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ZHS Softball Celebrates Senior Night with Doubleheader Victory
Kennedy Testifies on Stifling Regulations, Congressman Graves Visits ChamberBank of Zachary President and
CEO Pres Kennedy testified last week before Congress on how ex-cessive federal regulation is harming small businesses. Testifying at a Sen-ate Small Business Committee field hearing in Baton Rouge. Kennedy, who is also the National Treasurer for the Independent Community Bank-ers Association (ICBA), noted that regulations are restricting community bank loans to small businesses.
“The exponential growth of regu-lation in recent years is suffocating community banks’ ability to serve their small business customers,” said Kennedy. “The good news is that
The Zachary High Softball team celebrated senior night last week with a doubleheader victory over district rival Broadmoor High School. Between the games, Zachary Seniors Deneisha Biagas, Tori Schenk, and Chelsi Parker were celebrated by their teammates and coaches for their Zachary High School playing careers. Pictured above from left to right: Coach Robbie Yellott, Head Coach Leslie Efferson-Yellott Deneisha Biagas, Tori Schenk, Chelsi Parker, Coach Brittney Perry and Coach Jerry Koppenol. The team is currently in the thick of district play.
Pres Kennedy Garret Graves
there are readily available legisla-tive solutions to this pending crisis. ICBA’s Plan for Prosperity platform of legislative recommendations will provide meaningful relief for com-munity banks and allow them to do what they do best—serving and growing their communities.”
Kennedy repeated ICBA’s call for lawmakers to support continued small business lending by advancing legislation with provisions of ICBA’s Plan for Prosperity, including:
• The Community Lending En-hancement and Regulatory (CLEAR) Relief Act of 2015 (S. 812), intro-
Tax Increase Defeated
By Jen Bayhi-Gennaro
The long-awaited, much debated, one-cent tax vote took place on March 28 and was voted down, with 1778 (65%) votes against and 962 (35%) voting in fa-vor. The voter turnout was 18%.
Board Member Hubie Owen ex-pressed surprise at the turnout. “I was a little bit surprised that it seemed as though the “yes” voters didn’t get out. The “no” voters held the day,” Owen said.
The School Board intentionally called the tax increase election during an off election cycle so that the turnout would be significantly lower, but this time their plan backfired. The East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council now has a law on the books to mandate taxing authorities to call elections during high turnout fall election cycles. The law does not apply to the Zachary School System.
“I guarantee way more than 20% will have an opinion when things start getting cut,” posted one citizen on the Zachary Business Review Facebook page. Vot-ers and citizens have been turning to this page for the past few months to discuss and debate the tax, and now, their reac-tions.
“People are sick of the high taxes and don’t want to pay even more. People are leaving Zachary and moving to Slaugh-
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Reader is Grateful for Zachary Community, Easter Proclamations
Thank you for the front-page proclamation of the Gospel message last week in vol. 10, no 13.
How wonderful it is to live in a town where the local owned paper boldly prints the hope we as Chris-tians have in the Holy Triduum and specifically the Easter Season!
Christ’s perfect display of mercy and grace on the cross during His passion and crucifixion followed by his triumph over death through res-urrection and ascension are central to our core beliefs.
Reading about our joyful antici-
pation of celebrating this season on the front page is yet another affirma-tion that we are trying to live “under God” at least here in Zachary!
I also appreciate the evangelical appeal to the masses, earnestly re-questing them to visit you at church on Sunday.
Thanks again for making us proud to call Zachary our home.
Great job, well done.
Your brother in Christ,
Hunter Hardin
Jennie Stelly Named Pharmacy Director at Lane Regional Medical Center
Jennie Stel-ly, RPh, has been named Pharmacy Di-rector at Lane Regional Med-ical Center re-placing former director John-ny Johnson who retired in March.
A native of Baton Rouge, she is responsible for operation and management of the Pharmacy De-partment, including ensuring qual-ity pharmaceutical services are pro-vided according to accreditation and professional standards.
A graduate of Northeast Louisi-ana University School of Pharmacy, she received a Master of Business Administration degree from Louisi-ana State University.
Stelly has 21 years of pharmacy experience, all at Lane Regional Medical Center. Prior to this posi-tion she was a staff pharmacist.
Stelly and her husband Daniel re-side in St. Francisville and have two children, Luke and Emily.
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Zachary High claimed a hard fought victory 3-2 over archrival Central High last week to stay atop District 4-5A. Zachary improved to 19-5 on the season. Zachary’s Gabe Hannum drove home Rhett Hebert, who scored the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning. However, prior to that, the game had the match had been a pitchers duel between starting pitchers Corey Musselman for Zachary and Makhail Hilliard for Cen-tral. Both pitched 6.1 innings, but due to the fact both left at a 2-2 tie neither got a win or loss on their record. Central fell to 13-10. PHOTO BY SHARRON VENTURA.
ZHS Baseball Claims Victory Against Central
Mary Grace “Gracie” Eller-bee, 17, is the latest featured soloist to perform with the Louisiana Youth Orchestra. Mary Grace was the winner of the LMTA Senior Piano Concerto Competition, held this past December at the LSU School of Music. To compete, each contestant had to learn the last movement of Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 40, to perform for a judge. The prize of the competition is to perform the movement with the Louisiana Youth Orches-tra during their concert on April 25, 2015 in the Baton Rouge High School Auditori-um at 3 p.m. The performance is open to the public, and is free of charge. Mary Grace has been playing piano for eighth years but has trained classically for two years. She has taken lessons under Mrs. Kathy Overfield (Kathy’s Keyboards) and Dr. Thais Perkins, and is currently taught by Dr. Lin Tian at The Music Preparatory School in
Zachary, Louisiana. Mary Grace is a junior at Zachary High School and is the daugh-ter of Patty Houk and Kevin Ellerbee, lead guitarist and vocalist of The Elvin Killerbee Band. This past summer, Ellerbee attended the piano program at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan and was awarded $5,000 to attend the 6-week camp. Additionally, Mary Grace has been involved in many honor bands, including the Louisi-ana All-State Jazz Band for two consecutive years and the East Baton Rouge All-Parish Jazz Band for three consecutive years. She is a three-year Loyola Jazz Fest Outstanding Soloist. Mary Grace is also heavily involved in the Zachary High School band, under the direction of Jason Venable and Donny Alexander, where she is a member of the wind symphony, jazz band, and marching band, as the pit percussion section leader (1st chair) and pianist. After high school, Mary Grace plans to attend a four year university and major in piano performance. After her Bachelor’s degree, she plans to pursue a Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degree and plans to perform and open her own piano studio.
Zachary High Student to Perform with Louisiana Youth Orchestra
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Zachary Elementary Celebrates Annual Louisiana Day
Mrs. Patti’s 3rd Grade Class learns the Cajun Two-step dance. Mayor David Amrhein helps cook Cajun delicacies for the kids to try.
Ms. Howard’s 3rd grade class waits to try to some alligator.
Steve Nunnery, Zachary’s Fiscal Officer/ Assistant Fry Cook, finishes frying over 500 pieces of alligator meat for the students to enjoy at Lousiana Day.
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Acadian Culture Across the Campus with Food and Fun
Ashlee Anderson (left) and Kathy Spangler (right) from Zachary City Hall serve up boudin and beignets compliments of Chris’ Specialty Meats.
Ken Bush explains the importance of Ca-jun dance to a group of eager students.
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We watched in awe as this won-derful event for our son Cory unfold-ed over the last two months. While what we saw and felt was quite dif-ferent than what our friends and many community people expressed. We knew though, there was a lot of extremely hard work being done be-hind the scenes, up until the event took place. It was so heartwarming to see the looks on their faces; the smiles and the joy they shared with us all along the way, continually say-ing how this wasn’t a big deal for any of them. We could “see” and feel their sincerity when saying this, but we know better. It takes quite a lot of time with dedicated, focused, orga-nized and caring people to put some-thing this massive together. We can’t thank them enough for their love, their “sweet spirit” and their caring for our son and our family. The event was such a wonderful time for all of us. It was so special to see so many of our dear friends; some from long ago, new friends… and even faces of some we didn’t know personally. What an AMAZING community we live in! We are so proud to call Zachary our home, and we know how truly blessed we are. To all of you who were a part of helping in so many ways, we appreciate you more than you will ever know.
We’ve heard some of the sweetest stories throughout this whole event; people that we don’t even know, of-fering to help us with whatever the needs may be and sending their sup-port and prayers. Debbie and Gary said “There are so many sweet sto-ries, I can’t list them all, but a par-ticular story - one that really touched my heart was of a little girl that we don’t know, who donated $1.00 from her allowance. There is truly only one word to describe what all of this meant to us- “PRICELESS.” We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
“As we looked around that room
A Heartfelt Thank You from the Lentini Family
the night of the event at Cactus and…next day stood in front of 30-40 golf carts at Copper Mill, it brought tears to our eyes, as we are extremely hum-bled by the tremendous generosity shown by so many for our son. We appreciate each and every one of you for helping to make possible… “Our Journey Home with Cory”.
“A great man is always willing to be little.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cory with sister-in-law, Amy, brother- Gabe, Mom- Debbie & Dad - Gary
Special Thanks to the many who “made it happen!”
Cory’s good friends - Charles Vacarro and Mike McKey
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Gabe Lentini, Kim Denson, Danny Spencer, Mark Simoneaux conduct the drawing.Cory’s good friend - Brooke Efferson Simon.
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ter/East Feliciana. That way they are close to Zachary but don’t have the high taxes. I will never vote for high taxes,” posted Doug Hall.
Voters interviewed on Election Day overwhelmingly support Zachary Schools, but disapprove of the manner in which the School Board handles the dis-trict’s money, especially in regards to con-struction budgets and athletic facilities.
“Yesterday was a setback,” posted Zachary Elementary School Principal Jennifer Marangos on March 29. “But the “majority” clearly did not speak. The “majority,” sadly, didn’t even bother to think about it.” Marangos and several others expressed disappointment in not only the voter turnout, but in low partici-pation in the multiple and frequent town-hall style meetings that were held to edu-cate the population on this vote. Another citizen posting in the forum expressed the belief that most people in opposition didn’t even realize it was sales tax and not property tax.
“I was just disappointed,” said North-western Elementary Principal Martha Davis. I’m not sure what will happen. Mandates are being paid out of savings, but savings are not going to last forever,” Davis said. “Eventually, it will get to per-sonnel. That’s 80% of our budget,” she said.
Zachary Superintendent of Schools Scott Devillier offered these comments after the vote, “The Zachary Commu-nity has always supported its schools. We went to the public for the additional financial support we felt was necessary to continue to operate our schools at the lev-el to which this community has become accustomed. The voters did not support that, and now we are making plans to
proceed accordingly, continuing to offer the students of our district the very best educational opportunities possible. We will continue to be good stewards of this community’s resources, and to make ev-ery decision based on what is in the best interest of our kids.”
Owen said the board members are going to have a retreat soon to discuss the next move. “There are no teachers that are going to lose their job over it at this time,” he stated. “We will do our best to balance the budget with what we have. Barring no surprises, increases in health care coverage, or anything else that the state might throw at us. The teachers will keep teaching and doing their job,” he said.
Board member Gwen Fuselier echoed a similar sentiment. “Everyone had their reason to vote. My general feelings are that our community spoke about what they wanted. Now that it’s done, we can go to the drawing board. We know what we have and what we’re working with. We are going to talk about the streamlining of the budget. It can be done,” she said. “It can be done.”
Despite the critics on Facebook, there is an overall message of hope that the Board members and the community will find another way to make the bud-get work and help Zachary continue to put the children first and retain our top school district status.
“There will be changes I am sure, but we have good principals and people in positions that will keep our schools moving forward,” said Zachary Busi-ness Review page moderator Courtney Yoes.
“I’m not panicked,” Fuselier said. “The people of the community are the stakeholders and they made their opin-ion known. I think we’ll come up with ways to preserve the quality in Zachary.”
Honey’s Love 2015 beYOUtiful Dream
Prom Giveaway Honey’s Love is proud to announce the winner of the 2015 “beYOUtiful Dream Prom Giveaway” Gabriela Morales. Ga-briela, a senior at Zachary High School, was nominated and chosen as the winner because of her outstanding qualities. In addition to being an honor student, Gabby is very active in the youth ministry at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church volun-teering for the community. She exemplifies a giving heart, leadership skills, and aca-demic achievement. Gabby’s dream prom dress and Jamberry Nails were provided by Lacey Lobell, owner of Honey’s Love, hair was provided by Jessi White of Brit-ton’s Salon in Clinton, makeup by Brooke Knaps from Salon 360, and photography by Tess Ricketts.
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CONGRESS continued from page 1
duced by Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.),
• The Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act (S. 774), introduced by Sens. Moran and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and
• The Privacy Notice Mod-ernization Act of 2015 (S. 423), in-troduced by Sens. Moran and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.).
Newly elected Congressman Gar-ret Graves visited Zachary the next day to speak to the Chamber on many of Kennedy’s concerns.
“I have been in Washington D.C. for only 10 weeks, but I have really been shocked by how much acrimo-ny there is on the Hill,” Graves not-ed. “However, I do see some areas of agreement between the parties, and introducing fixes to the overbearing Dodd-Frank legislation, which has hamstrung many local independent community banks such as Bank of Zachary and Guaranty Bank from making good loans to small busi-nesses is an area of agreement.”
Graves went on to tell the Zachary Chamber about other concerns in this congress. He reiterated that the many of the provisions in the “Obamacare” legislation continue to by drags on the economy and job market, and would like to see significant fixes in the legislation, or if it can’t be fixed then to repeal and replace with a bet-ter plan.
Graves has been put on select committees he feels can directly help Zachary and the surrounding areas. Congressman Graves serves on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the House Natural Resources Committee. Both com-mittees represent policy priorities that are important to South Louisiana – safe and efficient transportation, flood control, hurricane protection, maritime commerce, coastal restora-tion, ports development and energy production.
He is Vice Chairman of the Sub-committee on Water Resources and Environment, which directly assists Zachary with funding for the Com-mittee Diversion Canal project.
The Zachary Kiwanis Club is cur-rently holding a shoe drive to help with its goal of eliminating neonatal tetanus and to put shoes on the feet of people in places like Ghana, Haiti and India.
Kiwanis is partnering with Fund-s2orgs.com, which will pay 40 cents per pound of shoes. The funds will pay to vaccinate mothers in 24 countries against neonatal tetanus, which kills one infant every 11 minutes.
Men, women and children are asked to donate pairs of gently worn shoes to the drive. Any kind of shoe will be accepted — flip-flops, sandals, sneakers, cleats, loafers, boots, rubber boots, high heels, slippers and wedges.
About 2 1/2 pairs of shoes fetch $1.80, which is enough to vaccinate a mother and prevent a child’s death.
Funds2orgs.com will help redis-tribute the shoes to microbusinesses in those countries, where otherwise un-employed people can get jobs cleaning and selling the shoes at prices people there can afford. “It’s a win-win for ev-eryone,” Phillips said.
Shoes were collected at Zachary area schools this past week and the public will be able to drop them off Thursday, April 9 at the Zachary Fire Department located at 4525 Main Street.
The final shipment of shoes will be on April 11. If you need more informa-tion or have questions, please call Al Phillips at 654-0012.
Please Help with the Kiwanis Shoe Drive
Lauren Kennedy (left) and Kerri Lee (right) organize the mountain of shoes on Thurs-day morning at Zachary Elementary School. The students at all the local schools wanted to assist the Zachary Kiwanis Club in this “soles for our souls” project. Kiwanis clubs, located in 80 nations, help their communities in countless ways. Each community’s needs are different—so each Kiwanis club is different. By working togeth-er, members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. When you give a child the chance to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive, great things happen.Service is at the heart of every Kiwanis club, no matter where in the world it’s located. Members stage nearly 150,000 service projects and raise nearly $100 million every year for communities, families and projects.
Amanda Lynn Migues and Blake Thomas Pace Announce Enegagement
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Migues, Jr of Baton Rouge are pleased to an-nounce the engage-ment of their daugh-ter, Amanda Lynn Migues, to Blake Thomas Pace, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom-my Pace of Zachary. The couple will be married on April 18, 2015 at Greenwood Plantation in St. Francisville.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Derald Boldt of Chase, KS, the late Mr. Robert
Buckalew of Brazoria, TX and Mrs. Juliet Migues and the late Mr. Bobby Migues, Sr. of New Iberia, LA. She is a graduate of The Dunham School and Louisiana State University. She will graduate with a Doctorate of Phys-ical Therapy from LSUHSC Shreveport in May, 2015.
Her fiance is the grandson of Mrs. Betty Yoes Richardson and the late Mr. Terry E. Richardson of Zachary, LA, and Ms. Barbara Pace of Denham Springs, LA. He is a graduate of Zachary High School and Lousisana State Universtiy.
An egagement party was held in October at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dry. Co-hosts included Mr. Clay Roccaforte, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Lavergne, and Mr. and Mrs. Keith Constantino.
Copper Mill Elementary March Star Students
The following students were chosen as March Star Students at CMES.They are chosen because they model the CMES Code. We will do our best, we will honor others, we will act responsibly, we will operate with honesty. 1st row, left to right:Madison Crowell, Jake Williams, Ryley Windham, Elijah Trosclair, Claire Chandler, Camila Roldan, Kaitlyn Dugas, Jena Johnson, Kerstyn Melan, Alexis Callihan, Kendal Babin, & Madison Moses. 2nd row, left to right: Kontrell Johnson, Madison Butler, Kanyun Hoff-pauir, Christopher Masterson, Abbigail Freeman, Megan Andrew, Marshall Daniel, Garrett Beadle, Christopher Harrell, Cooper Ackman, Herbert Pierce, Tilley Robinson, Jessica Bernardi. 3rd row, left to right: DJ Smith, Alana Huff, Kelsey White, Albrianna Jones, Kennedi Hilton, Kaelyn Cooper, Dylan Holivay, Natalie Creel, Samantha Smith, Marquise Peck, Ellis McKneely, Austin Nicholas, Alexis Conachen, & McKenzie Roberson.
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Zachary Resident Russell Jones Inducted into 2015 SULC Alumni Hall of FameRussell Jones, vice chancellor
for academic affairs of the Southern University Law Center (SULC), will be among eight inductees into the 2015 SULC Hall of Fame at a 6 p.m. gala, Saturday, April 11, at the Renaissance Baton Rouge.
Jones will join other SULC alumni Judge John McClarty, Class of 1976, of Chattanooga, Tennes-see; District Attorney John Belton, Class of 1990, of Ruston, Loui-siana; Mark Crawford, Class of 1995, managing counsel for BP America Inc., of Houston, Texas; Kathy Nesbitt, Class of 1996, Uni-versity of Colorado vice president for employee and information ser-vices, of Denver, Colorado; senior partners Antonio “Tony” Clayton, Class of 1991, of Port Allen, Loui-siana, Johnnie L. Matthews, Class of 1973, of Baton Rouge; and P. Craig Morrow, Jr., Class of 1994, of Opelousas, Louisiana, who will receive this Hall of Fame honor as part of the four-day annual Alumni & Friends Round-Up, April 8-11.
Jones, the Jesse N. Stone, Jr., En-dowed Professor, was named SULC vice chancellor for academic affairs in 2007. He earned a B.A. degree in 1974 from Northeast Louisiana University, a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, in 1982 from Southern University School of Law, and a LL.M. degree in 1992 from George-town University School of Law. He was admitted to practice in Louisi-
ana in 1982. A resident of Zachary since 1999, he and his wife, Sarah, have two children: Latrel D. Jones and Chandrika M. Raby.
Recognized as the 2010 Distin-guished Professor by the Louisiana Bar Foundation, Jones also received the 2001 Louisiana Bar Journal Ste-phen T. Victory Memorial Award for best journal feature article. He is the co-author of two books: Harg-es and Jones, Louisiana Evidence, 2007 (Thomson-West Publishing
Co., Lawyers Practice Series); and Harges and Jones, Louisiana Evi-dence: Problems and Cases (Esquire Books, 2011). He also has written several articles on Louisiana Evi-dence and the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Jones has also participated in amic-us briefs to the Louisiana Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court on both evidence and criminal pro-cedure issues.
Vice Chancellor Jones estab-lished the Marshall-Brennan Con-stitutional Literacy Project at SULC in 2009. He is the recipi-ent of the 2014 and 2010 Louis A. Martinet Legal Society’s Outstand-ing Community Service Award; the 2009 Kean Miller Hawthorne, D’Armond, McCowan & Jarman Diversity Award; the 2001 Baton Rouge Bar Association President’s Award; the 2000 Freeport-McMo-Ran Community Service Award presented by WAFB and Freeport-
McMoRan Company; and the 1984 Pro Bono Attorney Award present-ed by the Capital Area Legal Ser-vice Corporation.
In fall 2012, Jones co-chaired the Committee to Select a Magis-trate judge for the U.S. Middle Dis-trict Court. He has been named the Southern University Law Center Student Bar Association Professor of the Year on eight occasions; the Southern University Law Center Alumni Association Distinguished Professor in 2004; and the Black Law Students Association, Out-standing Law Professor at Nova University-Shepard Broad Law Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1994.
Vice Chancellor Jones is a mem-ber of the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society, Baton Rouge Bar Asso-ciation, Louisiana Bar Association Board of Governors, Louisiana Bar Foundation, and Jock Scott Com-munity Partnership Panel.
