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See MCALLISTER on page 2

Vance McAllister

Congressman McAllister Gets Plum AssignmentsBy James Ronald skains

One noticeable change in Con-gressman Vance McAllister’s pub-lic face is the designation of the town of Swartz as his hometown instead of the City of Monroe. Sec-ondly, Congressman McAllister is an official member of two House of Representative Committees that have direct bearing on the future of the 5th Congressional District, the House Committee on Natural Re-sources and the House Committee on Agriculture.

Former 5th Congressional Dis-trict Congressman Rodney Alex-ander was a member of the House Appropriation Committee. The ap-propriation subcommittee, of which Alexander was chairman, was the oversight committee for the opera-tion of National Capitol and govern-mental office buildings in Washing-ton.

“I would like to have been ap-pointed to the House Appropria-tion Committee, but I can do a lot of good for the 5th District on the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committees,” Congressman McAl-lister told the Feliciana EXPLOR-ER. “Passing a common sense Farm Bill is a top priority for me. I don’t think we can pass a Farm Bill with-out the Food Stamp program being in the bill.”

“The decisions made between the walls of the Agriculture Com-mittee have a significant impact on the residents of Louisiana, espe-cially in the 5th District which has the highest acreage in the nation in row crops. Agriculture has been the backbone of Louisiana’s economy for centuries, so I’m thankful for the opportunity to be a voice for Loui-siana on the Agriculture Committee. The Natural Resource Committee has jurisdiction over a number of vital economic interests in Louisi-ana.”

The House Natural Resources Committee has jurisdiction over issues including energy and water,

public lands, mineral rights, envi-ronmental regulations, as well as wildlife and fisheries.

In a press release about his com-mittee assignments, Congressmen McAllister had this to say: “Loui-siana is among America’s richest states in natural resources. Louisi-anans depend on Washington adopt-ing smart strategies to utilize and protect these precious resources. I look forward to working toward achieving responsible policies in-volving the assets Louisiana holds dear.”

Congressman McAllister had this to say about his recent vote in favor of the passage of the Budget Agreement: “The two year budget agreement is a step in the right di-rection. Any reduction to the federal deficit, no matter how big or small is a step in the right direction. I’m encouraged to see that this biparti-san agreement will reduce the defi-cit without raising taxes and hurting our economy, while also protecting our vital national security policies and halting another unwanted gov-ernment shutdown.”

“It ain’t perfect, but it’s a start. If you’re driving a car 90 miles an hour and miss your stop, you don’t throw it in reverse at top speed. It’ll tear up your car. Your first step is

putting your foot on the brake to slow it down. The passage of this budget agreement was the first time Congress has put its foot on the brakes.”

“You have to make positive changes when you can, a little at a time,” Congressman McAllis-ter stated. “Eric Cantor and John Boehner asked me, ‘Vance, what are your thoughts about the bud-get compromise agreement?’ I told them, it’s just a drop in the bucket, but you can’t fill up a bucket with-out the first drop in the bucket.”

“Both Cantor and Boehner used my illustrations with the news me-dia the night the budget agreement passed. I’ve been getting some heat for voting for the budget agreement but I can handle it. I know the dif-ference between right and wrong.”

“Governor Jindal and I have our differences, especially about the

Medicaid money,’’ Congressman McAllister explained. “The Gov-ernor says that it will cost the state $1.3 billion dollars over 10 years to expand Medicaid in Louisiana. That is a lot of money, but in return Louisiana would get $43 billion in federal funds. From a business-man’s point of view, spending $1.3 billion to get $43 billion is a very good deal.”

“I know for sure this investment in Medicaid by the state would be good for the 5th district. It might not be right for all the country, or even all of Louisiana, but it would be very right for the 5th Congres-sional District of Louisiana, which I represent. The 5th Congressional District is the poorest congressional district in Louisiana.”

“One problem in the District that

The Silliman Varsity Cheerleaders won the Game Time Top Team Award at camp this past summer, qualifying them to celebrate the season in style at the Magic Kingdom® performing with the National Cheerleaders Association (NCA) and the National Dance Alliance (NDA). Over 600 performers, originating from 36 states, gathered at Disney’s Coronado Springs Re-sort at the Walt Disney World® Resort from December 5th to December 8th to perform in the Disney Parks Christmas Parade which was televised on Christmas Day on ABC. This was a great experience for the Silliman Varsity Cheerleaders. They would like to thank all those who helped support them to make this dream come true!

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By James Ronald skains

2013 was an exciting year of writ-ing for the Zachary POST and Felici-ana EXPLORER. It has given me the opportunity to get to know the Felici-ana-Plains-Port Hudson-Zachary area and its people as never before. First, the “history buff” in me discovered that the area noted above is rich in history and heritage, as much, if not more so, than any area in Louisiana. Secondly, I dis-covered some of the most wonderful innovators and leaders that have made this area an economic powerhouse and a great place to live.

Since the mid-1700’s, people look-ing for economic and spiritual opportu-nities have found the area north of Ba-ton Rouge and south of the Feliciana’s known as the Plains a land of opportu-nity. Bordering the mighty Mississippi on the west, this area produced two port towns of great significance, Port Hudson and Bayou Sara, that were the direct results of people settling in the Plains area and plying their various trades in the society that developed.

The Feliciana’s with Bayou Sara as the gateway to the great River saw large upland plantations develop. Many of those majestic plantation homes are still with us today as a reminder of our heritage in St. Francisville, Jackson, and Clinton. Many of these sites have become economic engines in the tour-ist industry. Some people in the Feli-ciana’s believe that the tourist industry is just now beginning to show signs of acceleration.

Port Hudson is a national monu-ment as place where a monumental struggle took place during the Civil War. This area includes a burying ground for those who wore the military uniforms of our country from bygone days to the 21st century.

Although now, only an empty spot on the banks of the Mississippi except for a US Army Corp of Engi-neers concrete mattress factory, Bayou Sara guided the initial development of the Feliciana’s. The beautiful town on the hill that grew when Bayou Sara declined, St. Francisville is known as perhaps the most unique and beautiful

town in Louisiana. It is well known throughout the state as a wonderful short-term destination place. Nearby, the Bluff’s Resort has become known nationally as a world-class golfing lo-cation.

However, I found the people of the area as fascinating as the scenery. What a pleasure to get to know to know the Mills family whose residency in the Feliciana’s date back to at least the 1790’s. What a privilege to get know Mr. Albert Carter Mills, Jr. in the last part of his hundredth year of life. His baby sister, Ms. Jane Burke, has been a very bright spot in this past year providing me with lots of information about her family, the Plains Presbyte-rian Church, and the Bank of Zachary. Mr. Albert’s daughter, Kathleen Mills Davis has been an inspiration in shar-ing the trials, tribulations, and spiritual joys of her unique journey through life.

Hats off and many thanks also, to my “buddy”, Betty Tucker at the Zach-ary City Archives and Zachary Histori-cal Association. Betty has opened nu-merous doors for me to write business profiles and feature articles on people in the area. Not only has Betty provid-ed me with a world of historical infor-mation about the area, but also she has been a sounding board for ideas as well as a contact person who seems to know most everyone between Baton Rouge and the Mississippi line. Betty already has a pretty good list of possible fea-ture article ideas for 2014.

Up in Clinton, I was able to inter-view my old friend Dennis Aucoin. Dennis was the person who told me about the PACTEC Company, a truly unique company. I was some kind of surprised during my visit with Mike Schilling and Rodney Terral to find out that PACTEC has a presence in the nu-clear reactor clean up in Japan s well as a manufacturing facility at Subic Bay in the Philippines.

I also enjoyed my interview visits with Jeff Gardner and David Dart in Clinton. A little further west, I had an interesting visit with Jon Salter at the War Veterans home. It was great to get know Col. Jim Hendrickson (retired) in Jackson. What a unique and distin-

guished career Jim has had. I also met Kenny Havard on that trip. Later I was able to visit with Kenny and get the latest on his initial term as a LA State Representative.

It was a pleasure getting to know an-other family member with long linage in the Feliciana’s, Tom McVea. It was also really interesting to get to know all the all of the candidates who stood for election as the new Parish President of the West Feliciana, Lea Reid Williams, John Kean and the eventual winner of the race, Kevin Couhig.

I plan to see Kevin on a regular ba-sis in 2014 to get up-dates on his efforts as Parish President. It was also a plea-sure for me to get to know his dad, Bob Couhig, who helped “write the book” on pest control in Louisiana. Although 97 years of age, Bob Couhig is still as sharp as tack.

I’m still in awe of the Howard fam-ily at Red Stick Armature on Highway 61 south from St. Francisville. Talk about the American Dream of a busi-ness success. Mr. Howard survived not only Pearl Harbor and a number of days in a life raft in the South Pacific, he returned to Trade School in Boga-lusa and then came to Baton Rouge as a motor re-winder before starting his own business which has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 60 years.

Back in the Zachary area, I found at least four of the men who have helped write the modern history of Zachary, Mr. Johnny LeTard, Mr. John Hendry, Mr. Harry Morris, and Coach Jerry Boudreaux. Harry Morris, who got to know most everyone in the area from his 30 plus years at the bank, was truly the man in the trenches doing the heavy lifting in the economic development of Zachary.

I’ve got my sights on getting to know the people at the Georgia Pacific paper mill at Port Hudson. GP has been such an economic engine and great corporate citizen in the Zachary area. It is time to let everyone know of GP’s true impact to the area.

Writer’s note: There are several more people in the area that I wanted to mention, with whom I have become

Looking Forward to 2014 While Reflecting on 2013

acquainted through the newspaper. However, I’m past my word limit for this edition. I certainly appreciate the opportunity to work with Daniel Dug-gan, a real first class newspaper pub-lisher. But for 2014, I’ll look forward to getting to know more of the people in the area and to visit many more points of interest! My contact info is: jrskains@cox.net

I’ve already solved is that of getting flags for funerals of veterans. It had become a problem for some reason, even to the point of people not get-ting the flags before the funeral,” Congress McAllister pointed out. “Shipping these flags can sometimes be slow, so to prevent any problem, I’ve stock piled 25 flags in both the

Alexandria and Monroe offices.” “Another misconception go-

ing around is that veterans are go-ing to get a cut in their retirement benefits,’’ Congressman McAllister elaborated. “There is going to be no reduction in monthly benefits for veterans.”

“What has happened is that the proposed cost of living increase that was originally proposed is be-ing cut 1%, but that is not a cut in

actual benefits. The veterans have not received a cost of living raise in several years, so an increase was proposed and then that increase was modified downward by one per-cent.”

Congressman McAllister con-cluded the interview with a story about his first visit to the House Speaker’s office. “Boehner smokes like a chimney. He smoked 11 ciga-rettes in 15 minutes, so I decided to

take a dip. One of his staff people told me that they had never seen a congressman take a dip. I told them that I wasn’t going to spit on the speaker’s floor, but since I had to breathe his smoke, I might as well take a dip,” Speaker Boehner laughed. “I thought the house office building was smoke free, but you can walk down the halls and smell the smoke coming out of the offices of the congressman who smoke.”

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Victoria Crawford was the youngest child to visit Santa. She was two weeks old.

Lauren Washington with Santa.Tony Martin family with Santa.

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Jackson United Methodist Church Stages a Live Nativity CrecheThe Jackson United Methodist Church held a Live Nativity Scene at the

Republic of West Florida Museum Pavilion on Dec. 18th. After the perfor-mance everyone was invited to the Methodist Social Hall for refreshments and a visit with Santa.

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With the holiday season soon ap-proaching, many low-income families are thinking ahead toward Christmas and wondering if they can even afford Christmas gifts for their kids this year. “Children shouldn’t have to do with-out presents at Christmas”, said Jeff Travis and that’s exactly why he co-ordinated two local organizations that stepped forward to work together and help spread some Christmas cheer to some of these families.

The East Feliciana Drug Abuse Council and East Feliciana Parish Educational Family Day coordinated their efforts. Spear heading the project was Jeff Travis, the Chief of Opera-tions of the Headquarters Executive Staff for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections and their objective was to help give chil-dren a wonderful Christmas to re-member.

Then the Family Dollar Store in Jackson joined in because according to their manager, Rhonda McRae they wanted the opportunity to help bring a smile to a child’s face this Christ-mas. They collected a huge box of toys and then started on their second box of goodies. It was full of dolls, cars, trucks, and other delights for the children.

The Dollar General of Clinton pro-vided some Christmas CD’s, Christmas coloring books, and Christmas cups.

Alpha Mu, a teacher’s society for key women teachers, provided a book for each of the children.

The Dixon Correctional Insti-tute “Vets Incarcerated” has as their motto, “Still Making a Difference.” After hearing the need for bikes from Travis, they donated 12 bikes for the cause in this project. Actually, they

Feliciana Organizations and Businesses Come Together to Help

are Still Making a Difference because they bought and paid for 61 brand new bikes this Christmas season that were used for different programs in nearby neighborhoods. They spent $4100.00 in buying bikes for this Christmas season. Beth Dawson speaking to the president of the Incarcerated Vets, Brian Batiste told him that the In-carcerated Vets have truly embraced the true spirit of giving. The Vets state that they have the opportunity to “Make a Difference” in their own

lives and lives of others by participat-ing in this type of project and Dawson agrees that they have accomplished their goal.

Travis also secured 15 refurbished bikes from Angola. These bikes looked brand new and had their own Angola Bike Shop sticker. He was also able to secure dozen of handmade wooden toys for the children. These toys were made and donated by the Angola Toy Shop. The men that work at the Angola Toy Shop work on these toys all year long so they can donate them to the children at Christmas. They made cars, trucks, tractors, air-planes, fishing rods and other creative wooden toys.

Thanks to Jeff Travis, the East Fe-liciana Drug Abuse Council and East Feliciana Parish Educational Family Day, Family Dollar of Jackson, Dollar General of Clinton, and Alpha Mu a huge bag of treats went to each of 11 families to make sure that they would have a stocking full of goodies for the young ones in their household on Christmas morning.

The president of the East Feliciana Parish Educational Family Day Com-mittee, Roosevelt Wilkerson, visited businesses and secured donations for the Middle and High School students. Six Middle School Students and four High School students will be given a Wal-Mart credit card. They will bring

the students to Wal-Mart and the stu-dents will be accompanied by their school guidance counselor and sec-retary while on their spending spree.

During the Christmas season Harvey Enterprises had a Christmas party for all their employees. The employees collected around 100 pounds of food and they donated it to the cause. Dawson and Wilkerson divided the food into 7 different bas-kets. Then Wilkerson spent Christ-mas Eve morning bringing it to these families along with some toys that 5-year-old Tony Mendel donated to their children.

They are very grateful to those businesses that made this possible for these students. Those businesses are Daryl Adams of Adams Enterprise, McDonald’s Healthmart Pharma-cy, Time Acceptance, Star AG, Dr. Nnamdi Nwabueze, Feliciana Vet-erinary Hospital, Elams, Joe’s Auto King Mufflers of Zachary, and St. Francis Rehab Services of St. Fran-cisville.

“Witnessing the families receiv-ing their gifts and the community members donating their time, money, and effort to making a child’s Christ-mas a little brighter is very heart-warming”, said Rhonda Torrance the president of the East Feliciana Drug Abuse Council.

Pictured are the employees at Family Dollar in Jackson that encouraged their customers to donate toys to the cause.Tammy Underwood, Elizabeth Fleming, Miranda Daniels, Rhonda Mcrae, and Shirlynn Gibbs.

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Milestones Births • Engagements • Weddings • Awards Obituaries • Anniversaries • Reunions

Daniel, George ArdGeorge Ard Daniel, 89, a resident of St. Francisville, LA, died on Christ-

mas Eve, December 24, 2013 at the Carpenter House in Baton Rouge. He was retired, after working for 25 years for Crown Zellerbach.

Visiting will be at Mt. Carmel Catholic Church on Saturday December 28, 2013 from 8:00 am until Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 am. Burial will be at Star Hill Cemetery, St. Francisville. He is survived by two daugh-ters: Felicia Ann Hendl and her husband Joe of St. Francisville; Deborah Kay Daniel of St. Francisville; one son, Danny Daniel and his wife Faye of St. Francisville; one brother, Leo Daniel; grandchildren Robert Triche and wife Jonnie of Zachary; Chris Triche and wife Kristen of St. Francisville; great-grandchildren Daniel, Mackenzie, Taylor, and Brooklynn Triche, all of Zachary; and Olivia and Bodie Triche of St. Francisville. He was preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Ruth Pohlmann Daniel; father and mother James and Anna Soule Daniel; brothers James Daniel Jr, A.M. “Boss” Dan-iel, W.M. “Bill” Daniel; sisters Betsy Maryman and Cooper Rutledge.

Pallbearers will be Robert Triche, Timmy Pohlmann, Robert W. Daniel, Walter Oliveaux, Glenn Daniel, William McMills, Jr and all of his beloved nephews.

He was a veteran of WWII, where he served in the US Navy. He enjoyed hunting and camping, raising cattle. He served 16 years as the Vice Com-mander of Rogillio-Clark American Legion Post 164, and the Audubon Li-ons Club. He was a member of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church.

Special thanks to Tavia Riggs and Jessee Epps, the staff at Lane Regional Medical Center and the staff at The Carpenter House for all your care and compassion. Memorial donations may be made the The Carpenter House, 10615 Jefferson Hwy., Baton Rouge, LA 70807.

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Shane Lee HartleyShane Lee Hartley was born at

Lane Regional Hospital on Novem-ber 25 at 7:56 p.m. weighing 7 lbs. and 13oz and was 19in long. He is welcomed home by big sister, Em-malyn, as well as, loving mother and father - Holly Hartley and Ryan Whittington. Proud grandparents are Melinda Hartley, Denise Havard and Bryan Whittington, all of Zachary.

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The Avondale District with Istrouma Area Council, Boy Scouts of America Troop 472 honors their three newest Eagle Scouts. Andrew R. Albritton, G. Calmer Dighton, and Nicholas T. Gosselin joined the ranks of the Eagle Scout, the highest rank a youth Boy Scout can earn. Becoming an Eagle Scout takes time and dedication. The Istrouma Area Council and the Avondale District would like to add their congratulations to those of Troop 472 to these three fine young men. Anyone interested in joining Scouting, should contact Jacqueline Moore at (225) 719-0698 or jacqueline.moore@scouting.org to join in the fun. Photo left to right-Andrew Albritton, G. Calmer Dighton, Nicholas Gosselin

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