July 2022

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Cultivate Your Friendships

The advice to cultivate your friendships is good advice on a variety of levels. Having good and reliable friends provides the social support that all of us need. And there is good evidence that loneliness is a serious health risk, increasing your risk of high blood pressure, depression and dementia. The advice to cultivate your friendships is also particularly relevant in today’s highly mobile society. People often relocate because of school or work, and while technology can keep us connected even when we’re halfway around the world, too often we spend our free time diverted from the quality time we should be spending with people who matter to us. There are many ways to cultivate our friendships, and they all start with spending time with our friends and communicating with them when we can’t be with them physically. As always, the golden rule applies to friendship as to every other relationship, and counsels us to do the things for our friends that we would like them to do for us, such as lending an ear, helping in times of need, and just being there to share the good times and the bad. – Christopher Simon

COA to host Medicare presentation

A local organization is teaming up with other agencies to host a presentation on Medicare benefits for Jeff Davis Parish senior citizens.

Summer Sunday

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George Carter (above, at left), 6, Lydia Carter, 8, both of Hathaway, Maddox Guillory (left), 3, of Jennings and Kynzlee Hebert (below) , 11, of Jennings take part in First Baptist Church of Jennings,’ Summer Sunday Evening service. See more photos from the event on page 2.

Parish considers solar farms

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On Wednesday afternoon, the Jeff Davis Police Jury Committee discussed zoning and specifics of a proposed ordinance, which would allow solar energy systems to be implemented in the parish.

Georgia, Alabama coping with high expectations at top of SEC

ATLANTA (AP) — It’s no easy task to live with expectations at the top of the Southeastern Conference.

Qualifying kicks off for spring election

Qualifying for the spring election kicked off Wednesday for several local and statewide races in the Open Primary Congressional Election this fall.

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5 Tips for Transitioning Back to School

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Heading back to the classroom is a big change following a summer of fun in the sun. Some kids eagerly embrace the idea of once again being surrounded by friends and thrive on the familiar tempo a new school year brings. Others resist the disruption to their laid-back lifestyle.

Hoover Dam transformer explodes; no one hurt

BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — A transformer exploded Tuesday at Hoover Dam, one of the nation’s largest hydroelectric facilities, producing a thick cloud of black smoke and flames that were quickly extinguished.