Shreveport native and R&B recording artist Donalveon ventures into the world of graphic design by creating the new 'Generationglyphics (pronounced generation-gliff icks),' company where he makes family portraits, social media advertising and all-occasion banners, flyers and posters!
Shreve Memorial Library Summer Reading Program continues to wow patrons of all ages with clown and magic performances by magician/ventriloquist, Professor QB and entertainer, Geebo the Clown. Live performances will be held at various branches through the end of July. The “All Together Now” Summer Reading Program encourages patrons of all ages to explore ideas of kindness, friendship, community and culture. All programs are free and open to the public. Registration is not required.
After serving the parish in various capacities for over two decades, Dr. Woodrow Wilson Jr. will retire as Caddo Parish administrator and CEO on July 14.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s move to end nearly a halfcentury of affirmative action in college admissions sent Louisiana universities and politicians reeling last Thursday, as colleges sought to assure the public that minority enrollment would not suffer and several politicos – including visiting Vice President Kamala Harris – cast the ruling as a setback for young people of color. The effect of the court’s decision – that race-conscious admission policies at universities are unconstitutional – is minimal for Louisiana’s institutions, which are not as selective as the schools the court pondered, said University of Louisiana System President Jim Henderson. “They may have 20,000 qualified applicants competing for, say, 3,000 or 4,000 or 5,000 slots as a freshman,” Henderson said of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, the schools weighed in the court case. UL’s nine colleges enroll about 91,000 students. “Now that the decision has been announced, we will be reviewing changes we may need to make to ensure we are achieving our goals of diversity and inclusivity to the fullest extent permitted by law,” Fitts said in a statement.
Former Arkansas and NFL quarterback Ryan Mallett, died Tuesday in an apparent drowning at a Florida beach, according to the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office. He was 35. The sheriff's office said first responders were called to a beach in Destin, Fla., around 2:12 p.m. local time, as a group of people swimming in the Gulf of Mexico near a sandbar struggled to make their way back to shore. One of the individuals, later identified as Mallett, was not breathing when he was pulled out of the water and was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
'It's not the heat, it's the humidity.' That's a partly valid phrase you may have heard in the summer, but it's actually both. The heat index, also known as the apparent temperature, is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature. This has important considerations for the human body's comfort. When the body gets too hot, it begins to perspire or sweat to cool itself off. If the perspiration is not able to evaporate, the body cannot regulate its temperature. Evaporation is a cooling process. When perspiration is evaporated off the body, it effectively reduces the body's temperature. When the atmospheric moisture content (i.e., relative humidity) is high, the rate of evaporation from the body decreases. In other words, the human body feels warmer in humid conditions. The opposite is true when the relative humidity decreases because the rate of perspiration increases. The body actually feels cooler in arid conditions. There is direct relationship between the air temperature and relative humidity and the heat index, meaning as the air temperature and relative humidity increase (decrease), the heat index increases (decreases).
This year’s Sunflower Trail and Festival in Gilliam, La., is over, but a pair of murals created by artist Diane Long will remain for years to come.
The June 16 storm event and its aftermath created trying times for our citizens and the need for many city departments to respond effectively. Our employees responded extremely well to the challenges we faced. This is especially true when we recognize that many of them suffered damage to their personal homes as a result of the storm. Veteran firefighters described the June 16 shift as one of the worst they had ever experienced. They worked four house fires, one in heat so intense that it sent four firefighters briefly to the hospital to be treated for heat exhaustion. Our 911 dispatchers received more than 5,500 calls for fire and police during the weekend, with most of these coming in the early Friday morning hours just after the storm blew through. There were more than 1,100 weather-related dispatch events, which included several instances of helping residents trapped in their homes by falling trees. At one point on that Friday, every available fire unit was on a call. Many police units had to be sent to direct traffic while trees and wires were being removed from the travel lanes. All of this while the regular calls for service continued.
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