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Judge Hernandez to Seek ReelectionSays integrity, judicial ethics, respect for rule of law more important than everBy James Ronald skains

“I work very hard to make sure that anyone coming into my court has his proverbial day in court,’’ Judge Todd Hernandez, Civil Judge of the 19th Judicial District Court told the Zachary Post. “It takes a lot of hard work to be really up-to-date on the is-sues that come before the civil court in the 19th Judicial District.”

“I once had a half of a Ford F-150 pickup truck brought into my court room on a case as evidence. I had to learn about all the intricacies of the computer system and all the relay cir-cuit points to help move the case for-ward. A judge is responsible to be the gatekeeper of evidence for a jury in a civil case. The judge must make deci-sions as to what is real evidence, what

is speculation and what are opinions of the people involved in the case.”

“In a medical malpractice suit, the Judge has to understand a lot of medical things such as the difference between a level two and a level three fusion in order to render a fair judg-ment for both parties,” Judge Her-nandez explained. “No matter what is the case, I want all of the parties to a suit in my court to leave the court room sincerely believing that they got a fair hearing and application of the law.”

“Anytime that a verdict in court is rendered, you have a winner and a loser. It doesn’t matter to me which is which only that I did my job in applying the law in the case. I want

Freedom is Worth the Price You are Willing to Pay for It

By James Ronald skains Author’s Note: The following is

part two of a three-part article as told in the words of Rafael Nowicki, who vividly describes his journey to freedom in the US. What a vivid reminder of what we as Americans have to be thankful for as we pre-pare to celebrate our country’s in-dependence.

“My decision and the timing of my effort to leave communist Po-land was not a spur of the moment decision,’’ Nowicki told the Zach-ary Post. “I had been obsessed with immigrating to the United States since I was a pre-teenager.”

“I had to apply three times to the Polish authorities to go to England to learn to speak English. I played up the theme that since the entire

Part 2 of Rafael Nowicki’s Odyssey to Freedom

Above: Rafael Nowicki, local businessman and native of Poland who escaped from Communist Poland in 1979.

computer languages at that time were being written in English, that I could only learn proper comput-er style English in England. I told the communist Polish authorities that my learning proper English in England would be a great boon for the Polish computer industry when I came back from England.”

“My dad was involved in the beginning stages of the computer industry in Poland as a translator,” Nowicki noted. “He was fluent in three languages and could speak and understand two other languag-es. He could read the computer tapes that were used at the time, so he was a valuable person to the Polish government.”

“When I got permission to

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both parties to be able to say that Judge Hernandez was knowledge-able about all the factors in the case and fair and impartial to both par-ties in rendering a verdict, or in in-structing a jury of the points of law related to the case.”

“The 19th Judicial District in Louisiana is very unique as it is designated as the court for all the cases that are filed against the state, its boards and commissions and agencies,” Hernandez explained. “You can imagine all of the legal issues that come before the civil judges in the 19th Judicial District court related to state government operations.”

Judge Todd Hernandez was once just Todd Hernandez, 5 feet, 9 ½ inches tall quarterback for the Zachary High School Broncos. Af-ter graduating from Zachary High, Hernandez attended Southeastern University and was a member of the Lions Football team.

“My claim to fame as Southeast-ern Lion football player the year be-fore they disbanded the team in the mid-1980’s, was that I ran the scout team,” Judge Hernandez recalled. “After they disbanded the football team, I transferred to Northeast University which we now know as ULM.”

“Even then I really didn’t know

exactly what I wanted to do in life or how to go about doing it. One of my professors in an accounting course asked me what I really wanted to do for a career. I told him that I wanted to do something where I could help other people, such as being a law-yer. He told me that I didn’t need to be taking accounting courses to be able to do that. He then told me about the University’s pre-law course, in which I enrolled as soon as possible.”

“You might say that the rest is history as far as my law career get-ting started,” Judge Hernandez re-lated. “I attended Southern Law School where I graduated and then became a small town country law-yer in Zachary.”

Judge Hernandez was initially associated with the Myles, Cook, & Day law firm. Later Hernandez’s

name was added to the law firm. Iron-ically, three members of the Myles, Cook, Day and Hernandez Zachary based law firm have become Judges. Lonny Myles is a City Court Judge, Charlene Charlet-Day is a family court judge and Hernandez is on the bench of the 19th Judicial District Court.

“I’ve never really thought of my-self as more than just a country law-yer who got elected to a judgeship,” Judge Hernandez noted. “To me, it is all about respect for the court of law and what it stands for. I also try to keep my court docket moving and not let cases get stuck in court unnec-essarily.”

“The first time I had my robe on and entered a court room, it fully struck me as to the importance of the job I had been elected to perform. I made a commitment that day and I re-

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member it every day I go into a court room as a judge that my actions and decisions on that very day will have an effect on the lives of the people who come into my courtroom.”

“When I was in Criminal Court during my first two terms, I tried to get to know the person who was be-fore me and the circumstances sur-rounding his crime. I wanted to try and find the best solution for the per-son charged with the wrongdoing, but also be very strict in applying the penalties of the law they broke.”

Around his hometown of Zachary, Judge Hernandez is probably better known for his participation in youth sports activities than as a judge. Her-nandez is one of the founders of Leg-endZ Sports Academy located on the outskirts of Zachary.

“I get a bigger thrill out of being called “Coach” than being addressed

as Judge,” Judge Hernandez pointed out. “When I’m called Coach by my current players or those I coached earlier, I know that I have touched their lives in a positive manner.

When asked what the biggest challenges in the court system today, Judge Hernandez had this to say: “It’s all about the money and judges being turned into politicians. Super PACs (political action committees) and special interest groups have no place in making campaign contribu-tions to judges, whether they are run-ning for office for the first time or for re-election. If some types of regula-tions are not put on campaign con-tributions by Super PACs and special interest groups to judges, the court system could be turned into a po-litical system and ultimately become corrupted.”


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First Baptist Church of Zachary, LA invites you to enjoy their annual “Mondays for the Master” revival event Monday nights in July at 7 p.m.

Scheduled Speakers:

July 7 – Dr. Jimmy Draper (Former SBC President and Pres-ident Emeritus Lifeway)

July 14 – Rev. Buddy Sheriff (Pastor of FBC Lizana in Gulf-port, MS)

July 21 - Dr. Chuck Pourciau (Pastor of Broadmoor Baptist Church in Shreveport, LA)

July 28 – Dr. Tim Piland (Pres-ident Emeritus SBC of Virginia)

FBCZ is located @ 4200 Main Street in Zachary, LA (225-654-2755).

This worship event is free. Child-care will be provided – go to fbcz.org for more.

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ZHS Student Awarded Georgia Pacific ScholarshipConnor Usie, a senior at Zach-

ary High School, has been selected as a recipient of a Georgia-Pacific Foundation Employees’ Children Scholarship. He is the daughter of Ron and Debra Usie. Ron is and Environmental Engineer at the Georgia-Pacific Port Hudson Op-erations. Also awarded a scholarship was Kaylee Dinot, a senior at Cen-tral High School. She is the daughter of Ricky and Stacy Dinot. Ricky is a Mechanic at the Port Hudson mill. Each year the company awards 50 scholarships to the children of em-ployees across the country.

In addition, the Port Hudson Op-erations provides a non-endowed scholarship for a Zachary High stu-dent planning to study Engineering at Louisiana State University. This year two scholarships were awarded. Chandler Aguillard and Kaylin Al-leman will be attending LSU in the Engineering Program.

“Supporting education has al-ways been an emphasis for Georgia-Pacific because we believe higher education is vital for building a stronger community,” said Keith Wahoske, Vice President Port Hud-son Operations.

Since the scholarship program began in 1988, Georgia-Pacific has awarded 1,350 scholarships totaling nearly $11 million. The program is administered by the National Merit

Scholarship Corporation and is open to children of all active, full-time employees of Georgia-Pacific in the United States.

“Georgia-Pacific is proud to sup-port the academic achievements of our employees’ children for more than 25 years through this program,” said Curley M. Dossman Jr., presi-dent of the Georgia-Pacific Founda-tion. “We’re investing in the success of our young people and looking for-ward to the many contributions they will make as professionals and citi-zens in their communities.”

Across the country, Georgia-Pa-cific supports a wide array of com-munity-based educational programs that help transition students from school to the workforce with schol-arships, job readiness training and technical programs. Georgia-Pacific believes in helping people with the skills needed to succeed and move forward in today’s workplace.

Georgia-Pacific Foundation Employees’ Children Scholarships

are examples of the types of critical needs community investments made by Georgia-Pacific, and other compa-nies owned by Koch Industries. Na-tionally, Koch companies contribute tens of millions of dollars annually through in-kind giving and direct con-tributions to causes and organizations focusing on economic education and educational programs, arts and cul-ture, health and human services, com-munity and civic causes, and environ-mental projects.

Headquartered at Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of build-ing products, tissue, packaging, paper, cellulose and related chemicals. The company employs nearly 35,000 peo-ple worldwide. Founded in 1958, the Georgia-Pacific Foundation has four key investment areas – education, community enrichment, the environ-ment and entrepreneurship. For more information on the Georgia-Pacific Foundation, visit www.gp.com/gp-foundation.

Keith Wahoske, far right, presented Charles Koch’s book, The Science of Success, to scholarship recipients Chandler Aguillard, Kaylee Dinot and Connor Usie at a recep-tion held in their honor.

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Zachary Manor Hosts Open House for Newly Renovated Facility

On June 24, Zachary Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center hosted an Open House for the community to view the newly renovated facility. The facade of the building as well as the landscaping reflect the exterior changes. The interior of the building has been completely updated and beautifully designed. Zachary Manor, located at 6161 Main Street, has been serving the Zachary community as well as surrounding areas for over 46 years. For more information on Zachary Manor’s services or to schedule a tour, call (225) 654-6893. Pictured left: Chief Operating Officer Jamie Shelton, Administrator Joy Russo, Interior Designer Tracy Thompson and owner Teddy Price. Pictured right Administrator Joy Russo with Director of Nursing, Diatania Scott Paul.

Summer Fun With Art! Local kids are keeping it cool and artsy this summer at Joie Pe-tite Designs Art Gallery and Studio. Over a dozen kids from Zachary and the surrounding community participated in the first of three Paint N Punch Summer Art Camps this season. Creative campers completed four paintings and several crafts that went along with the week’s theme: “Sea & Sand.” Among the compositions they created were a “Fantasy Fish,” “Spar-kling Sea-Horse,” “Majestic Sandcastle,” and an “Awe-Inspiring Seascape.” On Friday friends and family members were treated to a special in-house art show featuring the work of all the up-and-coming artists. Paint N Punch-ers also worked on a backdrop throughout the week which was used in a “Sea-side photoshoot.” These campers had a wonderful time painting, crafting and creating in all sorts of imaginative ways. Next week’s sold out Paint N Punch Art Camp, themed “Down Da Bayou” will focus on the flavors and sights of our own home state. In mid-July Paint N Punch Camp will go “On Safari” and explore the animals native to the jungles and plains of Africa. For more information on Paint N Punch Camps and art lessons throughout the year, go to www.joiepetitedesigns.com or email Joy Petty at joy [email protected].


Trailers, Liquor Stores and Overdue Construction Projects Dominate Council MeetingBy Jen Bayhi-GennaRo

The mayor and council met for their bi-monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 24 at 6:30 p.m. After the call to order, invocation, Pledge of Alle-giance and opening procedures, the council agreed to move item O3 to the top of the agenda.

Item O3 was the request for with-drawal of a waiver granted to Edith Brown in 2012 so she could place a manufactured home on lot 4 of Ventu-ra Place Subdivision at 3555 McHugh Rd. In attendance were about 10 long-time residents of Ventura Place Sub-division. Addressing the council on the item was William Lampton, an attorney with Jones Walker in Baton Rouge, who represented the longtime residents.

Lampton explained that Brown did not own the property at the time the waiver was granted; her son did. Then, in 2013, he donated it to her. Since then, Lampton said, two very impor-tant things have happened. The first thing is that the manufactured home placed on lot 4 is very different from the home that was described when the waiver was granted. Lampton present-ed an enlarged, poster-sized, framed copy of the letter Brown wrote the council back in 2012, stating that the home would not have the appearance of a traditional mobile home, and will sit on a slab, have beautiful landscap-ing, a concrete driveway and carport, and brick all around the bottom. He also brought an enlarged photo copy of what the mobile home looks like today, which is markedly different than what was described in that 2012 letter. The second very important issue at hand is that Brown has not paid any taxes on

lot 4, and the property has been sold at a tax sale and now belongs to a com-pany based out of Minneapolis, Minn. “My clients have lived here for almost 30 years and are very passionate about this issue,” he said. The landown-ers and Lampton have reached out to Brown to try to settle amicably and have received absolutely no coopera-tion, he said, so are forced to go the litigation route. “It’s a lot of time and cost to my clients, and we think we will ultimately be successful, but we want the waiver rescinded,” Lampton said.

A waiver is not a right, it’s a li-cense, says City Attorney John Hopewell, and the city has the right to take it back. The city also has the right to call Entergy and shut the pow-er off. After more discussion on the topic, including Mayor Amerhein’s mentioning “we removed quite a few trailers” back when he was on council, a motion was made by Councilman Tommy Womack and seconded by Councilman Francis Nezianya to is-sue a subpoena to the owners of lot 4 and require their attendance at the next council meeting on July 8.

Moving on, the council unani-mously agreed to waive the $250 itin-erant peddler occupational license for E Federal Credit Union’s June 26 food truck round up, a fundraiser for the Zachary Food Pantry.

Next up came a lengthy debate in a public hearing. Item H2a, the hearing on the conditional use permit on tract 5 of the Paine Tract, located on Avenue A and Hwy. 19, for the sale of alcohol, began with store owner Anwar Nagi speaking in favor. Nagi owns Package Liquor on that corner, and it recently

incurred fire damage. He was request-ing his occupational use permit be ex-tended so he could start over in reno-vating the building in hopes of getting it up and running again. There to speak against the issue was Tracy Bethley, a resident of the Avenues neighborhood. The council came to the neighborhood in 2011, and as a result of that visit, the residents were asked to fill out a ques-tionnaire, she explained. The results revealed that well over 50% of neigh-borhood residents feel that public drinking, noise and drug activity is a problem in the neighborhood. “It is an issue for me to have liquor being sold on our neighborhood corner. We do not want to exacerbate the problem. I request you deny the waiver for Pack-age Liquor,” she said. She argued that there are children that walk through that area after school. “I think liquor will draw the wrong kind of attention to that area,” she said. The public hear-ing was declared closed. The council mentioned this license came out of Planning and Zoning with a favorable recommendation, and it would take four council members to overturn that vote. “If it were consumption on the premises, I’d have a real problem with it,” said Councilman Brandon Noel. Mayor Amerhein addressed Nagi say-ing, “If you allow drinking outside of this building, you will lose your per-mit.” Nagi was vehement that he has already spoken to police chief David McDavid about security, and he has called the chief on more than three occasions to report loitering. Coun-cilman Womack said he understood Bethley’s concerns, but doesn’t think it’s worth not giving Nagi a permit to make his business. Councilman John

Coghlan seconded, and all other coun-cil members approved it.

Bianca Carambat, of engineering firm PEC, was in attendance to give updates on projects and request pay-ments. The Rollins Road project is moving slowly due to rain delays, she said. The payment request #6 for Kort’s Trucking in the amount of $390,150.79 was approved. The Bypass Road Proj-ect is doing very well on progress, and ahead of schedule, Carambat said. The payment of $628,348.62 was approved for Industrial Enterprises.

Carambat requested authorization to award the winning bid received on the gas improvement contract to In-dustrial Enterprises, whose bid came in $444,000 less than the other bids thanks to the tenacity of the company’s point man. “He hustled for the price of the pipe when everyone else cushioned the price on it,” said Mayor Amerhein. “The guy who got the bid is actually shutting a plant down to manufacture the pipe.”

Under New Business, the council approved the legal services contract for L.T. Dupre to replace V. Charles Cusimano as council for the Zachary Fire & Police Municipal Civil Service Board.

Attorney Ricky McDavid ad-dressed the council on the cooperative agreement between the city and the school board for the student resource officers and the crossing guards. The city has been funding these positions totally at an annual cost of $142,500, but the school board recently has been kind enough to step in and help pay, the mayor said. The council approved the motion for the mayor to sign the cooperative agreement.


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leave and actually caught the flight to London, the Polish authorities started looking for me. They didn’t realize that I had been able to catch the plane after the long delay with the customs agent at the airport. When we set in motion my escape attempt, my Dad faked a heart at-tack and was rushed to the hospi-tal.”

“The Polish authorities went to the hospital to talk with my dad who was in the hospital with the fake heart attack to help cover up my escape,” Nowicki said. “When the authorities got to the hospi-tal and asked where I was, he told them that he didn’t know, but that I was a no-good scoundrel of a son for disappearing when he needed me there at the hospital with him.”

“My dad took great pleasure in

putting everything he could over on the communist Polish authorities. Poland is just one big prison. The communist party tried for years to get my dad to join the party, but he would tell them that he was too busy with his work to join. Later he told them that he was not worthy to become a member of the com-munist party, and then he began to say that he was too old to become a member of the communist party.”

“Several months later after I had left England and made it to Vienna Austria and was working at a UN complex, my dad came to visit me. When I made contact with him af-ter I got to Vienna, he went to the Polish authorities to tell that he had located me in another country and was going to go get me and bring me home. We had about a week to-gether in Vienna.”

“We drank several bottles of wine together, laughing about the trick he was playing on the com-

munist Polish authorities,” No-wicki recalled with a laugh. “Im-mediately after Dad got back to Poland, he went to the authorities like a good communist should have and told them that he had searched where he thought I was, but could not find me. He did tell them that if he could find me, he would go get me and bring me home.”

After four months in England in 1978, Nowicki was destitute and not making any progress in leaving England. He was advised to make contact with the Polish American Society in Vienna and ask for their help. He did make contact with the Society and they offered encour-agement that they could help him immigrate legally to the United States.

“The big problem at that point in time and place was that my visa had expired,” Rafael explained. “I thought I could just send my pa-perwork into the Polish Embassy in London and they would send it back to me by post (mail). After several weeks of back and forth, I was told emphatically that the only way I could get my visa extend was by going to the Polish Embassy in person.”

“I was very uptight about going to the Polish Embassy because I knew that by the letter of the law, they could grab me and send me back to Poland on the next plane to Warsaw. From there, I knew I could be sent to prison in Siberia. As I went into the Embassy, I was very cautious and made sure that I could bolt and get out the front

door before they could arrest me.”“After I go to the front desk and

told them why I was there, I had to sit for a long time,” he remem-bered. “Finally I was told to go into what turned out to be a fairly big room. A Polish communist au-thority was in the room. He im-mediately started yelling at me of how stupid I was to think I had to come to England to learn English.”

“I decided I didn’t have any-thing to lose, so I started yelling back at him. After about a minute of yelling at me, he told me to go stand in the hallway. I did go into the hallway having no idea what was happening. I kept my eyes on the front door of the Embassy that I could see from where I was stand-ing. After what seemed like a long time, the door slowly opened just enough for him to stick his hand out. In the hand he stuck out into the hallway was the paper work I so desperately needed. It was like the hand of God reaching out to me.”

“Within a couple days of getting my new visa, I was on my way to Vienna to see the Polish American Society,’’ Rafael said in elaborat-ing on the next phase of his jour-ney to the United States. “In trav-eling to Vienna by train I had to go back behind what was then known as the Iron Curtain. I had another close call with Communist Securi-ty guards that I will never forget.”

Writer’s note: I will do my best to get Rafael’s incredible story wrapped up in the next issue of the Post.


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Lane Honored for Financial AchievementQuorum Health Resources (QHR)

announced the winners of the 2014 Excellence in Leadership awards at its recent Annual Leadership Conference in Nashville, Tenn. Lane Regional Medical Center received the award for Most Improved Performance in the $40- $100 million category.

“This award is due to the efforts of our entire team,” said CEO Randy Olson. “Together we have achieved several measurable improvements over the past year such as increasing our operating margin by refocusing our efforts to more efficiently man-age labor and supply costs to make up for the many reductions in healthcare payments.”

“Maintaining high performance is no easy feat in today’s difficult health-care environment,” said QHR Presi-

dent James Horrar. “Lane’s achieve-ments serve as an example for all hospitals to strive to achieve. We are proud to partner with the whole team at Lane.”

Lane Regional Medical Center has been a QHR client hospital for 12 years.

QHR (Quorum Health Resources) has provided consulting, management and education resources to hospitals and health systems for three decades. QHR is the market leader in hospital management, serving more than 700 hospitals over the past three decades. As a consulting resource, QHR is con-sistently ranked among the top health-care consulting firms in the nation, and the QHR Learning Institute reaches nearly 15,000 healthcare professionals each year.

Lane’s CFO Mark Anderson (center) accepts the QHR Most Improved Performance award on behalf of all Lane team members from Bob Vento, QHR Senior Vice President of Operations (L) and James Horrar, QHR President and CEO (R).

Extraordinary Nurses Recognized at Lane Regional Medical Center Fourteen nurses at Lane Re-

gional Medical Center were nomi-nated by patients, family mem-bers, physicians and colleagues for the DAISY Award for Extraor-dinary Nurses.

Lane’s DAISY Award Honoree is Mallori Martin Fletcher, RN, BSN.

Fletcher is a graduate of South-eastern Louisiana University and is a member of The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau. She currently attends graduate school at the University of Louisiana La-fayette in the Nurse Practitioner Program. She has been employed at Lane for 1 ½ years and cur-rently works on the Intermediate

Care Unit. A native of Paulina, Fletcher

resides in Zachary with her hus-band, Cody, who is also a reg-istered nurse. She successfully completed the ONS/ONCC Che-motherapy Biotherapy Certificate Course and the American Heart Association ACLS Advanced Car-diovascular Life Support Course.

“It is truly an honor to be a DAISY Award recipient,” said Fletcher. “It portrays the mean-ing of why I became a nurse: to provide extraordinary, compas-sionate care to both patients and their families. I have always be-lieved that you should treat each and every patient the same way Lane’s DAISY Award Honoree is Mallori

Martin Fletcher, RN, BSN.

you would treat your mother, fa-ther, son or daughter. Having a patient’s family member nominate me for the thoughtful and compas-sionate care they received proves, to both myself and the nursing profession, that we can truly make a difference in the lives we touch.”

Fletcher received a beautiful marble sculpture called “A Heal-er’s Touch,” hand-carved by art-ists of the Shona Tribe in Africa.

To nominate an extraordinary Lane nurse that has touched your life, please go to www.LaneRMC.org. Be sure to click on the DAISY emblem!


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Bank of Zachary Announces PromotionsThe Bank of Zachary has pro-

moted four officers, President Preston L. Kennedy announced on Monday. Fonda Funderburk has been promoted to Senior Vice President. Kim McDonald has been promoted to Vice Presi-dent, and Donna Brown and Jeree Chaney have been promoted to Assistant Vice President.

Funderburk is the manager of Retail Operations for the bank, overseeing all front-line activi-ties. She is also a lending officer, primarily in consumer loans. Fun-derburk is a resident of West Feli-ciana Parish, and a native of Zach-ary. She has been with the Bank of Zachary for 32 years, starting as a teller in 1982.

McDonald is the Electronic Banking manager, a position she assumed in 2013 after several years as manager of the Central branch. A native of Zachary, she previously worked for the Bank of Zachary while a student at Zach-ary High. She began her current tenure in 2008, and has more than 20 years of experience in the fi-nancial services industry.

Brown is a member of the Bank of Zachary Accounting Depart-ment. She previously served as Assistant Cashier. Mrs. Brown is a native of Denham Springs and a

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ZHS Student to Attend Prestigious Theater Group

Tony Collins

ZHS Theater Student Tony Col-lins was one of 300 student thespi-ans around the country to be accept-ed into the Summer Conservatory at AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts in New York City. This program is an intense two-week course to strengthen act-ing, vocal and dance ability. The kids will also work with Broadway professionals and perform on the last day of the intensive in front of many Broadway artists, staff and college students attending AMDA. He is scheduled to attend July 13th-26th.

An avid Theatre attendee might have noticed Collins in some of Zachary High’s Theater and Choir Department shows. Colllins has been involved in several school productions as well as Community Theater Shows. A few of his credits include Annie Jr. (Rooster and Cho-reographer) at NMS. Aladdin (Alad-din and Dance Captain), Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow and Dance Captain), and Midsummer Night’s Dream

(Puck and Choreographer) at ZHS.He’s also been in countless shows at Theater Baton Rouge such as City of Angels (Ensemble), South Pa-cific (Ensemble), 9 to 5 (Ensemble), Christmas Carol (Ensemble), Once Upon a Mattress (Jester), and he is currently in their Summer Produc-tion of Annie playing the roles of Bert

Healy and Ensemble which opens June 8th thru the entire month, and in July he will be joining Theater Baton Rouge again for Mary Pop-pins rehearsals. Mary Poppins runs this fall from Sept. 12th-Oct. 5th.

“I am so grateful for all the amaz-ing opportunities God has given me this year! I am filled with an abun-dance of joy and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for me,” Col-

lins said.He added, “Every day I wake up

and think to be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor. I just hope I can inspire kids of our community the way my mentors, teachers, fam-ily and friends inspire me”

Collins is currently raising funds to help cover the program tuition through his gofundme.com page en-titled “Tony Takes New York.”

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St. John the Baptist Catholic Celebrates Golden JubileeBishop Robert Muench of the Dio-

cese of Baton Rouge was at St. John the Baptist church on June 22, to cel-ebrate mass in honor of the 50th Anni-versary of the formation of the church parish. Co-celebrants were Father Jef-fery Bayhi, who is the present Pastor and past pastors Father Henry Vavas-seur, Father Tom Duhe’ and Monsi-gnor Gerald LeFebvre. Deacon Don-ald Ard assisted the Bishop.

St. John has roots dating back to 1785 when many of our ancestors came to Louisiana from Nova Sco-tia. According to Janet Cavin, who has compiled church history, many of these people settled in areas sur-rounding Baton Rouge. These settle-ments included Port Hudson on what is now known as Thompson’s Creek. Early church records document that baptisms, confirmations and marriages took place in the Town of Port Hud-son in a chapel named St. John’s. In 1870 the chapel site was moved to a property between Shaffet Lane and Pope Road. Zachary was incorporated into a town in 1889 and Port Hudson ceased to flourish as a town.

With the growth of Zachary, the chapel was moved closer to town onto property donated by Mrs. John McHugh on East Main and Old Weis Roads. The original church building was sold, moved and is used present-ly by the congregation of St. Patrick Episcopal Church.

In 1964, then Bishop John Tracy established the Parish of St. John the Baptist to serve the Zachary, Slaugh-ter, Port Hudson and surrounding ar-eas. The mission of Our Lady of the Assumption was established in Clin-

ton. Today the Parish of St. John has grown to include 1200 registered fami-lies. The current worship space was dedicated in 1974 and the parish has outgrown it significantly. The mem-bers are involved in a capitol campaign known as “Continuing the Legacy of Faith” to build a new facility that will occupy a site on Main Street facing McHugh Road.

In 2013, the “little blue house” on church property was renovated and opened as St. Paul’s Study, a cof-feehouse, Internet café and shop for Christian books and religious articles. Proceeds of the shop are designated to the building of the new worship facil-ity. The combined organizations of the church including the Rosary Altar So-ciety, The Men’s Club and the Knights of Columbus are joining hands to support the capitol campaign as the Golden Jubilee of the Parish is being celebrated this year.

1925 ChurchRendering of the new church building on McHugh Rd.

Picture of the original Annison Church building.

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