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Walker sets date for veterans parade The city of Walker’s Veterans Parade is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9. The parade line up will begin in the Walker High School parking lot on the Burgess Avenue side. The route will follow Burgess Avenue, turn right on La. 447 South, and then turn right on Florida Darlene Boulevard, ending at Walker Denstorff High School. AROUND There will be a free meal LIVINGSTON for the veterans and their spouses provided by Bubba’s Grill and served by local churches. There is no registration fee to participate. Registration is due by Monday, Nov. 4. All cars and floats should be American-themed. For registration information, contact Sam Caruso at (225) 274-5800 or email SamCaruso488@gmail.com. Banners portraying city of Walker veterans and active military will be displayed throughout the city of Walker throughout November. Banners are provided through the Hometown Hero program facilitated by the Blue Star Mothers. For more information on the program, visit geauxsevenbsm. com or email g7hometownbanners@gmail. com.
PHOTOS BY DAVID NORMAND
Four-year-old Jesse Jones, left, and his brother Jake Jones, 8, lift a pumpkin to put in a wagon at the St. Francis Episcopal Church pumpkin patch Oct. 23 in Denham Springs. The pumpkin patch is open daily through Nov. 2.
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Six-yearold Jaidyn Miller looks at a small pumpkin.
Albany Christmas parade changes date Applications for the 41st annual Albany Volunteer Fire Department Christmas Parade are available Nov. 1. The parade date is Dec. 7, a change from the original date.
Livingston Library to hold trunk-or-treat
St. Francis Episcopal Church is hosting a pumpkin patch through Saturday at 726 Maple St. in Denham Springs. Stop by from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.
Make the Livingston Parish Library one of your safe trick-or-treating stops this year. The Library will host its trunk-or-treat from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. on Oct. 31 at the Main Branch in Livingston, 20390 Iowa Street. Show up in your costume, but don’t be afraid. Things won’t be too spooky at this all-ages, family-friendly stop.
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Booktober Fest celebrates books, fall
BY VIC COUVILLION Contributing writer
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Walker volleyball building momentum heading into final week of regular season Guided by first-year head coach Jennifer Rivero, the Walker volleyball team is building momentum as it heads into the final week of the regular season. The Wildcats are 18-12 overall and 4-1 in District 5-I after an impressive 3-0 win at home last week over Denham Springs. Both teams entered that contest with one district loss, but Walker came out of the match with the inside track on a second-place disfinish. Charles trict It’s impressive work for a Salzer program that likely wasn’t SPORTS on anyone’s radar at the start ROUNDUP of the season. Walker has only made the playoffs twice in the last 12 seasons, both times seeded near the bottom of a 32-team bracket.
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A wide variety of activities including games, musical and theatrical performances, a free children’s books giveaway, informational booths, face paintings, an opportunity to meet local and area writers and free food greeted visitors attending Booktober Fest Oct. 12 hosted by the Tangipahoa Parish Library System at its Hammond Branch on Saturday. The event, billed as an opportunity for, “Free Books! Free Food! Free Fun!” was the library system’s salute to October, the first full month of the fall season. According to Barry Bradford, director of the library system, the special day was a way for the library to give back to the patrons who support the system. He deemed the event a “big success” as visitors poured into the library building throughout the duration of the celebration. The event also featured a health screening, a blood drive and a canned and nonperishable food drive. Greeting visitors just outside the library’s rear entrance was a large tent where music and theater was performed by the Tangipahoa Parish School System’s Gifted and Talented Program. Drawing special attention
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Judith McCall, right, of the library staff, paints the face of Alainya Pendergast while her family was visiting Booktober Fest at the Hammond Branch of the Tangipahoa Parish Library System on Oct. 12. Other members of the Pendergast family, from left, are Ahakira, Adelyn and Lincoln. inside the back entrance to the building was the book giveaway venue. Patrons sorted through the hundreds and hundreds of books that were available, “for the taking.” Nine authors had tables where they could display their
creations and discuss their craft and how they came about writing a book. Among the writers was Mary Beth Broussard who was selling copies of her popular children’s book, “Gumbo Weather.” She explained that the book is a story of a young
Cajun girl, Adaleigh, who wants her grandmother to make chicken and sausage gumbo. The grandmother explains that gumbo is a special treat only when the weather gets cool. In
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