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Drum Majors Owen Argueta, left, and Connor Russo are showmen leading a show band, and the pair just helped lead the St. Paul’s School Marching Wolves to the first state marching band championship in school history. ä See story, more photos. PAGE 2A
5-year-old boy killed by SUV while waiting for school bus
Grandmother arrested on vehicular homicide count
BY WILLIE SWETT
Staff writer
A Slidell grandmother was allegedl y under the influence on Nov. 11 when she struck and killed her 5-year-old grandson with an SUV as he was waiting for the school bus, according to police. Slidell police arrested Kristen Anders, 55, on a count of vehicular homicide. The grandson was identified as Carson Lawson, according to James Hartman, a spokesperson for the St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office. Anders was allegedly under the influence of alcohol and other drugs when she got behind the wheel of a 2016 GMC Yukon to go to work. That’s when she struck Lawson in the driveway of their home in the 300 block of Spartan
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‘Roadeo’ champ will compete for another title BY DARREN COOPER Contributing writer
Ty Dewitt was the type of kid sitting in his dad Robert’s lap at the controls of a tractor in Goodbee when he was 2 years old. Or maybe even younger. “I was probably 5 or 6 when I drove it myself,” said Dewitt, softly. Now 23, Dewitt is an employee at St. Tammany Parish Department of Public Works and a champion in the world of Roadeo, a challenge where drivers pilot multiple heavy equipment machines (backhoes, mini-excavators, bobcats and ZTR mowers) around an obstacle course and perform various tasks against the clock. Dewitt will be one of the drivers on Nov. 21 at the St. Tammany Parish Fairgrounds in Covington in the American Public Works Association Northshore Branch Roadeo. The event starts at 7 a.m. “They are changing it up a little bit this year,” said Dewitt. “I am a believer in you win some and you lose some. Just go out there and do the best you can.” His family moved out of GoodPHOTO BY GRANT THERKILDSEN bee to Bush for more land and Ty Hewitt is a ‘Roadeo’ champ from previous space to play, and dad is a head
competitions with other Public Works employees running heavy equipment through obstacle courses.
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Nine Slidell artists banded together 62 years ago to create the Slidell Art League, one of the oldest continually operating organizations in the city. Decades later, the plan they put in place is a testament to the success that results when artists support artists. “I give them so much credit for helping me progress and giving me just what I needed,” said 20-year member Mary Christopher. “They provide competition, feedback, support and an incentive to succeed in a way that really helped me.” For their mission of creating and cultivating an appreciation of art in the community, the Slidell Art League will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the 19th
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