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The Marks Post: Christmas gift ideas

Are you still searching for a few Christmas gift ideas? If so, let me offer up a few suggestions. One of the earliest Christmas presents I remember getting was a globe.

The Marks Post: Taking in the experience

I have an appreciation for kickers. I guess it’s because Sacred Heart never really had one. The last good kicker the Trojans had was my freshman year in 1996 when they had David Troya, an exchange student from Ecuador who played soccer.

The Marks Post: A brave future of democracy

The city that gave us Ben Matlock, CNN, Coca-Cola, and a series of The Real Housewives is now home of the World Series champions. The Atlanta Braves won the World Series Tuesday night for the first time since 1995 with a 7-0 win over the Houston Astros. I, for one, was happy about it.

Mailbag

The Acosta Foundation and the Ville Platte Police Department Cops For a Cure team recently their 5th annual Jail and Bail event. “Bail” was set at $100 with a contest to see who could raise the most! Our participants helped us raise approximately $3,500 for St Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

The Marks Post: What drives you?

The past is in the past. While this statement seems simple, many of us yearn to go back in time and change the past. But, this isn’t the case. For instance, we can’t go back to November 22, 1963, and tell President John F.

The Marks Post: Detachment

Remember how you felt when Old Yeller died? Last Friday, July 30, was the Major League Baseball trade deadline, and I felt like Old Yeller died again. Why, you ask? It’s because two cogs in the Chicago Cubs World Series team from 2016 were traded a day after another cog was traded.

The Marks Post: Remembering a former boss

One day last week, I was looking around my bedroom and found an old thumb drive on my bookcase. I took the thumb drive to the office the next day and found some old pictures of my old boss Walter Lee.

Welcome back

Nearly five years to the day after being laid off from the Ville Platte Gazette, I am happy to be back in action here. I spent the past five years working as a teacher assistant with Evangeline Community Action Head Start.

Nancy’s Notes: Synchronicity

Two years ago I heard a horn blowing in my driveway. I went outside to see Mable Foreman in her car, telling me to go talk to Garland Forman at the Gazette. She said there was a job opening for a reporter there and I’d be perfect for it.