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By MIKE RIZZUTO
Sun Times Editor

A local McNeese State University college student and 2007 graduate of Lake Arthur High School will be playing the lead role in the Lake Charles ACTS Theater’s production of William Inge’s comedy, “Bus Stop,” opening on January 10th, 2009 in ACTS’ 1 Reid Street Theatre in Lake Charles.

The art of decorating gingerbread houses was presented to a group of children recently by Lake Arthur's Kathryn Murphy. Pictured with their masterpieces were, front row, Mea Herpin, Ben Istre, Cason Conner, Ashlee Maples, and Madison Daigle. Second row, Claire Grace Conner, Kim Alexander, Claire Ann Alexander, and Abby Claire Maples. Napping were Anna Kathryn Istre, and Isabella Maples. Helpers were Polly Bellard, Laura Istre, Marsha Istre, Jan Conner, Becky Maples, Jenny Alexander, Holly Landry, Judy Meaux, Kathleen Gage, and Wallace Myers.

LAKE ARTHUR SUN TIMES / Mike Rizzuto
MAYOR PRESENTS PLAQUE: Lake Arthur Mayor E.R. “Red” Giles, right, presents a plaque to Sara LeDoux, left, for being one of this year’s 2008 Jr. Parade Marshals.

By Mike Rizzuto
Sun Times Editor

The goals of some students are to make outstanding grades, learn what they can in the classroom, and become the very best academicians that they can be.
Others strive to be the best on the football field, the basketball court, the baseball diamond or the track oval, letting their grades fall where they may in the process.
And then there are those special, unique individuals that try for perfection in the academic arena and in sports, dedicating almost all of their precious time to attempting to reach the highest levels a student-athlete can attain.

A large flock of blue and snow geese get ready to rise and fly away this past Friday evening from a rice field near Morse. The number of blue and snow geese is posing a problem for the safety of their breeding grounds in the arctic.