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Heritage Manor News: December events

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Tuesday, December 2, 2025
(Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by Patricia Duplechin, resident activity director at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Ville Platte.
Patricia Duplechin, Activity Director of Heritage Manor of Ville Platte (center), was named the 2025 Resident Activity Director of the Year by the Louisiana Nursing Home Association (LNHA) at the Fall Conference in New Orleans. She is shown with Eddie Borland, Pathway Management of Louisiana (left), and Trey Prudhomme, Administrator of Heritage Manor. (Photo courtesy of Heritage Manor)

Patricia Duplechin, Activity Director of Heritage Manor of Ville Platte (center), was named the 2025 Resident Activity Director of the Year by the Louisiana Nursing Home Association (LNHA) at the Fall Conference in New Orleans. She is shown with Eddie Borland, Pathway Management of Louisiana (left), and Trey Prudhomme, Administrator of Heritage Manor. (Photo courtesy of Heritage Manor)

Heritage Manor of Ville Platte’s Duplechin recognized as Resident Activity Director of the Year by LNHA

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Thursday, November 20, 2025
NEW ORLEANS - The Louisiana Nursing Home Association (LNHA) is proud to honor several outstanding individuals who set the standard for excellence in long-term care throughout the state.
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Minister’s Corner: A Christian’s resolve

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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
By: DR. BRIAN DORE’ Member of the Ville Platte Ministerial Alliance Jesus never promised the Christian’s path would be easy, but He did promise those who tenaciously hold on to the precepts of God, walking in the light as the Spirit reveals it, overcoming the world and its pull, would inherit the...
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Heritage Manor News: Symptoms of edema

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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
(Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by Patricia Duplechin, resident activity director at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Ville Platte. This column runs every Sunday in The Gazette.) Edema is a condition where excess fluid accumulates in the body’s tissues, causing swelling.
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Heritage Manor News: Veterans Day

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Monday, November 10, 2025
(Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by Patricia Duplechin, resident activity director at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Ville Platte. This column runs every Sunday in The Gazette.) We salute all veterans, living and deceased, each Veterans Day.
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Minister’s Corner: Run the race for Christ

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Monday, November 10, 2025
By: DR. BRIAN DORE’ Member of the Ville Platte Ministerial Alliance We read in Hebrews 12:1-2 (KJV), “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that...
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Looking Back:

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Monday, October 27, 2025
By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor Today, we take a look back 60 years to October 1965. •Louisiana State Senator Edwin Edwards defeated Gary Tyler in the run-off for the Seventh congressional district seat. •Dr. Joel R. Guillory Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Joel R. Guillory Sr. of Ville Platte and...
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Minister’s Corner: The necessity of trials

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Monday, October 27, 2025
By: DR. BRIAN DORE’ Member of the Ville Platte Ministerial Alliance I’ve had Christians approach me from time to time wanting to know why it is necessary for them to go through trials. Well, the Bible teaches us trials are used by God to make us spiritually insightful and strong.
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Heritage Manor News: Happy Halloween

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Monday, October 27, 2025
(Editor’s Note: The following article was submitted by Patricia Duplechin, resident activity director at Heritage Manor Nursing Home in Ville Platte.
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