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COMPLIMENTARY NOVEMBER 2020, VOL. 18 ISSUE 11 CALL TODAY! We would love to offer you our Fall Special and welcome you to your NEW HOME! 3 Publisher / Editor Mike Strong Table of Contents VETERANS DAY ............................ 5 Associate Editor GONZALES GARDEN CLUB .... 10 Thumper Sales Manager SWEET EYES W/ TANYA...........12 Dottie Godberry FRANK’S RESTAURANT ..............24 FOR MORE INFORMATION 225.622.3262 Staff Photographer BILL DELAUNE.......................... 30 www.riverparishfoods.com Jimmy Dunkley JAMMIN’ WITH GOOSIE......... 32 THOUGHTS FROM BULLY......34 Contributing Writers Bill Delaune MASKED COMMUNITY........... 37 Linda Melancon SNO’S RECIPE........................... 45 Bully Goosie Guice Orhan McMillan On the Cover: Frank’s Restaurant, Prairieville. It’s All Good! Kellie Seymour Tanya Stilley Jimmy Dunkley Patti Mouton Jamie Lavigne Mariah Simoneaux Ashley Parrott For Advertising Information Please call: 225-622-1324 The Season to Give Thanks ... 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AMANT, LA 70774  4 Honoring Our Veterans Ascension Magazine attended the ceremony at Veterans Park to show respect for our Veterans. This year Covid 19 took a tole on the size of the crowd however an event like this can never be over shadowed but always appreciated and with honor for our Veterans. Here are a few photos of this years recognition. 5 Remember Freedom has a Price ... A Poppy, in tribute to all the brave veterans who risked their lives in past and present, so we might have a future. Ascension Magazine was approached by Cathy Vittoria about a group of volunteers that were gathering to assist in at long time veteran tradition. They gathered to make Buddy Poppies to hand out in remembrance of fallen veterans protecting our freedoms. This past month ladies gathered at the United Methodist Church that 4,000 poppies! The Gonzales VFW is a distribution site that sends poppies all over the country to be given out on Memorial Day. Normally, Disabled American Veterans are able to assemble them, but due to COVID-19, they needed Church in Gonzales. some extra help! They took on the challenge of completing 100,000 buddy Way to go 4-H’ers! poppies in 30 days. In less that 24 days they have completed over 45,000. They were right on track to complete this project to help our veterans and their families. A special thank go out for the volunteered to assemble Awesome job these 4-H Junior buddy poppies for the VFW Leader members and a few Auxiliary.They have been Cloverbuds for helping to working diligently in assemble poppies for the VFW children. Pastor Ali Kendig assembling 100,000 poppies. Post 3693. They spent their Young and her child and Volunteers from local girl day off of school offering their United Methodist Women from scouts troop 10340, local 4H #handstolargerservice the First United Methodist members, local home schooled assembling approximately POPPY’S GALORE ... A remberance of history POPPIES FOR membrance, “For the Fallen,” that REMEMBRANCE AND the lives sacrificed in war would COMMEMORATION be preserved in the memory of the living. Commemoration: The act of calling to memory by marking They shall grow not old, as we with a ceremony, observation, that are left grow old: or memorial. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn; Less than two months after the At the going down of the sun, and war began, Laurence Binyon in the morning, wrote one of the most well-known We will remember them. and often recited poems of re - 6 Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, war’s last year. QUESTIONS FOR a noted Canadian physician In Flanders fields the poppies STUDENTS before the war, served with blow Canada’s First Brigade Artillery as Between the crosses, row on row, Why do you think McCrae’s poem a surgeon at a field hospital in That mark our place: and in the became popular? Belgium. As he worked within sky sight of poppies blooming The larks, still bravely singing, What does he ask of his readers? across old battlefields and fresh fly graves, he crafted a poignant Scarce heard amid the guns Do you agree with his request? testament against war and below. wasted lives that arguably American Moina Michael is became the Great War’s most We are the Dead. Short days ago credited for giving rise to the use famous poem, “In Flanders We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset of the poppy as a symbol of Fields.” McCrae himself died glow, remembrance. Working as a from disease in 1918, the Loved and were loved, and now YMCA Overseas War secretary in we lie New York, she read that John In Flanders fields. McCrae had died and vowed to Take up our quarrel with the foe: always wear a red poppy of To you from failing hands we Flanders Fields in remembrance. throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. She made the first sales of the If ye break faith with us who die Flanders Fields Memorial Poppy We shall not sleep, though poppies in November 1918.From that grow point forward, it was her mission In Flanders fields. to make the poppy the national memorial symbol and inspire the world to return to peace after the “war to end all wars.” 7 Help Support our Homeless Veterans Telethon! Who: OTOW – a nonprofit organization helping homeless Veterans transition into civilian life What: A Telethon aired on FOX and NBC television When: Throughout December Why: To raise money to purchase a home to house the homeless How can you help? Donations needed * Sponsors needed * Volunteers needed How to donate: • Text OTOW to 44321 to donate! • https://www.otowarriors.com/ • Facebook: Ode to Our Warriors • Mail donations payable to: OTOW 9058 Foxgate Drive Baton Rouge, LA 70809 • Contact Charles Landreneau at 985 351-4749 The Mission of “Ode to Our Warriors” is to help the homeless, concentrating on veterans, by developing trustful relationships through safe housing, life skills training, educational programs, employment opportunities. 8 811 E Ascension St., Gonzales (Behind Piccadilly) 225.647.3700 • www.laynesjewelry.com • Follow Us on Facebook 9 FFrromom tthhee GGononzzaalleess GGararddeenn CClluubb willingness to share her important feature of a container techniques and tips." is its drainage. Neither coffee Ask Conchita filters nor screens should be The Gonzales Garden Club’s “Container Gardening”. Conchita presented before-and- placed in the bottom of pots as third virtual meeting was held President Jamie Trisler intro - after photos of her garden in they may plug. Rocks can be on the first Wednesday of duced Conchita as “a seasoned transition from spring into fall put in the bottom to provide November. The highlight of gardener whose love for and gave insight into her success stability for taller plants. the day was Member Conchita gardening is evident. Her with container gardening. She “Potting" soil, not “garden" Richey’s program on enthusiasm spills over in her began by giving soil, should be used noting that reasons for “potting ‘mix' has great growing plants in drainage.” She cautioned, containers: over - “Never fill a container to the coming limited very top. Plant about 2 inches greenspace, from the rim.” Conchita enjoys elevating smaller planting different specimens plants to more together within the same The cat stands by as Conchita poses amid the color and texture of coleus, caladiums, hostas and ginger foliage in her backyard garden. Conchita’s cat, Poppy, sits still momentarily on a garden path near the elephant ears and hydrangea. prominent views, container so that they mingle controlling the with each other rather than spread of invasive planting in separate pots where plants, and the plants remain distinctly moving plants to individual, just beside each protect them other. Plants for groupings from hurricanes must be selected according to and harsh their needs for the same winters. growing conditions. When Conchita noted placing a container of plants Groupings of tillandsias (air plants) situated on strawberry crates are hanging above a long row of white caladiums that the most directly on your garden soil, set planted in adjacent shallow containers. Groupings of succulents are growing in terra cotta containers set in a strawberry crate. Varied flower pots clustered together as an island container garden receive morning dew and dappled shade. her photographs of plants. it on a stepping stone to prevent container products. They are Ask Conchita. What is wrong The new 2021 edition of the bush or tree roots from growing made of different materials. with my hibiscus? When is the AgCenter wall calendar features through the drain hole. Terra cotta is porous which Herb Festival? Where can I find three photographs by Master Conchita has watering systems allows water to evaporate, which a wildflower seed mix? Who has Gardener Conchita Richey. on timers to maintain daily is good for succulents. the best selection of ferns? How moisture because “containers Fiberglass is lightweight but can I propagate this hydrangea? Jamie Trisler provided addi - can dry out quickly." Slow- may need to have a drain drilled Why do these weeds keep tional gardening tips related to release fertilizer with added in the bottom.