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Wild. No one is safe from changing addresses in the wild world of the association. Whenever the headline started making the rounds late Friday night. I went to social media to make sure I was just deliriously making up stupid mock trades in my brain. LUKA to the LAKERS! Wild.

The City of Shreveport’s Department of Water and Sewerage has been awarded a $3,537,919 grant through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program to enhance infrastructure resiliency. The funding will be used to install two permanent 1250-kilowatt generators at critical water pump stations, ensuring reliable water service during natural disasters.

If you have a tourism-related business idea but need some seed money to get it rolling, you'll want to know about an initiative that's just been launched. Existing businesses wishing to reach the next level are also invited.

Walk around Shreveport’s historic Oakland Cemetery, the city’s oldest cemetery established in 1847 as City Cemetery, and many things likely catch the eye. A memorial on top of a mass grave names many of the roughly 800 people who were buried quickly in the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1873, which killed a quarter of Shreveport’s population in three months. Updated walkways and gazebos adorn the expansive cemetery, fitting for one of Shreveport’s most historic sites, landing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. But one may also notice a large plot of land that appears sparsely populated bordering Milam Street, with few visible grave markers. This happens to be the land in which the original City Cemetery first started and where Shreveport’s oldest inhabitants would have been buried. The LSUS History Department is launching a project to examine this plot, approximately one acre in size, to determine how many graves may exist. Armed with historic records and ground penetrating radar, LSUS history faculty, staff, and students will attempt to map the plot. The project’s first phase is to reset any visible grave markers that may have fallen and remove other obstructions that could hinder mapping and data collection.

I want to start off this month’s report with announcing a new program from Volunteers for Youth Justice (VYJ) called the “Risks of Youth Vaping Workshop.”

My personal connection to the Shreveport-Bossier City area originates with my father who brought his family here when assigned to Barksdale Air Force Base where he was a pilot flying KC-135s. After being stationed at several other Strategic Air Command bases, including Plattsburgh NY, Ramey in Puerto Rico, and Grissom in Indiana, my father retired as a Lieutenant Colonel, and we moved back to Shreveport.

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