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M C Bank officials recently presented Deposit Image Verifier Meaghan Giroir with an award acknowledging her five years of service. With Giroir are CEO Larry J. Callais, left, and Executive V.P./ Chief Operations Officer Travis Richard.
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The St. Mary Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting May 31 for Coastline Wealth Group, 609 Brashear Ave. in Morgan City. The business opened in February, and the owners are Jonathan and Morgan Murdock.
Let me be clear, Mr. Mueller.
First. No one in this great country needs you or anyone in authority to “exonerate” us. We are “presumed” innocent until and unless you in authority BOTH charge and convict us of a crime.
You were not hired to “exonerate” anyone. You were hired to investigate whether anyone should be charged with any crime. Had you found that the president committed a crime I have no doubt you would have said so. You did not. You punted big time. So be it.
Justice looking at all the same facts you reported on, came to the conclusion that no such crime was committed.
Second. No one needed you to recognize the right of Congress to commence, if the House chooses, the political process of impeachment. That process does not need your opinion or your support to validate it. That is always a Constitutional Congressional prerogative. Not yours.
But to impeach a president for a “crime” that neither you nor the Justice Department could conclude likely occurred is a mighty big stretch. In the Impeachment trial of President Clinton, a “crime” of lying to a federal grand jury was not only identified as having likely occurred, but Clinton lost his Arkansas license to practice law as a direct result. Still the then Democratic Senate did not convict.
Impeachment by the Democratic House for a non-crime would clearly fail today in the Republican Senate.
So please go away, Mr. Mueller. Your job is done. Thanks for saying no more. Your notion of not “exonerating” us is, quite frankly, repulsive; contrary to the rule of law and of our personal freedoms under the Constitution. And please, Democratic House, give up this nonsense of an impeachment process that will do nothing but hurt our country.
Defeat the president in his re-election bid if you can. But in the meantime, this nation faces some of the most daunting challengers of our modern era.
I don’t have to articulate them. You know them well. Get on with the job of debating and, for God and country’s sake, find ways to behave more like the Americans we all are then as slaves to our two parties and the politics of personal destruction. We need now as ever for our government to meet those challenges head on, particularly those “beyond the water’s edge” where partisan politics should end.
I lived through the Clinton impeachment. It was the worse of the worst days of my long legislative service.
Trust me on this, my congressional friends, there is nothing but harm for all of us lurking in that process.
You don’t want to go there. In my most sincere judgment. Neither does our country.
Billy Tauzin was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1980 to 2005, representing Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District.
St. Mary Council on Aging will hold a car show June 15, as well as a Father’s Day bake sale. “Cars & Coffee” begins at 10 a.m. and continues to 1 p.m. at 301 Iberia St., in Franklin. There will also be a brisket dinner on sale, along with white beans, salad/coleslaw, bread and desert.
Denver “Chat” Chapman Sr., 80, a resident of Verdunville, La., and native of Morgan City, La., passed away on Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 3:34 p.m. at the Franklin Foundation Hospital in Franklin, La.
Visitation will be observed on Saturday June 15, 2019 from 9 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church 415 Union St. Morgan City, La. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Burial will follow mass services in the Morgan City Cemetery.
Memories of Denver Sr. will forever remain in the hearts of his two sons, Corey Chapman of Verdunville, La. and Denver Chapman, Jr. (Tonia) of Morgan City, La.; one daughter, Gina Delco of Dallas, TX; eleven grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.
Denver Sr., was preceded in death by his wife, his parents, one brother, and three sisters.
Visit www.jones-funeral-home.com to send condolences to family.
Jessica Marie “MoMoo” Engleton, 54, a lifelong resident of New Iberia, La., a resident of Beaumont, Texas., and native of Morgan City, La., passed away peacefully on Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 7:20 a.m. at the Harbor Hospice of Beaumont in Beaumont, Texas.
Visitation will be observed on Saturday, June 15, 2019 from 9 a.m. until funeral services at 10 a.m. at Jones Funeral Home 715 Sixth Street Morgan City, La. Reverend Ronald McCoy will officiate the services. Burial will follow funeral services in the Home Industrial Cemetery in Patterson, La.
Memories of Jessica will forever remain in the hearts of her husband, Donald Engleton of Patterson, La.; two children, Amos Engleton of Beaumont, TX and Angel Engleton of Temple, TX, five grandchildren; her siblings, Mrs. Brian (Caroline) Druilhet, Clarence (Angie) Williams, and Michael (Nitausha) Williams all of Sioux City, IA and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Visit www.jones-funeral-home.com to send condolences to family.
The City of Franklin sponsored the June 1 monthly cleanup. Participants included Jeremy Smith, Glynn Bradley, Jerome Roche, Arlana Shields, Ed “Tiger” Verdin, Belva, Pyreante and Decareal Notto, Ruthie Heard, Elaine Karam, Trent Downing, Marguerite Robinson and Didi Battle. Franklin’s “billy goat,” a commercial vacuum for litter donated by Keep St. Mary Beautiful, also made an appearance. A public gathering was held March 9 with volunteers Diana Alexander, Robinson, Heard, James Barry and Battle. Franklin Foundation Hospital supplied grabbers and gloves, Argus Spa provided bottled water.
Mindi Baxter, of Mindi’s D.I.Y. Art Shack, addressed Franklin Rotary Club Tuesday at The Forest Restaurant.
Baxter discussed her art studio at 1333 La. 87, Franklin, and the services she provides there, including a summer art camp; and classes in ceramics, mosaic, hand-built clay, glass fusion and memory glass.
“Our summer art camp students are young people,” Baxter said. “They come into the studio, they use cordless drills, they use clamps to clamp the wood together, they arrange all the wood pieces and drill them together, they add the Mason jar on top, and they’ve made their own wooden candy dispensers.”
Of her summer program, Baxter said she has a one-day pixel art program for kids aged five to seven years, which will take place on June 21; there is a five-day camp for kids aged five to 13 years; and there is a five-day teenage camp.
Baxter said she feels the community is “starving for art,” especially the younger generations, a sentiment she evidenced by noting that she already has 58 kids signed up for this year’s summer art program.
The logo of Mindi’s D.I.Y. Art Shack is: “Serenity in Creativity”, and she emphasizes that participants are encouraged to remember, “No artistic talent is required,” to take part in her offered classes.
Baxter closed by saying, “If you have a vision, and you need help getting there, that’s what I do. We’ll just go with the flow.”
Mindi’s D.I.Y. Art Shack can be reached at (337) 335-8308, or www.mindisdiyartshack.com.
According to Patti Ibert, director of the Emergency Aid Center for United Way of South La., the center is in need of food donations.
Ibert said that with school being out, many more families are in need, and that some food stamps have been “cut back” for those families who rely on them, causing the families to lean more on EAC than they otherwise would.
Ibert also said that though EAC has received a lot of donations from church and community organizations, their current need for food is greater than was anticipated.
EAC is located at 106 Commercial St., Franklin, and is open to the public Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
To learn more about donating, call 337-828-0921.
Franklin High School’s FFA Chapter traveled to Alexandria to attend the 90th State FFA Convention and Expo. Every year, the Louisiana FFA Association holds the convention where thousands of members throughout the state congregate in the host city to celebrate agriculture, FFA and member accomplishments from the year. These students attended general sessions, participated in career and leadership development workshops, received numerous awards, engaged in an Alexandria community service project sponsored by National FFA, and more. From left are Dalen LeBlanc, Victoria Walker, Cameron Bertrand, Tyler LeBlanc, Noel Guillotte, Matthew Phillips, Madison Boudreaux, Kaitlyn Marcotte, Caleb Willis, and teacher Nick Adams. More photos in today's edition of the Banner-Tribune.
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