WINN:
Randall Frank Davis
June 27, 1936 – July 15, 2022
Service: Tuesday, July 19 at 10 am at Southern Funeral Home

NATCHITOCHES:
“Pixie” Cora Lynn Woods/Coldiron
July 3, 2022
Service: Saturday, July 23 at 5 pm at 218 Archie Woods Rd. in Campti

Stella Mae LaCour
April 25, 1939 – July 3, 2022
Service: Thursday, July 21 at 10 am at the sacred final resting place of St. Augustine Catholic Church Mausoleum in Isle Brevelle, Louisiana

Alonza Earnest Morgan
May 4, 1931 – July 11, 2022
Service: Tuesday, July 19 at 11 am at the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church

SABINE:
Norma Downing Rose
September 24, 1931 – July 15, 2022
Service: Monday, July 18 at 10 am at First United Methodist Church of Many

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Several shops in Winnfield will participate in the 2nd Annual Sip and Shop event tonight from 5 – 9 PM.

Most businesses participating will have sales, giveaways, and light refreshments on hand for shoppers to enjoy.

Businesses participating this year:

💥Vintage Belles Boutique
💥Scentsational Scents
💥The Social Coffee House
💥Geaux 318 Entergy & Nutrition
💥The Mix Up
💥Pink Petal & Co Flower Truck & Events
💥Pretty Baked w/ The Big Easy
💥Barn Door Boutique
💥Pea Patch Art Gallery & Cafe See less

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LSU AgCenter, Healthy Communities and the City of Winnfield are hosting a Play Street event on Saturday, July 16th from 10 AM – 1 PM at the Grove Street Recreation Center. Lunch will be served.

Play Streets are popup play events that provide safe places for families to get moving. Equipment such as obstacle courses, kickballs, long jump mats, parachutes, inflatable human hamster wheels, bubble machines and music are set up to promote active play, particularly in communities with limited access to parks and safe places to exercise.

Play Streets are powerful tools for community engagement and health promotion, especially in underserved rural areas of the state. The LSU AgCenter is committed to promoting health equity and engaging community members in problem solving to increase physical activity.

For more information contact Shannan Chevallier at 318-623-7732

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Tuesday, July 12th, Kiwanis hosted a baby shower for members Starr and Dylan Womack, who are expecting their first child in August. This is the first time Kiwanis has had a couple that is expecting a child. We enjoyed our meal followed by a special cake. Dylan first and then Starr told everyone the story of how they met and got married. Everyone in attendance wrote down a date and time that the baby would be born to be held until the baby comes. Then the couple opened gifts for baby Walter.

Best wishes to Starr and Dylan as they become parents.

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By: Dr. James Lee

Imagine a disease in children with a death rate above that of all birth defects, cancers, or suicides. Imagine a disease that ranked second only to Accidents as the leading cause of death in children aged 15 and under. Imagine a disease that had an average life expectancy of 1 year when diagnosed in a 10-year-old, 4 years if diagnosed at 30 years of age, and 8 years if diagnosed at age 50. Imagine this disease has no real medical treatment and that there were very little doctors could do to treat these patients.

This was the reality of diabetes prior to the 1920’s. Although diabetic symptoms were described as early as 1552 B.C., the cells that produce insulin, islets of Langerhans, were not discovered until 1869. It was not until 1905 that the term hormone was used to describe the chemical messengers of endocrine glands, one of which is insulin. It was well into the 20th century that a dipstick to detect sugar in the urine to help the early detection of diabetes. How was it detected earlier, you may ask? Well, let’s just say it involved “water-tasters” and is why the urine in diabetics is described as sweet, like honey or sugar.

Last November, we celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of Insulin. The discovery of Insulin is a tale of inspiration, collaboration, altruism, celebration, and controversy. This started with Frederick Banting, a Canadian surgeon, who, prior to WWI, was studying Theology in Toronto. With the start of WWI, he changed his study to medicine and served as a medical officer in England and France during the War. On October 31, 1920, Banting woke up suddenly with a flash of insight as to how he could isolate and use pancreatic secretions to treat diabetes, and even wrote this down in a notebook.

However, Banting was not a scientist and had very little background in experimentation. He knew he would need help to test this theory and approached a top professor in physiology and department head at the University of Toronto, John Macleod. Macleod was not impressed with Banting or his idea initially, but after subsequent meetings, whether by Banting’s enthusiasm, persistence, or something else, Macleod agreed to provide laboratory space and introduced Banting to student assistant Charles Best. In the Spring of 1921, experiments started in dogs and by November 10, 1921, they had successfully treated a dog with diabetes using insulin they had extracted from a dog’s pancreas. In December of 1922, James Collip was brought in to help purify the extract for human use and in January 1922, the first human patient was treated with insulin.

In January 1923, Banting, Best, and Collip were awarded US patents on insulin and their method used to make it. They then sold the patents to the University of Toronto for $1.00 each. A true altruistic gesture, Banting stated, “Insulin does not belong to me; it belongs to the world. Within a year of discovery, insulin was being mass produced by its first manufacturer, Eli Lilly. Also, within a year of discovery, Banting and Macleod were jointly awarded the 193 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

So, we have seen the inspiration, collaboration, altruism, and celebration around the discovery of insulin. What possibly could be controversial. Aside from the work of others in the field and their advancements that made Banting’s work possible, you may have taken notice that Banting and Macleod were given the Nobel Prize. Unfortunately, Best and Collip were not acknowledged for their role. This may partly be due to the limit of three persons named for the Nobel Prize by the committee. However, Banting immediately let Best know he would be splitting his portion of the Prize money with Best. Macleod later split his half of the prize money with Collip. Although contentious, this was hardly controversial.

Reports were that Banting was furious and felt that the award should be shared with Best, not Macleod, as Macleod was in Scotland during the Spring and Summer of 1921. In fact, there are some reports of a personality clash between MacLeod and Banting following Macleod’s return from Scotland. Macleod could not believe how much Banting and Best had accomplished and questioned the accuracy of their data. Banting saw this as questioning his integrity; together with what Banting saw as Macleod’s scorn of his background and ability, further strained the relationship. Interestingly, documentation of the entire story surrounding the discovery of insulin was partly ignored and even suppressed by the University of Toronto to avoid embarrassment to the surviving researchers.

Regardless of how the discovery was made, there is no question about the impact that the discovery of insulin has made on the world: from insulin’s discovery to the altruistic widespread release. Today, diabetes is widespread, affecting over 30 million Americans alone, with another 84 million over 18 having pre-diabetes. It is hard to imagine where we would be without the discovery of insulin.

For more information about this topic, read The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss.

Dr. James Lee serves as the Coroner of Winn Parish. He is a General Surgeon and Surgical Oncologist who has been practicing in Winnfield for over ten years. Dr. Lee attended the University of Colorado for his medical degree. He completed his residency in Surgery at the University of Oklahoma before completing a fellowship in Surgical Oncology and Endoscopy at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY. Dr. Lee and his wife Scarlett live in Winnfield with their son and are active in the community.

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By: Glynn Harris

Lake D’Arbonne has been on fire lately as tournament circuits from around the country have been focused on the lake as one of the country’s best hot spots for catching crappie.

However, a potential problem has emerged regarding the lake’s ability to continue to produce bragging-sized crappie. As a result, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has proposed new regulations focused on these popular fish.

Ryan Daniels, freshwater fisheries biologist with the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries based in Monroe, oversees Lake D’Arbonne, near Farmerville.

“The Commission adopted new regulations for crappie on the lake. The proposal calls for the establishment of a daily limit of seven fish over 12 inches in length with the overall daily limit continuing at 50 fish,” said Daniels.

The reason for the restrictions on fish over 12 inches, said Daniels, is that studies are showing a decline in the numbers of large fish in the lake. Setting the daily limit at seven for the larger fish adds protection of larger fish, he added.

“We realize that during crappie tournaments, participants can weigh in seven fish each day and we want to keep it at seven in consideration of tournament anglers,” he said.

Some crappie fishermen have for a long time been concerned about keeping the daily limit at 50 feeling this puts too much pressure on the population and adding that there is no need for anglers to bring that many fish out of the lake each day.

“We have done creel counts many times at boat launches and have found that very few fishermen keep even as many as 20 fish. We did not see a single angler with 50 fish. By keeping the daily limit at 50, we are attempting to encourage fishermen to keep more of these smaller fish because there is no shortage of smaller fish in the lake,” Daniels said.

Wesley Miller, a professional crappie fishing guide, believes that the new rules are headed in the right direction.

“The piney woods that makeup D’Arbonne’s watershed don’t have a lot of nutrients, so the crappie don’t grow as quickly as they do in more fertile bodies of water. I have a problem with the 50-fish limit as I believe that is far too many fish per day. Today’s technology is making it so much easier to catch fish more consistently,” Miller said.

Miller pointed out that he fishes lakes in Texas and Arkansas, states that have more restrictive daily limits. “There are much better crappie populations there than here in Louisiana, both in numbers and size,” Miller added.

Keith Johnson, a former Ruston resident who regularly fished for crappie on D’Arbonne, is happy that the limit for fish over 12 inches is being proposed but, in agreement with Miller, believes the daily limit of 50 is too high. “I think they should drop the limit to 25 fish per day. D’Arbonne is a jewel of a crappie fishery and in my opinion, dropping the daily limit is the responsible thing to do,” Johnson said.

Now is the time for anglers interested in the crappie fishery on D’Arbonne to take advantage of the 60-day comment period to express concerns and make their wishes and suggestions known.

At the end of the period, the Commission will vote on whether or not to put these regulations into effect.

“I look for the decision to be made at the earliest in November,” Daniel said, “but it will probably be in early 2023.”

Contact Glynn at GlynnHarris37@gmail.com

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When I started this article, my intent was to share information and give advice on protecting yourself from the sun’s harmful rays. Over the years on my radio program called Hook’N Up & Track’N Down, I’ve always made suggestions on how to dress and protect yourself. I’ve always encouraged people to wear long sleeve shirts with sun hoodies built-in and with fabrics that have SPF 70 protection or better. I’ve always suggested you wear a wide brim hat in order to protect your head, neck, ears and face better, not to mention that I stressed how important sunscreen is. But little did I know after years of making sure everyone else did the right thing, that I would be the main subject of this article.

Yes, I have been diagnosed with Melanoma skin cancer, the worst kind of skin cancer you can get. But at the time I wrote this article, I had just had a biopsy performed on my upper left ear. This spot has been treated off and on for over a year. It was a spot that started as a scratch while I was trimming trees one day. Then over several months, the spot just never really healed. After a visit to my dermatologist, she prescribed a cream regiment over a 6-day period that had a profound effect on the spot as it disappeared.

Then one day in March while getting a haircut by my sister-in-law, she asked me if I had ever had this spot looked at. I was not aware at the time that it was back due to the location of it on the backside of my ear. But this time it was a black spot that did not look good. That’s when my dermatologist decided to try to the cream regiment one more time. One month later the spot was getting worse and at the time of the biopsy had turned a dark purple color.

Once it was sent off to Birmingham, Alabama, for testing, the results came back positive for Melanoma. The wheels are then set in motion for surgical removal of the spot and testing to make sure it has not spread to my lymph-nodes or other parts of my body. Hopefully, by the time you’re reading this article, I will have better news and will have had the surgery needed to take care of this issue.

So, in the future, take as many preventative measures as possible to protect yourself from the sun’s harmful rays. Wear the long sleeve, built-in sunscreen protective shirts with the hoodie. There are several to choose from such as Columbia, HUK and Under Armour. Make sure to wear the wide brim hat like the ones made by Stetson, which also have built-in bug repellent and sunscreen. I now have three of these and love all of them! In the future, I’ll keep you up to date with my progress on trying to gain control over this dreaded skin cancer. Till next time good luck, good fishing and don’t forget to set the hook!

Steve Graf – Owner/Co-host
Hook’N Up & Track’N Down
Show & Tackle Talk Live

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Dixie Medical Equipment is hiring a Medical Equipment Delivery Technician. 

Position Requirements:

• Driver’s License
• Must be able to lift over 50 lbs.

Position Schedule:

• Monday – Friday 8 AM – 5 PM
• The position will be on call every other weekend

Applicants may drop off resumes or complete an application at 430 W. South Ave., Winnfield, LA. 

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WINN:
Jo Ann Johns
July 16, 1935 – July 13, 2022
Service: Saturday, July 16 at 2 pm at Southern Funeral Home

NATCHITOCHES:
“Pixie” Cora Lynn Woods/Coldiron
July 3, 2022
Service: Saturday, July 23 at 5 pm at 218 Archie Woods Rd. in Campti

Stella Mae LaCour
April 25, 1939 – July 3, 2022
Service: Thursday, July 21 at 10 am at the sacred final resting place of St. Augustine Catholic Church Mausoleum in Isle Brevelle Louisiana

Alonza Earnest Morgan
May 4, 1931 – July 11, 2022
Service: Tuesday, July 19 at 11 am at the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church

SABINE:
Gina Linda Harris Sattler
August 17, 1963 – July 14, 2022
Service: Saturday, July 16 at 10 am at Old Pisgah Baptist Church

Betty Gene Bailey
May 18, 1937 – July 11, 2022
Service: Saturday, July 16 at 2 p.m. at Life Church Tyler, located at 107 Barbee Dr. Tyler in Texas

RED RIVER:
Bessie Mae Riser
September 9, 1928 – July 12, 2022
Service: Friday, July 15 at 2 pm at Rockett-Nettles Funeral Home Chapel

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Two Jackson Parish juveniles surrendered to Winn Parish law enforcement officials on Thursday, July 7, 2022, in connection to the May 7th murder of Jatreion Starks.

Lavontae C. Burks, DOB: 4/21/2005, and Jarrion D. Peels, DOB: 6/1/2005, were arrested and charged with Armed Robbery and Conspiracy to Commit First Degree Murder.

A juvenile continued custody hearing was held last Thursday afternoon before Judge Anastasia Wiley. District Attorney Chris Nevils presented evidence and requested that the juveniles be tried as adults due to the severity of the crimes. Judge Wiley ordered the cases be transferred to adult court and released the defendants to their parents/guardians. The defendants’ arraignment dates are pending.

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Mr. Joshua Wayne Feirn, age 24 of Goldonna, Louisiana passed away on Saturday, July 9, 2022.

Born Monday, June 1, 1998, in Minden, Louisiana, he was preceded in death by his grandmother, Patricia Collins.

Josh was a welder at Six C Fabrication and enjoyed helping others. He loved hanging out with all of his friends every day when he got off work. Josh loved the outdoors, especially during duck and turkey season. If you knew Josh, you know he always made someone smile and never wanted to see anyone sad. He loved his wife and daughter more than anything in this world. We are heartbroken, but we know he will be watching over his friends and family.

Those left to cherish his memory include his wife, Morgan Feirn and daughter, Emma Grace Feirn, both of Calvin, LA; his parents, Michael Wayne Feirn and Hope Feirn, of Calvin, LA; mother Stacy Jensen, of Jonesboro, LA; siblings, Ryan Feirn, of Jonesboro, LA, Joshua Morgan, of Calvin, LA, and sister, Summer Basile and husband Sean, of Covington, LA; paternal grandparents, Robert and Sandy Feirn, of Lockport, IL; Maternal Grandparents, Roland and Wanda Jensen, of Jonesboro, LA; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, other family members, and friends.

The family will receive friends on Thursday, July 14, 2022, at Gloryway Church, from noon until time of services.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM on Thursday, July 14, 2022, at Gloryway Church with Rev. Ronny Taylor officiating. Interment will follow in Gloryway Cemetery under the direction of Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield.

Serving the family as pallbearers will be Josh Morgan, Ryan Feirn, Randall Burke, Collin Wall, Zach Friday, and Logan Bedgood. Honorary pallbearers will be Dustin Goins, Hunter Perot, Michael Duke, Zach Calhoun, Robert Norris, and Jacob Pullig.

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Since 1948, the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation has played an integral role in the philanthropic efforts of the company, providing more than $255 million in donations over 70 years.

We are deeply connected to the communities where we operate through our businesses, our employees and the investments we make to help them thrive. Supporting our community’s benefits everyone and helps ensure our company’s long-term success. From rural to urban locations, we fund valuable programs, build important relationships, and contribute volunteer time and resources.

The Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund offers grants to support programs in local Weyerhaeuser locations. These grants seek to help cultivate growing minds and bodies, promote sustainable communities, and nurture quality of life in Weyerhaeuser communities.

Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund grants supports our communities in the following areas:

• Affordable Housing
• Education and Youth Development
• Environmental Stewardship
• Human Services
• Civic and Cultural Growth
• Workforce Development
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Weyerhaeuser communities range from rural to metropolitan, with unique priorities and needs – these focus areas allow flexibility for a variety of giving across our different communities. Employees across Weyerhaeuser locations establish specific funding priorities for local giving within this giving framework.

We encourage nonprofit organizations to review the guidelines and if they feel they qualify, complete the grant request online.

We accept request applications throughout the year.

• All final Grant applications due by Sept 30, 2022

For more information about Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund’s priorities, eligibility, contact information and application process, we invite you to visit our website

Please review the Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund criteria and eligibility requirements. If you have questions about whether your location qualifies as a Weyerhaeuser operating area please contact the Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund.

We appreciate your consideration of Weyerhaeuser.

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Date: 7-5-22
Name: Dustin A Davis
Address: Dodson, LA
Race: White
Sex: Male
Age: 38
Charge: Sexual Battery, Malfeasance in the workplace

Date: 7-5-22
Name: Lamarcus Dean Thirs
Address: Alexandria, LA
Race: Black
Sex: Male
Age: 33
Charge: Possession of schedule 2, Possession of schedule 2 with intent

Date: 7-5-22
Name: Obryan Holden
Address: Winnfield, LA
Race: Black
Sex: Male
Age: 38
Charge: Prohibited acts, Carrying of illegal weapon, Domestic battery

Date: 7-6-22
Name: Steven Barlow
Address: Winnfield, LA
Race: White
Sex: Male
Age: 50
Charge: Criminal damage to property, Unauthorized entry of business

Date: 7-7-22
Name: Lovontez Burkes
Address: Hodge, LA
Race: Black
Sex: Male
Age: 17
Charge: Conspiring to commit first-degree murder, Armed robbery

Date: 7-7-22
Name: Jarrion D Peels
Address: Hodge, LA
Race: Black
Sex: Male
Age: 17
Charge: Armed robbery, Accessory to conspiring first-degree murder

Date: 7-8-22
Name: Edward B Duval
Address: Winnfield, LA
Race: White
Sex: Male
Age: 66
Charge: Failure to register as sex offender

Date: 7-11-22
Name: Lauren Broadway
Address: Winnfield, LA
Race: White
Sex: Woman
Age: 20
Charge: Criminal trespassing, Criminal mischief

Date: 7-11-22
Name: Rachelle S Murray
Address: Jena, LA
Race: Black
Sex: Female
Age: 19
Charge: Possession of schedule 1 (marijuana), Introduction of contraband into a penal institution

This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named or shown in photographs or video as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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By: Brad Dison

Love is complicated. Truer words have rarely been spoken or written. And so it was with Carlo and Little Stick.

In 1950, Italian attorney turned film producer Carlo met a beauty pageant contestant whose nickname was “Little Stick” because of her tall, thin frame. Carlo was 37 years old. Little Stick was just 15. Within a short time, Carlo and Little Stick became romantically involved. Their relationship grew and Carlo and Little Stick decided that they wanted to get married. They had been dating for a little while and marriage seemed like the next natural step. The couple had just one problem, Carlo was already married. In 1946, he wed Giuliana Fiastri in Italy, when Little Stick was just 11 years old. Carlo had children too. He and Giuliana had a daughter in 1951, and a son in 1953. Carlo and Giuliana separated. The reason for Carlo and Giuliana’s separation depended on which side of the story you heard.

Divorce was forbidden in Italy. Working in the film industry required Carlo and Little Stick to travel all over the world, but, due to their not being married, they had to get separate hotel rooms wherever they went. Carlo’s first marriage remained as a barrier to their ultimate happiness.

In 1957, after years of searching for a solution, Carlo obtained a divorce in Mexico. As soon as the divorce was finalized, Carlo and Little Stick were married. They lived happily ever after. Well, not so fast. Remember, love is complicated.

Carlo and Little Stick learned of their marriage in the newspaper gossip columns. Neither of them was present at the ceremony. Neither of them was even in Mexico. As per the instructions of Carlo and Little Stick, as soon as Carlo’s divorce was finalized, the couple was married by proxy. Two male attorneys, acting on their instructions, stood in for them during what can hardly be called a ceremony.

Their marital bliss lasted only a short time before other complications arose. Carlo’s divorce and wedding may have been perfectly legal in Mexico, but divorce was illegal in Italy and Italy would not recognize foreign divorces. Carlo’s actions were also against the Roman Catholic church. Carlo was charged with bigamy. He and Little Stick were threatened with excommunication from the Roman Catholic church.

“I wanted to be his wife and have his children,” Little Stick proclaimed. “We had done the best the law would allow to make it official, but they were calling us public sinners. We should have been taking a honeymoon, but all I remember is weeping for hours.”

Carlo learned that they would be jailed if they ever returned to their home country of Italy. The legal system in Italy was stacked against them. Carlo and Little Stick lived in exile in foreign countries, but they remained Italian citizens. Another complication – their passports only allowed them to stay in foreign countries for a limited period of time. Carlo and Little Stick were running out of time on their passports. With no other option available to them, in 1962, Carlo and Little Stick had their Mexican marriage annulled.

Carlo and Little Stick were heartbroken but were more determined than ever to remain together. They spent the next four years searching for a legal way to marry. They tried to apply for Swiss citizenship in order to marry but learned that they would have to reside in Switzerland for 10 to 12 years before they could apply. There was no guarantee their applications would be approved. Under Swiss law, the couple could not obtain a divorce in Switzerland if the laws of their home country did not permit divorce. It was another dead end. In 1966, Carlo and Little Stick applied to become citizens of France. Their applications were personally approved and signed by French President Georges Pompidou. In that same year, Carlo and Little Stick married again, this time in Paris.

Carlo and Little Stick remained together for the rest of his life. Carlo died in 2007 at the age of 94. Despite the many obstacles their relationship experienced, love somehow found a way. That chance meeting at a beauty pageant had far-reaching effects for Little Stick. Carlo got Little Stick small parts in Italian movies, but her career failed to take off. Carlo thought that Little Stick needed a new image and name to make her more appealing to universal audiences. Carlo was right. In 1953, Little Stick began landing leading roles. In 1961, Little Stick won the Academy Award for best actress for her performance in Two Women. She has won numerous other awards for her acting including but certainly not limited to a Bafta Award, a Laurel Award, a Grammy Award, and an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievements in the film industry. Little Stick was born Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone, but, thanks to Carlo Ponti, the world knows her as… Sophia Loren.

Sources:
1. The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina), April 15, 1957, p.14.
2. Panama City News-Herald (Panama City, Florida), July 15, 1957, p.1.
3. Chillicothe Gazette (Chillicothe, Ohio), April 21, 1979, p.4.
4. Associated Press, “Carlo Ponti, Husband to Sophia Loren, Dead at 94,” January 10, 2007, accessed July 7, 2022, foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242764,00.html.

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