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Posted May 2013
Eric Pawlowski gets his hands dirty at work, and could not be happier about it. The Food Bank of Central Louisiana recently hired him to serve as the new Keller Enterprises director of the Good Food Project. For the last month, Pawlowski has been digging in the dirt and working hard in the community garden [...]
Continue ReadingPosted April 2013
In high school, Anthony Hargrove aspired to become an entertainer, and that dream has been fulfilled in his deejay persona Tony Groove, who has been hailed as Cenla’s “most popular deejay.” “I was always called Tony, and you drop the ‘Har’ in my last name, and add an ‘O’ and you have Groove,” laughs [...]
Continue ReadingPosted January 2013
Louisiana State Representative Lance Harris and his wife, Leetha, hope to spark a new wave of volunteerism in Central Louisiana. The couple, residents of Alexandria, are strong proponents in “giving back” to the community, and look for ways to return the blessings they have received in their lives. “Volunteering is a gift you can give [...]
Continue ReadingPosted October 2012
Georgia McCain, an author of 10 published books, recalls the day she felt the Lord Jesus lead her to start writing. “I was standing in the kitchen, and God asked me, ‘What is that in your hand?’” McCain remembers, and answered, “‘Only a pen, Lord.’ Then He asked me if I would use the pen [...]
Continue ReadingPosted September 2012
Southern soul sounds now broadcast throughout Cenla Louisiana after Jerry Williams recently purchased two FM radio stations in Alexandria and changed their programming. Rhythm and blues play on the newly formatted KMXH Mix 93.9 FM radio station, while hip-hop urban music rides the airwaves from the newly formatted KBCE Jamz 102.3 FM. Music rolls [...]
Continue ReadingPosted August 2012
The Louisiana National Guard welcomed its first female general officer during a promotion ceremony at the Jackson Barracks Museum in New Orleans, July 27th. Col. Joanne F. Sheridan, the LANG’s assistant adjutant general-Army, was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and “pinned” the one-star insignia on her uniform. “I’m proud of the fact [...]
Continue ReadingPosted July 2012
When James Marien was a child growing up on a farm in Alexandria, he played at being a police officer, a fireman and a superhero; and always knew he wanted a job one day that would “make a difference.” He is living his dream today by serving the public as a firefighter, sheriff’s deputy and [...]
Continue ReadingPosted May 2012
John Carson, Jr., a senior at Pineville High School, has received and accepted an appointment to United States Military Academy at West Point to begin July2, 2012. In his four years at Pineville High School, Carson has been an outstanding student, an academic letter winner and active member of the JROTC program. John will graduate [...]
Continue ReadingPosted April 2012
Brigadier General Clarence K.K. Chinn believes he and Val, his wife, have found a hometown paradise in the Louisiana bayous and byways of Fort Polk. Chinn, who became the commanding general of the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk in January 2011, says the area residents have welcomed him and his family and made [...]
Continue ReadingPosted February 2012
It was an emotional reunion this week as the three “Good Samaritan” Procter & Gamble employees tearfully hugged the young man they had helped rescue months earlier. “When I saw Cody walk toward us, I knew I was looking at a miracle,” Irene Beard, sporting a big grin, says about the survivor of an automobile [...]
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