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Zachary Residents Embrace Christmas

Through LightsTherefore the Lord himself

will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14

Homeowners throughout Zach-ary embrace the Christmas spirit each year by decorating their homes to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. This year over 50 addresses were submitted to the Zachary Post for consideration as the best decorated homes in town. The staff of the Zach-ary Post spent several nights driving the neighborhoods of Zachary after dark taking pictures of what we feel were the best entrants. We have in-cluded several must see addresses to peruse this Christmas season, but if interested in getting a free show for the holiday season just get in a car and drive the many neighborhoods off of Rollins Road to Church Street – it seems the neighborhoods of Sandy Creek, Fennwood and Maple Street do an exceptional job of light-ing the way during this Christmas season.

This year we selected two must see homes for their decorating prow-ess, one contemporary and one clas-sical. The home of Nick and Amber Johnson in Windsor Court subdivi-sion at 5323 Knight Dr. is and un-conventional take on Christmas home lighting. The house is fully decorated and the lights are synchro-nized to popular music being broad-cast on 103.9 FM. The more classi-cal choice is the home of Tab and Kathy Barbay at 6470 Sandy Creek Lane. Their home is fully decorated and lights up the nighttime sky.

You really can’t go wrong when looking at the lights in Zachary, just drive down the many streets where one can see the blinking lights cel-ebrating the birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Vessel Elected to School BoardHome for Christmas

Rollins Place Elementary principal Jennifer Marangos orchestrated a surprise Christ-mas kindness assembly last Tuesday in order to welcome home one of Zachary’s military heroes who has been deployed in Afghanistan for the past year. Army Staff Sergeant Daniel Von Kanel hid backstage while his four Zachary Community School System attendee children participated in the program. While they were distracted, Ser-geant Von Kanel came out to surprise them. Two of the four siblings go to Rollins Place Elementary. The older two were visiting the school. They all believed they were there as part of a special assembly. The children have not seen their father for nine months, and now the wait was finally over.

On Saturday December 6, Zach-ary voters chose Heidi Vessel to be the final school board member for the District 6 seat.

Vessel defeated Elicia “Lisa” Lathon for the board’s District 6 seat, 418 to 396, according to the official election returns.

Jannie Rogers had represented district 6 until September when she resigned because she moved out of her district. Vessel had been ap-pointed by the board to be her re-placement just prior to the election.

Council Honors Wallis, Approves Zaxby’s

By Jen Bayhi-Gennaro

The mayor and council met for their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, December 9 at 6:30 p.m. The meeting was the last for both two-term Councilman John Coghlan, who was unseated by Laura O’Brien, and eight-term Councilman Dan Wallis, who is retiring.

The Mayor opened a public hear-ing for the site plan review of Zaxby’s restaurant, which is planned for across the street from Walmart, next to Main Street Plaza. Charlie Colvin, a com-mercial real estate agent with Beau Box Commercial Real Estate, was there to speak in favor of the proj-ect. Mayor Amrhein said it came out

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Randy Herring, a commercial real estate agent with Mike Falgoust and Associates Commercial Real Estate, was there on behalf of his client, Med-Comp Sciences. MedComp, located at the corner of MacHost and Hwy. 64 (right behind the Collision Center), is requesting to add on to their exist-ing building. The company is doing extremely well and employs over 200 people. Their request was granted.

The Council voted to approve pay-ment for construction projects, includ-ing $134,329.75 for R.J. Daigle & Sons for the Mt. Pleasant Boulevard construction.

The Mayor took a few moments to recognize Councilmen Coghlan and Wallis for their years of service to the Council and the city. Coghlan thanked the citizens for allowing him to serve on the council for eight years, saying it has been both a privilege and an hon-or, and he wishes the best for O’Brien and the rest of the Council. He was given a standing ovation.

“I don’t believe anybody will ever serve 32 years sitting on this Council ever again,” Amrhein said to Coun-cilman Wallis. “What you’ve done for this community can never be re-paid,” he said to him, noting the dras-tic change Zachary has seen in the years Wallis has been in office. “I was very fortunate that my first four years on this council, I had you to help me. Your number one goal has always been helping people. You are in public service for the right reason, and that can’t be said for a lot of people to-day. There isn’t a selfish bone in your body. You never worried about what district you represented,” he said. Councilman Wallis thanked everyone for their kind words, saying he has en-joyed serving this city. He was given a standing ovation as well.

The motion to adjourn was made, and cake and punch were served in honor of his retirement.

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City Unveils Newly Renovated Youth ParkBy ashley evans

On Tuesday, December 9, Mayor David Amhrein was joined by Zach-ary City Officials as well as Louisiana State Officials for the dedication of the recently renovated Zachary Youth Park. The City of Zachary received $1.4 million in Community Develop-ment Block Grant funds for recovery from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2009.

The Zachary Youth Park presently serves as an emergency staging area for the city. With new park improve-ments, more proactive preparations, and advanced readiness during future severe weather conditions will be in place to protect Zachary citizens and local assets. “With the grant from the state, we were able to make the park safer and more user-friendly during times of disaster. Improved parking, an automatic sand-bagging machine, and more covered areas make the park better suited to emergency staging and a place where citizens can come to be taken care of during a disaster,” said Mayor Amhrein.

“This park is an important asset to our community. It is a multipurpose building,” said Mayor Amhrein. “Un-der the direction of Shane Hebert, the park has become a driving economic force of Zachary. The park is self-sus-taining, bringing in about $1 million in revenues each year. Zachary is getting a third hotel and a major sports restau-rant chain because of the tournaments held here bringing people and revenue to the city.”

Mayor Amhrein also thanked Zach-ary Community School Board Super-

intendent Scott Devillier for his coop-eration and help with the Youth Park. “The city shares the park with the High School. I cannot thank Scott Devillier enough for the great relationship we have had. We have had baseball play-ers out here filling sandbags and even delivering sandbags to the elderly of the community during times of need.”

“The City of Zachary wanted to not only get their Youth Park rebuilt after Hurricane Gustav, they were de-termined to make it stronger to better resist damage from future storms,” said Pat Forbes, executive director of the Louisiana Office of Community Development. “With the improve-ments they’ve undertaken, this park can continue to serve the community in good times, as well as disasters, for many years to come.”


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Cavin to Bring Banking Experience to Zachary CouncilBy James ronald skains

Ben Cavin is a local Zachary product through and through. He graduated from Zachary High School in 2000. Fourteen years later, at age 31, Cavin won his first political race. Cavin, who may become known as “Gentle Ben the Councilman” from his appearance with a dark brown beard and muscular build, won his race convincingly by more than a two to one majority in Zachary Council District 4.

“I was really concerned as to who would take “Mr. Dan’s” place as my Councilman,” Cavin told the Zach-ary Post. “I guess you can say that I got so concerned about who would replace “Mr. Dan,” that I decided to run.”

“Once I decided to run, I really ran. My goal was to knock on every front door in District 4, which cov-ers basically downtown Zachary. I talked to a lot of people in my dis-trict. Most people are very concerned about the future of Zachary and that

Ben Cavin in his office at Landmark Bank in Zachary.

Zachary grows based on the con-cept of smart growth, not haphazard growth. We don’t want to ever reach

the point where we are “just a Bed-room Community of Baton Rouge,” the easiest commute into downtown Baton Rouge. We have too much po-tential otherwise in Zachary than to just do that.”

“Keeping our infrastructure front and center in all debates about the city of Zachary will not only keep us up-to-date on our infrastructure, but will give us smart growth,” Cavin explained. “Who knows what the fu-

ture holds, but I love Zachary and 20 years from now, I hope that my now 10 month old baby girl Kori, may find that she wants to live in Zachary. So for all our kid’s futures, we must keep Zachary moving forward and not let it become a stagnant town”.

Cavin did leave Zachary after graduating from high school to at-tend Northwestern State University (NSU) in Natchitoches. In Natchi-toches, he not only obtained a degree in business but was also the manager of the local movie theatre.

“I think that the manager’s job, more than any other job I’ve had, has taught me the basics of time manage-ment,” Cavin acknowledged. “Not only did I have to allocate time to go to school full time, do my homework, and work fulltime at the theatre, but the theatre was a time management operation in itself.”

After graduating from NSU, Cavin took a job with an insurance company where he traveled around the country.

“I visited some nice places like Seattle and Salt Lake City but after about a year and half, I was ready to come back home,” Cavin related. “I was able to land a job with Regions Bank. I worked at the bank full time and went to school at Southeastern on the weekends to work on my Master of Business Administration (MBA).”

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 Zachary POST 7“Again, I credit my time at NSU

while also working as full time man-ager of the movie theatre in Natchi-toches, for my ability to work at Regions and attend Southeastern on the weekends to obtain my MBA in 2010. While at Regions Bank, I took every banking course that became available. After I came to Landmark Bank, I began taking courses at the LSU School of Banking.”

In May of 2015, Cavin will ob-tain his degree from the LSU School of Banking. That degree is a shorter version of another MBA with total concentration on the banking indus-try.

“At Landmark, I think of myself as a neighbor lending to other neigh-bors and helping them manage their financial affairs,” Cavin pointed out. “I really like my job here at Land-mark. It has provided me with a great opportunity to get to know Zachary and its people better and also to be

involved in various community ac-tivities.”

Landmark Bank was founded in August, 1897, (117 years ago) as The Bank of Clinton. It was capital-ized with $15,000 from local inves-tors who recognized the need for the community to have a bank to call its own.

“When the Bank of Clinton was considering opening its second lo-cation, the management team and shareholders decided to “re-brand it” so that Clinton would become more than just a single town bank,” Cavin related. “The name change was not part of any buyout. Landmark is a very strong bank and can meet the needs of its customers in the grow-ing Zachary area.”

“Gentle Ben the Councilman” is replacing a legend on the Zach-ary City council, Dan Wallis. “Mr. Dan,” as he is affectionately known, has served 32 years on the Zachary

Council. He is a licensed but retired real estate agent and business owner in Zachary. “Mr. Dan” also served in the US Navy.

Ben Cavin is the son of Al and Sherry Cavin. Al Cavin is a self-em-ployed sales and marketing execu-tive. Sherry is a retired school teach-er from the Zachary school system. Ben Calvin’s wife and the mother of 10-month-old Kori, is Nikki, an em-ployee of the Lady of the Lake Hos-pital organization.

“I think it is obvious that the natural growth pattern in Zachary is westward toward Highway 61,” Cavin noted. “The Americana De-velopment has great potential to be a major economic engine for Zach-ary.”

“I’m hoping to see some people from the Zachary areas decide to purchase homes in Americana. I don’t think it should just be people moving out of Baton Rouge so they can a have the fastest and easiest 20 minute commute to downtown in the Metro area. Although the natural growth pattern for Zachary seems to be to the west, I don’t want to ig-nore anyone on the east side of town along the Plank Road corridor.”

“The whole town of Zachary needs to grow, north, east, south and west,” Cavin elaborated. “I just don’t believe any industry should locate in downtown. Traffic gets pretty tough in Zachary at times. I can envision us needing more bypass routes around town to relieve some of the traffic pressure.”

Writer’s note: It will be interest-ing to watch the public career of Ben Cavin, a man with a great financial business education, young and ener-getic and apparently plenty of stam-ina for the job he has been elected to fulfill.

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Clark Honored for 35 Years with the YMCA

On December 7, 2014, more than 248 staff members from all nine YMCA of the Capital Area branch locations gathered together for the Y’s annual Staff Recognition Dinner at Boudreaux’s. During the dinner, President/CEO, YMCA of the Capital Area, Bob Ja-cobs, distributed awards to staff members who embodied the Y’s cores principles of car-ing, honesty, respect and responsibility throughout the course of the past year. The Y also bestowed service pins to 40 employees for a combined total of 340 years of service to the YMCA. In attendance: 35 yrs. to Don Clark; 20 yrs. to Connie David; 15 yrs. to Develyn Holden and Eddrick Martin; 10 yrs. to Adrian Brumfield, Susan Kocke, Harry Smith, Martha Beckwith, McKinley Breckenridge, Nancy Kuhlmeier, Rebecca Deco-teau, and Joe Capece; 5 yrs. to Heather Shaw, Angela Greenman, Joshua Franklin, Al Smith, Angela LeBlanc, Chiwani Davis, Sara Ryle, Cory Sperier, and Jessica Huckaby. Pictured above: Don Clark, Group Executive Director, celebrating 35 years with the Y and Bob Jacobs, President/CEO, YMCA of the Capital Area. Clark is a resident of Zachary and can be seen daily tending to the Americana YMCA.

Dr. Worley Joins Regional Eye CenterLane Regional Medical Center

is pleased to welcome Michael Worley, M.D. to the medical staff and announce that he has recently joined Williamson Allemond Re-gional Eye Center’s practice in Zachary.

Dr. Worley is an ophthalmic surgeon with special training in cosmetic and reconstructive sur-gery of the eyelids, mid-face, lower face and forehead. In ad-dition, he cares for patients with disorders that affect the eyelids, orbit and tear drainage systems.

Dr. Worley was born in Mon-roe, is a graduate of Louisiana State University and attended medical school at Louisiana State University-New Orleans. He completed eye surgery training at the LSU Eye Center and Ochsner Clinic, and completed advanced training in Eyelid and Facial Plas-tic Surgery at the prestigious Cen-ter for Facial Appearances in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Local Musicians Compete at LSU Ensemble

The Baton Rouge Piano Teachers’ annual Ensemble and Concerto competition was held Saturday, December 6th at the LSU School of Music. All of the students from the Music Tree Prep School who entered the competition were winners. Pictured above: Nekita Pitts, Anthony Voiers, Jordyn Bernardi, and Josh Davis – Third Place in the Quartet category.

Annalise Pitts and Caroline Cresap- Honorable Mention in the Duet category.Gracie Ellerbee, right, with her teacher, Dr. Lin Tian, Won First Place in the Concerto division.


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Angola Assistant Warden Fontenot set to Assume Presidency of NAWSBy James ronald skains

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“It is really wonderful to attend national and international confer-ences just to see the respect the Louisiana Correctional Depart-ment has by our peers,” Fontenot confided to the Zachary Post. “Angola is truly recognized as the model prison in North America, if not the world. It is wonderful to see our prison held in high esteem by other correctional officials for all the hard work we have done.”

“A few years back I was ac-cepted as a member into an inter-national organization of correc-tional professionals that held their convention that year in the United Kingdom. I’ll always believe I was accepted because the organi-zation wanted Warden Cain to be one of their Keynote Speakers at their UK meeting. The day War-den Cain spoke was the day after an internationally acclaimed pub-lic official had spoken.”

“The other speaker didn’t get near the reception that that War-den Cain received,” Fontenot re-lated. “Here Warden Cain was on an international stage following a

well-known European public offi-cial and people were totally tuned into every word he was saying.”

“Unlike the European official, Warden Cain took questions after his speech. Those in attendance were so impressed that our Warden would answer straightforwardly every question that he was asked. It was a day in which to be proud of being from Louisiana and the Angola Prison System. Louisiana does have the most effective pris-on system in the country, thanks to the years of hard work by three particular men, Burl Cain, Rich-ard Staler and James LeBlanc.“

“What we are proud of at An-gola is our program and services that offer offenders the opportu-nity for rehabilitation and educa-tion in order to re-enter society,” Fontenot explained. “If offenders have long sentences or are lifers, we offer them the opportunity to become productive members of the Angola community.”

Assistant Warden Fontenot of Programming works under the Deputy Warden of Programming and is responsible for all offender services and programs. This in-cludes classification, the place-ment of offenders in their hous-ing, work and the following of their progress throughout their incarceration, which is one of the chief areas of her work.

“My correctional career is tied very closely to that of War-den Cain as he hired me as a cor-rectional officer when no one else would,” Warden Fontenot recalled. “I was a Magnum Cum Laude college graduate with a de-

gree in Criminal Justice who was working at Burger King to keep my family from starving when Warden Cain hired me in 1992.’’

“At all the facilities where I applied for a correctional officer job, I was told that I was too small to be an effective correctional of-ficer, and that I should switch to becoming a parole officer. That was not what I thought was my calling. I always thought I was being called to be a professional correctional officer to help solve problems. That was what my goal was in life at that time and still is today.”

“When I couldn’t get a job in St. Bernard Parish, my family moved to Zachary,” Fontenot pointed out. “We moved into a house next door to the sister of Warden Cain’s sis-ter-in-law.

Word soon got to Warden Cain about this little girl with a degree in Criminal Justice who wanted to be a correctional officer but couldn’t find a job.”

“Warden Cain called me in for an interview. In fact he inter-viewed me twice before he offered me a job. Then he assigned me to the night shift as a tower guard. I would get so sleepy until I was scared that I would fall asleep and lose my job. Sometimes Security Officers would come out into the yard at night waving flash lights. If you didn’t report what you saw, then you could get written and lose your job for being asleep.”

“Also, being green, I did not know that I didn’t have to carry my gun in my hands all the time I was in the tower,” Fontenot ac-

knowledged. “The gun was heavy anyway, but after about six hours of carrying it, it seemed to double in weight. Also, I knew that I had replaced a female guard who did not shoot, as was the required pro-cedure when an offender tried to escape.”

“I guess I was proving my de-sire to be a correctional officer by starting at the bottom rung. About a week after I started I was assigned temporarily to the front gate as a guard. Warden Cain hap-pened to come through the gate, and I gave him the standard ques-tions, any guns, liquor drugs and etc. he looked at me and said, ‘I’m the Warden here.’ I replied with a big smile, ‘I know who you are sir, but I still have to ask you these questions.’

“Warden Cain replied, ‘You’re the friendliest and happiest front gate guard I’ve ever seen,” Fon-tenot said in recalling the story. “About a month later I was called into administration. They wanted to know what I knew about prison accreditation.’’

“In 1992, Louisiana was work-ing on getting its prison system accredited by the National Correc-tion Association. Bring fresh out of college, I was somewhat up to date on the process of accredita-tion, as for as the way it was taught in college. I was put to work on the accreditation team, so literally in less than three months’ time; I went from a tower guard carrying a gun to traveling around the state to different facilities working to get them accredited by the NCA.”

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Newcomers Lunch Bunch Holiday Ornament Exchange.... Zachary Newcomers Club met at Cafe Phoenicia for a holiday lunch and ornament exchange on Tuesday, December 9th. The Newcomers club is open to anyone five years or newer to the Zachary area. However, January is Amnesty month to join the club if you are interested in attend-ing our activities and have lived in the Zachary area more than five years. Activities include a meeting with a monthly speaker usually at the library, Lunch Bunch, Book Club, Coffee Call, Bunco, Bridge, Golf & Tennis. If interested please contact Sylvia Wahoske at 225-337-1151 or e-mail her at [email protected]. Pictured from left to right is Rebecca Johnson, Alex Johnson, Linda Roberts, Beth Young, Deb-bie Zelenski and Sylvia Wahoske.


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Mackie’s at Plantation Village Now Open to Hungry PatronsBy Jen Bayhi-Gennaro

The latest development at Plan-tation Village Studios in Jackson, formerly known as simply the Asphodel Plantation, is Mackie’s Bar, Grill & Espresso Joint. Open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks, Mackie’s has some of the best hand-pressed coffees—and the best margaritas—in town.

Catering to both the locals that remember the white-cloth dining heyday of Asphodel, and the hun-gry and thirsty film crews staying on the property for weeks at a time filming in the property’s state-of-the-art sound stage, it’s always an interesting crowd at Mackie’s.

Transplants Jake and Jodie “Mackie” Seal of London bought Asphodel six years ago with a vi-sion to restore the plantation to its glory days, back when Paul New-man and Joanne Woodward filmed The Long, Hot Summer there back in 1958. Guests can now walk on the very porch where legend has it Woodward and Newman fell in love.

Jake, a British actor and movie producer, and Jodie, a former Miss Australia, actress and model, and QVC presenter in the UK, have been steadily working on making the grounds of the Asphodel Plan-tation all-inclusive for their guests. There are 15 separate guest rooms with kitchenettes, Wi-Fi and pri-vate ensuite facilities available for rent by the night, week or month, and there are folks from all over the world in and out at any given

time. Once business got rolling at the 10,000-sf sound stage, the Seals quickly realized the need for an on-site restaurant for their guests.

Currently open from “breakfast until the last person leaves,” the menu at Mackie’s extends beyond traditional coffee shop or bar fare, and includes weekly specials like curry night or pizza night. Paying homage to Jodie’s strict vegetar-ian diet, patrons can choose from a wide variety of meatless options all day, like hummus, an upscale cheese platter or Middle Eastern falafel. Carnivores can sink their teeth into a bar favorite, the prime Angus beef burger with jalapeno and cheese, and chicken strips are on the menu as well as a crowd-pleaser for the kids. Speaking of which, there is an inflatable bouncy castle on the wide deck of Mackie’s, where the three young Seal children can often be found

playing alongside guests of the restaurant.

The antique store at the old train depot, Tippecanoe & Baker Too, is an additional attraction to

Plantation Village. Featuring col-lectibles steeped in plantation his-tory, as well as newer items for sale like hand-poured soy candles, guests can grab a canned drink or bottled espresso while they browse.

Jodie’s plans for the upcoming year include yoga and meditation classes during the week, open not just to guests of the Plantation Vil-lage, but for all locals, as well as movie screenings in a side room of the historic train depot.

Mackie’s will be offering egg-nog, mulled wine and Christmas carols by the bonfire on Christmas Eve this year, and will also open its doors on Christmas Day from noon-2 p.m., with a free Christ-mas drink for all visitors.


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Scam Artists Targeting Zachary ResidentsBy James ronald skains

The caller, who used the name of Mr. Michael Collins, identified himself as being with Publisher’s Clearing House. He first stated very plainly “You are the lucky win-ner of $750,000 and a new pearl white 2014 Mercedes Benz.” He emphasized that his group was in Baton Rouge and ready to deliver my check of $750,000 and the new pearl white 2014 Mercedes Benz car.

Now, I don’t think any stoic or non-believer in “luck” would not at least have a little interest perked up at this point in a similar conver-sation. Mr. Michael Collins then asked where I was, specifically where I was at that very moment, at home or out and about town? I told him truthfully that I was driv-ing down the highway toward a barbershop to get a haircut.

All kind of skeptic thoughts were running through my mind, but his next comment was logical. “Turn around and go back to your house because we have to deliver your check and car today by 1:30 p.m.. My team is already in Baton Rouge.” My reply to that statement was: “If you bring me a check for $750,000 and a new Mercedes Benz automobile that would be a huge blessing I guess straight from God.”

Mr. Michael Collins replied im-mediately, “I want you to promise me something, and do it as soon as you get your check in the bank. I want you to promise me that you

will give some of your money to the church.” My reply was: “Yes, I promise to not only give money to the church, but also to the Gide-ons and the Karios Prison Minis-try.” Mr. Collins replied, “You’re a good man.”

Amy, my faithful wife in all pursuits, was with me in the ve-hicle and was listening intently to my exchanges with Mr. Michael Collins. She was whispering, “You know, this is too good to be true.”

We were parked in the front of our house waiting for the people to deliver our check and car by this time. Mr. Collins then told me that he was going to turn me over to his boss, a Mr. Robert Goldberg to verify me as the winner of the money and car. At that time, Mr. Robert Goldberg came on the line with a big hearty “Congratulations on having won $750,000 and a new pearl white Mercedes Benz.”

“Again I replied, if I’ve won anything it must a blessing straight from God.” He assured me that my winning was a direct blessing from God.” Mr. Goldberg then asked me if I had every won anything this big before in my life, to which I replied, “Not in my 60 plus years of living.” His reply to me was: “Then it’s certainly high time that you won something this big before you got any older.”

Then, came the hammer: “Since you have not won any big prizes in your life before, are you registered with the Internal Revenue Service to receive this big of a payout?”

My reply was: “I’ve never heard of being registered with the IRS. I try and stay up to date with those guys all the time.”

By this time, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that this was some kind of scam but my inves-tigative journalist instincts told me to keep pressing on to find out all the details, and hopefully help pre-vent other people from becoming victims of this scam by exposing it.

“Well,” Mr. Robert Goldberg told me, “You will have to be reg-istered with the IRS before we can complete the delivery of your money and car.” How do you get registered with the IRS was my question. “You just fill out the pa-per work and pay their fee,” he told me, to which I replied, “I don’t even know how to start getting registered with the IRS; besides, it would probably take hours or days.

Then Mr. Robert Goldberg told me politely, “Oh, we can get you registered with the IRS and still deliver your check and money to you this afternoon.” How much is the IRS fee? I questioned. “$395 he replied nonchalantly. We don’t charge you anything to get you registered; you just pay the IRS fee.”

I then delivered the sad news to Mr. Robert Goldberg, “I don’t have $395 nor is there any way I can get that much money. We are retired and on a fixed income,” I replied in a very sorrowful tone of voice. “I can’t believe that I am

this close to getting $750,000 and a brand new Mercedes Benz and I can’t pay the fees.”

Not surprisingly, Mr. Goldberg told me: “You are just the type of person who deserves this amount of money and a new car. How much could you come up with?” I replied forlornly, “My wife will think I’m a real dog if I can’t come up with enough money to get her car and the big check, but all I can come up with is $100.” By this time, I re-alized that unless money changed hands, there was no crime commit-ted.

Mr. Robert Goldberg replied forcefully with a little disdain: “Here you are about to get $750,000 and a new car and can’t come up with the IRS fee. Can you borrow the money or pawn something for the money. Even if you have to overdraw your checking account, it will certainly be worth it to you. You can certainly redeem whatever you pawn with the $750,000.”

“The only thing I have to pawn is my cell phone but if I did that you couldn’t call me back to let me know when your people were ready to deliver the car.” He reluc-tantly agreed with me and accepted the fact that I didn’t have anything to pawn.

After another minute or so brow beating me because I couldn’t come up with more money, he suddenly said, “You know, I really like you, and I want you to have this money. If you will pay the $100 you have,

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Births • Engagements • Weddings • Awards Obituaries • Anniversaries • ReunionsMilestones

Daniel Holloway and Amy Woolfolk were married on November 22, 2014 in an afternoon ceremony at Desert Plantation in St. Francisville. Pas-tor Daryl Purpera of First Baptist Church in Central officiated.

The bride is the daughter of Tammie and Martin Woolfolk Jr. of Pride. The bride works as an LPN at Bayou Regional Women’s clinic in Zachary.

The groom is the son of Ricky Holloway of Denham Springs and Eric and Robin Waxley of Pride. The groom is currently working on his bachlors de-gree at Southeastern Louisiana University and will graduate next year with a degree in Industrial Technology with a concentration in supervision.

The couple will reside in Central.

Holloway and Woolfolk wed November 22 Mary Eudora DavidsonDavidson, Mary Eudora Ard, “Aunt Sis,” “Eudora,”90, died on Wednes-

day, December 3, 2014. She was a resident of St Francisville and retired from Department of Public Welfare with 30 years of service. She was born in Freeland, Louisiana.

A 2:30 pm graveside service will be on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at Star Hill Cemetery in St . Francisville conducted by Rev Harold Babin.

She is survived by her nieces, Melanie Ard Bailey and husband Tony of Plano TX, Frances Ard Smith and husband Charles of Baton Rouge, Bonnie Ard Kemp and husband Bill of Baton Rouge, nephews, Ronald S. Ard and wife Brenda of St Francisville, Steven W. Ard of Sugarland, TX, a stepson, GS Davidson, Great Nephews and Nieces, Stanley J. Ard and wife Katie, Valerie Ard McConnell and husband Brent, Mandy A. Bailey, Michael A. Bailey, Deanna Smith Knoff and husband Tim, Brian Smith and wife Karyn, Trey Kemp and numerous great great nephews and nieces.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Francis M. Davidson, par-ents, John A. and Mary Fishburn Ard , three brothers, Warner Ard, James Ard, and Phillip F. Ard and one sister, Elma Agnes Ard.

Pallbearers will be Ronald S. Ard, Stanley J. Ard, Brent McConnell, Tony Bailey, Michael Bailey and Leroy Schillings.

She was the Valedictorian graduating from Julius Freyhan High School on May 30, 1941 and was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and West Feliciana Parish Historical Society.

Memorial Donations may be made to LA War Veterans Home, 4739, LA Hwy 10, Jackson, LA 70791.

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my wife and I and one of my busi-ness partners will pay the $295 if you promise to pay us back.”

I agreed to the deal and asked in-structions about how I was to send him the money. He instructed me to go to a pharmacy that sold “Gree Dot” money cards. He specified that the card had to be just the kind he instructed and that it had to be a paper card, not a plastic card. I did as instructed and found a “Green.dot” money card just as he told me I could find at a nearby pharmacy.

During all this time, he told me not to hang up and hold the phone by my side as I went into the store and bought the “Green Dot” money card for $100.00. He repeatedly told me not tell anyone my busi-ness, including anyone I could bor-row money from. After I got back to my car, he asked me to scratch off a place on the back of the card which revealed a set of numbers. I did as instructed and he asked for the numbers and I gave them to him.

Mr. Goldberg then instructed me to drive back to my house so they could complete the transaction and deliver my check and car. Mr. Goldberg told me not to hang up as he would stay on the phone until I got back home so he could coor-dinate the delivery as his delivery team was running a tight schedule.

After I arrived back at my house, Mr. Robert Goldberg told me “Con-gratulations again” and reminded me to give some of the money to the church and pay him back the $295. I assured him that I would. The final step while my wife and I were waiting for delivery was to

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talk with the owner of the com-pany. At that point, a “Mr. Green” (the alleged owner of something) came on the phone. He sounded quiet and dignified.

Mr. Green then asked me po-litely, “Have you paid your trans-fer fee?” “I paid a $100 fee” was my reply. “The transfer fee is $150 and we are prohibited by law from helping you pay this transfer fee.”

At that point I told Mr. Green that I was terribly sorry and extremely disappointed, but I could not beg or borrower that much money. He insisted that I tell him how much money I did have. I told him that I only had $40 to my name. He told me that I would have to get the full $150 or lose the $750,000 and the new Mercedes Benz car. He asked me if I could get the full $150 if he gave me till tomorrow (Thursday). My reply was that I would try.

Mr. Green called me five more times between 4:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday wanting to know if I had the money. I finally told him that I had borrowed $20 more dollars. He said keep dig-ging and he would hold my money until sometime Thursday when he called.

Writer’s comment: I don’t usu-ally write about personal experi-ences, but this fraud scheme or scam was too fresh and real not to let other people in the 225 area code know that this outfit was call-ing cell phones in the 225 area code of Louisiana and trolling for money. My first call tomorrow will be to the State Attorney General’s office about this fraud. By the way, the two numbers these guys used in calling me are: 239.400.3725 and 876.562.6432.

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