• Elderly Care Relief
If you are caring for an elderly resident and need someone to relieve you of the care a few hours a week, call the LaSalle Council on Aging at 992-4708 between 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. LaSalle Council on Aging is an equal opportunity provider.
• LaSalle Celebrate Recovery
LaSalle Celebrate Recovery is a free 52-week Christ-centered 12-step program for any life controlling issue. The meetings will be held on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. at the old Jena Elementary School cafeteria. For more information, visit lasallecr.org and/or contact the Ministerial Alliance at lasalle.alliance@gmail.com
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V.F.W. Meeting/Supper
If you are a spouse of or have had a family member that served in a foreign war the V.F.W. Auxiliary Post 5002 members invite you to join them at their monthly meeting and supper. The meetings are held every second Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. at the V.F.W. Post in Jena. Standing members are encouraged to attend as well. If interested in joining, call Dina Liles at 623-3637 or Kim Randall at 318.201.0426.
• Help For Dom. Violence Victims
The Wellspring Alliance for Families serves victims of domestic violence throughout LaSalle Parish. Our mission is to reduce the devastating impact of domestic violence on individuals, children, families, and communities.
Free, confidential services are now available in the new Jena office located at 1043 Courthouse Street. Services include safety planning, referrals to community resources, case management, transitional housing, protective orders, life skills classes, and more. For an appointment, call 348-3005.
• Honor Guard needs members
The LaSalle Parish Honor Guard is seeking new members. The Honor Guard provides military honor funerals and burials for all veterans, along with presenting programs in schools, churches and other venues as well as programs during Memorial Day and Veterans Day. The only requirements to join the Honor Guard is that one must be a veteran and received an honorable discharge. For more information, contact Daniel Hulsey at (318) 312-1049.
Come to Jesus Revival at LHS
Third Annual Come to Jesus Revival March 5th – 8th at LaSalle High School Gym, Olla, LA with Bill Britt.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. Special Services daily with a meal begins at 5:30 PM which are: SUNDAY – Community Potluck with Bill Britt, MONDAY – Ladies with Miz Chocolate, TUESDAY – Men with Bill Britt & WEDNESDAY – Youth with Bubba Ezell.
Worship music by the McClanahan Family, Broken Vessels and Kinetik. Hosted by Pinehill Baptist Church of Olla, Christian Sharing Christ of Clarks, Kelly Baptist Church, Olla First Baptist Church and Tullos First Baptist Church.
Find us on Facebook @ cometojesusrevival.
• Little Free Food Pantry in Jena
The Little Free Food Pantry in Jena is located beside The Jena Times on Third Street in front of the town pavilion. The pantry is open to anyone in need and also for citizens to add items to keep the pantry stocked.
Pure Gold Women’s Conference
Pure Gold Women’s Conference 2023 wil be held at Shady Grove United Pentecostal Church, located at 1384 Hwy. 460 in Jena, on Saturday, March 18, beginning at 10 a.m.
Keynote speaker will be Christian recording artist Shara McKee, along with Thetus Tenney and David and Carlen Smith.
This event is free for all ladies ages 12 and up. Lunch will be provided.
Please register via our Facebook page: Shady Grove United Pentecostal Church.
Victims of crime can receive help with safety planning, guidance through the criminal justice system and access to certain resources to gain strength after victimization.
Services include emotional support, lethality assessment, prevention of abuse, and referrals to services. Assistance in filing Civil Temporary Restraining Orders or Crime Victim’s Reparations notification of court dates and accompanying the victim to interviews and court proceedings are also available.
For help or more information, call 318-992-2067 or come by 2009 Courthouse Street, Ste. A, in Jena.
The Jena Giants Booster Club will hold their meetings at 6:30 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at the LaSalle Golf & Country Club, located at 260 Country Club Rd, in Trout.
Workshop
• Victim Advocate Program
• Jena Giant Booster Club
4-H
Maker/Art
There is a 4-H Maker/Art Workshop slated for-Thursday, March 16, 2023.
What is a Maker Workshop? Creativity with a dash of imagination! 4-H’ers in 4th – 6th grades will create a variety of items centered around Science and Art. $10 registration fee due by Wednesday, March 8, 2023.
For more information please call the 4-H office at 992.2205.
4-H University – Short Course
All 4-H’ers, who are currently in the 9th – 12th grades are eligible to attend. This is your chance to compete statewide against other 4-H members for cash, educational trips and awards trips. 4-H University is also an opportunity to explore the LSU campus, experience dormitory life, eat like a college student, visit with college faculty members and learn more about possible career choices.
4-H University will be held June 20-23. You will attend hands-on workshops and seminars on and off LSU campus. Deadline to register is May 15, 2023.
Deadline for fees, health forms and code of conduct is May 27. Contact the 4-H office for an application or pick on up at your club meeting!
4-H Summer Camp 2023
4-H Summer Camp is for members in grades 4th -6th this school year. Camp will cost $225 for 4 fun filled days on Monday, May 29th thru Thursday, June 1st.
4-H members will get to choose from eight education tracks: Food & Fitness – Science, Engineering & Technology – Outdoor adventures – Hunter Safety Certification – Wetlands, Wildlife & You – The Artist Within – Water Safety.
Camp deposit of $75 due March 13th. Final Camp balances due before April 13th. 4-H’ers in need of financial assistance will need to contact the 4-H office to provide necessary paperwork.
Registration forms are available at club meetings and in the 4-H office.
4-H members will complete their camp registration through 4-H online, after office receives deposit.
For more information please call the 4-H office at 992.2205.
Free Tennis Clinic
Tennis Teaching Professional Ronnie Walters of Baton Rouge will hold a free tennis clinic for students in sixth through twelfth grade from 3:30 to 6 p.m. on Friday, March 3 at the Jena Town Park tennis courts.
Walters has been the Tennis Director at YMCA Paula Manship/Lamar Tennis Center in Baton Rouge since 2013. He coached boys and girls teams at The Dunham School in Baton Rouge for the past 10 years and was named the 2019-2020 National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Louisiana Tennis Coach of the Year.
Need Worshipful Masters Photos
The members of Michael Dempsey No. 327, Free and Accepted Masons are in search of photographs of some our original members. If anyone has any of these or could point us in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.
These men served as Worshipful Master, and we have everypast master (8×10 photo) on the wall inside the lodge hall, but we are missing these members: Amos C. Warner, 1926; J.E. Stewart, 1940; C.W. Flowers, 1919, 1920, 1922; J.P. Wade, 1936; T.W. Parish, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1917; Q.R. Hudson, 1929 and W.P. Robinson, 1907, 1908, 1909.
Any information, please contact: Brent Humphries, Worshipful Master Michael Dempsey No. 327, F.&A.M. at (318) 229-3529 or n5nlu@icloud.com.
Wild Horse Ministries
While observing these lessons, you can watch during the first steps of training a horse that has never been saddled while he relates the horse training with God based on trust, faith, obedience and love.
March 5: Temple Baptist Church in Jena @ 11 a.m. March 10-12: Annual Benefit for Wild Horse Ministries; • March 10: Chuckwagon supper @ 6 p.m.
• March 11: Chuckwagon breakfast @ 8 a.m.
• March 12: Chuckwagon breakfast @ 9 a.m. March 16: Solemn Assembly of Prayer in Trout @ 7 p.m.
March 19: Black Residence, Oakdale, Louisiana @ 4 p.m.
March 25: Lake Charles Church of the Nazarene in Lake Charles, Louisiana @ 2 p.m.
March 30: Heavens Trail Cowboy Church in Sheridan, Arkansas @ 6:30 p.m.
March 31: Cross B Arena in Stuttgart, Arkansas @ 6 p.m.
April 2: Trinity Baptist Church in Wynne, Arkansas @ 6 p.m.
April 2: Drover Cowboy Church in Harrrisburg, Arkansas @ 6 p.m.
For more information, call 318-992-4667 or see www.wildhorseministries.com
