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The annual Sabine Parish Backto- School Rally was very successful on Saturday, Aug. 1 at the Fairgrounds, according to Many Gore of the Toledo Bend Ministries. Gore and her team of committee members, including Elyda Thaxton, the Rev. Harry Babers, the Rev. Elaine Burleigh, Lisa Henderson, Virginia Burkett and Donna Smith Ammons worked to make this the best ever. They were pleased with Saturday’s results. “We distributed 275 bags of school supplies to students in grades Pre-K through high school,” she said. “We had a new routine to follow and it seemed to work out well.” 

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By Donna Smith Ammons

Growing up, Hannah Dahlem was a quiet studious child. The fourth of six children born to Jerry and Susan Dahlem, formerly of Many, Hannah was home-schooled along with her brothers and sisters, Zach, Jessica, Nathan, Rachel and Ben. On Aug. 30, she will begin a career in the business world, in a large city, hundreds of miles away from her family, who now lives in Bossier City.

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By Daniel Jones, editor

The love affair between a person and their car, whether Dodge, Chevy, or any other brand in between is immense, but for Cindy Ezernack of Zwolle, the love between her and a Ford Mustang means something much more meaningful. The story begins when Ezernack was a young high school student. Through a number of unfortunate familial events, she was living with her grandmother and working during a summer break.

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On July 11, Pleasant Hill Police Officer Stuart Anthony received a call reporting a burglary on Texas Street in Pleasant Hill. Also responding was Police Chief Ray Williams. Upon arrival, the owner stated that as he returned home, he noticed a window air conditioning unit moved and items missing from the residence. A witness provided information to officers and two suspects were quickly arrested. The investigation also revealed that another residence ad been burglarized in the same area.

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The annual Back-to-School Rally will be hosted at the SabineParish Fairgrounds on Saturday,   ug. 1, with the gates opening at  7 a.m., according to Chairman Mary Gore of Toledo Bend Ministries. The opening ceremonies and program, which will feature guest speaker, Judge Elizabeth  Pickett of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, begins at 8 a.m. Student testimonies and music will also be featured in the program 

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(Editor’s Note: Information for the following was attained through the “Back to School” edition of The Catholic Commentator, a Baton Rouge based magazine.) Veronica Winchester, a Florien High School graduate, has  been on a winding path that shesays brought her back to where she always should have been— education. The Diocese of Baton Rouge’s  first special education program .

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Workers from Swepco and CLECO were on hand Tuesday morning, July 21, to work at the power plant, located within the city limits of Many on the Natchitoches Highway. A fire at the plant in the early morning hours created a huge outage in Sabine Parish. (Photo by The Sabine Index/Debbie Rose) Between 70 and 80 percent of the homes in Sabine Parish were without electricity in the early morning hours of Tuesday morning, July 21, according to volunteer firemen from Many’s District I Fire Station.

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By Donna Smith Ammons Special Assignments Ingrid Guay Cook, a 1987 graduate of Many High School, achieved  national recognition recently whenshe was one of five working women  across America chosen to be featured in MORE magazine’s July/August 2015 issue. Cook was one of the Impact  Award winners, who was featured in an eight-page spread in the magazine. She has a full-page photo of her self and the other honorees, including Barbara Bush, daughter of former President and Mrs. George W. Bush, CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps of New York  City; Anita Jones-Mueller, President and founder of Healthy Dining, San Diego; Darlene Oliver, Executive Director of Public Allies of Chicago and Celeste Bodner, Founder and executive director of Foster Club of Seaside, Oregon