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Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell is proud to announce the completion of an Energy Efficiency project for the DeSoto Parish Police Jury.

The $220,000 grant awarded to the DeSoto Parish Police Jury in 2021 funded the installation of high-efficiency LED lighting at all of the parish-owned facilities.

“These improvements will reduce energy consumption, which will result in lower electric bills, as well as reducing the long-term maintenance costs associated with older fixtures. Every dollar that our local governments and public bodies save on their electric bills is a dollar that can help them improve service to the public in other ways”, Campbell said.

At the last regular meeting of the City of Mansfield’s Board of Aldermen, various officials and individuals were honored with commemorative plaques for their help gathering disaster relief supplies for those impacted by Hurricane Ida.

The Mansfield Police Department started with any empty truck bed and trailer and left Friday morning packed fully packed and covered with tarps that will also be left for the victims of Ira. MPD Assistant Chief Billy Locke led the convoy from Mansfield to deliver all of these items, plus much need fuel where there currently was none. Even if people had generators the machines would not work without fuel.

Photos by Mickey Morgan

The Mansfield Wolverines’ Homecoming Court has been announced for 2021. The Homecoming Game will be held October 29 at Washington-Taylor-Rogers Stadium. The Wolverines will be playing the North Webster Knights. The Homecoming Queen and Football Sweetheart will be announced during halftime. Mansfield’s Homecoming Formal Court Coronation will be Thursday, October 28 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wolverine Gymnasium. The doors will open at 6:45 p.m. The Parade will be on Friday, October 29 and will begin at 11:30 a.m. at MHS.

Senior Maids (l to r) Sha’Korryah Wyatt, Bryanna Jenkins, Ariell Thomas, and Cierra Taylor. The Homecoming Queen and Football Sweetheart will be chosen from these four young ladies.

Sophomore Maids (l to r) Trinity Ford and T’La Dewitt. .

Junior Maids (l to r) Cylicia Jackson and Lyric McKinney.

Freshman Maids (l to r) Kaitlyn McDaniel and Zakhia Austin.

The Bon Chase Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) ladies are shown with Chief Deputy Raymond Sharrow (center back row) and some of the local deputies with the goodies they gave for their “National Day of Service”. The group also enjoyed hearing deputy Sgt. Todd Edwards speak at their October meeting on Women’s safety. (submitted)

The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles (OMV) and LanguageLine Solutions have partnered to offer a free, on-demand, language interpretation service to non-English and limited English speaking customers. LanguageLine phone interpreting services quickly connects OMV visitors with a highly trained interpreter within seconds. Interpretation services are available in over 240 languages at all OMV field offices.

Earlier this month Stonewall Mayor Randy Rodgers aka Mayor Santa and his wife Pam Rodgers were the winners of KISS 93.7 Country radio in Shreveport’s “Caught in the Act” contest. They were awarded a $100 gift certificate from Silver Star Smokehouse to enjoy an evening out to celebrate their new title. To win this award someone has to nominate a person that they feel do good deeds and is a role model to others.

The DeSoto Parish Chamber of Commerce cordially invites everyone to join their Board and members at a Ribbon Cutting and Grand Opening Ceremony for MWT Tire and Auto in Stonewall on Saturday, October 16.

The Grand Opening will begin at 8:00 a.m. and run until 1:00 p.m. with the Ribbon Cutting set for 11:30 p.m.

MWT Tire and Auto is located at 2328 Hwy 171 in Stonewall.

MMS is proud to introduce some of the 8th grade candidates for the Call Me MISTER program. Call Me MISTER (acronym for Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) is a program whose mission is to increase the pool of available male teachers from a broader more diverse background.

Our world is advancing at a rapid pace. Education across the country and here is struggling with teacher shortages. While our district continues to face the challenge of teacher shortages, we are committed to building a better tomorrow by igniting our community’s educational potential.

With that said, we are introducing an exciting, important initiative that we are launching this year-Call Me MiSTER® (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models).

If you’re an LPN and are interested in becoming an RN, you need to make plans to attend informational meetings that will be held right here in DeSoto Parish. Bossier Parish Community College has joined with the Northwest Louisiana Technical Community College – Mansfield Campus to host meetings on several dates to find out if people are interested in achieving this goal.

The first meeting will be held on Monday, October 17 at 3:00 p.m. at 3:00 p.m. at DeSoto Regional Health Systems, with the next meeting held virtually on Monday, October 25 at 6:00 p.m. by going to bit.ly/DeSotoLPNtoRN.com on the Internet. The final meeting will be held on Friday, October 29 at 10:00 a.m. at the DeSoto Parish Chamber of Commerce Board room.

For questions call 318-872-1310.

The Mansfield Lions Club hosted Sheriff Jason Richardson to speak about current affairs in DeSoto Parish and new developments in his Department. His “Guest” was our new District Attorney Judge Charlie Adams whom we hope will become a regular member! Flanking the table where our Sheriff and D.A. sat was Mr. Adams’ newly elected replacement Attorney - now Judge (and Club Past President) - Nick Gasper and with these three power players no question was left unanswered...

Our world is advancing at a rapid pace. Education across the country and here is struggling with teacher shortages. While our district continues to face the challenge of teacher shortages, we are committed to building a better tomorrow by igniting our community’s educational potential.

With that said, we are introducing an exciting, important initiative that we are launching this year-Call Me MiSTER® (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models).

Call Me MiSTER® was founded by a group of visionary educators at Clemson University to address the critical shortage of minority male teachers in America’s classrooms. Call Me MiSTER® serves students at 19 participating colleges within South Carolina and 8 national partners-including Grambling State University and Northwestern University.