Lifestyle

The Louisiana Highway Safety Commission and law enforcement officers across the state are issuing a warning to pickup truck drivers and passengers - buckle up in your truck or risk paying a fine of at least $50.00.

Buckle Up in Your Truck is a special Louisiana enforcement wave that focuses on pickup truck occupants who are not wearing their seat belts. The fine for not wearing a seat belt in Louisiana is $50.00, and subsequent offenses carry a $75.00 fine plus court costs.

“Wearing your seat belt is absolutely the number one thing you can do to protect yourself from serious injury or death in a crash,” Freeman noted. “That’s especially true if you’re driving or riding in a pickup truck.”

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As a part of LaSalle Parish for more than a half-century, the La-Salle Soil and Water Conservation District (LSWCD) wants to remind everyone that each of us has a connection to natural resources.

The National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) is celebrating the 63rd year of Stewardship Week, April 28-May 5, 2019. The 2019 Stewardship Week is themed, “Life in the Soil; Dig Deeper!”

Sammy J. Franklin serves as chairman of the LaSalle SWCD, which includes members, Mike Crooks, vice chairman; Steve Andrews, secretary; Twyman Appleby and Mike McCartney. Cindy Powell serves as district secretary.

The district was formed to assist people in LaSalle Parish by providing maps and related soil data, which can provide information for a variety of land users including homeowners, gardeners, farmers, developers, engineers, community planners, and others.

William Harvey Blasingame, Jr. and Glenda Joy Chapman Blasingame will celebrate 50 years of marriage on Monday, April 22, 2019. They were married in 1969 in Jena, and have three children – Mellanie (Daniel) Hulsey, Kris (Blake) Nugent, and Will Blasingame. They have five grandchildren.

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Make every occasion special by designing and growing containers for summer holidays, weddings, anniversary parties or other special celebrations. Pick a color scheme appropriate for the occasion or a variety of colors and shapes sure to add a festive touch.

Look for opportunities to include edible and flower filled planters. Set containers at your front entrance to welcome family and guests. Use smaller containers to line a pathway and decorate each table.  Fill large pots with tall plants and ornamental grasses to provide privacy and define spaces.

As farm tractors across the globe move through fields, small sensors about the size of a hockey puck gather hundreds of thousands of data points — soil moisture, engine torque, down-force planting pressure and the speed at which a farmer is driving the equipment.

This is agriculture in the digital age.

But what do farmers do with all this data? That is where Steven Ward comes in.

Ward, an alumnus of the LSU College of Agriculture, is a Bayer Scientific Fellow and senior director of geospatial sciences at The Climate Corporation based in San Francisco.

He spoke on the LSU campus as part of the LSU College of Agriculture Alumni Speaker Series and presented a lecture to LSU AgCenter faculty and the public.

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