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Zachary High won the District Title last Friday night against a stubborn Walker High adversary. The game came down to the final play as DeJarian Jones’ knock down of the two-point conversion pass intended for Walker High’s Brian Thomas Jr. was enough to wrap up a third straight District 4-5A football title for Zachary High by a score of 3533. Zachary went undefeated this year in District Play, and up until this game Walker High was undefeated in District. Jones’ play in the final minute and the running of RJ Allen helped the fifth-ranked Broncos edge Walker 35-33 in the regular-season finale Friday night at ZHS’ Bronco Stadium. Allen ran for a season-high 164 yards on 22 carries and scored three touchdowns for Zachary (7-2, 5-0). Quarterback Keilon Brown accounted for 199 yards, including one rushing TD and one passing TD. In addition to winning the District Title, the game was and the last regular season home game for 20 seniors. These seniors represent the most successful tenure in Zachary High School sports history having won three LHSAA 5A State Championships. This season started slowly and reloaded with the loss of 18 starters and losses during the first two weeks to a strong East Ascension team and an even stronger Deerfield Beach team turned into a six-game winning streak. During this six-game span, the Broncos were undefeated in district — extending the district unbeaten streak to 17 games over three seasons. With the victory, the Broncos (72) picked up the 5 seed in the 5A playoffs and will host district 4/5A rival and 28 seed Live Oak (6-4) in Bronco stadium Friday.

QB Keilon Brown runs in Touchdown against Walker. Photo by Sharron Ventura Photography.

Player of the week RJ Allen gets it done, runs through, jumps over and down for the touchdown. Photo by Sharron Ventura Photography.

Boston Scott -former Bronco, La Tech and now Philadelphia Eagle Running Back and Forrest Town -former Bronco and Dartmouth player came to visit Friday night and cheer on the Head Coach David Brewerton shares the District Title trophy with the Broncos. Photo by Sharron Ventura Photography. team. Photo by Sharron Ventura Photography.

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In Our Wellness Community Nakeisha Cleveland Appointed to Lane Board of Commissioners Nakeisha Robertson Cleveland was appointed by the Metropolitan Council of East Baton Rouge Parish to the Board of Commissioners at Lane Regional Medical Center. She replaces Doze Butler who moved out of state. Originally from Baton Rouge, Mrs. Cleveland graduated from Louisiana State University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in sociology. As deputy director of the Louisiana Primary Care Association, she serves as a technical resource for the state’s federally qualified health centers, manages day-to-day operations, and represents the association and its members on state, regional and national committees. She and her husband, Kendall, have four children, Kamerin, 20, Kendall, 18, Nyja, 11, and David, 3.

Mrs. Cleveland is an active member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc Mu Zeta Chapter, as well as the Zachary High School Coaches’ Wives Club. “I believe it is important to give back to the community where we receive so much,” says Mrs. Cleveland. “My family and I recently moved to Zachary, and I am excited to serve on the board at Lane and contribute to its future growth and expansion.” The Lane Regional Medical Center board of commissioners is comprised of nine members. In addition to Mrs. Cleveland, current board members include chair Gaynell Young, vice chair Jordan Charlet, and members at large David Bowman, Debby Brian, Dr. Reagan Elkins, Donna Kline, Thomas Scott, and Darnell Waites.

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Dr. Charles Thompson, interventional cardiologist at Cardiovascular Institute of the South in Zachary, is the first in the Baton Rouge region, and second in the state, to use the R2P™ MISAGO® RX self-expanding stent, the longest stent platform that is specifically designed for above-the-knee peripheral artery disease (PAD) interventions via radial access through the wrist. The procedure took place on October 31 at Lane Regional Medical Center. Pictured left to right: James Pierce, RT; Joe Pierce, RT; Dr. Charles Thompson, and Bennett Templet, RT.

Zachary Real Estate Market Update Greetings neighbors! As we head into the winter months, we find that many people become uncertain about what the real estate market is doing this time of year. Most people believe that it’s better to wait and sell your home only during the spring. While sometimes this can be true, it isn’t always the case. There are still buyers looking this time of year. In fact most buyers looking during the winter/holiday season are much more motivated to buy a home than those looking in the spring. Think about it, would you want to spend your holidays moving, if you didn’t have to? These buyers are usually under a time crunch due to relocation or lease ending, they aren’t just checking out homes to see if they might want to move. We’ve included a few market statistics here for you to review. The pie chart shows the allocation of homes sold in Zachary in the past 12 months. There have been 442 homes sold in the last year; of those 104 were new constructions. We currently have 176 homes for sale in Zachary ranging from $70,000-$2.1M, with a median price of $295,000. This gives us just shy of 5 months worth of inventory, indicating that we are still in a seller ’s market. Should the increase to 7 months or more, we would then be entering inventory inc a buyers market.

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“Describing what we do,” says Warden Jason Kent, “is like chewing on a raw oyster…it gets bigger and bigger and bigger.” Who knew, for example, that Dixon Correctional Institute houses all State prisoners who require dialysis? The installation of a dialysis unit has saved hospital transport and security expenses and, at the same time, reduced stress for the patients. DCI also houses all of Louisiana’s Youthful Offender Program inmates, those who were “tried as adults,” Deputy Warden Dustin Bickham explains, due to the extreme nature of their crimes, “but are under the age of 18. Some are only 15 or 16.” The YOP at the Jackson facility counts 15 to 20 young men who live apart from the general population. What most young offenders share, Bickham notes, is “the lack of a father figure.” DOC Mission At DCI, a total of 454 employees—370 security officers, and the rest medical, maintenance and administrative staff—oversees 1,800 offenders, including minimum, medium and maximum security inmates. Perhaps half are serving sentences of 20 or more years. As for what the offenders have in common: For the great majority, drugs, in one way or another, played a role in their path to prison. What characterizes his staff, Warden Kent says, is “the ability to work

together to succeed at the Department of Corrections mission,” which includes “the provision of rehabilitative opportunities for our population, opportunities that support their successful transition into the community.” DCI’s Bernadette Young says that helping an offender make that transition gives her work purpose. Don Cavalier, a coworker, adds, “I try to teach offenders that nothing in life is guaranteed. You have to earn what you get by obeying the rules, and you have to work very hard.” Their director, Ivy Miller, agrees that his staff must “set the bar high and lead by example…we must always find a way to respect one another and work through the tough issues.” DCI staff are the keepers of the prison and, at the same time, whenever possible, their brothers’ keepers, in the Biblical sense of “guides” or “protectors.” For many who find control, faith in a higher power, while not a requirement for success, is life changing. Opportunities When offenders have paid their debt and the day of release arrives, many will have embraced opportunities that include an associate’s degree program with Ashland University—funded through the federal Pell Grant—and the Hi-SET high school equivalency program. Inside the compound, job training options include welding, auto mechanics, auto body and collision repair, small engine repair and car-

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Hunt Correctional Center, and Allen Correctional Center. Also available are soccer, flag football, volleyball, an iron man contest, and even, recently, pickleball. Units I and II look forward each year to the Thanksgiving holiday Turkey Bowl, an in-house flag football contest. Last February, The LSP All Star football team and the DCI team fought the 2019 All Star game, which LSP won by 10 points. Last June, DCI’s All Star soccer team, the Tigers, played in a tournament at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, falling to the RLCC Giants 2 to 1. At on-site talent shows, the offender audience judges contestants by applauding or booing, a role it embraces with gusto. Straight Low reports that just before last Thanksgiving, “Unit I Big Yard Productions” put on a recent competition, which Alvin Franklin won with his rendition of “Love Train.” The magazine elaborates that Franklin “comSee DCI on page 6

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It’s A Wonderful Life in Zachary at The Christmas in The Village Celebration

It’s A Wonderful Life in Zachary! Come kickoff the holiday season and join Zachary Mayor David Amrhein as he welcomes everyone to the “Annual Zachary Christmas in the Village” Celebration on Saturday, December 7th, from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. The event will take place in the Zachary Historical District, located on Virginia Street behind City Hall, the HugYourPeople Community Park on Lee Street and include the Zachary Fire Station. Come meet and greet the characters from the movie, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” and be sure to bring your camera for a picture. Santa will be located at the corner of Virginia and Florida Streets, so children are welcome to visit with Santa and get a photo with the jolly old fella. This year, Mrs. Clause will

pay a special visit to the Fire Station and will be reading some of your favorite Christmas stories to children. The village will come alive with synchronized Christmas light displays, Christmas performances and music. Young children to youngat-heart adults are invited to hop aboard the trackless trains and enjoy a ride through the village. Don’t miss Vince Vance and the Valiants Live at the Gazebo, as well as Christmas performances by area churches, school choirs, bands and orchestras. This will surely get you into the holiday spirit, providing musical and dance entertainment throughout the night! Children are invited to write their Christmas wish lists to Santa and mail them at the mailbox near the McHugh House.

Other activities include BREC yard games and an arts and crafts area with over 20 vendors, so bring your Christmas list! The 1946 Christmas Classic, “It’s A Wonderful Life” will be shown in the HugYourPeople Community Park behind City Hall. We will have something for everyone on this special night, including an antique car show. Those attending the event will have a chance to relive the days of yore, sharing memories of the classic automobiles of the past. Tours of the Historic McHugh House and the Old General Store

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will be open, offering a glimpse from Christmas past. Come hungry, the gourmet food trucks will be returning on location in the City Hall Parking Lot on Main Street. A holiday LED light show, featuring thousands of blinking and twinkling lights synchronized to Christmas music will run every evening from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Zachary Historical District. Motorists are invited to set their radio dials to 105.9 FM and drive through Zachary’s Historic Village, starting December 1st through January 5th.

Pictured left: ZHS Lady Bronco Basketball player Osha Cummings signed with Northwestern today. She was joined by her family: Ovid, Oquille, Breanca, Renee and Renard Photo by Sharron Ventura Photography.

Pictured below: Bronco Track Runner Sean Burrell signed with LSU Track today. His parents were by his side Keltrin and Jackie along with many members of his family and friends. Multiple people spoke about his hard work and dedication including Superintendent Scott Deviller all the way back to his kindergarten teacher. Photo by Sharron Ventura Photography.

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manded the stage and had the crowd rocking and even singing along.” Residents who have earned the right create crafts, and offer their wares at the Angola Prison Rodeo twice a year—every Sunday in October and one weekend in April. No idle hands at DCI! Choosing One’s Reality Like life everywhere, life behind the walls at DCI in Jackson is what you make of it. Kairos Prison Ministry’s recent weekend retreat stressed that though incarcerated, offenders choose how they will serve their time. Many have built—through membership in Veterans Incarcerated, the Jaycees, the Re-Entry Club and Distinguished Gentlemen Toastmasters—a long and deserved reputation for serving those in need outside the institution. Through good works, they participate in the world they hope to rejoin. In that enterprise, they have, serving as their examples, DCI staff from the Warden down. “I’m breaking out of the chains of my past/I am not a failure/I’m not subject to the broken and hurtful ways I was raised any longer/God has a new plan for my life/I am strong and courageous.” The tour bus of Trinity Broadcast Network’s Second Chance Ministry visited DCI last January, led by C. J. Orndorff III. The show, which the musicians and ministers present at corrections facilities across the nation, offers faith as the means to overcome a past, negative life. Like DCI itself, it is inclusive of all faiths. DCI welcomes as well, four times a year, the Holy Way Church ministry, which focuses on the prison’s Hispanic population. During the group’s recent visit, offender Matthew Pineda brought many to tears, as he recalled his incarceration at age 16, and his coming 50th birthday. Straight Low Magazine reports that he “spoke of the fight internally of overcoming a murder conviction’s weight, along with the weight of a life sentence,” and his strong and continuing desire to make amends for his crime. The “court process…brought him to his knees, to a place of surrender,” where a person understands that only God can help him replace a negative reality with a positive one. Last May, Lifeline Global Ministries conducted the Malachi Dads graduation ceremony, during which Dr. Mike Broyles, Lifeline’s director, said that, through faith, “We are about turning the hearts of the children to the fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children.” Pastor Ricky Sinclair also spoke, sharing his fam-

Assistant Warden Bruce Coston–Administrative Support Security—works alongside other DCI staff volunteers during the four days that the Make a Smile restored the Herbert and Henrietta Bell children’s park in Clinton. Photograph provided by Straight Low Magazine

ily’s history, and his own, with addiction and prison. “God is not punishing you. He’s preparing you,” Sinclair told the men, for a family life outside of the walls. Last June, the Faith-Based and Character Dormitory joined with the Master Life Discipleship Class to recognize the men who had completed what Straight Low terms an “arduous two-year course.” The magazine reports that the Reverend Roger Mitchell, former DCI chaplain and now pastor of Trinity Full Gospel Church, told the men that by attending, they demonstrate “that life is not over and that each day presents a new chance at life…. Anybody can fight a physical fight, but it takes a man to stand for God. Let us stand.” DCI’s Muslim Chaplain, Abdullah Yusuf, led last June’s celebration of Eid Al Fitr at the end of Ramadan, the month-long fast that Muslims observe from sunrise to sunset, while studying the Qur’an. The chaplain introduced a former offender, Edward Holmes, who told the group, “I made a covenant with myself. I said that when I got out, I was going to come back, but…on the right note.” His visit, the chaplain noted, demonstrated his compassion, the kindness that underscores the Muslim faith. In a later interview with Straight Low, the chaplain emphasized that he is present not just for the Muslim population of DCI, but for all of the incarcerated, including those who are not persons of faith. Another Reality Though most of the inmates live in a dormitory setting, two cellblocks house prisoners who present significantly negative behavior. Diligent inspection of incoming mail has uncovered attempts to smuggle past the gatekeepers drugs, cellphones and even chargers. Still, those infractions do not define DCI’s population or lessen the determination of those at the helm to provide education, training and experience for the men who are working to overcome their past

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Preparing for a responsible life: An offender practices welding techniques. Through a contract between DCI and Baton Rouge Community College, Mr. Billy Allen teaches the DCI students. Photograph provided by Straight Low Magazine

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Giving to animals in need: Offenders who work in the Pen Pal animal rescue unit assist Veterinarian Alissa Whitney of Covington, who gives her time to the project. Also providing medical attention for the animals is the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine’s doctors and students. Photograph provided by Straight Low Magazine

negative reality within those DCI walls, wherever the operative word is “hope,” residents who have earned the right and who keep the faith can make the best of serving time. They can choose purpose in a place where they have limited choice. If they can figure that out behind the walls of DCI, they can live responsibly outside their current perimeter. Good Works Perhaps the most widely known of the inmates’ good deeds is the Pen Pals project, which began in late August 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, when DCI leadership agreed to take in companion animals the floodwaters had separated from their owners. Assistant Warden John Smith reports that the number of rescues, beginning with Katrina, totals 1,434 dogs and 506 cats, and that eight offenders take care of the 79 dogs and seven cats currently in residence. Since 2010, Pen Pals has “adopted out” 535 dogs and 379 cats. Assistant Warden Smith notes that CONTINUED on page 8

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Dr. Alissa Whitney, DVM, from Covington, gives her time to Pen Pals, along with veterinarians and students from the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine in Baton Rouge. To earn the job of working with veterinarians and vet school students—to save and rehabilitate animals in need, animals that often have suffered abuse or neglect—offenders “have to show a good work ethic and have a good conduct record,” Assistant Warden Smith says, and must have no previous history, either inside or outside prison, incompatible with the rescue mission. Other recent visitors include Professor Katherine Mattes, director, Tulane Criminal Law Clinic, and student attorneys Colin Fitzpatrick and Nathan Hall, who advised offender counsel substitutes in the preparation of briefs for other offenders. A major focus was the Esteen case, which “set legal precedent” in 2018 with regard to those sentenced before June 15, 2001. The inmates’ news magazine reports that “Eric Denet, the inmate counsel substitute responsible for filing and ultimately winning the ruling of the Esteen case was in attendance…transported to DCI from Louisiana State Penitentiary” to hear the team from Tulane discuss the import of his work. During a Family Pride weekend at DCI last June, when families may “bring food from home…to share during their visit,” the children of the incarcerated received school supplies and a backpack, courtesy of the four offender clubs at DCI, each of which donated $500 to buy the 175 Kits for Kidz they distributed that day. The groups earn money by holding fund-

Meeting the challenge: Warden Jason Kent congratulates graduate Troy Henry during a recent combined graduation ceremony for all offenders who earned an associate’s degree through Ashland University, completed any vocational program, or earned a Hi-SET high school equivalency program diploma. Photograph provided by The Dixon Digest

raisers throughout the year, including food sales to the offender population and concessions in the visiting area. Yet another visitor, Alex Abbot, a former incarcerated resident of DCI, created, six or seven years ago, with offender Brian Batiste, a program for the YOP inmates called “Pillars of Life.” Since Abbot’s release, the program has expanded to serve the general population. DCI staff held an Easter celebration last April for the Pillars group, during which they provided food and small gifts for young men who had, perhaps, never experienced kindness. The group’s outside visitors have included Department of Public Safety and Corrections Deputy Assistant Secretary Natalie LaBorde, to whom Offender Jamil Joyner explained the history of Pillars and its mission: “to inspire men to be upright and honorable in their lives.” Abbot, now a successful entrepreneur, hires, at his various business locations, only those who have served time and prepared themselves for a

new life. The community service that DCI encouraged and taught within its walls defines his life outside; he continues to visit the compound to share the message of hope. LSU and NFL Star Corey Webster, who grew up with Offender Brian Batiste in Vacherie, has also visited. Webster shared with the men of Pillars of Life the story of his own father, who “grew up in foster homes and never had the traditional environment of household structure”… yet “made that absence of family in his life the key source of his motivation” to be “the strong father” his son needed. Within DCI, one of the inmate groups performing community service work, Veterans Incarcerated, has helped the elderly of East Feliciana by working with the Council on Aging. Brenda Gardner, COA director, reports that the group answered a desperate call for assistance and “donated 50 new box fans to the elderly in East Feliciana Parish.

“Year-round, these Vets donate goods, services and funding to nonprofit organizations and charities.” Mrs. Gardener points out that DCI Captain Ron Taylor delivered the fans to her facility, an example of the teamwork the prison encourages, a coalition of inmate veterans and the prison employees who oversee them. A quieter service involves loading the cars of those receiving food at Helping in His Name Food Bank in Jackson. Beth Dawson, who helps run the service, says that recipients “don’t even have to get out of their cars, and the men won’t let the food bank volunteers lift even one of those heavy boxes!” Interacting with those whose lives take place outside the institution provides practice for that successful transition offenders anticipate. The DCI Wish List Topping Warden Kent’s wish list for DCI is funding to hire more employees and to provide raises for current employees. Those 454 souls, after all, perform more than a job description. They serve as examples for the DCI resident population. They support each other, they serve the surrounding community, and they keep it safe. Deputy Warden Ronald Moore and Assistant Warden Hawkins, who are responsible for maintenance and repairs as well as all programming at DCI, would like to see “improvements to the physical structures around DCI that are badly in need of repair.” Deputy Warden Bickham adds that he would like to expand the YOP to include young offenders through age 24. Hope in the possibilities of this life infuse DCI, a good neighbor to its surrounding communities.

Through the years, we’ve celebrated many milestones. We’ve celebrated

our patients’ successes following strokes, illnesses, and surgeries.

We’ve celebrated

friendships that span the years as our patients become like family.

We’ve celebrated

being a team and making a difference.

And now, we are pleased to celebrate our 35th year of service to our amazing community.

of Quality Healthcare 1984-2019

A special thanks to all of our patients who have

warmly welcomed us into their homes and their lives.

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