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Public Responds to Plea for Donations to Match Grant HHERALDING OOVER A CCENTURY OF NNEWS CCOVERAGE •• 1903-20121903-2012 LIFESTYLES SPORTS INSIDE HIGH SCHOOL SEE PARISH A PASSION FOOTBALL FOR SEWING COUNCIL SCORES MAP See Page 1B See Page 6A Page 5A The Natchitoches Times And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free, John 8:32. Weekend Edition, November 3-4, 2012 Natchitoches, Louisiana • Since 1714 Fifty Cents the Copy Letters to the Editor Let us know what you think, Public responds to plea write a letter to the editor. See Page 4A for details. Natchitoches Times e-mail for donations to match [email protected] Visit our website at: www.natchitochestimes.com grant for Hall of Fame After a two-month push to ing aware- WEATHER match a $250,000 Challenge ness about HIGH LOW Grant issued to quickly raise the Challenge funding for exhibits in the Grant. 84 60 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame “We are Museum, the goal has been very grateful reached and exceeded, Hall of to the fund- Area Deaths Fame Foundation President ing agency None Listed and CEO Lisa Babin who issued announced Thursday. the Challenge Obituaries Page 2A Ireland Cigar box What was a $1.1 million Grant as their shortfall for exhibits in the generosity has allowed Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame issuance of the next phase of guitarist Museum is now just $230,000 the exhibit production con- with the Louisiana Sports Hall tract,” said Babin. “We deeply becoming of Fame Foundation having appreciate every single gift raised a total of $561,704 received during the two-month thanks to the $250,000 fundraising drive as each gift major player Mike Snowden has built about 500 cigar box guitars and Challenge Grant, said Babin. represents an interested party thinks he has re-introduced the unique instrument to the Gifts from $10 to $125,000 in this important project.” on world stage music world according to one magazine writer. from around the state were the The LSHOF Foundation result of a focused fundraising will continue its fundraising Change the batteries Natchitoches native Mike Natchitoches Central, are both esthetically pleasing effort. Babin expressed a efforts with a goal of Dec. 31 in your smoke alarms Snowden is fast becoming a Snowden moved to Atlanta, and musically powerful. They heartfelt thanks to the New for raising the final $230,000 major player in the worldwide Ga., to break into the music can be played acoustically or Orleans Saints and Hornets for needed, she said. underground community of scene. For several years he amplified. their lead gift and to newspa- The push has the support of NPD seeking cigar box guitar enthusiasts. was the bassist for Band de In a recent feature article in pers, radio and TV stations LSU football coach Les Miles In late August and early Soleil that played up and down ‘Cobb Life,’ published by the that were instrumental in rais- See HOF Page 3A September, he was invited to the east coast, in Louisiana, Marietta, Ga., Daily Journal, 3 suspects the United Kingdom for two and in Colorado, both headlin- writer Michael Pallerino weeks to perform his original ing and opening for groups writes, “Snowden didn’t The Natchitoches City songs in cities such as such as Indigo Girls, Big Head invent cigar box guitars, Police Dept. is seeking three London, Hastings, Brighton, Todd and the Monsters, and rather he reintroduced them people for whom warrants and Stockport and to be a fea- the Dave Matthews Band. A to us. They first appeared in have been issued. tured artist at the annual high point was when they the 1840s when cigars stopped They Boxstock Festival in opened for Joe Cocker at the being packed individually in are: Manchester, England. Fox Theater in Atlanta. crates. Civil War soldiers Felix “Cigar Box Guitar Evil,” After the Band de Soleil made them. So did Bo Diddley. Martinez his fourth CD of original broke up, Snowden was And Jimi Hendrix.” Cook, vio- songs played on instruments exhausted from touring and Snowden has built about lation of a that he handcrafts, will be gave up music for about seven 500 guitars over the past five protective released on October 27. The years. But his love of music years. They sell for $350 to $400 order; CD was produced by Tom could not remain latent for each. He has shipped his cre- white Tapley, who has worked with good. ations to buyers all over the male, 43, Bruce Springsteen , About five years ago, he dis- world—Canada, Japan, Italy, The members of the Houston chapter of the St. Matthew last known Sugarland, Indigo Girls, and a covered cigar box guitars. He Australia, Germany, the UK, School Restoration Association are, front row from left, address number of other prominent researched their origins and and Belgium. One of his best Velma Charles, Bertha Charles Banks, Jenever Carpenter 1815 South artists. started building them, customers is Christian Bush Helaire, Mary Lacaze Pleasant, Annie Williams Lacy and Drive, Lot 1364 YouTube videos of his per- employing the beautiful, col- of the musical group Jean Rachal Jackson. On back row are Frances Lee Williams, formances and his tutorials on orful wooden boxes used to Sugarland; Bush has pur- Lee Arthur Hampton, Leona Williams, Benny Charles, Marcus how to play the cigar box gui- package cigars from a host of chased about 30 to give to Leodis Charles, Ruby Jackson and Anne Bell Jones. Sowell, tar have in all had over 200,000 places. He uses exotic woods friends as gifts. domestic hits. “’Guitar World’ started for the necks—African zebra Music has always been cen- abuse bat- running some of my lessons, wood, Louisiana pecan, cher- tral to Snowden’s life. One of St. Matthew grads in Houston tery, black so I guess that is why I have so ry, oak, European steamed his earliest memories as a male, 38, many hits,” he said. beach, and birds eye maple— baby was standing in his planning restoration ball last known After graduating from to create fine instruments that See Cigar Page 3A address Houston Texas Chapter of the St. Matthew School Restoration 1219 Ash Association will sponsor its first Restoration Ball Saturday, Dec. St. 15, from 6 p.m. until midnight at the Humble Civic Center. Sex offender arrested at Halloween event To make reservations or for more information call, Jenever Helaire, Houston chapter alumni president at 281-590-1100. MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — vide a proper identification c of oral sexual battery in 1995. The Humble Civic Center is at 8233 Will Clayton, near Bush A Simmesport man has been card. He was released in 1999. Intercontinental Airport. arrested for violating his con- Avoyelles Parish sheriff's Avoyelles Parish Sheriff St. Matthew School began as a church school in 1916. St. Whittman tract as a registered sex deputies observed Doug Anderson said all sex Matthew Baptist Church later sold the land for the original Jackson, offender by participating in Washington handing out offenders must sign a sex school house $1 in 1938. black male, Halloween activities. candy to children and assist- offender contract, which A three-room wood frame school house was built that offered 35, second Forty-nine year old Bryant ing in the operation of a includes an agreement not to grades nine through 11. In 1947 the parish approved the school to degree bat- Washington was booked haunted house in participate in wearing hoods, teach 12th grade allowing it to award high school diplomas. tery, last Wednesday with sex offender Simmesport. mask or a disguise of any kind know violation and failure to pro- Washington was convicted on Halloween or Mardi Gras. See St. Matthew Page 3A address 1120 Grayson St. Anyone Reading event brings noted author who hopes to inspire children to be writers with information on Cook, Leslie Staub, author and ater, and today is her latest release inspired Sowell or Jackson should call illustrator of children’s litera- experts across by the events of Hurricane Cpl. Jeff Townson, 471-7158, ture, will be the featured guest the world turn Katrina. author at “Reading on the to her for pup- In it a young boy is sad River,” Saturday, Nov. 10 from 8 petry arts about the things going on a.m.-noon. on the riverfront. advice. around him, but a jazz player “Picture books can be sheer Following helps him put things in per- Index magic,” Staub said. “They can closely in her spective. In the end, he learns open eyes and hearts and Staub mother’s foot- that it’s okay to feel sad and Obituaries 2A minds. I’m now giving myself steps, Staub cry, but lending a helping hand to making them with all my trained to be a visual artist. to someone else always makes Editorial 4A heart and mind.” She’s been showing her one feel better. Leslie was born and raised work in various places in the Leslie will take center stage Reading on the River. Each of Annie’s Mailbox 3A in New Orleans where she country and at Lemieux at Reading on the River to read these authors is a local celebri- Lifestyles 1B learned at her mother’s knee Galleries in New Orleans for aloud to children and to ty whose written well-loved how to tell a great story. the last twenty years. In 1996, inspire them to write their children’s books. The Service League of Sports 6A During Leslie’s childhood, her she was asked to illustrate own books and to follow their Reading on the River is a Natchitoches.
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