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Winnfield Primary School employees posed with Weyerhaeuser representatives Friday, March 1st, to commemorate Weyerhaeuser’s generosity. Kim Williams, Margaret Reed, and Susie Miller applied for the grant to support additional technology for WPS classrooms. Weyerhaeuser graciously accepted the application and provided $17,000.00 in funding from the Weyerhaeuser Southern Timberlands Giving Fund.

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For the Rotary Program to sum up the last of February, Rotarian Don Kelley had the program for the week. He invited Kate Nevils, daughter of District Attorney Chris Nevils, to speak to the Rotarians. Kate expressed her appreciation for the invitation to be apart of the meeting. She told about her upcoming event with the Miss Louisiana Outstanding Teen Competition that will be help in Monroe, Louisiana. Kate was recently crowned Miss Dixie Gem Peach out of Ruston, Louisiana.

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North Louisiana Isshinryu Karate at 609 East Main Street of Winnfield held it’s 10th annual kick a thon for Special Olympics in January of 2019. The Kick a thon is part of the “GIVE BACK” emphasis of the karate school that is in connection with its motto “training for a better tomorrow”.

Owner and master instructor Donald Rudd (7th degree black belt) teaches that if a karate student improves oneself and then helps oth- ers to improve themselves it can assist in strengthening community which leads to a “better tomorrow”.

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Montgomery Junior High is proud to announce Gracie Smith as 2019 Student of the Year. She was also selected as the Grant Parish Eighth Grade Student of the Year. Gracie will soon be competing at the regional level amongst students from fourteen other surrounding parishes in our region.

Gracie is the daughter of Lisa & Richard DeLong of the Dartigo community and Jake & Haylee Smith of Winnfield. She is the granddaughter of Ronnie & Barbara Lasyone and Wayne & Brenda Smith; great granddaughter of Mrs. Katherine Grantadams. We are very proud to have Gracie represent Montgomery Junior High School as well as Grant Parish and want to wish her good luck as she progresses on to regionals.

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Winn Parish is a loving, caring, giving community, Jodi Taylor suggested to Winnfield Rotarians at their February 6 lunch. However, we have a larger problem with child neglect and abuse than we realize or care to admit.

Mrs. Taylor is the CASA Coordinator for the local office of Children’s Advocacy Network (CAN). She explained that the organization’s mission is to help heal and champion abused and neglected children throughout Central Louisiana. The agency currently consist of three programs, which are The Children’s Advocacy Center, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA).

The CASA volunteer acts as the eyes and ears of the court, making independent, objective recommendations regarding the child’s best interest with the goal of each child being placed in a safe, permanent home.

(StatePoint) Parents know that seeing clearly is important for their kid’s success in the classroom, but many are not taking their child to get annual eye exams. This is a problem because many kids don’t know what seeing clearly looks like.

According to a recent study by VSP Vision Care, the largest not-for-profit vision benefits provider in the U.S., and market research agency YouGov, eight-in-10 parents (83 percent) agree that a regular eye exam helps kids do their best in school, but fourin-10 (41 percent) wait until their child complains about their vision to schedule an eye exam.

Clear vision is not only important for academic performance, but also for sports and everyday tasks. That’s why a comprehensive eye exam is so important for children. Early detection and treatment provide the opportunity to correct vision problems.

State Representative Jack McFarland, a member of the Rotary Club of Winnfield, was guest speaker at the club’s Jan. 9 meeting.

McFarland first expressed his appreciation for the opportunity to serve Winn Parish and District 13 at the capitol where he is still filled with awe as he enters the chamber of the state’s government. He discussed the process of funding in Louisiana that is “so complicated that it’s like a shell game.”

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