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Winnfield FFA will host its 3rd Annual Car Show on August 30 at Winnfield Senior High School. Registration will begin at 8 am and awards will be presented at noon. Awards will include the following: Top 10, Student Vote, Sponsors’ Choice, and more. There will also be a silent auction and food available. Free coffee and donuts will be provided for early birds. For registration or sponsor info, please call or text Ryan at 318-3311619.

Judge Anastasia Wiley and Aleta Hoffman were guest speakers for the July 22, 2025 Kiwanis club meeting. Judge Wiley spoke first telling the members that when she was first running for office Etoy Ashley told her to help the children. She is trying to do that. She introduced Aleta Hoffman who is the FINS officer. The FINS office is in the Health Unit building. FINS is families in need of services. There are 3 types of children’s cases-juvenile delinquents, children who need help before they become juvenile delinquents and children in need of care (bad parents).

BATON ROUGE, LA (July 23, 2025) – The Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating three separate deadly residential fires that occurred across the state over a four-day period, from July 18–21, 2025. Tragically, each fire resulted in a fatality, and none of the homes involved had smoke alarms installed. Incident Summaries: IBERIA PARISH - On Friday, July 18, 2025, around 11:30 a.m., the New Iberia Fire Department responded to a fire in the 1300 block of Marshfield Road in New Iberia. A 71-yearold man lost his life in the blaze. Investigators say the cause of the fire is undetermined, but confirmed there were no smoke alarms in the home.

The Winn WMU/Women on Mission Quarterly Associational meeting will be held Thursday, July 24, at 6 p.m. at Laurel Heights Baptist Church on San Pedro St. in Winnfield. The meeting will begin with a meal and a business session.

“We will have backpacks available for the Christmas Backpack ministry and will discuss participation in the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women hygiene packs,” said Winn WMU co-director Margaret Coon.

“Our guest speaker will be Laura Holeman Trahan, 1998 graduate of WSHS and daughter of Bob and Diane Holeman of Winnfield. She will be speaking about her family’s journey to become missionaries to Panama.”

All women’s mission groups are invited to attend.

In the early morning hours of 07/15/2025, the Winn Parish Sheriff ’s Office Chase Team played a vital role in locating a missing man in neighboring Grant Parish after a seven-hour search across challenging terrain.

At approximately 10:45 PM, the Grant Parish Sheriff ’s Office contacted the Winn Parish Sheriff ’s Office requesting assistance in the search for a missing man, later identified as Steve Miller, who had been last seen around 3:00 PM earlier that day. Mr. Miller’s disappearance triggered immediate concern due to the time elapsed and the thick wooded environment in which he was believed to be traveling.

In 2018, McAllister began advocating for Louisiana loggers amid a commercial insurance crisis. Over seven years, this work led to key industry wins such as weight limit increases and logger relief policies. However, little progress has been made on insurance reform. McAllister points to a cultural climate in the state that promotes “jackpot justice” and excessive big truck claims, harming the working class. She now collaborates with an insurance workforce group pushing for legislative policies that would curb frivolous lawsuits and reduce abuse of the system.