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Ty McCutcheon, Accounting Manager at the DeSoto Parish School Board was installed as President-Elect of the Louisiana Association of School Business Officials (LASBO). Also, Donayle Ashworth, Director of Business Services at the DeSoto Parish School Board in Mansfield was installed as District 4 Director.

The 2021 Officers for the Louisiana Association of School Business Officials (LASBO) are: President – Matthew Dugas, Lafayette Parish School Board, Lafayette, LA; President-Elect – Ty McCutcheon, Desoto Parish School Board, Mansfield, LA; Vice President – Rodney Wilson, Sabine Parish School Board, Many, LA; Secretary – Edwia Richardson, East Baton Rouge Parish School System, Baton Rouge, LA;

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On July 7, Troopers assigned to Louisiana State Police Criminal Investigations Division-Bossier Field Office (CID-BFO) arrested 23-year-old Destiny Allen, of Mansfield, for malfeasance in office.

On July 1, 2021, LSP CID-BFO received a complaint alleging that Allen, a Mansfield Police Department Dispatcher, was unlawfully accessing law enforcement sensitive information by utilizing the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and the Louisiana Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (LLETS).

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At the special meeting called by the DeSoto Parish Police Jury, the requirements drafted by the new Policy and Procedures committee were approved unanimously by the entire Jury. Only a few grammatical and spelling errors changed the final draft. The fee to obtain an event permit will still remain $250 but other stipulations have been added. Now organizers will be required to furnish an IRS certification, a valid landowner lease or contract, pay applicable taxes, location site plan, estimated attendance, a vendors’ list, a security and sanitation assessment.

The Jury did not stop any of the events that had already been approved. Several trail rides had been planned but only one took place in DeSoto within the last two week. Everything went well and there were no problems due to the organizer’s cooperation and crowd control on admission.

Effective Thursday, June 17, DeSoto Regional Health System is now affiliated with Ochsner LSU Health. Additionally, Ochsner LSU Health announced future expansion plans to strengthen its affiliation with North Caddo Medical Center.

The relationships will expand patient access in the rural communities with the specialties of the teaching hospital in Shreveport.

Ochsner LSU Health has already begun providing rotating physicians to enhance specialty care at DeSoto Regional. It expects to increase those specialists and supplement primary care and medical staff as needed.

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The No Man’s Land Gas Station Eats Food Trail, within an area in west Louisiana once known as the Neutral Strip, is a nod to roadside foods of all shapes and sizes.

Anyone who travels to Louisiana knows food is a big attraction. Taking a trip along the Gas Station Eats Food Trail offers a slice of southern hospitality, tasty scenic landscapes, and several big bites of what visitors come here to experience.

The Trail includes an introductory 21 stops in the seven parishes that make up No Man’s Land. Delicacies in these roadside stops include meat pies, tamales, salads, burgers, pies, cookies, boudin, smoked meats, ice cream, and much more.

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If you notice the top of the paper (the official term is the masthead) on last week’s edition, The Enterprise and Interstate Progress rolled over to Volume 118, Issue 1 on July 1, 2021. The Enterprise officially marked its 117th anniversary to begin its 118th year of publication. Our biggest change this past year was the relocation of the office. We had to leave our much-loved address at 202 Adams Street on the DeSoto Courthouse Square to move to our beautiful new office facility, located at 110 Welsh Street, still in Mansfield. We are situated behind the old Capital One building and across the street from Progressive National Bank’s drive-through. If you haven’t stopped by to see our new location, we’d love to have you come by for the grand tour of our beautiful “Lagniappe House: Home of the Enterprise”. It truly is a “little something extra” just like the name says.

Photos by Bryce Denny

The DeSoto Parish Police Jury’s new Policies and Procedures Committee met to discuss and finalize the terms and conditions for getting a permit for an event. It will be enforced for all events parish-wide once it approved by the entire Jury with changes and modifications approved or rejected.

This committee was formed when it became obvious that a more thorough permit process was badly needed after the Grand Cane area Trail Ride went array, drawing thousands of people. The event site could not accommodate the crowd and the overflow spilled over into the village of Grand Cane, who was unprepared for a multitude of this size. Some of the negative happenings of the night included a person getting shot, property damage, and trespassing. One was arrested for allegedly pulling a gun on a DeSoto deputy.

Keachi Mayor Travis Whitfield has been presented with the Winnie Byrd Preservationist Extraordinaire Award, which recognizes an individual or individuals who have made a lasting impact to the historic resources of Louisiana through a body of work.

Serving as the Mayor of Keachi, Whitfield has dedicated his life to historic preservation. He also is on the board of the Keachi Heritage Foundation where he has served for many years.

A native of Linden, Texas, Whitfield fell in love with the little village of Keachi as he passed through it regularly on trips from Houston to Shreveport. He is a talented artist that first started drawing from nature. He attended the University of Houston and was later an artist in residence in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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On May 30, “The Little Funeral Home with a Big Heart” grew a little larger when they held a grand Open House Celebration at their modern, state of the art facility, located at 601 Franklin Street in Mansfield. The founder, the late Robert J. Jenkins, served the public from 1932 to 1972 with the late Catherine Whitaker Leshay taking over as owner in 1972, and continuing for 47 years of dependable service until her death in 2019. Currently, Junear Leshay-Canna and JaVorius R. Canna are providing the same courteous, loyal, dependable and economical service for which Mr. Jenkins and Ms. Leshay had been known for.