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The Rotary Club of Winnfield hosted a sporting clay competition April 11 at the Natchitoches Shooting Range. This was the second annual competition, a fund-raiser to help support club projects including scholarships, school uniforms, dictionaries, adult literacy, youth ball team and more. Bank of Winnfield hosted Winn's 5-man team Saturday, including Jim Colvin, Buddy Heard, Steve Adams, Delane Adams and Don Causey. Other Winnfield Rotarians assisting included event coordinator Brian Brewton, District Governor Bob Holeman, president Rusty Russell, chef Bo Walker, secretary Jay Hinckley and advisor Joe Evans.

 

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The sunny and clear skies on Friday, April 17 made way for an Austin man to make quite the entrance in Winn Parish.

Claude Hendrickson, an engineer from Austin, TX, flew into the David G. Joyce Airport in Winnfield in a World War II-era bomber plane.

The Winn Parish School Board began their April meeting with recognition of student achievement, with representatives from each high school in attendance to show off their wares.

A 24-page glossy magazine, which serves as your guide to Winn Parish, is now being distributed throughout the area. The magazine not only features events and Festivals of Winn Parish communities, but also focuses on our history and culture.

The nine-day manhunt for a burglary suspect came to a close last Thursday as 34-year old Kenneth “Kenny” Bratton was ooked into the Winn Parish Jail following his capture by Jackson Parish Sheriff’s deputies. He was covered with mosquito bites and days of running had caused his ankles to swell.

Originally published in 1989. A local retired educator casually noted recently that the timber industry has been, and still is, the economic lifeblood of Winn Parish and the surrounding area. With this in mind, Staff Historians recall herewith a fact well

worth remembering by the older generation and certainly worth documenting for the younger persons of this Central and north Central Louisiana area.

On March 8, International Women’s Day, it was an American shotgun trio who turned the celebration into a mostly all- American affair for the fourth time during the 2015 International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Series season

opener in Acapulco, Mexico. Among them, the Bayou State’s own Caitlin Connor.