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Pamplona Spain is best known for a wild andcrazy event that takes place each July in this city of100,000. Men with more sense of adventure thansmarts take to the streets of this European villagefor the “running of the bulls”, a week-longevent that promises to result in scores ofinjuries and almost always a few fatalitiesas bulls are released into the narrowstreets …

Do you ever reflect on the past and say to yourself,“where has all the time gone”. We seem to say it morefrequently as we age and the distance of time in the pastwe reflect on seems to be longer and longer. Though theyears go by, certain events never age and remain fresh inour minds. One such point in time happenedthirty-five …

My AI friend and I have calculated that since mycamping experiences in the 1960s and 1970s, approximately150 million American children have attendedsummer camp. Perhaps you were one of them.If so, I hope your experience was as amazingand life-changing as mine was.I attended Camp Ch-Yo-Ca (a Christian YouthCamp) in Calhoun. It’s easy to list some of themost-remembered aspects of those days, …

Antioch Baptist Church3501 Hwy 828Farmerville318-368-3591Early Worship – 8:30 a.m.Sunday School – 9:45 a.m.Morning Worship – 10:45 a.m.Bethel TemplePentecostal Church2144 Hwy 33 N.MarionSunday School -11 a.m.Sunday Worship -12 p.m.318-608-6766Canaan Baptist Church502 Canaan Church Rd.SpearsvilleSunday School -10amSunday Worship -11am870-312-3440Bro. Brian WilliamsConway BaptistChurch Homecoming4323 HWY 549North of FarmervilleDean Baptist Church2309 Hwy 827MarionSunday School – 9:45 a.m.Sunday Worship – 11 a.m.Wed. 6:30pm318-292-4463The attendance was …

An LSU running backhas suddenly transferred toSouthern amid an ongoinglegal issueFormer LSU running backTrey Holly has enrolled atSouthern as a walk-on, ateam spokesperson confirmedTuesday night.Holly participated in theJaguars’ first preseason footballpractice Tuesday night, accordingto WVLA-TV. Southern coachTerrence Graves told reportersthat Holly is eligible to play.

The Louisiana Legislaturehas declined to reconvene for aveto override session this year.The majority of lawmakers– 87 members of the Houseof Representatives and 29in the Senate – voted not tohold a special session in whichlawmakers try to overturn Gov.Jeff Landry’s rejection of bills.In all, the governor vetoed15 pieces of the legislation andremoved portions of threebudget proposals that legislatorscould have voted to …

(I spotted something sitting on a shelf in myoffice, a Wheaties box honoring Willis Reed that heinscribed for me. Seeing the box rekindled memoriesof an interview I had with him, a local fellowwhose NBA career was spectacular and whopassed away at age 81 in 2023. In memoryof Reed, here’s an article I wrote about myvisit with him in 2009.)Willis Reed …

Fifty Eight years. That’s how long ago it’s been sinceBrother Jimmy Swaggart’s father, also a minister, cameinto my small Ferriday law office where I was a sole practitioner,and asked me to incorporate his church. Hetold me about his son who had recently been ordained asa Pentecostal minister in the Assemblies of theLord Jesus Christ branch of the church.Young Brother Swaggart …

Fear of failure is one of the biggest fears peoplehave. Ironically, failure is an integral component of thesuccess process. There are two distinctly different typesof failure. Absolute failure is when you give up. Successfulfailure is when you get back up.Of course, not everything you attempt works outas planned. When striving for a goal, you will likely discovermany ways which don’t …