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Registered To Vote? If So, A GOP Firm Probably Exposed Your Personal Data A Republican data analysis company called Deep Root Analytics left exposed an online database containing the personal information of almost all of America’s 200 million registered voters, the cyber security firm UpGuard has found. The data contained in the breach includes an unsettling amount of personal information, including voters’ first and last names, birth dates, home and mailing addresses, phone numbers, registered party, selfreported racial demographic and voter registration status. A Deep Root spokesman confirmed the breach in an email to HuffPost, saying, “We take full responsibility for this situation.” The company added it is undertaking a full review of the lapse, which is believed to have begun June 1 and lasted through June 14. UpGuard Cyber Risky Analyst Chris Vickery, who found the files, notified federal authorities of the exposure. Deep Root said it believes only Vickery accessed the database during that time. Vickery was able to download 1.1 terabytes of “entirely unsecured” data, which uses 9.5 billion data points to describe 198 million potential U.S. voters’ likely political preferences across 48 different categories. Those categories span nearly every major political debate, including a voter’s likely stance on abortion, gun control, stem cell research and environmental issues. The exposure of such personal data for so many voters is the largest breach of its sort. It is a testament both to their talents, and to the real danger of this exposure, that the results were astoundingly accurate. Vickery’s colleague, UpGuard reporter and analyst Dan O’Sullivan, looked himself up in the database and was taken aback by the RNC’s analyses. “It is a testament both to their talents, and to the real danger of this exposure, that the results were astoundingly accurate,” he wrote. Most of the data appears to have originated from Republican super-Political Action Committees and other external collection firms, and not with Deep Root itself. Large caches of text appear to have been scraped from Reddit, while other folders seem to have been named to track the origin of the data each contains. UpGuard reported that American Crossroads, the super-PAC Republican strategist Karl Rove helped start, likely contributed data, as did a company called Data Trust, which boasts a mission of “continually develop[ing] a Republican and conservative data ecosystem
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Gov. Edwards Declares State Of Emergency For Tropical Storm Cindy
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency Wednesday as Tropical Storm Cindy.
Representative Cedric Richmond, a Democrat from Louisiana and chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Senator Jeff Sessions in Washington, DC, Jan. 11, 2017.
“The CBC, and the millions of people we represent, have a lot to lose under your administration,” Richmond wrote. “I fail to see how a social gathering would benefit the policies we advocate for.”
The Congressional Black Caucus turned down an invitation to meet with President Donald Trump, telling him Wednesday they believe their concerns are falling on “deaf ears” at the White House and his policies are devastating to the millions of Americans in the nation’s black communities. A White House spokeswoman said the development was “pretty disappointing” and pledged to arrange for individual members to meet one-on-one with Trump. Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond told Trump in a letter that his proposed budget, his efforts to dismantle Democrat
Barack Obama’s health care law and actions by Attorney General Jeff Sessions are detrimental to many African-Americans. Richmond said the caucus had expressed its concern several times, including in eight letters and a document, but the administration has failed to respond. “The CBC, and the millions of people we represent, have a lot to lose under your administration,” Richmond wrote. “I fail to see how a social gathering would benefit the policies we advocate for.” Trump and top members of the caucus met in March, but See INVITATION, on page 2
BATON ROUGE, LA Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency Wednesday as Tropical Storm Cindy turned deadly and roared through the Gulf of Mexico toward the coast, slashing the region with heavy rains and flooding. A 10-year-old boy died in Alabama, parts of Louisiana had five inches of rain by early afternoon, and Pensacola was slammed by more than 8 inches of rain in 36 hours. And more was on the way. Cindy, armed with sustained winds of 50 mph, was expected to generate up to 15 inches of rain over southeastern Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southern Alabama and parts of the Florida Panhandle through Thursday night, and a few tornadoes also were possible through Wednesday night, according to the National Weather Service. The storm could produce “life-threatening flash floods along the central Gulf Coast,” the agency said. By late Wednesday afternoon, Cindy was about 135 miles south of Lake Charles, La., and
about 125 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, the weather service said. Cindy was expected to move inland toward southeastern Texas or southwestern Louisiana Wednesday night or early Thursday then move near or across eastern Texas, western and northern Louisiana and southeastern Arkansas on Thursday, the weather service said. Flooding and power outages were already reported early Wednesday, almost a full day before the storm was forecast to make landfall along the Texas-Louisiana border early Thursday. A tropical storm warning was in effect from San Luis Pass, Texas, to the mouth of the Mississippi River. The White House said President Trump was briefed Wednesday on the storm. There was some good news Wednesday when the National Weather Service lifted the tropical storm warning for metropolitan New Orleans. But Mayor Mitch Landrieu urged residents not to be complacent as parts of the city were hit with five inches of rain by midday.
Louisiana Colleges Keeping Authority to Raise Student Fees Gov. John Bel Edwards has agreed to let Louisiana’s public colleges and universities continue to increase student fees without approval from the Legislature. The schools have the authority to raise fees now, but they would have lost it June 30 had not Edwards signed a new law Tuesday (June 20). Act 293 extends the fee-raising authority for three years. The schools must issue reports by Feb. 15 in 2018, 2019 and 2020 on how they are using the revenue. The law also caps the size of fee increases. Tuition and fees together may not exceed the national average for higher education institutions. Nevertheless, fees can total into the thousands of dollars for a single semester at some institutions.
The new law was passed in the Legislature’s 2017 regular session. The sponsor was Rep. Chris Broadwater, R-Hammond, whose district includes Southeastern Louisiana University. Some Louisiana universities previously had permission to raise tuition, too, if they met certain academic benchmarks. But the laws allowing this expired in 2016 and were not renewed. Legislators might be more comfortable letting colleges raise fees because fees See FEES, on page 3
Louisiana universities and colleges will still be able to raise fees without having to get approval from the Louisiana Legislature first.
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PANHANDLING PROTECTED It’s only June, and we’ve already got a candidate for understatement of the year.See Page 6
Panhandling is protected by the First Amendment right to free speech, and a New Orleans suburb’s ordinance requiring a panhandling license “offends the United States Constitution,” a federal judge has ruled....Page 2
GARDEN CLUB SCHOLARSHIP
The Baton Rouge Garden Club has selected Southern University College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences student Brittany Benjamin, as the recipient of the 2017 Elaine Humphries Memorial Scholarship. .See Page 3
IMPACT OF HEALTH CARE LAW
The Louisiana Budget Project, a indepedent nonprofit that studies budget policy in the state, released a report Tuesday detailing how the American Health Care Act could impact Louisiana..See Page 5
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Judge: Panhandling Protected by the First Amendment
NEW ORLEANS -- Panhandling is protected by the First Amendment right to free speech, and a New Orleans suburb’s ordinance requiring a panhandling license “offends the United States Constitution,” a federal judge has ruled. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that charitable groups have a free speech right to ask for money. “That holding compels the conclusion that the First Amendment also protects an individual’s right to ask for charity,” District Judge Lance Africk wrote in a 32-page opinion. The ACLU of Louisiana and the city of Slidell each had asked Africk to rule without trial. He granted the ACLU’s motion. People don’t have to register with Slidell police to stand on the sidewalk and ask people to “think of the poor” - or to do so and donate to the Catholic church or their favorite charity or politician, Africk noted only when saying, in effect, “think of the poor and please help me.” He said he also doubts that Slidell has shown the public safety problem it claims led to the ordinance. The city argued that 70 complaints about panhandlers since 2015 brought only 14 arrests, because police couldn’t identify the panhandlers in 56 complaints. “A mere seventy complaints since 2015 ... does not substantiate an epidemic of panhandling,” Africk wrote. Even if the city had shown a rise in aggressive panhandling and “making panhandlers wear nametags” would promote public safety, the ordinance is too broad, he said. The opinion affirms that the Constitution protects even unpopular speech, the ACLU of Louisiana’s executive director, Marjorie Esman, said in a news release. Slidell “may not ban messages it doesn’t like or punish people for asking for help,” she wrote. There can be reasonable limits, she said in an interview, citing New Orleans’ restrictions against “aggressive panhandling, where you follow someone around or grab an arm” or public safety ordinances
against obstructing roadways. The ACLU sued for three men, saying they all panhandled in Slidell, usually at high-traffic intersections. The city had agreed not to enforce the ordinance while it was being challenged. Lawrence Abbott, who represented Slidell, says he cannot comment because a status conference scheduled Monday means the case is still pending. The case is among numerous challenges to anti-panhandling ordinances around the country. The U.S. Supreme Court turned down an appeal last year asking it to reinstate an ordinance against panhandling in the historic district of Springfield, Illinois. After successfully blocking an ordinance that restricted the places where people could ask for money in Grand Junction, Colorado, the ACLU sent letters last year telling 34 other Colorado cities and towns they should rescind ordinances the group described as even more restrictive. It has challenged Cleveland
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Invitation from page 1 Richmond said there has been no follow-through on promises like helping black lawmakers meet with Trump’s Cabinet. Specifically, the caucus criticized Trump’s budget proposal, which would cut money for Pell Grants for low-income college students and eliminate the LowIncome Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps seniors and others on fixed incomes heat their homes. The caucus singled out moves by Sessions on drug prosecutions and civil rights enforcement, and complained that the House GOP health care bill that Trump celebrated during a Rose Garden ceremony would “strip millions of black people of their health care.” Richmond’s letter responded to an invitation from Trump aide Omarosa Manigault, chief spokeswoman for the White House Office of Public Liaison. “It’s pretty disappointing that Cedric Richmond has decided to go back on his commitment to meet with us,” Manigault said in a telephone interview. She said caucus members who were excluded from the
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The colony will greet those who come into contact with it with nasty stings that can be potentially lethal. Once the floodwaters recede, the ants may hide in debris piles or other inviting places until the colonies can be re-established in the soil. The entomologists at the ACES say people can avoid the nasty critters by exercising caution. Tips include: Avoiding contact with the floating colony, even with oars. Dressing appropriately when working in floodwaters, with rubber boots, cuffed gloves and other rain gear that can keep the ants from touching your skin. Staying alert when encountering debris piles and when returning to flooded structures.
Vote from page 1 through voter file collection, development, and enhancement.” Last January, Vickery found a database with 56 million records that appeared to belong to a rightwing Christian organization. In addition to more standard information like a person’s name and address, it included individual income levels, whether they donated to religious organizations, where they worked, and whether they were politically conservative. In 2015, Vickery uncovered a database of 191 million voter records that didn’t seem to have an owner. UpGuard notes the recent lapse also eclipses political data breaches in other countries, including those for 93.4 million Mexican voters and 55 million voters in the Philippines, both of which occurred in April 2016.
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Aid Program Taking Applications From Flood Damaged Business BATON ROUGE, La. — The loan application period has opened for flood-damaged small businesses and nonprofits seeking aid from a $51 million new program. The Restore Louisiana Small Business Program was created by Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration, using dollars earmarked by Congress for rebuilding after the March and August 2016 floods. The program offers partiallyforgivable loans between $20,000 and $50,000 to qualified businesses. If borrowers comply with the requirements, the loan will be interest-free and 20 percent will be forgiven when the first 80 percent of the loan is repaid. The first slice of money will go to businesses like grocery stores, pharmacies, health care providers, day care centers and others deemed to provide essential goods and services to flood-damaged communities. Applications will be accepted through June 30, with loans starting in mid-July.
BREC’S Baton Rouge Zoo’s AAZK Chapter to Host Bowling for Rhinos BATON ROUGE, La - On Friday, July 28, BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo’s American Association of Zookeepers (AAZK) Chapter will host Bowling for Rhinos from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Circle Bowl on Florida Boulevard. All proceeds from the event benefit LEWA Wildlife Conservancy, International Rhino Foundation, and Action for Cheetahs in Kenya. Each entry is $20, which includes bowling fees. T-shirts will be on sale and a silent auction will be included in this year’s event as well. AAZK’s Bowling for Rhinos (BFR) is a bowl-a-thon style event that provides zookeepers of the world an avenue to raise awareness and funds for rhino habitat and conservation. The fundraiser began on a small scale and is now the signature conservation effort for AAZK. Annually, BFR events raise more than $300,000. This year’s goal is to reach $500,000 throughout North America.
Fees from page 1 historically are not covered by the TOPS scholarship, which is offsets tuition. When fees are raised, there is not political pressure to increase the TOPS award, which would increase the public expense of TOPS.
SU Urban Forestry Student Brittany Benjamin Awarded BR Garden Club Scholarship Baton Rouge, La. – The Baton Rouge Garden Club has selected Southern University College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences student Brittany Benjamin, as the recipient of the 2017 Elaine Humphries Memorial Scholarship. Benjamin is an Urban Forestry graduate student from New Orleans, La. The $1,500 scholarship is provided to financially assist worthy students in the fields of horticulture, landscape architecture and urban forestry. “We are most impressed with all Brittany’s accomplishments,” said Sue Webb, Chair of the Baton Rouge Garden Club’s Scholarship Committee. The scholarship was presented to Benjamin during the Baton Rouge Garden Club’s Spring Luncheon on recentlly. Ms. Webb and the club’s president, Cindy Moran, invited Benjamin and Dr. Zhu Ning, professor of Urban Forestry in SU’s College of Agriculture, to attend the luncheon. After receiving the scholarship, Benjamin spoke to the attendees about the value of her education in urban forestry and her career objectives. “In past years, the scholarship winners have been students from LSU,” said Dr. Ning, who
Brittany’s accomplishments with Sue Webb, Chair of the Baton Rouge Garden Club’s Scholarship Committee in the photo shown above. Photo submitted by LaKeeshia Giddens Lusk is Benjamin’s academic advisor and mentor. “I am so proud that Brittany was selected this year for her high quality achievements in course work, research, and international experience,” added Ning. Brittany currently carries a 4.0 GPA. On April 2, 2017, she competed in the graduate student’s research oral presentation
competition at the Association of Research Director’s Symposium in Atlanta, Ga. and won third place. The Southern University Agricultural Land-Grant Campus is comprised of the Southern University Ag Center and the Southern University College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences.
Mayor President Issued This Press Release To The Baton Rouge And Surrounding Areas BATON ROUGE, LA — Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome today held a briefing on Tropical Storm Cindy with first responders, utilities managers, and department leaders at the Mayor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Baker Mayor Darnell Waites and Central Mayor Junior Shelton also provided updates on their respective communities. “All the cities in our parish are working together with great communication and coordination,” Mayor-President Broome said. “I thank everyone for rallying together in advance of this storm threat to ensure the safety and security of our residents.” Mayor-President Broome said that while East Baton Rouge Parish was spared predicted flooding on Tuesday and early today, residents should remain vigilant, especially since the National
Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome Weather Service has issued a tornado watch until 7 p.m. Further, East Baton Rouge remains under a flash flood watch until 7 p.m. on Thursday. Heavy rains are expected through Thursday. Also, Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a state of emergency declaration for the state. A parish emergency declaration is prepared, but has not been formally
Southern University Investigating Leaked ‘Private’ Video BATON ROUGE, LA -Southern University is investigating a video that is of a sexual nature allegedly involving a university employee, sources tell WAFB. The university would not comment on the contents of the video and released only a brief statement on the matter. Southern University issued the following statement
late Tuesday: Southern University has received reports regarding a private video posted and shared online allegedly involving a university employee and/or student. Because of implications that a cyber-crime may have occurred, we take matters like this very seriously. It is
submitted at this time. Among the agencies providing reports to Mayor-President Broome were the American Red Cross, Baton Rouge Fire Department, Baton Rouge Police Department, Capital Area Transit System, East Baton Rouge Emergency Medical Services, East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Department, and Entergy. Currently, there have been no emergency calls due to the weather, nor has a need arisen for any shelters to be activated. However, all agencies have staff and materials on standby to respond to residents’ needs. The city’s Department of Public Works crews are cleaning major drainage culverts, bridges and road crossings throughout the parish. The Department of Maintenance has delivered more than 20,000 sandbags and over 500 cubic yards of sand to 12 locations throughout the parish. Additionally, on Tuesday the Department of Environmental Services picked up over 2,000 cubic yards of debris throughout the parish. The Mayor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness continues to operate its emergency operations center to monitor and respond to the storm system. The center can be reached at 225-389-2100. Emergency information — including sandbag locations and agency contacts — can be found at www.brgov.com and on the Red Stick Ready social media pages (Twitter and Facebook). Residents can also report non-medical issues by dialing 311 or by using the 311 app available on Android and Apple devices.
Gov. Edwards Names Interim LSP Supt. Kevin Reeves To The Position Permanently
Col. Kevin Reeves, right, speaks about his appointment by Gov. John Bel Edwards as superintendent of the Louisiana State Police on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Baton Rouge.
BATON ROUGE, LA Governor John Bel Edwards has named Col. Kevin Reeves as superintendent of Louisiana State Police. Edwards held a news conference Tuesday, June 13 to announce his permanent appointment to head the state’s top law enforcement agency. Reeves had been serving in the role on an interim basis since Col. Mike Edmonson retired from the position earlier this year. “Two and a half months ago, no, you couldn’t have told me that I would be standing here in this position,” Reeves said while publicly accepting the job. “I was truly honored and taken aback.” Edwards offered Reeves the spot after an extensive search process and numerous interviews. The governor called him “impressive.” “The one name that kept coming up, regardless of what part of the state or who I was talking to, was that Kevin Reeves is someone who needed to be considered,” said Edwards. Reeves have been with the agency for about 27 years. He joined LSP in 1990. A Baton Rouge native, he worked his way up the ranks, serving as a squad leader, undercover agent, and troop commander over his more than two decades of service. He eventually achieved the rank of Major.
“He has absolutely proven himself to be a strong, respected, and capable leader and I know that he’s going to do a great job here for many years to come,” the governor said. Reeves took over as interim superintendent in March amid scandal at the agency. Former LSP head Mike Edmonson retired as questions mounted about a trip several troopers took to California. That trip included a pit stop in Las Vegas and at the Grand Canyon. Reeves said the agency is now reviewing travel policies and working to improve accountability. “We as a department are moving forward. That doesn’t mean we’re discounting the past. We’re learning from it. We’re moving forward to make operations better and instill confidence,” said Reeves. Reeves said the internal investigation into the California trip is complete. However, he said, they are still working to implement disciplinary action and will not release the findings publicly until that is complete. Reeves is married to Kristi Hall Reeves and they have three children together. One of them, Kaleb, recently graduated from the state police academy. State legislators passed a bill during the 2017 session that would create an exception to the state’s ethics laws, allowing Kaleb to serve as a trooper while his father heads the agency.
Ochsner Announces Baton Rouge Expansion With 450 Jobs
Ochsner Health System is going after more of the health care market share in Baton Rouge through a more than $100 million expansion. Leaders announced plans Thursday morning (June 8) for additional facilities that they said will create more than 450 permanent jobs in the next four years. The big construction plans signal Ochsner following the health care industry’s overall move toward putting resources behind outpatient care, rather than acute services at hospitals. The new facilities will include a medical office building, a “micro-hospital” and a surgi-
cal center along the Interstate 10 Bluebonnet/Siegen corridor. The three new buildings are expected to be finished for 2019. “In keeping with national trends, we’ve seen an increasing shift from inpatient to outpatient care which is why we are making an investment to provide more comprehensive outpatient facilities,” Warner Thomas, Ochsner president and CEO, said in a statement. “This underlines the demand to support this growth and deliver the right care -- convenient and accessible -- to patients where See JOBS, on page 6
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Can Two Walk Together, Except They Be Going to the Same Store? By Dr. James L. Snyder The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and I realized a month or so ago that we have not taken a day off in over six months. Actually, we were trying to figure out the last time we did take a day off. For us, a couple days off takes a couple months of planning and when I say planning, I mean plan-
ning. We had to coordinate the date with the rest of our family, and with the church schedule. It did not take me long to rearrange my schedule, but it was a different story with my wife. She had to coordinate her schedule for a couple days off with both of the daughter’s schedule because she watched the grandchil-
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dren while the parents were working. It took several months for her to coordinate all of the schedules and finally, voilà, we arranged a time that we could “leave Dodge,” and head to St. Augustine for a couple days off. We left Sunday night and headed for our motel to settle down for several days of rest and frivolity. I do admit that I have a PhD in frivolity and so I was ready to for frivole. (Pardon my French). When we woke up Monday morning, I began to realize that my definition of rest was not exactly the definition my wife embraced. For me, rest is staying in bed with a cup of coffee in one hand and a good book in the other hand. I had recently purchased the Kindle edition of The Complete Father Brown Mysteries by G. K. Chesterton. Oh, that Father Brown. What an interesting character he is. I had just got into the first story when I heard from my wife, “Well, are you ready to go?” It was then I discovered her definition of rest is not my definition of rest. Her definition of rest is to
visit all the thrift stores in the St. Augustine area. Unfortunately for me, she knows every one of them. With a little bit of persuasion on her part I got out of bed, dressed and walked with her to the car so she could drive us to the first thrift store. It has been a long time since I have been in a thrift store and so I had forgotten pretty much what it was all about. I walked in the first one and that thrift store aroma smack me right in the face. “Doesn’t that,” my wife said with a giggle in her throat, “smell wonderful?” Obviously, we have noses from different resources and my nose said, “Yuck, what stinks?” I was afraid to give the information to my nose in fear that it would start a sneezing fit. After five minutes I had seen everything in that thrift store I wanted to see. So, I said to my wife, “Could I borrow the car keys?” “You’re not done shopping?” she said quizzically. See WALK TOGETHER, on page 5
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Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. - Hebrews 10:25 THE KINGDOM OF GOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. - Hebrews 10:25
Hour of Power ..............................................12 Noon Each Wednesday Sunday School............................................................................ 8:00am Church Service ........................................................................... 9:00am Communion Service .............................................. 2nd Sunday 9:00am Bible Study Wednesday .............................................................7:00pm Sister/Brotherhood Meeting...................................................... 6:00pm Sun. Worship 10 am • Tue. Bible Study 7pm • 2nd & 4th Sun. Broadcast 8am WXOK
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LITTLE ROCK BAPTIST CHURCH
1298 Midway Road P. O. Box 490 • Slaughter, LA 70777 Telephone: 225-654-4614 ORDER OF SERVICE Communion Service....... 1st Sun. 11:00am Sunday School..............................10:00am 3rd & 4th................. Regular Sun. 11:00am
10132Florida Blvd. Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70815 Telephone: 225-272-9755 Fax: 225-272-9754 Cell: 225-603-2711 E-mail: maxie111@cox.net Lee Dell Maxie, Pastor
Pastor Marvin A. Moore
Sunday Morning Worship................................................10:45am Lord’s Supper..............................................................4th Sunday Sunday School..................................................................9:30am Mid-Morning Prayer Service.................................. Wed. 10:30am Prayer Service......................................................... Wed. 6:00pm Bible Study.............................................................. Wed. 6:30pm
EBENEZAR BAPTIST CHURCH
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ORDER OF SERVICE Communion Service......... 3rd Sun.9:00am Sunday School....... 10:00am except 3rd Sun. Sunday School..............3rd Sun. at 8:00am
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Pastor Marvin A. Moore
5856 Greenwell Springs Road • Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806 Telephone: (225) 926-0246 • Facsimille: (225) 925-8022 Toll Free: 888-700-6174 Websites: www.newhopebr.com
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16444 Highland Road • Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Church: 225.302.5062 Home: 225.654.8947 • Cell: 225.572.7036
Bishop Ernest Mills & Evangelist Yvonne Mills
Sunday School..........................................11:00 am Worship......................................................12 Noon Communion.......................................... 4th Sunday Bible Class Tuesday.................................. 7:00 pm Saturday Prayer Service.............................7:30 am
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Rev. Leo Cyrus Sr., Pastor Order Of Services Sunday Worship...................................................... 11:30 A.M. Holy Communion................................3rd Sunday 11:30 A.M. Sunday School..........................................................9:30 A.M. Bible Study................................................Thursday 7:00 P.M.
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Former LSU Wide Receiver Travin Dural Fights For Roster NEW ORLEANS, LA - It’s only June, and we’ve already got a candidate for understatement of the year. “I think the system he was (in) at LSU and the system here is two different styles,” Saints wide receiver Willie Snead said of Travin Dural. “Just a tad,” Dural laughed. “Not too far off.” It’s no secret that LSU wide receivers tend to recently fly a bit under the radar in college only to blossom in the NFL. What better way for Dural to follow that trend than with Sean Payton’s high-flying aerial attack in New Orleans? “It’s just completely different,” Dural said of the Saints compared to LSU. “It’s great getting the chance to be in this offense and be around players like (Snead), Tedd Ginn and Mike Thomas, getting the chance to play with Drew (Brees). It’s great. I’m learning, taking everything in and I’m enjoying it.” Hauling in over 700 yards and seven touchdowns his sophomore
year, Dural seemed ready to become the next great Tiger wide receiver. However, a ground-andpound system in Baton Rouge combined with a gruesome hamstring injury his junior year left Dural with underwhelming career statistics, forcing him to go the route of undrafted free agent. He’s still working his way back from the injury, but Coach Payton says he likes what he sees. “I feel like he’s close to 100 percent,” Payton said. “I haven’t seen signs of the injury that he had. I think he’s moving around pretty well and had some pretty good practices.” From Willie Snead to Lance Moore, the Saints know how to find value in undrafted wide receivers. Dural hopes to fit that mold and eventually make the final 53-man roster. “The key with him is just his strength, his overall conditioning, lower body strength and the speed of the game,” Payton said. “But I think he’s transitioned
into this pretty smoothly.” “They’ve been taking me under their wing, all the way from Ted Ginn to the guys who
just got here last year,” Dural said. “They’re being very motivational towards me, keeping me informed of what’s going
on, teaching me the in’s and out’s of everything, so I’m enjoying that group of great guys.”
make a great gift for friends and family. We have a “no pet policy” at the Red Stick Farmers Market. While we love our furry friends, we ask that you leave them at home. Thank you for your understanding. Open-air pop-up farmers market featuring locally grown fruits and vegetables, meats, seafood, baked goods, dairy products, and specialty products. Red Stick Farmers Market oper-
ates year-round at the downtown location on Saturdays and the Thursday Market at Pennington. To build a strong and healthy local food system; to increase sustainability of independent local farmers, fishers and food producers; and to foster stewardship of land and community through public markets. Local, farm fresh fruits and vegetables, honey, pasturedraised meats, seafood, artisan breads, homemade pies, milk, cheeses, butter, plants, herbs, fresh-cut flowers, prepared foods, jams and jellies, etc.
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Video from page 3 our aim to provide a positive environment that is conducive to learning for our students and one that is supportive of faculty and staff in carrying out the University’s mission. To that end, we advise and caution our students and employees on the importance of data security as well as the ramifications of their conduct on social media. We will continue to take every measure to ensure that our stu-
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dents and staff understand that we want to ensure their safety and well being both on campus and online. A source says the incident involves a high-profile member of the Southern University staff, but a university spokesman declined to comment on that. “No comment on personnel matters because of privacy,” the spokesman said in an emailed response.
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Pelicans Trade Tim Frazier To Wizards For Draft Pick N E W ORLEANS, LA (WVUE) - The Pelicans have added to their 2017 draft picks by trading point guard Tim Frazier to the Wizards for the 52nd selection in Thursday night’s second round. Frazier was added to the roster late in the 2015-16 season before playing 65 games most recently. During his time in New Orleans, the Penn State product averaged 8.3 points, 5.6 assists, and 1.0 steals. GM Dell Demps now has the 40th and 52nd picks at his disposal when the draft begins Thursday at 6 PM.
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