Everyone looks the same?

No, not really.  there are some who are on walking canes, some are bent over, but facially they’re still the same and everyone has so much fun (laughs) we all enjoy it so much.

ROSA JONES AND HER HUSBAND ORGANIZED THE FIRST OF THESE REUNIONS BACK IN 1982.  SHE ROUNDED EVERYONE UP AND PUT TOGETHER THE FESTIVITIES.  AND IT’S NO SURPRISE SHE LIKES GOING THE EXTRA MILE FOR A PARTY.

    they used to say I was a teacher’s pet, but I wasn’t  

    {talks about favorite teacher and making potato pancakes in home ec. Class.}   

    FAYE KINDLE IS FROM THE CARTER C RAYMOND CLASS OF 1964.

    {talks about the mint green graduation dresses the girls had to sew by hand}

    NATBREAK: when are you going to put this on tv sir?

    MA’AM WE’RE GOING TO PUT IT ON THE 6 O’CLOCK NEWS.

    HAVE A GOOD 4TH EVERYONE.  MM REPORTING NEWS CHANNEL 5

Local:
*Fireworks Safety

National:
*California IOU’s
*State Of Liberty
*New York Fireworks

Sports:
*Aces Split Day/Night DH With Pipeliners

for July 2, 2009.

Jefferson’s conversations with businesswoman Lori Mody were recorded in 2005 in restaurants in Washington and northern Virginia. Authorities say Mody approached federal agents after becoming suspicious. They say Mody agreed to wear a wire, and federal agents eventually videotaped her giving Jefferson a suitcase stuffed with $100,000 cash at a hotel.

Jefferson is charged with receiving more than $400,000 in bribes in return for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa.

U.S. Attorney Donald W. Washington says an investigation found that the hospital routinely submitted claims for payment to Medicare Part B on behalf of doctors who said they helped orthopedic residents during surgery when in fact they were not present for the procedure as required.

The settlement, announced Wednesday, was filed under the Federal False Claims Act, a civil law that allows the government to recoup money obtained through fraud and misrepresentation.

Rep. James Armes says that’s why he pulled his bill that would have let lawmakers review - and reject - the hunting season dates, bag limits and restrictions set each year. Concerns about the Kisatchie hunting situation prompted the bill, which never came up for a vote in the House before the regular session ended last week.

Armes says he’ll return with the idea during next year’s legislative session if the department and the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission don’t continue to allow hunting with dogs at Kisatchie.

The ACLU, on behalf of Donald Lee Leger Jr., and the state Attorney General’s Office also filed a joint motion asking the federal District Court in Baton Rouge to dismiss Leger’s lawsuit against the state. Leger, sentenced to die in the 2001 shooting death of 35-year-old Troy Salone at his home near Franklin, claimed in his lawsuit that prison officials unfairly limited Sunday television services on death row to Baptist or Pentecostal services.

Leger, who also wounded Salone’s wife, complained he was unable nto participate in Catholic mass.  Neither side admitted fault in the settlement.

News Channel 5’s Joel Massey has been covering the story and has the latest.

Ferriday’s boil advisory has been in place since May when the Department of Health and Hospitals found that the roof of town’s only water storage tank had collapsed and was exposed to the elements.

Ferriday Mayor Glen McGlothin tells me that new water tanks will be built at the treatment plant.  When they’re completed in two to three months - according to the mayor - Ferriday will finally be off the water boil.  The old plant is in bad shape and money will also have to be spent to keep it in operation.  The long term plan is to build a new plant at the current site and to drill new wells. 

McGlothin said, “We’re going to draw up this long range plan draw up a new plant I would rather drill wells.  My idea is to get out of the river because we’ll never make good water out of Old River.”

Surface water from the Old River oxbow has proven to be a poor quality water source. But the mayor says that the town is to blame for neglecting the plant’s upkeep.

McGlothin said, “There have been times that the town was derelict in their duty during a couple of administrations.  Folks just did not do due diligence on the water plant and if you don’t keep a surface water plant up you’ve got problems so after 20 years of beating this dead horse we’re going to try to build a new one because that’s the only way out for Ferriday to have good water.”

To get the project started the town is putting up $200,000 and is working on getting a million dollars in emergency funds from federal and state grants.  McGlothin says the town wasted millions keeping the old plant running.

“We’re a poor town.  We’re a small town.  We’ve lost $6 million on that water plant.  That’s not state money that’s town of Ferriday money.  Just think of the highways, the streets, the recreation all that I could have.  We’re actually losing 300 thousand dollars a year on that water plant and we’re finally going to come to the end I hope.”

Until the boil advisory is lifted Ferriday residents are getting their drinkable water from portable tanks filled every day by the National Guard.

The mayor says the new plant should take about three years to complete and he hopes to get 75 percent of it paid for by grant money.

The charges stem from reports of two mailboxes being blown up at different locations in Avoyelles Parish.  No one was injured in the explosions.

Celebration on the Cane is free to the public.  Activities will take place on the downtown riverbank from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. including the Cane River Green Market, musical entertainment, food vendors, contests, children’s activities and much more. For a complete schedule of events, please call the Natchitoches Main Street Program at (318) 352-2746 or the Natchitoches Area Convention and Visitors Bureau at (800) 259-1714 or visit http://www.natchitoches.net.

“Founded by 3 Friends Brian Valentine, Wesley Parker and Griffin LaCour who shared the same love for music sparked a musical adventure which went from a Small Garage Band to A Headlining Band with an album, the band really loved to experiment with the mixed timing of Progressive Rock and the Heavy riff and Beats of Hardcore Rock, it wasn’t until there first show that they realized that the band wasn’t complete that it needed a bass player so at there first show they met James Goodwin and Recruited him on bass. Since then RO27 has made there first EP and played dozens of Shows, but RO27 would not be anywhere without the help of all the local bands that inspired them and helped them along the way.” - from the Group’s myspace page.

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    (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

Local:
*Arrests Made In Avoyelles Parish Mailbox Bombings
*Boyce Man Dies From ATV Injuries
*Faircloth To Run For Supreme Court

National:
*New Details On National Health Plan
*Karl Malden Obit
*Ed McMahon Funeral
*Lego Time

Sports:
*Aces Win Behind The Barber!
*Aces Play 2 Today - 10:35 AM & 6:55 PM
*LSU Off. Coordinator Crowton Headlines CBL Banquet

He was in uniform Wednesday evening, when the Cards beat San Francisco.  The Cardinals plan on using Jarrett at second and third base.

With Memphis, he was hitting .277 with ten home runs.

for July 1, 2009.

Dan Jiron, a spokesman for the Albuquerque airport, says 50-year-old Keith Wright of New York disrobed Tuesday while sitting in his seat in the back of the aircraft. He says Wright was unresponsive when a flight attendant asked him repeatedly to get dressed and refused to be covered with a blanket.

Jiron says law enforcement employees who were passengers on the plane helped subdue and handcuff Wright before the flight landed. The FBI says Wright is in federal custody on a charge of interfering with flight crew members and attendants.

A US Airways spokeswoman says the plane from Charlotte continued on to Los Angeles after Wright’s arrest.