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JANUARY 2020 • VOLUME 14 • ISSUE 1
CONT HOME + LIVING
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16 CHATEAU CHIC
Classic Elegance on the Bayou
22 THE OBSERVER Keep Going, Day-By-Day
24 ViCi HOOPS
Much more than a game of Hoops.
FOOD + FUN
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32 A PROJECT OF PASSION
Monique Menard supports her community through various projects.
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MIND + BODY
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44 EVERYBODY’S FAVORITE TWINS Sherry and Cherry Wilmore use social media as a way to help others stay informed.
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08 EDITOR’S NOTE
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52 UNDER THE SCOPE
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54 RENDEZVOUS
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56 SCENE IN
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EDITOR’S NOTE |
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HOPE IN THE NEW YEAR “One little spark of inspiration/ is at the heart of all creation.”
When it comes to inspiring our youth, ViCi Hoops plays an integral role in shaping young lives and leaving a long-lasting impact on the children that play the game of basketball. The sports program has grown over the years to include both boys and girls basketball teams. Learn why it’s so much more that just shooting hoops starting on page 24
- One Little Spark, by Richard & Robert Sherman 2020. Whoa. Crazy to think another year, and most notably, another decade has passed us by. At the end of every year, I like to reflect on the previous 365 days. But this time, my mind is taking a trip back an entire 3,650 days. In 2010, I had just become the managing editor of Point of Vue after being in sales of the magazine since 2007. Over the next few years, I moved to Interactive Media Planner before leaving in 2013 to explore the world of marketing in the oil and gas industry. By 2015, I found my way back to Rushing Media, again serving as Interactive Media Planner, before assuming my current role as managing editor once again. In my personal life, I married my best friend John in 2013 and we welcomed our son Jackson in 2014. I almost can’t recall a time when the two of them weren’t a part of me. Becoming a wife and a mother have been the best parts of the last decade. Our family is little but perfect in our eyes. They are the inspiration for me to dream big, set unrealistic goals and strive to absolutely crush them. Every January we bring you a new group of dreamers whose minds are full of inspiration. They are setting out to change the world around them, make an impact on their communities and redefine our way of thinking.
Tucked away in a shopping center on the corner of West Main and Morgan Streets sits an unassuming store run by Monique Menard. Originally a small corner store that sold liquor and cigarettes, Monique recognized that she could bring so much more to a community that desperately needed it. Her store is now a part of Live Healthy Houma’s Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy mission. Read about Monique’s hopes for the program starting on page 32. On page 44, we introduce to Everyone’s Favorite Twins, Sherry and Cherry Wilmore. The social media mavens are taking Facebook by storm with their informative, yet entertaining videos. Their goal is to educate the community about important issues using plain language, utilizing their platform as to reach as many people as possible. Each of these stories has brought me hope in it’s own way for the new year and new decade to come. I hope you, too, are able to take away a spark of inspiration to kick off your year on the right foot. POV
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THE OBSERVER | 22 Keep Going, Day-By-Day
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They enlisted the assistance of Kayce’s cousin and interior designer, Brandon Branch to execute their vision. “Brandon was so easy to work with, and because we are family it made it that much more fun and enjoyable,” says Kayce. A light color palette combined with new lighting, draperies and elegant furnishings completely transformed the space. The Danos family utilized the talents of painter Anthony Trosclair and Everything Upholstered to bring their vision to life. Stunning color combinations and patterns keep the mood fun yet elegant for this family of seven.
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Mother Teresa said it like this: “Abandoning Loreto (her convent) was an even harder sacrifice for me than leaving my family that first time in order to follow my vocation. But I had to do it. It was a calling. I knew where I had to go; I did not know how to get there.”
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Stepping outside of the safety of her cloistered walls is where she met a world in poverty who so desperately needed someone to take each day and give it to them. But she never forgot where love starts. She loved a world, but reminded the world where love begins. “Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.” So I’ll be at my home. Cooking the same eggs and toast. Giving smiles to each member, encouraging them forward, letting them know they’re loved here so they can go out there and love others. I’ll smile so they know their fears are conquerable, and when you face them, you’ll realize they weren’t as big as they were in your imagination. So go on and conquer the world, because I’ll be right here. Smiling and loving and believing. And while the years etch their telltale lines in my face, I’ll be the one who is counting the days and making each day count. I’ll tell you to step out when it feels safer to stay in. I’ll wipe my eyes and dream of your future with you. Because one day you’ll be the one telling me how time flew, and where did each day go? And I’ll tell you the days were spent conquering fears and flying with the wings of time. POV January 2020 23 povhouma.com
Much more than a game of Hoops
BY KEELY DIEBOLD PHOTOS SUBMITTED Listen to any legendary athlete talk about how they worked their way to the top, and you’ll probably hear stories of them beginning their sports careers at a very early age. Take LSU quarterback Joe Burrow, for example, whose athletic talent reportedly became clear to his youth coaches while he was in third grade. By the time he was in fourth grade, the future Heisman Trophy recipient could read defenses and adjust plays accordingly: a rare ability for someone his age. If this proves anything, it’s that sports can play an integral role in shaping young lives and leave a long-lasting impact that goes beyond the game. This impact is what all youth sports programs hope to achieve, and ViCi Hoops is no exception.
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ViCi Hoops is a local volunteerbased basketball league for children in fifth through seventh grade that strives to introduce them to basketball skills and build those skills while simultaneously providing them with life lessons. “The biggest goal is to develop these kids and the skills that they need to play basketball later on in life, so we take them from a developmental stage and move them to kind of middle-of-theroad...and then hopefully progress them to accelerated, and then they can go and play at Vandebilt or Terrebonne or H. L. [Bourgeois] or wherever they decide to go to school,” Bradley DeRoche, a ViCi Hoops volunteer, says.
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The program was introduced three years ago as developmental league for local boys. In its first year, it had 78 participants. In 2018, it introduced a girls league. Now, ViCi Hoops consists of 148 participants across a three-team girls division, a sixteam junior varsity boys division and a four-team varsity boys division. The program runs from early January through late February, with games played every hour from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays at Vandebilt Catholic High School.
In order to join the program, participants pay a $40 fee that covers a warm-up shirt, a jersey and league expenses. ViCi teams are built off of assessments of players. The league’s coaches run participants through drills like shooting, free throws and layups and evaluate them based on their skill levels. Then, they place players on teams in a way that creates evenly-matched rosters. “Say [with] the varsity, for example, we have four kids that really stand out. Each team is going to have one of those kids,” Bradley says.
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Bradley believes that teams playing other teams with equivalent talent helps athletes to become better at basketball more than playing dominant teams does. “If [your best players] are playing with each other and you’re beating a team 70-10, no one in that game got better,” Bradley says. While ViCi Hoops is a league centered on developing basketball players, the sport ultimately serves as a platform for teaching the young athletes lessons in hard work, teamwork and sportsmanship, as well as Christian values.
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Bradley says he sees such values implemented in the way that players support one another. Athletes who have been in the league longer often assist those who are new to the league and inspire them to strive for more. By welcoming young athletes who are beginning to transition out of elementary school, ViCi Hoops is picking them up at an impressionable age. Bradley says that this age range is where they will begin to grow and develop to play junior high and high school sports. “It’s teaching them a lot, how to win gracefully, how to lose gracefully, how to compete, sportsmanship, helping each other up,” Bradley says. Bradley says that children who choose to go out of their comfort zone to try sports like basketball are “brave.”
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“Kids are brave, and they’re taking big steps coming [to] try something difficult for the first time, knowing that some of these kids in here are
really good...but they still work hard...and they try to improve and get better,” Bradley says. Above all, ViCi Hoops is a league that tries to offer parents peace of mind that their children are receiving mentorship from coaches and a wide variety of lessons beyond only basketball. Bradley says that everything the league does serves toward helping its athletes grow, even if basketball is not in their futures. “They might not even play basketball in eighth grade, but that’s fine. They’ll learn other things that may translate over to band, or translate over to dance team or soccer or other sports. It’s not just about basketball,” Bradley says. Who knows whether ViCi Hoops or similar youth basketball programs will produce the next Michael Jordan. The league does, however, promise inspiration that may stick with its young athletes for a long time to come. POV
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I pretty much knew everything that needed to be known about this hair,” Monique says. “This area really didn’t have a hair store where they can walk up and get their hair supplies; they have to get rides. This is just easier for most of the people that cannot drive.” “We don’t raise our costs up because it does cost too much,” she continues. “Everyone deserves to be beautiful.” Monique says that since the store opens as early as 6:30 a.m., it gives the barber shop across the street a chance of having its chairs full earlier than normal, therefore it started opening earlier. In fact, she says all the surrounding businesses are starting to work hand in hand. Houma Beauty is also working with Live Healthy Houma, a part of LSU AgCenter’s Healthy Communities initiative, a work group consisting of various local entities. Live Healthy’s mission is to “improve the quality of life for all citizens of Downtown Houma through policy development, environmental change and lifestyle programs that promote healthy living.” Last year, the corner store became a Live Healthy’s Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy location, introducing healthier grocery goods into the community. The grocery store is now equipped with fresh
produce, healthier snack alternatives and signage to help educate its patrons on the benefits of eating healthier. “Because I like kids,” Monique answers on why she decided to partner with Live Healthy. “I see a lot of sad cases in this environment. With Live Healthy, if we can help control the obesity rate, that healthy lifestyle is going to trigger a better educational choice because they’re going to mingle with different kinds of people. They’re going to be more inclined to go to the gym...That right there in itself is just a completely different atmosphere.” Amanda Gibson, a nutrition agent with the LSU AgCenter and the facilitator of Live Healthy Houma, says she was looking for a great location for Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy when she stumbled across the store after noticing they sold groceries, too. “I was going into different convenience stores, but people are always skeptical of a free thing...Then we came in here and presented the idea to Monique, and since then it’s been wonderful,” she says. “This is the perfect location because across the bayou is the High Rise, so it’s a good resource for them. Also, the store helps the lower-income community that surrounds it.” Monique aims to expand the store, too, adding more groceries and any other
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they’re cold. “You’re not just $1.10 in this store,” she says. “You’re human.” Growing up in poverty, Monique was helped by people in her life that showed her possibilities and opportunities outside of what she knew. She now hopes to pay that forward. “I grew up in a house where you had to move the bucket whenever it rained because the drip moved with the wind. But I had people who if didn’t show me anything other than a broken home or poverty, I probably would still be stuck in my own broken home and in poverty,” she shares. “And at the end of the day, it only takes one person to change somebody’s life.” POV
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1 tablespoon olive oil 1 cup finely chopped onion 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper 2 garlic cloves, minced 2 cups (1/2-inch) cubed peeled butternut squash 1 cup chopped parsnip 1 tablespoon chopped fresh or 1 teaspoon dried rubbed sage 1 tablespoon chopped fresh or 1 teaspoon dried parsley 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, divided 2 cups uncooked penne pasta 1/2 cup (2 ounces) grated fresh Parmesan cheese, divided Cooking spray 1 1/2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 cup 1% low-fat milk
1. Preheat oven to 375°. 2. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add
onion, red pepper, and garlic; sauté 3 minutes. Add squash and parsnip; sauté 10 minutes. Stir in sage, parsley, nutmeg, allspice, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper; remove from heat. 3. Cook pasta according to package directions, omitting salt and
fat. Drain in a colander over a bowl, reserving 1 cup cooking liquid. Combine squash mixture, pasta, and 1/4 cup cheese in an 11 x 7-inch baking dish coated with cooking spray, tossing gently to combine. 4. Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add flour;
cook 3 minutes, stirring constantly with a whisk. Add milk; cook 5 minutes, stirring constantly with a whisk. Gradually add reserved cooking liquid; cook 2 minutes or until thick, stirring constantly with a whisk. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. 5. Pour milk mixture over pasta mixture; sprinkle with 1/4 cup
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“And knowing that we can still leave each other and come back and be okay,” Sherry adds. The twins view their time in foster care as a part of their lives, not the entirety. Cherry says they do not want to be defined by it. “It was a chapter, it might even be two or three chapters of our book, but it is not our totality, and so because of foster care, I think we realized that we were the authors of our own destiny, and we get to write our story our way and our voice is very important,” Cherry says. The women found that voice through Everybody’s Favorite Twins.
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As they advance their work, Cherry and Sherry hope people will see them as bridge-builders, while also remaining lighthearted and fun. For example, future projects include bridging gaps between minorities and law enforcement, as well as spotlighting individuals like local artists, musicians and authors. “We see the future of Everybody’s Favorite Twins expanding to a point where we get to bring more people…do more one-onone interviews, more community-based,” Cherry says. Cherry and Sherry describe themselves as “yin and yang,” as they find balance in one another that translates into their work through Everybody’s Favorite Twins. After all, these sisters are a force when they’re together. POV
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We can thank #1 Scotsman and poet Robert Burns for putting “Auld Lang Syne” down on paper in 1788. It was an old song he heard sung by an old man, and he added some lines to make it fit the melody of an old folk song. So, all around it’s pretty old. And it’s sung on New Year’s and graduations and farewell addresses to make us think of old times. In fact, “auld lang syne” is kinda Scottish slang for “old long since.” And when people sing the line of the chorus, “For the sake of auld lang syne,” they’re meaning “For the sake of old times.” But when we reminisce on New Year’s Eve and wax melancholic with old friends about the old times, we often get so distracted by the fireworks and champagne and rich food and what’s happening in Times Square and of course, our smart phones, that we all too often forsake true conversation about the old times. So, here are some champagne-proof reminiscence-starters about the old times to share with your family and friends during the New Year. For the sake of old times, do you remember when…
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FUN FACTS
HAPPY
NATIONAL PIE DAY IS JANUARY 23
NEW YEAR
• The origin of pie traces all the way back to ancient Egypt.
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• T he most popular pie in Louisiana, along Alabama and Mississippi, is pecan pie, according to a poll by insider. com. Forty-five states chose apple pie, and Hawaii and Wyoming chose pumpkin.
- Group and Individual Training Options Available • The world’s largest pumpkin pie was made in New Bremen, Ohio in 2010, weighing in at 3,699 pounds.
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•T here is a town in New Mexico named “Pie Town”, consisting of 186 people.
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LOOK TWICE |
WIN A $50
COURTESY OF SYNERGY BANK
GIFT CARD
Find the six differences in this photo from our feature on page 16. Drop off your answers along with your name and daytime contact number at the PoV office, 6160 W. Park Ave., Houma. Stuck at the office? Email it to us, looktwice@povhouma.com. A winner will be picked by random drawing January 17. The winner will receive a $50 Visa® gift card courtesy of Synergy Bank.
Congratulations to Paula Neil for winning last month’s contest.
ANSWERS TO LAST MONTH’S CONTEST 1 Colored Nutcracker’s pants 2 Added Santa 3 Removed light bulb 4 Changed the color of the bow 5 Added elf on the mantle 6 Removed the fireplace andirons
It’s your plan. Let’s make it happen.
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