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WMS Beta club brought cheer to the residents at Autumn Leaves Nursing home buy making and delivering flower arrangements.

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Winnfield Middle School Beta Club collected blankets, hats, gloves, and scarves to be donated to the local council on aging.

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Winn Parish residents awakened Monday, January 11, 2021 to around four inches of snow. More pics on page 14

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Members of Congress recognized the important role the timber harvesting industry plays in the United States economy by including both logging and log hauling businesses in the Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020. The bill includes language appropriating $200 million in funding for logging and log trucking businesses who saw a greater than 10 percent loss in revenues from January 1 through December 1, 2020 related to the COVID-19 pandemic, as compared to revenues for the same period in 2019.

Logging and log hauling businesses were deemed to be essential service providers, but have struggled with making fixed cost payments as a result of reduced markets for the unrefined forest products they produce.

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Masked mourners filled a Louisiana church to mourn Congressman-elect Luke Letlow — one day before he would have been sworn in as a member of the House of Representatives.

Letlow, 41, died of COVID-19 complications Tuesday when he suffered a heart attack after undergoing an apparently successful operation to remove a blood clot. He had been hospitalized at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport since Dec. 23 as he battled COVID-19.

Toni and I are definitely saddened about the passing of our friend Luke Letlow,” Winn Parish Police Jury President said. “I ask that you keep his parents, Julia, and his young children in your prayers tonight. He has been a good friend to us over the last couple of years.”

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There is always an end goal for young baseball players.

For some it may be as simple as making their varsity or high school team.

For others, their ambitions might be set on continuing the game they love at the collegiate level, or continuing their love for the game professionally.

The love of the game could be diminished by the overwhelming odds and work needed to achieve one’s goal, and the daunting task that comes with continuing athletics.

However, that dream still continues on in Justin Lawson, a pitcher who just graduated from Winnfield Senior High School in 2019 and after countless hours of preparation throughout the last two years, Lawson signed a letter of intent on Nov. 12, 2020 to continue his baseball career at North Carolina State University.

Louisiana responded to an unprecedented food need in 2020, a tumultuous year marked by the coronavirus pandemic and three hurricanes that made landfall in the state.

The State distributed more than $674 million in emergency food assistance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta. That assistance included the Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) program for school children, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) emergency allotments, Disaster SNAP (DSNAP) benefits, Replacement SNAP benefits and an unprecedented distribution of Replacement DSNAP benefits.

Children throughout Winn Parish can sleep soundly tonight. Winn Parish Sheriff Cranford Jordan has arrested the famed Christmas thief, The Grinch.

Grinch, 56, a green male who resides on Mount Crumpit near Whoville, had been hiding in Winn Parish, waiting to steal Christmas trees, ornaments, decorations and presents for parish children.

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The West Fraser Joyce Mills in Winn Parish handed out 600 free hams on Dec. 22 ahead of the holiday season.

Nearly 400 hams were given out to people who showed up at the mills, and over 200 hams were delivered to home bound people throughout the parish.

“Reflecting back on 2020, it’s been a challenging year,” General Manager Billy Bell said. “This is something we wanted to do to reach out to the community and help. We feel fortunate to be able to do this if it wasn’t for the community, and we’re here for them.”

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It’s incredible the chain of events that a chance meeting can set off.

When LSU Kinesiology Professor of Professional Practice and Athletic Training Program Director Ray Castle stopped by Catholic High School to visit with its head athletic trainer, Eddie Breight, he didn’t know he would meet James Robert III, who was born with a no fingers on his left hand. III, who wanted to weight train for track but couldn’t effectively because of his left arm, didn’t know that Castle would then make a call to Warren Waggenspack, professor of mechanical engineering at LSU, and discuss the possibility of students in LSU’s College of Engineering Capstone Design Program designing a prosthetic to solve the problem.

And none of the five LSU students, now graduates—Gary Couturie, Brette Crocker, Cecilia McAlear, Landon Stein, and Amelie Thomas— knew the impact that working on this one project would have on them. But back to the chain of events.