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The City of Winnfield Recreation Department has extended their regular registration for the Flag Football Leagues, with the final registration date being Friday, September 22. Regular registration fee for this league is $40. Boys and girls ages 4-12 are eligible for this exciting program. DON’T LET THIS DEADLINE PASS YOU BY. SIGN YOUR CHILD UP TODAY. November 1st is the age cutoff date. For example: Kids that turn 4 on or before November 1 are eligible for this program. Kids that turn 7 on or before November 1 are considered age 7 and play in the 7-9 league, and kids that turn 10 on or before November 1 are considered age 10 and play in the 10-12 league.

Winn Training-Pinecrest Reunion Committee awarded a $1,000.00 scholarship during their school reunion, the reunion occurred July 7-8, 2023 and the scholarship was awarded during the banquet, Saturday, July 8, 2923 to M’Khya Mitchell a 2023 Atlanta High graduate who is currently a freshman enrolled at Southern University A&M University majoring Social Work and a minor in Psychology. Each year the organization will be awarding scholarships to students who meet and submit qualifications set out by the organization. This October the organization will be hosting its annual scholarship luncheon/tea. The organization welcomes and thanks all supporters of the scholarship.

Public safety concerns due to historic drought conditions and extreme fire danger has prompted the Kisatchie National Forest to bring in a National Fire Prevention Education Team. For nearly 30 years, Fire Prevention Education Teams have been used throughout the nation to support wildland fire agencies’ efforts to reduce unwanted human-caused ignitions prior to and during periods of high wildland fire danger. These teams focus their efforts on planning and developing targeted prevention actions, building community relations, and increasing awareness of wildland fire issues which saves lives and property and reduces firefighter risk.

The Winnfield Fire Department recently deployed a team to the Louisiana wildfires in the southwestern part of the state that has plagued the area with fires for weeks. Starting August 25th, a team was assembled that consisted of personnel and equipment and deployed in the areas till September 2nd. The mission mainly worked in the Vernon and Rapides Parish areas that included the Lions Camp Road fire and the Pitkin La 113 fire, which consumed close to 2000 acres. The team was first deployed to the Singer community In Beauregard Parish but unfortunately due to a mechanical issue with their deployment engine, the mission changed to manpower, support role. The team started and ended “BACKFILLING,” fire departments, which means staging fire personnel in fire stations to man equipment and run emergency calls while those personnel could get breaks and check on their families. The backfilling locations included Leesville, Anacoca, and Slagle in Vernon Parish.

According to Sheriff Cranford Jordan with the WPSO, a traffic stop was made in Joyce, LA on the evening of Aug 31 that resulted in the arrest of six individuals and the confiscation of 79.8 grams of meth.

A patrol deputy made the traffic stop on Louisiana St., in Joyce. The driver of the vehicle, Trinda Poole, was initially pulled over for window tint. During the traffic stop, 79.8 grams of meth was found in the vehicle. While arresting Poole, several other individuals attempted to aid in her escape. Those individuals were arrested as well.

The following individuals were arrested and booked into the Winn Parish Detention Center:

Trinda Poole, white female, age 45 charged with window tint, resisting an officer, possession of sch II w/intent to distribute, simple escape

Garrett W Morris W/M 22 – Resisting an Officer, Obstruction of Justic

Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not,[I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]- Hebrews 13:5 (AMPC)

I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.—

Dania Yadago Andraos, an Operation Christmas Child shoebox recipient, shares her story Sunday, Sept. 10, beginning at 5 p.m. at First Baptist Church Natchitoches. The church is located at 508 Second St.

Subjected to severe poverty, Andraos and her family lived in three Middle Eastern countries. They prayed for everything they needed. One year they prayed for a specific need. That year Andraos received an Operation Christmas Child shoebox. As the family looked through the items in the box, they shrieked in disbelief . Inside the shoebox was a direct answer to prayers. That day Andraos learned with God all things are possible. To hear more about answered prayer through the shoebox ministry, attend the event. For 30 years Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s Purse, has delivered millions of gift-filled shoeboxes to children round the world.

It’s a few months early for most people in Louisiana to have crawfish on their minds. But the cycle of producing crawfish for those eagerly anticipated springtime boils is already underway — and this summer’s drought conditions could have an impact.

Three key problems are facing Louisiana’s $230 million crawfish industry as the state copes with the effects of a weekslong streak of record-high temperatures and minimal rainfall.

First, some of the underground burrows where crawfish spend the summer are cracking open because the ground is so dry, threatening their survival. Second, the lack of rain has increased the salt levels in water sources that producers depend on to flood their ponds. And third, there are concerns about rice, grasses and other forages surviving the hot, dry conditions and whether crawfish will have enough food this winter.

State Fire Marshal Dan Wallis, in collaboration with Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, in effect as of August 25, 2023, at 12:00 p.m., prohibits ALL private burning, with no limitations, pursuant to authority under R.S. 40:1602. This order shall remain in effect until rescinded.

This updated burn ban order coincides with a separate burn ban order issued by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry prohibiting all agricultural burning including by not limited to prescribed burning. Violation of this burn ban order could result in civil and/or criminal penalties.