We have arrived at Christmas, through hours of traditional movies and TV shows, through hectic shopping and chaotic family planning. Now it’s time to lift your glass of eggnog and toast to a Merry Christmas.
For the past week there’s been a lot of celebration in Ruston after the Bearcats won their ninth state championship in the football program’s storied history.
This weekend you’re probably waltzing back and forth to the kitchen for a variety of leftover turkey and ham sandwiches. You may have saved a little stuffing and a casserole or two to keep the Thanksgiving feast going for a few more days.
I’ve often described young Brian Trahan as some type of Walter Mitty type explorer, using imagination to visit people, places and things away from Jennings, Louisiana.
Unfortunately, cancer is prevalent in my family. On my father’s side, many of my relatives have battled cancer, and some have succumbed to it. As my father did in January of 2013.
In the last couple of weeks the small community of Jackson Parish has had to deal with three tragic deaths to gun violence. Two of those murders occurred within hours of each other on one senseless night. The other this week.
Now that the weather is turning cooler and we’re in the middle of October, my thoughts have swayed to how many of my relatives are getting ready to hunt whatever it is they hunt.
If there is one thing you should know about journalists and newspapers, it’s that those who work behind the scenes to produce your community journalism take their jobs extremely seriously.
