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Save a life, Give blood: The true meaning of a blood drive
What do you think when you hear “blood drive?” Before I worked for United Blood Services, I just thought of the red and white bus you see, when you happen to be looking. I thought the buses were p...
Sep 10, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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A Country Boy’s Reflections: Sacred Friendships
I would think that all my readers should identify in some way to the subject of “Friendships.” Friendship is the most sacred of human relationships. I guess you could call this writing a “little ...
Sep 09, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tailgating food safety tips
Football season is back and whether you are tailgating at the Superdome, Tiger Stadium, Cajun Field or at your local high school football game, you do not want food poisoning to spoil your game day...
Sep 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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The President’s Column: A weekly feature provided by your parish Farm Bureau
The recall of half a billion eggs last week is a big deal, but some are trying to claim that the type and size of the egg farms is the cause of the salmonella problem. Louisiana Farm Bureau Preside...
Sep 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Parents can aid their children with homework success
When parents become involved in their children’s schoolwork, including helping with homework, studies show the children do better in school. But that doesn’t mean they are doing their homework for ...
Sep 03, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Bookworm Sez: ‘Horse-drawn Days’
You must’ve driven by the lot six or seven times before you stopped, before the gleam of that machine drove you in for a look-see. You don’t need a tractor but sometimes life is all about want, not...
Sep 03, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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A Country Boy’s Reflection: A Rejected Hyphenated Commitment
In many ways, America today is like Rome in her last days. Is history repeating itself? Are we learning anything from past history? Observe the business world. Consider the vast ecclesiastical r...
Sep 02, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Treasures of Life
What is a treasure? A treasure is something of importance to one or a thing of great value. Everyone has something that is dear to one’s heart. The old cliché says that one man’s junk is another ...
Aug 31, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Snap Into Fitness; The Gym: Common Ground
Hanging out with young folks can be intimidating. Of course I’m talking to those of you who, like me, have had to face the truth and accept that you’re not one of them. You know what I’m talking a...
Aug 27, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Bookworm Sez: Where’s My Wand?
You always wanted to be Betty Rubble. Betty was the cool one, the one whose giggle said “FUN!” and who always seemed to know the score. If you couldn’t be her, then you wanted to be her best friend...
Aug 27, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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A Country Boy’s Reflection: God’s Romans 8:28 Cake
Can you visualize a little country boy observing his mother preparing a sweet treat for her family? We were standing beside a homemade wood table in a hot kitchen near a wood cook stove. Perspirat...
Aug 26, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Bookworm Sez” From Cape Town with Love
You hate breaking promises. It’s not the look you see on the face of the person you’ve disappointed that bothers you – although that’s bad enough. And it’s not that you have a personal reputation t...
Aug 20, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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