Zachary Post Dec 17

Zachary Post • Tuesday, December 17, 2013 • Vol. 8, No. 51 • Published Weekly • Circulation 16,000 • zacharypost.com © 2013

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Zachary Celebrates ChristmasThousands of people lined Hwy

64 in Zachary last Saturday and braved the near freezing tempera-tures to enjoy the annual Zachary Chamber of Commerce Christmas parade. The 74 floats, marchers, and vehicles that participated in the event embraced this year’s theme of “An old fashioned Christmas”

In addition to the parade, on Friday night, over 800 residents of Zachary packed the Historic Village to enjoy food trucks and hot coco while listening to local musicians perform their best holiday tunes. The Historic Village Open House was hosted by the City of Zachary and BREC.

See more Pics of the festivities on Page 7 & 9.

State Representative Pushing Zachary ForwardBy James Ronald skains

“I ran for State Representative on the basis that on every day, I would do the very best job possible for the people in District 62,” State Rep-resentative Kenny Havard told the Zachary POST. “Now, I try to take time each day to remember what I promised the people of Zachary and the Felicianas.”

“Also I ran on the principle of creating new jobs, streamlining state government, rescinding current reg-ulations that are bad for business, encouraging small businesses and standing firm against any legislation that would stifle economic growth. I think about those principles every day and try to make sure that my actions as a legislator reflect those commitments.”

Havard, in his first year in the LA Legislature was labeled as a “Fis-

cal Hawk” due to his opposition to some of the budget tricks that were employed by the Administration in an attempt to balance the budget.

“I want ‘one-time money’, to be used as ‘one-time money’, not as recurring money with which to plug holes in the budget,” Havard emphasized. “I was also very much against the so called ‘sweeping the budgets’ of surplus monies of all state agencies in order to quick fix an un-balanced budget.”

Havard clashed several times with the Jindal Administration, in-cluding the privatization of many state services. In fact, Havard in-troduced HB 240, which required any privatization state contract over $5,000,000 to receive additional legislative scrutiny. House Bill 240 passed the LA House by a 93-0 vote,

State Representative Kenny Havard of District 62 in his Jackson office.

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but the item was killed in the Senate. “Privatization does not save mon-

ey or improve services, especially in health care,” Havard stated emphati-cally. “A good case in point is what is happening with the food services that were privatized at LA East Men-tal Hospital in Jackson.”

“They have run out of food on numerous times. They fed MRE’S to the 400 mental health patients in the Institute for a week. They even went to McDonald’s and bought ham-burgers to feed these special needs patients (most of whom are on sev-eral different medications) on one or more occasions when they ran out of food. Also, on dozens of times, the private food service company has been late 20 minutes or more in serving the food to the patients. That is no way to run a food service operation for mentally handicapped people.”

The company with the Dining & Nutrition contract at La Mental East Hospital is Healthcare Service Group, Inc. of Bensalem, Pennsyl-vania. Healthcare Services Group, Inc. has doubled in size and in revenue since 2007. In 2012, rev-enues topped one billion dollars at $1,077,435,000, with a net income of $44,000,000, which resulted in a $.65 cent per share dividend for its

stockholders. Current per share price is $28 with a working capital of $200,000,000.

“There are over 3,000 state em-ployees in District 62, including employees of the two prisons and the mental hospital,” Havard relat-ed. “As I was growing up, the fate of employees at those institutions was always a topic of conversation at our house, since my mom and dad, Marie and Don, both worked at the LA East Hospital. They put in 35 years before retiring.”

“I’m very much aware that these jobs are what feed many families in my district. These jobs at the state facilities in District 62 should not become political footballs or be privatized,’’ Havard, a native of Jackson who now lives in St. Fran-cisville with his wife Shondell and two sons, Davis and Jack, acknowl-edged.

“My representative district is very unique in that the district in-cludes some of the most scenic and historical areas in Louisiana, bor-ders the Mississippi River on the west and gets into the suburbs of Baton Rouge at Zachary. It could become an economic powerhouse as

well as a political powerhouse since the Lower Zachary and Central area, when combined with my district, has more than four state representatives in one geographically close area.”

“We need to start working to-gether on economic development, especially in the field of tourism. I’m trying to set up a series of meetings to get that cooperation started,” Ha-vard specified. “But basically, there are four distinct areas in my district. West Feliciana ends at Thompson Creek right outside Jackson. Jackson ends at Hwy 19 and then further to the east Clinton and Zachary is to our south. However, the areas should be working in conjunction with each other.”

“The State owns more than 15,000 acres in the Felicianas. We recently were able to get monies for the use of the old Jackson airport. Good things can come out of that. We also received funding for not only the Tunica Hills project, as well as, monies to the start the engineer-ing on the Julius Freyhan School building in St. Francisville. Money also became available for the War Memorial in Jackson which will salute all the people from Jackson

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who have fought in all the American wars.”

“District 62 is moving forward,” Harvard stated. “West Feliciana has a new charter home rule system and a new parish president. The Police Jury in East Feliciana under the leadership of Dennis Aucoin is re-ally doing well after some tough years.”

“The KPAQ paper mill is show-ing real signs of steady growth. The railroad will be back in operation in the near future. If the railroad can pick up other customers other than KPAQ, that will be a big step

forward. The Georgia Pacific mill is churning along. I don’t think the average person realizes how many people the timber industry and the paper mills employ in our area.”

On another note, In mid-No-vember, Kenny Havard and his dad, Don, helped collect a pickup load of medical aids equipment that includ-ed 2 wheel chairs, several walkers, canes, bedside potty chairs, shower chairs and a fan and delivered to the Council on Aging in Clinton. The Council on Aging will in turn loan out this medical aids equipment to those in need.


The elected and appointed officers for 2014 of Plains Lodge #135 F&AM were installed Friday Dec.6, 2013 by the Past Grand Master of Masons for the State of Louisiana in 2011 Beverly J. Guillot. Installing Chaplain- Right Worshipful, Jimmie Dean Dunkin, District Grand Lecture, and Installing Marshall- Nick Auck, Worshipful Master of Milford Lodge #117. Front Row L-R- Senior Warden - Johnnie Barr, Bev. Guillot, PGM, Worshipful Master - David Edward Carroll Jr, Jimmie Dean Dunkin, DGL, Junior Warden -Jason Broussard, Nick Auck, Second Row R-L-Secretary, Harvey Grimble, Treasurer-Mike Schwindemann, Senior Deacon-Gerald Shoeber, Junior Deacon- Leon Ellzey, Chaplain- J.V.Williams, Junior Steward- Lane Courtney Not pictured are the Se-nior Steward - Scott Turner, Master of Ceremonies- Bo Farris and Tiler- Chris Wayne.

The Christmas spirit of giving was alive at ZES when the students and staff collected supplies for U.S. troops in Afghanistan that won’t be able to come home for Christmas. They presented many boxes of items to the Geaux Seven Blue Star Moms who will be shipping the packages to the USO posts in Afghanistan.


The Rotary Club of Zachary officially dedicated five ornate, cast aluminum benches to the Zachary Historic Village on Dec. 5. Attendees of the ceremony included Mayor David Amrhein, City Councilman John Coghlan, City Councilmen/Rotarians Francis Nezianya and Brandon Noel and Rotarians Gwen Fuselier (president), Ben Cavin, Bret Funk, Mindy Miller Head, Mark Marionneaux, Charlie Massey, Theresa Payment, Sharon Phillips, Charlene Smith and Brandy Westmoreland.

Girl Scout Troop #10030 has adopted Zachary Food Pantry as their community service project. Pictured is the of troop hand delivering donations and taking a tour of the facility. This community service project provided great insight for the troop and gave them an under-standing of how important it is to give back and to support their community. The Scouts also learned that the Food Pantry accepts other donations besides nonperishable can goods. As a troop they plan to adopt the Pantry and provide donations on a monthly basics.


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They’re Twins!!Philip Charles, Jr. and Lauren Aucoin are proud to announce the births of Philip Charles, III (Charlie) and Scarlett Kate. They were born on Nov. 1, 2013 at Womans Hospital. Charlie was 21 in. and 6 lbs., 4 oz. Scarlette Kate was 19-1/2 in. and also 6 lbs., 4 oz. The proud grandparents are Philip Charles, Sr. and Judy Au-coin of Zachary, LA; Kathy King and Mark King. The great grand-parents are Sonny and Melba King, RD and Peggy Jo Wilson, and Kitty Wilson. The great great grandmother is Louise Strain, all from Jonesboro, LA.

Schram, Jerry LeroySchram, Jerry Leroy, 74, a resident of Slaughter and native of Mis-

soula, MT died on Saturday, December 7, 2013.He was a retired Chief Petty Officer from the US Navy with twenty

plus years of service and retired as a Radwaste Specialist from Entergy.Visiting will be at Charlet Funeral Home, Inc., Zachary on Thursday,

December 12, 2013 from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Visiting will continue on Friday at the funeral home from 9:00 am until service time

at 10:00 am conducted by Rev. Jimmy Babin. Burial will follow at Eastern Star Cemetery in Wilson, LA.

He is survived by his wife of 24 years, Joyce Little Schram, Daugh-ters, Jeri Lee Accardo and husband Ronnie, Marci Schram, Jeana Welch and husband Ken, and Beth Perry, sons, Wade Schram and wife Ann, Mark Leto and wife Jackie and Jody Little, Sister, Gloria Schram and brother, Winford Schram and numerous grandchildren and great grand-children.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Shirley Jean Schram and mother, Frieda Schram.

Pallbearers will be Ken Welch, Danyon Brasseaux, Garrett Brasseaux, Bruce Watson, Zane Perry, Mark Leto, Dakota Perry and Ronnie Watson.

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