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Forget fear, life benefits from resolutions
Someone asked me what my New Year’s resolution was. I said, “To make Meg happy.” Meg is neither my editor nor my wife. She is my doctor. Each visit to Dr. Meg starts with a visit to her scales. I h...
Dec 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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What’s Your Line? By Shirley A. Small-Rougeau and Sadie Maggio Dark
Christmas day has come and gone, but the season lingers on, especially here in the City of Lights. There are as many holiday traditions are there are families, and we as historians are always excit...
Dec 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ms. Faith’s class at Kid’s Korner Day Care was expecting a lot for Christmas. Popular requests included dirt bikes, remote control cars, games and makeup. The class assured Santa that they had been good and asked for a Christmas mug for their teacher. Ms. Faith thought a new computer would also make a great present. On first row, from left, are Katie Bedgood, Ronald Bolton, Charity Marshal, Kim Anslem and Kayden Jones. On back row are Jordan Carpenter, Paris Fields, Ma’Kira Carpenter, Ella Thomakos, Theo Aristidou, Kenneth Rachal, Landon Cedars, Ethan Telsee, Braylin Brown and Chance Johnson.
All I wanted for Christmas was....
Spirits were high at Kid’s Korner’s Christmas party. Kids penned letters to Santa, practiced their good behavior and even unwrapped a few gifts. Ms. Faith’s class shared their high expectations fo...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dear Santa, I know my family is very excited to spend my first Christmas with me. I’m only 9 week old, so I don’t really understand it all, but I know they are all talking about cute outfits, stuff I will need as I get older, pink camouflage, peppermint sticks (yummy, I love those) and taking lots of pictures of me. There is also a lot of talk about another baby named Jesus. I think I’m really going to love him. Can you bring something with a tiger on it? My mommy and daddy talk a lot about a tiger and they wear a lot of purple and gold so I think they would like to see me wear a tiger too. I’ve been hunting already and I think I’m really going to like that. When that stuff cooks it smells really good. I can’t wait to try it. Don’t worry, I heard my family say they don’t shoot reindeer. So Santa, all I really want for Christmas is to see all my family smiling and laughing with me and my mommy and daddy. Love, Grayci Sue Bamberg P.S. Mommy and Daddy and all my family say I’ve been a really, really good baby so far for all of them and I heard Mommy say something about cookies and milk. I think that may be for you.
Dear Santa, Letters from Natchitoches

Dec 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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From left are LACDL president Bob Noel and Natchitoches public defender Brett Brunson. Brunson was selected among Louisiana criminal defense lawyers for a President’s Award.
Public defender honored at state criminal defense meeting
Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (LACDL) hosted their Justice Albert Tate Jr. Awards Banquet at the Hyatt French Quarter in New Orleans. LACDL’s membership is comprised of private...
Dec 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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From left are First United Methodist church member Beth Cole and D.O.V.E.S. child advocate Tequila Johnson. After receiving the news that their budget and staff would be cut, D.O.V.E.S. employees needed a hug. First United Methodist Church obliged with a surprise “Blessing of the Bears” and nine plastic bags of cuddle buddies.
Bags of Bears Bring Blessings in Wake of Budget Blues
It was a Christmas miracle, or at least a ray of sunshine after a frosty morning. D.O.V.E.S., an organization that provides education and support for stopping domestic violence, had just found out...
Dec 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Before and After
Always a fan of Christmas, Hannah Ward had to learn to like the person who brings the toys. The photograph on the left was taken in 1995. When Ward was selected as a Christmas Belle in 2011, she go...
Dec 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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What's Your Line
It’s a tradition for me to wax the living room floor before rearranging the furniture and putting up the Christmas tree. This year as a joke I put a little 1 foot tall tree in the traditional pla...
Dec 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Christmas shopping overshadows end- of-the-world preparation for apocalypse
If you are reading this the Mayans were wrong! Technically, they are neither right nor wrong, they are extinct. Their infamous calendar has been the subject of many a program on the Nostradamus-a...
Dec 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Party-goers decked out in their holiday gear gatheredat the Council on Aging (COA) building for a lunch and program hosted by the Office of Community Services (OCS). In the front is Willie May Kennedy. On the second row are Annie Armstrong and Louella Walter. On the third row are Lori Tate and Shirley Mock.
Merry Christmas from the Office of Community Services with the Council on Aging

Dec 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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