Lifestyle

By Donna Dyson-Horn

Our Marthaville Good Ole Days Festival is now less than a month away and already orders are coming in right and left to purchase one of this year’s festival T-shirts. You can get in touch with Shirley Hennigan at 318- 472-1654 or 903-474-3336 or just stop by and she can fix you up! All of the T-shirts are located at her house, all you have to do is stop in or call to have her put your shirt back for a later pick up.

This year will be another great year, vendors are coming in, some with food, some with crafts but it will be something for everyone. Be sure you mark it down and be there.

The children of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church have been busy buying items to pack in their Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. They have increased the number of shoeboxes from their church so that more underprivileged children from around the world will receive needed items while hearing about Jesus’s love.

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The Sabine Council on Aging Fall Festival will be on Thursday September 27 at the Z wolle Fiesta G rounds. BOM donated 300 bottles of water.

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Debra Funderburk , Bank of Montgomery Branch Manager and CSR in Many, had the pleasure of speaking to the students in the STE P summer program. After completing the course, the students will work for three weeks at different businesses in Many and receive a “paycheck ” .

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The Sabine Council on Aging will host their annual Fall Festival on September 27 from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the Fiesta Grounds in Zwolle. City Bank will provide the chips for the lunch served to the senior citizens.

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A meeting of the District 8 Retired Teachers Association will be held on Tuesday, September 4, at 6 p.m., in the atrium of Natchitoches Central High School, located att 6513 Highway One South Bypass, Natchitoches. Both active and retired educators are encouraged to attend. Guest speakers will be Dana Vicknair, director of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL), and Rodney Watson, director of the Louisiana Retired Teachers Association (LRTA), Important updates will be given concerning retirement and legislative issues concerning both retired and active educators in Louisiana.

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Many more children have either completed or are close to completing the Sabine Parish Library’s 1,000 Books before Kindergarten program. The service is offered by the Sabine Parish Library, which encourages parents to read stories to their preschool children. For more information, or to sign up, please call the library at 318-256-4150.

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By Rickey Robertson

Since the Louisiana Maneuvers of 1941, Louisiana has been visited by many famous military officers. During the Louisiana Maneuvers men such as George Patton, Mark Clark and Dwight Eisenhower are still well remembered. During the Vietnam War years later, a famous officer came and visited Fort Polk in October, 1966. His name was Creighton “Fighting Abe” Abrams.

Creighton Abrams was born September 15, 1914, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and graduated in 1936. One of his classmates was William C. Westmoreland. Upon graduating the military academy Lt. Abrams was assigned to the U.S. Cavalry. After serving in the cavalry, with the rank of captain, he was transferred into the newly formed 1st Armored Division in 1940. The 1st Armored trained continuously in armored tactics. During World War II Major Abrams commanded the 37th Tank Battalion of the 4th Armored Division .

West Central Louisiana Operation Christmas Child Countdown was a tremendous success.

All five drop off centers were represented by Westside Baptist Church of Natchitoches Parish, Martin Baptist Church of Red River Parish, and Calvary Baptist of Sabine Parish. There is also an additional drop off center in Converse at Mitchell Baptist Church and First Baptist of Winn Parish.

Shoeboxes will be collected in the third week of November at each location.

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