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Respond to rudeness with kindness

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DEAR AUNT GRACE

I recently read a survey where people were asked, “What act of rudeness bothers you most?”

Here are the top 10 answers:

1. Discrimination in an employment situation.

2. Driving in an erratic or aggressive way that endangers others.

3. Taking credit for someone else’s work.

4. Treating service providers as inferiors – I am also including “receptionists” in that category.

5. Making jokes or remarks that mock another’s race, gender, age, disability or religion.

Parents want to stop teenage daughter from vaping

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SENSE & SENSITIVITY

DEARHARRIETTE:

My teenage daughter and her friends got into a bit of trouble at a party this weekend. My husband and I discovered that they were vaping.

I know that this activity is targeted to teens. I also remember that I tried smoking cigarettes when I was a teenager. That said, I feel like the stakes are much higher for teens today than they were back in my time. Cigarettes do kill, but usually over many years of repetitive use.

Murder trial recesses over alcohol issue

Jury selection in the second-degree murder trial of a Ruston man accused of killing one person and wounding two others came to a pause Monday afternoon after prosecutors objected to defense attorney Dwayne Burrell’s questioning potential jurors about the effects of alcohol.

Burrell said he would file a writ with the 2nd Court of Appeals in the matter. Neither he nor the state’s attorneys would disclose specifics of the apparent disagreement.

“I’m going to leave it up to once I file it,” Burrell said. “I’m not going to go into it at this point.”

Fall Festival set Wednesday

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Ruston’s First Baptist Church will hold its ninth annual citywide Fall Family Festival from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the church parking lot. The church is located at 200 South Trenton St.

Local and area residents, along with their children, can participate in a family-friendly, safe event that includes carnival games, balloon animals, arts/crafts table, face painting by Ruston High School cheer leaders, fire truck viewing, baseball toss game, basketball shoot-out game, football throw game, and surprises galore.

Arrests for burglary, battery made

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Name: Joshua Kenneth Coleman Age: 24 Address: 192 Murline Dr., Grambling Arrested for: Warrant – failure to appear (2 counts) Date of arrest: Oct. 23 Time of arrest: 10:05 a.m. Place of arrest: 170 Road Camp Road, Ruston Arresting agency: RPD Bond amount: None listed

Techsters fall at N. Texas in straight sets

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DENTON, Texas — The Louisiana Tech volleyball team dropped the first of three straight road matches, falling 3-0 (25-17, 25-20, 25-17) to North Texas on Sunday afternoon in the Mean Green Volleyball Center.

Rhett Robinson led the Mean Green (13-8, 7-2 C-USA) with 17 kills, and Valerie Valerian added 15 more. Both Valerian and Robinson hit over .350.

Carter Mirich posted a team-high eight kills for the Lady Techsters. Madeline Davis and Kaitlyn Adams finished with seven kills each.

Tech’s Smith earns state honors

For the second straight week, the Louisiana Tech offense made waves around the state, as Louisiana Tech quarterback J’Mar Smith’s impressive game at Texas-El Paso on Saturday earned him Louisiana Sports Writers Association Offensive Player of the Week honors on Monday.

Smith’s honor comes on the heels of teammate Malik Stanley, who was named the Co-Offensive Playerof theWeekinthe state last week.

In his 34th career start against UTEP, Smith completed 29-for-35 passes for 338 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions.

Makers Fair creates weekend fun

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Cool and damp conditions didn’t stop people from coming out to attend the Fall Makers Fair Saturday at the Historic Fire Station in Ruston. Pictured at top is Katie Batterton, left, perusing through some photographs by Jon Conrad at his Nguyen Paints art and photography booth.

Pictured at middle is Gene Burnham of Gene’s Woodworks from Farmerville showing off his largest dwarf Japanese juniper bonsai tree in a cedar planter.

Cedar Creek dominates in downpour

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Cedar Creek wasn’t going to let anything like torrential downpours dampen their Homecoming celebration Friday night at Cougars Stadium. The Cougars splished, splashed and slashed their way to a 40-6

Rotary Students of the Month, October 2019

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The Ruston Rotary Club proudly announces the recipients of the October Student of the Month Awards. Each student honoree spoke to the club members about their accomplishments at the October