Meet the Sabine Parish Chamber of Commerce 2022-2023 Vice-President, Mike Mancil. He is married to Lou Mancil they are from the Belmont area. He is the Vice President of operations for Atmos Energy and also serves on the 811 board for the state of Louisiana. He is the father of two grown children and grandfather to four amazing grandchildren. Thank you, Mike, for all you do in the Sabine Parish Chamber of Commerce. Your efforts do not go unnoticed!

Many City Hall announced on social media on July 25 that the office is closed due to COVID quarantine until further notice. Payments can be made in the drop slot at the drive-thru window. The office is still operational if you need information.

Many Mayor Robert Hable experienced what he described as, “one of the most moving ceremonies, which is an understatement.” Colonel Jason Green of the USAF received his official pin from USAF Lt. General Kirk Pierce, and his 98 years young Grandfather Jack Green, a WWII veteran!

It was only fitting to honor Paw Paw Jack with a Proclamation from the Town of Many honoring his and Colonel Green’s service to our great Country. Thank you to all our Service Men and Women who have and are serving the USA!

Unless you were born with four-leaf clovers in both hands, you are semi-cursed with the Give-Take Principle, or the GTP. Also called the Law of Staying Behind. 

Whenever you get a little extra money, something will happen to snatch that money right out of your greedy little paws. Seldom does this fail. 

My first real run-in with this reality was December, 1987. I went to The Great Louise at the newspaper — besides having a heart as wide as the Red River, she knew Everything about Everything — handed her an envelope and told her I’d accidentally been given an extra paycheck that week. 

“That’s your Christmas bonus,” The Great Louise said. 

Those were the days. 

When the tears had cleared enough for me to see, I drove my truck straight to what was then Pioneer Bank — “The bank with the open door from 9 ’til 4” — deposited my check, wept some more, then started to crank my truck. 

Key broke off in the ignition.  

Cost 80 bucks to fix. Merry Christmas to the locksmith, not so much to me. 

Fate giveth money, fate taketh money away. 

For some reason at the first of this month, we had a little extra money. So it was not a big hit when the envelope came in the mail, as it does every six months, with the car insurance due. 

$461.57. 

But also in the mail was the annual termite prevention bill. 

$289.00. 

An attention-getting one-two punch, but not one that would put you on the mat. 

Except then the electric bill notice came by email. I was scared to open it. 

And … for good reason. It shattered the previous monthly record by nearly $200. 

Good thing I was sitting down. 

Something was going on. The Give-Take Principle. The indisputable Law of Staying Behind. 

It was more expected than surprising that evening when the musty smell under the sink turned out to be a plumbing leak in an old cast iron pipe, a pre-PVC situation. Easily fixable — once a carpenter moved a cabinet and cut some holes in the wall. 

Plumbing cost? $509.00 the first day, $1,013.20 the second. 

Carpentry? Jury is still out on that one, but we’re saving up. 

It would have been easier to save up if, during the weekend before the plumbing was totally fixed, the plumbing in the back of the house hadn’t backed up. So, while plumbing was getting fixed in the kitchen, the “clean-out” guys were on the roof, running a roto-rooter thingy down the old cast iron pipes back there, ones that will eventually leak of course, and mercifully cleaning that out. 

$330.00.

Thought it was going to be worse so was grateful. What was worse were the two new tires I had to get the next day. 

$427.74. Gotta have tires.  

Two days later I took those tires and the rest of my car to my stud mechanic friend because my AC had gone out, the battery was draining, and surely that meant alternator trouble and another story for another time but the bottom line equals $357.19 and I wept like a small wet child for joy because I thought it would be much worse. 

It’s at times like this I’m grateful to mow grass. Nothing can get to you when you’re out there mowing grass. So that’s what I did — until my mower broke. 

Of course, it did. 

The next day I put it in my repaired car and left my repaired home and drove it to the shop and left it. The next day I called to check on it. 

Needs just one part. Just That One Part. 

Unfortunately, Just That One Part is on backorder. 

Of course, it is… 

Contact Teddy at teddy@latech.edu. 

District Judge: Verity Gentry (Judge Elect)

School Board, District 1: Daron Chandler
School Board, District 2: Leah V. Byles
School Board, District 5: Genevieve Gordon + Everett Guidry
School Board, District 6: Donald Garcie + John Stewart
School Board, District 7: Terrell D Snelling
School Board, District 8: Donald H. “Hootie” Remedies

Town of Zwolle, Mayor: Marvin Frazier

Town of Zwolle, Council: Harry Babers + Jane Rivers

BOM sponsored the Negreet Youth Baseball & Softball organization. Pictured left to right: BOM’s Twyla Lovelady and her grandson Caleb Veuleman.

By Brad Dison

A New York television show was due to begin broadcasting in two weeks. In the 1950s, television was broadcast live before a studio audience. There was no editing. The production had one serious problem; they were having trouble casting an actress to play the lead character’s wife. They had considered numerous actresses but could not find one who fit the role. The lead character had the final say in who played his wife. Actresses were either too tall, too short, too big, too small, too loud, or too quiet.

Audrey Cotter was performing in the Broadway production of Top Banana and had appeared on several television shows including The Amazing Mr. Malone (1951), The Bob & Ray Show (1951-1952), and Lux Video Theatre (1952). She agreed to help the production find the right actress. She suggested just about every actress she knew, but the leading man always had a reason why none of them would fit the part. Finally, Ms. Cotter said she knew the perfect actress for the part, herself.

Ms. Cotter, an experienced professional actress was immaculately dressed in the current style, her makeup and hair were flawless, her movements were graceful – the leading man knew she was all wrong for the part. He quickly pointed out that the character was supposed to be a blue-collar housewife who, along with her husband, portrayed their daily struggle for survival in New York City. He explained that she was “all wrong.” She was too young, too pretty, and, above all, too glamours for the part. No one would believe she could be married to him. Ms. Cotter left the meeting feeling rejected, although being rejected for being too young, too pretty, and too glamorous must have softened the blow somewhat.

Ms. Cotter was not too serious about getting the part until she was turned down. She became a determined woman. On the walk back to her apartment, she told her agent to return to her apartment the following morning with a photographer. Ms. Cotter stayed in bed until the agent and photographer rang her bell. She let the men into her apartment. Her hair was mussed up, she wore no makeup, she wore a blouse—she had torn one of the sleeves for the occasion—and donned an apron. She walked into her cluttered kitchen and the photographer took several pictures. They developed the photographs and sent them back to the casting person with no name attached.

The lead man looked at the pictures. Her shoulders were slumped, one hand rested on the countertop as if to keep her from collapsing from utter exhaustion. Rather than a smile, Ms. Cotter’s expression was one of disdain as if she were about to ask, “What can happen next?” The lead man said in rapid succession, “Oh, My God. That’s [her]. Who is she? Where is she? Can we get her?”

Ms. Cotter got the part. The lead man was unaware until sometime later that he had already rejected her for the part. Although the television sitcom lasted just a single year, Ms. Cotter’s character became one of the most beloved in television history, Alice Kramden.

Few people know the actress as Audrey Cotter. The world knows Alice Kramden by her stage name, Audrey Meadows. The man who rejected her for the part played her husband in the show. His name was Jackie Gleason. She, along with her husband, Ralph, and upstairs neighbors Ed and Trixie Norton, were… The Honeymooners.

Source:
“Honeymooners Stars Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph on the Joan Rivers Show.” YouTube. Last modified August 4, 2020. Accessed July 17, 2022. youtube.com/watch?v=-zpcywEQHxQ.

*****NOW HIRING*****Entry Level Production Associates – Starting Pay $19/hr + $2,000 sign on bonus. Call 318-645-3213 to pre- register for JOB FAIR to be held on site at Weyerhaeuser in Zwolle (2792 Obrie St.) on Wednesday, July 27 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. On-site tours and interviews on the day of event. Must pre-register, submit application online at www.weyerhaeuser.com, and successfully complete assessment to qualify to be interviewed. You’re invited to come join our Team!!!!!

SABINE:
Martin Louis Crooks
March 16, 1960 – July 24, 2022
Service: Thursday, July 28 at 10 am at St. Joseph Catholic Church

NATCHITOCHES:
Diannia Lynn Coleman
May 19, 1967 – July 25, 2022
Service: Saturday, July 30 at 10 am at Fairview Baptist Church

Richard Gerald Martin
March 8, 1949 – July 25, 2022
Service: Friday, July 29 at 10 am in the chapel of Blanchard-St. Denis Funeral Home

WINN:
Jo Ann Chatelain
September 16, 1943 – July 20, 2022
Service: Saturday, July 30 at 11 am at Southern Funeral Home, 202 E. Lafayette Street in Winnfield

RED RIVER:
Dewey “Randy” Lee Thomas
August 24, 1967 – July 24, 2022
Service: Wednesday, July 27 at 11 am at Bethel Baptist Church

For several years, Buddy Wood lent his voice to the Demon Sports Network. Now, he is giving back something even more tangible.

Wood announced Friday a donation of $100,000 to the Northwestern State Athletic Department, part of which will be used to start an endowment toward the Buddy Wood Family Scholarship.

“It’s a continuing reinvestment in what Northwestern State has done and has meant to me through the years,” Wood said. “I feel we as alumni have an obligation to give back and reinvest in the university that educated us and helped launch the careers that put us where we are now.”

Wood’s gift will benefit the athletic department as a whole while the scholarship will be built through the Perpetually Purple endowment program.

“It is alumni like Buddy Wood who make NSU Athletics so special and continue to make a difference for our student-athletes,” NSU Associate Athletic Director for External Affairs Ryan Hall said. “The entire Demon athletic family is so grateful for this contribution that will only enhance all of our programs. Thank you, Mr. Wood, for ‘Bringing the Heat’ to kick off the 2022-23 athletic year.”

Enhancing Northwestern State athletic programs while aiding student-athletes was equally important to Wood, whose C.R. Wood State Farm Insurance Agency is located in Many.

“I want our university to prosper, and I want our athletic programs to prosper,” Wood said. “It’s a great way to support the development of student-athletes and, hopefully, help them launch careers that will make them as fortunate and blessed as I am.”

The Perpetually Purple endowment program’s aim is to allow NSU to provide a sustainable source of scholarship funding that’s separate from efforts to supplement the annual athletics program budget with donations, corporate partnerships and special fund-raising events.

A minimum commitment of $10,000 is required to create an endowment fund, but that fund can start from any initial outright gift. Endowments can be established with an outright gift such as cash, a stock transfer or property sale, a life insurance policy, or can be included as a provision in a will or bequest.

Arrangements can be made to fund an endowment over an extended period of time.

Photo: NSU Athletics

AS AN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER, YOU WILL: 

• Identify opportunities to introduce flow and visual management into processes and work alongside area leadership to implement 
• Utilize process mapping, value stream mapping, and root cause analysis 
• Capture manufacturing cycle time data in the production department, develop improvement plans, and execute action plans 
• Create, review, and update standard work 
• Maintain plant and workstation layouts to reflect the current state and to provide potential future state options to project leaders and management 
• Lead improvement activity by facilitating kaizen events or acting as a project resource 
• Develop area leadership through lean daily management process 
• Train new employees on continuous improvement concepts in Orientation and in other settings 

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS: 

• BS degree in engineering, manufacturing, or equivalent degree and a minimum of two years’ experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience in manufacturing identifying opportunities for the efficiency of manufacturing processes and operations  
• Experienced in lean manufacturing principles 
• Project management experience 
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD 2D for managing plant layouts 
• Analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Excellent communication skills 

If qualified and interested, please apply online at www.emerson.com 

BENEFITS:

We offer medical insurance plans, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and more. We also provide you flexible time-off plans, including parental leave, vacation, and holiday leave.  

Equal Opportunity Employer 
Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.  

AS A TEAM LEADER, YOU WILL: 

• Supervise utilizing strong interpersonal skills 
• Use technical knowledge of manufacturing processes, as applies to such supervision 
• Utilize computer skills to facilitate processes and software used 
• Pursue objectives with organizational skills to meet goals 
• Work with personnel at all levels of the organization 

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS: 

• Two (2) year Associates Degree, plus one year of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience 
• Excellent communication skills; both oral and written 
• Great computer skills (Excel and Word 

BENEFITS:

We offer medical insurance plans, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and more. We also provide flexible time-off plans, including parental leave, vacation, and holiday leave.  

Shift is 11:00 p.m. until 7:30 a.m.  Overtime requirements are based on customer needs to meet business objectives. 

If qualified and interested, please apply online at www.emerson.com 

Equal Opportunity Employer 
Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.  

AS A TEAM LEADER, YOU WILL: 

• Supervise utilizing strong interpersonal skills 
• Use technical knowledge of manufacturing processes, as applies to such supervision 
• Utilize computer skills to facilitate processes and software used 
• Pursue objectives with organizational skills to meet goals 
• Work with personnel at all levels of the organization 

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS: 

• Two (2) year Associates Degree, plus one year of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience 
• Excellent communication skills; both oral and written 
• Great computer skills (Excel and Word 

BENEFITS:

We offer medical insurance plans, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and more. We also provide flexible time-off plans, including parental leave, vacation, and holiday leave.  

Shift is 4:30 p.m. until 3:00 a.m.  Overtime requirements are based on customer needs to meet business objectives. 

If qualified and interested, please apply online at www.emerson.com 

Equal Opportunity Employer
Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.  

AS A PRODUCTION ENGINEER, YOU WILL: 

• Conceptualize, develop, and initiate process improvements and cost reductions 
• Use Lean principles to reduce cycle times and reduce waste  
• Manage problem solving teams from inception to corrective actions.  Will often involve leading a team through the process. 
• Self-initiate improvement and / or corrective actions for safety, quality, cost and productivity concerns using formal six sigma problem solving tools 
• Develop documentation for operators and maintenance on proper equipment operation and care 
• Effectively communicate changes to all levels of the organization and at all stages of implementation 

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS: 

• BS degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent engineering technology degree 
• Excellent interpersonal skills  
• Strong computer skills (Microsoft Excel and Word) 
• Self-starter able to work independently 

If qualified and interested, please apply online at www.emerson.com 

BENEFITS:

We offer medical insurance plans, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and more. We also provide you flexible time-off plans, including parental leave, vacation, and holiday leave.  

Equal Opportunity Employer 
Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.  

Congratulations to two newest POST certified officers at the Many Police Department: Officers Wiley Mason and Marshal Evans. They are proud graduates of the intensive LaFourche Parish POST academy!