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LEAVING AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP? HAVE A PLAN
Sarah is a beautiful, married, 29- year-old marketing rep for a telecom company. She’s independent, strong and self-confident. Her husband owns a plumbing business and is successful, handsome and the life of the party.
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Creative, Collaborative, Local
The Beautiful Legacy Of The Lake Charles Civic Ballet Is Poetry In Motion By Brad Goins As the Lake Charles Civic Ballet moves into its 45th year, it keeps “a very clear vision
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The Last Ride Of Cowboy John, Black Bart And The Infamous Leroy
By Todd C. Elliott Nothing lassoed kiddies of the “baby boom” generation like television. Southwest Louisiana children wrangled around their TV sets six days a week to catch a small, Port Arthur-based, NBC-affiliate TV
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LOST AT SEA
The Lone Survivor Of The Willis Noland Tragedy Tells Lagniappe What Happened That Fateful Night By Jerry Roy as told to Nola Mae Ross This is the first full factual account of the death
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LOUISIANA’S HEALTH PLAN
The Basics By Brad Goins Each state will have its own version of the new Affordable Health Care plan. If you’re a Louisiana resident, this guide should give you the info you need
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Vision Quest – Local Music Legend Jo-El Sonnier’s Grand Idea To Keep Cajun Music And Culture Alive In SWLA
“The trail to today’s Cajun music and culture was blazed a long time ago,” muses Cajun music icon Jo-El Sonnier. And Sonnier’s a big part of that “trail” himself. Often called the “King of
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Extreme Dream Fulfilled
In A Grueling 277-Mile Kayaking Of The Colorado River, Roman Ryder Went From Being “Totally Scared” To Having “The Best Feeling” When it came time to kayak the Granite Rapids of the Colorado
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High-Spirited Brothers
With Louisiana Spirits, Two L.C. Brothers Revitalized The Country’s Handcrafted Rum Industry And Spawned An Unprecedented Business Opportunity By Brad Goins Brothers Trey and Tim Litel grew up in Lake Charles. They both graduated
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Lake Arthur
Window Shop In The Shade, Eat Syrup Cake On The Deck And Buy Wine In A Bank Vault. There’s Lots To Do In Lake Arthur The latest big development in the small town of
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