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CARETAKERS OF THE CALCASIEU
The emergence of the Lake Area as a major petrochemical and refinery center in the late ‘40s and early ‘50s, and the phenomenal growth expected over the next few years, are due to one
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IT’S ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT THE KIDS
Calcasieu School Superintendent Wayne Savoy Looks Back On Almost 40 Years In Education • By Karla Wall Calcasieu Parish school superintendent Wayne Savoy, who in January announced his retirement after nearly eight years
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ADVENTURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Local Photographer Euric Fuselier’s Journey To The Amazon Rain Forest And Cotopaxi Story By Karla Wall • Photos By Euric Fuselier When Euric Fuselier decided, about seven years ago, that he’d rather have
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RESORT COMING SOON ON THE CAMERON COAST?
Could Cameron Become The Next Kemah, Texas — The Next Hot Tourist Destination On The Upper Gulf Coast? • Compiled By Karla Wall A group called Cameron Answers, formed in 2009 as a “think
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DR. HENRY CARTER
DeRidder Physician’s Career Includes Family Medicine Practice, Mission Trips To Honduras, Free Clinic • By Karla Wall Having just retired last July, Dr. Henry Carter, 85, can look back on a long career of
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DANNY WANNAGE
“I Owe Them My Life” Local Man Gives To Students At St. Louis, Receives It Back Tenfold By Karla Wall Danny Wannage has worked hard all his life — as a manual laborer and
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ROCKY FONTENOT
Local Man Has Helped Many Students Become Better Basketball Players … And More Successful Adults By Karla Wall When Rocky Fontenot, owner of Rocky’s Feed and Garden Supply Center in Sulphur, talks about some
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RICHEST ACREAGE ON EARTH
From Sulphur Mines To Oil To Salt Brine For Industries, Sulphur Has Been One Of Most Productive Areas In The Nation The wave of exiled Acadians settled in SWLA in the late 1700s. They were followed
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LESLEY JACOBS
When 77-year-old Lesley Jacobs, better known to his numerous friends as “Jake,” came to Lake Charles in August of 1956, he didn’t have much. “Everything I owned I carried in a brown paper sack
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BULLYING IN SWLA: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Bullying Roundtable: Local Experts Discuss Options Available To Victims And Bullies And Their Families Bullying has been in the forefront of news in the last couple of years, with several cases of kids committing
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