Whether through learning disabilities or learning difficulties, school is sometimes an oppressing task rather than an educational journey. Students who do not absorb or understand lessons as easily as others need extra help. Sometimes this help comes through teachers, classmates and parents. While those people do their best to help struggling students, sometimes, it is [...]
It is important for citizens and businesses to be aware of the air quality. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has lowered the standards for many criteria air pollutants which makes areas that have had excellent air quality in the past much closer to being out of attainment with federal standards. While only one area [...]
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an opportunity to promote screening and early detection of breast cancer. Roughly one in eight women in the United States will get breast cancer. Next to skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common kind of cancer in women. According to the American Cancer Society, 3,320 Louisiana residents [...]
In Louisiana, we know how to have a good time, but the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) would like to remind residents to play responsibly, with National Problem Gambling Awareness Week during March 4-10. The goal of this campaign is to educate the general public and health care professionals about the warning signs of [...]
In Jeff Davis Parish, we’re accustomed to seeing our firefighters each day. Naturally, if a fire occurs, they are on the scene; but even in natural disasters, automobile crashes and medical emergencies, our men and women are there, no matter the day, hour or weather. Thankfully, this area has seen years without losing one of [...]
Thank you, Investigation Discovery channel, “Dark Minds” series producers and crime author M. William Phelps for disappointing all of Jeff Davis Parish and pouring salt on open wounds. Since word broke late last week that the national television series “Dark Minds,” which follows Phelps as he looks into cases thought to be connected to serial [...]
You can already see them on the Internet, but soon, you’ll be seeing them in stores – the new U.S. Surgeon General’s warning images on cigarette packs. The FDA will require those images to take up the top half of cigarette packs starting in 2012, and the hope is that the images wills stop people [...]
World Drug Day is June 26, an international day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking established by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1987. The UN passed a resolution in 1987 as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse. [...]
There are two questions on the lips of residents and officials in the Town of Welsh: “How did our problems get so out of hand? How do we fix what appears to be so broken?“ Well, sometimes the person with the answers is staring back from the mirror. A number of people would say that [...]
And so it goes: One of our readers recently complained that she felt police weren’t doing enough to stop speeders in her neighborhood. She felt like the street on which she lives had become a “drag-racing strip.” Two weeks later, the same woman complained that police had nothing better to do than give people speeding [...]
