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Jeff Morrow, executive director of the Sabine Council on Aging is pleased to partner with Cleco once again for the annual fan drive for seniors.

“The fan drive is important to us because fans help our elderly customers keep cool during our hot summer months,” said Ron Smith, director of customer experience. “Furthermore, fans can help customers conserve energy. Air conditioners are typically the largest energy users in a home, and raising the thermostat to 78 degrees and using a fan can help the air temperature feel 10 degrees cooler and help reduce energy usage.”

Councils on Aging offices within Cleco’s service territory are accepting fans and monetary donations by appointment only June 22 through July 3.

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Every year, Bassmaster compiles the highly anticipated 100 Best Bass Lakes rankings.

The list is created by collecting reams of tournament data from spring events to make the rankings timely and accurate. They named Toledo Bend as the sixth best bass lake of the decade.

As most spring events of 2020 were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were left with no data and could not create the rankings.

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(The Center Square) – Federal officials are once again closely watching Louisiana as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to increase, state and local officials said Wednesday.

Louisiana reported more than 2,000 new cases Wednesday for the first time in a single day since April, though about 900 represented a backlog from a single lab, Gov. John Bel Edwards said. There are 799 COVID-19 patients in Louisiana hospitals, officials said, the highest number reported since May.

As of Sunday, July 5, Sabine Homeland Security had 141 positive tests with at least six additional known positives. A total of 72 are listed as recovered. Hospitalizations had dropped to 542 on June 13 before rising again.

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New Sabine Parish Sheriff Aaron Mitchell was sworn into office on Wednesday, July 1 by Clerk of Court Shelly Salter. In this photo he is shown surrounded by the many deputies, office staff, and other employees of the sheriff’s department. For more, please see OBSERVATIONS on page 2.

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The Willie Stewart God Bless America will not be performed on July 4. Faced with decision to limit attendance to only 50%, we reluctantly decided to postpone this patriotic concert until a later date when everyone could safely attend.

The decision to postpone was a joint decision between Willie Stewart, Many Mayor Ken Freeman and Cultural District Chairperson Mary Brocato.

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For the 20 ^th year, Cleco is partnering with Councils on Aging and other agencies in the company’s service territory to host its Annual Fan Drive for the elderly while following new protocols due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Our seniors benefit during the hot summers months from Cleco’s fan drive,” said Ron Smith, director of customer experience. “Instead of postponing or canceling due to the pandemic, we are working with our partner agencies to continue providing this assistance but with new safety protocols. Fans and monetary donations will be accepted by the Councils on Aging offices only, and those wishing to contribute should schedule an appointment in advance.”

The participating agencies are not open to the public but will accept donations by appointment beginning June 22 through July 3. To donate a fan or money, please contact the Sabine Parish Council on Aging at 318-256-4140.

On June 25, the town of Zwolle held Mayor’s Court where numerous bench warrants and pick up orders were issued.

Bench warrants were issued for:

--Sara Davis; remaining after being forbidden; $350;

--Sara Davis; theft of goods; $450;

--Demotrez Winfield; simple criminal damage to property; $400;

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Louisiana came in second highest in a new study by the WalletHub website that examines how state economies have been affected by the coronavirus, based on two key dimensions.

Louisiana received an overall score of 54.86 in the study by the personal finances website, with the maximum being 100. Examples of issues examined in the analysis included the percentage of jobs in small businesses, worker access to paid sick leave and the number of jobless claims filed during the crisis.

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(Editor’s Note: James Q. Salter is a beloved local historian and writer who has contributed much to our local communities. He asked that we print his recollections of serving during World War II.)

In the last article I related some close calls through our 21 ^st mission of July 9. This conclusion to the article chronicles close calls for the completion of our tour of 32 missions, which consisted of 23 bombing missions, seven mining missions, and two air-sea rescue missions.

On one of our mining missions our light engineer was ill and could not fly. The group engineer was assigned to us for that mission. He almost got all of us killed by miscalculating fuel consumption.