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Week 2
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Buffet Margaritaville ..........12 6
Let’s Geaux .....................10.5 7.5
3 Guys & A Gal....................9 9
Horseshoes Great Again....8.5 9.5
Let Er Rip........................... 7 11
High scratch point average: (30’) Tim Gilmore 80.8, Calvin Johnson 43.7 and Mary Guzdial 23.2; and (40’) Dwain Arceneaux 50.0, Randy Giroir 48.3 and Glenn Miller 46.7.
High individual ringer percentage: (30’) Gilmore 60.4, Johnson 26.7 and Guzdiual 7.9; and (40’) Arceneaux 33.3, Giroir 29.2, Clyde Landry 29.2 and Miller 27.1.
High scratch game: Gilmore 89, Landry 67, Dale Pearce 62, Giroir 59, Miller 59 and Arceneaux 53.
Most ringers one night: Gilmore 66, Giroir 43, Arceneaux 40, Miller 31 and Bourdier 31.
Most ringers one game: Gilmore 28, Landry 20, Giroir 16, Arceneaux 15, Miller 15 and Pearce 15.
Most ringers one night: Gilmore 79, Giroir 43, Arceneaux 40 and Landry 35.
Most points one night: Gilmore 257, Giroir 155, Arceneaux 150, Miller 141 and Pearce 138.
Best won-loss record: Clay Canty 3-0, Arceneaux 4-2, Bryan Phenix 4-2, Miller 4-2, Jim Guzdial 4-2, Landry2-1, Tyler Bourdier 2-1 and Johnson 2-1.
Most points one night (team): Let’s Geaux 431 and Buffet Magaritaville 381; most ringers one night (team): Let’s Geaux 117 and Make Horseshoes Great Again 87.

Staff Report
A Franklin man was arrested Wednesday on legend drug and marijuana charges, Morgan City Police Chief James F. Blair said.
—Brandon Scott, 32, Franklin, was arrested at 7:20 p.m. Wednesday on charges of first-offense possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a legend drug.
Officers were called to a local business for a disturbance. When officers arrived, they learned Scott was involved in a disturbance and they wished to have him removed from the business.
A warrant check revealed that the Morgan City Police Department held warrants for Scott. The warrants were from a March 2020 investigation. Scott was placed under arrest and transported to the Morgan City Police Department for booking.
Berwick Police Chief David Leonard reported these arrests:
—Gregory Payne, 44, Oregon Street, Berwick, was arrested at 3:24 p.m. Tuesday on a Berwick warrant for battery on a dating partner.
—Brandon Martin, 33, Francis Street, Berwick, was arrested at 3:21 p.m. Tuesday on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and a warrant for failure to appear for drug court status.
About 3:19 p.m. Tuesday, investigators with the Berwick Police Department responded to an Oregon Street residence to locate Payne for an active warrant that Berwick police held for his arrest. Upon arrival, officers observed a male subject who was later identified as Martin on the side of the residence and appearing to be concealing something on his person.
Martin was detained and later admitted that he was concealing a syringe that he admitted to being used to inject illegal narcotics. Martin was placed under arrest at this time.
Officers then made contact with Payne inside the residence and placed him under arrest for the active warrant that was held for his arrest.
The warrant for Payne stemmed from an incident that occurred Sunday, in which he was accused of committing a battery on his girlfriend at his residence on Oregon Street.
After a brief investigation of this incident a warrant was prepared for his arrest. Payne posted a $2,500 bond was released. Martin remained incarcerated with no bond at this time.
St. Mary Parish Sheriff Blaise Smith reported these arrests:
—Mark Anthony Robin, 35, Cynthia Street, Franklin, was arrested at 7:23 p.m. Tuesday on a charge of driving under suspension. Robin was released on a summons to appear Oct. 22.
—Rachelle Lynn Dupre, 37, Plantation Tech Drive, Franklin, was arrested at 7:23 p.m. Tuesday on a warrant for failure to appear on the charge of criminal neglect of family. No bail has been set.
—Gage Landry, 26, Second Street, Morgan City, was arrested at 1:59 a.m. Wednesday on a charge of possession of marijuana. Landry was released on a summons to appear Oct. 22.
—Yamirka Giglio, 34, Second Street, Morgan City, was arrested at 2:06 a.m. Wednesday on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. Giglio was released on a summons to appear Oct. 27.
—Jeffrey Lee Vasold Jr. 34, Second Street, Morgan City, was arrested at 2:36 a.m. Wednesday on charges of possession of methamphetamine and improper lane usage. No bail has been set.
Assumption Parish Sheriff Leland Falcon reported this arrest:
—Ken Leo Landry, 35, La. 403, Napoleonville, was arrested Tuesday on charges of pornography involving juveniles under 13, five counts of felony sexual abuse of an animal and obstruction of justice.
Detectives and deputies were assisted by the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation of the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office during the execution of the search warrant at Landry’s home in connection with a juvenile pornography probe.
As a result of the bureau’s investigation, agents obtained arrest warrants charging Landry.
Landry was booked into the Assumption Parish Detention Center on Tuesday. He remains incarcerated at the Assumption Parish Detention Center without bond.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 60-year-old woman. My house is on a corner lot. Just about every time I walk outside, a male neighbor of mine stares at me. He looks like a hobo.
I felt bad for him, so when he came to the edge of his yard, I asked him from my deck how he was doing because of the quarantine. He responded by telling me to wear a dress because he wants to have sex with me! I was stunned and went back into the house. I didn’t know he was that crazy. Besides ignoring him, what, if anything, should I do?
SHOCKED NEIGHBOR IN CONNECTICUT

DEAR NEIGHBOR: Because this was a one-time occurrence, it’s possible your neighbor may have been “under the influence,” or has mental health challenges or a touch of dementia. From now on, ignore him, avoid him and warn the other women in the neighborhood about what happened. If I were one of them, I would like to know.
Other than that, there’s not much you can do unless his behavior escalates and he becomes a nuisance. In that case, you may want to go online to the National Sex Offender Registry just to make sure your neighbor is not a registered sex offender. Then it will be time to file a police report.

DEAR ABBY: When seeing a therapist is not an option, I have found writing to be helpful. A cheap spiral-bound school notebook works great. The idea is to write at least one full page every day.
Some days, all I can say is, “I don’t want to write,” but I fill that page anyway, so that the commitment is met. However, other days I find I can pour my heart out, unload the things that are hurting me, express my anger, resentments, disappointments and longings. Sometimes, while I’m waiting for the thoughts to come, an insight or solution will present itself.
Because I’m afraid of my thoughts being found and read by someone else, I destroy each page after it’s written. Names can be disguised. The simple act of getting those thoughts out of my head and onto paper helps to relieve stress tremendously. Just thought I’d share this with you.
WRITING IT DOWN IN THE EAST

DEAR WRITING: Writing or journaling is a very effective way to organize one’s thoughts and purge negative emotions. I’m glad you suggested it because I think it may help some of my readers. Thank you!

DEAR ABBY: I babysit my nieces and nephews. While we are grocery shopping and we get to the checkout, they’ll ask for candy or chips. If I tell them no, it’s usually because they have already had a treat, it’s too close to a meal or perhaps because they have misbehaved.
What do I do when the person behind me offers to buy it for them? I know they assume I refused because I don’t have the money, and they are trying to be helpful. Saying, “No, thank you,” just upsets the child when he or she knows someone wanted to buy them a treat. Any ideas?
NO MEANS NO IN GEORGIA

DEAR NO MEANS NO: Instead of just saying, “No, thank you,” to the person making the offer, explain the reason for your refusal as you have explained it to me. That way, the well-meaning stranger understands that you are not short of funds, and your nieces and nephews hear the reason as well.

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Each spring and summer, when the Mississippi begins to rise, we start to hear from folks who think it will change course into the Atchafalaya, flooding half of south Louisiana.
In 1980, two LSU professors, economist David Johnson and civil engineer Raphael Kazman, were among the first to seriously study what might happen if the Big Muddy did switch its bed. More recently LSU hydrologist Yi-Jun Xu, has joined the list of folks who warn that a really big Mississippi River flood could cause the change, permanently and with disastrous results.
The Corps of Engineers began seriously studying the problem in the 1950s, when they were designing controls to allow some, but just some, of the Mississippi water into the Atchafalaya. It turns out that they came up with a solution that was recommended at least 50 years earlier by a civil engineer named E. T. King.
He was hired in 1897 by the police juries of St. Martin and Iberia parishes, who were thinking of another diversion. They wanted the federal government to pay for a dam across Bayou Courtableau at Port Barre, sending its water into Bayou Teche.
For most of the year the upper Teche didn’t have enough water to float a good-sized steamboat and Bayou Courtableau was so jammed with logs near Port Barre that boats could not use it. Folks on the Teche reasoned that diverting the water would allow steamboats to use the upper Teche and even get back into the Courtableau, and also provide ample water for irrigation. They hired King to “compile the available data . . . [for] a business-like and intelligent presentation to Congress.”
His report gives an impressive picture of the commerce along the Teche in St. Mary, Iberia and St. Martin parishes just as the new century was about to begin. There were 66 sugar mills, 19 saw and shingle mills, 38 cotton gins, two cottonseed oil mills, 10 brick factories, five ice factories, and three foundries alongside the bayou. They turned out products valued at $12 million (about $375 million in today’s money), and that didn’t include fish and oyster factories, tanneries, moss gins, and more.
King said improving navigation was well worth the money, that the factories in place would do more business, and new ones would be built.
But he also said in 1898 that there was a “great danger” threatening everything — “the danger of the Mississippi river continuing down the Atchafalaya.”
The distance down the Atchafalaya from the mouth of the Red River to the Gulf was only one-third of the winding Mississippi’s course, he pointed out. The Atchafalaya was also straighter and steeper. The only reason the Mississippi had not changed course was because the Atchafalaya was not yet wide enough or deep enough to handle the water, he said.
“But,” he warned, “it is both widening and deepening rapidly, and it is only a question of time.”
The remedy, he said, “is to entirely divorce the Red and Atchafalaya from the Mississippi” by building a dam at Old River that would “protect from overflow one million acres of the richest land in the world.”
His report was sent to Congress, but nothing was done then — either to cause the diversion of the Courtableau or to stop the diversion of the Mississippi. King’s studies and comments were presumably filed away in some dusty corner of the Library of Congress, probably sitting untouched to this day.
But it is just possible that someone peeked at them in the 1950s when the Corps began to worry that the Atchafalaya was getting even wider and steeper than in King’s day. Or it may simply have been that they applied the same engineering principles and arrived at the same solution independently. At any rate, their answer was to build the Old River Control Structure, designed to “divorce” the Mississippi from the Atchafalaya, exactly where King said it should be.
A collection of Jim Bradshaw’s columns, "Cajuns and Other Characters," is now available from Pelican Publishing. You can contact him at jimbradshaw4321@gmail.com or P.O. Box 1121, Washington LA 70589.