The Gulf Coast Marching Sharks of Naples, Florida are donating their band uniforms to Bogalusa High School, to replace those destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Dillard's donated the shipping boxes, and Champion Cleaners of Naples donated the cleaning. The band kids spent hours of their own time boxing them up for shipment.
Many thanks to all of you! Link
And my water bill is through the roof.
Yesterday, maybe ten drops fell, just enough to dampen the grass.
Make up your mind.
Grade-school graduation ceremony, with nearly all the music religious. The commencement speaker a minister, and his speech resembling a sermon more than anything. Prayers led by the principal. The superintendent of the city schools was there, too, and didn't say a word against it.
Everybody knows this stuff is against the law. Everybody.
Thanks a bunch, Bogalusa School Board. We can probably look forward to a big fat lawsuit which will bankrupt the city or the schools.
You are putting your personal beliefs above my children's education. If you're gonna break the law like this, what other laws have you broken?
Looks like Barber's is moving into their new store, in Salle's former spot on Avenue F. They did a handsome renovation of the storefront.
Lookin' good! May you prosper, Barber's.
I saw a sign for this at a Bogalusa business. I don't even own a horse, and I've heard of the man.
Saturday June 3, 2006 - Southern Farrier's Association Shoe-In for Leo's Parkinson surgery.
Page with all the details here. If you can't attend, give.
Isolated thunderstorms predicted today, with a 10% chance of precipitation.
Hope one of them forms and storms over my house.
I daresay anyone who lives in and around Bogalusa remembers the Baptist Emergency Kitchen set up on Avenue F following Hurricane Katrina.
I didn't know they were doing all this:
Area residents gathered at Larkin Avenue Baptist Church on Friday and Saturday to receive disaster-relief training from Southern Baptist Convention and Illinois Baptist State Association representatives.
The groups provide food, child care and cleanup and recovery services in the wake of catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina and the pair of tornadoes that struck Springfield in March.[...]
Thurman Stewart, an association coordinator from downstate Woodson, near Jacksonville, was among the relief veterans who had made the trip to Elgin for what he said was the first such training event held in the city. He and other volunteers spent weeks assisting with recovery efforts in Bogalusa, La., a town of roughly 13,000 north of New Orleans.
"Huge trees were everywhere," Stewart recalled. "We cleared over 1,200 yards."
Excerpt from the Biloxi Sun Herald:
The blood-alcohol levels of victims in the Jan. 12 crash that killed six college students in Wiggins are not a matter of public record at this time, said District Attorney Cono Caranna.
"If charges are brought against someone, the blood-alcohol content would come out only after an indictment, as a discovery matter, if an indictment is returned," Caranna said.
The Daily News reported sometime after Katrina that the parish had between 8,000 and 10,000 new residents.
Wow. Means the population grew around 25%.
It appears that property values are rising here - maybe a reflection of a sort of "shortage," as new residents are purchasing places to live? I dunno.
At the moment, there's a one bedroom, one bath house on nine and a half acres, a bit south of town, on the market for $160,000. The News doesn't print real estate transactions very often, but I'm gonna try to keep an eye on this one. In my completely inexpert opinion, a few years ago that property would've sold for half of that, or less.
Listing is here, MLS # 633030. No picture showing the house, which is said to be 1,136 square feet.
According to the National Weather Service, hot days, cool nights (so far), and no rain expected through Tuesday.
Blech.
Get out the sunblock and the DEET. I notice the mosquitoes are out in force, too.
