Lifestyle

Dillon and Crystal Ford of Dry Prong are proud to announce the birth of Little Bryar Christopher Ford. He was born at 4:26 p.m., on Thursday, August 8, 2019, at St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, weighing 6-pounds and measuring 19 inches in length. He is already loved by so many, including his Nanaw and Tataw, his Aunt Donna and Uncle Devon, and of course by his big brothers, Mikey, Dillan, and Cory, and sister, Kenzie.

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Back for its 64th year, the Louisiana Art and Folk Festival welcomes everyone to Columbia to experience regional art, folklife demonstrations, great live music, amazing food, and more.

The festival is set to take place on Saturday, October 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in historic Columbia as Main Street transforms into the oldest Art and Folk Festival in the state.

Live music is on the calendar provided by Sam and Smoke, the Caldwell Community Choir, Steve Cagle and the Smackwater Band, Brian Martin, the best of Elvis by Todd Martin, and more.

The event promises fun for the whole family including a kids’ area with petting zoo and train rides. A car show, sponsored by Caldwell Bank and Trust Co., is also on the day’s agenda.

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Teachers and other school personnel from throughout the parish were on hand on Tuesday of last week for Professional Development Day at Jena High School as they prepared for the 2019-20 school year.

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Congress will soon vote on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a monumental deal that modernizes North American trade for the 21st century.

USMCA will help American tech businesses drive economic growth and create jobs.

“Digital trade” encompasses a wide variety of activity. Any time a business in one country uses the internet to deliver their services abroad, that’s digital trade. When firms sell software or cloud-computing services overseas, that’s digital trade too.

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Urania Mayor Terri Corley said in light of the recent tragic accident of the Sears/Smith family there have been further concerns about the speed of the log trucks that drive through town.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Sears/Smith family and what happened has caused a lot of concern with our situation and the log trucks,” Corley said. “We’ve done everything in our power to get DOTD to come and lower the speed limit. We need help with the speed limit being lowered and we will keep pushing for it.”

Council member Bill Brown said he has had quite a few people voice this concern to him as well. He said they have spoken to many on the state and local level and it seems their concerns have fallen on deaf ears.

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A LaSalle Parish youth was recently selected as the recipient of an all-expense paid trip to a burn survivor conference in California; a trip that also includes tickets to Disneyland.

The presentation was held Friday morning, July 26, at the home of Greg and Kelli Schneider in Belah. Their son, 12 year-old Austin, was burned last year and the news caught the attention of a New Jersey foundation which specializes on helping youth recover from burn injuries.

The Sander & Matits Burn Foundation co-founder Joe Matits delivered the news personally at the Schneider home.

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Volunteer Instructor Fern McKeithen teaches local youth the art of public speaking in preparation for their play performance later that week during the Centennial Cultural Center’s annual Drama and Literacy Camp last week in Olla. The camp features instruction in drama, speaking, reading and writing in cursive and at the conclusion of the camp, participants perform a short play and receive a backpack with items such as books, stickers, pencils and other back-to-school items. The camp is sponsored by the Dollar General Summer Literacy grant, which the center received for the first time this year, as well as Drax Biomass through a monetary donation and employee volunteers for the camp. The CCC personnel and board would like to thank Dollar General and Drax Biomass along with all the volunteers and sponsors of the center’s summer camps and other events throughout the year.

A new health clinic has opened in the former Catahoula Parish Hospital building in Jonesville and local officials there are hoping this is the beginning of bringing the hospital back to life.

The Catahoula Health Center is now in operation with official ribbon cutting ceremonies and grand opening events held Tuesday, July 16. The clinic is owned and operated by Russel Smith, MD, Robert Harvey, PA, and Robert’s wife, Holly Guilot-Harvey, RN.

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