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This past weekend, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards issued a statewide face mask mandate for all parishes except those with lower COVID-19 numbers.

The mandate began Monday, July 13 and is for both indoors and outdoors (if it is situations were people are unable to social distance).

The new order exempts children under the age of 8 and any person with breathing or medical conditions where a mask would prove to hinder their health.

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Many insects, such as ants, bees, wasps and termites, live in cooperative groups with one or a few reproductives and many workers. And reproductive conflicts are common in these insect societies, said Qian “Karen” Sun, an assistant professor in the LSU AgCenter Department of Entomology.

A typical termite colony starts with one queen and one king. A queen can live for 30 to 40 years while most workers live for one year. Eventually, however, the queen or king dies, and some immature termites, such as workers, start to differentiate into replacement reproductives.

As reproductives emerge, competition begins.

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Want to know the difference one teacher has made in LaSalle Parish? Look no further than the lawns throughout Olla, Urania, and Tullos to find your answer.

Throughout north LaSalle and beginning to show up all over the parish, wooden pallets painted as American Flags are adorning yards, homes, and businesses. While the displays say much about the owners’ patriotism, it says much more about their love for longtime teacher, Doris Barnhill.

Barnhill, who retired in 2018 after teaching mostly pre-k and kindergarten for 33 years in LaSalle Parish, was diagnosed with Stage IV Inflammatory Breast Cancer the first of June.

The unique fundraising project started out at Barnhill’s home church, Olla Methodist Church, originally as a way to raise money for the children of the church to attend summer camp.

BATON ROUGE--A Senate committee on Wednesday passed a version of the state’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year and several other bills that could impact the state’s finances, including freezing pay raises for state employees.

The bill, approved by the Senate Finance Committee, would use $90 million from the state’s rainy-day fund to fill budget shortfalls caused by nearly $1 billion in lost revenues estimated by state economists.

The Legislature is expected to use more than $1 billion in federal coronavirus aid to fill budget gaps. About half of those funds were used in the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, and the rest will be used in the fiscal year starting July 1.

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LaSalle Parish residents are being encourage to respond to their 2020 Census request, either by filling our the questionnaire and mailing it back, or going online and completing the form.

“We cannot over express how important the numbers revealed by the Census are to funding for agencies in the parish,” stated June Fowler, president of the LaSalle Parish Police Jury.

The U.S. Census Bureau mailed questionnaires in March to area residents. Those who did not receive the questionnaire should call 1-844-330-2020, or 1-678-938- 1375.

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We’re at the stage where everyone is complaining about their hair.

I am not complaining. As I have frequently bragged, my husband, Peter, cuts my hair and this has continued while the beauty parlors are closed and everyone is growing increasingly cranky.

We were talking to our friends, Mary and Wolfgang, about this and Mary was expressing a bit of envy that I had gotten a haircut the previous day. I let her think that getting a haircut from Peter was like getting a haircut in a salon although, other than the use of scissors, there is very little similarity.

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