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Brandy Roberts, one of the most popular musicians to play at Music in Many is returning on June 8 to the Many Community Center.

Doors to the Many Community Center will open at 6 p.m. on June 8. The show will begin at 7 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12.

Roberts was the first musician to ever pack the 204-seat Community Center when he first played there three years ago. So, get ready to rock and roll at the Many Community Center on Saturday, June

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On Thursday, May 30, Police Chief Ray Williams of the Pleasant Hill Police Dept. commended Brayton “Boogie” Brown for saving the life of a young child who was on the side of the road.

“We are having this ceremony to present Brayton with the ‘World’s Best Hero Award’ for saving a life in our small town,” Williams said. “It makes you feel good to have a teen step up and take on a responsibility like this and do something worthwhile.”

At 9 a.m. on May 20, Brown was going to work and getting breakfast from a local store. He went to leave and saw a little girl walking down Highway 174.

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On June 6, 1944, Many native Walter Duval Stille, Jr., embarked on what was to be one of the United States military’s defining moments, that of storming the beaches of Normandy, France, to begin the systematic dismantling of the Nazi’s grip over Europe.

As a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, Mr. Stille, known to all simply as Stille (pronounced as “Stilley”) was assigned to the U.S.S. Samuel Chase as the pilot of a landing craft, known as a LVCP or Higgins Boat, on D-Day. To save the soldiers in his boat from drowning when they neared the shores of France he drove the boat directly onto the shore of Omaha Beach and, after his soldiers disembarked for the invasion of France, swam to a neighboring vessel for his return to the Chase some 10 miles away.

April 23 was a special day for Warren Meadows Funeral Home, as the staff began their newest tradition with a flag dedication in honor of the late Floyd Giblin and other men and women who served in the armed forces.

Giblin recently passed following an illness, leaving a massive hole at both the heart of the funeral home and in our local communities, which he served both at his business and in the community.

“This is the first of many ceremonies,” said Giblin’s daughter Amy Barnhill. “Our family wanted to do something for all veterans.”

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Registered fishermen will be fishing from the banks of Cypress Bend Park at the 9th annual Toledo Bend Lake Association/ Sabine Soil and Water Conservation District Fish Fest this Saturday, June 2. Fishing begins at 7:30 a.m. Weigh in time will be no later than 11 a.m. The event is open to 150 pre-registered youth fishermen attending kindergarten through twelfth grade the past school year.

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The future Many/Sabine Parish Depot Museum has received a generous gift from Gayle Fisher, a lifetime resident of Many and Sabine Parish.

Fisher is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Phillips of Many.

Fisher donated four very old church pews that were housed in the original Pine Grove Church built in the mid 1800s and still standing deep in the almost impenetrable woods of Kisatchie National Forest. The church and land belong to Ms. Fisher and were inherited from her father who inherited the property from his dad who bought the large tract of land many years ago and paid $3 an acre for it.

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Sabine Parish County Agent Chris Pearce has been named Wildlife Conservation Educator of the Year for 2019.

Pearce, along with other honors, were presented their awards at the 55^th Governor’s State Conservation Awards banquet on April 27 in Baton Rouge.

Other winners included: Katherine Gividen, Governor’s Award for Conservationist of the Year; Sherrill James Sagrera, Volunteer Conservationist of the Year; Audubon Nature Institute Youth Volunteer Corps, Youth Conservationists of the Year; CITGO Petroleum Corporation, Corporate Conservationist of the Year; Senator Dan W. “Blade” Morrish, Conservationist of the Year (Elected Official); The Baton Rouge Zoo FrogWatch, Conservation Organization of the Year; and Kynlee Buras and Evan Alderson, Youth Hunters of the Year.

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