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When an entire middle school class of students had to go into quarantine recently, it should send a clear message to everyone that getting through the COVID-19 will not be as smooth as some would like to see or have the public to believe. Now that Louisiana is in Phase 3 of the pandemic that continues to take lives, some people are convinced that Phase 3 came too late and opening schools was no exception. There were concerns from parents not just from Louisiana, but all across the nation as fall began which usually signals the start of school,...
Rev. Edward C. Bolden Sr. was born April 14, 1942 to Edward and Ethel Belton in Jonesboro, LA who preceded him in death. Rev. Bolden accepted Christ an early age and was baptized at the Brown Grove Baptist Church in Jonesboro, LA. He went Home to be with the Lord on Monday September 28, 2020. He was also preceded in death by his sisters Josie Madison and Dorothy Stringer. He was married to Mrs. Pearlie Jones Bolden who preceded him in death. To this union was born one son Edward Clayton Bolden...
Sickle Cell Disease is a disease that can wreak havoc on individuals, especially African Americans. Much has been done for those who suffer from a disease that has life threatening consequences, but more needs to be done. The Trump administration appears to be trying for sufferers of Sickle Cell by starting an initiative, the main goal is to "improve" the lives of Americans who have the disease. It is a blood disorder that can cause tremendous pain/discomfort in people and urgent care is especially important when the disease attacks the body....
Congratulations West Monroe High School 2020 Graduate Diamond Green. Wishing Diamond all the best as she takes another step in life....
Chief Robert rt Cherry City MCherry is a proud son from Monroe LA. He has been married to Patricia Cherry for over 38 years and has 4 adult children and 5 grandchildren. He is a graduate and supporter of Carroll High School, where his preparation and education helped him earn a full scholarship to Lane College, an HBCU in Tennessee. While earning his bachelor's degree in education at Lane, Chief Cherry played football and became a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Never one to stop...
Coronavirus is real, still here, hadn't gone anywhere or lighten up. With over 205,000 deaths in the US don't be no fool. Keep your masks own, practice social distancing by maintaining 6ft from others. Deloris Grant says, she can wear her mask as long as it takes. There are many who would be living, but were victims of Coronavirus through no fault of their own. Photo Deloris Grant, Go Saints...
Did you receive your federal stimulus check? If you have not received your Economic Impact Payment (federal stimulus check), you are not alone. About 160,000 Louisianans have not received their stimulus checks. You may not have automatically received your stimulus check earlier in the year because you were not required to file a federal tax return, due to low household income. These stimulus checks were authorized by Congress with the CARES Act. You may be eligible for a payment of up to $1,200 for individuals and $2,400 for married couples...
Celebrating his 5th birthday was Braylon Armstrong. Braylon had a ball at his birthday party with his family. Helping Braylon enjoy his 5th birthday was his father DeShae Gray and grandmother Adell Gray. Happy 5th birthday Braylon!...
We see them all the time. Most go unnoticed as they go about handling God's business. Good Shepherds do not boast or brag but are always there when you need them. Many times, you don't have to call them. They have that sixth sense and show up right on time. Before God shutdown the world, Good Shepherds where everywhere praising God. They just cannot get enough and cannot wait until it is ok to praise and worship in the Lord's house once again. Thank you, Good Shepherds Pastor O.W. and Sister...
Some that pledge their vows before God and man stay together for the long haul. They inevitably going through good and bad times, but always find the real success of love. Many married couples who say and mean their vows reap the benefits of marriage with love, trust, loyalty, and commitment. Percy and Linda Bridge's love is a kind of love that has stood the test of time!...
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Witness Project of Northeast Louisiana has cancelled its annual Pink Gala for 2020. This affair is our major project to fund breast cancer awareness and education activities for Region 8 and surrounding areas. The members of the Witness Project of NELA thank you for your past support and look forward to your participation in this worthwhile event for October 2021....
What a birthday Jayla Scott's 3rd on September 21 in Winnsboro LA! Family enjoyed cake, ice cream and all types of delicious food. There was one last piece of birthday cake saved by Jayla's mother Freda for herself, since she had served others for the birthday party. Little did she know that someone else had also noticed that last piece of birthday cake too. After the birthday party, Freda went to enjoy that last piece of birthday cake, when she saw her son Jaden. When asked about that last...
We're still dancing at Dazzle Dance despite experiencing disruptions due to the Coronavirus. Check us out at www.dazzledanceonline.com, so you too can become one of the best and brightest stars!...
Randy Morris is the owner of West Carroll Health Systems, a rural healthcare delivery system which includes a rural hospital with full scope of services, home health, a rehab center, rural health clinics and behavioral services. He is also the Chairman of the Board of the Rural Hospital Coalition. His work with the Rural Hospital Coalition has been ground-breaking in the achievements made for rural hospitals. Throughout his career, he has been active in lobbying legislation to protect and preser...
"A Bridge to Equality and Success "Thursday, October 15, 2020, 6 p.m. Monroe Civic Center Bayou Room Lea Joyner Memorial Expressway Monroe LA -Show your support for GSU Athletics!! The Athletic Department has been invited to come and celebrate with us. Alumni, friends, businesses and supporters of GSU are asked to come and participate. Admission is ($15) for those who do not purchase an ad and for those purchasing at least a half-page ad admission is FREE. Your support can be shown by...
Free Me Association will host the Second Annual Carroll High School Athletic Legends Banquet on Sunday October 11, 2020, at 4pm at Carroll High School James "Shack Harris" Field House in Monroe LA. The Banquet will honor Athletic Legends of Carroll High School. Honorees will include Michael Howell, Norman "Bear Chest" Harris, John Dillard and Carroll High School Class of 1953 LA State Championship Football Team. The team includes David Lawson, Louis Maddox, Henry Gibson, Jamie Caleb, Elijah...
As long as we live, there is one day which none of us forgets. This is the most important day of our lives. Blessed and celebrating is a hometown hero Robert "Boot" Hillman. "Boot" is a self-made superstar not only to his family while being a legend from the Block where he grew up. Happy birthday Robert "Boot" Hillman Tuesday October 8, Love Dot and family, Uncle Larkin, Cosell, Snake Baker and Dr. Ice....
As careful as we all try to be, things happen beyond our control without notice or warning. Many times the most simple things which we done thousands of times can get the best of us. No one would have expected the unexpected death of Willie Wayne Lewis 70, while working on his job. Sources reveal that Lewis was changing a tire, while airing the tire it blew up and somehow lead to his death at Southside Tire Shop in Monroe LA. This accident was shocking to his boss and Lewis's Family. Many knew...
Big brother watches everything and everybody in the 21st century. Many times, citizens have no idea there every move and things said are recorded. In many instances, we are seen by others at some of our most vulnerable times, now someone is watching or there's video surveillance. According to police reports on September 19 police were called to a Morris Ave. Residence in West Monroe LA to a shooting. Police found a victim on the front porch bleeding profusely in the face following being shot in...
Hearts are saddened at the news of the passing Donald Ray Fields, 56. Donald was the son of the late Andrew and Dorothy Fields. He was a Richwood 1981 Graduate and a member of the Mighty Gospel Aires. He was a good fellow who worked and retired from the Monroe City Schools. He was a member of Greater Free Gift Baptist Church in Monroe LA. Donald promoted concerts with the most memorable was when the Bar-Kays came to Richwood Park. He went home to be with the Lord on Friday September 18, 2020....
A Louisiana State Trooper who was recently placed on leave stemming from an incident that happened over a year ago, has died in a single vehicle crash. Christopher Hollingsworth died Tuesday from the injuries that he sustained from an early morning accident(Monday 21) near the Bastrop/Colombia Exit on I-20. As of press time, law enforcement authorities from LSP or Monroe Police Department had released little information regarding the accident pending further investigation. Hollingsworth is/was...
The road to glory has no appointed date or time. Sadly, former Monroe resident Donald Givens went home to be with the Lord on Friday September 8, 2020, according to a family friend. This year has been extremely hard on families with many unexpected deaths during this pandemic. Givens was a former teacher in the Monroe City Schools Sherrouse Alternative School where he taught social studies. He was also a retired LA State Trooper. He will be remembered as a great person, teacher, husband and...
A local woman wants to warn the public about what can happen when a consumer does business with a check cashing establishment when money changes hands. The woman went to a check cashing place on the south side to download some money on her debit card so she could pay some bills. The lady at the counter told her that money could be placed on her card, plus a nominal fee. The woman gave the lady at the counter $145.00 and an attempt was made to transfer the money. A few seconds later, a receipt came out of the machine and was handled to the...
8-time NFL Pro-Bowler, check. 2-time NFL Superbowl champion, check. 14 seasons as an NFL player and 9 seasons as an MLB player, check. Now, famed sports star Deion Sanders can add HBCU coach to his long list of job titles while changing the SWAC Terrain in more ways than one.. On Monday, September 21, 2020, Primetime arrived in Jackson, MS, to begin his first week as head football coach at Jackson State University. Jackson State University is a public Historically Black College University...
Legendary Terzia/Richwood High School Head Football Coach Mackie Freeze only started a football program with $300. He only won 66 games in a row without a loss, wining 5 Louisiana High School Football Champions, 4 high school football championships in a row and one which he didn't claim because the score was 0-0 while winning on penetrations and first downs. Coach Freeze, a Grambling State University Legend will be inducted in the Louisiana Hall of Fame in 2021. Congratulations Legendary Coach...
Community Foundation of Acadiana (CFA) celebrated its inaugural Leaders in Law Enforcement Awards Luncheon on Thurs., Sept. 10, 2020, at City Club in River Ranch. The 2020 honorees are the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Department and the 40th Judicial District Attorney's Office of St. John the Baptist Parish. The intent of this new award is to bolster morale, increase respect for public service, acknowledge improvements in operations and encourage extraordinary performance among Louisiana's...
Estella Stamper Smith and Lola Stamper Wooten are twins celebrating a milestone birthday this weekend. Their lives exemplify, the bonds of family and that by working together, life challenges can be conquered. Although they are quite different, they've managed to work together as sisters, as friends, and as a team for eighty years. One wears their hair long and the other one doesn't. One is straight to the point the other is more diplomatic. One is more outgoing the other is more laid back, but...
Free Me Association will host the Second Annual Carroll High School Athletic Legends Banquet on Sunday October 11, 2020, at 4pm at Carroll High School James "Shack Harris" Field House in Monroe LA. The Banquet will honor Athletic Legends of Carroll High School. Honorees will include Michael Howell, Norman "Bear Chest" Harris, John Dillard and Carroll High School Class of 1953 LA State Championship Football Team. The team includes David Lawson, Louis Maddox, Henry Gibson, Jamie Caleb, Elijah...
Keeping the tradition alive, it so awesome to still see women at church wearing hats. At church Rev. Dr. Ruth Collins -Brown was spotted at church in her Sunday hat who, praises the Lord. When that time comes check with Bonnie's Whatever Hats Etc. See pg 4...
We see them all the time. Most go unnoticed as they go about handling God's business. Good Shepherds do not boast or brag but are always there when you need them. Many times, you don't have to call them. They have that sixth sense and show up right on time. Before God shutdown the world, Good Shepherds where everywhere praising God. They just cannot get enough and cannot wait until it is ok to praise and worship in the Lord's house once again. Thank you, Good Shepherds Pastor Samuel and Sister...
So much has happened since the founding of the United States of America over 200 years ago. There have been changes that are necessary and inevitable. After all, life – our personal lives and collective lives and experiences that shape our world – is ever-evolving. Change is vital in order to grow and expand the vision our Creator has for us all. Our one responsibility is to be on the positive side of change. To do that, we must work together and implement good that will benefit the entire nation. As much as things have changed, not all tha...
May the coming year surprise you with the happiness of smiles, the feeling of love and hope. Wishing you will find plenty of sweet memories to cherish forever. Happy birthday Bonnie Harris September 29. Wish Bonnie happy birthday and tell her you read it in the Dispatch!...
The Jackson Parish Branch NAACP #6309 has an on-going Voter Registration Drive for Jackson Parish residents. If you register to vote for the first time with the proper ID, you can receive a free hair cut or braids for the men or a free wash or braids for the women from now until Sept. 30. We will come to you to register. Vouchers will be given to those registering for the first time and you must make your own appointment with the barber or beautician participating. Partnering with the Jackson Parish Branch NAACP are Bakers’ Barber Shop, B...
Continued from last week- Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a group of inherited (genetic) disorders of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin moves oxygen throughout our bodies. The first one of these diseases, Sickle Cell Anemia was discovered in this country 110 years ago although it had been here centuries before that. It came with slavery from Africa. It is a chronic vascular disease with many acute and chronic complications generally marked by excruciating pain brought on by blockages in small blood vessels. People with SCD have less hemoglobin as a result...
South Monroe Farmer's Market (Wind beneath my wings) The birth of South Monroe Farmer's Market came after a question was posed on Facebook.... "Do you think South Monroe needs a Farmer's Market?". Over ninety positive responses followed by over 2 thousand views affirmed that now was the time. But without a vision and a plan...the dream fails and without a believer the dream dies. The Drumgoles were the first to envision the Market when presented with the concept and wholeheartedly supported the...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana issued the following statement regarding a whistleblower complaint asserting high rates of hysterectomies being performed on immigrant detainees at a detention center in Georgia run by LaSalle Corrections. In April, the ACLU released a report documenting abysmal conditions in three LaSalle-operated detention centers in Louisiana. “These disturbing reports demand an immediate investigation and decisive action by state and federal officials to protect people trapped in these dehumanizing and l...
"A Bridge to Equality and Success "Thursday, October 15, 2020, 6 p.m. Monroe Civic Center Bayou Room Lea Joyner Memorial Expressway Monroe LA -Show your support for GSU Athletics!! The Athletic Department has been invited to come and celebrate with us. Alumni, friends, businesses and supporters of GSU are asked to come and participate. Admission is ($15) for those who do not purchase an ad and for those purchasing at least a half-page ad admission is FREE. Your support can be shown by...
Ronald Greene may be a nameless/faceless individual to many of us, but to his family, he is someone who should be alive today if local police officers had treated him better. Greene died the night of May 10 2019 following a chase that started on Desiard Street, when a traffic stop was attempted that ended in Union Parish where Greene wrecked his vehicle where it turned out deadly. The incident was reported locally in the media as well as by The Monroe Dispatch. According to media reports, Greene...
The road to prosperity is the most difficult traveled especially without training or guidance. The easy way out is filled with grief and strife. There is and will never be something for nothing. Its hard to beat your way through especially for people of color and the poor. According to police reports, police responded to an armed robbery on Ludwig Ave. in West Monroe LA. Witness told police two suspects robbed a victim with a handgun while one suspect waited in a vehicle. The victim was robbed...
A second alleged shooter in the September 1 homicide deaths of two local men has been arrested and is behind bars at a local correctional facility. Mario Jones was taken into custody on September 10, less than two weeks after the alleged shooting at the Parkview Apartments by Ouachita Parish sheriff deputies. The arrest of Jones follows the arrest of his alleged accomplice Daniel Towns who was apprehended on September 3, leaves lone suspect Delarrious Jones on the run from law enforcement...
So what's all the fuss about Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) being on the map now? Well we are less than two months away from the election so that may have something to do with it. The White House recently elevated the importance of SCD as a health issue and President Trump issued a Presidential Proclamation on August 31, 2020 to that effect. September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. And on this past Monday, September 14, 2020 First Lady Melania Trump hosted a White House roundtable discussion: "Improving the Lives of Americans with Sickle...
If given the chance more students in Monroe, LA can be successful. However, the Monroe City Schools System (MCS) is failing the areas of Monroe that need the most support – the city's southside community and schools. In the most recent school board meeting, the MSC school board elected to extend the superintendent's contract for another year with a 5-2 vote, despite failed leadership under Superintendent Brett Virdine's administration. Was pressure applied to board members Saulsberry and G...
US Congressional candidate Martin Lemelle has received the endorsement of former US Senator Mary Landrieu, offering that he is the man for the job. His experience as Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer at Grambling State University and extensive educational background has prepared him well to represent all the people of the 5th Congressional District, including the large towns and smaller rural communities. "Martin Lemelle is exactly the kind of leader Democrats need to take...
Hello 2nd Grade Mi'Kenly Carle' Brown is a 2nd Grade Virtual Learner at Clara Hall Elementary School in Monroe LA. She completed 1st Grade with all A's and was on the Principal List the entire school year. Mi'Kenly is a very active student. She is a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church. She is a girl scout in the True Vine Girl Scout Troop 3108, & also plays softball with the Monroe Youth Girls Softball League. Mi'Kenly is a young entrepreneur and owner of "Mi'Kenly's Over the Rainbow Lemonade &...
Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins. Perkins is a Louisiana native, West Point graduate, and Harvard Law School graduate. He is also an Army veteran who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, rising to Captain's rank and earned the Bronze Star award. Perkins announced his candidacy for US Senate in July, spotlighting his humble upbringing and his record of military and public service. Mayor Perkins is vying for the seat held by the incumbent, Senator Bill Cassidy....
Keeping the tradition alive, it so awesome to still see women at church wearing hats. At church Sister Addie Broadway was spotted at church in her Sunday hat who praises the Lord from whom her health and strength comes. When that time comes check with Bonnie's Whatever Hats Etc. See pg 4 Photo Sister Addie Broadway...
We see them all the time, mostly unnoticed as they go about handling God's business. Good shepherds do not boast or brag. They are there when you need them. Many times, you don't have to call them, they have that seventh sense and show up right on time. Before God shut the world down, the good shepherds would be everywhere praising God. They just cannot get enough and can't wait until the ok for praise and worship in the Lord's house. Thank you, Good Shepherds Pastor K.C. and Minister Vivian...
Mt. Pleasant Community Development Corporation, Inc in collaboration with Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and Pastor Boris Braggs is hosting a Voter Registration Drive, Saturday, September 26, 2020, from 9:00AM to 3:00PM at the Kenneth G. Jackson Memorial Estates Office Building, 105 Bernice Drive, Monroe, LA 71201. Free Food Bag Give-A-Way, Refreshments: Free hotdogs, soda and more. Music, Voter Education and on-location voter registration signup and assistance....
Carroll High School 2nd Annual Legends Banquet will honor Carroll High School 1953 Football State Champs Sunday October 11 at 4pm, place TBA. Carroll Legends to be honored are Norman "Bearchest" Harris, Willie Robinson, and the late Michael Howell....
The Wellspring's Keller House Program is funded by a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant, better known as Raise the Roof. We partner with Safe Haven, which is The Wellspring's shelter, and other domestic violence shelters throughout Louisiana to ensure that families continue to get the services they need after they leave an abusive relationship. This program provides transitional housing to survivors and their families who are facing homelessness due to domestic violence. The program provides housing for up to 24 months, while providing...
