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West Feliciana Voters Defeat School Tax

Last Saturday voters in West Feliciana went to the polls and de-feated a proposed 14 mil property tax, which would have helped bet-ter fund the West Feliciana School System.

According to official returns 1,183 (43%) registered voters vot-ed in favor of the tax, while 1,559 (57%) voted against. A total of 2,742 registered voters cast votes in the May 3 election.

The proposed tax would have levied an additional 14 mills of ad valorem taxes for 10 years to fund parish schools.

Superintendent of West Felici-

ana Parish Schools Hollis G. Mil-ton released the following on behalf of himself, West Feliciana School Board President Kevin Beauchamp, and Campaign Coordinator Kati Williamson: “We would like to thank the community for voting on the school proposition. The school system is a source of pride for this community. We are thankful for the community support and we will continue to work hard for the edu-cational growth and development of all children in West Feliciana Par-ish. The sun will shine tomorrow and will continue to shine on West Feliciana Parish Schools.”

District Attorney Sam D’Aquilla to Seek Re-ElectionEast and West Feliciana Parish

District Attorney, Sam D’Aquilla, announced today that he would be a candidate for re-election in the Primary Election sched-uled for Tuesday, November 4, 2014. In announcing his candidacy, District Attorney D’Aquilla said, “I have been proud to serve as District At-torney for the past 11 years and ask for the opportunity to continue to serve.”

Sam D’Aquilla, 49, (D) is a lifelong resident of the Felicianas and has spent the majority of his legal ca-reer here. He was a former Special Assistant District Attorney and also served as an indi-gent defender. He is a member of the Louisiana Bar Association, member and past President of the Feliciana Bar Association and elected member

Sam D’Aquilla

of the Louisiana State Bar Associa-tion House of Delegates for the 20th Judicial District. A veteran of the U.S.

Marine Corps and U.S. Na-val Reserves, D’Aquilla was the former Secretary Trea-surer of the Naval Enlisted Reserve Association. He is a member of the St. Francis-ville Rotary Club, a lifetime member of the American Ri-fle Association, Knights of Columbus Council # 2047 and 7856 and St. Albans Masonic Lodge No. 28.

The District Attorney’s office has moved forward with bold, new initiatives while attaining a high con-

viction rate. Besides personally pros-ecuting some of the most high profile cases in the district, his office has collected thousands of dollars in as-set forfeitures from illegal drug in-

terdiction and obtained grants total-ing over $ 500,000 for office updates and improvements. The office has collected large amounts of past due child support payments as well as non sufficient fund checks written to local merchants. In association with the local sheriffs and law enforce-ment, he expanded the “Know the Law” program to East Feliciana Par-ish schools and created and co-chaired the East Feliciana Parish Drug Aware-ness Council which works with local schools to curb teen drug abuse. Ad-ditionally, Sam D’Aquilla is active as a board member of the West Feliciana Drug and Alcohol Awareness Council. D’Aquilla also dedicates himself to teaching Louisiana Wildfire and Fish-eries Hunter Education, Boater Edu-cation classes and Concealed Carry classes.

“It is an honor to serve with the dedicated employees of your District

Attorney’s office and I am proud of the record of achievement and effective-ness we have earned together. I am proud to lead the dedicated men and women of your District Attorney’s of-fice.” said D’Aquilla. “They go about the business of seeking justice every day and they do it with professional-ism, dedication and enthusiasm,” he said.

D’Aquilla is the father of two daughters, Sara and Maria. He is an active member of Our Lady of Per-petual Help Catholic Church.

“I humbly ask the people of our community to give me the opportunity to continue serving as District Attor-ney. This office is a sacred public trust and I pledge to continue to conduct myself and the business of this office in the same honest and effective way that you have come to expect.” said D’Aquilla. “I humbly ask for your prayers, your support and your vote.”

East Feliciana Police Jury met May 5, Planned Public WorksBy Patricia rachal Stallman

Police Jury President Louis Kent opened the East Feliciana Parish Po-lice Jury meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, May 5, with a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Also present were: Ju-ror Dennis Aucoin, Clinton, District 1-A; Vice President E. L. “Larry” Beauchamp, III, Clinton, District 5; Juror Edward Brooks, Sr., Jackson, District 2; Juror Chris Hall, Ethel, District 1-B; Juror Jason McCray, Jackson, District 3.

Absent were: Karl “Bubba” Chaney, Clinton, District 6; Dwight Hill, Jackson, District 4-B; and Keith Mills, Jackson, District 4-A.

Also present were Parish Man-ager/Treasurer/Floodplain Manager John J. “J.R.” Rouchon, and Parish Financial Officer Mack Herrod.

Burleigh sings Carruth Road

blues Among those addressing the jury

was Carruth Road resident Mari-lyn Burleigh, who noted that dur-ing a recent visit with John J. “J.R.” Rouchon, she learned that parish officials had removed Carruth from the resurfacing list “because it’s so long and so few people live there.” Burleigh agreed that the major prop-erty owners are the John Barton and Kirwin Ross families, but as spokes-person for all Carruth Road residents and the Village of Wilson, she noted, “We’ve all got deep roots, and we’ve all been paying taxes. Yes, our prop-erty taxes are low, and that’s good for us, except that if we don’t get a grant for road repair, nothing gets done. We’re following every path we

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Alpha Mu Celebrates Founders DayAlpha Mu of Delta Kappa Gamma,

a society for Key Women Teachers, held their annual Founder’s Day pro-gram on May 3 at the Jackson United Methodist church in Jackson.

Each year an honorarium is pre-sented to a young lady that is going into the field of education. This year two excellent nominees were present-ed; therefore, two honorariums were given. The recipients were Augusta Ceasar and Alayna Manchester.

Augusta Ceasar of East Feliciana High School has a grade point average of 4.0. She is taking two dual enroll-ment courses at Southern and they are freshman composition and pre-calcu-lus. On Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons when she finishes her class-es she does volunteer work at Jackson Elementary. She is a cheerleader and president of the Student Government Association. She is the Senior Class Vice President and she is a Beta Club member and also a member of Educa-tional Talent Search. She plans to at-tend Southeastern in Hammond.

Ceasar’s mother shared with the chapter that all four of her grandpar-ents were teachers and her four-year-old sister told us that she wanted to be a teacher.

Alayna Manchester of West Felici-ana High School has a 3.8 grade point average. She is Vice President of the SADD organization and she is a mem-ber of Honors Choir. She plans to at-tend Southeastern in Hammond.

Alpha Mu gives two annual awards, the Red Apple Award and the Gold Ap-ple Award.

The Red Apple Award goes to an individual that is an educator but not a member of the organization. The Gold

Apple Award goes to an individual or group that helps education but is not in the field of education.

Kim Glascock won the Red Apple Award for her strides in bringing up her student scores at Slaughter Elementary. Also, the fact that she is now helping the Pre-K to 2nd grade at all the ele-mentary school in East Feliciana Par-ish with Wilson Phonics.

The Gold Apple Award was award-ed to The Knights of Columbus Coun-cil 7856. This organization has given a sizable donation to the Special Educa-tion department in East and West Feli-ciana for over 15 years. It was noted that the Knights not only help with Education but in many other ways they serve our communities. They help with a nice donation to each of the Food Banks, Council on Aging in both par-

ishes, support Relay for Life, Special Olympics, Vets Fest, both of the sports parks, Problem Pregnancy Center thru Baby Bottle Campaign, and Pro Life. It’s remarkable, but this is just a few of the ways they help the Felicianas.

The program ended with Beth Dawson, outgoing president, giving a program on the International Founders. She compared each of the founders to a different Louisiana wildflower.

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sured her, “We’re going to do our best,” Burleigh, holding large parish maps showing the road, which runs from Highway 19 in Wilson east un-til it becomes Beechgrove Road (part of which is now paved), responded, “We’re going to stay on you!” to which Kent answered, “Please do!”

Other audience members from Carruth Road chimed in, including one woman who said she needs “a front-end alignment because of that road,” and Marlon Carruth, whose family has lived on the road for gen-erations, who noted, “After Hurri-cane Gustav some roads got paved or resurfaced, and we’ve got the same weather, don’t we?”

Burleigh noted further that in 1988, the parish provided an overlay for Carruth, “but logging trucks did away with that” almost immediately and that since then only “the patch trucks come now and then to fill some of the potholes.” A police jury spokesperson commented after the meeting that those logging trucks, to his knowledge, “came off the Car-ruth land.”

Burleigh provided the police jury with the following history of the maintenance of Carruth Road:

The Carruth Road (once known as the Swingalong Road) has had little attention in the past 50 years. It was a gravel road until the 1960s.

1960-62—Soil cement was ap-

plied to the section of the road from Highway 19 to the Billy Goat Road. The rest of the road was left as a gravel road.

1964—Utility right-of-way was obtained from landowners, the road was widened just a bit, and drainage ditches were dug where needed.

May 1970—Some sort of work was done on the road, but no one can remember exactly what.

1987 or 1988—A one-inch over-lay (veneer) was applied. This over-lay did not last six months. The weight of loaded log trucks was too much for the surface to bear, and the road was heavily damaged.

Since 1988—The only mainte-nance has been a cursory pass of the patch truck every now and then.

Each landowner pays approxi-mately $41 per acre in property tax each year. Much of the property on the Carruth Road has been owned by the same families since 1850 or earlier.

In her meeting with Rouchon, Burleigh said, she learned that the police jury had looked into getting a low-to-middle-income grant for the repaving, but that Carruth Road did not qualify. The cost to pave one mile, Burleigh added, is approxi-mately $60,000, “so this is a very expensive project.” Carruth Road from Highway 19 to Beechgrove, Rouchon says, is 4.45 miles.

Further, Burleigh noted, State Representative Kenny Havard is working to add paving funds for Carruth to the governor’s budget in the Capital Outlay Fund.

Turner’s fair housing com-plaint brings HUD to Clinton

Jurors also commented on the fair housing complaint that Parish Property Developer George Turn-er has filed against the five jurors who voted to deny an endorsement of Section 8 vouchers for the par-ish. One of Turner’s interests is the provision of affordable housing for low-income parish residents. Initial-ly, his complaint did not include Ed-ward Brooks, Sr., Louis Kent, Jason McCray, and Keith Mills, who had voted to provide a letter of support for the federal rent subsidy program.

Representatives of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in New Orleans, how-ever, amended the complaint to in-clude all nine jurors.

As of May 5, the investigator was scheduled to visit Clinton May 12 to conduct juror interviews.

Dart streamlines bill payment for Clerk’s office

Also addressing the jury was East Feliciana Parish Clerk of Court David Dart, who sought to estab-lish a cooperative endeavor with the police jury to streamline payment of his administrative bills. Dart re-quested and received clearance to continue collecting the fees on prop-erty recordings but to pay the Clerk of Court bills directly from the fees instead of sending the fees to the po-lice jury for bill payment.

Rouchon explained the change as “the same bills and the same amount of money, just a different person signing the checks.”

Planning and Zoning Commit-tee sets appeal process

Buddy Foreman informed the jury that the East Feliciana Parish Planning and Zoning Committee has unanimously passed a zoning ordi-nance change that will establish a process for zoning appeals. A public hearing is set for June 2.

Savoie beats the drum for Li-ons Club patriotic event

Lewis Savoie updated the ju-rors on The Red, White, and Blue Festival, which the Clinton Lions Club will sponsor July 4 and 5 at the American Legion Hall on Lib-erty Highway in Clinton. Savoie ap-pealed for more volunteers and ven-dors, and for financial sponsors, both businesses and individuals. In addi-tion, Savoie extended an invitation to churches, community groups, and musicians to “share their talents.” Already on the program are: Bruce

Mitchell of Swamp People, Anne Vedrine’s Cajun Fiddler Ensemble, United We Jam, Linda Dupry’s Red, White, and Blue Musical Salute, Is-land Fever, the DCI Band from Dix-on Correctional Institute, the Angola Band from Angola Prison in West Feliciana Parish, and gospel groups from East Feliciana and surrounding parishes.

The event, which will run 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day, will offer a soft-ball tournament, a Bruce Food’s bar-be-cue cooking contest, a blueberry cooking contest, a children’s stage, an antique car and truck show, a craft village and market, Laser Tag of Ba-ton Rouge, a 5K Fun Run and Walk, a golf cart parade, a greased water-melon relay race, patriotic programs, and fireworks featuring a Blue An-gels flyover.

On Thursday evening, May 8, the event’s steering committee will select a winner among parish artists who are vying for their work to serve as the festivity’s official poster.

Savoie, who is the event chair, expects “several thousand guests” to help Clinton celebrate “our nation’s freedom, our veterans and active ser-vice members, and our community’s ability to join together in support of each other” in two days of family fun.

To volunteer time, talent, or fi-nancial sponsorship, call Savoie at 225-281-3144 or email him at Lew-is@tlgbc.com.

Herrod announces equal fund-ing for parks

Parish Financial Officer Mack Herrod announced that the seven East Feliciana Parish parks-Nor-wood, DCI, McManus, Morning Star 1, Morning Star 2, Wilson Com-munity, and FAARM in Clinton-will each receive a yearly budget of $1,200, which will increase the park budget to $8,400. Previously, parks received budgets from $200 to $900 a year.

Hurricane season looms The jury plans to lease one front-

end loader in time for hurricane sea-son next month. The lease will al-low jurors to determine whether to recommend purchase, depending on use.

Parish thanks those who serve President Kent and Vice Presi-

dent Beauchamp received four-year pins recognizing the service they have completed for the parish, and Juror Brooks received a five-year pin.

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Clinton Community Responders Answer to Callthe rev. Kenneth Graham, clinton Unit-ed methodiSt chUrch

Our three men who are part of the Disaster Response Team—Sel-wyn Blouin, Charles Goss, and Dar-ryl Guy—also have formed a group called The Ramp Tramps. They build ramps for people and organi-zations in East Feliciana Parish…for individuals, for churches, and even for the Audubon library here in Clinton. If the person or group is able to pay for the materials for the ramp, then they pay and the Ramp Tramps build. Blouin, Goss,and Guy along with several other people, are

involved in this ministry, building several ramps each year.

In November we will make our fourth mission trip to Appalachia. The United Methodist Church has a mission station, the Redbird Mission Station, in southeast Kentucky, in the Redbird Valley right next to the Redbird River. It has been in opera-tion since at least the ‘30s. Many of the area’s coal mines, formerly the main employer, have gone out of business, and a lot of poverty has re-sulted.

People from all over the country, but mostly from the eastern half, gather at Redbird to do all sorts of repairs on the homes of residents who are unable to pay for the work. Last year one of our projects was to replace a bedroom floor that was just about to fall in. Because of our work and that of a group that came before us, the owner, who was a widow, was able to stay in her home. She had enough income to pay the bills, but not enough extra for the repair work on her home.

Darryl is also involved in a mis-sion project in Dulac, La. People from all over the country meet at Dulac to do the same work there that we do in Kentucky. Some of this work in Dulac is still leftover work from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Finally, this summer a group of youth from the Central Texas Conference of the United Method-ist Church, which is generally the Fort Worth, Texas, area, is coming

Early Responder Selwyn Blouin of Clinton says that the ground floor of this notched log cabin held together, but the top story and the roof disappeared in the tornado. Note the children’s toys in the yard, including the black train engine in front. Photographs by Selwin Blouin, Clinton UMC.

Ready to go! Holding his granddaughter, Pastor Bob Deich, left, First United Method-ist Church of Denham Springs; Selwyn Blouin, Clinton UMC; Charles Goss, Clinton UMC; Sam Merritt, FUMC of Bossier City; Darryl Guy, Clinton UMC; and Milton Li-zana, FUMC of Slidell. The Rev. Kenneth Graham, Clinton UMC, explains, “A part of the Louisiana Annual Conference Early Response Team, this group is trained to go into an area following a disaster after people like first responders and electrical and gas companies make sure the area is safe. Then our guys begin the clean up, helping people put their lives back together. Our team left Wednesday, April 30, and returned Sunday night, May 4. These guys will go anywhere to help anybody who needs them. The day after they returned from Vilonia, our three men were at work again, this time helping construct a new building here at home for our church camp, which, though multipur-pose, serves the needs of children.”

The Clinton United Methodist Church. Photograph by Patricia Stallman.

to East Feliciana Parish to work here. The Clinton United Method-ist Church will house and take care of the young people while they are in town. Two years ago, a Central Texas group came to build ramps, paint houses, repair porches and perform a variety of other work that people needed locally, and Tri-care and the Council on Aging helped the volunteers locate people who had needs.

Our Ramp Tramps, our Disas-

ter Response Team, the Redbird Mission group, and the Texas youth group represent just a few of those who volunteer to help others both at home and beyond.

The Clinton United Methodist Church welcomes all who wish to volunteer with us. To join us in help-ing those in need, please call the Clinton UMC at 225-683-5472.

Our hearts, our minds, and our doors are always open.

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For Help from Recent Tornadoes in Arkansas

Wielding a chain saw, Clinton’s Darryl Guy works on clearing a road.

Clinton’s Charles Goss, in white hat, and other team members, work to stabilize a roof. Early Response Teams are self-supporting and provide for their own expenses, such as food and transportation. Members always bring their own safety clothing, gear, and bedding. For information about serving on an Early Response Team, contact the Rev. Deich at ladisasterpastor@gmail.com

“We helped the people start the clean up and salvage,” one responder said, but “they still have a long road ahead of them.”

News sources report that the April 27 Vilonia-area tornado was “the deadliest single tornado in Arkansas since 1968,” taking at least 16 lives and damaging or destroying homes, businesses and churches, including the Vilonia United Methodist Church.

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Roy Stewart: Old Timey Cowboys Don’t Go Away, They Make TackBy JameS ronald SKainS

“Most people don’t remember it, although some of the old timers will. But, at one time, Zachary was pretty much of a “cowboy town” because of so many big cattle operations in the area,” 71 year old Roy Stewart told the Feliciana Explorer. “Working cattle has been a big part of my life’s career. When I wasn’t making a living by penning cattle, I was operating heavy equipment.”

Today, Roy Stewart and his wife Aline own and operate Boot Hill Saddle Repair on Highway 64 east of Zachary.

“The way our place got to be known as Boot Hill was due to Roy Cox, who owned the property at one time,’’ Stew-art recalled. “Some friends of his made him a “Boot Hill” sign and stuck it up because his property adjoined the Tucker-Millican Cemetery.”

“After Mr. Cox, who later died in 1975, gave me one acre of his property, we decided to keep the Boot Hill name. They have Boot Hill Museums in Tombstone, Arizona and Wichita, Kan-sas. We don’t have a museum, but we do have a saddle and tack repair busi-ness which I consider a hobby because I don’t make any money doing it.”

Stewart grew up on Joor Road, one mile north of Greenwell Springs Road. Next door was Jimmy Tucker and his son Malcolm, who owned horses and cows.

“It was a natural fit for me. Malcom and I were about the same age, so we rode horses and worked cattle from an early age,” Stewart related. “Over the years, I worked for most of the cattle people, Charlie Brown, Mason Vines, and Raymond Cox to name a few, in the northern part of the parish penning cattle. The Womack and Bryan fami-lies still have a number of cattle.”

“I got into using Catahoula dogs to help pen the cattle. The Catahou-la’s make great stock dogs, especially working as stop dogs. Most Catahou-las are either Red or Blue Leopard with

white but I preferred brindle colored dogs. I had my own little blood line going at one time. Those Catahoula’s are brave dogs. If the cattle didn’t stop where the dogs wanted them to, they would grab a hold of them. A Catahou-la stock dog can put a big bull on the ground in a hurry.”

“You use voice commands with your Catahoula dogs in herding cat-tle,’’ Stewart pointed out. “When you wanted your dogs to get in front of the cattle and stop them and then bunch them up, you hollered to the dogs, “get ahead.” The other big voice command was to “get behind,” which meant for your dogs to come walk behind your horse. We competed in hog dog shows throughout three or four states with our working dogs.”

“In the shows, the goal was to con-trol your dogs in such a manner that you could move cattle around an obstacle course and then pen the cattle,” Stew-art remembered. “Usually we worked from one to three dogs with a five head of cattle in these shows. Sometimes

you were competing in a rodeo arena or a big pasture of up to 100 acres.”

“Later I started using Border Col-lies. They are easier on cattle than the Catahoulas are because they don’t bite the cattle when the cattle don’t do what the dog wants them to do. In working the Border Collies with cattle, we use the International Accepted Commands Standards. If you want a Border collie to circle the cattle counter-clockwise, you would tell the dog: “away to me.” If you wanted him to circle the cattle clockwise, you give them the com-mand to “come by.”

“Two other voice commands we use with Border Collies are “down” and “walk up,” Stewart noted. “Down” means to lie down on the ground until another command is given and “walk-up” means to ease up to the cattle. The Border Collies are really good in working with cattle. Doing the stock dog shows was a lot of fun. You didn’t make any money doing them but if you were the winner, you got bragging rights.”

Stewart’s rodeo riding career was briefly interrupted by a four year stint in the US Navy between 1961 and 1965. He served some of his time on board US Destroyers working the Cu-ban blockade searching Russian ships leaving Cuba.

“I wanted to be a professional buck-ing horse rider but after a couple years on the circuit, I realized that I was not good enough to be competitive, so I switched to bull-dogging and calf-roping. Later, I added team roping to my skills,” Stewart explained. “Dur-ing most of my rodeo career, I was in-volved in the Rodeo Cowboy Ministry. I would do prayers, and a short service for the riders before the rodeo competi-tion.”

“I was very much involved in the Cowboy Church Ministry for the High School Rodeo Association for many years. It was really fun and I got to know a lot of young cowboys and cow-girls. During the course of my Cowboy Church Ministry, I came to understand that so many people just want someone who will talk with them.”

During the course of Stewart’s other working career as a heavy equipment operator, he worked on such projects as the Baton Rouge CentroPlex (now the River Center) and the River Bend Nuclear Power Plant. He retired out of Local 406 in 2003 to devote more time to his hobbies, namely saddle and tack repair.

“I don’t ride my horse nearly as much as I did five years ago, but I’m a member of the Louisiana Stock Horse Association,’’ Stewart pointed out. “Back in 2008, some friends got me to enter the Extreme Horsemanship Chal-lenges at the FARR BREC Park below LSU on River Road.”

“I didn’t expect to do too well, but I had a good, well trained horse. There must have been 20 or more riders, and I was leading until the last rider rode and he beat me. I still earned $200, which I have a blowup of the check here in my shop.”

Roy Stewart, former rodeo cowboy, modern-day cow puncher, stock dog trainer,and now saddle and tack repairman.

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DOG CARE

DRY CLEANERS

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Lloyd’s Home Maintenance &

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Johnson’s Lawn CareQuality, dependable lawn care & maintenance

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8 Tuesday, May 13, 2014

All-New 2014 Chevrolet

MALIBU LT$249/MO $0 DOWN36 MONTHS, SIGN AND DRIVE!

All-New 2014 Chevrolet

CAMARO$1000 CUSTOMER CASH

+$1000 MAY PURCHASE BONUS CASH

$2,000TOTAL CASHALLOWANCE

All-New 2014 Chevrolet

SILVERADO DOUBLE CABALL STAR EDITION

$44,440 MSRP BEFORE DISCOUNTS$40,590 MAY SPECIAL PRICING

- $4,750 TOTAL CASH ALLOWANCE$35,840 FINAL MAY PRICE AFTER ALL OFFERS

$8,600TOTALVALUE

Giving Back To Those Who Have Given So Much.During Military Appreciation Month Chevrolet is offering the Best Military purchase

program in the industry.

Now all Veterans along with Active Duty, Reserves and Retirees - including thierspouses - are eligible for the Military Discount. The discount can be combined with

most current incentives.

Additionally, All 2014 Silverado light duty models receive a$500 Purchase Bonus Cash through June 2, 2104

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*No security deposit, Tax, title, license and dealerfees extra. Mileage charge of 25¢ per mile over

36,000 miles. All prices/payments plus tax, title andlicense, see dealer for details. Offers end 5/31/14

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