Lifestyle

Flashback to first grade Santa letters

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From first grade to twelfth grade most of the Catahoula Parish students awarded scholarships at the school district’s banquet have appeared in the Catahoula News Booster. A stroll down memory lane to “Letters to Santa” published in the Catahoula News Booster’s December 2012 edition, will provide sweet memories and produce laughter.

Moments In Time

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Kings Features* On May 20, 1506, the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain. The first European to explore the Americas since 10th-century Vikings set up colonies in Greenland and Newfoundland, he traveled the West Indies, South America and Central America, but died feeling he had been mistreated by his patron, King Ferdinand of Spain.

Juneteenth Committee ready for big festival weekend event

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The Jonesville Juneteenth Festival is geared up and ready to celebrate “26 outstanding years” on June 15th at Stewart-Clark Park from 10:00am-until!! The “Parade of Excellence” will begin at 10:00 am and park festivities /entertainment will begin at 1:00pm. We’re asking our pastors/ churches, businesses, sororities, fraternities, leaders, politicians, etc….

Weekly Devotion

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For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many. Mark 10:45 In her book Unseen, Sara Hagerty wrote of how she volunteered to work at a Christian camp when she was seventeen.

Where does Sunday School come from?

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From 1702-1801 the population of England doubled. As more people moved to the cities to find work, the traditional ties to church and community were severed. As a result, several generations of children grew up without religious instruction and this led to a serious social breakdown at the time. Child workers with Sundays off would create a tremendous disturbance in the towns where they lived.

Telecommunicators celebrated this week

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The week of April 15th telecommunicators (aka dispatchers) are acknowledged across America. Dispatchers are always there to answer the call, providing an indispensable service 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.