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LSUA, LA-HOSA Future Health Professionals and CLTCC have partnered to offer a Future Nurse Camp July 15th through July 19th at the CLTCC Winnfield Campus. The five-day camp is for high school students considering a career in nursing. Participants will explore various nursing careers and participate in hands-on nursing skills including wound care, vital signs, head-to-toe assessments and medication administration. The camp is free of charge and is funded by a Future of HealthC.A.R.E. Program Grant from The Rapides Foundation. Participants will be provided a set of scrubs, a stethoscope, and lunch. Interested students should contact Kristina Sloan via text or call at 571417-8417.

Caring & Sharing along with Winn Initiatives Coalition are hosting a back to school party at the Winnfield Civic Center located at 2000 S Jones St., on Friday, July 26. The doors will open at 10:00 am and close at 1:00 pm. There will be games, bouncy houses, door prizes and lots of other fun stuff. Also, free school supplies, hygiene and toiletry items, sack lunches and informational and educational items will be given away.

Sheriff-Elect Josh McAllister will be sworn in to take his position as sheriff on Saturday, June 29, 2024 at the Civic Center, located on the Winn Parish Fairgrounds. All are welcome. McAllister will officially become Winn Parish Sheriff at midnight June 30, 2024. The Enterprise is looking forward to working with Mr. McAllister and the deputies of the Winn Parish Sheriff ’s Office as we have with past sheriffs and their deputies.

Back in 2012 an article entitled “Sheriff Who Gave Stature to Small-Town Smarts” was published in the New York Times. The article weighed in on the idea of whether small-town is smarter than urban, or vice versa.

An example used in the article was an episode of The Danny Thomas show when Sheriff Andy Taylor stepped out of his police cruiser to issue a ticket to Thomas’s character, a nightclub comedian named Danny Williams. Williams tried to get out of the ticket by using his name and status. “You’ll discover that I’m somebody,” stated Williams. Sheriff Taylor responds by saying, “Well, you know, I knew that the minute I laid eyes on you. Yessir, I’ve never seen a car yet that wasn’t driven by somebody.”

There you have it. Next came the classic television series “The Andy Griffith Show”. Each episode delved into small town life and the way the sheriff, handled day to day business in law enforcement with integrity, humility and little humor.

Ethel Howell introduced herself as Ethel Marie Calhoun Evans Howell. Her parents were Husher and Inez Calhoun and her mother was also a schoolteacher. She has 2 sisters and 1 brother. She was the mother of 5 biological children but only 2 lived to adulthood. When she married Robert Howell she gained 6 more children.

Some of Louisiana’s most outstanding students have been selected as new members of the Louisiana Legislative Youth Advisory Council (LYAC) and will work together over the next year in an effort to influence the legislative process, making the state a better place for young people. A new council is selected annually and is composed entirely of high school students to address issues affecting the youth of Louisiana. It is overseen by the Louisiana Commission on Civic Education.

Winnfield, LA——On June 11th, area first responders participated in a “First Responder Day” for children attending school at the Behavior Specialists Of Louisiana located on Maple Street in Winnfield. While sponsored by the Center, it also furthers positive interaction between children and all first responders incorporating the “Bridge the Gap” program of the Winnfield Police Department.

Christ Wesleyan Fellowship of Winn is proud to announce that the Reverend Russell Jones has accepted the call to be the first pastor of their young church. The church believes that Rev. Jones and his wife, Raynore Dixon Jones, have a love for Winnfield residents that resonates with the goal of the new church plant to be a beacon of the gospel of Jesus Christ to Winnfield and Winn Parish.

Though Christ Wesleyan Fellowship of Winn is a new church, most of the members of the church are not new to Winnfield. In 2023, long-time and lifelong Winnfield residents were joined by new community members to form a new congregation based on Biblical principles, standing for traditional Christian values.

Through a three-year grant from The Rapides Foundation, LAMHA will now have a part-time outreach professional based in Central Louisiana. Randa Williams, the outreach professional, will be helping connect behavioral health organizations and professionals with The Fisher Project as a resource for their clients who are at risk of suicide.

“Although working in the health care field was not my goal as I began to study marketing at Northwestern, I enjoy it very much and I’ve realized how important rural health care is,” Victoria Hubbard Knighten, Winn Parish native and currently marketing liaison for Winn Parish Medical Center, told Winnfield’s Rotarians at their meeting on May 22, 2024. Victoria spoke at the request of Rotarian of the Day, Bo Walker.