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Members of Alpha Zeta Chapter of Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority at Northwestern State University hosted a virtual program for the Morgan Extra Mile Scholarship April 19 to recognize students who were named recipients of scholarships funded by David D. and Sherry F. Morgan. Special guests included Mr. and Mrs. Morgan of Austin, Texas; Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority National President Natalie Averette of Virginia Beach, Virginia; NSU President Dr. Chris Maggio and Chapter Advisors Jacque Crew and Reatha Cox.

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New Life Ministries was organized in April 1981 with 12 members under the leadership of Rev. Ervin Davis. At that time services were being held in an old storefront building on Kings Highway in Mansfield. In October 1981, Reverend Joyce Smith of Florala, Alabama moved to Mansfield and was voted in to take the Pastor’s position, which she was faithful to for the next 25 years.

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Homeschooling during a pandemic is not really homeschooling. I’ve heard that “crisis schooling” is a more accurate description.

In my case, I have two teen boys who attend two separate schools. One school is handling “crisis schooling” one way; the other school has different objectives.

So I have one teen who is on Zoom several times a day taking notes and writing MLA-formatted essays, while the other teen is often strolling through the house aimlessly while whistling. I’m not sure if he’s homeschooling or homedrooling. Bless it.

Then I have a fourth grade girl.

The only downfall, from my perspective, regarding her “crisis schooling” has been that the math worksheets involve new material every day, and no one is explaining it — well, except Mrs. Carpenter, the only staff member at the Carpenter Homeschool — uh, I mean Crisis School — Academy.

What a difference a century can make in our lives and particularly in the prices of things. In 1918 the U.S. was in WWI with many of its young men in battle with their lives on the line while combating the Germans; but there was another enemy taking thousands of lives. This enemy was very similar to today’s Chinese Virus. Known as the Spanish Flu, this virus killed thousands of people all over the world. An uncle in WWI told of carrying bodies of the dead soldiers and stacking them by state on the railroad platform in New Jersey to be put in boxcars to be shipped to their homes for burial. It is very interesting to compare the difference in the attitude of this present virus and the few deaths experienced so far in comparison to the thousands of deaths due to a similar flu in 1918.

But let’s get back to the main emphasis of this article, which is the differences in the cost of things from 1918 to 2020. Here are some actual statistics for the year 1918:

Are We There Yet?

Every parent has heard this question from their kids especially on a long family trip. I believe the universal parental answer is, “No, we’ll be there when we get there…”. As an adult you handle the time better because you learn to pace the trip into segments or different terrains so that the trip is laid out systematically in your mind. But can you remember as a kid the intense tedious boredom of the long trip or the excited anticipation sitting up and looking ahead between your parents as you could sense you were near your destination? I think the poet James Zollar captured this in his poem “Wyoming 1952”:

(…) leaning on the front seat between my parents for all I knew I could be anything I might imagine aiming along the hood’s raised space down the straight black highway that opened into the future a mile a minute reaching all the way to a horizon always just a few more giant strides ahead.

Nationwide, Arbor Day is observed on April 22, but the Mansfield Garden Club wanted to honor one of their own a little earlier. Long-time member Jo Moody Ivey passed away on February 22, 2020, and club members wanted to plant a tree in her memory at the DeSoto Parish library. The location was perfect since “Mrs. Jo” was both an avid reader and gardener.

Jo, also known as Memaw around Mansfield and Grand Cane, loved to help others and touched the lives of so many with her love of God, family, and the community. You could often find her watering flowers at Mansfield’s planter boxes on Polk Street.

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The Krewe of Demeter is located in Mansfield, Louisiana, and is the parish wide Krewe for DeSoto Parish. Demeter is also a proud member of The Northwest Louisiana Mardi Gras Association along with 15 other Krewe’s and we are a 501C non profit organization. We are family friendly based Krewe that strives for a traditional small town Mardi Gras experience. We are going into our VI (6th) year. With the growth we have seen in the last few years we are expanding our presence in the parish, membership, events, community service projects, trips, socials, parades, and FUN..... 2020-2021 season kicks off

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