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With a Saturday full exciting of events around our parish, the Winn Parish Library is no different! The Main Branch, located at 200 North Saint John Street in Winnfield will be hosting Ms.Karen McWright-Guillory as she launches her book “Poetic Sounds”. From 9:30 a.m. until noon, you are invited to meet the author and get an autographed copy of her book.

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The Pine Belt Multi-Purpose CAA, Inc. is participating in the Summer Food Service Program continues through July 28, 2017. Meals will be provided to all children without charge for ages 0-18 years. Acceptance and participating requirements for the program and all activities are the same for all regardless of race, color, nationality, origin, sex or disability and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. Meals will be provided at the following locations: Winnfield Primary School, 401 S. St. John Street, Winnfield, LA; Winnfield Kindergarten Annex, 1010 W.Boundary Street, Winnfield,LA; Pilgrim Rest B. C., 409 Long Street, Winnfield, LA; and True Vine B. C., 904 E.Jones Street, Winnfield, LA. Breakfast will be served from8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

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After a week of much uncertainty, and plenty of support and prayers, Ms. Brenda Zimmerman announced Monday, June 12th, via social media, that Mr. Rickey Zimmerman was still experiencing some pain and would be having a small procedure done to change out wound vacs. Less than one week ago, it was thought that surgery would need to be performed to remove his shoulders. But after much consideration and testing, surgeons decided to not perform the operation. Mr. Zimmerman is continuing to undergo wound cleaning and the family is hopeful that no further tissue will have to be removed. Ms. Brenda also said they hoped to be released from the hospital in the next week.

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The Village of Dodson held their regular council meeting on June 6, with all aldermen in attendance. The minutes from the previous meeting were read by Village Clerk Amber Higgs and were adopted after a motion by Alderman Jami Ashley and a second by Alderman Karla Shively. After the meeting minutes were adopted by vote, the Financial Statement was presented to the council and meeting attendees. With no discussion, the Financial Statement was adopted after a motion by Alderman Danny Browning and a second by Alderman Shively. Following that unanimous vote to adopt the Financial Statement, the Police Report was reviewed. Alderman Browning made a motion to adopt the Police Report and the motion was seconded by Ms. Ashley. The Police Report was adopted after another unanimous vote.

A date was set to adopt the 2017 Millage Rates for August 1, 2017 after a motion by Alderman Browning and a second by Alderman Ashley. The motion carried.

The weekend of June 23rd and 24th will be an exciting one in Winnfield as the tradition of Winnfield High School and Winnfield Senior High School reunions continues. The first annual reunion was held in 1955 and each year the 50th anniversary class hosts the event. The Winnfield Civic Center will be the setting for all of the special events and will be transformed through the efforts of the host class.

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In the midst of storm recovery efforts last week, one of Winnfield’s own city linemen was seriously injured by electrocution. Rickey Zimmerman has been a devoted City of Winnfield lineman for over 20 years, and on Memorial Day, while he was working to restore power to residents of our city, a horrific accident occurred which resulted in Mr. Zimmerman being electrocuted.

“Lemonade for our Lineman” was a huge success this past Friday. Local children managed to raise $804.00 by selling lemonade and cookies. The children wanted to have a lemonade stand for fun, but decided the proceeds needed to go towards medical expenses for city lineman, Ricky Zimmerman. The children worked very hard and were pleased with the outpouring of support from locals and passersby. Thank you to everyone who stopped by. You showed these children that prayer is vital, God will bless your efforts, and that they CAN make a difference in their community.

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Local volunteers are following the lead of Mr. LaJerrick D. Taylor from Jena, Louisiana, and now have an IronHead Youth Development Program for the young people of Winnfield.

Law enforcement and other agencies in our parish have been quite busy the past two weeks. On May 24th the Winn Parish Sheriffs Department received a call from the Natchitoches Parish Sheriffs office regarding a stolen vehicle. Natchitoches Parish named James R. Womack as suspect in possession of the stolen vehicle and had reason to believe he was in the Winn Parish area.

Sheriff Jordan immediately informed deputies to be on the look out for the stolen vehicle and Mr. Womack. Deputy Hagen from the Winn Parish Sheriffs Department spotted the vehicle at the intersection of La. 34 and highway 126 in Gaars Mill. He then notified the Dodson Police Department, who set up a road block. The suspect went around the road block and headed toward Jackson Parish, whose Sheriffs Department was notified. According to Sheriff Jordan, about one mile outside of Dodson, the suspect ran the stolen vehicle across the median and into the west side of highway 167 and ran into the woods.

At approximately 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 28th, the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Winn Parish. The warning was set to expire at midnight. Shortly after that time Winn Parish Sheriff Cranford Jordan issued a bulletin notifying residents of a tornado warning for the south part of the parish, that was in effect until 8:30 p.m. Residents reported that a tornado touched down in Campti, then reported seeing one on La Highway 167, moving toward Lafayette Street. The sheriff confirmed that at 7:30 a tornado was located near Campti, moving east at approximately 50 miles per hour. He warned of quarter sized hail and let the public know that other locations likely to impacted included Melrose, Robeline, Provencal, Grand Ecore, Natchez, St. Maurice, Clarence, Joyce, Flora, and Atlanta. Residents were warned to take cover in an interior room.