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18386 Little Prairie Rd. Prairieville, LA 70769 Feed the Needy Annual Fundraiser Raises & Donates $20,105 to Families In December 2006, Uncle Aldridge. Country Club. The process Perry and Aunt Susan Aldridge It was a humble beginning raised $800.00 and in turn, casually mentioned to BAMA that year as BAMA asked Sheriff those three families had an that there were three needy Wiley if he would sponsor a pot unexpectedly great Christmas. families in the Gonzales area of food to use as a fund raiser in In 2007, The BAMA recruited who were in danger of going order to try to help these his good friend Terrell Bourgeois without the necessities for families. The Sheriff obliged and and brother Randall. They Christmas. BAMA and his Souse Chef, actively solicited donations and That was all it took for the “Bones” Sheets cooked a hen cooked a jambalaya that was idea of “Feed the Needy” to be and andouille sauce piquante once again sold on the Saturday born in the big heart of the which was sold for the regular before Christmas. A total of CEO, Thomas “BAMA” Saturday lunch at Gonzales $1625.00 was raised and the main beneficiaries that year were of the St. Theresa food bank and several needy families in Ascension Parish. In 2008, the total grew to $2640.00. Same beneficiaries. In 2009, the gang of volunteers grew along with the donations and contributors were encouraged to write their checks to St. Theresa Food Bank. The group raised a total of $5314 with $2720.00 donated directly to St.Theresa and the balance to identified needy families in the area. For 2010, the strategy was to try to get some involvement from St. John Church Parish because in 2009, we had been approached to donate some hams and fresh fruit to needy families from that area. The feeling was that the one jambalaya that was usually cooked may not have been enough, so the CEO called in Uncle Jim Bullion and white bean specialist, Pete Robbins from that area, which turned out to be another brilliant and strategic move. Also, major contributors were encouraged to either write their checks to St. Theresa or to St.John Food Banks. As more prople heard about the event, more people volunteered and donated and 2010 raised a record breaking $10,565.00 In 2011retired school board member, Steve Broussard joined BAMA and brought some support from the Gators side of Airline Highway. The total amount raised exceted all expectations and a magniciant amount of $16,465 supported our needy families. This year 2012 raised a landmark amount of $20,105.00.

FEED THE NEEDY DISPERSEMENTS 2012

St. Theresa Food Bank $5375.00 St. John Food Bank $2030.00 Holy Rosary Food Bank $2000.00 First United Methodist Church Food Bank $1050.00 St. Mark’s Community Outreach $1000.00 Perry Aldridge Charities $900.00 Needy Families at Galvez Middle $800.00 Needy Families at Gonzales Primary $800.00 Needy Families at Carver Primary $800.00 Needy Families at St. Amant Primary $800.00 Battered Woman’s Shelter $750.00 Healing Place Community Outreach $500.00 Needy Families at Dutchtown Primary $400.00 Needy Family in Geismar $400.00 Needy Family in Dutchtown $400.00 Needy Family in Donaldsonville $400.00 Lazarus Project at Bethany Church $300.00 Needy Family at First United Methodist $300.00 Needy Family in Gonzales $300.00 Needy Family in Dutchtown $300.00 Needy Family in Prairieville $250.00 Needy Family in Donaldsonville $200.00 Baton Rouge Food Bank $50.00

TOTAL OF $20,105.00 COLLECTED AND DISBURSED FOR LOCAL NEEDY FAMILIES AND CHARITIES In addition to the above amounts, the local “Feed the Needy” committee was able to donated 2000 lbs. of frozen food that was delivered to the Battered Woman’s Shelter. As usual, Sheriff Wiley donated the ingredients for the first jambalaya. Blaine, Kade and Garrett Sheets of River Parish Foods stepped up to help with the second pot. Other sponsors such as Brandon Troxclair of Ralph’s Super Market, Marcy LeBlanc of LeBlancs sponsored Jambalayas and Lamendola’s Super Market donated the white beans and Ryan Harris of Bunny Bread came through. “There are so many people to thank,” said BAMA. “The whole event would not be possible without the generosity

of “Bubba” Morgan, who graciously gave us the old Gonzales Country Club building to use that day.” The volunteer crew was the largest, hardest working, and most efficient I have ever seen. The response by the people of Ascension Parish in terms of its donations as well as the jambalaya dinner purchases was

6 incredible. The most heart Aldridge, Jeff Walker, Steve warming fact in all this process Broussard, Mike Reames, is that there was not one cent Macky Aldridge, Wayne Sheets, of expenses and all of the Lynn Guidry and many more money raised was dispersed to that I just can’t recall. Thank needy families right here in our You for your humanity communities. There are no and leadership. administrative cost retained. Feed the Needy has grown Once again, the residents of into a special organization this area have shown why it is and received donations from as such a blessing to live in far as 397 miles from Gonzales Ascension.” from a donator known as Sweet Home Alabama. However this Publisher’s Note: year a donation came in from a Sweet Angel all the way from It is with great pleasure Broomfield, Colorado, Ascension Magazine supports 1350 miles from Gonzales. and promotes the Feed the Needy fundraiser. I want to TO HELP NEEDY FAMILIES recognize the special efforts of CONTACT: some the volunteers. Thanks for your kind efforts Thomas BAMA 241-0804 ‘Bama’ Aldridge, Terrell RANDALL 270-4443 Bourgeois, Pete Robbins, Myles WAYNE 715-3771 ‘Catman’ Bourque, Randall

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Being born on location, (no malls nearby) was the need for an Lyons decided to refit the Garyville Mill to cut pine Brown’s ridge, a high point on what is now Head of the Garyville ideal working community dedicated to the labor and hardwoods and also to extend the mill railroad Island, White Mule Brown and friends had the needs of the company and the contentment to another of Lyon’s planned communities and mills tracks as their eastern boundary for exploration. of the workers. being built at what would later become Livingston, They would cross a wood foot and wagon bridge Northern To the few poor trappers or farmers scratching to La. Thus was born the Garyville Northern Railroad. near where the old Club Forest was located as you make a living every day in this region, the mills Records suggest the Lyon Lumber Company's follow now Hwy 22 (A bar Brown built when he By Murphy J. Painter brought a new life style opportunity also. With (They dropped the Cypress in the name and just returned from fighting in Europe in WWII in 1945). them came electricity, telephones, banks, company used Lumber in 1915.) venture into the railroad Brown and his friends would wait for the train in The communities of Garyville, Whitehall, Frost, and stores, churches, schools, entertainment theatres, business satisfied two needs of the time. First it Whitehall, jump on the slow moving cars, and ride Livingston’s connection with a historic link of trans - and bars that would occupy a symmetrically was advantageous for the company to sever the it north to the Amite River crossing and then jump portation is almost entirely lost except for two choreographed design utilized for the efficiency of expenses of the rail operation, for accounting back off at Clovis Arceneaux’s house. groups, those who are still living and can remember the mill and the comfort and contentment of the purposes, from a business prospective while also Without computers, cell phones, cars, or any of and then those who are too young to remember workers who worked long hours for low wages. gaining another income source. From a today’s marvels that facilitate boredom, Brown but see it as a possible historic and economic From 1903 until 1915, the hundreds of workers community economic growth prospective, the fondly recalls some of his best buddy bonding’s engine today. Movement and expansion of the caught the Lyon Cypress Lumber Company mill added passenger cars would allow passage for a taking place sitting on those tracks discussing what human race has always been hindered or enhanced dummy line (name of train due to its use for the business or personal purpose to the inhabitants on based on what means of condensing the distance mill only at this time) for 6:00 am every morning both sides of this otherwise impassable trek though was available at that particular time. If you lived in except Sunday to be dropped off in the swamps to the massive swamps, granting easier access to the the rural areas of Livingston, St. James, Ascension, harvest gigantic virgin growth cypress trees. Most Mississippi River and New Orleans and to the or St. John at the turn of the 20th century, your of these trees had been making rings for over central and northeast sections of Louisiana as well. choices were still very limited: foot, horseback, 1000 years. Trees that marveled their cousins, the Regardless of what end you started, your journey buggy, boat or train. Pacific coast Redwoods. Twenty, thirty, forty feet in from start to finish was 35 miles. Picture getting off Garyville, perched on the Mississippi River, was circumference were common place. They would either another train or a steam ship and then exactly what can be compared to as a far west then get back on the train eleven hours later, the transferring to the Garyville Northern. Almost mining town, taking advantage of a scarce natural norm for this period, to return to the serenity of city immediately upon leaving the Garyville compound resource. The mighty river provided the means to life in Garyville. heading due north, you would become engulfed ship resources anywhere in the world. However, Just to give someone the full understanding of into an era that marveled a Jurassic movie where there was a need to get the resources to the river. the size of these forests and the timber holdings you would expect to see a dinosaur rising up from Murphy J. “White Mule” Brown The natural resource was not gold or silver but contained in them, the Lyon’s mill was capable of the swamps. Alligators, otters, minks, and birds of another form of gold. (Modern day sinker cypress cutting 100,000 board feet of lumber a day and every color and size appeared in a panoramic view they knew, what their dreams were and how they hunters, including myself, calls the reddish gold saw ran 6 days a week, 24 hours a day. From 1903 to to all who cared to notice. were going to accomplish them. Born in 1922, dust that is cut from a sinker log cypress gold 1915, they harvested cypress from Garyville north Just as the need arose to retool the mills for White Mule believes he was around 6 years old dust.) The mighty Cypress trees, that up until now to the Amite River, a line of approximately 19 hardwoods and pine, the same immediate notice when he began these explorations without parent were untouched for thousands of years in the below miles. By 1915, this one tract cut, produced and was given by the land scape after passing the first supervision. Think about letting your 6 year old sea level bogs of the area west of New Orleans, to shipped around the world over 400 million board 19 miles and crossing the Amite River at Clovis today leave your house in the morning, walk or ride the lumber companies was as good as gold. feet of virgin red cypress lumber. Arceneaux’s home and bridge control office. Steam a horse three to five miles, jump a train, not to In 1903, the Lyon Cypress Lumber Company of The millions of board feet of cypress holdings the ships that were named Miss Jessie, Miss Alice and return to after dark with no way of knowing what Miss Bertha were still plying the waters of the they are up to until they returned with the cuts and Amite River in 1915 bringing imports that for some scrapes of the day. was their only monthly supply of household goods. White Mule recalls a crevasse happening on the These ships traveled as far up the river as Port Mississippi River levee system North of Baton Vincent, La. from the food markets of New Orleans Rouge in the 1920’s sending millions of gallons of using the Rampart Street docks for export. The river water down the Amite River watershed. Garyville Northern’s crossing of the Amite required Because Whitehall is the highest area around and the need for the ships to get through the railroad had the only fields not inundated with flood waters, bridge, thus the demand for a floating draw bridge, all of the people herded their livestock there until and Clovis Arceneaux, the draw bridge tender. the water receded. The Garyville Northern continued Clovis’s house marked the end of cypress to run during this time to allow people an avenue swamps and welcomed the high land piney woods out of the area or to receive supplies. on the other side of the river for the next 16 miles Essie Albert Penabler, a very sweet lady, let’s just ending at the Garyville Northern’s connection with say younger than White Mule, was not old enough the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad in what is to have ridden the Garyville Northern, but old now the town of Livingston and today the Illinois enough to remember its significance to her family Central Railroad. The road, Hwy 63, which runs which mostly was from Dutch Bayou area near the pretty much on a straight line from the community mouth of Blind River at Lake Maurepas.( Her of Verdun to Livingston, is the rail bed for the long parents are buried somewhere around Shell Beach abandoned railroad. on Lake Maurepas, and the graves are unmarked Murphy J. “White Mule” Brown, a man who and unknown today due to erosion) For survival a farmer, a trapper, and a logger (not necessarily in any order). He did what he had to do to provide for his family and provide for a better quality of life. Ray recalls his father leaving on Monday mornings to catch the Garyville Northern at Verdun to get to the Lutcher Moore Cypress Mill in Gramercy/Lutcher or the Opdenweyer/Alcuis mill in Sorrento (His father worked at both mills at different intervals) for his weeks’ worth of logging to return Saturday afternoon. Ray verifies the same crevasse flood in the 1920’s as White Mule Brown. Trying to make a point about flooding today, Ray explains that while all the fields were flooded then, not one house went under water. His reasoning is “that generation knew how and where or where not to build a house”. He also gives credence to Ms. Essie’s remembrance to her parents being buried on Shell Beach. Ray recalls visiting the graveyard there as a youth that has since disappeared without a trace, eroded by storms and time. Interesting enough in its own right is the fact that Ray and his wife Rachel Marie, obviously with his father’s genes and choice of a good woman, after both retiring from the Ascension Parish school reasons, the family had moved to New Orleans so system, set up a lumber mill operation on family that father and children could attain work. Ms. Essie property in French Settlement. Ray and Rachel, in remembers her mother always talking of the time their late 70’s and 80’s, logged and milled enough her favorite niece, Louise Albert Bovia, while living in lumber for them to personally build their present over New Orleans, became ill and died during an 2000 square foot modern home using 19 different ON-SITE TIRE REPAIR operation at the Charity Hospital. Her mother and varieties of lumber. His father lived to the age of 97 others reflected that in order to get Louise back to and his mother to 103. Ray‘s new project is to Whitehall, she was placed on the Garyville Northern document the migration of his German ancestors to • All tires from ATV to • Emergency road service and her body shipped for burial in the Whitehall this area in a book he is putting together. Commercial Machinery assistance-Commercial Only Community Cemetery. 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TIRES THIS HUNTING SEASON The Garyville Northern crossed what is now Hwy Not to be deemed as handicapped from this, 22 at its intersection with the Bazile Road, which Amelus, moved to the newly formed town of McElroy also follows on the rail bed of the old railroad. In in Ascension Parish around 1913 and bought the fact, just south on Bazile Road is the remains of a largest two story house there and started a boarding dirt pit, approximately 15 acres, which was the house for the workers of that mill. The picture here source of the dirt fill to make the railroad bed. The of the McElroy boarding house clearly show a one leg railroad’s path is less than a few hundred yards from Amelus standing proudly on the front porch in his the Whitehall Community Cemetery. Sunday best. French Settlement born A. R “Ray” Matherne, 91, That picture was given to me over 30 years ago remembers a great deal of the times of his youth when I started my mill research but the people on and proudly explains the heritage of his German the porch remained a mystery. Anyone could plainly ancestry in a French settlement. His father, Francois see one of the men only had one leg. While Anatole Matherne, and mother, Manilia Josephine researching the Garyville Northern this year, I came Aydel, had moved to this area from the “German across Majorie Dupuy Gooding’s description of her Coast” (The German Coast was what is now St. childhood memories about her father losing his leg Charles, St. John and the part of St. James Parish and buying the boarding house in McElroy. One west bank communities of Vacherie and back mystery solved. Vacherie. The French Settlement Area was called the Ms. Gooding also recalls, while the train was in French Coast) in order to find fertile land for farming operation, her cousin Noah LeBourgeois and another and means to raise a family. man with the last name Fontenot were killed by Francois found just the right combination. He was lightning while working on the tracks of the Garyville

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Organizers of the Baja Run in for a foursome that ABC wouldn’t have happened.” Tijuana-a grueling, 1,000 mile promises “will do a little April off-road race-fearing booby swinging-and not just on the December traps, sabotage and Tattacks golf course.” It’s tax season and in from warring factions of the When the network censors Despite finishing 12th in the Washington Nanook and Anita Mexican drug cartels, launch a the first working title-“Playing final BCS standings, LSU are still rolling, this time search for a safer venue to hold the Outer and Inner Course” receives a special invitation to passing a bill by the same 2-0 their annual event. and Bradley balks at entering a participate in the new 4-game vote to force huge corporations Among the proposed strip joint, the show is renamed playoff when Executive like Exxon and General alternate sites is a stretch of “Three Men and a Maybe”. Director Bill Hancock’s wife Electric-and “anyone else who Highway 73 in Prairieville, and grandchildren mysteriously makes over a bazillion dollars”- ranging from the Mississippi October disappear-just hours before the to pay their fair share of taxes. River to the Airline Highway. televised announcement. Several owners of professional After surveying the strip After the New Orleans Saints Les Miles emphatically denies sports franchises protest threat - during a weekday afternoon drop a 92-91 shootout to the that offensive coordinator Tony ening to move their teams to when plant traffic combined New England Patriots despite Soprano has anything to do the Cayman Islands since that’s with school traffic and a 13 touchdown passes by Drew with the kidnapping but adds, where they’re hiding their weaving, merging band from Brees, Coach Sean Payton “But he has been as asset to money anyway. the Cottage Inn locked in a finally decides to make some our program in many ways The Hunt family-long-time futile attempt to dodge orange changes on defense. behind the scenes.” billionaire owners on the NFL pylons, barricades and the First to go is longtime safety On the political scene, scene-claim an exemption from washed out ruts and potholes, Roman Harper, the prematurely President Obama announces the “professional team” owner’s race officials decided to keep grey-haired veteran who has his 2013 State of the Union tax because they are associated the race in Mexico. been burned more times than address will fall on February 2- with the Kansas City Chiefs. “Highway 73 is just too Jason in the “Friday the 13th” Groundhog’s Day. “There’s no way those guys dangerous for our drivers,” said movies. A Republican spokesman is can be viewed as professionals,” Baja spokesman Cruz Contolla. “We discovered Roman had quick to issue a statement. pleads K.C. owner Clark Hunt. “We’ll take our chances with been lying about his age,” “This is indeed an ironic the cartels and pipe bombs.” revealed Payton. “He thought juxtaposition of events. One May it would be cute to use Roman involves a meaningless ritual in August numerals on the age blank of which we look to an Following in the hoof prints his bio-partly because of his insignificant creature of little of his 2012 Kentucky Derby Under pressure from name and partly because the intelligence for prognostication. winner I’ll Have Another, big-money TAF members who Super Bowl XLVII people do it. And the other involves a trainer Doug “Milkshake” threaten to cut off funds if “We saw the XXX and groundhog.” O’Neil saddles another champi - action isn’t taken, LSU Coach assumed he was 30 but we on from the same stable. Les Miles agrees to hire a new didn’t notice the L in front that Happy New Year, His name-He’s Had Enough. offensive coordinator. Roman tried to hide. That everyone! BUwGithG RoInN Ba’ra OttinUi T

Twas the night before Christmas & all through the house. Many creatures were stirring, even a mouse! The termites they dine in walls oh so snug. Ants and roaches nestled...even bed bugs! The stockings were hung where the spiders do pass, and fire ants build castles in the tall grass.

The family so frightful and waiting for aid, to stop all the critters and nuisance they made. When what to their wondering eyes should appear, but a J&J’s truck approaching so near.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, From the bottom of the porch! to the top of the wall! under the stairs...he covered it all. ‘Dash away... dash away bugs’ he exclaimed and give this family only peace to remain.

His eyes how they twinkled when all bugs were gone and told the new family his work he had done. No need to worry he said with a smile, you’ll be in good hands, J&J goes the extra mile.

And I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, "Happy Holidays to all, and to all a bug free night."

HAVE A SAFE & HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON FROM J&J EXTERMINATING…SHIELDING WHAT’S NEAR AND DEAR FOR 56 YEARS. Thoughts from Bully 1

The Best of 2012 & Resolutions for 2013

Can you believe it. Another year has come and gone. At this time I like to reflect on the highlights of 2012 and maybe make a resolution or two. 2. It’s not about common sense. Since I own the winning house and created this award. I made up the rules. So take it or 1 leave it. I just wanted it. Ringing in the Congratulations Lorne and Pam for having the best house New Year. but you got the big jip. Honorable Mention. I went out on New Years Eve to ring in the New Year. Met with some friends and was introduced to an attractive woman. I think she was giving me the cold shoulder. Instead of saying talk to the hand she said 2 talk to the hair. I asked if I could call her. She said, “Yes, When I’m Bald!”

2 You Better Say Yes! My son Michael asked and Jacquee said yes. It looks like a modern day shotgun wedding. Not the case, Just the bride-to- be and groomsmen with a cold feet remedy.

3 Little Prairie Home Wins Best Christmas Display 3 You might be thinking how in the world did the double- wide trailer win the Christmas Display Award over the modern well built house. Simple. I used the current political climate as the baromter for judgement. WINNER 1. Why should the best house win? HONORABLE MENTION

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Ms. Faye, attended along with Moon’ vehicle. carefree life on the beach. mother Bettie LeFleur of Congratulations for your win, 4 Ville Platte. it’s the best, one of a kind and I Ascension Magazine captured wish their was prize money. Jana & Joe Bob a rare event. Proud father-of- 5 Jipped again. Got Married the-bride, Mike Rambin, Photo of the Year serving punch. Rarer than Big Wow. The Best of the Best It was an exciting day when Foot sighting. photo of the year. Photo taken families gathered to witness the As the happy couple exited, by Ascension Magazine’s Dottie 6 marital vows of Joe Bob Joe Bob was seen doing a Salsa Godberry of Bailey (left) and LeFleur and Jana Rambin. dance in happiness down the Casey (right) demonstrating the Jana’s Grandmother, driveway toward the ‘Honey

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6 Blue Pops in the New Year It was an exciting day when Blue realized he didn’t need to read the instructions on popping the champaigne popper firework. He had been taught not to pull the string.

7 Bully’s New Year Resolution It is a New Year and I need a new cause. I thought I might consider the thoughts of environmentalist and help save the planet. Maybe I should take a second look at the climate of society and maybe take a reflective look at myself. I believe in nature and all she provides. The wonders of our

37 world are unlimited. The hori - zons are beautiful morning and afternoons. The nights and days sparkle and warm us. Why 7 wouldn’t I follow any environ - mental laws that are in place to protect Mother Earth. Why? You ask why? Because of enviro - mentalist. That’s Why. When common sense goes out the window you lose my attention to respect your cause. Let me explain. I spent some time in Colorado over the Holidays with my sister. One morning we drove to the airport at 6 in the morning and parked in the cell phone lot. This area is a parking lot designed for drivers to sit and wait for a cell phone call alerting them their guest has landed and pick me up in 20 minutes. This particular morning I accompanied my sister to the airport to retrieve holiday guest but needed to park in the cell phone lot. It was 28 degrees outside when we parked. The wind was howling and I was glad my sister’s modern car had heated seats. She then turned the car off. I mentioned to her that if you don’t run the heater we are going to freeze. She pointed out that the sign at the front of the car tells us to cut off the engine or she could be ticketed. There is a municipal code allowing cars to only idle for 5 minutes while sitting in cell phone lot. You got to be kidding me. People can freeze in this environment and they actually voted in and ordinance to save Mother Earth 5 minutes at a time. There is a word that comes to mine. Nuts. So I changed my New Year 8 resolution direction to be more environmentally friendly because I will not be a part of a movement that is down-right- dumb. I’m not going to be a sheep following a good message with a good cause tag line that is simply proganda. I then mentioned to my sister she had 4 minutes 54 seconds left of idling time before she became a criminal. Please crank the car.

8 I have a Smart, Smart Phone Last month I had the oppor - tunity to spends 5 days at the camp. It was a beautiful few days and cold. Just like I like it.

38 I love the crystal clear full moon nights. The temperatures in the 20’s and I’m enjoying the camp fire. I looked around 9 and noticed the family dog, Chipper, was missing. I started looking for him with the flash light and he was no where to be found outside. I went inside the camp and there he was. He was in my son’s bed. His head was on the pillow and under his covers. Now that is a smart dog. He’s in bed under the covers in 28 degree weather. I’m standing around freezing by a fire. I pulled out my smart phone to take a photo of him under the covers. I opened the camera app and my smart phone had a message across the of 17 million new texters on was on the radio as I was about the hussle and bussle of screen. It read, “Too cold to the road enters my thoughts. I driving on Hwy 42 and noticed life settled into a calm place of set the cruise at 65 and paid take photo”. Now that is a a young woman pulling weeds thanks for my blessings. close attention all the way smart phone. However I was and manicuring this road side My heart goes out to the smart enough to hold the home. Better get some good cross. Suddenly I realized she family of this road side cross. I phone at a distance and let insurance. the fire change the phones must be a family member of the now know how trivial my stress temperature and I was able to young man that the cross is of life is. This cross will stand as take the photo. 9 there for. I know a little about a daily reminder to show love When I was driving home The Reason for the incident but I can not each and every day. God Bless from my trip the radio reported that 17 million new smart the Season imagine the emotions this the Family of this Cross. phone plans had been activated young woman was experienc - since Christmas. As I continue It’s a Holly Jolly Christmas ing. Immediately the worries down the highway the number

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43 A Look Back at the tht2012 Swamp Pop CJ Parent Musicians & Groups.

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