August 2021

Museum’s Prairie Supper fundraiser set for Sept. 16

WELSH — Friends of the Welsh Museum are holding their Louisiana Prairie Supper fundraiser to benefit the museum.

Celebrate Family and Food

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Family traditions and in-person connections are important parts of gatherings of loved ones, and many of those get-togethers are centered on food. The entire family coming together around a table covered with warm, delicious food to share stories and create new memories is what makes mealtime special.

Kayla Broussard Lopez

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A Mass of Christian Burial was held at 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 16, 2021 at St. Margaret Catholic Church in Estherwood for Kayla Broussard Lopez, 45, who passed away Aug. 13, 2021 at Jennings American Legion Hospital. Fr. Andrew Schumacher, pastor of St. Margaret Catholic Church in Estherwood, officiated the services.

Judge doesn’t restart La. federal unemployment aid

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana won’t be forced to resume federal pandemic unemployment aid for the state’s residents, a Baton Rouge district judge ruled Thursday.

The Advocate reports that Judge Tim Kelley said Louisiana’s decision to cut off jobless benefits early for more than 150,000 residents will undoubtedly cause “irreparable harm.”

But the judge denied a preliminary injunction request requiring the benefits to restart, because he said he wasn’t convinced the lawsuit would be successful upon a full hearing.

Britney Spears’ dad will exit conservatorship, but not yet

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears’ father said in a court filing Thursday that he is planning to step down from the conservatorship that has controlled her life and money for 13 years, but his departure is not imminent.

James Spears filed legal documents saying that while there are no grounds for his removal, he will step down after several lingering issues are resolved. The document gives no timetable for his resignation from his role helping oversee his daughter’s finances.

State population shifts to southern, suburban parishes

BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana’s northern and rural parishes continued to lose population over the last decade, as people moved to cities and suburbs across the southern reaches of the state, according to detailed demographic figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Overall, Louisiana’s population topped 4.6 million people, an anemic growth of only 2.7 percent from 2010 to 2020 that was well below the national average of 7.4 percent and behind nearly every other Southern state except Mississippi.

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Ricky Nelson: Television star and teen idol

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Ricky Nelson was born Eric Hilliard Nelson on May 8, 1940, in Teaneck, New Jersey, to Ozzie and Harriet Nelson; he was the second of two sons, with his older brother David. He rushed to fame with the radio sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, joining the show when he turned 8. In 1952 the show moved to TV, where it would run until 1966 and become one of the longest-running sitcoms in TV history.

THIS WEEK’S BEST BETS

Sunday, Aug. 15

NASCAR Cup Series: Verizon 200 at the Brickyard

NBC, 1pm Live

The NASCAR Cup Series returns to famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway, racing for the first time on the track’s 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course in the Verizon 200 at the Brickyard.

Chesapeake Shores

Hallmark Channel, 8pm

Season Premiere!

Federal judge leaves CDC evictions moratorium in place

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday refused landlords’ request to put the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium on hold, though she ruled that the freeze is illegal.

U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said her “hands are tied” by an appellate decision from the last time courts considered the evictions moratorium in the spring.

Alabama landlords who are challenging the moratorium, which is set to expire Oct. 3, are likely to appeal her ruling.