On this special day, those of us who have the forum to express thoughts and ideas tend to offer up heart-warming stories about what our fathers meant to us and the life lessons they passed on.
Recently I’ve had several opportunities to get an up-close look at various programs and offerings in public education here in Lincoln Parish. Here’s the short version: Kids are up to some pretty neat stuff here in our backyard.
There’s a picture in one of my scrapbooks of my Grandfather Bergeron all decked out in his World War I Doughboy uniform, complete with canvass spats that come up almost to his knees.
It’s long past time for me to put a flagpole in the center of my front yard — one that holds a large American flag that dances proudly in the summer breeze.
Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker keeps a palm-sized lump of concrete on his desk. He’s even taken it to Washington, D.C., to try to visually prove a point — at least two of the I-20 overpasses in his city need to be replaced. Now.