Jackman, Maine sent lumber to Bogalusa City Schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Daily News article here.
Some students at Forrest Hills High School made a film about it for their local student film festival. Kennebec Journal Online article.
Watch "Jackman to Bogalusa".
One list of Maine contributors to Katrina relief. Thank you!
Jackman, Maine Chamber of Commerce.
Welcome! I see you - from all over the world - finding this blog through search engines.
I don't know any of his family myself, but I'm certain they would like you to sign his guestbook at Poole-Ritchie Funeral Home.
Obit at Nino Boxing.
Obit at The Daily News
Note in The Daily News obituary that the family requests donations sent to the Shane Kellis Fund (address given).
Relive 'em with DVDs from the Bogalusa Dirt Cheap! Ozzie and Harriet, Shirley Temple, Laurel & Hardy, Rin-Tin-Tin. Fifty cents apiece.
Family entertainment without sexual innuendo - a concept that deserves revival.
Normally I don't comment on national and international news except as it relates to the Bogalusa-Washington Parish area.
But there is dissatisfaction with the Mainstream Media - the "MSM" - these days. Articles presented as reporting are biased and opinionated. This is especially true when it comes to war, terrorism, and the United States and our allies.
For an up-close-and-personal perspective on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, you owe it to yourself to read Flyertalk scoops the world with news report!. The forum has been mentioned on CNN and MSNBC.
"Dovster," a kibbutz resident with dual US-Israel citizenship, living within sight of the the Lebanese border. And "BEYFlyer," formerly of Beirut, now with his family on a mountaintop overlooking the city.
Politics is left at the door. Pour yourself a cuppa, start at the beginning, and follow the war through the eyes of two citizens who are watching the rockets' red glare.
Also:
Ha'aretz
Jerusalem Post
Honest Reporting
Blogs:
Israellycool --> Good info and many links: Israeli MSM, other Israeli and Middle Eastern blogs
From the recent Daily News article on yet more school board shenanigans, this interesting bit:
A Massachusetts transplant who has been in Bogalusa for three years, Donnamarie Barker, the child of a racially mixed couple, said Bogalusa is not different than any number of other places in terms of racial tensions - citing her and her white mother's own experiences with discrimination in the North.Oh. That's okay, then [sarcasm].
July 10th editorial:
It's all about attitude and, outside the "Bogalusa means business" campaign, ours is not that good.Said without a trace of irony, too.
Good news for area kids:
The YMCA is installing a skateboard park on the old tennis court between the pool and walking track at Goodyear Park.In the same article:
The leadership of the Bogalusa YMCA, which is currently divided between Avenue B and Avenue U locations, has been working to unite the two into one new facility. Parker is hopeful that will happen within the next couple of years.These two facilities are often referred to as the "black Y" and the "white Y" by locals. Maybe in a couple years, we'll quit with the unofficial apartheid.
From the Sun Herald:
GULFPORT, Miss. - A college student whose alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit when he was in a crash that killed six friends has been sentenced to a year of house arrest.
Chris Rutland, 21, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty Thursday before a Harrison County circuit courtroom of friends and relatives of the victims, who were graduates of Mercy Cross High School in Biloxi.
Allen Martel, the only surviving passenger, was among those who begged the judge for mercy.
As of the time of this post, July 7, 2006, The Daily News has still not updated their online edition.
The June 30, 2006 issue is still showing.
Hey! Anybody home over there?!
The area enjoyed more rain today.
According to the Washington Parish Government site today [see link at left], there is no burn ban.
It's July 5, 2006. And The Daily News still has their June 30 issue online.
Wake up, folks.
At the WWL-TV site:
BOGALUSA -- An 85-year-old man allegedly shot and killed his terminally ill wife in an effort to ease her suffering, police said Wednesday.
A nurse’s aide heard a gunshot early in the morning at the home of John and Elsie Purvis, police said. Link
Take a surf on over to this page, read it and weep, fellow citizens.
Compare Bogalusa to anywhere. You'll get numbers, a graph, and two tables. One shows the crimes per 100,000 people in each city chosen, and what the national average is.
Bogalusa was above the national average in every single category in 2004. Which is well before Hurricane Katrina and those transplants.
Aggravated assault and burglary were about three times the nat'l average.
Oh, yeah, the city of Bogalusa was so calm and peaceful before those dang Katrina refugees, huh? [sarcasm]
Link to the comparison page shamelessly borrowed from a message at the Hard Copy board - see list on the left.
What looks like an unsigned editorial in the June 30, 2006 issue of The Daily News.
Hateful stuff. But then, Bogalusa has a sordid history of hate, and a distrust of "outsiders" which some older residents blame all those old problems on. "Problems" like fair treatment and integration. A reputation like that dies a hard, slow, noisy death.
What did the charming Daily News editor tell us?
T here were two drive-by shootings and an arson within a 24-hour period in our community on Wednesday and all have been tied back to New Orleans.
In the arson, a New Orleans resident took a cab to the apartment of his ex-girlfriend, broke in and started a fire.
According to Bogalusa police, all those involved in the shootings - with the exception of victim Dagrick Moses - were "New Orleans transplants."
We don't need New Orleans' mess that has spilled all over the Southeast and Southwest in our community. Goodness knows, we have enough problems of our own without that brought along by transplanted thugs.
