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Sabine and surrounding area music fans are in for a huge treat at the July Lake Country Music Show featuring the best in blues on July 28.

The show opens at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Many Community Center.

Regional musicians are coming together as a band to entertain the Lake Country fans with a wide range of Delta, Piedmont, Chicago and West Coast style Blues music.

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By Daniel Jones, editor

Being a teenager is tough for any number of reasons. Compound that with being a highly sought after running back that is being courted by a large number of top-tier football programs while trying to please friends, fans, and family make it even tougher, and is what Many Tiger AJ Carter has had to face over the previous months.

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Monday, July 23 is the final day to donate school supplies to the 8th Annual Back-to-School Rally. Supply donations may be dropped off at The Sabine Index Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Be sure to have donor’s name on the the bag!

Monetary donations may be mailed to Toledo Bend Resort Ministry, 3840 Carter’s Ferry Road, Zwolle, La. 71486 with Back-to-School Rally on the check memo line.

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Local citizens, friends and family members of those taking the oaths of their city offices gathered at Many City Hall on Friday, June 30 at noon for the ceremony and reception.

Mayor Ken Freeman was sworn in for his 8th term in office. He previously served a four-year term on the Many City Council before running for mayor.

Prayer was offered by Many City Councilman James Kennedy and retiring City Clerk Carolyn Ricks served as mistress of ceremonies.

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Chancellor Jimmy Sawtelle of the Central Louisiana Technical Community College system met with Laurie Morrow, dean of the Natchitoches and Many campuses, along with Karl Young, assistant dean of the Natchitoches campus, several members of the Advisory Committee to discuss a one-time funding from the Carl D. Perkins Federal Grant funds and the transfer of NWLTC into the CLTCC system.

In attendance at the meeting were Advisory Committee members Buddy Wood, Elizabeth Pickett, William Ruffin, Valmore Byles, Donna Smith Ammons, and G.J. “Pie” Martinez; Kristy Brumley of the Sabine Parish School System; Lisa Yerby, Business instructor; Misty Slater, Vice Chancellor-Work Force; and Executive Director of the Sabine Parish Chamber of Commerce Kenneth Ammons.

On July 1, the Natchitoches and Sabine Valley campuses officially became partners in the Central Louisiana Technical Community College system.

Talented artisan Shanna Dees Gaspard will teach her craft students how to make recycled bottle bird feeders at the July 15 craft class at the Depot Museum.

The popular crafts class meets from 1-4 p.m. on the third Saturday of every month. Students enjoy four hours of creativity and then take home their hard work. The cost of the class is only $20 for materials and supplies. A space in the class must be reserved by calling Gaspard at 318-602-1614.

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Toledo Bend Lake remains strong in the 2017 listing for Bassmaster Magazine’s Top 100 Bass Lakes in the Nation. The lists were arranged differently for 2017. The United States is divided into four regions for purposes of the recognition, Central Division, Northeastern Division, Southeastern Division, and Western Division. Each region has 25 lakes listed in order of deserved acknowledgment as determined by wildlife biologists, outdoor writers, pro anglers and representatives from across the U.S. that serve on a thirty member final selection committee. A Top 12 Best Bass Lakes list was also presented for the Nation. The entire list can be viewed in the July/August 2017 edition of Bassmaster Magazine.

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Sabine Parish Sheriff Ronny Richardson, strongly believing in early intervention with young people, has added two deputies to his department who will not only function as Substance Abuse Prevention Education (DARE) officers, but will also serve as School Resource Officers. The officers’ salaries will be funded by a DARE grant, thus saving taxpayer dollars.

School Resource officers have sworn authority and are deployed in a community-oriented policing assignment to work in collaboration with one or more schools. Richardson’s goals for this newly initiated program in the parish include: helping to provide a safe learning environment in Sabine Parish Schools, fostering positive relationships with young people and the Sabine Parish Sheriff’s Department, developing strategies to resolve problems affecting our youth, and protecting all students so they can reach their fullest potentials.

Sabine Parish recently welcomed visitors from Kenya who were visiting the pastor of Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church, Father Michael Thang’wa, who is also from Kenya. Shown in the middle is Bishop Michael G. Duca, Bishop of the Diocese of Shreveport and Father Michael Thang’wa at Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church, pictured during the 146th Anniversary celebration of the church parish.

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In a letter dated June 13, 2017 the Consul General of France in Louisiana, wrote: “Dear Mr. Anthony, I am truly sorry that your health doe not allow you to attend an award ceremony in your honor.

I am particularly moved, as Consul General of France in Louisiana, to award you the highest French distinction, through which the French Republic wishes to recognize your heroism during the Second World War. As part of the 83rd Division of the 331st Infantry Regiment, you not only fought in Normandy, in one of the fiercest battles against the Nazis, but also in the Rhineland and in the Ardennes.”

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