WINN:
Charles Denver Fox
July 23, 1947 – February 27, 2022
Service: Friday, March 4 at 10 am at Zion Hill Baptist Church
Wilburn J. Smiley
August 28, 1945 – February 28, 2022
Service: Wednesday, March 2 at 2 pm at Southern Funeral Home
Sabine Parish Softball Scores
February 15
Converse 13 (1-0)
Castor 0
Florien 16 (1-0)
Country Day 0
February 17
Florien 20 (2-0)
Hicks 3
Many 12 (1-0)
DeQuincy 1
February 19
Florien 6 (3-0)
Menard 3
Florien 13 (4-0)
Lafayatte Christian 3
Many 14 (2-0)
Jena 4
February 22
Benton 10
Converse 0 (1-1)
Florien 15 (5-0)
Captain Shreve 14
February 24
Winnfield 8
Converse 4 (1-2)
Zwolle 15 (1-0)
North Caddo 4
February 25
Many 12 (3-0)
Zwolle 2 (1-1)
February 28
Negreet 15 (1-0)
Simpson 0
Sabine Parish will be holding a diaper drive to help local families struggling with the high cost of diapers.
Fast Facts about Diaper Need in the United States:
What is diaper need?
The Consequences of Diaper Need
The Sabine Parish Diaper Drive will be held from February 28th to March 14th.
2. 28.22 – 3.14.22
Drop Off Locations
Studio B Dance Company, 820 San Antonio Ave. Many, LA
Many City Hall, 965 San Antonio Ave. Many, LA
Tomiko’s Financial Services/James Wagley’s Office, 259 Fisher Rd. Many, LA
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 1130 E. San Antonio Ave., Many, LA
First United Methodist Church, 2037 Obrie St. Zwolle, LA
Online Donations: https://www.basicnecessitiesla.com/donate
Any questions call Tennille @ 318-609-9899
Sabine Parish Tourist & Recreation Commission is currently seeking a Marketing & Event Coordinator: Full Time
Required Education and Experience:
· Bachelor’s degree from an academic institution in public relations, journalism, marketing, communications, or hospitality management
· Excellent organizational and writing skills
· Strong attention to detail and proofreading
· Strong computer knowledge mandatory
· At least three years’ experience in marketing or public relations and practical experience in the Hospitality industry preferred
· Experience in using video and photography equipment helpful
To view complete job description and employment application, please visit www.ToledoBendLakeCountry.com/
All applicants must submit a completed application and resume to be considered for this position. Deadline to apply is March 8, 2022.
· Responsible for routine food service tasks in the kitchen, cafeteria, dining room, dish room and special function areas.
· Duties of this position include preparing, serving, and distributing food and may require working in various areas of the department.
· The ideal candidate must possess strong interpersonal and customer skills. Prior food service experience is preferred.
Cook
· Responsible for performing food preparation and production tasks efficiently and accurately while following safe food handling policies, procedures, and recipes.
· Duties of this position include, ensuring portion control, temperature, and appearance of food items is per standard.
· The ideal candidate will have prior cooking experience preferably in an institutional setting with an emphasis on scratch and high quantity cooking.
· The ability to read, write and understand directions and to work both independently and as part of a team is also required.
Requirements:
• Position requires standing, walking, and bending throughout the entire workday
· Ability to lift, stack and maneuver objects that may weigh 30 to 50 pounds.
· Perform all other related duties as assigned by management.
To view and apply to these openings, please visit: https://apply.jobappnetwork.
Texting, texting all day long,
on my hand-held telephone.
Kitchen, den or patio,
I can text while on the go!
My favorite place to text outside
Is when I’m cruising in my ride.
The road belongs to me alone
When I want on my telephone.
I drive, but still I answer rings
Since driving, I can do four things:
That’s texttalkdrive AND hit your car.
It takes some skill, but I’m a star!
This won’t make a dent in what my small brain perceives to be a big problem, but, as country crooner Lyle Lovett said, or perhaps texted while driving his horse, “A man has to try. What are you if you don’t try?”
I am not an extremely intelligent person. I’m probably in the same IQ category as the guy who took a laxative and a sleeping pill on the same night.
You’ll see a fish riding a bicycle before you see me accepting any academic awards.
I’m not a bright man.
But, I do have my moments. I married a smart person. I will stop and ask for directions. I know to come in out of the rain. I can change a flat. And I long ago retired from texting while driving.
Each of us knows by now, personally, of at least a dozen accidents caused by people reaching for their dropped cell phones or talking or texting while driving. A grandfather told me last week of his teenaged grandson who had recently wrecked while texting and is now paralyzed from the waist down.
A bigger goofball than me you’ll be hard-pressed to find, but this is serious business.
I am not a good driver to begin with. In fact, I’m probably the second worst driver in the world, and I will take over the top spot should my dad pass away. So I need all hands on deck while steering a vehicle.
It has not escaped my attention, though, that most people are circus acts while driving. I sat outside the house this week and counted the first 10 cars that came by. Seven drivers were on their phones.
I tried again later. Eight out of 10. Must be fires everywhere.
This week I was at a red light and the guy behind me was hit by the woman behind him. Both were on their phones. A conversation on my home phone with a friend two months ago ended with, “Oops, I’ve got to call you back. I just hit a car.”
What the…
I am probably more uneasy about this than most because I was on the front end of getting rear-ended back when cell phones were making their initial splash. A woman picked me off at a Dallas intersection. Just a dent, but a nice dent. She was very nice: she handed me her insurance information and her cell phone number and – this is the honest truth – she never got off her phone the whole time. She had to be the National Security Advisor or the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, is all I can figure. In 1999, was the head of national security blonde, female and mid-40s? Had to be…
On the wide open road, I can understand talking and driving. Otherwise, these are my rules, which my family knows: I can text or talk and drive if I am on fire, if I’m bleeding, or if I’m taking a call about a liver transplant. Short list. Otherwise, my phone’s in park, for my safety and for yours.
Originally ran April 3, 2011. Contact Teddy at teddy@latech.edu
Writers can sometimes feel as if they are cursed by their own creation. Such was the case with Alan Alexander.
Alan was born in 1882 and raised in London, England. He was taught at a school which was run by his father. Alan excelled in school, especially math, possibly because he was under the watchful eye of his father. He continued his education at Trinity College, Cambridge on a mathematics scholarship. During his tenure at Cambridge, he edited and wrote smart and witty articles for a student magazine called The Granta. In 1903, Alan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics. Rather than following the career in mathematics that he had assumed would be his path in life, Alan moved to London to try his hand at freelance writing. In 1906, his writing caught the attention of the editor of Punch magazine, the leading British humor magazine, who hired Alan to write humorous verses and essays.
Alan thrived as a writer and was happy. In 1913, he married Dorothy “Daphne” de Sélincourt. He eventually became assistant editor of Punch magazine. His future seemed assured, but World War I changed the trajectory of his career. In 1915, Alan, exchanged his pen for a rifle when, although a pacifist, he volunteered for military service.” In the following year, Alan was injured in the Battle of the Somme and shipped back to England to convalesce. When he had recovered enough to write, he was recruited to write propaganda articles for MI7, a secret military intelligence organization.
After the war, Alan returned to London where he assumed he would resume his old job at Punch magazine. When the magazine failed to rehire him, Alan turned to playwriting. Following the December 1918 opening of his play entitled “Make-Believe,” one critic wrote that it was, “very popular entertainment.” His other plays, including The Dover Road, Mr. Pim Passes By, and Michael and Mary, were also successful. Alan’s reputation as a write grew with his well-received detective/mystery novel The Red House Mystery.
Agents and publishing companies tried to steer Alan in directions that would suit their needs rather than his, but Alan was determined to write whatever he pleased, whenever he pleased. Luckily, Alan’s writing continued to attract an accepting audience.
In 1920, to their delight, Alan and Daphne had a son they nicknamed Billy Moon. All throughout his childhood, Alan created stories to amuse Billy Moon. The central character in the story was an animal named Edward. In 1924, Alan published a children’s book with Edward and Billy Moon as the central characters, which was an immediate success. He published more stories featuring the characters and they, too, were immediately successful. Alan’s children’s books were so popular that they overshadowed all of his previous work.
Most critics wrote positive reviews of Alan’s “whimsical” children’s stories. Alan detested any reference to his work as being whimsical. “If I write anything less realistic, less straightforward than ‘The cat sat on the mat,’ I am ‘whimsical.’ Indeed, if I did say that the cat sat on the mat (as well it might), I should be accused of being whimsical about cats.” Finally, Alan decided he would never again write a story based on Edward and Billy Moon.
Alan felt cursed by his own creation. The popularity of his children’s books eventually severed the bond between father and son. The rift between them had grown so large that when Alan died in 1956 at the age of 74, he left the rights to his books to four benefactors, none of which was his son, Billy Moon.
Alan would have preferred to have been remembered as a novelist or a playwright, but only the most hardcore fans can name a single work outside of his children’s books. Do you remember Edward and Billy Moon, stories which were written by Alan Alexander “A.A.” Milne? Rather than using the name Billy Moon, Alan used his son’s legal first and middle names, …Christopher Robin. He renamed Edward …Winnie the Pooh.
Sources:
1. The Observer (London, England), December 29, 1918, p.11.
2. The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah), October 13, 1929, p.76.
3. Birmingham Post (Birmingham, England), February 1, 1956, p.16.
4. The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa), February 12, 1956, p.54.