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Heritage Manor News: Happy New Year!

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Monday, December 27, 2021

(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.) Happy New Year to all of you from all of us at Heritage Manor.

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Minister’s Corner: The gift has arrived

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Monday, December 20, 2021

We read in Luke 2:9-17 (KJV), “And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them (the shepherds), and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were so afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

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Heritage Manor News: Merry Christmas!

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Monday, December 20, 2021

(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 wish a blessed and Merry Christmas to everyone from all of us at Heritage Manor.

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Looking Back: The Attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941

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Monday, December 13, 2021

(Editor’s Note: In observance of the 80th anniversary, which was December 7, of Pearl Harbor, we take a look back at the historical event as reported in the Ville Platte Gazette.) President Roosevelt brought The Japanese situation to showdown.

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Minister’s Corner: The importance of our relationship with the living Word

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Monday, December 13, 2021

In the 13th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, we find that Jesus spoke to the multitudes. He used the parable of the sower and stressed the importance of the soil upon which the seed fell.

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Heritage Manor News: Hospice care

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Monday, December 13, 2021

(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.) Hospice care is compassionate care for individuals who are facing end of life.

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Minister’s Corner: Dealing with panic

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Monday, December 6, 2021

Everybody knows what it’s like to panic; and I would venture to say everyone has panicked at one time or another, at least to some degree. Having said that, when some people panic, they come completely unglued. Others face panic more dispassionately in an attempt to mask the fear they feel.

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Heritage Manor News: Gift giving for the elderly

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Monday, December 6, 2021

(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.) The holidays are a time of good will and expressing appreciation for others.

BCE CHEERLEADERS PERFORM AT DISNEY WORLD - From left, Bayou Chicot Elementary cheerleaders Madison Harrington, Carlie Vidrine, Payton Estilette and Brooklyn White pose in front of Cinderella’s Castle at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. (Photo courtesy of Jaimi Vidrine)

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BCE cheerleaders performed at Walt Disney World for Thanksgiving

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Thursday, December 2, 2021

Madison Harrington, Carlie Vidrine, Payton Estilette, and Brooklyn White, cheerleaders at Bayou Chicot Elementary, were among the more than 500 elementary, junior high and high school cheerleaders and dancers from across the country that represented Varsity Spirit in the 2021 Thanksgiving Tour at...

Kay Granger is shown with one of her many displays that hang inside the Greas E. Pete’s in Mamou. (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)

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Mamou artist blessed with talent

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Monday, November 29, 2021

Kay Granger’s love of painting began around age 15, when she began painting sporadically for her mother, who Granger says, “was my critic.” She says, “My mom egged me on and I did paintings for a few people for Christmas and stuff like that.

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