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The 2nd Annual Back 2 School Bash was held July 12th with great success. Many organizations joined in to provide much needed school supplies that will help children have adequate materials at home for their school work.

The children who attended participated in various games and activities at different tables from those organizations who were there while the parents learned what the groups do to assist communities.

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Winnfield City Hall is happy to announce that your city was presented the 2018 Lt Governor’s Beautification Award on Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at the Louisiana Municipal Association conference held in Lake Charles, La.

Lt Governor Nungresser presented this award with our Mayor Moss accepting. Each year Keep Louisiana Beautiful offers municipalities an opportunity to be honored with the Lt. Governor’s Beautification Award for their efforts supporting a clean and green community.

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A retirement celebration for Ms. Annie Goods was given by Community Outreach Ministries and the young matrons. After 17 years of dedication to the Winn Parish Police Jury and the city, she will be missed. Ms. Goods helped many to find suitable housing. She received a plaque for her dedication, flowers, gifts and lots of prayer. We would like to thank her family, friends, and co-workers for coming out to help us celebrate this occasion. We, the members of Community Outreach Ministry, family and friends love you.

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Kim Bruce introduced her Pilot Club friend Kim Nation to speak to the club about a project that the Pilot Club is starting. It is a project to memorialize veterans in our area. The project involves putting bricks with the veteran’s names and other information about them around the three flagpoles that are located behind the Farmer’s Market.

The Police Jury has given their permission for the Pilot Club to do this. These bricks are epoxy-filled and are weather resistant. If something were to happen to the brick it would be replaced. The bricks would be installed by a professional bricklayer.

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Guest speaker Jodi Taylor, CASA Coordinator, was introduced to the Kiwanis club by Shonna Moss, a CASA volunteer. Mrs. Taylor began her work with CASA as a volunteer. CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocate who is a person that speaks for a child in court. It is part of the Children’s Advocacy Network and began in 1995.

There are 3 parts to this advocacy network. The first is the Children’s Advocacy Center. This is a safe, protected environment for a victim of abuse or someone who has seen a violent crime. It is a home environment. They provide therapy and courtroom preparation.

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The Friends National Rifle Association Banquet took place here in Winnfield on July 31st, 2018 at the Winnfield Civic Center. What a great turnout it was for this organization.

It was announced that they had raised $125,000 to put towards the our local shooting range. The Friends of the NRA raised around $5 million to support shooting sports and events all around the state of Louisiana. Friends of NRA are the blockbuster fundraising programs under The NRA Foundation.

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On Wednesday, July 18th, Winnfield Rotarians were pleased to have the Assistant District Governor, Lynda Thomas and the 2018-19 District Governor elect Cecil Campbell who covers this district 61-90.

Campbell joined the Bossier Rotary Club in 1973 and has over 44 years of perfect attendance. He was born and raised in Benton, LA. Cecil is a retired District Judge, and he served 26 years for the 26th Judicial District Court of Louisiana.

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Gretta Pickett introduced Winnfield Fire Chief Brian Montgomery and Assistant Chief Cassidy Martin to the Kiwanis club. Chief Montgomery was the speaker for the meeting.

Montgomery said he wanted to promote community awareness of the Winnfield Fire Department and the needs of the department.

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Kiwanis President-Elect Steve Bates spoke to the Kiwanis club June 9th about the changes in the tax act. For individuals, the biggest change is in the deductions bracket, down 3% in each bracket. The top rate is 37% for joint filing with over $600,000 of taxable income. The standard deduction increase will keep a lot of people from itemizing because the standard deduction will be more. The standard deduction is $12,000 for single individuals and $24,000 for married. If you itemize, home mortgages are deductible up to $750,000 but no second homes. Charitable contributions are at 60 % of taxable income. There is no state income tax deduction. A concern is that people will no longer be giving to charities if they are not able to itemize.

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The West Central La Operation Christmas Child team met to discuss the upcoming events for Natchitoches, Winn, Red River, and Sabine. The team is planning project leader meetings in each parish for August and September. This meeting is open to all participating and prospective churches, organizations, groups, fraternities and sororities and individuals who have packed a shoebox or would like to pack a shoebox to send to third world countries to further God’s kingdom.

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