The Leesville Daily Leader from Leesville, Louisiana (2024)

July 12, 2005

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The Leesville Daily Leaderi

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Leesville, Louisiana

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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

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2

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2 Leesville Daily Leader Tuesday July 12 2005 TUESDAY OBITUARIES Continued from page 1 INSURGENTS LOTTERY xl 10 OrangeTX (12 Hour from Lake Charles) Exit 978 (T 9 9 9) ts MAKE RESERVATIONS TODAY! Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance for showers and thunderstorms Highs near 95 missions to the paper letters and columns are subject to editing for length style taste and legal considerations man dressed in civilian clothes detonated two explosive laden belts among a crowd INTERNET Web Page General ManagerEditor Brian Trahan Circulation Manager Judy Olandese Display Advertising To purchase a display advertisem*nt or ask about our deadlines contact any ad vertising representative between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm Monday through riday at 337 239 3444 the results of an investigation The US defended its detention of Kar saying offi cials followed procedures The bloodiest attack Sunday occurred in Baghdad when a VERNON PARISH ORECAST The Leesville Daily Leader (LISPS 3090800) is published daily except Monday Saturday Christmas Day ENTRANCE ROAD and responsibility for mainte nance of the road once referred to as or Entrance Road This easem*nt extended from La Hwy 171 to ort Polk and for many years our soldiers were responsible for trash detail and lawn maintenance along the road and its shoulders That all changed in May 2003 when an agreement was struck between ort Polk the Vernon Parish Department the Vernon Parish Policy Jury which governs the vicinity of Entrance Road The agreement passed responsibility for trash clean up and grass maintenance for Entrance Road which extends from ort main access control point to La Hwy 17 to a partnership of the Vernon Parish Police Jury and the Vernon Parish Prison system (through the office) Newspaper Delivery Problem? 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We hope not but if it happens please help us correct the situation or redelivery or correction for next day delivery please call 337 239 3444 Monday through ri day 8 am 11 am and Sunday from 9 11 am New Years by News Leader Inc 206 Texas St Leesville La 71446 337 239 3444 Periodicals postage paid at Leesville La 71496 0619 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to PO Box 619 Leesville La 71496 0619 Corrections The Leesville Daily Leader strives for ac curacy and fairness Readers who be lieve a story or headline is inaccurate or misleading should call the editor The VPSO and the police will continue to coordi nate with each other to ensure trash clean up is conducted prior to grass cutting as fre quently as necessary by prison inmates Grass maintenance is resourced by the Vernon Parish Police Jury The Joint Readiness Training Center and ort Polk retains responsibility for phys ical repairs of Entrance Road such as filling in potholes This continuing agreement has been a great boon to our Soldiers freeing them up to concentrate on the Global War on Terror and ort Polk trans formation hope to continue to enhance the relations and look forward to working with them in the future We appreciate ort Polk and what they mean to our community Craft said inception were both teachers at John McDonogh wanted to link commu nity based knowledge with the stories the students were writ ing on their Breunlin said wanted them to talk to their family and neighbors and tap into that community With that in mind Breunlin and Himelstein designed a program that capi talized on both of their strengths Breunlin who is cur rently an adjunct instructor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans has a strong background in research and urban anthropology while Himelstein who has written two books of a Punk Rock and the Hell Am I Doing Here: The 100 Shirt is well versed in the ways of literature and publishing By creating a program that asked students to write books about their community they fostered writers while having the students document the cul ture of their community Although Breunlin and Himelstein set high standards for the work they found themselves overwhelmed by the quality of the finished books not exaggerating when I say their books are liter ature I expecting that I was just expecting a cool pro Himelstein said 8 delegation to vote against a proposed trade agree ment with Central American countries US Rep Charlie Melancon Napoleonville is among those critics who say that the Central America ree Trade Agreement would kill sugar industry The agreement already has passed the US Senate and the House must vote on the proposal before January Melancon said if the vote was held today CATA would be defeated by 30 or so votes Melancon a former president of the American Continued from page 1 cleared him of suspicion He was released Sunday am very happy to be Kar told The New York Times family wants me home soon and be very happy to talk to everybody as soon as I get out of Kar described his 54 days in solitary confinement as frus trating Housed in a cell block that included top members of Saddam regime he received little information about his case hold anything against them for holding he told the Los Angeles Times I hold against them is they put us in a cell and forgot Iranian cameraman also was released from US custody Sunday but the mili tary said it would continue to hold their taxi driver pending g'Wi'im Leesville HISTORY TODAY JULY 12 2005 Today's Birthdays: Artist Andrew Wyeth is SB Movie director Monte Hellman is 73 Pianist Van Dibum is 71 Comedian Bill Cosby is 68 Soger musician Christine McVie is 62 Actress Denise Nicholas is 61 Singer songwriter Butch Hanco*ck is 60 itness guru Richard Simmons is 57 Actor Jay Thomas is 57 Singer Walter Egan is 57 Actress Cheryl Ladd is 54 Country singer Julie Miller is 49 Gospel singer Sandi Patty is 49 Actress Mel Hams is 48 Actor Buddy oster is 48 Rock guitarist Dan Murphy (Soul Asylum) is 43 Rock singer Robin Wilson is 40 Actress Lisa Nicole Carson is 36 Olympic gold medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi is 34 Country singer Shannon Lawson is 32 Rapper Magoo is 32 Rhythm and blues singer Tracie Spencer is 29 Actor Topher Grace is 27 Actress Michelle Rodnguez is 27 Actor Enk Per Sullivan is 14 riday Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance for showers and thunderstorms Highs in the lower 90s Low near 72 LeRoy Blackmon uneral services for LeRoy Blackmon 87 of Merrwille will be held at 10 am today July 12 2005 at the Myers Colonial uneral Home of DeRidder with Rev JB Kimball officiating Interment will follow in the Hinson Cemetery in the Knight community under the direction of Myers Colonial uneral Home Inc of DeRidder Visitation began on Monday July 11 and will continue today July 12 until 10 am LeRoy lived in the Junction Community all of his life He was a member of Mount Carmel Baptist Church of the Knight Community LeRoy was an avid sportsman where he enjoyed hunt ing and fishing He is survived by one son Roy Lee Blackmon of Burr erry two daughters Sherry Craft of DeRidder and Nita Hennigan of Merryville eight grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren Thursday Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance for showers and thunderstorms Highs near 92 Bettina Johnson uneral services for Bettina A Johnson 61 of DeRidder will be held at 4 pm Wednesday July 13 2005 in Labby Memorial uneral Home Chapel in DeRidder with Rev Ed Tilley Officiating Burial will follow in Smyrna Cemetery near Sugartown under the direction of Labby Memorial uneral Home in DeRidder Visitation will be held from 4 pm until 9 pm today July 12 and from 9 am until the time of service in the uneral Home on Wednesday Mrs Johnson died Saturday July 9 in Rosepine Retirement and Rehab Center in Rosepine Mrs Johnson ws bom in Bushnell la and had also resided in Jacksonville la She had lived in DeRidder since 1981 She was a homemaker and a member of the irst Assembly of God Church in DeRidder She is survived by her husband Billy Johnson of DeRidder one son Robert Johnson of Leesville one daughter Tina Marie Gamboa of Jacksonville la one brother Gary Allen of Albuquerque NM one sister Sylvia Gail Vander of Bryceville la and two grandchildren Classified Advertising To purchase a classified advertisem*nt or ask about one call between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm Monday through riday at 337 239 3444 Editorial Readers with story or photo ideas tips criticisms or suggestions on coverage are welcome to call the editor or staff members from 9 am to 6 pm Monday through riday at 337 239 3444 All sub 'LIVE BIG GATORS Swamp Tours amily un Birthday Parties Great ishing Hook Ups Group Rales Buses Welcome wvtamericanboahcom (9 4 9) PICK 4 Wednesday Night Partly cloudy and humid with lows in the lower to mid 70s No chance for rain wrote books that are worthy of being on every bookshelf in the world and should be on bookshelf in New Himelstein alone in praising the work The Neighborhood Story Project has already garnered national attention including that of Weekly Accounts of growing up in an urban environment have long been amainstay in the literary world But what distinguishes the books in The Neighborhood Story Project is their immedia cy Many of the classics in the genre such as Richard and Louis My Life in New were written decades after the events they recount and are affected by the subsequent experi ences and the challenge of remembering just how events unfolded But because the McDonogh students wrote about the trials of adolescence and the challenges of living in the inner city as they hap pened they have been able to produce something truly spe cial accounts of their lives as they see them now rather than they will remember them in the future Breunlin and Himelstein drew on a variety of sources for inspiration They looked into 826 Valencia writer and editor Dave writing outreach program based in San rancisco and New York and had the students read an account of life in inner city Chicago written by two teens in conjunction with a National Public Radio produc er GONZALES A Louisiana congressman Sugar Cane League said passage of CATA is telling residents to push their congressional means that Central American countries which can produce sugar much cheaper than American producers because of a lack of laws regulating child labor could flood the sugar market with 15 million pounds of sugar a year The resulting glut of sugar and lower prices could devastate such sugar producing states as Louisiana lorida and Hawaii Melancon said CATA backers contend the amount of tariff free sugar that would be allowed in the United States would not have a major effect on the domestic sugarindustry Address: Daily Leader A Division of Liberty Group Publishing Inc July 11 2005 PICK 3 Students write book on their world in their words By HELEN ECKINGER The Times Picayune NEW ORLEANS (AP) I could pick anyone to read my book I think it would be my mom and my neighborhood because they are my Ashley Nelson said as she read from her literary debut page and every story was for Nelson is one of six students from John McDonogh Senior High School who recently com pleted books chronicling their experiences growing up in New Orleans as part of their partic ipation in The Neighborhood Story Project The books were officially released June 23 and that evening the students cele brated with their families and friends at the Mutual Protection Union hall One by one the students read selections from their work and as Nelson continued to read the magnitude of her accom plishment became clear to her and her audience love my book and my struggles because they remind me that I did she read She paused for a moment and looked gleefully at the audi ence did The Neighborhood Story Project is the brainchild of Abram Himelstein and Rachel Breunlin who at the time of its Samuel Marc Maiming uneral Services will be held for Samuel Marc Man ning 6 Wednesday July 13 2005 at an 11 am in La Chapelle de Martin and Castille with Chaplain (COL) Rich Young US Army officiating The family requests that visiting hours be observed Tuesday from 9 am until 9 pm and Wednesday from 9 am until time of service Samuel Marc Manning was born a twin brother of Aaron Luke on Jan 7 1999 at Tripier Army Medical Center on the Island of Oahu Hawaii and died Thurs day July 7 2005 in his arms on a Boeing 737 in Austin Texas A native of Hawaii Samuel resided with his family at Schofield Barracks Hawaii where they were active members in the United States Hawaii Chapel community Bom with a birth defect resulting in poor renal func tion Samuel received a kidney transplant in 2001 Late last year he contracted a transplant related form of cancer which eventually took his life During his six years of suffering Samuel was blessed by God with uncommon courage endurance and grace In his short six years of his life God used Samuel to touch more lives than many do in a lifetime His favorite color was orange and he loved chow mein noodles His favorite time in the hospital was ther and playing in the rice box favorite past time when he was healthy was riding motorbikes swimming trains planes and the outdoors His best buddy was his twin brother Aaron and his little sister Rachel brought him great joy Survivors include his parents William Manning and the former Petra Manuela rassetto three sisters Michelle Manning of Lafayette Rachel Manning of Youngsville and Tracy Standifer of Wiscon sin two brothers Jonathan Manning of Lafayette and Aaron Manning of Youngsville and paternal grandpar ents Eugene Manning and Joan Manning He was pre ceded in death by his maternal grandmother Christi Seckinger and maternal grandfather Wilhelm Seckinger of riedberg Germany The family requests that visiting hours be observed Tuesday from 9 am until 9 pm and Wednesday from 9 am until time of service Memorial contributions may be made in name to Compassion International 12290 Voyager Parkway Colorado Springs CO 80921 or the Ronald McDonald House Charities View the obituary and guestbook at wwwmoumingcom Arrangements have been entrusted to Martin Castille uneral Home Inc of Lafayette NameT MWHv The Leesville DailyJLeader Vernon Parish and Leesville Wal Mart Supercenter are hosting a' contest to see who can name the 'Hf BIood Prince There are two age categories for the contest under 15 and 1 5 and winners of each category who guess who will be the Half Blood i Prince first will" receive the of JK Harry Potter series which have been donated by the Vernon Parish bbraryand Wal MartSiipercenterA entries must be received by riday July 15 at 5PM at the Leesville Leader office located at 206 East Texas St NO LATE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED The winners of the contest will be announced in the ft Leesville Daily Leader on Sunday July 3L' Congressman pushing to kill proposed trade deal wwwleesvilledailyleadercom Mail ldleadercebridgenet Subscription Rates $93 per year in parish $11110 per year outside the parish in state $13889 per year outside the state Wednesday Partly cloudy and hot with highs reaching the mid to upper 90s No chance for rain in the forecast Airboat Rides Take an exciting educational tour of nature's bounty" amily un At Atflrratsvre rf XMIUW cgicio MflHrXwSl raccon manv nther tvrvx hlrHc Phone Number: 4 i 7 Name'of the! 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