CONSULTING FIRM HIRED TO COMPLETE ROAD PROJECT

Work is continuing on the Walter O. Bigby Carriageway project in Bossier City, but now a consulting firm has been hired to oversee the project to its completion.Manshac Consulting Group will be tasked with outsourcing the review of the Carriageway project.But Manshac is not a new firm.

VICTORY GARDENS OFFER POSITIVITY IN ANXIOUS TIMES

ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW WITH CADDO PARISH COMMISSIONER JOHN-PAUL YOUNGSo, Commissioner Young ...(Interrupting) Just John-Paul, please.OK, John-Paul, you’re the Caddo Commissioner for District 4, correct?Yes, for the last three months.

CORRECTION: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED NOEL FOOD PANTRY

CORRECTION: Noel Food Bank Contact - phamiter@noelumc.org Peggy Hamiter, the coordinator of the Noel United Methodist Church, needs help.Volunteers can help unload trucks, packs bags of food, and then distribute to persons in cars.Noel has an active ministry helping the less unfortunate in Highland.

CITY OF SHREVEPORT - NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED NOEL FOOD PANTRY

Peggy Hamiter, the coordinator of the Noel United Methodist Church, needs help.Volunteers can help unload trucks, packs bags of food, and then distribute to persons in cars. Noel has an active ministry helping the less unfortunate in Highland. If interested, contact her at phamitor@noelumck.org.

I DID NOT SEE IT COMING; SO NOW WHAT’S A PERSON TO DO?

Dear Gabby,My wife and I wake up every morning and still find it hard to believe that Covid-19 pandemic has enveloped the entire world. I never in my lifetime thought I would witness anything of its kind.

VICTORY GARDENS OFFER POSITIVITY IN ANXIOUS TIMES

ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW WITH CADDO PARISH COMMISSIONER JOHN-PAUL YOUNGSo, Commissioner Young ...(Interrupting) Just John-Paul, please.OK, John-Paul, you’re the Caddo Commissioner for District 4, correct?Yes, for the last three months.

PERKINS, SENIOR STAFF AND DEPARTMENT HEADS TAKE LEADERSHIP ROLE IN PAY CUTS

Real leaders lead by example. And that is what Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins displayed by announcing on Tues. April 7 pay cuts for his senior staff, department heads and himself. The 10 percent salary reduction will continue through the end of the year.

30-SECOND READ: DISTANCE DIARY 2

BY: JEFF GAUGERWhat a swell morning to be alive.Sunday. I’m in the Adirondack chair on the patio soon after 8. The air is crisp, the sky cloudless.I gaze across the weedy lawn I mowed yesterday to a rank of azaleas in bloom, white with pink accents.For the moment, my only companions are birds.

CADDO SCHOOL LUNCHES … THANK YOU!

BY; JON GLOVER CONTRIBUTING COLUMNISTThank you!Thank you to the Caddo Parish School Board for providing food for the week for the children of the Caddo Parish School System.

LISTEN UP! WHAT CAN WE EXPECT AFTER COMING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC? LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL APPEAL

BY: BILLY ROY WAYNEPrior to the serious onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Shreveport City Council was in a torrid battle over certain administrative appointments, certain economic downtown development projects, and in the opinion of this writer, a general divisiveness which was not productive for...

FIFTY YEARS LATER, WE ARE STILL TRYING TO GET IT RIGHT

BY: PRENTISS SMITHFifty years ago, I, along with a handful of young people, graduated from Ruston High School. The reason that is important is because we were among the first black students allowed to attend and graduate from a "white" school in Lincoln Parish or any other parish in north Louisiana.

FIVE N. LOUISIANA RESTAURANTS STANDING THE TEST OF TIME BY OFFERING TO-GO ORDERS

Five hole-in-the-wall restaurants in rural parts of north Louisiana offering to-go orders include Big Dup’s Cajun Kitchen, Café 180 To Go, Del Bob’s Burrito, Longwood General Store and Oak Alley FarmsThough some area restaurants have shuttered in recent weeks, there are some hole-in-the-wall...

CADDO DEPUTY, RECOVERED FROM COVID-19, DONATES PLASMA TO OTHER VIRUS PATIENTS

A Caddo deputy who recovered from COVID-19 is now helping other critically ill coronavirus patients by donating his plasma.  Cpl. Kevin Calhoun donated one of the first COVID-19 convalescent plasmas in Louisiana, according to LifeShare Blood Center.

18 PAGES OF POSITIVE NEWS

This week’s FOCUS SB is all positive news!Flip the paper over, andThe Inquisitor is 18 pages of crime.