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Denson Advertising Celebrates Tenth AnniversaryBy James Ronald skains
“Whatever advertising and promo-
tion program works best for your com-pany, the key is to keep doing it long term,’’ Kim Denson, owner of Denson Advertising and Promotion, told the Zachary POST. “Once a company can determine what media venue works best for it, you have to be consistent in your advertising and promotion efforts or your sales will slide.”
February 5, 2014 marks the tenth anniversary of Denson Advertising forming to assist area businesses fulfill all of their marketing needs.
Often times when the economy dips or sales slide for a company their first action is to cut advertising, sales and marketing budgets. Denson strongly disagrees with this tactic. “This is just the reverse of what you need to do when sales slide. You need to analyze your marketing program and then zero in your advertising and promotions on your potential customers. A business
needs to consistently get their message out to the public, whether you have specific products or just services.”
“In the case of a legal, financial or medical service, a consumer might not need their services on a regular basis but when they do, it’s critical. It’s very important for businesses like this to keep their name in front of the public for when they are needed, your busi-ness will be first in a potential clients mind,” Denson explained.
Effective advertising and promo-tion has often been described as an art form. Companies marketing specific products usually have an immediate goal they want to achieve for a certain amount of money spent in advertis-ing and promotion. Advertising text-books teach that if a company spends X number of dollars on advertising and promotion, then X amount of sales rev-enue will be made.
“That advertising concept is basi-cally true,’’ she acknowledged. “How-
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Zachary Weathers the Ice Storm
Kim Denson at her office on Main Street.
Now that the frigid temperatures of last week are gone, the City of Zachary, the Zachary Community School Board and other agencies from the surrounding areas can re-flect on the cold weather response procedures put in place due to the ex-treme (for South Louisiana at least) ice event which paralyzed much of the Southern United States last week.
Kudos go to the Zachary Depart-ment of Public Works who maintain the natural gas lines which provide heat for much of the area. Several of the antiquated lines ruptured and the staff of the DPW were available to repair the leaks without much dif-ficulty.
Thumbs up to the Zachary Police, Fire and the few non-essential City of Zachary employees who showed
up last Tuesday and Wednesday to assist any way they could. All non-essential city employees were given the days off on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Good job to the directors, super-visors, and principals in the Zach-ary Community School District who drove the roads checking for ice on the Bus routes to determine the ability to get the students back to school, and provided much needed cold weather maintenance within the various schools and facilities.
During the cold weather condi-tions, the City of Zachary DPW is-sued the following advisory to be heeded year-round.
Each year, The City of Zachary Despite being off from school, this Zachary youth decided it was just too cold to go fishing during last week’s snow holiday!
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Drawing held February 25
The 2014 Miss Zachary Pageant will be held at ZHS Preforming Arts Center on Saturday, March 15. The Miss Zachary Pageant is a part of the annual Zachary Arts and Music Festival.
There will be nine divisions for beauty queens ages 0 to 23. The Miss Zachary pageant is a Sunday Best pageant (No Glitz). Anyone wishing to participate in the 0 to 10 age division, only needs to wear a nice Sunday dress. Ages 11 to 16 should wear a long formal or party dress, while the 17 to 23 years of age must wear a prom dress.
All participants who receive an award at the March 15 pageant will appear at ZFest for a fashion show on Saturday, March 22, at 1:30 p.m.
To register for the Miss Zach-ary Pageant, visit www.Zfest.us to download rules and registration form or contact Rhonda Gerald, pag-eant director, by emailing [email protected].
Plenty of awards will be given in each division. Miss Queen and Teen Queen winners will represent Zach-ary throughout the upcoming year at various community events. All Queens will appear in the Zachary Christmas parade and at ZFest.
The nine divisions in the Miss Zachary Pageant are as follows:
Div. 1: 0 to 12 months - Infant Crawlers
Div. 2: 13 to 23 months - Infant Walkers
Div. 3: 2 to 3 years old - Toddler Miss
Div. 4: 4 to 5 years old - Petite Miss
Div. 5: 6 to 7 years old - Little Miss
Div. 6: 8 to 10 years old - Jr. Teen Miss
Div. 7: 11 to 13 years old - Teen (Middle School)
Div. 8: 14 to 16 years old - Teen (High School)
Div. 9: 17 to 23 years old - Miss Zachary (Queen will advance to the State Pageant)
For Divisions 1 thru 8, the birth-day cut-off date is March 1, 2013. The age a participant is on that date will be the division they compete in.
For the ‘Miss’ contestants, girls must be aged no younger than 17 or older than 23 on Jan. 19, 2014.
Miss Zachary Pageant Set for March 15, Registration Now Open
Legendz Sports Academy in Zachary is looking for a couple of athletes for its
2014 Spring & Summer boy’s baseball 9U & 10U programs. If your son is interested
in participating in local tourna-ment competition please send your email request
The Zachary Community School District will host its 3rd An-nual Black History Month Celebra-tion featuring music, theater, poetry and dance performed by students. The program includes a special feature on the history of integra-tion in Zachary’s schools. We will also conduct our annual raffle of award-winning literary selections for children and adults alike. The event will be held Friday, February 7 at 6:30 p.m. in the Visual and Per-forming Arts Center on the campus of Zachary High School.
Classical Conversations To Hold Homeschool Information MeetingThe Classical Conversations
Homeschool Group will be holding an informational meeting on Mon-day, February 10th at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be hosted by Missions Church located at 2300 Church St, in Zachary.
This is an opportunity for any-one interested in homeschooling or wanting to learn more about the classical method of home educa-tion.
Representative Havard Awarded Legislator of the Year by the LSBA
On Wednesday January 22 the LSBA at their annual meeting named Represen-tative Kenneth Havard (R) District 62 from St. Francis-ville, Legislator of the Year for his commitment to pub-lic education in the State of Louisiana. Havard also represents much of Zachary north of Highway 64.
“I am humbled to receive this award. Many educa-tors across this state work hard every day to make this state a better place to live, learn and work. They hold the future in their hands and should be treated with dignity and respect. I am committed to education re-form and higher standards, but we must move forward in a responsible way that is in the best interest of the students. We have a tre-mendous task ahead of us and I will continue to stand strong against any attempt by anyone or group that wants to privatize our
public school system in an attempt to profit from it,” Rep. Havard added.
Last Chance for Tickets to Honor BallTickets and tables are still available for the 5th Annual American Cancer
Society Zachary Mardi Gras Gala and Silent Auction. “The Honor Ball” is Saturday, February 15th from 8pm-Midnight at the Riverside Hilton, Down-town Baton Rouge. For more information and to purchase tickets, please contact Renee Beadle at (225) 413-7282 or email: [email protected]. All funds raised benefit the American Cancer Society.
Spring Baseball Online Registra-tion is open nowa nd will close Feb-ruary 23, 2014.
Divisions and Ages:
4/5 yr old coed tball.
6U coed Coach pitch
7/8 Coach pitch
9/10 baseball, 11/12 baseball and 13/15 baseball
Fees are $55.00 for t-ball & $70.00 coach pitch and up.
Tentative dates for drafts and team assembly is Feb. 25th- Feb.27th.
Zachary Youth Baseball Now Registering for Spring BallPractices could begin as soon as
March 3, 2014.Games will begin March 31,
2014. The city of Zachary has made
lots of improvements to our park; one of the biggest is the artificial turf on the fields. Please know that sun-flower seeds, gum and tobacco are not allowed in the park as they will damage the fields. There are desig-nated smoking areas for your conve-nience, so if you smoke, make sure you are in one of these areas.
Interested parents and youth can refgister at http://www.eteamz.com/zacharyyouthbaseball or by follow-ing a link on the City of Zachary webpage at www.cityofzachary.org.
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likes to remind the public of buried gas pipelines throughout the gas ser-vice area that provide safe reliable energy to its customers. The City of Zachary maintains these pipe-lines to a high standard and they are considered reliable. A Damage Con-trol Program (line markers) and an Emergency Plan for responding to an emergency situation has been es-tablished and we work closely with Fire and Emergency Response Per-sonnel.
Also, please be reminded that pri-or to any excavation in and around any gas facilities, you must contact One-Call System 1 (800) 272-3020. There are several ways to indicate a gas leak on or near our pipeline right-of-way: Detecting a gaseous or hydrocarbon odor, hearing a blowing or hissing sound, see dust blowing from a hole in the ground, a continu-ous bubbling in one spot in wet or flooded area, dead vegetation (grass,
shrubs or trees), abnormally dry or hardened soil and fire apparently coming from the ground or burn-ing above the ground. Gas that has accumulated in a confined space is subject to EXPLOSION. Please stay away from immediate area of any suspected gas leak and contact the City of Zachary Gas Mainte-nance Department.
Note that the City of Zachary does NOT maintain buried piping between the gas meter and the house or business. The customer is respon-sible for maintaining and repairing this section of gas piping from leak-age. These buried gas lines should be checked periodically for leakage. If you need additional information, suspect a natural gas leak or in case of an emergency concerning a City of Zachary gas main or service, im-mediately call The City of Zachary at 225 654-0201 (24 hours)
The Zachary Community School Board voted Thursday to accept a recommendation from the finance committee to raise tuition for Pre-kindergarten stu-dents $50 to $450 per month in the 2014-2015 school year. The tuition increase applies to stu-dents who do not receive state aid for pre-kindergarten classes.
In making the decision, the fi-nance committee evaluated the rates of other area pre-kindergar-ten programs and daycares. Tak-ing into account the added costs for extended-day and lunch, the board chose to raise the monthly fee $50. This places them rough-ly in the middle of area options with Bright Beginnings and St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School at $600 and $565 per month re-spectively on the higher end and Just Like Home and Puddle Jump-ers at $440 and $460 at the less expensive end of the options. The district’s PreK program is housed at Zachary Early Learning Cen-ter, and currently has 217 regular PreK students and 37 Preschool
students. One factor cited in the high cost of operating the dis-trict’s PreK program was a state requirement of one certified, high-ly-qualified PreK teacher and one paraprofessional per classroom of 20 students for school district run programs.
Despite the staffing require-ments, since PreK is not a manda-tory program, the school district does not receive a regular per pu-
pil funding allotment for regular PreK students as it does for those in grades K-12. Rising operation-al costs coupled with decreases in state funding, which makes up 60 percent of the school dis-trict’s annual operating budget, have forced the superintendent and school board to look for ways to fill the anticipated short-fall. Currently the school board general fund subsidizes the PreK
program approximately $1 million each year.
Business Manager Gordon Robertson said the increase will raise about $50,000, based on this year’s enrollment, which will help offset some of the staffing costs for the program.
Zachary Community School Board Votes to Raise Tuition at ZELC
NMS to Present The Little Mermaid, Jr. Northwestern Middle school
Drama department will present Disney’s “The Little Mermaid, Jr.” production on Wednesday, Feb. 19th, Thursday, Feb. 20th, and Friday, February 21st each night beginning at 7:00 PM. Tick-ets can be purchased from the NMS office for $7.00 a seat. Re-maining tickets will be sold at the door for $10.00. These shows sell out so get your tickets early!
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In Our CommunityLane Regional Medical Staff Elects New Officers
Bradford J. Smith, M.D., has been elected Chief of Staff at Lane Regional Medical Center for 2014.
Joining Dr. Smith as Medical Staff Officers for 2014 are Joshua K. Best, M.D., Vice Chief of Staff; Thomas J. Kang, M.D., Secretary/Treasurer; and Reagan E. Elkins, M.D., Medical Staff Representative to the Board.
Dr. Smith is a graduate of Loui-siana State University Health Sci-ences Center School of Medicine in Shreveport. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and has been a member of Lane Re-gional’s medical staff since 1999.
Dr. Best is a graduate of Loui-siana State University Health Sci-ences Center School of Medicine in Shreveport. He is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and has been a member of Lane Regional’s medical staff since 2010.
Dr. Kang is a graduate of Loui-siana State University Health Sci-ences Center School of Medicine in New Orleans. He is board eligible in General Surgery and has been a member of Lane Regional’s medi-cal staff since 2012.
Dr. Elkins is a graduate of Loui-siana State University Health Sci-ences Center School of Medicine in New Orleans. He is board certified in Family Medicine and has been a member of Lane Regional’s medi-cal staff since 2008.
Dr. Thomas Kang Dr.Reagan Elkins Dr. Brad Smith
Dr. Joshua Best
Lane Regional Medical Center celebrated the contributions of its certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) during the 15th annual National Nurse Anesthetists Week January 19-25. This year’s theme was “Our Priority. Our Passion. Our Patients,” which emphasizes the high standards to which CRNAs adhere when administering anesthesia, and the quality of care they provide for their patients.
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Georgia Pacific Mill Continues to Expand and By James Ronald skains
Over one third of the 1,050 employees of the giant Georgia Pacific (GP) plant at Port Hudson live in the Zachary area.
“Another one third of our employees live either north or west of the plant across the riv-er,” GP Public Affairs Director, Patti Prats-Swanson told Zach-ary POST. “The other third of our employees live in the Baton Rouge metro area to the south of the GP plant. We even have a few from Ascension Parish.”
Regal Paper Company origi-nally built the huge paper mill at Port Hudson in the late 1960’s. It had only been in production about a year when Georgia Pa-cific acquired the mill nearly 45 years ago.
At the Georgia Pacific Port Hud-son plant, one paper machine produces Brawny paper towels, an-other produces Quilted Northern bath tissue, and two paper ma-chines produce Spectrum fine papers used in printing and laser and ink jet print-ers.
“Some of our finished prod-ucts such as the Brawny and Quilted North-ern are used locally in Louisi-ana,’’ Prats-Swanson noted. “Our Spectrum Fine paper products are distributed nationally, as are
our Brawny and Quilted Northern products.”
“On any given day, we will have nearly 2,000 trucks in and out of our plant. About half of the trucks are bringing in our raw product, wood, and the other half are truck-ing out our finished products. We also ship out some finished product by rail.”
“Our plant at Port Hudson is very innovated and up to date,” Prats-Swanson pointed out. “Just in the last couple of years, GP has in-vested $300 million in our Quilted Northern paper machine system.”
“We have over 9 acres under roof just for our converter opera-tion. I’ve been here 17 years and I know that GP has spent over $700 million on improving the facilities
in the last decade. Since GP became a private com-pany a few years ago, we have seen more focus on re-investing money in our Port Hud-son operation.”
“The Port Hudson opera-tion pays between $5 million and $6 million in local taxes each year,”
Prats-Swanson a c k n o w l e d g e d . “This plant has the highest tax burden of any plant in the GP system.”
“I don’t think most people in the Baton Rouge
Metro Area realize how large an operation the Port Hudson GP pa-per mill really is. Our timber comes from all over Southeast Louisiana
and Southwest Mississippi, pro-viding landowners with a market for their timber. We use a number of contractors and vendors from the Baton Rouge area for con-struction and supplies.”
The GP Port Hudson paper mill is located on 1,350 acres of land west of the intersection of US
Highways 61 and 64. Downtown Zachary is located 7 miles to the east of the plant. The Port Hudson Civil War State Commemorative area is located to the north of the GP operation.
Southern Loggers Cooperative has a diesel fueling station on the southwest quadrant of the inter-
Members of the Georgia Pacific Bucket Brigades annually donate money to local Zachary and Feliciana Fire Departments for equipment upgrades
Keith Wahoske
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Serve as Great Corporate Neighbor
section of Highways 61 and 64. Southern Loggers Cooperative provides significant savings on diesel fuel for those loggers brin-ing wood to the GP mill.
“Keith Wahoske is Vice Presi-dent of Operations with GP for the Port Hudson Mill” Prats-Swanson related. “He is very active in the Zachary community where he lives. Keith has a real love for the Boy Scouts and is very involved in their organization.”
Not only is Keith Wahoske in-volved in community affairs, but also so is GP, as a company, and also are most of their employees. The list of community groups and affairs in which GP participates and supports is truly awesome.
The list is long: Zachary Com-munity Schools, Louisiana State University, YMCA, Baton Rouge Food Bank, Port Hudson National Cemetery, both the Zachary and Baton Rouge Area Chambers of Commerce, Baton Rouge Earth Day, Capital Area Corporate Re-cycling Council, Boy and Girl Scouts, United Way, all of the Ba-ton Rouge Police and Fire Depart-ments, Food Banks, Councils on Aging and the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Department.
Jerry Boudreaux, longtime Zachary High School Principal, once told the POST. “Georgia Pacific was always such a great friend to our school system. They were always eager to help us with
The employees of Georgia Pacific annually hold cook-off fund-raisers to raise money for worthwhile community projects. Pictured above is the wood yard maintenance cooking crew from 2013.
our school projects. It was a real blessing to have the Georgia Pa-cific mill located in our back-yard.”
The forerunner of the giant Georgia Pacific Corporation that has 300 locations worldwide was the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Company founded in 1927 in Au-gusta, Georgia. During WWII, the company was the largest supplier of forest products to the U.S. Mili-tary. In 1947, the company bought its first location on the west coast at Bellingham, Washington. In 1982, GP moved its headquarters from Portland, Oregon to Atlanta, Georgia. By 2003, GP had exceed-ed $20 billion in annual sales.
Prats-Swanson said in summa-tion: “We have a very efficient operation here at Port Hudson. We have a great, well trained and safety oriented work force. We are always interested in talking with trained and skilled craftsmen such as electricians and experienced maintenance people. Also, we have a good relationship with the Louisiana Workforce Commission to help us locate and train new employees.”
Writer’s note: Georgia Pacific Corporation is truly the major economic engine in Zachary and the northwest part of East Baton Rouge Parish. In addition GP has been a wonderful corporate neighbor for the Zachary area. It seems that GP’s economic impact over the last 45 years is immea-surable.
Events at LaneYOU’RE INVITED to Lane
Regional Medical Center’s DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP
Tuesday, February 11, 20142:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Type 1 or Type 2? Old Hand or Newly Diagnosed?
Maybe a friend or loved-one has Diabetes? Would you like to learn more about Diabe-tes, or reinforce what you already know?
We welcome all who have Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes - including family, friends and
any others in a supporting role. Lane Regional Medical Center
6300 Main StreetZachary, LA
Registration is NOT Required.For more information,
contact Sherri Brady, RN225-658-4583
New Moms’ Hope: A Postpartum De-pression Support Group
Lane Regional Medical Center is hosting New Mom’s Hope, a monthly support group for new moms suffering from post-partum depression. The group will meet Thursday, February 13, 2014, from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., in the Staff Development Classroom at Lane Regional Medical Cen-
ter, 6300 Main Street, in Zachary.This FREE support group will be led by lo-cal Licensed Professional Counselor, Dana
LeTard Vicellio. The purpose of the support group is to pro-vide encouragement, education, and sup-port for mothers-to-be & new moms who are having emotional difficulty related to childbirth. Symptoms of postpartum de-
pression include:• Feeling sad or depressed• Feeling more irritable or angry with
those around you• Having difficulty bonding with your
baby• Feeling anxious or panicky?• Having problems with eating or sleep-
ing• Having upsetting thoughts that you
can’t get out of your mind• Feeling as if you are “out of control”
or “going crazy”• Feeling like you never should have
become a mother• Worried that you might hurt your baby
or yourselfFor more information, please call 658-
4587.
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4 Sisters & Etc. is Treasure of Antiques and AmericanaBusinessBy James Ronald skains
“When the opportunity for this property came up, my sister and I looked at each other, said a quick prayer, and said we would take it,’’ Mary Rovenia, one of the two sets of sisters involved in the 4 Sisters & Etc. Antiques Mall located one mile north of the crossroads of Highway 64 and Plank Road in Zachary.
“Little did we know what would happen, although Judy and I have been involved in antiques and Amer-ican treasures for 30 years, going all the way back to the old Baker Flea Market. Judy and her husband Al-len Persick owned and also operated Crossroads Junktion Antiques for a number of years.”
“Judy and I had a place a few years back in downtown Zachary on Lee Street in Dr. Lane’s old house,” Rovenia added. “The old house was perfect for our antiques but we just didn’t get enough traffic to make if financially feasible.”
The 4 Sisters & Etc. officially opened for business on March 5 of 2013 with 12 vendors in place.
“Once we got the property last January was when the hard work really started,’’ Rovenia acknowl-edged. “We had to completely reno-vate the interior because it had been a machine shop. Then we had to get a layout to work for our vendor spac-es.”
“Our initial plans were to only get a small section of the front of the building ready for our antique mall. However, once we got started and the word spread among antique and trea-sure vendors, we were overwhelmed with dealers wanting space in our an-
tique mall.”The metal building on Plank Road
where the 4 Sisters & Etc. is located has 23,000 square feet under roof.
“Our business has increased by at least 300 percent since we opened last March,” Judy Persick, Mary’s sister explained. Judy is an artist her-self, working with wood. “We have 3 specialty boutique shops under construction in the mall, plus a food court. We have 58 active vendors in the Mall with only three spaces left for rent.”
“Of those 58 vendors, some are from Denham Springs, Walker, Ba-ton Rouge, New Orleans, Central Louisiana, and McComb, Mississip-pi,” Mary Rovenia continued. “Some of the dealers with us now are Caro-lyn Loubiere who had the Pink Pig in Clinton, and Margaret Arnold from Denham Springs who has the Rusty Rooster and High Cotton shops.”
“Janelle Amorello and Cecilia Perche who have the Mockingbird Lane Shop in Denham Springs also have a shop here with us,” Rovenia added. “There are several other deal-ers with us who also have a presence at other locations in the Baton Rogue Metro area.”
The official four sisters of the Plank Road operation in Zachary (in addition to Mary Rovenia, and Judy Persic) are Michelle Bartman and Stephanie Bardeau. Michelle and Stephanie had Uncle Joe’s House of Treasures in Clinton before joining forces with Mary and Judy.
“The ETC. stands for our hus-bands,’’ Rovenia explained with a laugh. “We did include a ‘man cave’ in layout. We have a big flat screen TV and easy chairs in the ‘man
cave’ so the guys can be comfortable watching the ball games while their wives shop.”
“Our food court will be focused on helping keep the husbands occupied with really great coffee and fabulous tasting cakes and sweet things,” Ro-venia added. “We truly have a lot of unique antiques and treasures here in the mall to make a visit with us a lot of fun.”
“We have not done any formal ad-vertising since we opened in March, yet we’ve had huge responses for each of our special events. We did our Open House the 5th of March, Our Spring Open House in April, our Fall Open House in September and our Christmas Open House last Friday. At each of the special events, our park-ing lot has overflowed and we’ve had cars parked up and down Plank Road. Needless to say we are working on more parking spaces, and a larger sign out front.”
“Michelle set up a 4 Sisters & Etc. Facebook page early on,” Rovenia explained. “I don’t know much about how Facebook works, but we get a lot of hits on it and a lot of people come visit us just from our Facebook page. A large portion of our new business also comes by word of mouth from people who have visited us and found really special items they wanted.”
“Although it has been a huge amount of work, Judy and I and Steph-
anie and Michelle are enjoying every minute of it. We love what is happen-ing here. We thought it would take 2-3 years to reach the point where we are today. It has been a great 9 months since we opened the doors.”
”Judy and I come from a family of hoarders so dealing with antiques and Americana treasures is in our blood,” Rovenia related. “Years ago our husbands told us that for every two new things we would buy at various shops around the area, we had to get rid of one older item. The only way we could figure out how to get rid of what we were accumulating was to become dealers ourselves.”
“All of us here in the 4 Sisters & Etc. love history, antiques and all things about our culture,” Rovenia said in elaborating on the motivation for their operation. “We want 4 Sis-ters & Etc. to become a real destina-tion location for people interested in antiques and treasures.”
Writer’s note: Antique and Trea-sure Malls are not only fun shopping places but they can become economic engines in a community. I’m person-ally familiar with the success of the Washington School Antique Mall north of Opelousas and the Bonnie & Clyde Trade Days operation in north Louisiana. In my opinion, 4 Sisters & Etc. can and will become a destina-tion place for both fun and funds.
Judy Persick on the left stands with her sister Mary Rovenia in the midst of their An-tique Mall and Treasures on Plank Road in Zachary
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A Gathering of Writers and Readers to be Held in St. FrancisvilleCommunity
When the West Feliciana Par-ish Police Jury in midsummer ap-proved a bid of $2.7 million to construct a new library, old timers considered it a natural progression in an area that has traditionally been devoted to the literary arts. The town had one of the state’s earliest public libraries, and the surrounding plantations had exten-sive private libraries of their own. Today St. Francisville is home for several published authors and re-tired university literature profes-sors.
Besides looking forward to the spacious new library, today’s booklovers anticipate with great relish a special event dubbed A Gathering of Writers and Readers, begun in 2007 and now under the auspices of Arts For All, the non-profit umbrella agency for all arts in West Feliciana. The celebration brings together published authors with readers who might not other-wise have the opportunity to hear writers read from and discuss their work.
Scheduled for Saturday, Feb-ruary 22, 2014, at Hemingbough Cultural Arts Center just south of St. Francisville, the all-day event begins at 8:30 a.m. and will be moderated by SLU professor and former bookstore owner Charles Elliott, himself a writer, film direc-tor and noted character. Four pro-fessional authors will be featured, as well as distinguished repeat
guest Ernest Gaines, recent recipi-ent of the National Medal of Arts, who will be honored for his ex-traordinary literary contributions, and featured writers from previous years are invited to “gather” again.
Dr. Wiley Cash, nationally ac-claimed award-winning fiction author, had his first novel, A Land More Kind Than Home, select-ed as a New York Times Notable Book. A North Carolina native, Cash earned his PhD at UL La-fayette and studied under writer-in-residence emeritus Ernest J. Gaines. It was there that he began the bestselling book A Land More
Kind than Home, which NPR called “great Gothic Southern fic-tion filled with whiskey, guns and snake-handling.” His second book, the just-released This Dark Road to Mercy, promises to be just as riveting, a novel of love and atone-ment, blood and vengeance.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and author of nonfic-tion books including Poor Man’s Provence—Finding Myself in Ca-jun Louisiana about time spent in Henderson in the Atchafalaya Basin. Dr. Julie Kane, Northwest-ern State University professor and Louisiana’s past Poet Laureate, has published five volumes of po-etry, and her poems have appeared in dozens of anthologies and jour-nals. Both Cash and Kane are ex-perienced university professors, and Johnson has been on the short list for a Pulitzer for journalism; her popular folksy columns appear in Baton Rouge’s The Advocate. Anne Butler writes nonfiction books preserving Louisiana his-tory and culture, as well as chil-dren’s books, hundreds of articles for magazines and newspapers, and true crime, including Weep for the Living; as a crime writer she had certainly not intended to become an actual participant, but when she was shot five times, she managed to get a good book out of even that experience. Her more re-cent books Louisiana Hwy. 1 and
Main Streets of Louisiana include beautiful color images by Louisi-ana photographer Henry Canci-enne.
These diverse authors have been specifically chosen to give the audience a well-balanced ap-preciation for the art of literature---poetry, fiction, creative nonfic-tion, nonfiction, all with great appeal to Louisiana readers. They will share their creative processes and works; participants, including several students on scholarships, are encouraged to ask questions and will have an opportunity to interact with the authors. Seating is limited. For online information visit http://artsforall.felicianalo-cal.com. Tickets, $35, may be purchased at http://www.brownpa-pertickets.com/event/491750 and include parking, individual author presentations as well as moderated panel discussions, book signings, refreshments, lunch and a dessert reception with authors.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cul-tural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, the Greater Ba-ton Rouge Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency. A grant from Entergy allowed Arts for All to in-vite Wiley Cash, who will be the Entergy Author for this event.
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Cold Weather Brings Landscape Troubles to ZacharyBy allen owings
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Cold weather in late January has the potential to cause varying problems in our landscapes from north to south Louisiana. We have recently seen damage in our gar-den trials at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station.
With some isolated single-digit temperatures in north Louisiana to record-breaking cold along the Interstate 10/12 corridor, the dam-age to some landscape plants will be obvious in the short term. Other plants, however – mainly woody ornamental shrubs – may not show damage until spring.
Winter damage primarily occurs on tropical plants, which cannot tolerate cold weather. Unusually severe cold can sometimes dam-age normally hardy plants, such as azaleas. Mulching with leaves, pine straw or similar materials is a great way to reduce freeze damage to roots and lower stems. Covering tender plants with fabric or plastic sheets is also a common preven-tive measure.
To minimize the need to protect tender plants over winter, plant tropicals sparingly and focus pri-marily on plants that are reliably winter-hardy. Proper pruning, fer-tilization and irrigation are also important in reducing cold dam-age. Make sure plants susceptible to cold damage are not drought-stressed during fall.
We mostly think about citrus trees when cold weather approach-es. Satsumas and kumquats are most cold-hardy of the citrus com-monly grown in Louisiana. Or-ange, grapefruit, lemon and lime trees are less cold-hardy. Many home gardeners wrap trunks, cov-
er plants with blankets, build tem-porary greenhouse-like structures or coat trees in ice to protect citrus when temperatures lower than 25 degrees threaten.
Many of our common land-scape trees and shrubs are cold hardy down to 10 to 15 degrees. This does not mean that damage will not occur with temperatures in the upper teens or lower 20s. The good thing about this recent freeze is that it occurred in Janu-ary, and we had already had some cold weather in November and December. Typically, we see less damage with a January freeze than with freezes in late February and March.
Azaleas are our most com-monly planted landscape shrub and are generally cold-hardy. Al-most every year, though, you can find some isolated cold damage on certain varieties of this plant. Normally bark split occurs when azaleas are damaged by the cold. These symptoms are often sec-tional as well, with some parts of the plant staying green and other parts dying. Damage shows up in April and May after spring growth commences.
Cold causes internal damage that affects the plant’s circula-tory system. In other words, it in-terferes with the plant’s ability to move water through the branches and into the leaves.
Expect to see considerable damage on woody tropical-type plants. Ixora, cassia, copper plant, plumbago, tibouchina and hibis-cus will be damaged. It is best to wait until new growth commences in the spring, then prune those that are still alive to the point where new growth starts.
You can also check underneath
the bark of these plants by scratch-ing the bark with a fingernail. Green tissue indicates wood that is alive. Brown, black or tan indi-cates dead plant tissue.
One positive outcome of the cold weather is chilling hour accu-mulation, which is above average statewide for this winter. Many fruit trees and some landscape plants require a certain number of chilling hours during the dormant season. Hostas and dormant, semi-evergreen daylilies benefit from having 500-600 hours of chilling during the winter instead of the 300-400 hours south Louisiana normally receives.
Chilling hours accumulate when temperatures fall below 45 de-grees. The most important months for chilling hours are November through February in Louisiana. Temperatures above 70 degrees
during this time offset accumulat-ed chilling hours. Through Janu-ary 7, we have had 450 chilling hours at the Hammond Research Station this winter.
Patience is the key as we wait to see how our landscapes recov-er over the next couple months. Spring growth will be a good in-dication. Wait to prune, if pos-sible. In the future, plan to water plants, move plants, cover plants and mulch plants prior to a severe cold period.
You can see more about work being done in landscape horticul-ture by visiting the LSU AgCen-ter Hammond Research Station website. Also, like us on Face-book. You can find an abundance of landscape information for both home gardeners and industry pro-fessionals at both sites.
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Below is a description of property that will be auctioned to the highest bidder for unpaid rent in
accordance with LA RS: 4759. The auction will be held on Thursday the 20th day of February, 2014, at
11:00 am. The auction will take place at:
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Attn: Trisha Mitchell unit # 118
Attn: Kimberly Bell unit # 140
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DENSON continued from page 1ever, you must first fine-tune your advertising program to produce the results you want. Choosing the right media venue is important. Sometimes more than one media venue will pro-duce the results you desire in sales rev-enue.”
Denson Advertising & Promotions based in Zachary is a full service ad-vertising agency. They can provide the 3 basic advertising venues, TV, Radio and Print plus specialty products with your company’s logo or message on those specialty products.
“We are part of a large buying ser-vice through 3,500 companies offering over 700,000 products,’’ Denson elabo-rated. “If you have seen or heard a pro-motional product anywhere in your trav-els, we can get it for you. Also, if you can imagine the promotional product that you want, we can help create it.”
Under their Promotional and Brand-ing Specialties Program, the agency offers unique ad specialty items, gift items, tradeshow giveaways, event fa-vors and gifts, and corporate apparel. As for Creative Services, they offer corporate identity and logo develop-ment, stationery package, custom sta-tionery notecards and invitations, di-rect mail, collateral materials, TV and Radio Concepts and Scriptwriting, and print, online, & outdoor art develop-ment.
Denson has a small staff of high quality professionals working with her firm. “My daughter, Amanda Sale, has worked for me for seven years. She handles the promotional products,’’ Kim noted. Amanda is a graduate of Redemptorist High School, and has a marketing degree from LSU.
“I really enjoy my work,’’ Denson, a veteran of 22 years in the advertising
and promotional business acknowl-edged. “I love to work with a client in a very successful advertising and promotional campaign that gives them the return they want in sales and new clients.”
“I tell my clients that TV will give your potential customers sight, sound and emotion for your product or service, while print media will give them direct specific information,” Denson stated.
“If one of my clients has a specific event planned for their business loca-tion, I like to use a radio remote broad-cast in addition to the TV and print me-dia leading up to the event.”
Kim Denson began her official marketing and advertising career with Cox Cable TV Company. She spent 12 years with Cox TV before venturing out on her own with a partner.
“When my partner and I opened up our advertising office, we had no idea what would happen. We made a list of every business person we knew including business customers that I had known at Cox. We sent them a simple letter telling them what we were do-ing and that we would like to handle all of their advertising and promotional activities. The response was truly over-whelming.”
Her business partner moved out of state a couple years after the Agency was founded due to a job transfer for her husband. At that point, Kim be-came the sole owner of the Agency.
Denson Advertising Media Man-agement program includes media re-search, media planning and buying, overall media strategy, budgeting, pub-lic relations, and special events.
“Advertising should be fun for a client,’’ she pointed out. “My approach with Denson Advertising is to go to work, work hard, work smart, stay fo-cused and do whatever it takes to get the job done.”
The Zachary Community School Board will host a ribbon cutting for the new building recently completed at the Zachary Career and Technical Center Port Hudson site. The new building will house the automotive and construction programs along with other career preparation courses. Both programs began in August and will take advantage of the new state-of-the-art facility to offer students more opportunities to prepare for the workforce. The community is invited to attend the ribbon cutting which will be held on Tuesday, February 4 at 1 p.m. at the Zachary Career and Technical Center at Port Hudson site located at 205 West Flanacher Road.
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School Board to Host Ribbon Cutting for New Career and Technical Center Building
