Downsville Mayor Reggie Skains

Downsville Mayor Reggie Skains, made sure Union Parish was represented in Baton Rouge at the Jan. 7 inauguration of Gov. Jeff Landry. At right, Skains with his granddaughter, Emma Lou Ford, and Louisiana’s new Health Secretary, Dr. Ralph Abraham and his wife, Diane. Skains attended the inaugural ball with his daughter, Paula S. Ford (not pictured) and his granddaughter, Emma Lou, a senior finance major at Louisiana Tech University who will appear as a Mardi Gras princess in the national Mardi Gras parade in Washington, D.C. in February.