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honorees announced, to be honored Oct. 20

15 UNDER 4015 Under 40 honorees will be recognized during a banquet Oct. 20. They are from lefton back row, Matt Wimberly, Wimberly Agency; Bewanichi Sheppard, Webster JuniorHigh; front row, Melissa Wilkie Fox, 26th Judicial Court; Lindsay M. McClaran, MBLBank. Courtesy Photo

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Tickets are on sale for theannual “15 Under 40” dinnerand gala scheduled for 6:30p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 20 at theMinden Civic Center.“Each year 15 outstanding

young professionals are rec-ognized for their accomplish-ments intheir careersand commu-nities,” Jerride Pingre’,president ofthe Minden-South Web-ster Chamberof Commercesaid. “Adiverse selection panelreviewed and scored thenominees to distinguish thetop 15 applicants.”The keynote speaker will

be president and CEO of theLouisiana Black Chamber ofCommerc, Zazell V. Dudley.Call the office of the Min-

den-South Webster Chamberoff Commerce at 377-4240 topurchase tickets. Tickets are$35 each and a table of eightmay be purchased for $250.Dinner will be catered by

Roma Italian Bistro.

DEPINGRE’Also meeting the criteria for 15 Under 40 honors areBridget Bridges, Doyline High School; Kelly CopelandPaul, Minden Medical Center; Shaun Lewis, FibrebondCorporation; Leslie Williams Utley, Minden High School;Mary Helen Simms, The Coordinating & DevelopmentCorporation. Courtesy Photo

More nominees who will be recognized as part of the 15Under 40 group are Kelli Carter, Minden High School;Kagnee Veitch, United Way of NWLA; Clint Smith, Min-den Police Department; Tessa Cay Bryant, J.A. PhillipsMiddle School; LaTashia Upton, MD, The Women’s Clin-ic. Courtesy Photo

Police: Man arrestedfor stealing soda, shirt

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A Minden man foundhimself in handcuffs afterpolice say he admitted tostealing a Coke and a t-shirt.Daniel C. Wells, 29, of

the 100 block of Katie Lane,was charged with theft ofgoods, possession of mari-juana and on a warrant as afugitive from the WebsterParish Sheriff’s Office. Minden police chief

Steve Cropper says OfficerFirst Class Kenneth Jameswas dis-patched toWalmart inreference tot w oshoplifters.“ T h e y

w e r ei n f o r m e dthat losspreventionhad one suspect in custodyand the second had left in a

WELLS

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The Webster ParishPolice Jury introduced anordinance as one of thesteps necessary to mergevoter precincts in theparish.Ordinance 1011-A was

introduced Tuesday duringthe police jury’s monthlymeeting which will mergeprecincts 21 and 22. If theordinance is adopted inNovember, the mergedprecincts will become

Precinct 22.“There is one precinct

that does not have 300 vot-ers in it thatby state lawhas to bec omb i n e dwith anotherp r e c i n c t , ”jury presi-dent JimBonsall said.All the

voters inprecinct 21 who cast their

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ordinance

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BONSALL

THURSDAY>>Fair gates open at 5 p.m. (Armband night: Bring two

canned goods and get $1 off the armband. Gate fee is $2.) >>Dress Your Pet costume contest at 5:30 p.m.: 4-H stu-

dents who do not participate in the livestock show willhave a chance to dress their pets for Halloween.

>>4-H Pee Wee Pig Show at 6 p.m.: This show is anopportunity for the smaller kids to learn how to showswine.

>>4-H leaders/principals pig pusher at 6 p.m.: The adultversion of the pee wee pig show.

>>4-H goat, lamb, beef and dairy and Doug Sale Show-manship at 7 p.m.: This will be an opportunity for 4-Hstudents who do not raise swine to show off their animals.

>>Dorcheat Bottom Band will play at 7 p.m.

Annual Webster ParishFair in full swing

Not available for grouppictures was KennyBalkom, Louisiana Depart-ment of Wildlife & Fish-eries. Courtesy Photo

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STAFF REPORTS

One epic sale is going onthis weekend in Doyline.The Epic Hoarder Barn

Sale will take place from 8a.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday atthe Loftin Barn located at284 Loftin Road.Coordinator Karla Loftin

had her first sale in Marchand had 12 vendors sign upand more than 300 peoplein attendance.“I knew it was time to sell

some of my treasures whenmy husband started record-ing the hoarders TV show,”she said. “I knew if I wantedto keep junking, sooner orlater I would have to letsome things go.”For Loftin, collecting is a

love that runs deep.“Collecting treasures and

antiques has been a passionof my mine forever,” she

said. “What started out as apiggy bank collection as achild has grown over theyears to include everythingfrom collecting doll heads tofalse teeth.”Loftin says thanks to the

spring vendors, word ofmouth and advertising,more than 30 vendors havesigned up for Saturday’s saleand will have a wide selec-tion of items.Shoppers can expect to

find antiques, pure junk, oldand new furniture, Christ-mas décor, pig collection,eclectic junk, funky junk andhousehold items.“One vendor is bringing a

truck load of architecturalsalvage, she said. “Othervendors have new goods,handcrafted items, new fur-niture, old furniture and alittle bit of everything inbetween.”

Epic hoarder sale is this weekend

Karla Loftin shows off some of the many items that will beup for sale at this weekend’s Epic Hoarder Barn Sale. Cour-tesy Photo

ballot at the Webster ParishAlternative School will bemoved to the Minden CivicCenter, to be merged withprecinct 22, Melanie Smith,registrar of voters, said inSeptember.

“We checked the precinctsto see how many we havethat contain less than 300active registered voters,” shesaid at the time. “Theprecincts that have less than300 active registered voters,we are required to mergethem with a larger adjacentprecinct. We had nine dis-tricts this year, and only oneof those precincts is eligible

to merge with a largerprecinct.”If they don’t merge the

precincts, Smith told jurorsthe entire cost of the electionwould fall on the jury’sshoulders.Earlier this year, the issue

came up in police jury com-mittee meetings because thealternative school needssome work and has no air

conditioning in its gymnasi-um. Also, the slope of theparking lot, and sometimesparking, was becoming aproblem.A demographer will have

to redraw the precinct linesand rewrite the descriptionsto submit to the state forapproval.A public hearing is set for

10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 3.

PRECINCTSContinued from page 1

BATON ROUGE —Planned Parenthood is con-testing the new approachGov. Bobby Jindal's adminis-tration has taken to remove itfrom Louisiana's Medicaidprogram.The organization amend-

ed a previously filed lawsuitin federal court Wednesdayto keep the state Departmentof Health and Hospitals fromending its Medicaid provideragreements.Jindal, running for the

Republican presidentialnomination, had initiallysought to oust Planned Par-enthood Gulf Coast's clinicsin Baton Rouge and NewOrleans without providing areason. The administrationsaid state law allowed cancel-lation with a 30-day notice.A federal judge ques-

tioned that reasoning afterPlanned Parenthood andthree of its patients filed alawsuit, asking to stop theJindal administration'seffort.The Jindal administration

then changed course. Thehealth department said it

was blocking Planned Par-enthood Gulf Coast's clinicsfor cause, citing the organiza-tion's $4.3 million settlementof false-claims allegations inTexas as reason to end itsLouisiana Medicaid contract.DHH asked Planned Parent-hood to dismiss its lawsuit.In response, Planned Par-

enthood revised its com-plaint in federal courtWednesday, saying the Jin-dal administration's effort isstill illegal and its argumentsnot valid for blocking theorganization from Medicaid."Each ground is baseless

and unsupported as a matterof fact and law, and not onerelates to (Planned Parent-hood's) competence to pro-vide services in Louisiana'sMedicaid program," theorganization says in itsamended lawsuit.Without intervention

from U.S. District JudgeJohn deGravelles, Medicaidfunding to Planned Parent-hood will end on Oct. 17 and18, according to the courtdocuments.Planned Parenthood says

5,200 low-income Medicaidpatients obtain servicesthrough their two Louisianaclinics. The organizationdoesn't currently provideabortions in Louisiana, butdoes offer other health serv-ices, such as cancer screen-ings and gynecologicalexams.Health department

spokeswoman OliviaWatkins Hwang said in astatement the agency wasreviewing the filing fromPlanned Parenthood. But sheadded: "The department'sposition on Planned Parent-hood Gulf Coast has notchanged. We will continue topursue the termination oftheir Medicaid provider sta-tus."In August 2013, a Texas

U.S. attorney's officeannounced a civil settlementwith Planned ParenthoodGulf Coast in response toallegations the organizationbilled government programsfor services that weren'tmedically necessary or thatweren't provided.Planned Parenthood did-

n't admit guilt in the settle-ment. But the Jindal admin-istration said Louisiana regu-lations deem the settlementagreement a violation of stateMedicaid provider rules.Melissa Flournoy, Louisianastate director of Planned Par-enthood Gulf Coast, calledthe administration's actionspolitically motivated.Republicans around the

country have targetedPlanned Parenthood afterseveral videos were releasedby the anti-abortion Centerfor Medical Progress. Thecenter said the videosshowed that Planned Parent-hood illegally sells fetal tis-sue for profit. Planned Par-enthood has said the organi-zation receives legal paymentonly for the cost of the proce-dure and requires a mother'sconsent before the tissue isgiven to researchers.Jindal cited the videos

when he said he wanted totake Medicaid funding awayfrom the organization.

Planned Parenthood challenges Medicaid removalAROUND THE STATE


A Heflin woman wasarrested by Minden policewhen they received a callregarding a collision.Jenalea Hulion, 35, of

the 100 block of Bumgard-ner inHeflin, wasc h a r g e dwith DWIfirst offenseand posses-sion ofS c h e d u l eIV CDS.She wascited forfollowing too closely. Bondwas set at $4,700.Minden police chief

Steve Cropper says his offi-cers received a call wherethe caller advised they hadfollowed a vehicle fromHeflin and the vehiclestruck a mailbox on the

way into Minden.“She got into Minden to

South Talton Street andwas involved in a minorcrash,” he said. “Sgt. JoelKendrick, Officer TerryStephens and Officer FirstClass Jeremy Sitter weredispatched. When theymade contact with thedriver of the vehicle, theyperformed a field sobrietytest, in which she per-formed poorly.”Cropper says Hulion

was placed under arrestand transported to theMinden Police Depart-ment.During the search of the

vehicle, Cropper says thesearch revealed a pill iden-tified as Soma inside a pre-scription bottle for Oxy-codone. A second Soma pillwas found inside a smallplastic bag.She was transported to

Bayou Dorcheat Correc-tional Center for booking.

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BATON ROUGE — TheLouisiana Lottery Corpora-tion says nobody won thetwo major jackpots in theLouisiana Lotto and multi-state Powerball drawingson Wednesday night.Louisiana Lotto players

matching all six numbersdrawn would have won orshared a $3.150 millionprize, which will rise to anestimated $3.225 for Sat-urday.Players matching all

five numbers and thePowerball would have wonor shared the $50 million

jackpot. The prize goes toan estimated $60 millionfor Saturday.The Easy 5 drawing

rises to an estimated$370,000 after none of thetickets matched all fivenumbers drawn forWednesday's $340,000jackpot.Winning numbers

drawn Wednesday were:Powerball: 18-30-40-

48-52, Powerball: 9, PowerPlay: 3Easy 5: 12-15-17-19-26Lotto: 11-15-16-19-35-

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AROUND THE STATE

No big winners inWednesday’s lottery

drawings

A burn ban remains inplace for Webster Parish.On Friday, Sept. 11, the

Webster Parish Police Juryand the Fire Chief’s Asso-ciation of Webster Parishplaced Webster Parish

under a burn ban due todry weather.All outside burning is

prohibited. The ban isexpected to last until sig-nificant rainfall occurs inthe parish.

Parish remainsunder burn ban

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LOUISIANA POLITICS

MELINDA DESLATTEAssociated Press

BATON ROUGE —Spending on TV advertisingfor Louisiana's Oct. 24 elec-tion has reached nearly $9.4million, with the governor'srace accounting for most ofthe money. But spending bycandidates for attorney gen-eral and lieutenant governorare on the rise as the electionnears.Sixty-nine percent of the

cash poured into TV ads sofar has been spent trying toinfluence voters' opinion onthe four major contenders inthe governor's race, accord-ing to an analysis of adspending by the Center forPublic Integrity. The share ofthat spending by outsidegroups, largely runningattack ads, has grown tonearly 38 percent.

Here's a closer look atadvertising spending, whichaccounts for TV ads throughMonday:

LOUISIANA GOVER-NOROf the nearly $6.5 million

paid for TV advertising in thegovernor's race, $4 millionhas been spent by the majorcandidates: Republican Pub-lic Service CommissionerScott Angelle, Republican Lt.Gov. Jay Dardenne, Demo-cratic state Rep. John BelEdwards and RepublicanU.S. Sen. David Vitter. Thataccounts for 62 percent ofthe TV spending in the raceso far.Another $2.4 million has

been spent by political actioncommittees that support oroppose specific candidates.Many of the PACs, whichhave no donation limits, arefunded by a few high-spend-ing donors.Vitter and the super PAC

supporting him, called theFund for Louisiana's Future,account for nearly half all theTV ad spending in the race,running $3 million in ads sofar.

LIEUTENANT GOV-ERNORSpending on TV advertis-

ing in the lieutenant gover-nor's race has shot up tonearly $917,000. But themoney has been spent onlyby two of four contenders forthe job.Republican John Young,

president of Jefferson Parish,has aired $737,000 in TVspots. Spending by GOP can-didate Billy Nungesser, for-mer president of Plaquem-ines Parish, has topped$179,000, much of that spentin the past week as heramped up his campaignpresence on television.Neither Democrat Kip

Holden, mayor of BatonRouge, nor Republican state

Sen. Elbert Guillory has putin money into TV advertisingfor their campaigns so far,according to the data.

ATTORNEY GENER-ALTV ad spending in the

attorney general's race hasnearly quadrupled over thelast week, with the two mainRepublican rivals boostingtheir advertising as the elec-tion nears.Incumbent Buddy Cald-

well has spent $142,000 onTV spots, while former Con-gressman Jeff Landry haspoured nearly $165,000 intohis television advertising.A third GOP candidate,

Baton Rouge area lawyerMarty Maley, spent $79,000,but that was on ads that airedbefore last week. An outsidegroup called the PublicIntegrity Alliance has paid$133,000 for a TV effort tar-geting Caldwell.

OTHER RACES

Outside groups accountfor all the TV advertisinglodged in state educationboard races, more than$404,000 from organiza-tions called EmpowerLouisiana and Stand for Chil-dren Louisiana, which advo-cate for positions usuallyopposed by traditional publicschool groups.Still one of the biggest TV

ad spenders amongLouisiana candidates thiselection cycle is TreasurerJohn Kennedy, a Republicanwith one opponent who hasraised little money to com-pete. Kennedy shelled outmore than $965,000 for anad that ran in heavy rotationbefore Louisiana hit the thickof the campaign advertisingseason.While the treasurer isn't

expected to have trouble win-ning re-election, he is expect-ed to be eyeing a U.S. Senatebid if Vitter wins the gover-

nor's race. The TV ad keptKennedy's name out amongvoters in case he jumps intoanother race soon.

THE DATAThe Center for Public

Integrity analyzed data aboutpolitical advertising onbroadcast television fromKantar Media/CMAG, amedia tracking firm thatmonitors 211 media marketsaround the country andoffers a widely accepted esti-mate of the money spent toair each spot.These figures cover ads

aired between Jan. 1, 2014,and Oct. 5, 2015, yet repre-sent only part of the moneyspent on political advertis-ing. They do not include adsfor radio, online, direct mailor TV ads that aired on localcable systems. The estimatesalso do not include the cost ofmaking the ads.

TV ad spending in Louisiana election at $9.4M and rising

blue Yukon,” he said. “Whileenroute to Walmart, he wasadvised the Yukon turnedonto Chrislo Drive. He droveto Chrislo, and while he was

on Chrislo, a blue Yukonpassed him headed in theopposite direction.”James turned around and

initiated a traffic stop at EastTodd and Chrislo Drive. Heapproached the driver andasked for proper paperwork.“The driver indicated that

he was stupid and that the

officer got him,” Croppersaid. “He then told him thathe’d stolen a drink from Wal-mart.”Officer First Class Shawn

Jenkins arrived on scene toassist, and he asked the driv-er, identified as Wells, to stepout of the vehicle. Wells wasadvised of his rights, andwhen asked if anything else

illegal was inside the vehicle,Wells reportedly told officersthat he’d stolen the drink anda t-shirt.“Mr. Wells gave verbal

consent to search the vehicleand officers located a small,clear plastic bag of suspectedmarijuana,” Cropper said.“The suspected marijuanawas collected as evidence. At

that point, they were contact-ed by Capt. Dan Weaver, whoadvised that Mr. Wells hadan outstanding parole war-rant.”Wells was then transport-

ed to the Minden PoliceDepartment, and the allegedmarijuana collected wasweighed in at three gramswith a street value of about

$10. Cropper says the charges

against him are misde-meanors, but because therewas a warrant, he was takento jail.He was transported to

Bayou Dorcheat CorrectionalCenter.

ARRESTContinued from page 1

MELINDA DESLATTEAssociated Press

BATON ROUGE — Withone of their major rivalsabsent, three candidatesvying to be Louisiana's nextgovernor talked on Wednes-day night about the tax plansthey would consider to endcycles of budget woes in thestate.Republican Scott Angelle,

Republican Jay Dardenneand Democrat John BelEdwards, meeting in astatewide televised debate,each suggested they'd combthrough the state's more than$7 billion list of tax breaksand start looking for ways totrim that spending.GOP U.S. Sen. David Vit-

ter didn't attend, citing hiswork in Washington.At the debate, only Dard-

enne, the state's lieutenantgovernor, suggested that hewould consider raising per-sonal income taxes to fillbudget gaps — though hestressed that wouldn't be hisfirst approach."I think we have an obli-

gation to consider everythingand to lay out to the people ofLouisiana what their optionsare," Dardenne said, aftersaying he'd first seek toshrink government agencies.Edwards, a state repre-

sentative from TangipahoaParish, said he would seek tolower income taxes inexchange for getting rid oftax breaks that allow peopleto take deductions for federal

income taxes paid and forcertain itemized expenses."I would cap every tax

credit and every tax rebate tomake sure we know whatthey're going to cost and sowe can budget accordingly,"Edwards said, without pro-viding a cap amount.Angelle, a member of the

Public Service Commissionfrom Breaux Bridge, said thestate needs to create a taxbreak review panel. By doinga cost-benefit analysis andgetting rid of exemptionsdeemed to have little benefit,Angelle said, more moneywould stay in the state treas-ury."We have gotten drunk on

giving away the people'smoney," he said.Louisiana has careened

from budget crisis to budgetcrisis in recent years, withpublic colleges taking thebrunt of the slashing.Asked to provide details

about tax breaks they wouldseek to ratchet down, Dard-enne and Edwards supportedlessening a tax break given tothe oil and gas industry forhorizontal drilling, thoughthey acknowledged savingswould be small.Dardenne also supported

continuing a cap onLouisiana's film tax credit,though with a reworkedapproach. Angelle didn't listindividual tax breaks.When pushed to describe

cuts they would make,Edwards returned to the taxbreaks, saying those "tax

expenditures" should bereduced to help shore upfunding for public collegesand health care services."A cuts-only approach for

seven years has not worked,"he said.Dardenne said he would

lessen spending in the gover-nor's office and would paysmaller salaries to top Cabi-net officials. Any savings, hesaid, would be directed tohigher education. But headded: "We're not going to beable to make it whole rightoff the bat. It's been cut toomuch."

Each of the candidatessaid they would keep intact asweeping change enacted byterm-limited Gov. BobbyJindal that turned over oper-ations of most of the LSUpublic hospital system to pri-vate operators.They disagreed on how to

approach the more than$280 million TOPS free col-lege tuition program.Edwards and Angelle said

they don't support cappingthe tuition payments to stu-dents or changing eligibilitystandards. Dardenne sup-ported a proposal to require

lawmakers to vote onwhether they want toincrease TOPS paymentseach year, a cost control Dar-denne said would helpensure the program's future.In a more personal

moment, asked to describe adifficult time as a parent,Edwards said he and his wiferejected a doctor's advice tohave an abortion when theylearned their daughter hadspina bifida. He said "ourCatholic Christian faith didnot allow that.""I cannot imagine our

world without Samantha," he

said.With five children,

Angelle joked that "havingfour teenagers in the house atone time has been a blur, andall of it has been challeng-ing."There was little mention

of Vitter at the debate,though Dardenne did accusethe senator of running"many, many false ads"attacking candidates.Vitter has participated in

only one of the three TVdebates aired so far.

Governor candidates talk budget, taxes, without Vitter

Gubernatorial candidates ready themselves for a debate, sponsored by WDSU, at their studio in New Orleans, Thurs-day, Oct. 1. From left are: Rev. Jeremy Odom, Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Dist. 2., Scott Angelle, state Rep.John Bel Edwards, D-Baton Rouge, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, and attorney Cary Deaton. CourtesyPhoto

I’ve been thinking about theseschool shootings lately - wonderingwhy it seems like all of a suddentroubled kids think shooting up theirschools, killing their schoolmates, isthe solution to their problems.

It’s not like it never happenedbefore. In the 60’s, Charles Whit-man, a former Marine crawled up atower on the campus at the Univer-sity of Texas and shot many studentsfrom there. An old neighbor of minein Texarkana lost his son and wife inthat shooting. Later they said thatWhitman had a brain tumor andmaybe that was why he acted theway he did. That may explain hisactions but not those of so manykids today.

Some people think the reasonmore kids are taking to violence isthat we’ve taken the teaching of the10 Commandments out of our class-rooms.

I could be wrong, but I seem toremember the 10 Commandmentshanging on the wall in my sixthgrade classroom. It was next to apicture of George Washington thatlooked like he was coming up out ofwhite puffy cloud.

While I don’t remember it, I couldhave been therethat day theschool officialcame by. I wasoften asked tostay after schoolin Dubach towrite lines. Iguess it was tohelp improve mypenmanship,which to be hon-est, to this day, isstill not verygood.

Back then Iwas a nosy opinionated kid. Not likeI am now. I can only imagine howthe conversation with that schoolofficial might have gone:

Me: Excuse me, sir. I couldn’thelp but notice. Why are you takingthe 10 Commandments down off ourwall?

Official: Because it may offendsomeone.

Me: Like who?Official: People with other reli-

gious beliefsMe: Methodists?Official: No, not Methodists. Like

Muslims or perhaps BuddhistsMe: Do the object to all of the

commandments or just a few ofthem?

Official: I’m guessing all of themMe: Do they have command-

ments?Official Well, I’m not sh…Me: Maybe we could put their

commandments up on our wall for awhile. That would seem fair. Couldwe do that?

Official I’m afraid not. We have toremove all references to religionfrom our schools.

Me: Oh. The Sixth Command-ment says we’re not to murder any-body. If you take those down, aren’tyou scared someone might come toour school one day and murdersomeone?

Official: Not really Me: But President Washington

can stay, right? He looks like he’s ris-ing up from a puffy cloud. Can hestay or was he religious?

Official: I think he was religious.But we can leave him up for the timebeing

Me: Until he offends someone?Official: That’s correctNot too long ago, I read an inter-

view with Duck Dynasty’s PhilRobertson. In it he was telling mem-bers of the Republican Party - that ifthey wanted to regain the WhiteHouse - they needed to get “Godly.”He said that our country’s success asa nation is due to our religious foun-dation and noted that foundation isslowly being allowed to erode.

Maybe taking down the 10 Com-mandment started the ball rolling.Something must be missing whenmore and more people nowadaysthink they need to load a bag full offirearms and ammunition and go toa mall, movie theater, or school andshoot innocent people.

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We've got a new darling inthe GOP presidential race:Carly Fiorina!

Being the darling du jour,however, can be dicey — justask Rick Perry and Scott Walk-er, two former darlings whoare now out of the race, hav-ing turned into ugly ducklingsby saying stupid things. ButFiorina is smart, sharp-witted,and successful. We know thisbecause she and her PRagents constantly tell us it'sso. Be care-ful aboutbelievinganythingshe says,though, forDarling Fio-rina is notonly arelentlessself-promot-er, but also aremorselessliar.

Take herwidelyhailed performance in thesecond debate among Repub-lican wannabes, where shetouched many viewers withher impassioned and vividattack on Planned Parent-hood. With barely containedoutrage, Fiorina described avideo that, she said, shows thewomen's health organizationin a depraved act of peddlingbody parts of an abortedfetus. "Watch a fully formedfetus on the table, its heartbeating, its legs kicking," saida stone-faced Fiorina, lookingstraight into the camera,"while someone says, 'Wehave to keep it alive to harvestits brain.'"

Oh, the horror, the mon-

strosity of Planned Parent-hood! And how moving it wasto see and feel the fury of thiscandidate for president!

Only ... it's not true.Although she dared the audi-ence, President Obama andHillary Clinton to go watch it,turns out that there is no suchvideo — no fetus with kickinglegs and no demonic PlannedParenthood official luridlypreparing to harvest a brain.

So did Fiorina make up thisbig, nasty lie herself, or didher PR team concoct it as a bitof showbiz drama to burnishher right-wing credentials andadvance her political ambi-tion? Or maybe she's justspreading a malicious lie shewas told by some vicioushaters of Planned Parenthood.Either way, there's nothingdarling about it, much lesspresidential.

I remember back in 1992when the third-party candi-date Ross Perot chose AdmiralJames Stockdale, a completeunknown, to be his presiden-tial running mate.

In his first debate, the vicepresidential candidate beganby asking a question: "Whoam I? Why am I here?"

We should be asking thesame about Carly, as she hasrecently surged in the polls ofGOP primary voters. Her cam-paign is positioning her as ano-nonsense, successful cor-porate chieftain who can rungovernment with business-like efficiency. During thedebate, Fiorina rattled off alist of her accomplishments asCEO of Hewlett-Packard, thehigh-tech conglomerate: "Wedoubled the size of the com-pany, we quadrupled its

topline growth rate, wequadrupled its cash flow, wetripled its rate of innovation,"she declared in PowerPointstyle.

Statistics, however, can bea sophisticated way of lying.In fact, the growth shebragged about was mostly theresult of her buying Compaq,another computer giant in amerger that proved to be dis-astrous — in fact, Hewlett-Packard's profits declined 40percent in her six years, itsstock prices plummeted andshe fired 30,000 workers, evensaying publicly that their jobsshould be shipped overseas.Finally, she was fired.

Before we accept her claimthat "running governmentlike a business" would be apositive, note that the narcis-sistic corporate culture richlyrewarded Fiorina for failure.Yes, she was fired, but unlikethe thousands of HP employ-ees she dumped, a goldenparachute was provided to lether land in luxury — countingseverance pay, stock options,and pension, she was given$42 million to go away.

But here she comes again,lacking even one iota ofhumility. Fiorina is throwingout a blizzard of lies, not onlyabout Planned Parenthood,but also about who she is.She's the personification ofcorporate greed and econom-ic inequality, and she's tryingto bamboozle Republicansinto thinking she belongs inthe White House.

A flagrant liarfor president?

JIMHIGHTOWER

PERSPECTIVEEDITORIALROUND UP

Anyone who doesn't believecompetition doesn't benefit con-sumers should go grocery shop-ping in Ouachita Parish.

Grocery prices have dropped 6percent since Brookshire GroceryCo., Mac's Fresh Market and Wal-Mart began a building spree 18months ago, according to theCouncil for Community and Eco-nomic Research's Cost of LivingIndex.

That makes prices here the low-est in Louisiana and more than 8percent cheaper than the nationalaverage.

Wal-Mart dropped the biggestbomb in the grocery store wars,opening four of its NeighborhoodMarket stores simultaneously, join-ing the company's two existingSupercenters and Sam's Club inthe market.

But Mac's countered with twonew stores of its own and Brook-shire expanded and renovatedmany of its stores in response.

"I wasn't surprised theincreased competition has sup-pressed prices, but the magnitudeof the drop is significant," said BobEisenstadt, director of the Univer-sity of Louisiana's Center for Busi-ness and Economic Research.

Eisenstadt's staff gathers thelocal data for the Cost of LivingIndex.

"When Wal-Mart opened fournew Neighborhood Market storesin Ouachita Parish simultaneously,it raised the stakes," Eisenstadtsaid. "The only things competitorscan do to preserve market share iscompete on price and raise the baron quality and service."

So the intense competition did-n't just create bargains. It also ele-vated the level of service, variety ofproducts and amenities in thestores, from fresh sushi to hum-mus bars to new bathrooms.

It's a textbook case of whymonopolies, unless regulated bygovernment boards (utilities are anexample), are illegal and why thefederal government occasionallystops mergers that could establishthem.

Competition is almost alwaysgood. It promotes fair pricing andquality.

So the next time you go shop-ping, enjoy the fact that you're dol-lar, for once, is buying more than itused to buy.

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Oct. 10Webster Parish Relay For Life for the American CancerSociety will be from 3 until 10 p.m. at the Minden Recre-ation Center. There will be a car show, kids games andbouncing house, entertainment and a special ceremonysupporting cancer survivors and honoring those who havebeen taken.

Pink Pearl Tea at Orleans on Main at noon. Call 318-639-5035 for more information.

Junior Service League of Minden’s Annual One Mile FunRun and 5K starts at 7:30 pm and costs $5. The 5K willbegin at 8 p.m. and costs $35. Race location is EastsideMissionary Baptist Church. For more information call KelliWaller at 272-5194 or Ashley Gruner 840-6389.

Galilee Missionary Baptist Church’s “Saturday NghtLive/Jesus’ Way” musical praise event will be from 6 until8:30 p.m.

Oct. 11West Lake Baptist Church homecoming will be at 10:30a.m. with guest pastor Bro. Eddie Sowders and musicalguest Aaron Watson and Friends.

Bright Star Missionary Baptist Church’s 120th Anniversarywill be celebrated at 2:30 p.m. with guest speaker PastorBrady L. Blade.

Mt. Nebo Baptist Church’s women’s day will be celebratedat 3 p.m. with special guests Prophetess Theresa Jack-son, Evangelist Sharon Lewis, Evangelist Gennell Loftonand Prophetess Roshanda Hammond.

St. James Missionary Baptist Church’s musician appreci-ation program will be at 3 p.m.

Yellow Pine Christian Church’s 113 anniversary will be cel-ebrated at noon.

Musician Appreciation honoring Sis. Jackie Bell Hardawaywill be at Union Grove Baptist Church at 3 p.m. Specialguest will be Interfaith Voice of Deliverance.

Oct. 11-14Mt. Nebo Baptist Church’s revival will be nightly a 7 p.m.with guest evangelist Pastor Timothy Henderson.

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SPRINGHILL - The NorthWebster Knights kickoff districtplay this week against a Booker T.Washington squad that’s seen theirshare of ups and downs this season.

North Webster can relate.After starting their season with a

huge win over back-to-back statechampions Haynesville and follow-ing that up with a shutout of Homer,the Knights lost two straight.Granted those games were againstClass 4A Minden and Class 5AOuachita, both contests were athome where the Knights aren’t usedto losing.

A big homecoming win last weekgot the Knights back on track, andhead coach John Ware said his teamhas refocused ahead of district play.

“We’re starting a new season,”

Ware said. “We’re treating it likethat. I’ve seen them focused in thisweek. Winning a district champi-onship is the only thing we haven’tdone in our four years, so it’s prettyimportant to our guys.”

The Lions have some good ath-letes on both sides of the ball, start-ing on offense.

“They are pretty equal in the runand pass,” Ware said. “They willthrow it around and they have agood quarterback and receivers. Itwill be a challenge.”

Part of the challenge for theKnights in recent weeks was estab-lishing a rhythm on offense, some-thing they were able to do in the sec-ond half of last week’s game againstNorth Caddo.

The Knights finally got back tothe ground game that has been sogood to them over the past fouryears, with seniors Devin Whiteand Jalen Smith combining for211 yards and four touchdowns.

“It’s so hard these days to playagainst a team like us if you don’tsee it often,” Ware said.“Everyone is in the spread andthat’s all they’ve seen so I feellike we match up well.”

North Webster will travel toBooker T. Washington inShreveport, with kickoff set for7 p.m.


PITTSBURGH —Maybe it's time to stoptreating the Chicago Cubslike they're too young to behere.

The stage they seeming-ly weren't ready for nowseems hardly big enough tocontain them. Not withJake Arrieta dealing. Notwith a group of 20-some-things in the field that playwith swagger and confi-dence. Not with a manageradept at keeping the mindsof his rapidly maturingteam decidedly clutter-free.

Watch out baseball, theCubs — yes, the Cubs —are ahead of schedule. Andthe timetable only seems tobe picking up speed for JoeMaddon's bunch.

Arrieta allowed fourhits in nine dominantinnings and Chicago rolledto a 4-0 win over thePittsburgh Pirates in the NLwild-card game onWednesday night. Arrietastruck out 11 without awalk. He also dusted him-self off getting plunked byPittsburgh reliever TonyWatson to send the Cubs tothe NL Division Series inSt. Louis starting on Friday.

"I'm exhausted. Ihaven't felt this way allyear," said Arrieta, who ledthe majors with 22 wins."This atmosphere, the ener-gy was unbelievable. Triedto use it to the best of myability. They were loud,they were really loud."

Dexter Fowler homeredand scored three times forthe Cubs. Kyle Schwarber,a rookie who began his sea-son in Double-A, added atowering two-run shot offPittsburgh starter GerritCole as Chicago raced toan early lead and let Arrietado the rest.

COLUMBIA, S.C. —South Carolina is movingits home game againstLSU to Baton Rougebecause of massive flood-ing around the university.

Saturday's game atLSU will start at 2:30 p.m.The network that willbroadcast the game will beannounced on Thursday.

South Carolina offi-cials wanted to keep thegame in Columbia, butsaid Wednesday that lawenforcement who woulddirect traffic and keepWilliams-Brice Stadiumsafe were needed else-where in the area to helpclean up from the massiveflooding.

"That would have cre-ated another nightmare forus," said Richland CountySheriff Leon Lott, whosecounty includes the stadi-um.

University of SouthCarolina President HarrisPastides said if he can-celed classes this weekbecause 34,000 studentswas too much for the city'sdamaged infrastructure tohandle, he couldn't justifybringing in 84,000 peoplefor a football game.

LSU will give SouthCarolina all proceeds fromthe game after it paysexpenses. The Gamecockswill be treated as the hometeam in almost every way,LSU athletic director JoeAlleva said.

"We will be playingtheir music. We will playsome of their fight songs.We will play their almamater," Alleva said.

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METAIRIE — DrewBrees made an unusualrequest on Wednesday, ask-ing Saints coaches and train-ers to leave his name off ofthe club's first requiredinjury report of Week 5.

The quarterback isamong several veterans withNew Orleans who seem tobe feeling better these daysas the Saints (1-3) prepare toplay at Philadelphia (1-3) onSunday.

Brees returned tri-umphantly against Dallaslast Sunday night from abruised right rotator cuffthat sidelined him for justone game in Week 3 atCarolina. He capped a 359-yard night with an 80-yardtouchdown pass to C.J.Spiller — another Saintsplayer starting to find hisgroove after a knee injurythat kept him out for all fourpreseason games and theregular season opener.

"C.J. can do a lot ofthings," Brees said. "It's fun,now that we have himhealthy and he has a few

games under his belt."Meanwhile, cornerback

Keenan Lewis, safety JairusByrd and linebackerDannell Ellerbe all took thefield against the Cowboysfor the first time this season.

None of those threedefensive players stood outstatistically. Bryd was in onfour tackles, while Ellerbewas in on one. None of thetrio had a tackle for a loss, aquarterback hit, an intercep-

tion oreven ap a s sdefended.Yet someof they o u n ge rmembersof NewOrleans 'd e f e n s ewho didhave bigg a m e s

said the presence of thereturning veterans matteredin the Saints' first victory ofthe season.

"It's huge, their pres-ence," said Saints rookieoutside linebacker Hau'oliKikaha, who had a sack, aQB hit and was in on eighttackles. "As veteran players,they're not going to getattacked. So it helps us a lotand kind of shuts down theirarea of the field by therespect that they're getting

from other teams.""They were doing their

job," he added.When Eagles coach Chip

Kelly reviewed NewOrleans' past game, theeffect of returning veteransstood out to him as well.

"Getting Keenan Lewisand Byrd back last week hasreally bolstered them in thesecondary," Kelly said."Obviously, Jairus is anunbelievable ball hawk."

Byrd had 22 interceptionsin his first five NFL seasons,all with Buffalo, but missedmost of last season and thefirst three games this seasonwith a knee injury.

He has yet to intercept apass as a Saint, but coachSean Payton was encour-aged by his return, as well asthat of Lewis and Ellerbe.

"Byrd, we thought playedwell," Payton said. "Keenanhad balls thrown away fromhim. I think Ellerbe playingin the weak side linebackerposition did a really goodjob, oftentimes in coverage.... All three of those guyshandled their first weekback, and that transitioningcontinues."

The Saints may be gettinga veteran back on offense aswell. Right guard JahriEvans, who has missed thepast two games with a kneeinjury, practiced on a limitedbasis on Wednesday.

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SIBLEY - The LakesideWarriors have yet anothertall task in front of them, asthis week they travel toCampti to kickoff their dis-trict schedule against the

Lakeview Gators.“I thought the team

came out with a differentmindset this week in prac-tice,” head coach JoeyPesses said. “I could seethey are really focused in.”

Lakeview boasts thebest athletes of any team inthe district, with the excep-tion of Calvary Baptist.

The second place teamin district in 2014, theGators have plenty of talentback.

“They have great ath-letes,” Pesses said. “I knowthey have a lot of speed andNo. 18 for them is the real

deal.”Offensively, the

Warriors will try to getthings moving, as theWarriors haven’t scored apoint in three weeks.

“We can’t afford toshoot ourselves in thefoot,” Pesses said. “It’sbeen the same stuff eachweek, mental things that wehave to correct. We have tobe good on first down toput ourselves in second andshort situations. We alsoneed to hold onto the ball.”

Lakeside will go forthe win in Campti, Fridayat 7 p.m.Christine Lee/Courtesy Photo


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From the time of creation,the condition for eternal lifehas never changed – perfectobedience to all of our lovingGod’s biddings. This is the onlyway harmony and perfect lovecan be maintained. Adam andEve failed at the one simple testof obedience in the Garden ofEden plunging humanity into ahopeless state of sin – hopelessfrom the standpoint of fallenbeings. And yet we find Jesuswords, “If ye love me, keep mycommandments” John 14:15.

Do my personal efforts to live arighteous life earn my salvation– I form my own robe of right-eousness? Is that whatprompted these words?The answer is a resounding

“no!” It is not possible because“all our righteousnesses are asfilthy rags” Isaiah 64:6.Consider also the followingtexts. “All have sinned, andcome short of the glory of God”Romans 3:23. “There is nonerighteous, no, not one” Romans3:10. So how do we resolve this

apparent dilemma? Jesus isalways the answer. It is Hisperfect life, the robe of Hisrighteousness that covers us. Itis the free gift we accept byfaith as is stated in Ephesians2:8. “By grace are ye savedthrough faith; and that not ofyourselves: it is the gift of God.”But what about Jesus’ words

“If you love me, keep my com-mandments”? It only makessense that if we have acceptedJesus’ gift of righteousness byfaith, we will not choose other

than to live in obedience toHim, but our good works arenot the basis of our salvationnor ever can be. It is only Jesus’perfect life, death and resurrec-tion that make possible our sal-vation. It is “the righteousnessof God which is by faith ofJesus Christ unto all and uponall them that believe” Romans3:22.Choose to live in continuous

obedience to your lovingCreator, but realize that we cannever merit salvation by our

behavior. For that we need theperfectly righteous life of Jesusaccounted to us. Whose robewill you wear? “I will greatlyrejoice in the LORD, my soulshall be joyful in my God; forHe hath clothed me with thegarments of salvation, He hathcovered me with the robe ofrighteousness” Isaiah 61:10.

Kathryn Irizarry is a mem-ber of the Seventh-dayAdventist Church.

Whose robe?

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THE UPWARD LOOK

“Grace and peace be yours inabundance through the knowl-edge of God and of Jesus ourLord.” 2 Peter 1:2 NIV In a believer’s typical greeting,

Peter blesses his readers, desir-ing that grace and peace wouldcompletely fill their lives. Gracerefers to God’s gift of blessings toa person which he does notdeserve. It is by God’s grace thata person is given salvationthrough faith in Jesus Christ.Peace is the wholeness or com-pleteness of life that comes nomatter the circumstances onefaces. This peace only comes

from God and is based on trust inGod’s sovereignty. These bless-ings come in abundance througha growing knowledge of God thatis personal and intimate.Lord Jesus, I am amazed that

You would bless me with grace,peace, and knowledge. I desire todraw closer to You, to know You,to learn of You, and to follow Youeach day of my life.

Max Hutto is a BaptistMinister and a resident ofMinden. More information canbe found atwww.upwardlook.org.

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Jesus gives a stern warning to anyone who might cause a believer to stumble in their faith: “If anyone causes one of these little ones--those who believe in me--to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea.” (Mark 9:42 NIinto the sea.” (Mark 9:42 NIV ) If raising theological questions damages your faith, or the faith of others, then perhaps the questioning has gone too far. There is a point beyond which the intellect cannot go, though faith, hope and love may take you there. Dietary and other customs might also cause a and other customs might also cause a person to stumble. Paul tells us that all things are clean to eat and drink—God does not require us to be vegetarians or teetotalers—and when you are eating as a guest to eat whatever is put before you. But if eating meat or drinking wine would cause someone in your company would cause someone in your company to stumble then we should abstain. In other words, offend no one, as far as possible. Taking a vegetarian to a steakhouse is as inconsiderate as drinking alcohol around a recently

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NEW YORK — On anyepisode of "Madam Secre-tary," U.S. Secretary of StateElizabeth McCord mustnegotiate with world leaders,Beltway power brokers and,sometimes, her own familyon the home front.

As played by Tea Leoni,Secretary McCord is meas-ured, whip-smart, ethicaland strong. And as a womanholding what for two cen-turies was a man's job, shenever forgets who paved herway: Madeleine Albright, thereal-life first woman to serveas secretary of state.

Who better, then, than theformer secretary to giveMcCord a little sisterlyadvice?

This summer Albright, 78,took a break from teachingduties at Georgetown Uni-versity and other worldlychores to film a guest spot on"Madam Secretary," airing at8 p.m. EDT Sunday on CBS.

"The scene takes place at aceremony for veterans,"Albright explains during arecent phone conversation.Cast as herself, she commis-erates with McCord aboutworking with the dismissivenew man brought in by thepresident — "what it's like forthe secretary of state to relateto men who think they'resuperior when they're not."

But Leoni had alreadysought counsel from Albrightfor real. Last year, shereached out for a briefing onhow to portray someone inthat weighty position. Planswere made for them to meetfor breakfast.

On the appointed day,says Leoni in a separateinterview, "I had this imageof her assistant briefing her:'You've got a meeting todaywith Tea Leoni.' And herrolling her eyes and saying,'Who is SHE?'

"But she was extremelygenerous, and also botheredto say, 'You're making for-eign policy accessible.' I don'ttake that lightly."

Now hear something shemight have learned fromAlbright, who served fouryears under President BillClinton, on how to deal withpowerful, sometimes diffi-cult, officials around theglobe.

"When you get into themeeting, you begin withpleasantries: the weather, or

'I like your tie,' or whatever.You go through all that. ThenI would get to the seriouspart: 'I have come a long way,so I must be frank.'

"But you have to remindyourself that you're not justrepresenting yourself,"Albright cautions, "and if youblow it, you've blown it for anawful lot of people. I would

sometimes dig my nails intothe palms of my hand. Justgetting angry doesn't get youvery far."

In April, Albright andLeoni attended the WhiteHouse Correspondents'Association Dinner, "whichwas really fun," saysAlbright. "But whenever any-body said, 'Madam Secre-

tary,' we didn't know whichof us should turn around."

It was that night when shewas invited to appear on"Madam Secretary," a showshe says she likes.

"I think it works as a gooddrama with very goodactors," Albright says. "But Ialso appreciate how theyraise germane and important

issues. I think it's a good wayto help educate the Americanpublic on what the job isabout — how you're not justdealing with foreigners, butalso with your own staff, withthe White House and mem-bers of Congress, and thepress.

"And it's interesting," shemarvels, "how much theshow really is like life."

That is, life for any secre-tary of state isn't all pomp,ceremony and high-levelsummits.

While McCord has threekids in the house, "my kidswere grown up and they tookcharge of my life," recallsAlbright. "One of my daugh-ters paid my bills, and she'dcall me up and say, 'Mom,did you REALLY need anoth-er pair of shoes?'"

In July, Albright, who hadpreviously tackled actingroles on "The Gilmore Girls"and "Parks and Recreation,"arrived at the New York stu-dio where "Madam Secre-tary" shoots — and she hadalready learned her lines,"unlike many actors," Leonisays.

As rehearsals began, "Ihad a healthy number of but-terflies in my stomach,"Leoni says. "I'm in awe ofher, and now she's on myturf, and I wanted her toexperience my prowess as anactor playing a secretary ofstate on television."

But Leoni didn't figure onAlbright's prowess.

"After a few run-throughs,she's really getting a feel forit. And by the time we shot it,oh, my God, she's on a tear!She owns the set! I wasschooled in theater byMadeleine Albright. She wasfantastic!"

Meanwhile, Albright cameaway apparently satisfiedwith her work — and gamefor an encore.

Asked if she'd consideranother TV guest shot withLeoni, she replies, "Absolute-ly! That's OK with me."

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BETWEEN MINDEN AND HOMER Perfect for student. Small 1br 1.5ba loft style apart-ment. Furnished or not. Washer, Dryer, Dishwasher. With utili-ties and cable paid. No Smokers. Refer-ences. Many extras. $550/mo+depos i t . 218-4694

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDNotice is hereby given that the Webster Parish Police Jury - Office of Community Services will accept bids until 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 16, 2015 at its office on 208 Gleason Street - P.O. Box 876, Minden, LA 71058-0876. Vehicles may be viewed by a p p o i n t m e n t . Appointments for viewing and vehicle specifications may be obtained from the above address or by calling 377-7022, during the hours of 8 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. The Webster Parish Police Jury - Office of Community Services reserves the right to reject any and all bids, waive informalitites, and accept the lowest responsible bid. The successful bidder shall be responsible for removal of the vehicles from the premises, within 3-business days. THE WEBSTER PARISH POLICE JURY OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES IS AN EQUAL O P P O RT U N I T Y E M P L O Y E R /P R O G R A M .

October 1 & 8, 2015Minden Press-Herald_______________

Following is a list of precincts and polling locations that will be used for the elections to be held October 24 and November 21, 2015.

1 Springhill Civic Center 101 Machen Dr Springhill2 Springhill Civic Center 101 Machen Dr Springhill2B Springhill Civic Center 101 Machen Dr Springhill3 Springhill Civic Center 101 Machen Dr Springhill4 Springhill Civic Center 101 Machen Dr Springhill5 Springhill Civic Center 101 Machen Dr Springhill5A Springhill Civic Center 101 Machen Dr Springhill6 C u l l e n M u n i c i p a l Building 405 Coyle Ave C u l l e n7 S a r e p t a C o m m u n i t y Building 210 Vines St S a r e p t a8 S a r e p t a C o m m u n i t y Building 210 Vines St S a r e p t a9 N e w Shongaloo Civic Center 1 1 9 Hwy Alt 2 S h o n g a l o o10 N e w Shongaloo Civic Center 1 1 9 Hwy Alt 2 S h o n g a l o o11 S a r e p t a C o m m u n i t y

Building 2 1 0 Vines St Sarepta12 N o r t h Webster Upper Elementary 6245 Highway 160 Cotton Valley13 N o r t h Webster Upper Elementary 6245 Highway 160 Cotton Valley14 Evergreen Community House 1857 Evergreen Road Evergreen15 P leasant Valley Community House 1089 Greene Road M i n d e n16 M i n d e n Community House 711 Gladney Street M i n d e n1 7 A l t e r n a t i v e School 109 Clerk Street M i n d e n17A Alternative School 109 Clerk Street M i n d e n18 Alternative School 109 Clerk Street Minden21 Alternative School 109 Clerk Street M i n d e n22 Minden Civic Center 520 Broadway St M i n d e n24 Minden Civic Center 520 Broadway St M i n d e n25 Phillips Elementary School 811 Durwood Dr M i n d e n25A P h i l l i p s Elementary School 811 Durwood Dr M i n d e n26 Minden Civic Center 520 Broadway St M i n d e n27 Minden Civic Center 520 Broadway St M i n d e n

28 Minden Community House 711 Gladney Street M i n d e n29 Harper Elementary School 618 Germantown Rd M i n d e n31 Minden Community House 711 Gladney Street Minden32 Dubberly Fire Station 838 Highway 532 Dubberly33 Minden Civic Center 520 Broadway St M i n d e n34 Minden Civic Center 520 Broadway St M i n d e n35 Sibley Civic Center 127 SE Fourth Ave S i b l e y36 Dubberly Fire Station 838 Highway 532 Dubberly38 Heflin Civic Center 116 N. Main St H e f l i n39 Heflin Civic Center 116 N. Main St H e f l i n40 Sibley Civic Center 127 SE Fourth Ave S i b l e y41 Doyline High School 376 College St D o y l i n e42 Doyline High School 376 College St D o y l i n e43 Fire District #7, Fire Station #5 11217 Hwy 80 M i n d e n

October 8, 2015Minden Press-Herald_______________

ClassifiedsN O R T H W E S T L O U I S I A N A

The Marketplace of Webster and Bossier Parishes.

Minden Press-Herald | 203 Gleason Street • Minden, La. 71055 | 318-377-1866 | www.press-herald.com

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$7.75Per Day - Up to 20 words! Additional

words are only 30¢ cents more!

GarageÊS alesNo word limit.

$11One Day

$16.50

Two DaysReceive a FREEÊGar ageÊS aleÊ

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*Garage Sale ads must be prepaid.

Deadlines

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publication. Display adstwo days prior to

publication.

Public NoticesPublic notices must be

submitted two days prior to publication date depending

on the length. Noticesmay be emailed to

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PaymentsCash, Checks, Billing

GrowÊ YourÊB usinessCall Courtney to place your ad!

Classified line ads arepublished Monday

through Friday in the Minden Press-Herald, Bossier Press-Tribune

and online at

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RealÊE stateÊNot ice“All real estate advertised herein is

subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination

based on race, color, religion, sex, handi-cap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination. We will not

knowingly accept any advertising for real estate, which is in violation of the law.

All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an

equal opportunity basis.

APARTMENTS FOR RENT

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