Foundation spending Sibley Lake settlement on youth

STEAM camp for youth had varied sessions
Victor Pinckney. right, coaches the Natural Talent travel basketball team that received funding from the Foundation.
Victor Pinckney. right, coaches the Natural Talent travel basketball team that received funding from the Foundation.

It’s taken some 35 years but members of the Natchitoches Community Improvement Foundation (NCIF) believe money from a lawsuit settled about 1991 is being spent the right way—-on the youth of the city.

Although NCIF has spent the money on several projects, President Harold Bayonne proudly points to the STEAM Explorers Summer Camp that was in July for kids 914.

The camp was a free way for the youth to…