Lifestyle

Many gardeners consider snails and slugs to be the most disgusting pests in the garden. I could live with their looks if they just didn’t cause so much damage.

Snails and slugs belong to the mollusk family along with oysters. They crawl along on a single foot over a thin layer of slime that they produce to ease their way. Snails carry a shell on their back into which they can retreat when threatened. Slugs do not have shells. Both are mostly active at night, particularly when conditions are moist.

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The Mansfield Lions Club supports eye care as one of its main projects for this area. A presentation was provided to the Club on one of the latest methods of detecting and screening for potential eye issues on Pre-K children.

The method of observing eye issues is using a small camera that takes a picture of the eyes and can recommend further eye tests by professionals if needed.

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By Dan Gill

LSU AgCenter Horticulturist Our winter landscapes look decidedly different from our landscapes in summer for two major reasons. First, many of our shade trees drop their leaves in winter, and in their leafless state their appearance is stark and bare. In addition, our lawn grasses go dormant in winter and turn brown.

Lawns can be overseeded with ryegrass if a green winter lawn is desirable (and you don’t mind continuing to mow). But nothing can be done about the trees.

Plants that drop all their leaves at one time and enter a leafless, dormant state are called deciduous. In climates that experience cold winters, such as the northern U.S., this leafless time for trees and shrubs is during winter when subfreezing temperatures occur.

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December 9th was the Desoto Parish Gumbo Cook off on the Logansport Riverfront. Teams competed in the battle for the paddle and to be the 2017 Desoto Parish Gumbo Champions.

This parish wide event was hosted by Desoto’s Mardi Gras Krewe, The Krewe of Demeter and co hosted by Logansport’s Krewe of Aquarius, Logansport Lighting and Festival Committee and coordinated by retired chef/kitchen Personality Hunter Mannies.

Sponsors of the event were Desoto Parish Tourist Bureau, Desoto Parish Chamber of Commerce, and The Cajun Cabin Restaurant and Bar. Along with the cook off, teams and event goers enjoyed, boudin, fresh cracklins cooked onsite, live music from Sydney Jones and also 1/2 century gone.

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Four students from North DeSoto were featured in a production at the Shreveport Little Theater Academy that ran Dec. 15-17. The cast of SLTA’s production of Alice in Wonderland Jr.

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Some ESS students from Logansport High School enjoyed a field trip to the Louisiana Boardwalk on Dec. 6. Students had a great time during the trip, which was sponsored by Logansport PTO.

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During the 2018 Medicare Open Enrollment period from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7, DeSoto Council on Aging held a drawing for all new enrollee’s that enrolled at Desoto Council on Aging.

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Mansfield Lions Club awarded member Mary Jo Sallis a Troy ounce coin for having the most points.

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“A Redbird Christmas” by Fannie Flagg was the December Books and Biscuits Book Club selection. The group members met at Cook-Hill House on Dec. 5 and were greeted by innkeeper Tamara McKinley with a beautifully decorated house using the redbird theme.

Discussion leader Edith Herring presented each girl with a redbird necklace before leading the discussion on Fannie Flagg’s wonderful Christmas story about a little southern town that comes together to save a little girl and in doing so redeems the main character Oswald T. Campbell who was given just a few months to live.

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