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Best chili cooksto compete
Cooking teams are readyto show off their best chilidishes at the Hot and Spicy Chili CookOff, 5K and Fun Run Saturday at Old City Hall, 115MattieSt., Denham Springs.
To buy tickets and more information, visit bontempstix.com/ events/hot-spicy-chili-cook-off5k-fun-run.
Pumpkinpatch opens
St. Francis Episcopal Church is hosting apumpkin patch through Nov.2at726 Maple St., Denham Springs.
Stop by from 10 a.m. to 6p.m
Monday through Friday,9a.m. to 6p.m. Saturday and noon to 6p.m. on Sunday
Halloweenlight show in Amite
Take aride through aFree Holiday Light Show ThursdaySunday until Halloween night Full drive-thru Halloween show.Family friendly,nogore, just mildly spooky.Lights interact with music received through your car radioon FM 100.9.
The show is at 62127 La.1054, Amite. The show is from 5p.m to 10 p.m. Will be closed Oct.26.
Veteran’sDay CarShowset
First Baptist Church in Livingston is hosting its second FBCLivingston Veterans Day Car Show Nov.9
Jambalaya, hamburgers, hot dogs and concessions will be sold and games and inflatables will be available for children Pre-registration is $25 through Nov.7and $30 the day of the show.Registration beginsat 9:15 a.m. For information, visit fbclivingstonla.churchcenter.com/ calendar/event/168686185
Veterans Dayprogram Nov. 11
Veterans wishing to take part in Denham Springs High’s Veterans Day program are invited toregister by Nov.3 by emailing. jeri.frazier@lpsb.org
Chamberseeking nominations
The Livingston ParishChamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for: Livingston Parish Business of the Year, Women’sLeadership, Livingston Future 5and Community Impact Awards
These awards highlight outstanding businesses andindividuals that follow best practices and positively impact both the economy and communityof Livingston Parish. Nomination forms must be submitted by midnight Nov.14. All nominees will be asked to complete an application process in order to move forward. Judging for awards is doneby an out-of-state independent panel. Winners for all award categories will be announced Jan. 16 at the Livingston Parish Chamber’sannual meeting and Awards Luncheon on Jan. 16, 2025. For more information or to nominate abusiness or individual, visit the Livingston Parish Chamber website at www livingstonparishchamber.org/ events.
Mighty Moms raising money
September is Childhood Hunger Awareness Month, and Mighty Moms is doing its part tofeed children in need.
Want to help make adifference? Sign up to sponsor achild for only $30 by visiting www mightymomsgo.org/donate
Community news report
State Archaeologist Charles “Chip” McGimsey gave Edward Livingston Historical Association members an overview Oct. 5ofthe techniques scientists are using to learn more about the North American civilizations that precededEuropeansettlements.
Louisiana has more than 22,000 archaeological sites, butarchaeologistshavenot done muchworkinLivingstonParish, he said. McGimsey, whoearned his
doctorate in archaeologyat Southern Illinois University, said mostofthe known sites whereNative American cultures have been examined were discoveredbefore large constructionprojects,such as roadways and pipelines.
Theareawhere themost Louisiana archaeological sites are known is in thearea of Fort Johnson, formerly Fort Pork, which has been studied in detail, he said.
McGimseybrought adisplay of typical artifacts that are found when archaeologists undertake aproject
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including arrow points,stone tools, cooking stonesand pottery shards. He also examined artifacts that ELHA members presented for his review
Theassociation’snext meeting will be at 10 a.m Nov.2 at the Creole Museum in French Settlement. In additionvisiting the museum, aCreole-style housebuilt in 1898, themeetingwill include atour of St. Joseph Catholic Church. The public is invited to attend.
TheFrench Settlement HistoricalSocietyand theLivingstonParish Tourist Commission will host the meeting.
Families flocked to theLivingston Parish Fairgrounds for the annual parish fair,which started in 1937. The fair, Oct. 5-13, featured aparade, rodeo, pageant, carnival rides, livestock exhibitions and more.
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Five-year-old Myla Thomas feeds apair of goats inside thefair’spetting zoo.
Mary Satterfield, center watches as her daughter Kelli Hill, left, gives her granddaughter ElleryHill, 1, apiece of chicken
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Keygames upcoming in Livingston football
Last week, Walker High defensive stalwart Donte Flowers said oneofthe most important things abouthis team’sgame-week preparation was to ignore their record. Essentially,presumptions of how well an opponent may play based on their recordhas no bearing on the game.It’sa notion that played out in twoDistrict 5-5A gamesinvolving Livingston Parishteams. Denham Springshosted one of those, agame that was controlled by LiveOak on its way to a21-6 win.Denham Springs came into thecontest ridinga three-game winning streak, astretch that included a20-17 district win over
East Ascension. But, after the Yellow Jackets scored atouchdown on their opening drive of the game, Live Oak held them in check the rest of the way.Later in the quarter, LiveOak took the lead following Brody Welch’s42-yard interception return for atouchdown and never gave it back.
Brek Schultz added two field goals before LiveOak put the gameout of reach on Kingston Johnson’sfourth-quarter touchdown pass to Calvin Ursin. The win was easily thebiggest so far for first-year Eagles coach Randall Leggette. Walker losestoGators
Flowersand his Walker teammates traveled to St.Amantfor theother game that defied pregameperception. The Wildcats
brought a2-0 district markinto their contest with the Gators, who had lost their league opener the week before at Dutchtown. Records were no indicator of how thegame would play out. Unfortunately,for Flowers and his teammates, not only did St. Amantstand toe-to-toe with Walker,the Gators pulled off a 33-26 win. Sloppy ball-handling and costly turnovers by Walker helped St. Amantmove out to a21-18 lead.
The Gators added twofourthquarter touchdowns before alate Wildcats score accounted forthe final margin.
What does it allmean?
With amonth of football leftin theregular season, undefeated Dutchtown is District 5-5A’s top team while first-year program
Prairieville is on the bottom.In between, things appear to be wide open. Walker,Denham Springs, East Ascension and St. Amant each have one league loss while two-loss Live Oak showed how dangerous it waslast week. This week’sschedule has Denham Springs traveling to Dutchtownfor amust-win game if it hopes to remain in contention fordistrict honors. The other games feature Live Oak hosting Prairieville, St. Amant at East Ascension, and Walker against Archbishop Shaw in Marrero. Notonly can anything happen, it usually does.
Charles Salzercovers Livingston sports forthe LivingstonTangipahoa Advocate. To reach Salzer, email livingston@ theadvocate.com.
Bryar Sturges, 3, waves on aride during family night at the annual Livingston Parish Fair
PHOTO BY DAVID NORMAND
Two-year-old DelylahNorred and her mother,CarleyNorred,rideacarousel at the annual Livingston Parish Fair on Oct. 8inLivingston.
Kayliee Artigue, 11, right, holds on to one of her shoes as she and Keelan Sampey 13, spin around on the Scrambler
Jayton Latino,
plucks plastic ducks out of the water to winaprize.
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State Archaeologist Charles ‘Chip’McGimsey chats with Edward Livingston Historical Association member Yvonne L. DayasMcGimsey sets
adisplay of Native Americanartifacts recovered
archaeologicalsites in Louisiana.
Newdatabasehelps document historic cemeteries
BY ELLYN COUVILLION Staff writer
The Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation has built adatabase of roughly8,500 historic cemeteriesacrossthe stateand invites people to submit informationabout gravesites yet to be documented.
“It’sreally importanttoknow about the cemeteries because of thepossibleconstructionof a building or road or pipeline,” said Brian Davis, executive director of the nonprofit trust.
“It’sa way to respect and protect the cemeteries,” he said.
The newly launched Louisiana Register ofHistoricCemeteries
“is away of letting people know, ‘This is acemetery,’”Davis said.
“It’sespecially important in the southern part of thestate,” he said. “Because of erosionand rising sea levels, some cemeteries are going underwater,especially in lowerLafourche Parish.”
One is Leeville Cemetery,noted on the new historic cemetery registry.The gravesthere date back to 1905, whenthere wasanepidemic of yellow fever Locally,Tangipahoa has 383cemeteries on the list andEastFeliciana has 288. The list also includes Ascension with 91,Livingstonwith 383 and West Feliciana with 134. The Zachary area has 30.
The cemeteryatGrace Church in St. Francisville is filled with azaleas, bridal’swreath and other blooms.
TheLouisianaTrust of Historic Preservation worked onthe new database over the past year,with the help of the Louisiana Cemetery Board and graduate students in Tulane University’smaster’sof science programinhistoricpreservation, Davis said.
People who are familiar with any ofthe cemeteries currently on the
list are invited to add information about the spot, he said.
“Whatare the gravemarkers made of? Is there achurch nearby?” Davis said. “If there’sa military marker on the headstone, what war is it from?”
People canalsoadd theirown photos. For those who wouldliketosee
Blue Pup, Orange Puptobeat
Livingston Parish Book Festival
Community news report
Get ready to meet everyone’sfavorite pups during this year’sLivingston Parish Book Festival. The Petite PrincessCompany,whichprovides family-friendly party entertainment across south Louisiana, will bring their BluePup and Orange Pup to the Livingston Parish Book FestivalinNovember Inspired by the popular cartoon,the Petite Princess Company’sBlue Pup and Orange Pup are favorites of children andparents, anewsrelease said. The pups will interact andpose for photos with Book Festival visitors during ameetand-greet.
Theninth annual LivingstonParish Book Festival will be from 11 a.m. to 4p.m. Nov.9,atthe main branch in Livingston, at 20390 Iowa St., Livingston. First held in 2013, theBook Festival features author discussions, book signings, live music, food, face painting, games and other activities. Visitors are also able to use any of the library’s resources.
The event, hosted by the Livingston Parish Library,isfree and open to the public. All other branches of the Livingston Parish Librarywill be closed on Nov.9 Formoreinformation, visitwww.mylpl.info/ BookFestival or call theLivingston Parish Library at (225) 686-4100.
acemetery certified and added to the historic cemeteries register, one of three conditions must be met:
n It must be 50 or more years, since the first burial, and/or
n It must contain the burial of a person of local, state or national importance by reason of civic, public or military service, cultural achievement or historical significance, and/or
n It must contain structuresthat areconsidered architecturallysignificant.
There is no fee to nominate a cemetery to be certified.
The newregistry is also atool for those who have studied their family’sgeneology and maybeable to trace the resting place of one of their ancestors to aquiet Louisiana cemetery And, said David, the certification of acemetery may encourage familiestoorganizevoluntarycleaning days and create family awareness.
Acemetery could be “one burial or hundreds,” he said.
“Folks who may nothave had the means to put aheadstone would sometimes plant atree,” Davis said. “You’ll see arow of trees, a family’smarkers.”
“When you see aclump of trees out in afield,itoftenmeans abuilding once stood there or it’sa sign that it’sacemetery,” he said.
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The Petite Princess Company, which provides family-friendly entertainment across south Louisiana, will bring theirpopular Blue Pup and OrangePup to takephotos with Book Festival visitors.
Community news report
Tangipahoa Volunteers for Family and Community held its annual Holidays Ideas Workshop fundraiserSept 19 at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Ponchatoula. Co-chairs were TVFC President GloriaMessenger and TVFC memberGwen Domiano. Both members said they were pleased with the success of the event, which included bingo, two craft demonstrations,a hands-on craft activity,Parade of Prizes,a50/50 raffle and araffle for a$250 gift card which will benefit the club’sscholarship program. There also wasacraft sale with numerous holiday items made by the club members. All proceeds will be used by the club to fund its various community projects throughout the parish for the upcoming year Tangipahoa Volunteers for Familyand Community is an all-volunteer arm of the LSU Agriculture Extension Service. Forinformationabout TVFC’slocal groups, email Messenger at ggmessenger1@gmail.com or membership chair Sue Nelson at suenelson41@yahoo.com.
Moneyearmarked forlitter removalefforts in 7parishes
Community news report
Money is going to East Feliciana and Livingston parishsheriffs to increase litterremoval efforts.
Keep Louisiana Beautiful and Lt. Gov.Billy Nungesser have announced the 2024-2025 grants forlocal sheriffs’ departments.
In total, $350,000 was distributed to Sheriffs’ Offices in Cameron, East Feliciana, Jackson, Lincoln, Livingston, St. Helena and Winn parishes. The grant is designed to support sheriffs’
efforts to increase litter removal.
“LouisianaSheriffs’ Departmentsare stepping up and prioritizing litter,” Nungesser said. “This grant supports them in theircleanupefforts,and we look forward to seeing positive results from their hard work.”
“Litter begets litter,”said Susan Russell, Keep Louisiana Beautifulexecutive director. “Research shows alittered site invites more litter, andaclean site deters it. The sheriffs’ grant pro-
CORRECTION
Aphoto in the Oct. 9Livingston Tangipahoa Advocate incorrectly identified Kennedy Burger.The newspaper regrets the error
KennedyBurger eats asno-ball at the annual Fall Festival in the downtown antique district on Oct.5 in Denham Springs.
STAFF PHOTO BY MICHAEL JOHNSON
Pitchford livingston@theadvocate.com (225)388-0731
gram supportsour sheriffs in their efforts to increase roadside litter removal.”
The sheriffs’ grant program funds litter abatement vehicles and trailers, carts, safety signage, surveillance cameras, and supplies for litter clean up. According to Keep Louisiana Beautiful’s2023 litter study,there are 143.8 million pieces of litter on Louisiana’s roadways. Interstates are the mostlittered type of roadway,with an averageof10,178pieces of litter per mile.
Sharon Miano and Jean Hebertman atable at the Sept. 19
Tangipahoa Volunteers for Family and Community Holidays Ideas Workshop fundraiser
Amite, Sumner high students dive into social issues
Community news report
This year marks the 26th year the talented theater students at Amite and Sumner high schools have created movies that explore social issues important to students.
“The process begins in midApril of the past school year,” said talented theater teacher Charley Vance.
“Thestudents meet in screen treatment sessions. Theycomeup with numerous ideas then begin the process of combining ideas to developthree worthy stories that canbetold in 20 minutes,” he said.
The movie “Wrecked”explores how sisters react differently with grief following the death oftheir parents in acar accident.
“Not Possible” explores anew studentcoming to school and trying to make friends with apopular social influencer.The relationship
Moore, Kelci Solomon, Miranda Derveloyand Casie Qualls (First Guaranty Bank) Janel Treadwell and Christina Dright; and second row, Kayleigh Brumfield, Celise Simpson, Rihanna Robertson, Callie Tidwell, Kassidy Cutrer andD’Lila Haney.
does not go well until adark secret is revealed.
“Trapped”isacomedy about aboy who is trying to date three girls at the same time. His mother discovers his deceptions anddevises aplan to teachhim alesson.
Filming forthe movies will beginOct.12and continue through Nov.2.There are co-campus scenes at Amite and Sumnerhigh schools. Off-campus scenes are filmed in local businessesand the homes of Amite residents.
TheWorldPremiere starts at 7p.m. Feb. 6inthe Amite High theater
“Weare thrilled to supportthe Tangipahoa Parish Talented Theatre Program, which showcases such incredible talent and creativity.Contributing to this cause brings us immense joy,knowing that we are helping to nurture the arts andprovide opportunities for these talented individu-
als to shine. It’sa privilege to be part of acommunitythatvalues and uplifts the performing arts,” said Casie Qualls, PMO lead First Guaranty Bank. Videography is by Kirk Lee of VividVideo andGarretCrawford. Original music is by Will Vance, James Bass and Jacob Dupre
The films include: Sumner High students: Mariah Robertson, Kadyn Schenk, Callie Tidwell, Christina Dright, Kelci Solomon, Celise Simpson, Rihanna Robertson, Kayleigh Brumfield, Sha’Kira Moore, Megan Wilson, Teah Sims, Janel Treadwell, Sophie Messina, Ivy Roberts, D’Lila Haney, Kaylee MCain and Kassidy Cutrer
Amite High students: Aariya Coleman, Caiden Thomas, FranklinMorgan,Trezman Richardson, Clarrissa Gaines. Lauryn Whigham,Cayden Miller,Jesse Walker and Ja’Myron Dyson.
Community news report
Fourteen SoutheasternLouisiana University students arereigning as Homecoming royalty Oct. 14–19.
Chosen as members of the queen court areseniors Anna Ferrand, Walker; Madison Ourso, Amite; Sophie Serpas, Covington; MarySutton,Hammond; Ellie Torrance, Albany; and juniors Lauren Clements, Loranger; and Anyah Matthews, Zachary
Elected members of the king court are seniors Pranup Adhikari, Nepal; Josiah Fields, Patterson; and Corban Saucier,Walker; juniors Javier Amador,Springfield; Jireh Childs, NewOrleans; andWesleyWatson, Mandeville; and sophomore Lucky Ameh, Nigeria. The 2024 queenand king, the top junior or senior vote-getters in the recent online campus election, will be announced Saturday, Oct. 19.
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Members of the 2024 SoutheasternLouisiana University Homecoming king courtare, from left,front row, Corban Saucier of Walker;Jireh Childsof NewOrleans; and Josiah Fields of Patterson; and standing,Lucky Ameh of Nigeria; Pranup Adhikari of Nepal; Javier Amador of Springfield; and Wesley Watson of Mandeville.