May 2018

Annual Pentecost Walk scheduled for Friday

Starting Friday, May 18, you may see a group of people walking through Lake Arthur. You may encounter them again in Jennings or even Elton. They’re not running a 5K or marching in protest but they are walking with a purpose.

For 44 years, over a dozen and a half males ranging in ages from 12 to 93 take part in the annual Pentecost weekend pilgrimage.

Bernard Norman Marcantel

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Funeral services for former Jeff Davis Parish District Attorney and Jennings City Judge, Bernard Norman Marcantel, 94, of Jennings will be held Monday, May 14, 2018, at Our Lady Help

Teen commissions prayer garden to honor late father figure

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EVANGELINE - After David Frey passed away 18 months ago, his grandson Bryce Hancock lobbied to get a prayer garden built in the man’s memory at St. Jules Catholic Church.

Summit set, detainees free; Trump sees NKorea ‘big success’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Envisioning “a very special moment for world peace,” President Donald Trump announced Thursday he will meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un for highly anticipated summit talks in Singapore on June 12. He set the stage for his announcement by hosting a 3 a.m., made-for-TV welcome home for three Americans held by Kim’s government.

“We welcomed them back home the proper way,” Trump told supporters at a campaign rally in Indiana Thursday evening.

Trump plan for drug prices won’t include direct negotiations

WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than a year of bold promises, President Donald Trump is unveiling his plans for reducing drug prices. But they don’t include a key campaign pledge to use the buying power of the government’s Medicare program to negotiate lower costs for seniors.

In advance of Trump’s speech on his plans Friday, officials previewed a raft of old and new ideas to increase competition and improve transparency in the notoriously complex drug pricing system with the ultimate aim of wringing more savings for consumers.

Reader Awarded

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Readers voted in Jennings Daily News’ Mom and Me Lookalike Contest to determine a mother-daughter winner, but one lucky voter also earned something for himself. John Aucoin received $50 simply for casting his vote.

Oldest person in US dies; Penn. a woman was 114

HUNTINGDON, Pa. (AP) — A 114-year-old Pennsylvania woman who was the oldest person in the United States has died, according to a funeral home.

The Robert D Heath Funeral Home in Mount Union said that Delphine Gibson died Wednesday.

Lessie Brown, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 113, is now believed to be the oldest American, according to the Gerontology Research Group in Sandy Springs, Georgia.

Gibson, who had been living at a Huntingdon nursing home since 2004, when she was 100, attributed her long life to good food, her faith in God and her church.

Post 19 meets Membership Goal

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During the May meeting of James O. Hall Post 19 in Jennings, 7th District Cdr.AJ Jones (left) and American Legion Department of Louisiana Cdr. Rodney Holliday (right) presented a Membership

A quick, tasty weeknight meal

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Preparing weeknight meals can be tricky, as busy men and women may want to save money and cook their own healthy foods but have little time to do so consistently.

Sowela Graduates CNAs

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Jeff Davis Parish’s school system is proud to present the first graduating class of the JDP CNA Program at the new Sowela Technical Community College-Jennings location. Seniors from parish high schools have successfully completed the program.