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PIERRE PART, La. (AP) — A grow-ing sinkhole just south of Louisiana Highway 70 in has raised worries in Assumption Parish about subsidence that could cut off the highway and force commuters and school buses to make a 90-minute-plus detour.

In response, the state Department of Transportation and Development is in the early stages of a two-tiered plan that would include a temporary detour that could be built quickly if needed, fol-lowed by a more-permanent bypass.

The Advocate reports that reception to the proposals, which were unveiled last month, has been divided.

Some want a proposed four-mile-long bypass farthest from the sinkhole built right away, while others, including business people on Highway 70, favor a shorter, temporary detour.

No cost estimates or time lines are yet available.

"We are examining both options be-cause we do not know what, if any, im-pacts there will be from the sinkhole to infrastructure in the area," Dustin Anni-son, DOTD spokesman, said in an email.

These days, a closure on Louisiana Highway 70 can mean drivers will spend an hour and a half or more heading north through White Castle and Bayou Pigeon or south through Morgan City to travel between Pierre Part and Napoleonville, two communities that are just 19 miles apart.

Annison added that any new route "would only be built if it were necessary to close La. 70."

The northern edge of the sinkhole is 1,100 feet from the highway, parish of-fi cials said, and the sinkhole has been growing southward, away from La. 70.

Annison said ongoing monitoring of La. 70 and its bridges shows they are not subsiding.

La.’s Queen Sugar LXXI featured at Harvest Festival Parade

Louisiana’s Queen Sugar LXXI Mary Claire Simo-neaux will serve as the Grand Marshal of this year’s Harvest Festival Tractor Parade on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 9:30 a.m.

Mary Claire is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Simo-neaux of Plattenville. She is a marketing major at LSU, and belongs to the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, as well as the honors societies Alpha Lamda Delta, Phi Sigma The-ta, and Sigma Alpha Phi.

The parade will feature farmers and their tractors as well as the Assumption High School marching band.

In addition to Queen Sugar, the parade is honored to have the Assumption Parish Farm Bureau Queen Blaire Bou-

Louisiana’s Queen Sugar LXXI Mary Claire Simoneaux

BY LINDA COOKEReporter

Each year committees made of administrators, prin-cipals, teachers and parents meet in several sessions to prepare a Pupil Progression Plan which states in detail how instruction is to take place in all parish schools. This plan is then submitted to the parish school board, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Education for fi nal approval. The plan al-lows for individualized in-struction but is bound in total by state and federal mandates.

At the Sept. 4 meeting of the Assumption Parish School Board, Dr. Joan Rodrigue, di-rector of instruction for the parish, brought forth several issues which the committees had debated. The board ap-proved the plan but not with-out considerable discussion and somewhat unprecedented contributions from the audi-ence.

Since teachers and support personnel of the year were present for their own recog-nition, Superintendent Tibby Martinez solicited comments from principals who were in the room. The main item which caused concern by at least one board member was the plan to change the grading system for fi rst graders from the traditional A,B,C,D, F grades to O for outstanding, S for satisfactory and N for needs improvement. When

Principals defend Pupil Progression Plan changes

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State looks at La. 70 detour options near sinkhole

Bayou Crab Bridge to close

The Highway 400 Bridge over Cancienne Canal (Bayou Crab Bridge) will be closed on Sept. 16. This closure will not allow any vehicles to pass through the construction area. The estimated completion for replacing the bridge is June 1, 2014.

The police jury says your patience and cooperation is appreciated during this pro-cess.

For additional information or questions regarding this closure, contact the Assump-tion Parish Police Jury Road & Bridge Department at (985) 369-7742.

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While the sinkhole continues to swallow up real estate, new concerns are mounting over the lat-est slough in, as it does or does not relate to newly discovered damage to the eastbound lane of LA 70.

On Friday, the Louisiana Department of Trans-portation and Development issued a statement rela-tive to the discovery of, “a small area of the pave-ment which has become deformed,” about ½ mile east of Bayou Corne.

The surface area which is about 2 feet in diame-ter and one inch high, along with two ridges across the lane about ½ inch high and 10 feet apart, was discovered by workers on Thursday.

Offi cials probing highway damageSinkhole takes in north pad

board member Lee Meyer questioned the value of the change, several princi-pals explained how the reading program for fi rst graders worked and how the pro-posed new letter grades would enhance

the children’s self esteem and better de-scribe their progress.

Two other items the committees de-bated were the high school honors sys-tem grading and the elimination of the

Two out-of-town mo-torists were taken to Thibodaux Regional Medical Center after a head-on collision Tues-day. The driver of the car was extricated by the Pierre Part and Pain-courtville Volunteer Fire departments. The driver of the truck was removed while the vehicle was in fl ames. The incident oc-curred on La. 70 near the Entergy substation.

Photos by SUE HEBERT

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Sheriff’s Report8/28/2013, RUBIN S ANDREWS

JR., 119 BERTRAND ST., NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/M, 37, SIMPLE BURGLARY, DET DONNIE CALAMIA JR.

8/28/2013, ROBERT C TERRY, 623 CANAL ST., NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/M, 52, DWI 3RD BY REFUSAL; UNLAWFUL REFUSAL TO SUBMIT; STOP SIGN VILOATION;TURNING MOVEMENT REQUIRED; OPEN CONTAINER; DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION, DTY GARY ELLIS JR; DTY CODY HEBERT

8/29/2013, SEDRICK D WILKERSON, 3437 CHARLES ST., BATON ROUGE, LA, B/M, 46, DWI 1ST; OPEN CONTAINER; SPEEDING 80/45, TRP COREY PENNISON

8/29/2013, DENNIS BOURGEOUIS, 905 JEFFERSON ST., THIBODAUX, LA, W/M, 28, SIMPLE CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO PROPERTY UNDER $500, SGT PAULA DUMAS

8/29/2013, JEREMIE SIMMONS, 233 RUE DE BEAUVILLE, NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, W/M, 22, DRIVING UNDER SUSPENSION; CARELESS OPERATION; OPEN CONTAINER, DTY BRITTANY CAVALIER

8/26/2013, CHARLIE HAYDEN, 1417 SAUCE PIQUANTE, BELLE

ROSE, LA, W/M, 33, FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR ST. MARTIN, DTY MICHAEL SULLIVAN

8/31/2013, KEANDRA SCHONBERG, 261 MADEWOOD DR., APT 6, DONALDSONVILLE, LA, B/F, 27, DISTURBING THE PEACE; SIMPLE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY, DTY BRAXTON LEBLANC

8/31/2013, AERIAL CARTER, 117 VIOLET ST., THIBODAUX, LA, B/F, 17, DISTURBING THE PEACE BY INTOXACATION, DTY BRAXTON LEBLANC

8/31/2013, CHRISTOPHER WARD, 2055 ST MARY ST., THIBODAUX, LA, B/M, 30, WARRANT FOR THIBODAUX POLICE DEPARTMENT, DTY JARRED TABOR

9/1/2013, TRAVONTA AUSAMA, 239 ROBIN ST ., MORGAN CITY, LA, B/M, 19, 2 CTS RESISTING AN OFFICER, DTY BRAXTON LEBLANC; SGT MARK MATRANGA

9/2/2013, QUINTON RATLIFF, 100 RICHARD LN., NAPOLEONVILLE, LA, B/M, 40, SIMPLE BATTERY; 2 CTS FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR ASSUMPTION, DTY GARY ELLIS, JR; DTY DJ DOMINGUE

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But sitting in a front-porch chair last week at his home in Pierre Part off La. 70, Herman Mabile, 75, said DOTD needs to build the longer route soon.

"That mess right there, you can't control it," he said. "There's no way they can con-trol that hole right there."

Police Jury President Mar-tin "Marty" Triche said a tem-porary detour seems to be the most practical way to keep traffi c fl owing. He said he has heard constituent concerns about the permanent routes cutting off Bayou Corne and businesses.

"I am kind of like them (DOTD offi cials), sitting, looking and evaluating all the options," he said.

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dreaux, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Boudreaux, and the Assumption Parish Sugar Queen Shay Rivere, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brian Rivere.

The parade will begin a great day of food, auctions, children’s games and fam-ily entertainment on the St. Elizabeth Church grounds in Paincourtville.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's refusal to comply with a national identi-fi cation law has state offi cials grappling with whether that decision could make it more diffi cult for state residents to fl y without a passport or other federal ID.

Louisiana lawmakers en-acted a prohibition against the federal REAL ID law in 2008, rejecting the added se-curity requirements as too in-trusive.

But questions have been

raised about whether Louisi-ana residents will soon need passports to fl y domestically — or face intense questioning from airport security — be-cause their licenses or other state-issued ID don't comply with the federal standards.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has re-peatedly pushed back the compliance deadline for REAL ID for air travel, how-ever, as 30 states have refused to obey the federal law that was passed in 2005 as an anti-

terrorism measure.The head of Louisiana

State Police, Col. Mike Ed-monson, told a state task force looking at the issue Thursday that Louisiana residents are not at risk of needing a pass-port to fl y within the coming months.

"I'm confi dent that your driver's license works fi ne," Edmonson, a member of the task force, told the panel that includes state lawmakers and representatives of Louisiana's congressional delegation.

Louisiana offi cials revisiting REAL ID law Edmonson oversees the

state Offi ce of Motor Ve-hicles. He said that he's in regular contact with federal offi cials and that Louisi-ana is much farther along in complying with many of the REAL ID law standards than other states.

Sen. Robert Adley, chair-man of the Senate Transporta-tion Committee, said the state can't remain in a limbo where it relies on extensions from the federal government.

"We just can't keep going on like this year in and year out while the threat's over our head from Congress," said Adley, R-Benton.

He urged the representa-tives of the state's congress-men to return with a message about the need for more guid-ance.

Anthony Marino, director of the Baton Rouge Metro-politan Airport, told the task force that when the federal government begins enforcing the REAL ID requirements, only federally-approved iden-tifi cations will be acceptable for easy movement through security at airports.

That would include driver's licenses or state IDs that meet the federal standards, pass-ports or other federal govern-ment-issued IDs. Marino said those who have other noncom-pliant IDs will face increased questions and review at air-port security checkpoints.

"It's not an easy matter get-ting a passport. It's not going down to the driver's license offi ce and taking a picture and walking out with a driver's li-cense," Adley said.

Rep. Brett Geymann, R-Lake Charles and the sponsor of the state law that forbids compliance with REAL ID, said groups across the po-litical spectrum had concerns about privacy, identity theft and costs to states to imple-ment the law.

He said since then, provi-sions of the original federal law requiring chips on driver's licenses and other invasive identifi cation measures have been removed. But Geymann said he still worried that in-formation gathered from state residents could be used in ways not intended.

To fi nish reaching compli-ance, Louisiana would have to require people to present their original birth certifi cate or a passport for driver's license renewals and would have to post on driver's licenses that they are REAL ID compliant,

moves that would need an act of state lawmakers, according to the Louisiana State Police.

Library NewsLIBRARY NEEDS YOUR LEGOS

Cleaning out the kids rooms? Updating the games? While you’re at it, collect all the old Legos, large and small, and bring them to the library nearest you. They will be used in the future Summer Reading programs for activi-ties and contests.

INTERNATIONAL OBSERVE THE MOON NIGHT

October 12 is International Observe the Moon Night. Watch the paper for announce-ments from the Assumption Parish Library about events which might take place on or about this night.

State offi cials have wa-vered over the damage to the road and its relationship to the sinkhole. What is signifi cant is that two days later, the sink-hole sloughed in on the north side which had never before occurred. The slough in was towards LA 70 and was about 50 feet by 75 feet in size and took most of the north pad with it.

DOTD said that there was no indication that the roadbed had moved, other than normal elasticity.

It is hopeful that DOTD and state offi cials step up the pace on plans for an emergency by-pass if it becomes necessary.

Texas Brine was mum on the recent developments.

Persons close to Texas Brine operations said that gas was discovered in some of their brine pipelines that transport products to various industrial plants north of the Grand Bayou operation. The gas was voluminous enough that it had to be removed prior to the product’s delivery. That is concerning because what if the gas is coming from dam-aged dome formations north of Highway 70?

Again, there have been no comments from Texas Brine.

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The Assumption High Athletic Department will be selling an athletic pass for all sporting events during the 2013-14 athletic year. The pass will be transfer-able and will admit one individual to any AHS ath-letic contest, excluding dis-trict or state playoff compe-

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School employees of the Year parish winners: Trudy Crochet - Pierre Part Primary, Lisa Naquin - Assumption High School, and Melissa Gauthreaux - Labadieville Middle.

Teacher of the year winner for parish and school Demekia Isomk, Belle Rose Middle, far left. She was presented with a $100 check from the Assumption Parish Retired Teachers Associa-tion. School employees of the year, not in order: Beth Blanchard - Napoleonville Middle, Peggy Hidalgo - Belle Rose Primary, Gladys Rohilliard - Labadieville Primary, and Ruth Sanchez - Pierre Part Middle (not pictured).

Teacher of the year winners for parish and school, not in order: Maria Worley - Assumption High, Donna Arabie - Labadieville Middle, Kristie Siitan - Labadieville Primary, and Darlene LeBlanc - Belle Rose Primary. Each was presented with a $100 check from the Assumption Parish Retired Teachers Association.

nine-weeks exams for middle schools, neither of which is-sues caused any comment.

The board approved the 2013-14 Pupil Progression Plan despite opposition by Meyer.

In other business, the board recognized parish Teachers of the Year Maria Worley from Assumption High School, Donna Arabie from Laba-dieville Middle School, and Kristie Siitan from Labadi-eville Primary School . Also recognized were school win-ners Darlene LeBlanc from Belle Rose Primary and De-mekia Isom from Belle Rose Middle.

Employees of the Year at the Parish level were Lisa Na-quin from Assumption High School, Melissa Gauthreaux from Labadieville Middle School and Trudy Crochet from Pierre Part Primary School. School winners were

Beth Blanchard from Na-poleonville Middle School, Ruth Sanchez from Pierre Part Middle School, Peggy Hidalgo from Belle Rose Pri-mary, Gladys Rohilliard from Labadieville Primary and Cynthis Marquette from Na-poleonville Primary.

The 2013 July Sales & Use Tax Report showed an in-crease in revenues of 124% due to a one-time, non-recur-ring audit.

The evaluation of the su-perintendent was postponed until further notice.

The board approved:–Leave for Carolyn A.

Robinson.–Resignations of Carmen

Allen, Marie Stella Pruett, and Anna Pietri.

–Six galvanized swing sets at Napoleonville Primary were declared surplus equip-ment.

–Advertisement for CNP fi eld manager.

–Substantial completion of Building A renovations and

change order for Building A renovations ($486 for paint) at Labadieville Middle

–A certifi cate of substantial completion for buildings B & C wall removal at Belle Rose Primary.

–Substantial comple-tion approval for the Bayou L’Ourse Primary cafetorium was tabled.

A resolution of sympathy was read for the family of Ja’Myrin Preston who re-cently drowned in Bayou La-fourche.

The school board meet-ing for Sept. l7, will be held at Bayou L’Ourse Primary; Nov. l9, at Pierre Part Middle, and Dec. l7, at Napoleonville Middle. School performances will begin at 5:45 p.m. and the meeting at 6 p.m.

School board meeting dates will be approved at the Sept. l8 meeting.

A Finance and Mainte-nance Committee meeting will be held on Sept. l2, at 6 pm.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Nearly all public school classroom teachers were deemed effective in the fi rst year that Louisiana's new evaluation system was used statewide, according to data released Tuesday by the De-partment of Education.

The grading system, called Compass, ranked 32 percent of teachers as "highly effec-tive" and another 4 percent as "ineffective." The rest were in between, with 8 percent of those in a category called "ef-fective emerging," which sug-gested they needed improve-

ment.Evaluation fi gures released

Tuesday for the state's more than 43,000 public school teachers were based on per-formance during the 2012-13 school year.

The ratings will be used to decide pay raises and promo-

Most teachers pass new evaluations in fi rst year tions and to determine if new teachers reach the job protec-tion status called tenure. The consequences could be dire for those deemed ineffective.

Teachers rated ineffective will get intensive assistance. If they don't improve and receive another ineffective grade within two years, ter-mination proceedings are re-quired under the law, and the teacher can be fi red.

The new evaluation system was passed by lawmakers in 2010 and championed by Gov. Bobby Jindal.

Across the state's 1,400 public schools, Compass grades about one-third of classroom teachers on stu-dent performance improve-ments on standardized tests. The grades cover those who teach math, English and other subjects that are reviewed on such tests. All teachers are re-viewed through classroom ob-servations and whether they hit certain student learning targets.

Superintendent of Educa-tion John White said the new evaluation method replaces a one-size-fi ts-all approach that didn't properly assess a teach-er's ability in the classroom. Under the old system, nearly 99 percent of educators were simply ranked satisfactory, with no range of categories determining excellence or im-provements needed.

White said higher-per-forming school districts and those that have made strong improvements tend to have teachers with higher ratings in the Compass evaluation, while lower-performing dis-tricts had more teachers rated ineffective or needing im-provement.

"We have areas for im-provement, but the trends show that educators are using this tool in a way that is con-sistent with the way their kids are performing," he said.

However, White said some adjustments will be made to

the evaluation system to make sure districts aren't being lax in the way they judge their teachers and school systems have a "high vision of excel-lence."

The highest percentages of teachers ranked ineffective were in the City of Baker, with 18 percent; East Carroll Par-ish, at 17 percent; St. Helena Parish, at 16 percent; Madison Parish, at 14 percent; and Ten-sas Parish, at 12 percent.

School districts with the highest percentages of teach-ers rated highly effective were Bossier Parish, at 59 percent; Lincoln Parish, with 56 per-cent; and Beauregard Parish, with 55 percent.

But since the districts de-veloped their own criteria for rankings, it was diffi cult to compare what the evaluation grades really mean in terms of performance.

More than 2,600 principals and assistant principals also received rankings, after re-views by their school district superintendents. According to the education department data, 28 percent of principals and assistant principals were rated highly effective, while 2 percent were deemed ineffec-tive.

Teachers unions have com-plained the evaluation system is fl awed — specifi cally its use of performance on stan-dardized tests as a method for determining the effectiveness of a teacher.

Union leaders have said the rating of a teacher should ac-count for individualized prob-lems with students. They said the Compass system could discourage some teachers from seeking jobs in schools known for poor performance.

"It is unfortunate that state offi cials refuse to make changes to the laws and poli-cies. That leaves teachers with no alternative but to pur-sue legal remedies in courts around Louisiana," Louisiana Federation of Teachers Presi-

dent Steve Monaghan said in a written statement.

Evaluations under the new method are done annually, replacing a system in which teachers got formal evalua-tions once every three years with no tie to student test scores. The new system ap-plies to teachers and admin-istrators in traditional public schools and charter schools.

New task force to review school funding formula

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A group of Louisiana edu-cation leaders, lawmakers and others are looking at ways to tweak Louisiana's multi-billion-dollar public school funding formula.

A new task force, created by the state Board of Elemen-tary and Secondary Education, opens its discussions Wednes-day, with hearings from public school offi cials and anyone else who wants to weigh in on their problems or concerns with the $3.5 billion spending plan.

The funding formula, known as the Minimum Foun-dation Program or MFP, div-vies up state dollars to Loui-siana's 70 public school dis-tricts, based on the number and type of students they have and the individual districts' wealth.

Superintendent of Educa-tion John White and BESE have sought changes to the payments for special educa-tion and gifted students. Law-makers rejected those changes and said they wanted more study.

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Get High On Life By HAROLD KELLER

Hearts In Touch By RONNY MICHEL

What a Life! By REVEREND WILMER L. TODD

Keeping the Faith By Ronnie McBrayer

Dan JuneauPresident of La.

Assoc. of Business & Industry

When I fi rst met Father Thad I was a Baptist minister and he was the priest at the neighborhood

Catholic par-ish. A complete stranger to me, he popped into my offi ce and stated that he must use our church bap-tistery. A brief

reminder about baptism: Baptists practice baptism by immersion. They dunk converts completely un-der the water.

Typically, Catholics practice sprinkling or pouring. And that is just the beginning of the differ-ences between these two faith tradi-tions on the issue. The theological meaning reinforcing the practice of baptism puts the camps even farther apart.

So when a Catholic priest showed up wanting to dunk a convert in the Baptist church, I knew I was deal-ing with someone shattering my typecast. Refreshingly, this watery encounter led to a series of inter-denominational gatherings (pot-luck dinners, actually) between his parish and my congregation. In the

process, we learned a lot about each other, and I learned a great deal about Thad.

In addition to the priesthood Thad had been a military chaplain; and shockingly, Thad was married and had adult children. Thad had been an Anglican priest, but through an extraordinary dispensation from the Vatican, converted to Catholi-cism. This man was a depository of mind-warping experiences, not the least of which was a personal story I loved to hear.

A parish he once led desperately needed to expand its ministry. But one man in the parish absolutely re-sisted, always squelching prospec-tive change by saying something like, “My grandfather gave the land for this church; my daddy cleared the trees for the building; and we’re not going to change a thing” (Cath-olics don’t have a monopoly on this sentiment).

Thad fi nally had enough. In his remarkable way, he secured a dio-cese blessing and obtained a piece of land on the other side of town. He called the local house builders, and had the church relocated! I have this charming picture in my mind of the church, steeple atop, rolling down

the road on stilts led by a vestment-clad Father Thad, reading the gospel and splashing holy water along the way.

When I fi rst heard that story I told Thad, “If you were a Protestant, you could have just started another church (And with a wink, I’d add, “A church with a real baptistery”). His response was priceless: “Why start another church, when you can take it with you?”

Truth told, that is pretty good ecclesiology. Ecclesiology is what seminarians call the “doctrine of the church.” It answers the question: “What is the nature of the church?” And after several hundred years of modernity and religious institu-tionalism, more and more people are recognizing that the church is not a building. Sure, we say, “I go to church at such-and-such place,” but the real church is a people, not a place. It is a body, not a building. It is a living movement, not a fi xed mailing address.

When the last homilies, sermons, songs, testimonies, and prayers are offered at your congregation or par-ish on Sunday morning, you don’t leave the church. You will leave a specifi c gathering of the church,

certainly, but you take the church with you – because the church is you. You take it on the road, across town, into your workplace or uni-versity, into your living room, class-room, and board room: You embody the presence of Christ in the world.

Yes, I learned a lot from Father Thad. I learned that holding to fi xed stereotypes prevents us from em-bracing the extraordinary individu-als we meet along the way. I learned that communication between faith groups is the best possible means of reducing misunderstanding and confl ict. I learned that overcoming problems sometimes requires bold-ness and creativity.

And I was reminded that whether we are sprinkled, dipped, poured, dunked, barely damp or soaking wet, we will not be defi ned so much by “where we go to church,” but by whether or not we will be the church once we leave the building. As Fa-ther Thad put it so accurately: “Why start another church, when you can take it with you?”

Ronnie McBrayer is a syndicated columnist, pastor, and author of mul-tiple books. You can read more and receive regular e-columns in your in-box at www.ronniemcbrayer.me.

I typically receive permission from my children before writing about them. Today is no exception.

Elise is full of surprises and her immedi-ate approval of this column shocked me.

The Mi-chel’s Summer of 2013 held

highs and lows, beginnings and endings, and a spontaneous mat-tress purchase. Elise was in the middle of a stressful summer school class when I asked if she wanted to go furniture shopping for Victoria.

She began talking as soon as we picked her up. “Victoria’s getting

new furniture for college and I’m sleeping on an old mattress. I’ve never had a new mattress.”

“Elise, you’ve had new mattress-es,” I said, quickly chronicling her mattress and bedroom furniture his-tory.

“Well, I don’t remember any of that. Anyway, I read that old mat-tresses can have dust mites. You know I’m allergic to dust mites. I woke up with a headache this morn-ing, probably because my mattress has dust mites.”

“Did you take your allergy medi-cine?”

“I don’t like to take it.”I continued to drive the thank-

fully short distance to the furniture store. As soon as we were greeted

by the sales force, I asked to see the mattresses. “Which of these can be delivered tomorrow afternoon?”

A few keystrokes of his comput-er later, the salesman responded, “I have both of these in stock.”

“Elise, which one is more com-fortable?”

“I can’t sit on a mattress in pub-lic.”

“I’ll take this one,” I said point-ing to a pillow-topped model while turning to Elise. “After class tomor-row you will sit in your condo and wait until it’s delivered.”

I quickly found Victoria, “Do you see anything you like?”

“I’m afraid to buy something with Elise here.”

Returning to the car, I had one

more thing to say, “Elise, in the fu-ture, would you please phrase all requests in the form of a question. It would take less time and emo-tional energy, yet produce the same result.

And like so many other times in my life, the experience had a dual purpose. I can wish and hope and whine and complain. Or I can pray and simply ask God to release the answers I seek. From now on, read-ing Matthew 7:7, “Ask and it will be given to you,” will remind of Elise.

Now she needs a dresser. I’ll just order the same type I bought for Victoria. Elise will just love that!

Ronny may be reached at rmi-chel@rtconline.com.

Last week, I received a call from Mrs. Sandra Harrison of St. James, Louisiana. She shared that on Au-

gust 18th, her husband was killed by a drunk driver. She said that she reads my article every week and al-ways knew that

drunk drivers kill, but didn’t realize the impact on a family until it hap-pened to her family.

The fatal accident happened on Highway 18 at about 6:00 p.m. Her husband, Antonio, and her 15-year-

old twin girls were coming back from Donaldsonville and were only 10 miles from home. Her girls sur-vived, but one was seriously injured which will keep her off her feet and out of school for fi ve months. The other escaped with less serious inju-ries.

As we spoke, I sensed a calmness about Mrs. Sandra even though the accident happened only four weeks ago. “How are you and the girls do-ing?” I asked. “Mr. Keller, I have faith in God and we will be alright,” she answered.

I’ve heard that many times from people and it sounds good but not very sincere. The difference is, evi-

dently she knew her Savior. I never met her or her husband, but with the faith and spirit she has, I feel like Mr. Antonio must be enjoying eternity with His Heavenly Father. I under-stand the drunk driver is in jail with a bond of $250,000.

The Bible says that the devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy. He did a good job on the Harrisons by destroying the head of the house, but was unable to kill the faith of a godly wife.

My sympathy goes out to the fam-ily, but after my conversation with Mrs. Sandra, they will come out stronger.

My heart is grieved for the drunk

driver. His life will never by the same. If he is still in jail next week, I hope to go and see him. Sometimes we forget that Jesus came to save the lost. The drunk driver, at least, has time to repent and change his life.

Next week, I’ll conduct my monthly DWI classes for the 29th and 40th Judicial District Courts. I’ll have about 20 people who were found guilty of DWI. I’ll remind them that but for the Grace of God, that could have happened to them.

If you have any questions, or com-ments, please write to Get High on Life, P.O. Drawer U, Reserve, LA 70084, call (985) 652-8477, or e-mail: hkeller@comcast.net.

This will be my next to last col-umn as President of LABI. I thought I would use it to share a few words of caution to my friends in the business community.

For over a decade now, some of the biggest battles business has faced have been among adversaries entirely within the business community. That trend is not a pleasant one to endure for someone whose job has been to try to unite businesses in order to build a better overall economic cli-mate. When internal disputes erupted in business circles, they often found their way into the Legislature and LABI’s boardroom. Such struggles weaken the business community’s ability to work cohesively on a com-mon agenda.

Ironically, I think the root cause of those internal squabbles lies with past successes. The natural enemies of business—tax and spend legislators, trial lawyers, and labor unions—for some time have not been the powerful forces they once were. The success that business has enjoyed in blunt-ing the initiatives of those opposition groups over the last twenty years led to complacency within the ranks. As more industry groups felt there was less to fear from business’s natural predators, they began to worry less about making a bigger pie for all and more about taking a larger slice of someone else’s pie. That syndrome can only lead to a resurgence of agen-das to weaken the business communi-ty by both natural and non-traditional predators. An example of non-tradi-tional predators was the initiatives last year, primarily by Republican elected offi cials, to eliminate person-al income taxes by greatly increasing taxes on businesses. Expect more of that in the future if the business com-munity doesn’t become more united.

One danger zone that is readily ap-parent already is the lawsuit arena. LABI worked for years, fi rst to elect a more objective state Supreme Court and then to pass statutes to over-rule huge expansions of tort liability handed down by our Supreme Court for decades. I found it very diffi cult to get the business community to focus on this problem until the high court rendered some outlandish decisions that made it more and more cost pro-hibitive to insure business operations from tort exposure. It was a tough slog. Finally, business and industry was successful in helping to elect reasonable justices to our Supreme Court. It didn’t mean that business won every case before the court but it did mean that with good arguments and a good set of facts, there was a reasonable chance to prevail.

Slowing down judicially imposed tort expansions was only part of what needed to happen. The other agenda was to work the legislature to over-turn judicially imposed doctrines that severely damaged the business climate in Louisiana. Thanks to the leadership of former Governor Mike Foster and a unifi ed business com-munity, three major tort reforms were enacted in 1996 that reversed much of the damage. Those victories are not guaranteed to last, however. Major attempts have been made to reverse them and more such attempts will be launched in the future. Only a united business community can stop rever-sals from happening.

I have been involved with legisla-tive initiatives on behalf of the busi-ness community since 1976 when our Right-to-Work law passed. I can hon-estly say that when the business com-munity was united in the legislative process, it rarely suffered a defeat. I fear that the period of safety from adversaries may be ending. The tax initiatives last year and the myriad of lawsuits aimed at the oil and gas in-dustry are harbingers of that fact. My solemn and sincere advice to business and industry is to put its internal dis-putes aside and rebuild the solidarity that will be necessary to survive in a less favorable environment.

William Barclay (1907-1978) was a famous Scottish theologian

and a brilliant writer. Bar-clay taught at the Universi-ty of Glasgow for 28 years. He was wide-ly known in Great Brit-

ain for his radio and television broadcasts, but his most signifi-cant contributions to Christian thought are his writings, espe-cially his Commentary on the New Testament.

In the fifth chapter of St. James Letter, we read, “Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you. Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against you, and it will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the last days.”

Barclay says James has two aims. “First, to show the ulti-

mate worthlessness of all earthly riches. Second, to show the de-testable character of those who possess them. By doing this he hopes to prevent his readers from placing all their hopes and desires on earthly things.”

Barclay continues, “In the east there were three main sources of wealth and James has a word for the decay of each of them. There were corn and grain. That is the wealth that grows rotten. There were garments. In the east gar-ments were wealth. These gar-ments, which are so splendid, will be food for moths.

“The climax of the world’s inevitable decay comes at the end. Even their gold and silver will be rusted clean through. The point is that gold and silver do not actually rust; so James in the most vivid way is warning men that even the most precious and apparently most indestructible things are doomed to decay. This rust is proof of the imperma-nence and ultimate valuelessness of all earthly things. It is James’

conviction that to concentrate on material things is not only to concentrate on a decaying delu-sion; it is to concentrate on self-produced destruction.”

Barclay goes on to say, “No book condemns dishonest and selfish wealth with such searing passion as the Bible. The book of the prophet Amos condemns those who store up violence and robbery in their palaces (Am. 3:10). He condemns those who tread on the poor and while they have houses of hewn stone and pleasant vineyards – which in the wrath of God they will never enjoy (Am. 5:11).

“He lets loose his wrath on those who give short weight and short measure, who buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes, and who palm off on the poor the refuse of their wheat. ‘I will never forget any of their deeds,’ says God (Am. 8:4-7).

“Isaiah warns those who build up great estates by adding house to house and field to field (Isa.

5:8). The sage insisted that he who trusts in riches shall fall (Prov. 11:28). Luke quotes Jesus as saying, ‘Woe to you that are rich!’ (Lk. 6:24). It is only with difficulty that those who have riches enter the Kingdom of God (Lk. 18:24). Riches are a tempta-tion and a snare; the rich are li-able to foolish and hurtful lusts that end in ruin, for the love of money is the root of all evils (1 Tim. 6:9-10).

“A mystery of social thought is how the Christian religion ever became regarded as ‘the opiate of the people’ or to seem an otherworldly affair. There is no book in any literature that speaks so explosively of social injustice as the Bible, nor any book that has proved so pow-erful a social dynamic. It does not condemn wealth as such but there is no book that more strenuously insists on wealth’s responsibility and on the per-ils that surround a person who is abundantly blessed with this world’s goods.”

The Bayou Journal, Pierre Part, September 10, 2013, Page 5

OpinionUnintended consequencesBY THOMAS SOWELL

One of the many unintended consequences of the political crusade for increased home-ownership among minorities, and low-income people in general, has been a housing boom and bust that left many foreclosed homes that had to be rented, because there were no longer enough qualifi ed buyers.

The repercussions did not stop there. Many homeowners have discovered that when rent-ers replace homeowners as their neighbors, the neighborhood as a whole can suffer.

The physical upkeep of the neighborhood, on which everyone's home values depend, tends to decline. "Who's going to paint the outside of a rented house?" one resident was quoted as saying in a recent New York Times story.

Renters also tend to be of a lower socio-economic level than homeowners. They are also less likely to join neighborhood groups, including neighborhood watches to keep an eye out for crime. In some cases, renters have introduced unsavory or illegal activities into family-oriented communities of homeowners that had not had such activities before.

None of this should be surprising. Individu-als and groups of all sorts have always differed from one another in many ways, throughout centuries of history and in countries around the world. Left to themselves, people tend to sort themselves out into communities of like-minded neighbors.

This has been so obvious that only the in-telligentsia could misconstrue it -- and only ideologues could devote themselves to cru-sading against people's efforts to live and as-sociate with other people who share their val-ues and habits.

Quite aside from the question of whose val-ues and habits may be better is the question of the effects of people living cheek by jowl with other people who put very different values on noise, politeness, education and other things that make for good or bad relations between neighbors. People with children to protect are especially concerned about who lives next door or down the street.

But such mundane matters often get brushed aside by ideological crusaders out to change the world to fi t their own vision. When the world fails to conform to their vision, then it seems obvious to the ideologues that it is the world that is wrong, not that their vision is uninformed or unrealistic.

One of the political consequences of such attitudes is the current crusade of Attorney General Eric Holder to force various commu-nities to become more "inclusive" in terms of which races and classes of people they con-tain.

Undaunted by a long history of disasters when third parties try to mix and match peo-ple, or prescribe what kind of housing is best, they act as if this time it has to work.

It doesn't matter how many government housing projects that began with lofty rheto-ric and heady visions have ended with these expensive projects being demolished with explosives, in the wake of social catastrophes that made these places unlivable.

To those with the crusading mentality, fail-ure only means that they should try, try again -- at other people's expense, including not only the taxpayers but also those who lives have been disrupted, or even made miserable and dangerous, by previous bright ideas of third parties who pay no price for being wrong.

This headstrong dogmatism and grab for power is not confi ned to housing. Attorney General Holder is also taking legal action against the state of Louisiana for having so many charter schools, on grounds that these schools do not mix and match the races the way that public schools are supposed to.

The fact that those charter schools which are successful in educating low-income and mi-nority students that the public schools fail to educate are giving these youngsters a shot at a decent life that they are not likely to get else-where does not deter the ideological crusaders.

Nor does it deter the politicians who are serving the interests of the teachers' unions, who see public schools as places to provide jobs for their members, even if that means a poor education and poor prospects in life for generations of minority students.

All this ideological self-indulgence and cynical political activity is washed down with lofty rhetoric about "compassion," "inclusion" and the like.

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stan-ford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To fi nd out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

Syria - Count the costBY GLENN MOLLETTE

The President and Congress will make the decisions when it comes to Syria. They and mili-tary leadership have far more information than I. However, we will not go into Syria, throw our rocks and run back home unscathed. The scathing may occur immediately or weeks or months later.

How many Americans will die if we intervene in Syria? I do not want to lose one American over a civil war that's been going on for thousands of years. We will never solve the hatred between the Muslims in the Mid-dle East.

Since when has Al-Qa-eda become our friends? Are we now able to trust Al-Qaeda? Are we sup-posed to bomb Assad and then in turn start loading Al-Qaeda down with weapons that they in turn can use against us? How do we know who used weapons of mass destruction? Could Al-Qaeda have used such weapons against Syrians in hopes of invoking a response from the United States to aid them in their fi ght?

What about Iraq? Iraq was going to be fast and effi cient. But over 4500 of our American troops were killed and another 100,000 were seriously injured in combat with many of them losing limbs. We spent a total of six trillion dollars on Iraq while almost twenty percent of our own peo-ple live in poverty.

War is never quick, easy and cheap. War takes us further than we want to go. Makes us pay more than we want to pay and keeps us lon-ger than we want to stay. What makes us think we can pound Syria for only a few days and accom-plish anything? Previ-ous history warns us that it could end up being a long and bitter engage-ment.

What happens if Rus-sia, Iran, North Korea and China decide to get into the act? What would World War III look like? Most likely it would for-ever change the planet as we know and enjoy it today.

I do not want any in-nocent life to suffer at the hands of an evil dic-tator. Assad should be stopped. However, it's imperative that our Con-gress and President as-sess how far we can go, how much we are able to pay and how long we can really stay.

If we believe we can get by with fi ring our missiles and simply walking away, we have lost all sense of reality.

Glenn Mollette is an American Columnist and speaker. He is the author of American Issues and nine other books. Find his books at Barnesand-Noble.com. Contact him at gmollette@aol.com like his Facebook page at www.facebook.com/glennmollette

Congress is going “new law” crazy. In the nation’s capitol, hundreds of proposed new laws are being introduced every month, creating numerous new regula-tions and crimes. And Louisiana congres-sional members are joining right in this push for more federal intrusion into what was previously the purview of the states.

Senator Mary Landrieu has proposed 29 new laws and resolutions in this cur-rent year alone. Her opponent in next year’s senatorial election, current Congressman Bill Cassidy, is right on her heels with 17 new of-ferings.

Anyone who actually takes the time to read the U.S. Constitution will see that there are only three crimes specifi cally enumerated as federal offens-es: treason, piracy and counterfeiting. So why has Congress undertaken an overzealous expansion of criminal laws?

A report from the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies recently determined that there are some 4,500 federal crimes listed in the U.S. Code. It used to be that Congress would create one particular crime by passing a new law. But in recent years, multiple crimes are listed with-in the same statute. One new law enacted right af-ter 9/11 contained 60 new crimes. Was that really necessary?

Our representatives in Washington now want to delve into any number of local crimes, fl aunting the intention of our country’s founders. Drugs, robbery, car theft, the list goes on and on. What happened to the 14th amendment and states rights?

Many of the federal crimes on this expanded list are bewildering and seem to be punitive and arbi-trary. Harvard law professor William Stuntz puts it this way: “We are coming even closer to living in a country where laws on the books make everybody a felon, and prosecutors get to decide what the law is and who has violated it.”

Did you know that it is a federal crime to deal in the interstate transport of unlicensed dentures? For this you get one year in jail.

Another law says you can go to jail for six months if you pretend to be a member of the 4-H club?

And you can get six months for degrading the character of Woodsy Owl, or his associated slogan: “Give a hoot — Don’t pollute.” I’m not making this up.

And you will love this one. It’s a federal crime to disrupt a rodeo. Now in Louisiana, we yield to no one in our desire for orderly rodeos. But getting taken into federal custody for excessive heckling? Give me a break!

In this day and age, the average citizen can get hauled off to jail for trivial things that no sane per-son would regard as a crime – as many of these laws make little, if any, sense. As you can see from these examples, it’s not a liberal or conservative thing. There’s a new collaboration in Washington

– an unholy alliance between anti-big busi-ness liberals, and tough-on-crime conserva-tives. They all seem to be trying to show that they’re serious prognosticators cracking down on the social problem of the month, whether it be corporate scandals or steroid use.

The Louisiana legislative delegation is not immune from federalitis, and it has joined in the parade of parochialism within the federal system. Senator David Vitter has proposed

legislation to make it a felony for the interstate sale of paraphernalia that straps on a rooster’s leg dur-ing a cockfi ght. And Senator Mary Landrieu wants to ban the transportation of horses across state lines to be shipped out of the country for consumption. Just imagine the decline of the American way of life we’re headed for if we don’t pass these pro-posed laws without further delay!

Our members of Congress go to Washington today and seem to get intoxicated with the power that comes with the job. It’s similar to the effect of Tolkien’s ring. Decent and intelligent people get the ring of power and it changes them. They can’t put it down. They can’t let it go. The more laws you pass, the better you look back home. And when there’s crime involved, you come across as a tough guy, right?

Congress today doesn’t seem to understand the difference between the violation of a regulation and a crime. There are a number of actions that are illegal, but not criminal. Further, a crime does not necessarily have to be a federal crime. Have we reached the point where people in Louisiana and throughout the country have come to accept that any federal agency with power is somehow a po-lice power? Both conservatives and liberals ought to be worried about the expansion of federal crimi-nal law if we value our liberty, which our Found-ers specifi cally understood to mean leaving general police powers at the local level.

In 400 B.C., the Greek orator Isocrates stated: “Where there is a multitude of specifi c laws, it is a sign that the state is badly governed.” Tasedus wrote in the 1st century A.D. of Rome: “Former-ly we suffered from crimes. Now we suffer from laws.”

A little more common sense in Washington would go a long way in allowing Congress to deal better with problems of national concern. Leave the parochial to the states. And for goodness sake, let us get a little rowdy at our rodeos.

Peace and JusticeJim Brown

Jim Brown’s syndicated column appears each week in numerous newspapers throughout the nation and on websites worldwide. You can read all his past columns and see continuing updates at http://www.jimbrownusa.com.

Are we all federal criminals living in La.?

Jim Brown

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The family of Brock Landry would like to sincerely thank everyone for their kind words, thoughts and prayers in this difficult time. All of the cards, plants, monetary and food dona-tions are greatly appreciated. It has been com-forting to see the outpouring of love and support from our community, family and friends in this time of grief. A special thank you to Pastor Joe Sedotal for officiating a beautiful ceremony. Our heart are filled with gratitude in this time of sorrow.

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A lifelong resident of Pierre Part, he passed away Wednesday, September 4,

2013, at the age of 82. Anatole was a gardener and retired tug boat captain. He is survived by his sis-

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BY LINDA COOKEREPORTER

The Assumption Charter Chapter of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute sponsored a fi eld trip last month to the historic Madewood Plantation on Hwy. 308, in Napoleon-ville. Joining local chapter members were OLLI mem-bers from St. Francisville, Baton Rouge, Zachary, and Jackson. A total of 26 mem-bers were given a guided tour of the plantation by docent Angela Johnson, followed by a luncheon in the planta-tion ballroom. Guests had the opportunity to explore the

grounds of the site including the cemetery where members of the original Pugh family are interred, see the original carriage house, the Pat Nixon oak tree, and view the beauti-ful upstairs guest bedrooms.

Madewood Plantation was built in l840-48 for Colonel Thomas Pugh using wood and bricks cut and made on the site. The 23 room mansion was the manor house for a group of plantations Pugh ac-quired along with over 10,000 acres of producing sugar cane fi elds.

After the Civil War and the death of Pugh, Madewood

Plantation changed owners several times, eventually be-ing abandoned and fell into serious disrepair. In l964, the Harold Marshall family of New Orleans bought the der-elict home along with 20-plus acres of surrounding farm land. Naomi Marshall took it upon herself to renovate the home, fi lling it with an-tiques and collectibles gath-ered from all over the country and Europe. Her son, Keith Marshall, now lives on the premises. Madewood Plan-tation operates now as a bed-and-breakfast and hosts many cultural events.

will be a visitation at Ourso Funeral Home in Pierre Part, Saturday, September 7, 2013 from 8:00 a.m. until services at 11:00 a.m. celebrated by Rev. Joey Cedotal. Burial to follow at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church.

Ruth Mae DaggsA native of Labadieville,

she died Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013, at Franklin Health Care. She was 67. Visiting at Williams & Southall Fu-neral Home, Napoleonville, on Friday, Sept. 6, from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Visiting at St. Phillip Baptist Church, Labadieville, on Saturday from 9 a.m. until religious service at 11 a.m., conducted by the Rev. Junius Thomp-son. Burial in the church cemetery. Arrangements by Williams & Southall Funeral

OLLI Assumption Charter Chapter visits Madewood Plantation

Twenty-six members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute from Assumption, St. Francisville, Baton Rouge, Zachary, and Jackson visited Madewood Plantation.

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■1st prize - 2013 Henry .22 fi reman's commerative rifl e which was paid for by Kevin Guillot, Darrel Rivere, Teddy Mabile and Tommy Landry.

■2nd prize - Browning A-5 12-gauge shotgun donated by Julius and Margaret Mabile.

■3rd prize - 65 quart Yeti cooler donated by Pierre Part Ducks Unlimited.

■4th prize -Apple IPAD

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Admin-istration says consumers shouldn't worry too much about levels of arsenic in rice — but should vary their diets just in case.

The agency released a study Friday of arsenic in 1,300 samples of rice and rice products that is the largest study to date look-ing at the carcinogen's pres-ence in that grain. Consum-er groups have pressured the FDA to set a standard for the amount of arsenic that can be present in rice products.

The study shows varying levels, with the most arse-nic in brown rice and the least in instant rice. Infant cereal and infant rice for-mulas are also at the low

end of the spectrum.The FDA says the

amounts are so small that rice is safe to eat and there isn't any concern of im-mediate or short-term ad-verse health effects. But the agency said it is still study-ing the long-term effects of consuming rice.

Rice is thought to have arsenic in higher levels than most other foods be-cause it is grown in water on the ground, optimal con-ditions for the contaminant to be absorbed.

Arsenic is naturally pres-ent in water, air, food and soil in two forms, organic and inorganic. Organic ar-senic passes through the body quickly and is essen-tially harmless. Inorganic arsenic — the type found in

FDA study says amount of arsenic in rice is lowsome pesticides and insec-ticides — can be toxic and may pose a cancer risk if consumed at high levels or over a long period.

The FDA is looking into how much much organic and inorganic arsenic rice eaters are consuming, and whether those levels are dangerous. The agency will conduct a risk assessment with the National Institutes of Health and the Environ-mental Protection Agency to further measure those ef-fects.

The government, along with the public health com-munity, has long encour-aged consumers to vary their diets to minimize risk. Pediatricians, for example, have moved away from only recommending rice cereal as a baby's fi rst solid food. There is evidence that other grains and even meats and fruits and vegetables can be just as healthy, says Dr. Ste-phen Daniels of Children's Hospital Colorado, the chairman of the nutrition committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Daniels said the FDA results are "reassuring in many ways" and parents who have been giving their infants rice cereal should not be concerned.

Average levels of arsenic in the study ranged from 2.6 to 7.2 micrograms of inor-ganic arsenic per serving. Though the long-term ef-fects are still unknown, that amount is tiny — a micro-gram is one-millionth of a gram.

Still, it is almost impos-sible to say how dangerous these levels are without a benchmark from the federal government. The advocacy group Consumer Reports,

which is pushing for FDA to create standards, uses New Jersey's drinking wa-ter standard — a maximum of 5 micrograms in a liter of water — as comparison because it is one of the strictest in the country. But it is unclear how accurate it is to compare the risk of ar-senic consumption in water and the risk of consumption in rice, as most people con-sume more water than rice.

The FDA study looked at rice from the United States, with some of the high-est levels of arsenic found in rice grown in Southern states. It also looked at rice from Asia. The FDA said its study was not large enough to evaluate specifi c brands.

FDA toxicologist Su-zanne C. Fitzpatrick said

that because arsenic is nat-urally occurring it is going to be in food, and because rice is grown in water it will always have higher levels.

"It's not something that we can just pull off the market," she said.

The rice industry said Friday that it is working with the FDA and is en-couraged by the results of the study. The industry has been conducting several of its own studies to try and fi gure out how to re-duce arsenic levels, includ-ing investigating different ways to manage the water in which rice is grown and looking at processing and rinsing methods to see if there are ways to reduce ar-senic levels.

Consumer groups said they also are pleased that the FDA is taking a hard look at arsenic in rice. Ur-vashi Rangan of Consum-er Reports said the group hopes the FDA eventually sets specifi c guidelines for arsenic so growers will im-plement more steps to rid rice of the carcinogen.

Dr. Steven Abrams of Texas Children's Hospital agreed that varying diet is the way to go. Rice "is a healthy food but it's not the only healthy food," he said.

Still, parents should not overreact and shy away from rice completely, he said. "We don't want to over-interpret the concerns so that we don't give kids the foods that they need," Abrams said.

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Legals

ASSUMPTION PARISH POLICE JURYNOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Assumption Parish Police Jury will be holding a public hearing on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 5:50 p.m. The hearing will be held at the Assumption Parish Police Jury Administration Building located at 4813 Highway 1, Napoleonville, LA.

The purpose of the public hearing is to receive input from the residents of Assump-tion Parish regarding the proposed establishment of Donaldsonville Glass & Body Works, a towing/tow yard, to be located at 6366 Highway 70 North.

ASSUMPTION PARISH POLICE JURYKim M. TorresSECRETARY-TREASURERPublish: Bayou JournalSept 3 & 10, 2013

ASSUMPTION PARISH SCHOOL BOARDSHORTAGE OF CERTIFIED TEACHERS IN PRIMARY/MIDDLE SCHOOLS

The Assumption Parish School Board has a shortage of certifi ed teachers in the following areas:

Primary/Middle

Applicants must meet certifi cation requirements as defi ned in the Louisiana De-partment of Education Bulletin 746.

Submit a resume to: thock@assumptionschools.com By September 19, 2013 @ 12:00 noon.

Publish: September 8, 2013 September 15, 2013

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSUMPTION PARISH SCHOOL BOARDMEETING MINUTES FOR SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The Assumption Parish School Board met in Regular Session on Wednesday, Sep-tember 4, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. at the Assumption Parish Media Center, Napoleon-ville, Louisiana with President Andrea Barras, presiding. PRESENT: Honoray Lewis, Ward 1, Lee Meyer, Sr., Ward 2, Andrea Barras, Ward 3, Larry Howell, Ward 5, John Beck, Ward 7, Jessica Ourso, Ward 8, Doris Dugas, Ward 9 ABSENT: Electa Fletcher Mickens, Ward 4, Daniel Washington, Ward 6

The meeting was opened in prayer led by President Andrea Barras, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by Doris Dugas, Vice President.

Adoption of AgendaOn motion of Mr. Howell, seconded by Ms. Dugas and unanimously carried the Board adopted the agenda as amended.

Consent Agendaa) Approve minutes of August 7, 2013 board meetingb) Approve addendum items:c) Approve leave:

Leave:Carolyn A. Robinson, effective August 5, 2013 through October 31, 2013 (Nurse, NMS) Resignation:Carmen Allen, effective August 15, 2013 (Teacher, PPP)Marie Stella Pruett, effective August 28, 2013 (Teacher, LMS)Anna Pietri, effective September 2, 2013 (Teacher, LPS) Retirement:Gretchen Smith, effective October 26, 2013 (Nutrition Program Field Mgr)

Adopt a Resolution of Sympathy for student, Ja’Myrin Preston

On motion of Mr. Beck, seconded by Ms. Ourso and unanimously carried the Board adopted the consent agenda.

Reports and Recognitiona) The board recognized Teacher of the Year at their respective schools and the 2013 Elementary, Middle and High School Teachers of the Year in the parish:Parish Winners: Marla Worley, AHS, Donna Arabie, LMS, Kristie Siitan, LPS.School Winners: Darlene LeBlanc, BRP, Demekia Isom, BRMb) The board recognized School Employees of the Year at the parish level.Parish Winners: Lisa Naquin, AHS, Melissa Gauthreaux, LMS, Trudy Crochet, PPPSchool Winners: Beth Blanchard, NMS, Ruth Sanchez, PPM, Peggy Hidalgo, BRP, Gladys Rohilliard, LPS, Cynthia Marquette, NPS

Facilities and Groundsa) On motion of Mr. Howell, seconded by Ms. Ourso and unanimously carried the Board approved Certifi cate of Substantial Completion for Labadieville Middle School Main Building “A” Renovations. b) Certifi cate of Substantial Completion for Bayou L’Ourse New Primary School Cafetorium and Administration Building was tabled on recommendation of the Su-perintendent. c) On motion of Mr. Howell, seconded by Ms. Ourso and unanimously carried the Board approved Change Order No. 2 for Labadieville Middle School Main Building “A” Renovations in the amount of $486.00.d) On motion of Mr. Lewis, seconded by Mr. Beck and unanimously carried the Board approved Certifi cate of Substantial completion for Belle Rose Primary School Building “B” & “C” Wall Removal and Replacement.

ASSUMPTION PARISH WATERWORKS DISTRICT NO. 1PUBLIC NOTICE

September 5, 2013

Our water system recently violated a drinking water standard. Even though this was not an emergency, as our customer, you have a right to know what happened and what we are doing to correct the situation.

Due to a failure in the water treatment process during the reporting period of July 1, 2013 through July 31, 2013 the Assumption Parish Waterworks District No. 1 (APWW) water supply violated the maximum contaminate level of Coliform bac-teria as set forth in the State and Federal Primary Drinking Water Regulations [Part XII of the Louisiana State Sanitary Code (LAC 51:XII)]. APWW has taken the following corrective actions to alleviate this failure: 1) We are chlorinating and fl ush-ing the water system routinely, 2) We have contracted with a consultant to assist in investigating and remediating the cause of this failure, 3) We have embarked upon a $4 million plant upgrade that will enhance the water treatment process, and 4) We are consulting with our chemical suppliers to ensure that our equipment is functioning properly.

You do not need to boil your water or take other corrective actions. However, if you have specifi c health concerns, consult your doctor.

People with severely compromised immune systems, infants, and some elderly may be at increased risk. These people should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers. General guidelines on ways to lessen the risk of infection by microbes are available from EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-(800)-426-4791.

This is not an emergency. If it had been you would have been notifi ed immediately. Total Coliform bacteria are generally not harmful themselves. Coliforms are bacte-ria that are naturally present in the environment and are used as an indicator that other, potentially-harmful, bacteria may be present. Coliforms were found in more samples that allowed and this was a warning of potential problems.

Usually, coliforms are a sign that there could be a problem with the treatment or distribution system (pipes). Whenever we detect Coliform bacteria in any sample, we do follow-up testing to see if other bacteria of greater concern, such as fecal Coliform or E. coli, are present. We did not fi nd any of these bacteria in our subsequent testing. If we had, we would have notifi ed you immediately.

Please share this information with all the other people who drink this water, espe-cially those who may not have received this notice directly (for example, people in apartments, nursing homes, schools, and businesses). You can do this by posting this notice in a public place or distributing copies by hand of mail. If you need any additional information please contact the B.J. Francis, APWW General Manger at 985-369-6156.

ASSUMPTION PARISH SCHOOL BOARDNOTICE

The Assumption Parish School Board is now accepting applications for the follow-ing position:

CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM FIELD MANAGER

Requirements for this position:

A minimum of 1 year as a Child Nutrition cafeteria manager, High school diploma or GED, Degree in Dietetics or Food and Nutrition related fi eld preferred but years of experience may be substituted, Computer Skills, Excellent written verbal com-

munications skills, and Aptitude for detail

Send Resume’ to: Assumption Parish School Board F. Tootie Hock, H. R. Director 4901 Hwy 308 Napoleonville, LA 70390 Or at thock@assumptionschools.com

DEADLINE: 12:00 pm Thursday, Thursday, September 26, 2013.

The Assumption Parish School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in any of its programs, activities, admission, or employment practices as required by Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, and Title II. Inquires concerning this policy may be referred to Mrs. Marsha Medine. (985-369-7251).

Publish week of: September 8, 2013 September 15, 2013 September 22, 2013

Policy and Procedurea) On motion of Ms. Ourso, seconded by Mr. Howell, the Board approved the 2013-2014 Pupil Progression Plan with the following vote taken:YEAS: Lewis, Dugas, Ourso, Barras, Howell, BeckNAYS: MeyerABSENT: Washington, Fletcher-MickensABSTAIN: Noneb) On motion of Mr. Lewis, seconded by Ms. Dugas and unanimously carried the Board approved to hold the September 18th meeting at Bayou L’Ourse Primary, the November 20th meeting at Pierre Part Middle, and the December 18th meeting at Napoleonville Middle School. c) The board received proposed School Board Meeting dates for 2014.d) On motion of Ms. Ourso, seconded by Mr. Howell and unanimously carried the Board authorized the Superintendent to schedule a Finance Committee Meeting and a Maintenance Committee Meeting on Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 6:00 pm.

Budgeta) The Board received the July, 2013 Sales Tax Report. Total returns processed are 1251; 807 monthly, 29 quarterly, 411 irregular, and 4 semi-annuals. Total number of online fi lers are 613. Total receipts of the July, 2013 collections are $2,189,953.31; a 124% increase of $1,213,245.77. The school board received $1,094,975.10; 124% increase of $606,623.10. The 92 Bond Issue Fund received $218,995.87, a 124% increase of $121,324.44. The delinquent rate for the month of July, 2013 is 10%. Industries experiencing a decrease are Apparel, General Merchandise, Contractor, Miscellaneous. Audit revenues for the month July, 2013 are $1,106,445.60 comparable to $8,835.90 for July, 2012. Auto sales for the month of July, 2013 are $188,678.30 comparable to $178,588.74 for July, 2012. b) On motion of Mr. Howell seconded by Ms. Dugas and unanimously carried the board approved the declaration of surplus equipment at NPS. Surplus Equipment: 6 galvanized “A” frame swing sets.

Personnel a) On motion of Ms. Ourso, seconded by Mr. Lewis and unanimously carried the board authorized the Superintendent to advertise for a CNP Field Manager.

AdjournmentBy unanimous consent the Board adjourned at 8:35 p.m.

Executive SessionSuperintendent’s evaluation tabled. ______________________________ _____________________________Andrea Barras, President Earl T. Martinez, Superintendent Secretary-Treasurer

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Republican activists are tak-ing solace in success stories by governors and legislatures in GOP-leaning states as their party tries to regroup after the disappointments of a bruis-ing presidential contest and a stalled agenda in Washington.

Here's what fi red up Wash-ington-weary GOP stalwarts at a weekend conference of conservatives in this perennial swing state: pension overhauls in Wisconsin, tax cuts in Indi-ana and labor losses in Michi-gan.

Some of the biggest ap-plause was reserved for gov-ernors who did not attend the event. The mere mention of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walk-er, a tea-party favorite who won national attention for his battles with organized labor, prompted thunderous cheers. That was despite a speaking card full of potential presi-dential hopefuls, including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

Several GOP contenders, including Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, used their ap-pearances at the Americans for Prosperity summit to posi-tion themselves as Washington outsiders. While that strategy is hardly new, the appeals play to a Republican base starved for the kind of victories that gridlocked Washington has been unable to deliver.

"All roads lead back to the states," Perry said, as more than 1,000 activists roared their approval Friday. "I don't think the American people want to look to Washington, D.C. to solve the problems of the day. Washington D.C. is creating the problems of the day."

That set up an interesting dynamic, as Rubio was heck-led for his support of immi-gration reform, his signature legislative issue. Attendees re-peatedly interrupted him with cries of "No amnesty!"

For his part, Cruz won no less than four standing ova-tions Saturday by panning the immigration bill, disparag-ing Congress, and promoting efforts to defund President Barack Obama's health care law.

As he fi nished his remarks, the crowd stood and chanted "Run! Ted! Run!"

The anti-Washington mood is likely to harden this fall as Congress faces deadlines to pass a budget or face a government shutdown. This week, Republicans negoti-ating with the White House said there was "no common ground" with the Obama ad-ministration, which wants to couple spending cuts with tax increases.

Both sides are bracing for a confrontation.

Immigration overhaul legis-lation is also in limbo after the Democratic-led Senate passed a far-reaching bill that in-cludes a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants al-ready in the country illegally. A majority of House Republi-cans remain opposed to such a provision, creating a poten-tially unbridgeable divide.

"It's not working from the top down, obviously," said Andre Adamski, a 47-year-old engineer from Lawrenceville, Ga.

On Friday, he was headed to a workshop on local tax over-hauls while his wife, Mary, was primed for a social me-

dia boot camp. Self-described tea party activists who volun-teered for Mitt Romney's cam-paign, both said they were re-focusing their efforts on state politics.

The conference hall was fi lled with patriotic garb, Na-tional Rifl e Association t-shirts and anti-Obama memorabilia, including a book entitled "The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide." Some attendees said they were slowly returning to politics after the sting of last year's presidential loss.

"I didn't turn a TV on for months," said Greg Gormley, a 49-year-old sales director from Charleston, S.C. "This is my way to man up and see what I can do, whatever that is."

The weekend conference, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, was aimed in part at motivating the advo-cacy group's foot soldiers at a growing number of state affi liates, which have played prominent roles in tax, educa-tion and gun-control debates across the country. Backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, the group spent $190 million on conservative causes in the past election cycle.

"I know things are diffi cult in D.C.," Tim Phillips, the group's president, told activ-ists. "It can get frustrating, you can get down and depressed sometimes. But I tell you, do what we do — get the heck out of Washington and get out to states."

Indeed, much of the sum-mit's panels focused on grass-roots organizing and local ac-tion.

At a session on the federal health care law, panelists dis-missed Washington-led efforts by Rubio and others to defund "Obamacare," and instead urged activists to fi ght at the state level to oppose one of the law's key provisions: expand-ing Medicaid, the federal and state program for poor people.

"The Medicaid fi ght is where we can make a differ-ence," said Avik Roy, of the conservative Manhattan Insti-tute.

Nearly half the states have opted out of the expansion, and organizers urged activ-ists to keep pressure on GOP leaders, including Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who was elected in 2010 with tea party support but now favors expanding Medicaid.

When speakers addressed Washington they used it as a symbol of government run amok.

Rubio and Cruz won stand-ing ovations for their pledges to vote against a budget that includes funding for Obama's health care law.

Cruz scored perhaps the biggest applause line of the weekend when he called for the abolishment of the IRS.

Jindal said he was "angry this government is using its power — the IRS, the NSA, the Department of Justice — to go after innocent, law abid-ing Americans." He brought the crowd to its feet with the declaration that "there is a rebellion brewing in these states."

Still, for now, conference organizers told activists to take solace in local victories.

"We're going to take back Washington too," Phillips said, "we're just going to need a little more time."

Republican activists cheered by state successes

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Buds&

BloomsLINDA COOKE

The Stapelia by another name is the Carrion Flower and there is a good reason for the latter name. The fl ower smells like some-thing dead, and the fl ies love it. Fortunately, you only notice the bad smell when you actually sniff the plant. It doesn’t give off an odor into the surround-ing area.

Stapelia has no leaves—

just the fl owers on succu-lent stems and the fl owers can be 6 inches across or more. It’s quite a beautiful blossom, just don’t put your

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BY LONNY CAVALIERSports Writer

The Assumption Mus-tangs entered Friday night’s game at Donald-sonville with high hopes after a good week of practice coming off of a Jamboree loss, but things

went downhill for As-sumption, heading into a tough schedule.

The two teams battled through turnovers for much of the first quarter, and neither team could generate any offense un-til Assumption’s Deron

Mustangs suffer tough loss to Donaldsonville, 24-21Williams came in early in the second quarter on the heels of a fumbled punt snap by the Tigers. The punter fumbled the snap and Clay Cooley tackled the punter at the Donald-sonville 4.

The Ponies were guilty of a dead ball personal foul but they got the ball at the Tiger 19.

Five plays later Wil-liams hit pay dirt around the left end to put As-sumption up 7-0 follow-ing Austin Schatzle’s point after with 10:01 to play the half.

Assumption kicked and the Tigers returned it to midfield but were penal-ized back to the 35.

Donaldsonville went after Assumption’s smaller defensive backs and made the Mustangs pay.

The Tigers got within one on the ensuing drive, courtesy of a 27-yard touchdown pass.

The Tigers added a 20-yard reception before half to take a 12-7 lead.

Donaldsonville pad-ded their lead 18-7 when they got the pick six off of Deron Williams and returned it 90 yards for the score.

Assumption added a pair of touchdowns on runs of 5 yards by Don-trez Wiggins and a 6-yard toss from Deron Williams to Joshua Brown.

The Tigers also added a touchdown pass.

For the Mustangs, Dontrez Wiggins carried 24 times for 87 yards.

Deron Williams was 9-of-19 for 83 yards, one touchdown and two in-terceptions. The Ponies gained 83 yards on nine receptions.

Defensively, Assump-tions front did a good job allowing Donaldson-ville a net 71 yards on the ground. Clay Cooley and Regis Lang led all tacklers with seven each. Cooley and Austin Hood each had blocked kicks.

Devin Hadrick had a fumble recovery.

Assumption’s second-ary surrendered a net 178 yards passing, but most of it on jump balls.

All in all, a tough out-ing for the Mustangs as they return home to face St. Martinville’s spread offense of next Friday.

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The Assumption High Lady Mustang Volleyball team began its season with a 25-27, 25-20, 25-15, 25-8 victory over the Morgan City Lady Tigers.

Caroline Gonzales led Assumption with six aces and seven digs. Team-mate Claire Landry de-livered 15 assists, fired seven aces and had seven digs. Sunni Rae Blanchard ended with 11 assists and Yasmin Jacobs led the team with 14 digs.

Kevrevion Ward had 11

digs and Emily Landry and Trinity Blanchard each had five digs apiece for the Lady Mustangs.

Assumption hosted its annual Bayou Classic and captured a 25-19 25-16 victory over Thibodaux. In the first game the con-test had 10 ties and seven lead changes. The Lady Mustangs led 6-3 when Hannah Brister deliv-ered a pair of service aces and teammate Han-nah Diggs had a spike to score a point. However, Thibodaux rallied with three kills from Kev-

Lady Mustangs begins season with winsonshae Walters and the Lady Tigers eventually moved ahead with a 19-17 advantage.

Assumption scored eight consecutive points as Claire Landry led the charge with two service aces to seal the 25-19 win.

In the second game, the Lady Mustangs moved out to a 7-4 lead with Kevreion Ward leading the way with consecutive kills. Thibodaux again rallied back by scoring five of the next six points to take a 9-8 advantage.

Assumption answered with five straight points

going on a 17-7 run. Trin-ity Blanchard sparked the comeback with two kills and three digs.

Claire Landry led the Lady Mustangs with four aces and eight assists.

Assumption captured a 15-25, 25-12, 15-6 victory over Berwick in the next round. Ward and Landry eac had eight kills apiece. Caroline Gonzales and Brooke Daigle each had three aces. Claire Landry finished with 10 assists and 11 digs. Yasmin Ja-cobs also had nine digs for the Lady Mustangs.

The remaining games Assumption played in the Recreation board merges

Phase 4 and 5 funds BY LINDA COOKEReporter

The Assumption Parish Recreation District No. 2 signed an agreement with the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to merge Phase 4 and 5 monies of about $120,000.

With some money from Phase 4 not spent, and the next project to cost more, combining the funds made it easier for fi ling invoices with DNR, board member Chad Guillot said.

In other business, the board discussed moving the maintenance shed at Veter-ans Park to a position closer to the concession building but the fi re chief would fi rst have to be consulted if such a move might illegally block a current drive.

Sun Electric could not install poles and netting at

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In maintenance, holes de-veloping around catch basins in several places in Veterans Park will have to be fi xed. A bee nest was removed from the Belle River concession stand by an exterminator. Two water coolers at Vet-erans Park are not working properly. The board pur-chased a tractor for $l6,500 along with an l8-foot trailer for $2,100 and an attach-ment for $1,200.

Veterans Park was used by Pierre Part Middle School for a scrimmage against Ascen-sion Catholic. A large crowd attended suggesting this type of event might occur again.

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THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — A Thibodaux man ac-cused of beheading his dis-abled 7-year-old son is out of a state mental hospital and in the Lafourche Parish jail.

Another sanity hearing for Jeremiah Lee Wright will be scheduled at a Sept. 16 status hearing, defense attorney Kerry Cuccia said Wednesday.

Wright is charged with

fi rst-degree murder in the death of Jori Lirette, who had little speech and need-ed round-the-clock care. The boy was killed and dismembered on Aug. 14, 2011, and his head left in

the yard of the house where Wright lived with the boy's mother.

Doctors at the state men-tal hospital in Jackson think Wright is competent to stand trial for fi rst-degree

murder, said Cuccia.But it's up to a judge to

decide, Cuccia said."A year ago, the hospital

was the opinion that he was competent," Cuccia said. "After the judge heard all

Disabled boy beheaded: Sanity hearing to be set the evidence, he disagreed."

Court documents fi led by prosecutors last summer quoted doctors at the foren-sic mental hospital as re-porting that Wright was ex-aggerating illness to avoid trial.

Wright sent him back to the hospital in February, af-ter a six-day hearing during which at least a dozen in-vestigators and experts tes-tifi ed that Wright told them Jori was a robot or CPR dummy put into his home as a government experiment to teach him about life.

District Attorney Cam Morvant told WDSU-TV that prosecutors plan to move forward aggressively with the case, but he would not say whether he will seek the death penalty.

He did not immediately answer a request for com-ment from The Associated Press.

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MORGAN CITY — U.S. Sen. David Vitter told Mor-gan City public offi cials and residents that he is working to pass a bill through Congress that would help with fl ood protection and dredging con-cerns in the area.

The St. Mary Parish Cham-

ber of Commerce held a round-table discussion Tuesday with Vitter, chamber members and public offi cials at Teche Re-gional Medical Center.

Vitter is working on the Water Resources Develop-ment Act bill that has already passed the Senate and is hope-

ful the “bi-partisan” bill will pass the House this fall, he said.

The bill deals with all of the U.S. Army Corps of En-gineers’ funding priorities in-cluding the full authorization of the Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Project,

which is important for fl ood protection in the region, Vitter said.

The bill reforms the corps and allows state and local entities to be the lead project manager in certain cases rath-er than the corps, he said.

Vitter is the top-ranking

Republican on the Senate En-vironment and Public Works committee, which allowed him to draft the bill. The bill would also put monetary pen-alties on the corps when it misses deadlines, Vitter said. The bill would reform the Har-bor Maintenance Trust Fund,

Vitter speaks before St. Mary Parish Chamber of Commerce which is supposed to be a trust fund for dredging important harbors and rivers, Vitter said.

Morgan City Mayor Frank “Boo” Grizzaffi told Vitter one of the area’s biggest issues is getting the Atchafalaya Bar Channel dredged to its man-dated 20-foot depth so oilfi eld businesses are able to transport items to the Gulf of Mexico.

Vitter said the water re-sources bill funding would free up the corps’ budget for dredging work, he said. The need for dredging is only get-ting greater with the expansion of the Panama Canal that will bring more traffi c and bigger ships, Vitter said.

Morgan City Harbor and Terminal District Executive Director Raymond “Mac” Wade said the port is a viable resource for the region, and de-spite McDermott’s announce-ment that it is relocating its Amelia yard to Mexico, many shipyards are still located in the area.

Wade said local offi cials are trying to emphasize to the fed-eral government that there is much more industry here than just McDermott.

Wade said the port is funded with an ad valorem tax, and its revenues has more than dou-bled in the past few years.

The port needs to get fund-ing for dredging of the channel because many businesses de-pend on it, Wade said.

Vitter said he will continue to make it clear to federal offi -cials the port is still active and in need of dredging funding.

Vitter said Louisiana faces a huge challenge with the na-tional fl ood insurance pro-gram, and he is working to ensure that unaffordable pre-mium increases do not take place. Those unaffordable in-creases could put people out of their homes, and completely disrupt the real estate market, Vitter said.

Vitter said a broad coalition of organizations and offi cials have made progress over the last three months toward fi ght-ing those unaffordable increas-es.

The coalition needs to make sure that Federal Emergency Management Agency provides accurate maps, which FEMA is not doing right now, Vitter said. FEMA also needs to ac-count for fl ood control features in specifi c areas, he said.

Congress also needs to act to make sure coastal Louisiana residents can avoid those un-affordable increases, he said. Vitter mentioned the bill intro-duced by U.S. Rep. Bill Cas-sidy, R-Baton Rouge, which passed the House, to keep the grandfather status for proper-ties that have been grandfa-thered in to current fl ood insur-ance rates, Vitter said.

Concerning a possible U.S. strike on Syria, Vitter is “cyni-cal with a lot of questions about what we can accomplish and the pros and cons” with a U.S. attack in Syria, he said. Vitter said he is defi nitely lean-ing toward voting “no” on a U.S. strike on Syria.

Vitter was “pleasantly sur-prised” and “fl oored” that President Barack Obama de-cided to seek Congressional approval before making a deci-sion to launch a strike on Syr-ia, he said.

“I think that’s right. I think it’s constitutional. I think it’s required. I’m just surprised he’s doing it,” Vitter said.

Vitter is concerned about what, if anything, the U.S. would accomplish through an attack on Syria. Vitter said he assumes Obama is talking about a limited strike from the air.

The U.S. would not be able to get control of the chemical weapons that way so “basi-cally it’s sort of a punitive shot across the bow.”

Vitter questions what posi-tive impact an air strike could have, he said.

Vitter said he was to return today to Washington, D.C., for a hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a group of Loui-siana abortion providers lack the standing to chal-lenge part of a 1997 law that can make them liable for damage caused by an abor-tion procedure and denies them access to a state-run

fund for paying malpractice judgments.

A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday overturned a ruling last year by U.S. District Judge Hel-en "Ginger" Berrigan, who said Louisiana cannot en-force the 1997 law.

William Rittenberg, a lawyer for Hope Medical Group for Women and two physicians who performed abortions there, told The Times-Picayune that they hadn't decided whether to seek a rehearing by the 5th Circuit or ask the U.S. Su-preme Court to review the

case."We disagree," he said of

the decision, "but they're the court and we're not."

Berrigan ruled that the law is unconstitutionally vague and would impose an undue burden on any wom-an who wanted an abortion.

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Which is better apples or oranges? What is

your opinion?

My Aunt Betty is famous for her

apple pie recipe. She has won

many ______________ at fairs

and competitions.

This year, she decided to make

some changes to her _________

recipe. She began by adding a

cup of _______________ and a

teaspoon of ___________ juice.

Next, she mixed in a blend of

sugar and _____________ .

Finally, she put in a half cube of

__________ .

Uncle Lou was the first to _____

her new creation. He said it

needed a little more _________ ,

but other than that, it was great.

The judges at the county fair

disagreed, however. They

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and ____________ . The blue

ribbon went to Ms. Eva Gala and

her pie made with ___________

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Aunt Betty was disappointed, but

she now wants to _________ a

pie made with fresh __________

next year. Her secret ingredient is

___________ ____________

and I think the judges will like

that a lot. I am sure she will have

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her collection and once again be

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Have a friend give you NOUNS, ADJECTIVES and VERBS. Then read

the silly story aloud. Prepare for big laughs!

Standards Link: Language Arts: Use nouns, adjectives and verbs correctly.

The noun variety means an assortment of things belonging to the

same group.

This week’s word:VARIETY

Try to use the word variety in a sentence today when talking

with your friends and family members.

The market had a wide variety of vegetables.

Andy and Alice aregathering a harvestof words that begin

with the letter A. How many can you find on

the front page of today’s newspaper?

How many apples can you

find on this page in 60 seconds?

Now have a friend try. Who

found the most?

Find the words in the puzzle. Then look for each word in this week’s Kid Scoop stories and activities.

Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

Standards Link: Number Base Ten: Solve problems with addition.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions.

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The average American eats about pounds of fresh apples each year.

There are about , varieties of apples grown in the United States.

Johnny Appleseed spent years planting apple seeds in the American wilderness.

Here’s a healthy snack you can make with a parent.

Wash apples. You can use red or green

apples.

Slice apples into thin

sticks. Don’t remove the

peel.

Use peanut butter, yogurt or hummus as

your dip.

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sticks with sticks of your

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Whistle or music

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Place a box, with an “apple” on top, between each pair of players.

Get the game started by blowing a whistle or starting some music.

At that moment, players try to grab the “apple” before their partner.

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Apples are best eaten with the peel,

because that is where most of the fiber and

antioxidants are found.

The fiber from apple peel

(sometimes called roughage)

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system healthy. And antioxidants

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and disease.

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It's the perfect talking point for Jindal on national TV talk shows and on the editorial pages of national newspapers as he works to keep up his profile for what appears to be a pos-sible 2016 bid for the GOP presidential nomination.

But this time, Jindal doesn't have to take heat for meddling in issues that don't affect Louisiana.

Instead, Democrat Pres-ident Barack Obama's ad-ministration has come to his home turf, so Jindal can be engaged in his home state while also using the issue as a springboard for national attention.

The lawsuit also may coalesce support from conservatives for a Repub-lican leader who can frame the action as big-govern-ment, Democrat meddling in local affairs.

The Justice Depart-ment is asking a federal judge in New Orleans to bar the state from award-ing future school vouch-ers to students who other-wise would attend public schools under federal de-segregation orders, at least until the state gets approv-al from the federal judge overseeing school district

desegregation cases.Louisiana has 34 school

districts under federal de-segregation orders that seek equal treatment and funding for all students in areas where there was evidence of racial dis-crimination decades ago. Vouchers have been given to students in 22 of those districts, according to the Justice Department's law-suit.

The Obama adminis-tration argues that the vouchers have harmed the desegregation progress in at least 13 districts so far, skewing racial demo-graphics of schools. The lawsuit charges the situ-ation could worsen as the Jindal-backed, state-fund-ed voucher program ex-pands.

"The state's continued issuance of vouchers with-out proper regard for exist-ing district desegregation orders or consent from appropriate federal courts impedes these school dis-tricts' desegregation ef-forts, and deprives the students of their right to a desegregated educational experience," the lawsuit says.

Jindal calls the lawsuit an attempt by Attorney General Eric Holder to force children from low-income families back into failing schools to appease public school teacher unions that oppose vouch-ers as siphoning dollars from their schools.

"It's yet another ex-

ample of the Obama ad-ministration carrying the water of their government union allies at the expense of Louisiana parents and their children who are only seeking an opportunity to achieve the American dream," Jindal said in a re-cent statement.

The lawsuit has been an attention-grabbing case for Jindal.

The governor has slammed the Obama ad-ministration about the law-suit on Fox News shows, on NBC's "Meet the Press," on the Washington Post editorial page and in a speech in Florida to the conservative group Ameri-cans for Prosperity.

He's said the lawsuit would deny equal opportu-nities in education to Lou-isiana's children, and he's touted the voucher pro-gram he pushed to create, which is one of the largest in the nation.

"This happens when you get a federal govern-ment so big, so intrusive, so powerful. This hap-pens when you've got a president who trusts the government more than he trusts the American people to live their lives," Jindal said in his Florida speech.

Taxpayer-financed tu-ition through Louisiana's voucher program is avail-able to students from low- to moderate-income fami-lies who otherwise would attend public schools grad-ed C, D or F — signifying mediocrity or failing status

Analysis: DOJ lawsuit gives Jindal new attention in the state's academic per-formance rating system.

About 8,000 students are attending private or paro-chial schools in the current school year through the voucher program, costing the state an estimated $45 million this budget year.

"Despite the fact that 90 percent of students in

the program are minori-ties and 100 percent of students are from low-in-come families, the presi-dent and attorney general are trying to deny equal opportunity to these chil-dren by using rules that were set up to prevent discrimination. It's back-wards and immoral," the

governor said.Whether Jindal is inter-

ested in becoming a pres-idential candidate or just continuing in a national role beyond his term as governor, the Obama ad-ministration may have handed him a tailor-made point of outrage to rally Republican support.

Lake Bash Chairman Scott Metrejean and Co-chairman Belinda McGui-gen, along with the rest of the committee and vol-unteers from the Spunky Monkey and 2013 Lake Jam Bash fundraisers, donated a

check of $14,046.65 to the American Cancer Society for Assumption Parish’s Re-lay for Life.

This puts Assumption Parish’s Relay for Life’s to-tal at $82,986.65.

“Thanks to everyone for

their time donated to the cause that is so dear to our hearts. Remember cancer has no age limit. We must continue fi ghting until the cure is found,” said As-sumption Parish Relay for Life Chairman Joann Leal.

Front row: American Cancer Society Representative Lindsay Turner, Lake Jam Bash Co-chairman Belinda McGuigen, Lake Jam Bash Chairman Scott Metrejean and Assumption Par-ish Relay for Life Chairman Joann Leal.Second row: Rusty Giroir, Jason Giroir, and Toni Otts.Third row – Byron Rivere, Bonnie Giroir, Belinda Rivere, and Kammie Aucoin.

Photo by SUE HEBERT

Volunteers raise over $14,000 for Relay for Life