hospi-tal, she doesn’t know what would have happened to her after Katrina.

“How’s your health?”

“Pretty good. I only take one little blood pressure pill. After Ka-trina a contractor cheated me out of $10,000 for kitchen cabinets. That’s the reason for the blood pressure pill.”

Jeanne and I prayed with Mrs. Betty and I asked permission to write about our meeting and the blessing it was for us.

She’s a good example that posi-tive people are more grateful, com-plain less, live longer, enjoy life more, don’t get sick as often and recover faster when they do.

May God continue to bless this special lady!

If you have questions, or com-ments, please write to Get High on Life, P.O. Drawer U, Reserve, LA 70084, call (985) 652-8477, or e-mail: hkeller@comcast.net.

The Bayou Journal, Pierre Part, January 13, 2015, Page 5

TradeContinued from page 4

SOUTHERN LADIES AND SUFFRAGETTES BY DR. MIKI PFEFFER

The Napoleonville Li-brary will host a book talk by Dr. Miki Pfeffer on her book, "Southern Ladies & Suffragettes" on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 2 p.m. Pfeffer will be talking about her book on gender inequality using a power-point presentation. Books will be on sale at that time. Refreshments will be provided by Assumption Friends of the Library. The public is invited to attend.

LIBRARY COMPUTER FOR THOSE WITH DISABILITIES

The Napoleonville Li-brary has a computer with enlarged print for those with visual disabilities and they have priority in use of the computer. Please check with the circulation desk to be set up with this computer.

LAPTOP COMPUTERS FOR CHECKOUT

Each of the parish librar-ies in Assumption Parish have laptop computers for public checkout. Patrons must be at least 21 years of age and in good stand-ing with the library (no overdue materials or fines). Check with the branch in your location for availabil-ity and rules and regula-tions for eligibility.

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their supporters in Congress. The stalemate has held back U.S. trade policy for decades and resolving this one issue alone could open an unprec-edented era of free trade.

Louisiana can benefit great-ly from this type of break from conventional wisdom.

According to the World Trade Center of New Orleans, Louisiana is currently sixth among U.S. exporters and is rapidly closing the gap on fifth ranked Illinois. Louisi-ana is out performing the na-tional export growth rate by 4.32 percent, and accounted for 3.87 percent of the $1.208 trillion in total U.S. exports last year through the third quarter.

Petroleum based products continue to be a leading ex-port market for Louisiana, ac-counting for roughly 42 per-cent of our exports, but other strong markets like agricul-ture and chemicals continue to diversify our portfolio at an impressive rate. Primary metal manufacturing and aerospace equipment exports are on the rise, with the lat-ter being supported by a new 82,300-square-foot Bell He-licopter assembly facility in Lafayette.

Few states stand to benefit as much as we do from an aggressive approach to free trade in Congress this year.

Conventional wisdom ar-gues against it happening. The odds favor a year filled with finger pointing and name calling in Washington, D.C., but conventional wisdom has been proven wrong before.

Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive officer at HP, once said, “To build a great company, which is a CEO’s job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.”

The same is true for leading a nation. The president has signaled he is ready to work with Republicans and stand up against attacks by organized labor to aggressively support free trade. Conventional wis-dom says it wont happen, but history shows it can.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The newest mem-ber of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Second-ary Education opposes the Common Core education

standards.Mary Johnson Harris,

principal of a Shreveport elementary school, told NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune on Tuesday she

would like to see some-thing replace Common Core "that's more beneficial to our students."

Harris' position isn't en-tirely a surprise, since she

was given the temporary BESE appointment by Gov. Bobby Jindal, a leading critic of the multistate stan-dards.

That brings to four the

number of Common Core opponents on the 11-mem-ber board, not enough to strip the standards from classrooms.

Jindal named Harris to fill

the BESE seat until a March 28 election is held to choose a new member to replace Walter Lee, who resigned as part of a plea deal involving theft charges.

Newest education board member opposes Common Core

BY LONNY CAVALIERSTAFF WRITER

Already in jail in lieu of a $1 million bail accused in a 40 count indictment for pos-session of child pornography, Wilson Longanecker Jr., 42, of Sorrento, was hit this week with another volley of charg-es relating to animal cruelty.

District Judge Jessie LeB-lanc set the bond after Lon-ganecker’s arrest in October following an investigation by the attorney general’s office, Homeland Security, State Po-lice and Sheriff Jeff Wiley’s office.

Investigators found 40 por-nographic videos of children between the ages of 3 and 14 engaging in sexual activities or being posed in a sexual manner. Each of those crimes carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail and a fine of $50,000.

A bond reduction hearing was held on a motion filed by Longaneckers attorney but Judge LeBlanc denied that motion.

Longanecker was re-arrest-ed on December 29, on seven counts of animal cruelty.

An arrest affidavit indi-cated that investigators found videos and images of torture of cats on electronic devices found at the suspect’s home.

In the photos, cats were blooded and furless.

One cat had its leg broken, apparently by Longanecker.

The videos are dated from October 8, 2012, to January 9, 2013. The first date follows Longaneckers adoption of cats from PET Smart in Ba-ton Rouge.

Some of the animals were stripped of their fur with the use of duct tape.

At the time Longanecker

purchased the cats for $80 – $100, the former mayor said he was buying them for his kids.

Longanecker, a former Sor-rento councilman and mayor from 2011 to 2013 worked for the family pool business.

If convicted on the flurry of counts, Longanecker could spend the rest of his life in prison.

Charges mounting against former Sorrento mayor

Date change for senior commodities, 60 and older

The normal date for the food distribution was sched-uled for Jan. 22. Because of an upcoming conference, that date has been changed to Friday, Jan. 23.

•Napoleonville Distribution

Agriculture center on Robin Street8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.•Pierre Part DistributionAmerican Legion Hall1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. If you should have any

further questions, please contact Markel at the As-sumption Parish Police's Office AT 985-369-2026.

I am very sorry for the in-convenience. I am doing all that I can to ensure that all of seniors receive their box-es in a timely manner.

A 30-year-old Napo-leonville man was arrested Thursday on drug charges after the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Narcotics Division and SWAT team searched his home at 315 Philosopher Street.

Rodney J. Keller was charged with possession with intent to distribute Schedule 2, possession of drug para-

phernalia, carrying f a firearm by a convicted felon, illegal use of controlled dangerous substance in presence of a juvenile, and possession of a firearm in the presence of a juvenile.

Agents found cocaine and crack cocaine with an esti-mated street value of $1,000, a loaded .357 caliber revolver and almost $500 cash.

Convicted felon arrested on drugs, gun

Rodney J. KellerKeller has prior convictions

related to narcotics and is a convicted felon.

ATTENTION!

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's determined efforts to combat global warming face their big-gest trial yet as Republicans take full control of Congress this week. The GOP vows to move fast and forcefully to roll back his environmental rules and force his hand on energy development.

The GOP's first order of business: the Keystone XL pipeline. The Republican-led House has repeatedly passed legislation to approve the pipe-line, which would carry tar sands oil from Canada deep into the United States. The bills died in the Senate when Demo-crats were in control, but that will change Wednesday when a Republican-led Senate com-mittee holds a Keystone hear-ing.

"The president is going to see the Keystone XL pipeline on his desk and it's going to be a bellwether decision by the president whether to go with jobs and the economy," Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said Sunday.

Success for Republicans on the climate front would jeop-ardize a key component of Obama's legacy. And the rami-fications would likely ricochet far beyond the United States.

Later this year, nations are supposed to sign a major global climate treaty in Paris. Aggres-sive action by the U.S. under Obama has upped the pressure on other governments to get serious about climate change, too. But if Obama can't make good on his commitments at

Big threat for Obama’s climate efforts from GOP-run Congress home, it's unclear whether poorer nations will still feel compelled to act.

"The American government has been responsible for send-ing very strong political and economic signals with what they have announced so far," former Mexican President Fe-lipe Calderon, now a global climate leader, said in an Asso-ciated Press interview. "I know that there is a risk that those will be overcome by the new political reality in the U.S."

Obama has made clear he will use his veto power if Re-publicans succeed in getting hostile bills to his desk — es-pecially on climate change. "I'm going to defend gains that we've made on environment and clean air and clean water," he has said.

And Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, says the Republi-cans aren't likely to overturn his veto. That would require a number of Democrats to vote against the president.

"There's reason to be con-cerned, but I don't think there's reason to be panicked," Schatz said.

By design, Obama's biggest steps on climate rely on exist-ing laws and don't explicitly require Congress to act. But

Republicans can try to under-cut them before they take ef-fect. Republicans argue that Obama's coal plant emissions limits, for example, would devastate local economies and hamper job-creation.

These are some of the most likely ways the GOP will try to stop Obama on climate change, as described by Re-publican leadership aides:

—After Wednesday's hear-ing on Keystone, GOP sena-tors plan to work on the bill's details on Thursday and then start debating the legislation next week. The Senate could vote soon after Obama's Jan. 20 State of the Union address. A separate House vote on Key-stone could come as early as this week.

That makes Keystone likely to be one of the first bills to hit Obama's desk in 2015. White House aides decline to say how they might respond until they see the final GOP bill. But in his most recent news confer-ence, Obama spoke at length about how Keystone would basically save money for Ca-nadian energy producers, with negligible effects for U.S. gas-oline prices or American jobs.

— Republicans aim to pass legislation forcing Obama to certify — before his regula-tions on power plants take ef-fect — that they won't drive up power prices or eliminate jobs. Attaching that requirement to a broader spending bill would make it harder for Obama to veto without jeopardizing oth-er government spending.

In the "defund" approach, Republicans could pass bills prohibiting the government from spending any money to implement his EPA regula-tions. Meanwhile, states and other groups are pursuing litigation in the courts chal-lenging the administration's authority to proceed without Congress.

— The GOP could try to block Environmental Pro-tection Agency regulations directly. The Congressional Review Act enables such resolutions to pass the Senate with a simple majority vote, meaning Democrats couldn't filibuster, once the regulations became final. That's sched-uled to happen this year for Obama's carbon dioxide rule, which aims to cut power plant emissions nearly a third from 2005 levels.

— Lawmakers could re-fuse to give Obama the $3 billion he has already pledged on the country's behalf to a global fund to help poorer na-tions address climate change. Obama hasn't yet asked Con-gress for any money to fulfill

that pledge. The White House says the administration will make its first request in its budget plan for fiscal year 2016, which begins Oct. 1.

— Republicans are likely to send Obama bills aimed at spurring energy development

in the U.S., such as promot-ing drilling on federal lands or making it easier to export gas and oil. Many of these bills have previously passed the House and are teed up for quick passage by the new Congress.

Page 6, The Bayou Journal, Pierre Part, January 13, 2015

I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7. She Departed this life on Sat-urday, January 4, 2015, at her residence in Donaldsonville, LA. She was 95, and a native of Napoleonville, LA. Visit-ing at Williams & Southall Funeral Home, 5414 Hwy. 1, Napoleonville, LA, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm. Visiting at Shekinah Glory Christian Fellowship Center in St. James, LA on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, from 9:00 am to Religious Servic-es at 11:00 am. Burial in the church cemetery. Survived by 1 son, Wilbert (Brenda) Hall of Belle Rose, LA; 2 daugh-ters, Bernita Hall- Landry and Bernella (Vernon) Williams of Donaldsonville, LA; 5 grand-children ,1 great-great grand-child, and a host of other rela-tives and friends. Preceded in death by her husband, Robert Hall; parents, George and Leoler Thomas and 1 brother, George Thomas. Arrange-ments by Williams & South-all Funeral Home, 5414 Hwy. 1, Napoleonville, LA, (985) 369-7231.

Gordon Jones, Sr.He Departed this life on

Thursday, January 1, 2015, at his residence in Labadieville, LA. He was 63, and a native of Labadieville, LA. Visiting at Williams & Southall Fu-neral Home, Napoleonville, LA, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Reli-gious Services at Moses Bap-tist Church in Thibodaux, LA, on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, at 10:00 am. Burial in the church cemetery. Survived by 3 daughters, Gardana Williams of Tampa, FL, Kylie Jones of Lafayette, LA, and Kayla Thompson of Thibodaux, LA.; 1 son, Gordon (Brandy) Jones Jr. of Thibodaux, LA; 2 brothers, Rev. Lloyd (Mar-ion) Jones, Jr. of Napoleon-ville, LA; and Richard (Janet) Jones of Thibodaux, LA; 5 sisters, Emmojean (Mercer Sr.) Wade of Atlanta, GA; Yvonne Williams of Napo-leonville, LA; Yvette Porter of Elizabethtown, KY; Vir-gie Davis of Houma, LA and Jane (Harold) Campbell of Austin, TX. 3 grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews,

Southern "Boo Man" Harvey Jr.

A retired employee of the Assumption Parish Police Jury, died on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014 at Thibodaux Re-gional Medical Center. He was 75, a native of Napoleon-ville, LA and a resident of Paincourtville, LA. Visiting at Williams & Southall Funeral Home, 5414 Hwy 1, Napo-leonville, LA from 2:00pm to 4:30pm Monday, Jan. 5, 2015. Visiting at Bright Morning Star Baptist Church, Napo-leonville, LA from 9:00am to Religious Services at 11:00am Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. Burial in the Church Cemetery. Sur-vived by his wife, Barbara F. Harvey of Paincourtville, LA; 2 daughters, Tanya Re-nee (Donald) Johnson of Thibodaux, LA, and Yvette Thompson of Labadieville, LA; 3 sisters, Ida Cooks, An-nette, and Joyce Ann Harvey;3 brothers, Samuel, Frank, and Gerald Harvey; Also 9 grand-children, and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Preceded in death by his parents, Lillian and South-ern Harvey, Sr.; 1 sister, Mary Lee Fortner; 2 brothers, Percy and Freddie Harvey. Arrange-ments by Williams & Southall Funeral Home, 5414 Hwy. 1, Napoleonville, LA 985 369-7231.

Leroy L. MatherneSeptember 8, 1917 - Janu-

ary 3, 2015. Funeral services for Leroy L. Matherne will be held at an 11:00 AM Mass of Christian burial on Wednes-day, January 7, 2015, at Im-maculate Conception Catho-lic Church in Charenton, He will be laid to rest with Mili-tary Honors in the Immacu-late Conception Cemetery. Father Gregory Cormier will be the celebrant for the Mass and conduct the services. A gathering of family and friends will be held Tuesday, January 6, at Ibert's Mortuary from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM, with the rosary being prayed at 7:00 PM. Visitation will resume Wednesday, January 7, at Ibert's Mortuary from 8:00 AM until time of dis-missal at 10:30 AM. Leroy, a loving husband, father, and grandfather, was born on Sep-tember 8, 1917 in Pierre Part to the late Paul Matherne and Christine Breaux Matherne. On April 9, 1945 he married the love of his life, Bessie Ruiz and the two settled in Charenton, where they dedi-cated their lives to each other and their family. Mr. Leroy was a veteran of the United States Army having served during World War II, serv-ing in Pearl Harbor at the time of the infamous bomb-ing. He worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers for 20 years as an inspector out of the Lafayette District. He

passed away at the age of 97 on Saturday, January 3, 2015, at Iberia Medical Center in New Iberia. Survivors include two children, Gary Matherne and his wife Joan of Baton Rouge, and Iris M. Seneca and her husband Michael of Bayou Vista; two grandchil-dren, Michele S. Picou and her husband Billy of Patter-son and Eric Seneca of New Iberia; four great grandchil-dren, Devin and Lexi Seneca, and Taylor and Caitlyn Pi-cou; and four sisters, Vernice Theriot, Pearl Ross, Melva Simoneaux, and Ruth Daigle. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Bessie Ruiz Matherne; two brothers, Percy and Lloyd Matherne; and four sisters, May Rogacki, Audrey Hedg-es, Virginia Matherne, and Jane Clement. Those prefer-ring to make memorial contri-butions, the family asks that you consider the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), at P.O. Box 14301 Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301, or online at www.dav.org/Donate. Fam-ily and friends may view the obituary and express their condolences online by visit-ingwww.iberts.com. Arrange-ments have been entrusted to Ibert's Mortuary, Inc., 1007 Main St., Franklin, LA (337) 828-5426.

Joycelin Marie Aucoin Joycelin Marie Aucoin, 78,

passed away peacefully on January 5, 2015, at Heritage

Manor in Napoleon -ville sur-rounded by her loving family and friends. She was a native and resi-

dent of Napoleonville. Joy-celin was a die-hard Saints fan and enjoyed watching them play. She was a loving mother, grandmother, aunt, and friend. Joycelin is sur-vived by her two daughters and sons-in-law, Tonie and Carroll Aucoin and Vicki and Ernie Breaux; five grandchil-dren, Nicholas Breaux, Abbie Hue and husband, Jason, Jody Breaux and fiancé, Nicole Pa-niville, Sunnie LeGleu, and Brittany Gil and husband, Fabian; seven great grand-children, John, Blaze, Ciara, Braden, Bentley, Mollie, and Kaden; one brother-in-law, Aubrey Richard; two nieces, Rachel Richard and Monica Richard Hebert; four great nieces and nephews, Justin, Jacie, Maison, and Matthew Rivere; and her loving pet, Sunshine. Preceded in death by her parents, Levie Tem-plet and Abbie Aucoin; and two sisters, Elizabeth "Betty" LaBella and Shirley Richard. Visitation will be held on Thursday, January 8, 2015, at

9:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. at Ourso Funeral Home in Pierre Part. Mass of Christian Burial to follow at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Pierre Part at 12:00 p.m. Pri-vate Burial will be held at a later date. Family would like to give a special thank you to Dr. Keith Landry, Dr. Eric Gravois, nurses, nursing as-sistance and staff at Heritage Manor, and Cardinal Hospice.

Henry "Dollar Bill" CarrRetired employee at Nich-

olls State University, departed this life on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015, at his residence. He was 92, a native and resident of Napoleonville, LA. Visiting at Williams & Southall Funer-al Home, Napoleonville, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Thurs-day, Jan. 8, 2015. Visiting at St. Charles Baptist Church in Paincourtville, LA, on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 from 9:00 am to Religious Services at 11:00 am. Burial in the church cem-etery. Survived by a host of nieces, nephews other rela-tives and friends. Preceded in death by his wife, Mary Carr; 1 son, Nathaniel Carr; Par-ents, Stella and Walter Carr. Arrangements by Williams & Southall Funeral Home, 5414 Hwy. 1, Napoleonville, LA, (985) 369-7231.

Lawrence "Ga" Frazier He Departed this life on

Tuesday, January 6, 2015, at Thibodaux Regional Medical Center in Thibodaux, LA. He was 63, and a native and resi-dent of Napoleonville, LA. Visiting at Williams & South-all Funeral Home, 5414 Hwy. 1, Napoleonville, LA, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Religious Services at Shekinah Glory Chris-tian Fellowship Center in St. James, LA on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015 at 2:00 pm. Burial in the church cemetery. Survived by his wife, Patricia Frazier of Napoleonville, LA.; 3 daugh-ters, Marcia (Derek) Frazier-Hampton of Dallas, GA, Per-petra and Kristy Frazier both of Baton Rouge, LA; 3 broth-ers, Weldon (Isabelle) Frazier of New Orleans, LA, Luther (Gwen) Frazier of Sacramen-to, CA and Wilfred (Deme-trius) Frazier of New Orleans, LA.; 2 sisters, Ethel Frazier and Doris Frazier Price both of Thibodaux, LA.; 2 grand-children and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, Wilbert and Hattie Frazier; 2 brothers, Alvin and Ernest Peter Fra-zier and 2 sisters, Rosetta Fra-zier and Eva Davis. Arrange-ments by Williams & Southall Funeral Home, 5414 Hwy 1, Napoleonville, LA 985-369-7231.

Lillie Mae Hall "I have fought a good fight,

relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his par-ents: Lloyd and Naomi Jones, his sisters Joyce J. Barrio and JoAnn Jones. Arrangements by Williams & Southall Fu-neral Home, 5414 Hwy. 1, Napoleonville, LA, (985) 369-7231.

Shirley Marie Aucoin Shirley Marie Aucoin, 77,

passed away peacefully on January 9, 2015 surrounded by her loving family at her son’s home in Patterson, LA. She was a native of Belle River. Shirley was a great cook and truly enjoyed boiled crabs. She was a loving moth-er, grandmother, aunt, and friend. Shirley is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Clayton Sr. and Christine Au-coin; one stepdaughter, Lenia Mayon; four grandchildren, Tosha and Chad Domingue, Clayton Jr. and Brandi Au-coin, Devin and Kayla Au-coin, and Rickey Jr. and Kay-lan Gros; three step grandchil-dren, Vickey Caillet, Chad Aucoin, and Chantelle Tilley; four great-granddaughters, Caelin Aucoin, Lakota Au-coin, Shyanne Aucoin, and Hadley Gros; ten great-grand-sons, Drakkar Domingue, Tristin Domingue, Trace Ouf-nac, Colby Aucoin, Wyatt Aucoin, Ryut Aucoin, Izea Roberts, Landon Gros, Chris-tian Gros, and Gage Gros; one great-great grandchild, Dax-ton Domingue; three sisters, Anna Belle Blanchard, Virgis Acosta, and Geneva Edwards; three brothers, Wilson Landry, Nelson Landry, and Gilbert Landry. Shirley is preceded in death by her husband, Edward “Fry” Aucoin; her parents, Gibson and Cerelia Landry; step son, Edwin “EJ” Au-coin; step grandson, Rickey Mayon; and son-in-law, Ster-ling Mayon. Visitation will be held at Ourso Funeral Home in Pierre Part Sunday, Janu-ary 11, 2015 from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Visitation will resume at the funeral home Monday, January 12, 2015 from 8:00 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. Following, there will be a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Joseph the Worker Catho-lic Church in Pierre Part at 11:00 a.m. Interment to fol-low in church cemetery.

Obituaries

THANK YOUThe family of Bronson Daigle would like to

thank the Pierre Part Fire and Rescue and first responders for their quick response time,

professionalism, and compassion during the loss of our little angel. We would also like to thank Father Al, Pastor Jerry and Reverend

Joey for their comfort and prayers. Sincerely,

Cindy and Stacy MabileKim Morrison and Nick Daigle

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Louisiana duck hunt-ing this winter has offered a mixed bag of success, although some corners of the state have had better harvests than others, ac-cording Louisiana De-partment of Wildlife and Fisheries waterfowl study leader Larry Reynolds, as well has hunters who fre-quent the state's hotspots.

"Overall around the state, hunters did pretty well in the first split, but not so much in the sec-ond split," said Reynolds, who regularly visits with hunters statewide. "After the first split, we had a lot of warm, stale, wind-less days and the lack of wind didn't blow the birds around the state. It appears it was good along the coast until the rain last week."

Reynolds said he talked to one group of coastal hunters who harvested 19 ducks on Friday, 12 on Saturday but just one on Sunday.

"They said they were looking forward to doing some more deer hunting," Reynolds said chuckling.

Kelly Haydel, who pri-marily hunts the marshes around Lake Charles and the Sabine Wildlife Ref-uge, said successful duck hunting has been depen-dent on the weather. The two early cold fronts the state received brought a big push of birds south.

"Unfortunately, we got some south winds that pushed the birds back up past the freeze line," he said. "The weather we're getting right now should help shift the birds. The migration of 200 to 300 miles is usually controlled by the wind. We look for the weather changes to refuel the birds in the southwest."

Mike Smith, operator of LA Marsh Guide Service in Saint Bernard (New Orleans area) hasn't had a problem finding ducks for his customers.

"It's been the best hunt-ing we've had in years - the best season since 2011. We've only had one slow day and that was the day after Christ-mas," White said. "We're getting a lot of redheads and gadwalls, along with some teal. We've killed every species except ring-necks."

White said the dearth of water in southern Arkan-sas and North Louisiana has helped his business.

"Cold weather and a lack of water in North Louisiana is a recipe for good duck hunting on the coast," he said.

Bossier City's Lloyd Webb has been hunting the Red River since 1992 and his success this win-ter was decent early, not so much of late.

"We'd call the early hunting average, but we didn't get many gray ducks and that's our bread and butter," Webb said. "We had a better than av-erage number of mallards on certain days."

Webb said the birds he and his friends are find-ing right now are local

Louisiana duck hunting offers mixed bag birds.

"The only way to get them is you have to know where they are and set up there," he explained. "We'll be lucky to get any more flight days this year. It's just about over. We live for the flight days, but we missed a lot of flight days this win-ter."

Northeast Louisiana also encountered a mixed bag, according to LDWF Commission member Ronny Graham of Rus-ton, who hunts on land in Caldwell Parish.

"I didn't have much success on my land, but I know others did," Gra-ham said. "But there are the same number of ducks we had 20 years ago with probably twice as many hunters and twice as much water. The ducks have a lot more op-portunity about where to go."

Reynolds said he talk-ed to another group of hunters who hunt on the McGowan Break (near Bastrop) and they said they've had their best season in years.

"It's like that some-time," Reynolds said.

Haydel, who said he has seen a lot of pintails in Cameron Parish, said hunters north of I-10 have done well on mal-lards.

He has a friend who found success on Caddo Lake after the first few cold fronts, but not much since.

"If the season opened a week earlier — the earli-est possible day in No-vember — it would help things up here more," Haydel said. "In the

marsh for us, we don't get many mallards," he said.

Salvinia on the Red River has affected the duck hunting there, along with pressure of hunters seeking a public venue for their hunts, Haydel said.

Reynolds recently re-leased his latest aerial waterfowl report and it included 82,000 ducks counted in the Catahoula Lake area (east of Alex-andria). The number was significantly lower than the 144,000 birds counted

in November, but greater than the 76,000 counted in December 2013.

"There hasn't been a lot of food production in that area," Reynolds ex-plained.

The survey was con-ducted two days after the close of the first split of the duck hunting season, and "that likely influenc-es the counts compared to past surveys con-ducted after more than a week of closed season due to 12-day instead of just 5-day splits," the re-port said.

The Bayou Journal, Pierre Part, January 13, 2015, Page 7

LegalsASSUMPTION PARISH POLICE JURY

MEETING MINUTES FOR WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2014

Finance Committee MeetingOf theAssumption Parish Police Jury

Wednesday, December 17, 20145:00 O’clock p.m.

1. Committee members recorded as present were: Mr. Patrick Lawless, Vice-Chairman; Mr. Jeff Naquin, Mr. Booster Breaux.Committee members recorded as absent were: Mr. Henry Dupre, Mr. Martin Triche.Other Police Jurors recorded as present were: Mr. Irving Comeaux, Mr. Calvin James, Mr. Myron Matherne.

2. Committee member Booster Breaux offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Jeff Na-quin, “THAT, the committee approve payment of the bills submitted through De-cember 12, 2014.” The motion was unanimously adopted.

3. Committee member Booster Breaux offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Jeff Na-quin, “THAT, the committee approve payment of the bills submitted from December 15, 2014 through the year end.” The motion was unanimously adopted.

4. Vice-Chairman Patrick Lawless recognized the Secretary-Treasurer, who stated that the 2015 Jail Physician contract renewal with Dr. Keith Landry has the same terms and conditions and recommends acceptance.

5. Committee member Booster Breaux offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Jeff Na-quin, “THAT, the committee approve and accept the 2015 Jail Physician renewal contract with Dr. Keith Landry.” The motion was unanimously adopted.

6. The Secretary-Treasurer then stated that the 2015 Polling Place contracts are an annual renewal with the same locations. She then recommended approval.

7. Committee member Booster Breaux offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Jeff Na-quin, “THAT, the committee approve and accept the 2015 Polling Place contract renewals.” The motion was unanimously adopted.

8. Committee member Jeff Naquin offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Booster Breaux, “THAT, the committee approve and authorize the renewal of the boat launch lease with BR&T, Inc. for the year 2015.” The motion was unanimously adopted.

9. Vice-Chairman Patrick Lawless recognized the Secretary-Treasurer, who pro-ceeded to review the fi nal amended budgets for 2014. General Fund total revenues are $2,777,053, total expenditures are $2,232,140, an excess of $544,913, trans-fers in $25,673, transfers out ($479,308), a beginning fund balance of $7,527,773, an ending fund balance of $7,619,051. Summary of Special Revenue Funds to-tal revenues are $12,791,888, total expenditures are $10,813,270, an excess of $1,978,618, transfers in $1,839,048, transfers out ($1,386,443), a beginning fund balance of $13,741,769, an ending fund balance of $16,172,992. Summary of Capitol Projects total revenues are $60,218, total expenditures are $48,120, an excess of $12,098, transfers in $980, a beginning fund balance of $390,883, an ending fund balance of $403,961. Grand total total revenues are $15,629,159, total expenditures are $13,093,530, an excess of $2,535,629, transfers in $1,865,701 transfers out ($1,865,751), a beginning fund balance of $21,660,425, an ending fund balance of $24,196,004.

10. General Fund total revenues are $2,777,053, total expenditures are $2,232,140, an excess of $544,913, transfers in $25,673, transfers out ($479,308), a beginning fund balance of $7,527,773, an ending fund balance of $7,619,051.

11. 1% Sales Tax total revenues are $2,620,490, total expenditures are $990,134, an excess of $1,630,356, transfers out ($1,272,339), a beginning fund balance of $1,686,701, an ending fund balance of $2,044,718.

12. Road & Bridge total revenues are $276,178, total expenditures are $1,412,256, a defi ciency of ($1,136,078), transfer in $1,094,400, a beginning fund balance of $609,640, an ending fund balance of $567,962.

13. Solid Waste total revenues are $2,237,117, total expenditures are $2,159,817, an excess of $77,300, a beginning fund balance of $1,301,916, an ending fund balance of $1,379,216.

14. Off Duty Offi cer Fund total revenues are $39,430, total expenditures are $12,023, an excess of $27,407, transfers out ($30,000), a beginning fund balance of $6,822, an ending fund balance of $4,229.

15. Criminal Court Fund total revenues are $146,322, total expenditures are $313,114, a defi ciency of ($166,792), transfers in $170,000, transfers out ($4,273), a beginning fund balance of $5,338, an ending fund balance of $4,273.

16. Library Fund total revenues are $979,159, total expenditures are $857,846, an excess of $121,313, transfer in $225,000, a beginning fund balance of $1,770,913, an ending fund balance of $2,117,226.

17. Road Lighting District #1 total revenues are $129,571, total expenditures are $60,803, an excess of $68,768, a beginning fund balance of $357,041, an ending fund balance of $425,809.

18. Consolidated Road Lighting #1 total revenues are $67,473, total expenditures are $59,152, an excess of $8,321, a beginning fund balance of $277,608, an end-ing fund balance of $285,929.

19. Library Construction Fund total revenues are $13,078, total expenditures are $0, an excess of $13,078, a beginning fund balance of $390,883, an ending fund balance of $403,961.

20. OEP Federal Grants Fund total revenues are $47,354, total expenditures are $38,214, an excess of $9,140, a beginning fund balance of $1,324, an ending fund balance of $10,464.

21. OEP Special Industry Fund total revenues are $471,734, total expenditures are $300,251, an excess of $171,483, a beginning fund balance of $193,377, an ending fund balance of $364,860.

22. Offi ce of Emergency Preparedness total revenues are $145,906, total expen-ditures are $384,281, a defi ciency of ($238,375), transfer in $150,000, a beginning fund balance of $116,692, an ending fund balance of $28,317.

23. ½% Sales Tax Fund total revenues are $1,163,180, total expenditures are $119,103, an excess of $1,044,077, transfers out ($75,000), a beginning fund bal-ance of $1,365,158, an ending fund balance of $2,334,235.

24. ¼% Sales Tax (Drainage) total revenues are $580,682, total expenditures are $394,064, an excess of $186,618, transfer out ($980), a beginning fund balance of $778,746, an ending fund balance of $964,384.

25. “911” Parish Communications District total revenues are $247,287, total expen-ditures are $193,029, an excess of $54,258, a beginning fund balance of $746,693, an ending fund balance of $800,951.

26. Consolidated Fire District (Pierre Part-Belle River) total revenues are $217,539, total expenditures are $203,859, an excess of $13,680, a beginning fund balance of $191,026, an ending fund balance of $204,706.

27. Consolidated Fire District (Paincourtville) total revenues are $218,731, total expenditures are $218,731, a beginning fund balance of $191,557, an ending fund balance of $191,557.

28. Consolidated Fire District (Napoleonville) total revenues are $204,989, total expenditures are $204,989, a beginning fund balance of $171,508, an ending fund balance of $171,508.

29. Consolidated Fire District (Bayou L’Ourse) total revenues are $129,256, to-tal expenditures are $119,371, an excess of $9,885, a beginning fund balance of $109,540, an ending fund balance of $119,425.

30. Council on Aging total revenues are $974,923, total expenditures are $968,541, an excess of $6,382, a beginning fund balance of $719,609, an ending fund bal-ance of $725,991.

31. Committee member Henry Dupre entered the meeting at this time.

32. Consolidated Fire District (Labadieville) total revenues are $167,955, total ex-penditures are $167,955, a beginning fund balance of $140,221, an ending fund balance of $140,221.

33. Public Buildings Fund total revenues are $267,547, total expenditures are $218,020, an excess of $49,527, a beginning fund balance of $1,216,504, an end-ing fund balance of $1,266,031.

34. La Cooperative Extension total revenues are $176,359, total expenditures are $211,364, a defi ciency of ($35,005), a beginning fund balance of $369,000, an ending fund balance of $333,995.

35. Mosquito Abatement total revenues are $125,213, total expenditures are $73,802, an excess of $51,411, a beginning fund balance of $249,400, an ending fund balance of $300,811.

36. Library Board Fund total revenues are $14,042, total expenditures are $10,116, an excess of $3,926, a beginning fund balance of $10,999, an ending fund balance of $14,925.

37. Consolidated Sewer District total revenues are $76,841, total expenditures are $81,514, a defi ciency of ($4,673), transfers in $10,000, a beginning fund balance of $2,817, an ending fund balance of $8,144. 38. Lower Belle River Drainage District #12 total revenues are $1,833, total expen-ditures are $1,382, an excess of $451, a beginning fund balance of $13,022, an ending fund balance of $13,473.

39. Labadieville Drainage District #3 total revenues are $2,338, total expenditures are $5, an excess of $2,333, a beginning fund balance of $12,183, an ending fund balance of $14,516.

40. Marais Drainage District total revenues are $1,479, total expenditures are $0, an excess of $1,479, a beginning fund balance of $5,839, an ending fund balance of $7,318.

41. Hard Times Drainage District total revenues are $1,125, total expenditures are $0, an excess of $1,125, a beginning fund balance of $21,816, an ending fund balance of $22,941.

42. Landry Subdivision Gravity Drainage District #7 total revenues are $20,099, total expenditures are $21,314, a defi ciency of ($1,215), a beginning fund balance of $45,843, an ending fund balance of $44,628.

43. Oakridge Subdivision Drainage District #8 total revenues are $5,287, total ex-penditures are $2,629, an excess of $2,658, transfers out ($3,000), a beginning fund balance of $5,131, an ending fund balance of $4,789.

44. Committee member Martin Triche entered the meeting at this time.

45. Northwest Side LA 70 Drainage District #9 total revenues are $5,934, total ex-penditures are $3,490, an excess of $2,444, a beginning fund balance of $17,981, an ending fund balance of $20,425.

46. Knotts Gravity Drainage District #11 total revenues are $3,020 total expendi-tures are $1,451, an excess of $1,569, a beginning fund balance of $21,201, an ending fund balance of $22,770.

47. LA 70 to Lee Drive Drainage District #14 total revenues are $7,890, total expen-ditures are $5,653, an excess of $2,237, a beginning fund balance of $18,860, an ending fund balance of $21,097.

48. Pierre Part/Belle River Recreation District Ball Park #2 total revenues are $286, total expenditures are $16,491, a defi ciency of ($16,205), transfers in $10,000, a beginning fund balance of $11,636, an ending fund balance of $5,431.

49. Pierre Part/Belle River Recreation District Veteran’s Park total revenues are $155,130, total expenditures are $106,400 an excess of $48,730, transfers in $35,000, a beginning fund balance of $184,363, an ending fund balance of $268,093.

50. Assumption Gravity Drainage District #2 total revenues are $14,033, total ex-penditures are $34, an excess of $13,999, a beginning fund balance of $195,628, an ending fund balance of $209,627.

51. Assumption Gravity Drainage District #5 (Plattenville) total revenues are $1,253, total expenditures are $2, an excess of $1,251, a beginning fund balance of $17,470, an ending fund balance of $18,721.

52. Bertrandville Recreation District total revenues are $171, total expenditures are $0, an excess of $171, a beginning fund balance of $2,134, and ending fund balance of $2,305.

53. Bayou L’Ourse Gravity Drainage District #1 total revenues are $58,779, to-tal expenditures are $30,000, an excess of $28,779, a beginning fund balance of $106,177, an ending fund balance of $134,956.

54. Bayou L’Ourse Recreation District #1 total revenues are $169,177, total expen-ditures are $65,000, an excess of $104,177, a beginning fund balance of $391,554, an ending fund balance of $495,731.

55. Community Development Fund total revenues are $1,000, total expenditures are $132,126, a defi ciency of ($131,126), transfer in $143,847, transfers out ($851), a beginning fund balance of $31,663, an ending fund balance of $43,533.

56. Energy Assistance Program total revenues are $13,447 total expenditures are $13,447, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

57. Emergency Food & Shelter total revenues are $7,688, total expenditures are $7,688, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

58. Section 8 Housing total revenues are $306,258, total expenditures are $342,188, a defi ciency of ($35,930), a beginning fund balance of $47,904, an end-ing fund balance of $11,974.

59. Community Services Block Grant FY 12-14 total revenues are $362, total ex-penditures are $382, a defi ciency of ($20), a beginning fund balance of $20, an ending fund balance of $0.

60. Emergency Medical Services total revenues are $536, total expenditures are $769, a defi ciency of ($233), a beginning fund balance of $884, an ending fund balance of $651.

61. Community Services Block Grant FY 13-15 total revenues are $76,390, total expenditures are $76,390, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

62. Capital Outlay (Belle Rose Library) total revenues are $0, total expenditures are $0, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

63. Atmos Energy Program total revenues are $0, total expenditures are $0, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

64. Community Action Agency Advisory Board total revenues are $0 total expendi-tures are $0, a beginning fund balance of $126, an ending fund balance of $126.

65. Emergency Shelter Grant total revenues are $6,195, total expenditures are $7,180, a defi ciency of ($985), transfers in $801, a beginning fund balance of $184, an ending fund balance of $0.

66. Local Government Assistance Program (CWEF – Raw Water Pump Replace-ment) total revenues are $89,100, total expenditures are $89,100, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

67. Local Government Assistance Program (Landry Subdivision Natural Gas Pump) total revenues are $44,515, total expenditures are $45,495, a defi ciency of ($980), transfer in $980, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

68. Local Government Assistance Program (CWEF – Bayou Crossings) total rev-enues are $117,800, total expenditures are $117,800, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

69. Local Government Assistance Program (Oak Lane Project) total revenues are $2,625, total expenditures are $2,625, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

70. Local Government Assistance Program (CWEF – Raw Water Intake) total rev-enues are $0, total expenditures are $0, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

71. LCDBG Disaster Recovery Program total revenues are $27,079,387, total expenditures are $27,079,387, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

72. Coastal Impact Assistance Program total revenues are $5,774,146, total ex-penditures are $5,774,146, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund bal-ance of $0.

73. Atchafalaya Basin Program (Veteran Park Phase V) total revenues are $120,200, total expenditures are $120,200, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

74. Transportation Enhancement Project (La Hwy 1 Scenic Highway) total rev-enues are $286,900, total expenditures are $349,000, a defi ciency of ($62,100), transfers in $62,100, a beginning fund balance of $0, an ending fund balance of $0.

75. Committee member Booster Breaux offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Jeff Naquin, “THAT, the committee approve and accept the fi nal amended budgets for 2014 as presented.” The motion was unanimously adopted.

76. Committee member Booster Breaux offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Jeff Naquin, “THAT, there being no further business to come before the Finance Com-mittee, the meeting be adjourned.” The motion was unanimously adopted.______________________________ ______________________________Kim M. Torres Patrick Lawless, Vice ChairmanSecretary-Treasurer Finance Committee

Engineering/Grants Committee MeetingOf theAssumption Parish Police Jury

Wednesday, December 17, 20145:30 O’clock p.m.

1. Committee members recorded as present were: Mr. Irving Comeaux, Chairman; Mr. Henry Dupre, Mr. Patrick Lawless, Mr. Jeff Naquin, Mr. Martin Triche.Other Police Jurors recorded as present were: Mr. Calvin James, Mr. Booster Breaux, Mr. Myron Matherne.

2. Chairman Irving Comeaux recognized the OEP Director, who stated that he received an email from FEMA indicating that they received the information that was submitted by the contractor Mr. Hubbard of GEC. He stated that the review process is underway and additional information may be requested.

3. The OEP Director then stated that after the last meeting, he and Juror Henry Dupre talked about the voluntary evacuation that was declared in the Bayou Corne area. He then stated that he received an email from the Offi ce of Conservation legal counsel stating that Texas Brine legal counsel has given the Offi ce of Conser-vation verbal notifi cation to prepare for a request for a public hearing. This hearing is to discuss evacuation assistance payments in accordance to their permits. He then stated that there is a process, to request the hearing, advertisement in the local and state journal and a 45 day waiting period before the hearing is actually called. A brief discussion was then held regarding the voluntary evacuation and the pay-ment assistance being offi cial. Following the discussion, Mr. Rousseau stated that the Parish sets the standards in place for the mandatory evacuation however, there was seismic activity at the sinkhole within the last two (2) weeks, the gas bubbles are still there, etc. So with that, the standards have not been met but the Parish is making changes.In response, the OEP Director explained that the Blue Ribbon Commission re-viewed all of the objectives that were set at the beginning and gave the recom-mendations of what standards should be set and they are being utilized. He further explained what was being done to meet the Blue Ribbon Commission standards before a complete lifting of the evacuation.Mr. Rousseau then asked that the Parish follow the guidelines that were set in ac-cordance with the evacuation. He further stated that he could have been notifi ed earlier about the decision of the reduction to voluntary evacuation.Committee member Martin Triche stated that the OEP Director has been involved since day one (1) and he has been, for the most part, on top of the matter making sure everything was followed therefore, the decision that was made was not made lightly and with much caution.The OEP Director further explained that under the disaster act, the Parish is re-quired to evaluate the risk and make the proper evacuation notice in accordance to that risk and that is what has been done with the evidence that has been provided.

4. Chairman Irving Comeaux recognized committee member Henry Dupre, who stated that he attended a public hearing regarding the by-pass/detour route on Hwy 70. He stated that when fi rst discussed, it was supposed to be, if needed, they would create a detour route by placing some material quickly. He then stated that they are now talking about a plan that can take from 18 months to 2 years for completion. He further stated that the Parish needs to meet with DOTD and discuss what will determine the closing of Hwy 70.A brief discussion was then held regarding the temporary detour route for Hwy 70. Following the discussion, the OEP Director stated that there is also a permanent route that will reconnect with Hwy 70 to create a straight road alignment. He also stated that the emergency route would only take up to three (3) weeks to construct. The discussion continued and the committee agreed that a letter be sent to DOTD requesting information.

5. Committee member Henry Dupre offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Martin Triche, ‘THAT, the committee approve sending a letter to DOTD requesting a guideline/trigger point on initiating the detour route on Hwy 70 in the event the road begins to sink near the sinkhole.” The motion was unanimously adopted.

6. Chairman Irving Comeaux recognized the Parish Engineer, who presented the committee with a cost estimate for the Assumption/LSU Ag-Center Building Interior Renovation Project. He stated that Rick Louque contacted him regarding the two (2) phase process that he had to renovate the existing Ag-Center. He then stated that the 1st phase was to seal the building therefore, the exterior phase has been completed. He stated that at this point Mr. Louque is interested in getting the de-sign work for the interior renovation phase as well as the A/C. These renovations would defi nitely bring the building up to code.

7. Committee member Jeff Naquin offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Henry Dupre, “THAT, the committee approve an engineering contract with CJ Savoie Engineering for the Assumption/LSU Ag Center Offi ce Building Interior Renovations Project in the amount of $157,000.” The motion was unanimously adopted.

8. Committee member Jeff Naquin offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Patrick Law-less, “THAT, there being no further business to come before the Engineering/Grants Committee, the meeting be adjourned.” The motion was unanimously adopted.______________________________ ______________________________Kim M. Torres Irving Comeaux, ChairmanSecretary-Treasurer Engineering/Grants Committee

Public Hearing (Proposed Budgets for 2015)Of theAssumption Parish Police Jury

Wednesday, December 17, 20145:50 O’clock p.m.

1. Committee members recorded as present were: Mr. Martin Triche, Chairman; Mr. Patrick Lawless, Mr. Jeff Naquin, Mr. Irving Comeaux, Mr. Calvin James, Mr. Henry Dupre, Mr. Booster Breaux, Mr. Myron Matherne.Committee member recorded as absent was: Mr. Patrick Johnson.

2. Chairman Martin Triche stated that the purpose of the public hearing was to hear comments, questions or concerns regarding the proposed budgets for 2015. He opened the meeting to the public.

3. Following three (3) calls, there were no comments received. Therefore, he re-quested that the public hearing be closed.

4. Committee member Booster Breaux offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Jeff Na-quin, “THAT, there being no further business to come before the Assumption Parish Police Jury, the meeting be adjourned.” The motion was unanimously adopted.______________________________ ______________________________Kim M. Torres Martin S. TricheSecretary-Treasurer Chairman

Regular MeetingOf theAssumption Parish Police Jury

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Page 8, The Bayou Journal, Pierre Part, January 13, 2015

Legals

SOUTH CENTRAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTCOMMISSION

INVITATION TO BIDDERSSealed bids will be received on Monday, January 26, 2015, by South Cen-tral Planning and Development Commission, 5058 West Main Street, in Houma, Louisiana until 10:00 AM CST as shown on the clock in the Pelican Room of South Central Planning and Development Commission, and, at that time sealed bids shall be publicly opened and read aloud in the Pelican Room of South Cen-tral Planning and Development Commission.

Bid documents are posted on http://www.centralauctionhouse.com/rfp.php?cid=65. To view these, download, and receive bid notices by e-mail, you must register with Central Auction House (CAH). Vendors/Contractors have the option to submit their bids electronically or by paper copy. For information about the electronic submittal process, contact Ted Fleming with Central Auction House at 1-866-570-9620.

Each bid shall be either hand delivered by the bidder or his agent, or such bid shall be sent by United States Postal Ser-vice registered or certifi ed mail with a return receipt request-ed, or shall be submitted electronically with Central Auction House (CAH). Bids shall not be accepted or taken, including receiving any hand delivered bids, on days which are recog-nized as holidays by the United States Postal Service.

The mailing address for bids is: South Central Planning and Development Commission 5058 West Main StreetHouma, Louisiana 70364

No bid received after the scheduled time for opening will be considered. Failure of the U.S. Mail to deliver the bids timely shall not be considered due cause for the scheduled time of the bid opening to be extended. BID NAME: PURCHASE OF ONE/NEW UNUSED DWI BREATH

ALCOHOL TESTING (BAT) MOBILE UNIT

Bidding Documents for this bid are on fi le in the offi ce of South Central Plan-ning and Development Commission, 5058 West Main Street, Houma, Louisiana. Please contact Kevin Belanger, Chief Executive Offi cer, at 985-851-2900 with regard to the specifi cations. The South Central Planning and Development Com-mission reserves the right to reject any and all bids in accordance with Louisiana State Bid Law.

TIMOTHY J. BARBIER, ATTORNEY AT LAWWHEREABOUTS OF CHANDRA SPEARS JOHNSON

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of CHANDRA SPEARS JOHNSON, please contact Timothy J. Barbier, Attorney at Law, 200 Franklin Street, P.O. Box 950, Napoleonville, Louisiana 70390, (985) 369-2337.

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES OFFICE OFCONSERVATION ENVIRONMENTAL DIVISION DOCKET NO.

ENV 2015-01Notice is hereby given that the Commissioner of Conserva-tion will conduct a hearing at 6:00 p.m., Thursday, February 26, 2015, at the Belle River Volunteer Fire Department located at 1207-A Hwy 70, Belle River, Louisiana. At such hearing, the Commissioner, or his designated representative, will hear testimony relative to the application of F.A.S. Environmental Services, LLC, PO Box 760, Pierre Part, Louisiana 70339. The applicant requests approval from the Offi ce of Conservation to construct and operate a commercial transfer station for temporary storage of exploration & production waste (E&P Waste) fl uids located in Township 13 South, Range 12 East, Section 22 in St. Martin Parish. The application is available for inspection by contacting Mr. Daryl Williams, Offi ce of Con-servation, Environmental Division, Eighth Floor of the LaSalle Offi ce Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Copies of the application will be available for review at the St. Martin Parish Council in St. Martinville, the public library in Pierre Part and St. Martin Parish Library, Louisiana no later than 30 days prior to the hearing date. Verbal information may be received by calling Mr. Williams at (225) 342-7286. All inter-ested persons will be afforded an opportunity to present data, views or arguments, orally or in writing, at said public hearing. Written comments which will not be presented at the hear-ing must be received no later than 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 5, 2015, at the Baton Rouge Offi ce. Comments should be di-rected to: Offi ce of Conservation Environmental Division P.O. Box 94275 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804 Re: Docket No. ENV 2015-01 FAS Transfer Station Application St. Martin Parish BY ORDER OF: James H. Welsh Commissioner of Conservation Baton Rouge, Louisiana December 10, 2014

ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLCNOTICE

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Article IV, Section 21(D)(1) of the Louisiana Con-stitution, that on December 22, 2014, Entergy Louisiana, LLC (“ELL”), an electric public utility providing retail electric service to customers in forty-six (46) parishes of the State of Louisiana, fi led with the Louisiana Public Service Commission (“LPSC”), its Formula Rate Plan Rider Schedule FRP Interim Update and workpapers, includ-ing the fi nal estimated fi rst-year revenue requirement for Ninemile 6. The fi ling re-fl ects the resulting interim Formula Rate Plan (“FRP”) factors necessary to recover the $51.119 million revenue requirement associated with the placement in service of Ninemile Station Unit 6. The required interim FRP factor is to be applied to each of ELL’s rate classes (except those excluded under ELL Rider Schedule FRP-7) ef-fective for customer bills rendered on and after the fi rst billing cycle of January 2015. Those factors are as follows:

Note: (1) Excludes certain schedules specifi ed under ELL Rider FRP-7.

It is estimated that the proposed adjustment in rates will have the following effects upon applicable ELL customers’ typical monthly bills (based on the Fuel Adjustment Clause and Environmental Adjustment Clause factors for the month of December 2014): a typical monthly bill for a Residential customer using 1,000 kWh would increase approximately $2.41, from $98.66 to $101.07; a typical monthly bill for a Small General Service customer using 50 kW and 12,500 kWh would increase approximately $36.24, from $1,398 to $1,434.24; a typical monthly bill for a Large General Service customer using 1,000 kW and 500,000 kWh would increase ap-proximately $823.19, from $38,285.40 to $39,108.59.

For questions and comments regarding ELL’s fi ling, please call the LPSC toll free at (800) 256-2397. Additionally, the fi ling, including its attachments may be viewed in the Records Division of the LPSC at the following address:

Records Division602 N. 5th Street, 12th Floor

Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802Telephone: (225) 342-3157

ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC

Rate Class (1)FRP-7

Rate forFRP

FRP-7Rate for MCRRR

TotalFRP-7

Rate Adj.

1 Residential 36.7349% 2.7032% 39.4381%

2 Small General Service 36.7349% 2.2641% 38.9990%

3 Large General Service 36.7349% 2.3196% 39.0545%

4 Exper Curtailable Service 36.7349% 4.5828% 41.3176%

5 Large Industrial Power Service 36.7349% 4.4952% 41.2301%

6 Large Load, High Load Factor Power Service 36.7349% 6.4099% 43.1448%

7 Large Industrial Service 36.7349% 3.6257% 40.3606%

8 Lighting 36.7349% 0.3470% 37.0819%

6:00 O’clock p.m.

1. The Regular Meeting of the Assumption Parish Police Jury was called to order by Police Jury President Martin Triche in the Assumption Parish Police Jury Cham-ber located at 4813 Highway 1, Napoleonville, Louisiana.

2. Police Jurors recorded as present were: Mr. Patrick Lawless, Ward 1; Mr. Jeff Naquin, Ward 2; Mr. Irving Comeaux, Ward 3; Mr. Martin Triche, Ward 5; Mr. Calvin James, Ward 6; Mr. Henry Dupre, Ward 7; Mr. Booster Breaux, Ward 8; Mr. Myron Matherne, Ward 9.Police Juror recorded as absent was: Mr. Patrick Johnson, Ward 4.

3. President Martin Triche led the Prayer and Police Juror Calvin James led the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag,

4. President Martin Triche opened the meeting to the public for any public com-ments, questions or concerns regarding the items listed on the agenda. Following three (3) calls, there were no comments received.

5. President Martin Triche recognized Finance Committee Vice-Chairman Patrick Lawless, who stated that the committee met and recommended the following mat-ters: payment of the bills submitted through December 12, 2014, payment of the bills submitted from December 15, 2014 through the year end, accepted the 2015 Jail Physician renewal contract with Dr. Keith Landry, accepted the 2015 Polling Place contract renewals, authorized the renewal of the boat launch lease with BR&T, Inc. for the year 2015, approved and accepted the fi nal amended budgets for 2014 as presented.

6. Police Juror Patrick Lawless offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Jeff Naquin, “THAT, the Police Jury approve the Finance Committee report as presented.” The motion was unanimously adopted. (resolutions attached)

7. President Martin Triche recognized Engineering/Grants Committee Chairman Irving Comeaux, who stated that the committee met and recommended the fol-lowing; approved the engineers contract for the Assumption/LSU Ag-Center Offi ce Building Interior Renovations Project, received an update on the FEMA Appeals and Bayou Corne situation, and approved a letter to DOTD requesting a guideline/trigger point on initiating the detour route on Hwy 70 in the event the road begins to sink near the sinkhole.

8. Police Juror Irving Comeaux offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Booster Breaux, “THAT, the Police Jury approve the Engineering/Grants Committee report as pre-sented.” The motion was unanimously adopted. (resolution attached)

9. President Martin Triche stated that a public hearing was held to receive com-ments, questions or concerns regarding the 2015 proposed budgets. He stated that no comments were received therefore, recommended the budget be accepted.

10. Police Juror Myron Matherne offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Jeff Naquin, “THAT, the Police Jury approve and accept the 2015 Proposed Budgets.” The mo-tion was unanimously adopted. (resolution attached)

11. Police Juror Jeff Naquin offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Myron Matherne, “THAT, the Police Jury approve a Can Shake permit for the Assumption Council #1099 (9/18-18/15).” The motion was unanimously adopted.

12. President Martin Triche recognized Police Jury Jeff Naquin, who stated that Waste Management will not pick up garbage on Thursday, December 25, 2014 but will resume on Friday. He then stated that there will be no pick up for Thursday, January 1, 2015 but will resume on Friday, January 2, 2015.

13. President Martin Triche recognized Police Juror Calvin James, who requested that a representative from Charter attend the 1st meeting in January to discuss the new boxes and the fees associated.

14. President Martin Triche, on behalf of the Jury, wished everyone a happy and safe holiday season.

15. Police Juror Booster Breaux offered a motion, seconded by Mr. Patrick Law-less, ‘THAT, there being no further business to come before the Assumption Parish Police Jury, the meeting be adjourned.” The motion was unanimously adopted._______________________________ ______________________________Kim M. Torres Martin S. TricheSecretary-Treasurer President

On a motion by Mr. Myron Matherne, seconded by Mr. Jeff Naquin, the following resolution was adopted:

RESOLUTION

BE IT RESOLVED that the Assumption Parish Police Jury does hereby approve and accept the 2015 Budgets as advertised and proposed.

Upon being placed to a vote, the above resolution was adopted as follows:

Yeas: 8Nays: 0Absent: Patrick Johnson

On a motion by Mr. Patrick Lawless, seconded by Mr. Jeff Naquin, the following resolution was adopted:

RESOLUTION

BE IT RESOLVED that the Assumption Parish Police Jury does hereby approve and accept the 2014 Final Amended Budgets as presented.

Upon being placed to a vote, the above resolution was adopted as follows:

Yeas: 8Nays: 0Absent: Patrick Johnson

On a motion by Mr. Patrick Lawless, seconded by Mr. Jeff Naquin, the following resolution was adopted:

RESOLUTION

BE IT RESOLVED that the Assumption Parish Police Jury does hereby authorize the renewal of the Boat Launch Lease with B R & T, Inc. for the year 2015.

Upon being placed to a vote, the above resolution was adopted as follows:

Yeas: 8Nays: 0Absent: Patrick Johnson

On a motion by Mr. Patrick Lawless, seconded by Mr. Jeff Naquin, the following resolution was adopted:

RESOLUTION

BE IT RESOLVED that the Assumption Parish Police Jury does hereby approve and authorize its President, Martin S. Triche, to sign the polling place lease agree-ments for 2015.

Upon being placed to a vote, the above resolution was adopted as follows:

Yeas: 8Nays: 0Absent: Patrick Johnson

On a motion by Mr. Irving Comeaux, seconded by Mr. Booster Breaux, the follow-ing resolution was adopted:

RESOLUTION

BE IT RESOLVED that the Assumption Parish Police Jury does hereby approve an engineering contract with CJ Savoie Consulting Engineers for the Assumption/LSU Ag Center Offi ce Building Interior Renovations Project in the amount of $157,000.

Upon being placed to a vote, the above resolution was adopted as follows:

Yeas: 8Nays: 0Absent: Patrick Johnson

ASSUMPTION PARISH POLICE JURYMEETING MINUTES FOR WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2014

On a motion by Mr. Patrick Lawless, seconded by Mr. Jeff Naquin, the following resolution was adopted:

RESOLUTION

BE IT RESOLVED, that the Assumption Parish Police Jury does hereby approve the Jail Physician’s exclusive salary of $5,000 per month with Keith Landry to be effective January 1, 2015, for a 12-month period, and authorize its President, Martin S. Triche, to sign the Contract for Services as presented.

Upon being placed to a vote, the above resolution was adopted as follows:

Yeas: 8Nays: 0Absent: Patrick Johnson

STATE OF LOUISIANA, OFFICE OF CONSERVATIONNOTICE

TEXAS BRINE COMPANY, LLC BAYOU CORNE INCIDENT ASSISTANCE TO RESIDENTS Docket No. TBC-15-001

LEGAL NOTICESTATE OF LOUISIANA, OFFICE OF CONSERVATION

In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, with particular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, and specifi -cally La. R.S. 30:6(F), a public hearing will be held in the LaBelle Room located on the 1st fl oor of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, LaSalle Building at 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana at 10:00 a.m. on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015 upon the request of TEXAS BRINE COMPANY, LLC.

At such hearing the Commissioner of Conservation will consider evidence and ac-cept statements from currently effected parties relative to Texas Brine Company, LLC’s January 5, 2015 request for a determination on whether Texas Brine Com-pany, LLC has complied with applicable terms, conditions and requirements for residential assistance in their Oxy #3 brine cavern permit application and operat-ing permit, as supplemented, and Compliance Order IMD 2012-016 issued by the Offi ce of Conservation following issuance of the Assumption Parish evacuation order on August 3, 2012.

A copy of Texas Brine Company, LLC’s January 5, 2015 public hearing request is available for inspection in the Offi ce of Conservation (Injection and Mining Divi-sion) in Baton Rouge.

http://dnr.louisiana.gov/conshearings

All parties having interest therein shall take notice thereof.

BY ORDER OF: JAMES H. WELSH COMMISSIONER OF CONSERVATION

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE AT THE HEARING, PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE OF CONSERVATION-EXECUTIVE DIVI-SION AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA 70804-9275 IN WRITING AT LEAST TEN (10) WORKING DAYS PRIOR TO THE HEARING DATE.

SOUTH CENTRAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTCOMMISSION

PUBLIC NOTICE

The Assumption Parish Police Jury announces its participation in the Louisiana Re-lay Telephone Service for the hearing impaired. Dial 7-1-1 to use the Relay Service in Louisiana or call one of the toll free numbers as follows: TTY: 800-846-5277; Voice: 800-947-5277; Speech-to-Speech: 888-272-5530; Spanish-to-Spanish: 800-737-1813 (includes Spanish-to-Spanish and translation from English to Spanish.) Contact the Louisiana Relay and request the Assumption Parish Police Jury at 985-369-7435. If you are traveling out of State or you are in a State that is not served by the Relay, you can place interstate calls by calling: TTY: 800.833.5833 (toll-free) or Voice: 800.833.7833 (toll-free.)

Annual Press ReleaseAssumption Parish Police Jury’s Housing and Community Development Offi ce is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Program and no client, applicant or employee shall, on the basis of race, sex, age, color, national origin, religion, disability, political affi liation or any other non-merited factor, be denied the benefi ts of, be excluded from participation in, or otherwise subjected to discrimination under any program or service which this CSBG funded agency operates. For additional

information contact: Kim M. Torres, Equal Opportunity Offi cer, P. O. Box 520, 4813 Highway 1, Napoleonville, LA 70390, (985) 369-7435, TDD 800-846-5277. “Equal Opportunity Employer/Program” “Auxiliary Aids and Services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities”

Kim M. TorresP. O. Box 520/4813 Hwy. 1Napoleonville, LA 70390(985) 369-7435

ASSUMPTION PARISH SCHOOL BOARDNATURAL GAS PUBLIC AWARENESSSEMI-ANNUAL NOTIFICATIONAssumption Parish School Board owns and operates a master meter natural gas distri-bution system. The purpose of the gas system is to provide an economical, reliable and safe source of energy for heating purposes to the buildings ad-jacent to the underground gas pipelines. The pipeline system has the capacity to reliably de-liver natural gas to the buildings on the campus.

The hazards of natural gas are that it is odorless, color-less, tasteless, lighter than air and can ignite and/or explode with tremendous force when mixed with the right amount of air. Odorant is added to the gas by the gas supplier to give it that distinctive smell, similar to rotten eggs, to warn us of its presence. Prevention measures taken include testing the odorant level each calendar quarter and performing annual gas leakage surveys. Anyone who may smell this odor on the school campus or notice any un-usual conditions on or near gas mains, vents, service lines, me-ter sets, or especially inside of a building should call the Main-tenance Department immedi-ately at (985) 369-7753 or call the Assumption Parish School Board at (985) 369-7251. If you smell a strong gas odor in-side a building, notify everyone in the building to leave. Do not

create any ignition sources such as operating the fi re alarm, electrical switches or using the phone. Go a safe distance upwind and away from the gas smell. Call the Assumption Parish School Board Maintenance Offi ce at (985) 369-7753 as soon as possible. With any gas leak, protect life fi rst then prop-erty.

State and federal laws re-quire excavators to notify the state LA One-Call Center (811 or 1-800-272-3020) 48 hours before digging. To ob-tain information concerning the pipeline location call the Assumption Parish School Board Maintenance Offi ce at (985) 369-7753. If any excavation is planned, you must notify the LA One-Call Center which will notify the Assumption Parish School Board Maintenance Depart-ment to locate any gas lines.

To obtain additional infor-mation, report gas leaks, or report other gas related in-formation, contact the As-sumption Parish School Board Maintenance Offi ce at (985) 369-7753. This in-formation is provided as a public awareness notice.

Notifi cation Date 1/06/2015

The Bayou Journal, Pierre Part, January 13, 2015, Page 9

METAIRIE, La. (AP) — A lawyer for Saints sack leader Junior Galette said a woman accusing the player of bat-tery had her earring ripped out and was scratched by a dog that was reacting to her yelling.

Galette and his cousin, Terrance Banks of Newark, New Jersey, were arrested Monday after a 22-year-old woman alleged the men as-saulted her during an argu-ment at Galette's home in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner.

In a written statement issued Tuesday, attorney Ralph Whalen said four wit-nesses, including Galette's girlfriend, and a video re-cording all corroborate the player's version of events.

"We are confident an in-vestigation and a full hear-ing of the facts will reveal that Junior Galette behaved appropriately given the cir-cumstances and in no way committed domestic vio-lence or battery," Whalen's statement said.

New Orleans Saints gen-eral manager Mickey Loo-mis, who met with reporters Tuesday to review the 2014 season, said the club would take a deliberate approach to dealing with the Galette matter.

"We're going to take this matter very seriously and we're going to let law en-forcement and the legal pro-cess run its course," Loomis said. "If at some point we deem it necessary for the club to take some action, we'll do that."

Galette's first court ap-pearance is tentatively set for Feb. 26 in Kenner city court.

On Monday, the alleged victim told police an argu-

ment began when Galette asked her to leave and re-fused to provide cab fare. She told authorities that Galette shoved her, and Galette and Banks pinned her down, making it difficult for her to breathe.

According to police, she said she was able to get up and grab a knife, fearing she'd be attacked again, then Galette began recording her and she put down the knife before being carried out of the house by Banks.

It was not clear from the woman's statement how her earring was ripped out or her face scratched, but Kenner police said it is their policy to make an arrest when the alleged victim has visible injuries.

Galette and Banks spent much of Monday in jail be-fore bonding out late Mon-day afternoon.

The woman told police that she had a two-year rela-tionship with Galette, which entailed cooking, cleaning and doing "everything for him that he wants."

Whalen said the woman mischaracterized her rela-tionship with the player.

"This was not domestic violence for many reasons including the fact that the woman with the knife is not in a relationship with Mr. Galette nor do they live to-gether," Whalen's statement said. "Also, there was ... no battery committed by Mr. Galette."

Whalen's statement closed by stressing that Galette "wants his friends, his fans, his teammates, the Saints organization and the NFL to know that he under-stands that domestic vio-lence is unacceptable and he supports the league's efforts

to deal with this important issue."

The arrest placed the Saints' leading pass-rusher squarely in the sights of the NFL's new personal conduct policy. Galette could be sus-pended six games for the al-leged offense, depending on the results of an NFL probe, even if Galette is not con-victed in court.

Galette, who last Septem-ber signed a $41.5 million contract through 2019, had a team-high 10 sacks this season.

Meanwhile, as Loomis discussed other team mat-ters Tuesday, he declined to put a timeline on decid-ing which assistant coaches would remain on Sean Pay-ton's staff. He was pressed on the future of defensive coordinator Rob Ryan, whose unit regressed from fourth in total defense in 2013 to 31st this season.

Loomis also declined to comment on moves already made, such as the firings of tight ends coach Terry Malone and receivers coach Henry Ellard.

"We're just in the early process of this. We're look-ing at every aspect," Loo-mis said. "It's not just about coaching, it's not just about a roster. It's about the per-sonnel department, about everything that we do."

"We've got to look at my-self and say, 'Hey, what did I do that didn't work? Why did I do that? How can I do it better?' Sean needs to do the same thing, and ob-viously, he and I will have some frank conversations — we already have — about each other," Loomis added. "It's got to start with us be-fore we can get to the rest of the things that we're doing."

BY KRISTEN ASHWORTHStaff Writer

Army Staff Sergeant Eric Hue and his wife, Mikalyn, are both from Pierre Part but are currently stationed in Ft. Stewart, Gerogia, where they live with their three young children. Eric has served 16-plus years in the United States Army and has deployed five times to fight for our country so that our children and to-day's youth may not have to see what he has seen.

Eric is part of the 3rd In-fantry Division. The 3rd In-fantry Division is divided into four brigades. Each of those four brigades are then divid-ed into batallions/squadrons. Eric is in the 5th Squadron 7th Calvary. Within the squad-ron, they are divided into five troops. Eric is in the Bandit Troop. The troops are then di-vided into platoons. Eric is in the White Platoon which con-sists of about 30 single and married guys.

Mikalyn served as Fam-ily Readiness Group leader from January through Octo-ber 2014. While serving as leader, she befriended many of the military families and got to know them on a more personal level.

As the holidays were ap-proaching, Mikalyn decided she wanted to do something special for the soldiers who wouldn't have the opportu-nity to make it home to their families for Christmas. She set up a Go Fund Me account

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SSG Eric Hue and his wife Mikalyn.

Pierre Part soldier, wife give fellow soldiers a Christmas they will never forget

Soldiers in the White Platoon in Ft. Stewart enjoy their Christmas.

with the original goal to help all the single soldiers who couldn't go home for Christ-mas. Donations starting pour-ing in and they were not only able to help the single sol-diers, but were also able to give the soldiers in Eric’s pla-toon a Christmas they would never forget.

The soldiers enjoyed gum-bo and shrimp fettuccine prepared by Mikalyn as well as an assortment of desserts. Each soldier was given a Santa hat, stocking filled with goodies, and a $50 American Express gift card donated

by Performance Contractors which helped some families get home at the last minute. The men were also given cups that said, "Mr. Right" while their wives were given cups that said, "Mrs. Always Right."

Santa made a visit and handed out coloring books and crayons to the children as well as took photos with the families.

Ginger Breaux's kindergar-ten class at Pierre Part Primary sent a photo card and donated three large stockings full of goodies. Other items donat-

First-Ever Marvel Live tour coming to New Orleans

ed besides money included food, snacks, hand sanitizer, chapstick, hand warmers, toothbrushes, and toothpaste. Door prizes which included Game Stop gift cards, Itunes gift cards, books, puzzles, and games were given away.

"This is the first time these guys were able to do some-thing all together outside of work and they really enjoyed it," Mikalyn said.

The Hues know all too well the lonely feeling of be-ing away from family for the holidays as more than half of Eric’s time in the military kept him apart from his family for Christmas. They just wanted to give back and show their military family how much they are loved and appreci-ated. The Hues, as well as the

soldiers in the White Platoon, would like to thank everyone for their generous donations

(many from this community) for making this event such a success.

Galette lawyer: Alleged female victim was injured by dog

Page 10, The Bayou Journal, Pierre Part, January 13, 2015

BY JIM HENDERSONSports Writer

The Assumption High Lady Mustangs Basketball team captured a 62-28 vic-tory over the Lutcher Lady Bulldogs in a non-district contest played last week. As-sumption led from start to finish and outscored the Lady Bulldogs in every quarter to secure their eighth victory of the season.

Assumption raced out to a 26-3 first quarter lead and then outscored the Lady Bull-dogs 10-8 in the second pe-riod to make it 36-11 at the half. The Lady Mustangs maintained its lead through-out the second half. Assump-tion outgunned Lutcher 10-6 in the third quarter and 16-11 in the final period to secure the win.

Amanda Gianelloni led the Lady Mustangs with 15 points, followed by Kevreion Ward and Kayla Williams with 12 apiece. Williams led Assumption hauling down six rebounds. Jasmine Cox netted six points and Katelyn Moore and Megan Breaux each had five points apiece. Moore had two steals and Cox finished with four assists. Shavonte Ayrow had four points and Stevie Blanchard finished with three points for the Lady Mustangs.

Also last week, Assump-tion participated in the All-State Sugar Bowl Classic held at the Alario Center. The Lady Mustangs suffered a trio of losses in tourney play to Edna Karr, Archbish-op Chapelle and to Doyle.

Against Karr, the Lady

Mustangs dropped a 59-41 decision.

Karr, which was ranked No. 1 in the last Class 4A power rankings, jumped out to a 16-6 first quarter lead. The Lady Mustangs battled back and reduced the deficit by outscoring the Lady Cou-gars 16-11 to trail 27-22 at the half.

Karr was able to extend its lead in the third quarter out-gunning Assumption 13-8 in the period to make it 40-30 heading into the final quar-ter. Assumption cut the lead down to four in the early mo-ments of the fourth period. But Karr went on an 11-4 run to increase their lead back to double-digits. The Lady Cougars ended the game out-scoring Assumption by a 19-11 margin to seal the win.

Gianelloni led the Lady Mustangs with 14 points, seven rebounds, five steals and two assists. The senior guard suffered a twisted knee injury late in the game and would not return.

Ward followed with 13 points and Cox added six points, including two 3-point goals. Moore had five points and Hannah Diggs ended with two points.

Against Chapelle, the Lady Mustangs fell by a 32-24 score.

Both teams were tied at 8-8 at the end of the first period. Chapelle moved ahead in the second quarter outscoring the Lady Mustangs 6-5 to take a 14-13 advantage at the half. Assumption rallied in the third period outgunning the Lady Chipmunks 7-5 to make

it 20-19 heading into the final quarter.

But Chapelle responded in the fourth period outscoring Assumption by a 12-4 margin to secure the win.

Ward led the Lady Mus-tangs with 16 points and one block. Moore Diggs, Breaux and Williams each had two points apiece. Moore had two assists and Breaux finished with two steals in the game. Ayrow led the Lady Mustangs with five rebounds.

Against Doyle, Assumption suffered a 63-53 setback.

The Lady Tigers led 14-8 at the end of the first period. Assumption cut into the defi-cit and outscored Doyle 13-12 to trail 26-21 at the half. Both teams poured in 14 points apiece in the third quarter with the Lady Mustangs still

behind by five points. Doyle extended its lead in the fourth quarter outgunning Assump-tion by a 23-18 margin to make the final score 63-53.

Katelyn Moore had a sea-son-high 25 points to lead the Lady Mustang scoring attack. Ward followed with 14 and Breaux and Williams each had five points apiece. Cox and Ayrow each had two points apiece for Assumption. Diggs led the Lady Mustangs with eight rebounds and Cox had three assists. Moore finished with two steals in the game.

The Lady Mustangs, now 8-8 on the season, will begin District 7-4A play this week. Assumption will host Ellender on Friday, Jan. 16, and then play at South Terrebonne next Tuesday, Jan. 20 in a pair of league encounters.

BY JIM HENDERSONStaff Writer

The Assumption High Mustang Basketball team ended a two-game skid by defeating the Dutchtown Griffins 59-56 in a non-dis-trict contest played last week.

The Griffins jumped out to a 15-7 first quarter lead. As-sumption cut into the deficit by outscoring Dutchtown 11-10 to trail 25-18 at the half.

Assumption went to its pressure defense and forced the Griffins into hurried shots

and turnovers. The Mustangs capitalized and went on a 22-11 run in the third quarter to take a 40-36 lead heading into the final period.

Dutchtown kept it close in the fourth quarter nailing five 3-point goals. But Assump-tion maintained its lead by hitting nine of 14 freethrows in the final period. Denzell Johnson sank the last four foul shots to make it 59-56 with five seconds remain-ing. Dutchtown had one fi-nal possession and attempted

a 3-pointer that hit the back-board as the buzzer sounded sealing the win.

Johnson led Assumption with 18 points, including three 3-point goals. Josh Brown followed with 17 and had seven rebounds. Jor-dan bell added 11 points and three steals. DaRon Wil-liams netted five points and two blocks and Joe Starks had three points and four as-sists. Collin Locket finished with three points and Jaylun Harris ended with two points

for the Mustangs.Dutchtown won the JV

contest with a 39-28 win over Assumption.

Also last week, the Mus-tangs dropped a 72-55 deci-sion to the Donaldsonville Chiefs.

Assumption led 19-18 at the end of the first quarter and outscored the Chiefs 15-14 in the second period to take a 34-32 advantage at the half.

However, the Chiefs went to a zone press that forced

Assumption into hurried shots and turnovers. Donald-sonville capitolized and out-gunned the Mustangs 20-11 in the third quarter and 20-10 in the fourth period to take the 72-55 come-from-behind win.

Bell led the Mustangs with 14 points and two steals. Johnson followed with 13 points and four assists. Wil-liams added 12 points, in-cluding two 3-point goals and he had 11 rebounds. Brown and David Hunter

each had six points apiece. Hunter also grabbed 12 re-bounds. Jordan Cox and Joe Starks each had two points apiece for Assumption.

Donaldsonville also won the JV contest with a 35-22 win over the Mustangs.

Assumption, now 5-10 on the season, will begin District 7-4A play this week hosting Ellender on Friday, Jan. 16, and then play at South Terre-bonne next Tuesday, Jan. 20, in a pair of league encoun-ters.

Lady Mustangs gallop past Lutcher, 62-28

Johnson, Brown help lift Mustangs past Dutchtown, 59-56

Eagles vs Bulldogs

The Napoleonville Eagles defeated both the boys and girls Bulldog teams in the season basketball opener Wednesday. The Bulldogs could not take advantage of home court losing 44-13 (girls) and 66-14 (boys). The Lady Bulldogs had only a 5 percent free throw average, a major factor in the game. For the Lady Bulldogs, Kinlee Benoit had 5 points, and Chloe Davila and Elaina Rivere had 4 apiece. Leading scorers for the boys were Eathan Rouseau with 7 points, Cole Broussard, Caleb Blanchard and Colby Landry netted 2 apice. Scott Pierce dropped one in from at the free throw line.

Photos by SUE HEBERT

Section 2, The Bayou Journal, Pierre Part, January 13, 2015, Page 1

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A state lawmaker from the Houma area wants his colleagues to convene a special legislative session to tackle Louisiana's continuing budget problems.

Rep. Joe Harrison, R-Gray, sent a petition Tuesday to House and Senate members, asking for their support to call a 14-day special session starting March 30.

Harrison wants lawmakers to consider removing special budget protections that leave public colleges and health services more vulnerable to cuts than other agencies. He also wants lawmakers to consider scaling back some

of the state's tax breaks for businesses, after a review to determine if they are job cre-ators or just giveaways.

Louisiana has grappled with repeated fi nancial troubles since 2008, faces a $1.4 billion budget shortfall in the upcoming fi scal year that begins July 1 and could have another defi cit to close before the current fi scal year ends.

"We're in a situation, it's almost like Groundhog Day, year after year for many years now," Harrison said in an interview. "We've failed to sit down and really look at the inherent problem that we have."

But Harrison's effort — which would require sup-port in a written petition from a majority of House and Senate members — is a long-shot at best.

The Legislature has called itself into session only once since the modern state con-stitution was enacted four decades ago, for the re-quired task of redistricting and with the support of Gov. Bobby Jindal. Both cham-bers are led by allies of the governor.

Jindal and House Speaker Chuck Kleckley oppose the idea of a special session, saying lawmakers can ad-dress the items on Harri-

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A Southern gospel band per-formed an amazing and truly moving concert at the Pierre Part Christian Church last week.

Steve Hess and Southern Salvation have been together for four years with Steve Hess, baritone, from Nashville, TN; Jay Arview, lead singer, from West Frankfort, IL; and John McCall, tenor, from Louis-burg, TN.

The band plays all over the United States and performs about 200 concerts a year. They classify their music style as ‘rooted’ Southern gospel.

"The reason we do this is to sing the Gospel of Christ to those who don't know Him (Christ), and to also encour-age those who have known the Lord for a long time. Some-times we lose track of who we are serving and how mighty His power is," Steve Hess said.

Their playlist included Mountain of Grace, Living Proof, What a Day That'll Be, I Can Take the Trial, and tradi-tional hymns.

Hess says Pierre Part is one of his favorite places because pastor Gerald Daigle and his wife Julie, are amazing and so welcoming.

The people in the commu-nity are warm, kind, and feel at liberty to worship God, he said.

John McCall said the area

Gospel band performs at PP Christian Church

son's list in the two-month regular legislative session that begins April 13.

"I don't see any reason to come in early at the expense of the taxpayers when we can accomplish what he has in his petition in our regular session," Kleckley said.

Jindal spokesman Mike Reed echoed similar sen-timents, saying in a writ-ten statement that the ad-

ministration doesn't think "it would be a good use of taxpayer dollars" when the same issues can be debated from April through June.

Harrison said ancillary issues tend to distract law-makers in their regular leg-islative session and take time away from debate that should be centered on the state's budget woes.

"I've been here for eight

years now, and I've never seen it be a priority," he said. "This is just a kind of shot across the bow. It's try-ing to get people to wake up to what's going on."

Harrison's petition for a special session strikes at ar-eas that lawmakers repeat-edly cite as problems when they craft the budget each year, but that they have done nothing to change so far.

John McCall, Jay Arview, and Steve Hess of Steve Hess & Southern Salvation gospel singers perform at Pierre Part Christian Church.

is beautiful and he loves the southern accents. He fi rst heard about Pierre Part on the History Channel's show Swamp People.

This was Jay Arview’s sec-ond visit.

The people are friendly and very welcoming and it’s re-assuring there are still good places to live in this world, he said.

All gathered for fellowship

over food and desserts during a brief intermission.

Pastor Gerald Daigle said he feels honored and blessed for such a wonderful service and a great turnout and is looking forward to the band returning again next year for a fourth tour.

To learn more about Steve Hess and Southern Salvation you can visit their webpage at www.southernsalvation.com.

Gospel music lovers gather at Pierre Part Christian Church to enjoy uplifting music.

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — Nicholls State University hopes to complete and begin more than $20 million in up-grades to its campus in 2015.

Easily the biggest project is construction of the new Chef John Folse Culinary Institute.

Vice President of Facilities Mike Davis tells The Daily Comet the 33,000-square-foot building, at the edge of the Nicholls campus near Louisiana Highway 1, was scheduled to be completed in December but isn't expected to open until late February or early March.

"Our culinary program has done exceptionally well, and we haven't even been re-cruiting students. Once that expands, we're looking to almost double enrollment in

a couple of years. The addi-tion will be exciting for the university and another area we can excel at in the state," Davis said.

Offi cials broke ground in March 2013 and construction began last September. The $12.6 million facility on eight acres includes four teaching kitchens, a demonstration room, food-storage facilities and a bistro to give students real-life experience.

Nicholls President Bruce Murphy has targeted the program for expansion and hopes to double the enroll-ment within two years. In September, the University Council, an advisory commit-tee of faculty and staff mem-bers, labeled the institute as a strength as Murphy begins to

lay out the Nicholls' strategic plan.

Expected to start shortly after the completion of the cooking school are renova-tions to Talbot Hall.

Talbot is not only used by students but by high schools; the public uses it quite a bit. This is going to be a nice ren-ovation," Davis said.

Construction for the $6.8 million project is expected to begin in late spring and will take about a year to complete.

The Mary M. Danos The-ater, which opened in 1971, will get new seating, speakers, lighting, curtains, fl ooring, walls and ceiling. Accom-modations for handicapped visitors will also be made to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Nicholls State upgrades campus buildings

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Hours after support-ers of the bipartisan bill, which is sponsored by all 54 Senate Republicans and six Democrats, announced its introduction, the White House said for the first time that President Barack Obama would veto it.

"If this bill passes this Congress, the president wouldn't sign" it, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday, say-ing legislation shouldn't undermine the review pro-cess underway at the State Department or circumvent

a pending lawsuit in Ne-braska over its route.

It's "premature to try to evaluate the project before something as basic as the route of the pipeline has been established," he said.

The two main sponsors, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., said Tuesday morning they had enough votes to overcome a fili-buster of the bill but not a presidential veto. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in one of his first acts, moved to put it directly on the Senate calendar. The House is expected to vote and pass a bill approving the $5.4 billion project, which was first proposed in 2008, on Friday.

"The President threat-ening to veto the first bi-partisan infrastructure bill of the new Congress must come as a shock to the American people who spoke loudly in November

White House says it will veto bill to approve oil pipeline in favor of bipartisan ac-complishments," McCon-nell said.

Hoeven said if the presi-dent chooses to veto the bill, he would work to at-tach it to a broader ener-gy package or must-pass spending bills.

Manchin, whose office reached out to the White House earlier in the day, told reporters the veto threat was a surprise that "slapped down" a bipar-tisan effort before it even got started.

"It's just wrong. It's just not the way you do busi-ness," said Manchin, the only Democrat remaining in the West Virginia del-egation. "If this is the start of things, it is a sad begin-ning."

The bill is identical to one that failed to pass the Senate by a single vote in November, when Demo-crats were in control and Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana pushed for a vote to save her Senate seat. She lost to Republi-can Rep. Bill Cassidy, who sponsored the successful House bill approving the pipeline.

But now the odds of pas-sage are much improved with the Republican take-over of the Senate. The bill will also test Republicans' commitment to more open debate. Hoeven and Man-chin said they welcomed additions to the bill, which they hoped would increase support.

In a letter to Democrats from their leadership ob-tained by the AP, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York and Sen. Debbie Sta-benow of Michigan said

against the pipeline and have framed it as a test of Obama's commitment to acting on climate change, applauded the veto threat Tuesday.

"President Obama con-tinues to show real climate leadership by pledging to veto attempts by Congress to circumvent the process and we're more confident than ever that he will re-ject this dirty, dangerous pipeline once and for all," said Tiernan Sittenfeld, senior vice president of

government affairs for the League of Conservation Voters, an environmental advocacy group.

In an unexpected twist, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., objected Tuesday to the Senate energy commit-tee holding a hearing on the bill, prompting the committee to cancel it for Wednesday. A spokesman for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who will chair the committee, said it should not slow the bill down.

the Keystone bill was "the first opportunity to demon-strate that we will be unit-ed, energetic, and effective in offering amendments that create a clear contrast with the Republican major-ity."

Among the ideas sug-gested in the letter were measures to prohibit ex-porting the oil abroad, to ensure American iron, steel and other goods were used in the pipeline's construc-tion and to match every job created by the pipeline with an investment in clean energy.

In recent months, Obama has been increasingly criti-cal of the project, and has resisted prior efforts to fast-track the process. At his year-end news confer-ence, Obama said the pipe-line would benefit Canadi-an oil companies but would not be a huge benefit to American consumers, who are already seeing low pric-es at the pump thanks to oil prices, which on Monday dipped to a nearly six-year low and were sharply down again Tuesday.

That view contrasts sharply with Republicans and other pipeline support-ers, who say the pipeline would create jobs and ease American dependence on Middle East oil. A govern-ment environmental impact statement also predicted that a pipeline would result in less damage to the cli-mate than moving the same oil by rail.

"After years of manu-facturing every possible excuse, today President Obama was finally straight ... about where he truly stands," said House Speak-er John Boehner. "His an-swer is no to more Ameri-can infrastructure, no to more American energy, and no to more American jobs.

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stories and activities.

Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognizing identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

MANATEEGENTLEGIANTSDANGERMERMAIDSCALVESTRASHWARMWATERSSWIMSSALTYTEAMCLEANFACETALES

Look through the newspaper for numbers

that add up to the length and

weight of manatee calves

and adults.Standards Link: Math;

Compute sums.

When manatees accidentally eat trash left behind by humans,they can die. Help clean the lagoon by finding all of

the things that don’tbelong.

Standards Link: Scientific methods; Sort objects b

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Long ago, sailors told tales of lovely sea creatures called mermaids. When early European explorers first saw manatees, they thought they were mermaids. Christopher Columbus wrote in his log book that they were not as beautiful as he had thought they would be.

Standards Link: Literary Analysis; Understand the origin and format of legends.

Standards Link: Visual discrimination; Find similarities and differences in common objects.

Find at least five differences between what

Pirate Pete thinks he sees

and what is really there.

Manatees are mammals. To what animal is the manatee related? Complete the maze to discover the answer.

Standards Link: Life Science; Diversity and genetic variation exist among organisms that share similar features.

n shallow salty waters and rivers, a large, slow-moving creature swims and grazes. It is called a manatee. A shy and very gentle herbivore, it is completely harmless. For almost 50 million years, manatees have grazed the earth’s tropical lagoons, rivers and bays. In Florida alone, there were once thousands of manatees. But now there are less than 3,000 in Florida. They are in danger of becoming extinct.

All too often the people who like to go boating in these same waters ignore the Caution signs. Manatees get cut by the sharp propellers and many die from these run-ins.

The warm, shallow waters where manatees live are disappearing or becoming polluted. This loss of habitat is another reason manatees are endangered.Standards Link: Life Science; Living things depend on one another and the environment for survival; the physical conditions of the environment can change and these changes can be detrimental.

Standards Link: Life Science; When the environment changes because of natural or man-made forces some animals struggle to survive or become extinct.

Manatees come up for air

every to minutes.

Adult manatees eat over

pounds of water

plants each day.

Manatee calves are feet ( meter) long when they

are born and weigh about pounds. They grow

to be about -feet-long and weigh

about pounds. ,

© 2015 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 31, No. 6

ANSWER: Nothing. There are no alliators in the ocean!

Look at the sports pages of your newspaper. How many teams are named for animals? Why do you think each team chose that animal name? If you were to name a team the Manatees, what kind of sport would they play?Standards Link: Social science; Connecting current events to students' lives.

Finish this story.

… taking time to appreciate the world’s

natural beauty.

Complete the grid by using all the letters in the word WAVES in each vertical and horizontal row. Each letter should only be used once in each row. Some spaces have been filled in for you.

The adjective extinct means to no longer exist.

EXTINCT

Use the word extinct in a sentence today when

talking with your friends and family members.

Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions

of years.

Manatees are the state marine mammals of Florida

In 1981 singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffet and Bob Graham, who was then governor of Florida, started the Save the Manatee Club because manatees were put on the international endangered wildlife list.

The goal of the club is to protect the habitats where manatees live and reduce manatee deaths due to human interaction.

On their website you can watch manatees on their web cam during the season. The scars on their bodies identify individual manatees.

You can also adopt a real manatee through the club and help protect those manatees at one of three locations in Florida. On registration you get a full biography and a picture of “your” manatee.

For more information go to savethemanatee.org/coolstuff and to adopt call 1-800-432-5646.

I Met aMermaid!

Animals in Sports

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PRIMARY &MIDDLE

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Chilled Apple Juice ½ cMilk Choice ½ pt

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Chilled Peaches ½ cHomemade Roll 1oz grain Milk Choice ½ pt #9

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Macaroni & Cheese ¼ c Seasoned White Beans ½ c

Tossed Salad w/ Dressing ¼ c Fresh Grapes ½ c

Ketchup/Tartar Sauce 1/1 packHomemade Roll 1oz grain

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Buttered Corn ½ cBaby Whole Carrots ½ c

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Whole Wheat Bun 1.5 oz grainSweet Potato Fries ½ c

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Steamed Rice ½ c (1oz grain)Homemade Roll 2 oz grain

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Tossed Salad w/ Dressing ¼ cFresh Grapes ½ cOrange Juice ½ c

Ketchup/Tartar sauce 1/1Milk Choice ½ pt

Beef- A- Roni 2/3 c2 oz meat/1oz grain

Homemade Roll 1oz grainOr

Spicy Chicken Pattie 1 each 2 oz meat/1 grain

Whole Wheat Bun 1.5 oz grainSweet Potato Fries ½ c

Both served withButtered Corn ½ c

Baby Whole Carrots ½ cRanch Dressing 1 packLettuce/Tomato/Pickle

¼ c/ 1/8 cPeaches & Strawberries ½ c

Orange Juice ½ cKetchup/Mayo/Mustard 1/1/1/

Milk Choice ½ pt

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Chilled Pears ½ cMilk Choice ½ pt

Meat Pie 2 oz

2 oz meat/ 2 oz grainButtered Corn ½ c

Lettuce/ Tomato ¼ c /1/8 cFresh Orange Wedges ½ c

Milk Choice ½ pt

Meat Pie 2 oz2 oz meat/ 2 oz grain

OrWhole Wheat Tortilla Shells

2 each- 2 oz grainTaco Meat 2 oz

Shredded Cheese 1ozSalsa w/ Jalapeno Garnish ¼ c

Both served withButtered Corn ½ c

Steamed Baby Carrots ½ cLettuce/ Tomato Cup ¼ c/1/8 c

Fresh Orange Wedges ½ cGrape Juice ½ cMilk Choice ½ pt

AARP January Birthdays

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AARP January Anniversarys

Dudley & Georgina LeblancJessie & Alrina Ponville

Elmond & Beulah Templet

PIERRE PART PRIMARYStudent of the Week

Kaeli

Gracyn

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January 14Diane Roger

Alecia SouthallAli Abobakr

Michael BlanchardChelsey CavalierCru BlanchardAmari Mcgill

Beyonce Naquin

January 15Jairan Thomas

January 16Laura Nell Pipsair

Gail Richard

Howard BlanchardSidney Cavalier

Jean FrugeGertie GrandinLinda Landry

(Belle Rose)

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Congratulations Brandon on earning your associate degree

in general studies of radiology with a concentration of

radiologic science at North Western University and

earning a certifi cate in radiologic science at

Baton Rouge General School of Radiology. We're proud of you, Love Mom and Dad

(Angela & Dennis Johnson)

Reading Counts winners for December: Cole Thibodeaux, Reece Turner, Ridge Mabile, & Hannah Landry

Ava Grace Richard was born on December 19, 2014,

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and measured 19 inches. She was welcomed with love

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Bonnie Cavalier and Bernard & Gail Richard.Serving as godparents are

Nichole Crochet and Shane Richard.

AVA GRACE RICHARD

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SCHOOL NEWSSUPERINTENDENT’S LIST (4.0) Daniela Bernal, Stephanie Gar-nica, Kassie Giddens, Kaitlynn Henry, Wyatt Pennison, Madi-lynn Reed, Jaden Rodriguez,

Jolette Garnica, Alexa Mollett, Bradley Adams, Emily Elliott, Kaiya Randle and Eden Wade.PRINCIPAL’S LIST (3.60 to 3.99) Breanna Byrd, Jorge Cortes, Cit-laly Diaz, Matthew Domangue,

Jada Fabre, Ella Lodrigue, Dari-elle Soto, Kade Wilson, Emily Zavala, Kirstin Hebert, Joseph Massey, Jolie Toups, and Jamie Wiggins.

HONOR ROLL (3.0 to 3.59) Logan Budd, Keiton Laverne, Julie Guillory, Brycen Lovell, Tunie Bullock, Aedynn Chellette, Alvin Fitch, Jerrence Ford, Ani-bal Quinones-Pabey, David San

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MOST IMPROVED Shaedyn Beamon, Karen Garni-ca, Kaedyn Johnson, Emily Busi-nelle, Keiton Laverne, Jolette Garnica, and Jerrence Ford.

Bayou L’Ourse Primary School Honor Students for second nine weeks

Seafood Contest winners and participants: Reese Burnett, Landon Galey, Emmie Lambert, Jace Caswell, Owen Dias, and Katie Michel.

Cookery Contest Grand Winners: Emmie Lambert, Owen Dias, and Katie Michel.

Rice Cookery participants: Eli St. Germain, Landon Galey, Jace Caswell, Emmie Lambert, Reese Burnett, Katie Michel, and Owen Dias.

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SCHOOL NEWS SCHOOL NEWSAnne-Alese Marielle Rentrop

has been named Holy Cross Elementary School’s Student of the Year for 2014-2015. The Stu-dent of the Year Awards program recognizes outstanding students who have demonstrated excel-lent academic achievement, leadership ability, and citizen-ship. The program is sponsored by the Louisiana Superintendent of Education through the State Department of Education and the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Rentrop, a Principal’s List stu-dent who lives in Patterson, is 10 years old and is the daughter of Ronald and Karen Rentrop. She has two older brothers, Mark and Jon.

Anne-Alese is currently a fi fth grader in Mrs. Katie Rock’s class and has attended Holy Cross El-ementary School since Pre-K4. She considers it a special honor to be chosen Student of the Year. She “treasures the many friends and great memories I have made at Holy Cross” and “has learned during my school years that I will succeed with hard work and ef-fort if God is the center of my life.”

Anne-Alese has attended gym-nastics classes since she was fi ve years old and has been a member of the competitive team, Cajun Kips, for two years. She devotes several hours a week to practice for her sport and is very concerned about making healthy choices.

Her studies will keep her busy for several more years, but, after that time, she knows that with God’s help, she will know which direction she wants to go in and will begin that journey.

“Today, however, I am so very thankful for the blessings in my life, the people I share them with, and hope that tomorrow brings a chance for new opportunities to help people and love God and each other. “

Congratulations to

Labadieville Middle

School students

CANDACE JOSEPH

and TORI LACOSTE

for completing the

Health E2020 course!

BY TONYA D. HOLLOWAYBelle Rose Middle coaching staff would like to thank Jordan Mills, of the Chicago Bears, for making a surprise visit to their basketball practice.Mills held the Panthers' attention as he spoke about the importance of education and hard work. “Thanks again for giving back to the Assump-tion Parish community. We will continue to support you and your NFL career.”TOP PHOTO: Jordan Mills, a guard and tackle for the Chicago Bears, is surrounded by the Belle Rose Panthers boys basketball team.BOTTOM PHOTO: Mills stresses the importance of education and hard work as a route to success.

Photos by COACH TERRELL BANKS

Mills surprises Panthers boys basketball team

Rentrop named Student of the Year

Anne-Alese Marielle Rentrop

Many of today's classrooms are filled with all types of emerging technologies, which educators use to enhance their students' educational experi-ences. However, the humble newspaper has long been a staple in the classroom and at home and remains one of the best tools for learning. News-papers can be used to further children's academic abilities in a variety of ways.

Improve reading fluencyFluency, comprehension

and inference of text are les-sons that begin as soon as a child begins learning how to read. Children need access to a variety of reading materi-als so they can expand their knowledge and vocabulary base, and it's never too early to introduce youngsters to the newspaper as not only a source of local and national in-formation, but also as a read-ing tool.

Parents can go through the newspaper with their children and select articles that may be of interest. A section devoted to local events or a particular theme, such as sports or fit-ness, may be good starting points.

Children can have fun matching headlines with pho-tos and following the sequence of the stories that continue on another page. They're also bound to be exposed to a num-ber of new words and phrases as they read newspaper arti-cles, which helps improve their vocabulary.

Strengthen writing skillsNewspaper articles are writ-

ten differently than books. Ex-posing children to a journalistic style of writing can help them with their own writing assign-ments. Teachers often stress that narratives and other writ-ing assignments should follow a certain format so students learn to express themselves clearly. Students are urged to validate statements with proof and to have a logical flow to

their work.By reading articles in news-

papers, students can gain an understanding of how to in-troduce a subject, expand on facts and summarize a point. Students who tend to be more pragmatic writers may connect with the journalistic style of writing more so than students who excel at creative prose.

Children can practice report-ing on different events in and around their communities, em-ulating the style of writing pre-sented in newspapers. They also can learn the differences between editorial and opinion pieces.

Make current events acces-sible

Newspapers are an inex-pensive connection to culture and information from around the world. Through newspaper articles, students can better understand political, finan-cial and entertainment issues spanning the globe. Staying abreast of the latest news from around the world can help students become more well-rounded and learned. Students who may have read about events in a history book can compare those accounts to current information on what is happening in the world to-day.

Develop an Eye for Photog-raphy

Stunning, award-winning photographs are published in newspapers nearly every day. A picture is worth a thousand words, and newspaper photog-raphy helps readers interpret stories and bring the words to life through imagery. Access to newspaper photography can open up an entirely new world for children. It also may inspire their own creative works.

Students may be inundated with technological resources both at school and home. But perhaps no classroom re-source can match the array of benefits provided by newspa-pers.

Newspapers make for an ideal educational tool

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Opinion

BY GLENN MOLLETTEMy wife and I were walking an Appalachian path a few months

back when a poisonous copperhead snake struck at my wife. The snake was big. My wife was carrying pepper spray and amazing-ly with one quick move sprayed that deadly serpent. The snake was stunned as we lunged forward to safety. We were so very lucky. Either one of us could have died or lost a limb if that poi-sonous serpent had been successful. Journalists and cartoonists in a French newsroom were not so lucky this week. They were totally caught off guard by striking terrorists that ended their unsuspecting lives.

The attack on a Paris, France magazine killing twelve people is chilling. We must not allow such a heinous event to freeze us and keep us from practicing freedom and eliminating terrorism.

Christians, Muslims, Jews, white people, black people, Ameri-cans, French and all must be freedom united.

ISIS, militant Islamists, Taliban and others are working to destroy our freedom of speech, religious freedom and equality. Sometimes we think we have problems in America. If we want to understand problems look at Syria and parts of Iraq or any other region that is ruled by militant religious extremism. Ten journal-ists and two police officers sacrificed their lives for freedom of speech in Paris.

The French magazine Charlie Hebdo was internationally known for its satirical cartoons that outraged many Muslims. Some of those militant Muslims retaliated by enacting a blood-bath.

On September 11, 2001 we watched thousands die horrifically in New York City at the hands of terrorists. We have watched or heard of the hundreds killed in Mumbai through various attacks. We have seen parts of videos of journalists and humanitarians beheaded by terrorists. In France we saw a helpless police officer executed by terrorists after they had executed an entire news-room. The accounts go on and on. Evil exists in the world and is alive and well.

People across the planet must unite. Good people must stop fighting each other. We have problems in our country and it could be a lot worse if we do not work together. We have no problems like what we could have if we lost our freedom.

Americans must be strong. We must practice our faith bold-ly. Speech and freedom to express ourselves must not get quieter but louder. Police officers and the military need our full support. They have tough jobs. We need them to be as ef-fective as possible.

Our job each day should be to do our part to keep our free-dom. Treat each other kindly. Help each other. Practice the Golden Rule. Keep each other safe. Yet, unfortunately we have to live warily. Evil is a slithering serpent that might strike anyplace and anytime. Being caught off guard could be fatal.

Dr. Glenn Mollette is a syndicated American columnist and author. He is read in all 50 states. The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily representative of any other group, organization or this publication.

BY LEE H. HAMILTONWith the 114th Congress just underway, the political world is fo-

cused intently on the road ahead. Taxes, trade, immigration, climate change, job creation, the Affordable Care Act there’s a long list of issues and one burning question: whether a Republican Congress and a Democratic President can find common ground.

Yet before we get worked up about what’s to come, we need to take a hard look at the Congress that just ended and ask a different question: Why was it such an abject failure?

Let’s start with a basic number. According to the Library of Con-gress, 296 bills were passed by the 113th Congress and signed by the President. Just for comparison’s sake, the “do-nothing Congress” of 1947-48 got 906 bills through. The Financial Times called this most recent version “the least productive Congress in modern U.S. his-tory.” The only silver lining was that the cost of running Congress was down 11 percent.

Congress failed most spectacularly on the basics. Not one of the dozen annual appropriations bills passed, while the budget resolu-tion, which is supposed to set overall fiscal policy, never even got to a vote. In both houses, the leaders did what they could to make the legislative body of the world’s greatest democracy as undemo-cratic as possible. Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid used legislative maneuvers to block amendments more often dur-ing his time as majority leader than any of his five predecessors. In the House, Republican leaders used so-called “closed rules,” which prohibit amendments, a record number of times. Both approaches denied by legislative device the opportunity for Congress to work its will.

When Congress did legislate, it did so in the worst possible way — by using an “omnibus” spending bill into which it crammed ev-erything it could manage. The bill was put together in a single week, guaranteeing minimal study by the members of Congress who voted on it. Ostensibly meant to fund the government through September, it contained a host of provisions that deserved a full airing.

Instead, with virtually no public debate, Congress multiplied

the amount of money that wealthy donors can give to the politi-cal parties; loosened regulations on Wall Street; cut funding for the Environmental Protection Agency, forcing it to its lowest staffing level in over two decades; and hacked funding for the IRS. This last measure, a gift to tax cheats, was an especially egregious assault on ordinary taxpayers, who will now be asked to foot a bill that robust enforcement of the tax laws would have spared them.

Congress’s reliance on omnibus bills, which are written in secret, has had a variety of pernicious effects. The procedure violates every rule of good legislative process, denying transparency and account-ability. It allows Capitol Hill to curry favor with all sorts of special interests but no public reckoning. It forces — or allows — members to vote for provisions that would have had little chance of surviv-ing on their own. And it puts enormous power in the hands of the leadership of both parties — not least because lobbyists have come to understand that they need to have a representative in the room where the omnibus is crafted, and therefore they focus money and attention on leaders.

The last Congress maintained one other lamentable trend: it took “oversight” to mean injecting its investigations with excessive parti-sanship — Benghazi, the IRS’s examination of conservative groups, the VA’s mishandling of health care for veterans — while forgetting the crucial, ongoing oversight of government. It allowed itself to be co-opted by the intelligence community, which persuaded Con-gress to neglect a public debate on massive surveillance, hacked the Senate’s computers, misled Congress about the nature and extent of torture, and leaked classified details to the media.

The congressional leadership is now under pressure to show Americans that they can be successful. Let’s hope they consider “success” to include avoiding the bad habits of the past — by pay-ing more attention to their constituents than to special interests; en-forcing their own ethics rules more vigorously; and most of all, fol-lowing the “regular order” based on 200 years of legislative experi-ence, which would allow the full debate and votes Congress needs to serve as a true coequal branch of government.

The 'equality' racketSome time ago, burglars in England

scrawled a message on the wall of a home they had looted: "RICH BASTARDS."

Those two words captured the spirit of the politicized vision of equality -- that it was a grievance when someone was better off than themselves.

That, of course, is not the only meaning of equality, but it is the predominant political meaning in practice, where economic "dispar-ities" and "gaps" are automatically treated as "inequities." If one racial or ethnic group has a lower income than another, that is automati-cally called "discrimination" by many people in politics, the media and academia.

It doesn't matter how much evidence there is that some groups work harder in school, perform better and spend more postgraduate years studying to acquire valuable skills in medicine, science or engineering. If the eco-nomic end results are unequal, that is treated as a grievance against those with better out-comes, and a sign of an "unfair" society.

The rhetoric of clever people often confuses the undeniable fact that life is unfair with the claim that a given institution or society is un-fair.

Children born into families that raise them with love and with care to see that they ac-quire knowledge, values and discipline that will make them valuable members of society have far more chances of economic and other success in adulthood than children raised in families that lack these qualities.

Studies show that children whose parents have professional careers speak nearly twice as many words per hour to them as children with working class parents -- and several times as many words per hour as children in families on welfare. There is no way that children from these different backgrounds are going to have equal chances of economic or other success in adulthood.

The fatal fallacy, however, is in collecting statistics on employees at a particular business or other institution, and treating differences in the hiring, pay or promotion of people from different groups as showing that their employ-er has been discriminating.

Too many gullible people buy the implicit assumption that the unfairness originated where the statistics were collected, which would be an incredible coincidence if it were true.

Worse yet, some people buy the idea that politicians can correct the unfairness of life by cracking down on employers. But, by the time children raised in very different ways reach an employer, the damage has already been done.

What is a problem for children raised in families and communities that do not prepare them for productive lives can be a bonanza for politicians, lawyers and assorted social mes-siahs who are ready to lead fierce crusades, if the price is right.

Many in the media and among the intelli-gentsia are all too ready to go along, in the name of seeking equality. But equality of what?

Equality before the law is a fundamental value in a decent society. But equality of treat-ment in no way guarantees equality of out-comes.

On the contrary, equality of treatment makes equality of outcomes unlikely, since virtually nobody is equal to somebody else in the whole range of skills and capabilities required in real life. When it comes to performance, the same man may not even be equal to himself on dif-ferent days, much less at different periods of his life.

What may be a spontaneous confusion among the public at large about the very dif-ferent meanings of the word "equality" can be a carefully cultivated confusion by politicians, lawyers and others skilled in rhetoric, who can exploit that confusion for their own benefit.

Regardless of the actual causes of different capabilities and rewards in different individu-als and groups, political crusades require a villain to attack -- a villain far removed from the voter or the voter's family or community. Lawyers must likewise have a villain to sue. The media and the intelligentsia are also at-tracted to crusades against the forces of evil.

But whether as a crusade or a racket, a con-fused conception of equality is a formula for never-ending strife that can tear a whole soci-ety apart -- and has already done so in many countries.

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stan-ford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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