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Born to Brittany Clifton of Morgan City, a girl, Logan Grace Clifton, on Nov. 5 at Ochsner St. Mary in Morgan City. She weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces and measured 20 inches.
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Born to Mery J. Pineda and Jorge L. Fernandez of Morgan City, a girl, Jonelsy Abigail Fernandez, on Nov. 16 at Ochsner St. Mary in Morgan City. She weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces and measured 20.1 inches.
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Born to Rosalie Perez and Justin Bergeron of Morgan City, a girl, Estella Rose Bergeron, on Nov. 17 at Ochsner St. Mary in Morgan City. She weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce and measured 21 inches.
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Born to Mr. and Mrs. Evan St. Romain (nee: Monica Matthiews) of Berwick, a girl, Veda Grey St. Romain, on Oct. 18 at Thibodaux Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 2 ounces and measured 19 inches.
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Born to Kierondra Hill of Amelia, a girl, Ja’khyla Marie Hill, on Nov. 19 at Ochsner St. Mary in Morgan City. She weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces and measured 18.3 inches.
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Born to Feleisha Dawn Richard of Morgan City and Jean Claude Gauthe of Napoleonville, a boy, Hayze Dane Richard, on Oct. 23 at Thibodaux Regional Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces and measured 19½ inches.
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Born to Mr. and Mrs. Kurwin J. Jones (nee: Mariah Cook) of Morgan City, a boy, Kingston Levi Jones, on Nov. 6 at Thibodaux Regional Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces and measured 19¼ inches.
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Born to Emily L. Vidrine and Nicholas C. Stelly of Morgan City, a girl, Thea Marie Stelly, on Nov. 11 at Thibodaux Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces and measured 20 inches.

DEAR ABBY: My wife recently came back from a gold/silver/coin merchandiser event and told me she had sold an old U.S. $5 gold piece (for probably less than it was worth). I was hurt, not only because I have a coin collection and would have been interested in knowing about and seeing the coin, but also because she didn’t seem to understand how disappointed and hurt I was. She gleefully announced she was going to use the proceeds to purchase an exercise bike.
I took a two-hour walk to work off my feelings and then skipped dinner because I had lost my appetite. Sometimes I feel that my feelings don’t matter to her — that it’s “her way or the highway.” Should I let this incident go and move on, or is a long “crucial conversation” called for?
DISCOUNTED IN OHIO

DEAR DISCOUNTED: Of course you should discuss this with your wife. That coin was only a thing. The fact that the coin was sold without first consulting you is less important than your statement that sometimes you think your feelings don’t matter to her.
A key factor in successful marriages is the ability to discuss difficult subjects calmly. Your ability to relate to each other appears to need improvement. If you cannot work this out between the two of you, a licensed therapist may be able to help.

DEAR ABBY: I was at the zoo with my daughter enjoying an ice cream cone. At the next table over, a man was berating his daughter, yelling at her for saying no to his girlfriend. He said things like, “I’m going to bust your butt so hard you won’t sit for a week,” and he kept glaring at her like she was the worst creature on the planet. It was hard to sit there watching a dad verbally and emotionally abuse an innocent 4-year-old. Is there anything I could have done?
HELPLESS IN UTAH

DEAR HELPLESS: You might have attempted to distract the father by saying something to him to the effect that parenting can be frustrating at times, which might have interrupted his rant. But beyond that there was nothing you could do to intervene. What a shame. Berating and threatening his little girl won’t cause her to like or accept the girlfriend. Quite the opposite, in fact.

DEAR ABBY: I recently married a wonderful lady who has three adult children. Her kids are great, but they have one habit that kind of bothers me. They address their mother by her first name, never as Mom or Mother.
I feel it shows a lack of respect. I have thought about saying something to them about it, but I don’t want to make a big deal out of it. What do you think?
MR. TRADITIONAL IN MISSOURI

DEAR MR. T.: I’m glad you have resisted the urge to render a judgment upon the way your wife’s children address her — and probably have since they were quite young. People show respect for each other in the way they treat each other. What they call each other is their own business. If your wife is happy and has a good relationship with her children, keep your opinion to yourself.
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The Louisiana Office of Public Health reported 26 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in St. Mary and St. Martin parishes for the 48 hours ending at midday Sunday.

Statewide, the daily death and case counts were relatively low, but hospitalizations were up more than 11% in the two days.

In St. Mary, 11 new confirmed cases raised the pandemic total to 2,265. Those positives were detected by molecular tests. Another 100 cases have been detected by the less sensitive antigen tests and are considered probable.

In St. Martin, 15 new confirmed cases raise the case count there to 2,664 with 55 probable cases.

Assumption's case count was adjusted downward by two to 939. Assumption has 76 probable cases.

No new deaths were reported in the three parishes, so the tolls remain 89 confirmed fatalities with six probables in St. Mary, 66 confirmed fatalities with five probables in St. Martin and 24 confirmed deaths with one probable in Assumption.

Statewide:

--1,641 new cases raise the confirmed case count to 220,309 with another 11,936 probables.

--16 new fatalities raise the confirmed toll to 6,152 with 255 probables.

--The number of COVID-positive people in hospitals jumped by 122 to 1,196.

--The number of people on ventilators remained at 125.

While hurricanes and COVID-19 have dealt blows to some industries in 2020, the area’s sugarcane crop has been lucky to see minimal affects from these two impacts.
“We have more things to be thankful for than not to be thankful for,” LSU Ag Center County Agent Blair Hebert said of this Thanksgiving.
He said that the crop as of now is comparable to a year ago.
He said that COVID-19 had a minimal effect on the crop.
“If you go all the way back to the spring, we were able to do what we needed to do in the spring,” he said. “We were able to do tillage. We passed our equipment on it. We got fertilizer on it. We got chemical down on it in the spring and the sum-mer. So I'm not going to say that we didn't have some days that were lost here or there, but for the most part, COVID had very little effect on that crop getting to maturity."
He said that they had some trouble getting seasonal labor into the United States, but he wasn’t sure if that was COVID-19-related.
“There's a lot of red tape to get seasonal foreign labor back into the country” if done legally, something Hebert said the mills and the farmers do the right way.
Mike Accardo, owner of Idlewild Farms in Patterson, said they have had some workers who have been coming annually for about 10 years who they are working to get back into the country this year.
He said it’s something that a lot of farmers have been having to deal with.
As for hurricanes, he said they were concerned about what would happen to the crop with an active hurricane season, including Laura and Delta striking southwest Louisiana.
“But so far, the crop has done what we thought it would do in terms of tonnage,” Hebert said, also noting that the amount of sugar extracted from the cane has been “very respectable” considering the conditions they have endured.
Accardo said the hurricanes simply laid the cane down, unlike a year ago when Barry “shredded the tops” of the cane when it passed through the area.
“The winds weren’t high enough this year to shred the tops,” Accardo said. “It laid it over, but it didn’t shred the tops, so the hurricanes didn’t affect us that much this year.”
The hurricanes impacted the area, putting the harvest, which typically runs from Oct. 1 until around Jan. 10, about five days behind. However, Hebert said that is not a significant loss of time. It did, though, add to the labor costs for farmers.
Hebert said moving forward, the farmers need good weather, and after hurricane season ends, they need to avoid freezes.
“We’ve been lucky. We’ve had some good harvest conditions,” he said.