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BATON ROUGE — The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish has endorsed Sen. Bodi White for Mayor-President and Metro Coun-cilman Scott Wilson for reelection Nov. 8. Both White and Wilson have spo-ken at the party’s Ronald Reagan Newsmaker Luncheon, answered an extensive questionnaire, and submitted to a 45-minute interview by the 17-member Republican Par-ty Executive Committee. In a statement, Republican par-ish chairman Woody Jenkins said, “The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish believes Scott Wilson has done a fine job on the Metro Council and is deserving of reelection. For Mayor-President, the best choice is Sen. Bodi White, because of his solid record of ac-complishment in the legislature, his ability to work with people, and his vision for the future. “Sen. White is a solid conserva-tive who stands against high taxes and overregulation. He supports tra-ditional family values, the Second Amendment, and quality education. In addition, his experience in law en-forcement makes him the ideal lead-er to deal with our crime problemand to work with the community.” “He has raised more money and put together a better organization than any other candidate. The Re-publican Party is very pleased that we have someone of Bodi White’s stat-ure running for Mayor-President.”

Convocation Kicks Off School Year

LSU BASEBALL COACH Paul Mainieri (3rd from left) addressed 400 teachers and staff of the Central Community School System Monday at the annual school convocation. Shown are school board member Dr. David Walker, Mayor Jr. Shelton, and Dr. Jim Gardner.

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New sidewalks on Sullivan Road

LSU Coach Challenges400 Central TeachersTo Pursue Excellence CENTRAL — The Central Com-munity School System launched its 10th year with its annual convoca-tion for teachers and staff Monday at Greenwell Springs Baptist Church. Supt. Mike Faulk announced the theme for the school year will be “Better Together.” He recognized former school board president Russell Starns and former Cen-tral High principal Ronnie Devall. LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri told of growing up in Miami as the son of two teachers and how he couldn’t have chosen another pro-fession. Mainieri said being No. 1 is not most important but striving to be No. 1 is. He challenged Centralto continue to pursue excellence.

Sidewalks have been installed in front of the Cen-tral School Com-plex on Sullivan Road, which is just part of a plan that will ul-timately connect the complex with Central High on Wax Road, ac-cording to Mayor Jr. Shelton. Shelton cred-ited his predeces-

sor, Mac Watts, and state legisla-tors for making the sidewalks pos-sible because of a contract signed eight years ago. The sidewalk on Sullivan from Hooper to Wax will be part of the four-laning of that stretch of highway. No date for that construc-tion has been set.

SEN. BODI WHITE (left) and Metro Councilman Scott Wilson have been endorsed by the Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish for Mayor-President and Metro Council.

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Statistics from the Baton Rouge Police Department show that 58 percent of all police officers live in Central, Zachary, or parishes other than East Baton Rouge Parish. Many people complain about that but no one seems to want to ask Why? In reality, only 20 percent of the force actually resides in the City of Baton Rouge. But Why? When you say the words, “mid-dle income working people,” that describes virtually every member of the Baton Rouge Police Depart-ment. They work for a living. They are not abjectly poor, but they cer-tainly don’t make a lot of money. Even with husband and wife work-

ing, few Baton Rouge Police of-ficers can afford to send their chil-dren to private or parochial schools. Yet, they want a good education for their children. So like most of the rest of the “middle income working people,” in the Capital region, they live in Central, Zachary, Livingston, and Ascension parishes, where crime is low and public schools are good. The problem really began back in the 1960’s and 1970’s during inte-gration. In the late 1960’s, the par-ish had a system of neighborhood schools. Some were overwhelm-ingly white, some overwhelmingly black, and quite a few were racially mixed. However, Federal District Judge John Parker, unhappy with the rate of integration, ordered cross-town forced busing in order to achieve a targeted racial balance in each school. His court orders, which extended more than three decades, left the East Baton Rouge Parish school system less integrated. Today, al-most 90 percent of students in the system are black. We have defacto segregation if not segregation by law. Now the EBR school board is

once again pursuing neighborhood schools. There is no longer forced busing, although there are plenty of buses criss crossing the parish. The current EBR school board inherited a Byzantine system of magnet schools, gifted and talented, charter schools, and neighborhood schools (that are not really neigh-borhood schools, because transfers are allowed from across the parish). This system insures that most neighborhood schools will be fail-ing or near failing schools. Why? First, the magnet schools pull away the best students (and often the top leaders) from the neighborhood schools. The gifted and talented programs pull out most of the other top students. Then many parents who pay attention to their options sign up for charter schools. That leaves the rest of the kids — who have been left out of the sweep-stakes — to attend their neighbor-hood schools. There are of course a few good neighborhood schools in this parish but very few. The thing to realize about Baton Rouge is that things are not “nor-mal” here. They are not normal be-

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HonoringBRPDOfficerMontrellJacksonKilled by Terrorist,Gentle Giant LovedBR But WonderedIf City Loved Him

BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Police officer Montrell Jackson, 32, was killed by a terrorist on Sunday, July 17, along with fellow BRPD officer Matthew Gerald and Sheriff’s deputy Brad Garafola. Jackson, known by many as a gentle giant, was the father of a newborn. He was known as kind and thoughtful. Not long before his death, of-ficer Jackson posted a Facebook message that gained national atten-tion after his death. It expressed the difficulty he faced as a black police officer. He

Montrell Jackson, one of the Baton Rouge Police officers killed by a terrorist on July 17 posted this message on his Facebook page on July 8. It is a heart wrenching mes-sage that tells how difficult it is to be a black police officer today. “I swear to God I love this city, but I wonder if this city loves me. In uniform, I get nasty hateful looks and out of uniform some people consider me a threat.”

“Please don’t let hate infect your heart. This city MUST and WILL get better. I’m work-ing in these streets so any protesters, officers, friends, family, or who-ever, if you see me and need a hug or want to say a prayer I got you.” — Montrell Jackson BRPD

Montrell JacksonLeft a Legacy ofLove and HopeFor Baton Rouge

said that when he was in uniform, he felt hated by many people, ap-parently referring to some in the black community. He added that when out of uniform, he felt feared, apparently referring to some in the white community. His words caused many in Baton Rouge to reevaluate how they treat black police officers and black men in general. More than 1,500 people attend-ed Montrell Jackson’s funeral, and police officers from all 50 states participated in services and the fu-neral procession honoring him.

FUNERAL PROCESSION on Winbourne Avenue honored Baton Rouge Police officer Montrell Jackson. Thousands of people lined Winbourne, Airline Highway, and Florida Boulevard to grieve his death and honor his memory.

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Interstate highways, and rural roads. His death touched countless lives in Baton Rouge and across the coun-try. Police officers came from all 50 states, along with a delegation of Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Gerald, the father of two, was a rookie cop, despite his age — 41. Deeply patriotic, Gerald served four years as a Marine but after

FUNERAL PROCESSION for Baton Rouge Police officer Matthew Gerald on Highway 61 at Mt. Pleasant Road. Enormous crowds lined the roads along the way.

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September 11, 2001, he decided to return to the fight, and he joined the U.S. Army, serving three tours of duty in Iraq where he was a heli-copter mechanic. Reportedly, his nickname on the force was Benjamin Buttons, after the hero of a 2008 film where the hero gets younger as he ages. The Baton Rouge and St. George Fire Department erected ladders along the route and displayed giant American flags. Hundreds of police officers rode

squad cars or motorcycles in the fu-neral procession. American flags were everywhere along with a blue version of the flag intended to honor law enforcement officers. The vast crowd, spread out over nearly 20 miles, was racially di-verse, and the people mingled free-ly. Many hugged and prayed with utter strangers of another race and some cried unashamedly. There has rarely been anything like it in Baton Rouge.

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On July 14, 2016, two Baton Rouge Police officers and a Sheriff’s Deputy were killed by a terrorist near the B-Quik store, 5611 Airline. Almost imme-diately, people began a Memorial to the fallen officers. Since then, thou-sands have visited the site. Photos by Jolice Provost and Woody Jenkins.

MEMORIAL for Baton Rouge Police officers and Sheriff’s deputy killed in the line of duty. Thousands of police officers and citizens visited the site and prayed for the officers.

Christian and patriotic symbols were left by hundreds of mourners.

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Massive Funeral Procession for Sheriff Deputy Brad Garafola on Airline Highway

Funeral Procession Honoring Deputy Brad GarafolaSaturday, July 23, 2016 • Airline Highway, Baton Rouge

Photos by Jolice Provost and Woody Jenkins of Capital City News

FUNERAL PROCESSION for East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s deputy Brad Garafola who was murdered by a terrorist. Garafola was killed when he went to rescue Baton Rouge Police officer Matthew Gerald who was already down. At right, deputy Garafola’s body is moved from the carriage to the hearse. Ar right, Shefiff Sid Gautreaux prays for deputy Garafola.

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BATON ROUGE — On the day of Deputy Brad Garafola’s funeral, the Baton Rouge and St. George Fire Departments hoisted a giant American flag to honor him. How-ever, just before the funeral pro-cession for Deputy Garafola was about to begin, it started to rain and a wire holding the giant Amer-ican flag broke. The flag had to be removed during a lightning storm. Spontaneously, police and fire-fighters, men and women, and boys and girls rushed to grab the new flag, keep it from touching the ground, and raised it back into place. One man said, “It was one of the most inspirational things I have ever been part of!” St. George District Fire Chief John Jack Jones described the events this way: “The first flag was hung without issue. When the weather changed and the down-pour started, a strong (and I mean strong) gust of wind caused the flag to tear one of the grommets and give way.” “Fortunately, a backup plan was in place. The flag was taken to the gas pumps where with the help of the civilians present, it was prop-erly folded and stored. The backup flag was retrieved and once again with the help of the civilians pres-ent, it was unfolded and hung with-

out incident.” “If I may add, in perfect condi-tions, that flag takes approximately 45 minutes to hang. It is 30’ X 20’ and with enough wind, it can pick a person completely off the ground. The main flag was retrieved, fold-ed and stowed, and the backup hung in under 35 minutes. This could not have been accomplished without the civilians present. I can not thank them enough. That is the Baton Rouge I have come to know and love.” “Now let me speak about our firefighters. When the main flag tore, we were in a torrential down-pour with high winds and light-ning. To retrieve the flag, I had to have firefighters climb both ladders. That was nearly 50’, the height of a five-story building! I had firefighters grabbing ropes, pulleys and metal poles, all during heavy rain, high winds, and light-ning.” “Any one of the firefighters would have been justified in refus-ing to venture out and attempt such an operation. But every firefighter on Airline Highway ran to prevent that flag from touching the ground without hesitation. That is the same dedication they serve our commu-nity with every day. It truly is an honor to be associated with them!” Once Deputy Garafola’s funeral procession began, the new flag was flying high for him as though noth-ing had happened!

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When High Winds and Rain Tore a Grommet,Firefighters Braved Lightning to Take Flag Down;Then without Being Asked, Civilians Joined inTo Hoist Another Flag to Honor Deputy Garafola

RECORD TIME — The second flag was raised by the citizens in record time, causing a fire chief to point to the sight and another to raise his hands to praise the Lord.

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IMPROVING TRAFFICHelped to secure over $500 million for traffic improvements in East Baton Rouge Parish, improving transportation and economic opportunities!• Widening of I-10 and I-12• Construction of Magnolia Bridge• Widening of Sullivan Road• Widening and Extension of Hooper Road• Secured funding for Comite River Diversion Project

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cause we are missing one important segment of the population — “mid-dle income working people with children.” They don’t live here. Oh, some do, but not many. East Baton Rouge Parish but es-pecially the City of Baton Rouge consists of retired people, poor people, wealthy people, students, single people, and married people without children. But what’s miss-ing is “middle income working people with children.” It’s not that there’s an exodus going on. They already left! Long ago. That’s why only 20 percent of the Baton Rouge Police Department lives in the City of Baton Rouge. You could take a cross section of any other category of “middle in-come working people” and proba-bly find about the same percentages. How can we bring those middle income working families back to East Baton Rouge Parish? You will never do it with the cur-rent Byzantine structure of schools in East Baton Rouge Parish where neighborhood schools are deprived of the top 50 percent or so of their students. But there IS a way to bring “mid-dle income working people” back to East Baton Rouge Parish — a way that is almost certain to work!

But you may not want to hear it. We KNOW how to do it because it’s already been done — in Zach-ary and Central, the No. 1 and No. 4 school systems in Louisiana. An analysis of enrollees in the Central school system shows that more families move to Central from Livingston Parish than from Baton Rouge! They come back to EBR for the good schools in Central! Who are the people who have moved to Central from Livingston Parish? Mostly, they are former residents of Central who moved to Livingston for good public schools. They didn’t want to be in Livings-ton. They wanted to be in Central. So when Central got control of its schools and it became one of the top school systems in the state virtually overnight, people started returning to Central. That’s what the proposed City of St. George is all about It’s about returning people to public schools in East Baton Rouge Parish by cre-ating a city with its own new inde-pendent communiity school system — a system like Zachary and Cen-

Police, Residency, Public Schools, and St. GeorgeContinued from Page 2

The City of Central was hon-ored by the Louisiana Municipal Association with 1st Place in Community Achievement. The award is in recognition of the Central Veterans Memorial. Con-gratulations to Charles Lee Hin-ton and all who made the award possible! Shown is Councilman Wayne Messina, Istrouma 1964.

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tral, which are free of the Byzan-tine structure of schools in the EBR system where true neighborhood schools are virtually impossible. It’s not about “dividing” the City of Baton Rouge. The City of St. George would be exclusively in unincorporated areas of the parish that the City of Baton Rouge hasn’t wanted! The new Southeast Baton Rouge School System will bring people back to this parish from Liv-ingston and Ascension by the tens of thousands, because our former residents would rather be in EBR, if the schools are good! So, yes, most Baton Rouge Po-lice officers do not live in EBR. It’s because of high crime and poor pub-lic schools. But offer good public schools here, and people will pour back into this parish, especially to St. George where crime is low. Like Zachary and Central, the proposed Southeast Community School System will bring middle income working people with chil-dren back to the parish and make it once again a “normal” community. Police officers will come too!

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CENTRAL — John Goodman Jef-firs, or Goody as everyone calls him, is a very lucky man! He mar-ried the girl of his dreams, and they are still married after 70 years! It was all pretty amazing espe-cially since “that girl” can’t really remember what she saw in him. When asked what she liked about Goody, Miss Bobbie Lee says, “Not much!” But her mama liked Goody, and that apparently did the trick! “She had everything,” Goody says. “She was a good Christian girl, pretty as could be, and she didn’t drink or smoke!” “Then when I got to know her, I realized she could do anything — cook, sew, or anything she put her mind to. She even made me a suit, which I wore on a buying trip to Chicago,” Goody, now 95, says. Goody was a master salesman — still is — which may explain how he captured Bobbie Lee, 87. He was sales manager at Joy’s Furniture downtown for many years and got to know just about everybody in Baton Rouge. As is often the case, a twist of fate brought Goody and Bobbie Lee together. Goody grew up in Kentucky where his best friend was John Murray. One day, the Murray family up and left Kentucky and moved to Baton Rouge. Goody followed him in 1939. The late John Murray is known

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Goody Jeffirs MarriedBobbie Lee Black On August 31, 1946

in Central as the owner of Murray Pharmacy. During World War II, Goody served in the U.S. Army. He came home in 1945 and met Bobbie through her cousin Juanita who was dating John Murray. For Goody, it was love at first sight. Bobbie Lee had a boyfriend in the Navy but he got a “Dear John “ letter. Goody and Bobbie Lee were married August 31, 1946, and they

are still in love! They have three children —Stephanie Aaron who is married to her husband James; Pamela All-mond who is married to her hus-band Monroe, and son Michael, who served in Vietnam where he was badly wounded. They had an-other young man who was like a son to them although he was never formally adopted. He was Oscar Loolara who is now deceased.

Central Mayor Jr. Shelton came by Monday to wish the couple well. The Jeffirs will celebrate their anniversary on August 27. Congratulations!

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CENTRAL - Cody and Sarah (De-Jean) Hunt welcomed home their daughter Piper Lane Hunt, born on May 1, 2016 at Woman’s Hospi-tal at 6:25 p.m. Piper weighed 5 lbs. 15 oz. and was 20 inches long. Piper is the granddaughter of Ron-nie and Glenda Hunt of Central; Terry and Tracy Rook of Central; and Bobby DeJean of Port Allen.

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CENTRAL - Andrew and Molly DeJean (Finley) welcomed home their son Finn Joseph DeJean, born April 8, 2016, at Woman’s Hospi-tal at 8:05 a.m. Finn weighed 8 lbs. 2 oz. and was 20 inches long. He was welcomed home by his big sister, Jolie. Finn is the grandson of Terry and Tracy Rook of Cen-tral; Bobby DeJean of Port Allen; and Jeff and Kathy Finley of Den-ham Springs.

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AWANA ProgramFirst Baptist Church Central

August17•6:30p.m. The program will kick-off with a Luau Round-Up Registration in the gym, 9676 Sullivan Rd. Chil-dren should wear a swimsuit or clothes that can get wet and bring a towel. There are classes and activ-ities each week for children from

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Ryker James Tanner CENTRAL - He’s a wiggly, giggly, bundle of joy. Our huggable, love-able, new baby boy! Ryker James Tanner was born on July 28, 2016 at 7:23 pm. Ryker weighed 6 Ibs 6 oz and was 20 inches long. He was welcomed home by proud parents Josh and Allie (Hudson) Tanner, his big sister Baleigh and family and friends.

Fellowship Welcomes New Pastors

Bro Jeremy and Abby , Ethan, Delanie, Joel, Jamie, Bro Jeremy and Abby CENTRAL - Fellowship Baptist Church of Central has a new pas-tor and associate pastor/youth min-ister. Jeremy Pruitt became pastor August 1. He earned his Bachelor of Applied Science in Biblical Studies from Louisiana Baptist

University in Shreveport, and his Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth. His wife of nearly 21 years is-Delanie Pruitt. Together, they have five children — Jacob (who is with

the Lord), Ethan, Jamie, Abigail, and Joel The new associate pastor/youth minister is Bro. Jeff Phillips. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary studies from the University of South Alabama. He has served in mission fields in China, Hong Kong and Uganda Africa. Together, Bro. Jeff and his wife Charity Phillips have served in mission fields in Romania and Haiti. They have three children — Hannah, Nathan and Kara. Delanie Pruitt and Charity Phil-lips will lead women in Bible stud-ies. Worship times are Sunday school 9 a.m, Sunday morning ser-vice 10:15 a.m., Sunday evening Service 6 p.m. and Wednesday eve-ning service at 6:30 p.m. Revival is scheduled Aug. 21-23, 2016. Visit www.fbcofcentral.org.

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History and Lore of Goodwood Plantation Bluebonnet LibraryAugust20•10a.m.

John Sykes will give a talk on the future plans of the Goodwood Plantation at 9200 Bluebonnet Blvd. The program is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Baton Rouge Genealogical and Historical Society. For more in-formation, call Mary McKeough, 924-8921.

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