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Local Pilgrimage Blessed By Pope FrancisBy James Ronald skains

On December 11, 2013 local resident Robert “Bob” Anderson received the experience of a life-time for a person of the Catholic faith, a briBy James Ronald Skains

On December 11, 2013 local resident Robert “Bob” Anderson received the experience of a life-time for a person of the Catholic faith, a brief audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome.

“I was with a group of about 15 people that Father Bayhi took to Rome last month,” Robert “Bob” Anderson told the EXPLORER. “We knew that we would get to see the Pope during his weekly au-dience with people in St. Peter’s Square, but never in my wildest dreams did I expect for the Pope to put his hands on my head and bless me.”

Father Bayhi is the pastor Local resident Bob Anderson receives a blessing from Pope Francis.

of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Zachary and Our Lady of the Assumption in Clinton. His travel group, of which Anderson is a member, spent December 2 through December 12, 2013 in Rome and Sicily touring the many historical Catholic churches in that area. Bayhi usually takes one or two groups each year to Rome and the Vatican.

As the trip progressed, it seemed that Anderson’s chances of even seeing the Pope from afar were diminishing rapidly.

“I’ve had back and knee prob-lems in recent years. The cobble-stone streets in Rome and Sicily really made it difficult for me to get around. By the time we were back in Rome on the December 10, I could hardly walk. Rick Smith obtained a wheel chair for me to

See PAPAL BLESSING page 3

Construction on the new Audu-bon Market Grocery Store is under-way on U.S. Highway 61 in St. Fran-cisville next to the new Best Western Hotel.

The David and LeBlanc’s family have owned the current two stores in town, and are building the state of the art 34,000 square foot grocery market. The store will be affiliated with Associated Grocers, and will be approximately 3 times the size of their current Feliciana Supermarket.

Many residents and well wishers in attendance are excited to have the increase selections that come with the new store.

“This is the kind of development I am excited about, I thank the Leb-lanc and David family for believing in this community, and making the investment of their earnings back into West Feliciana Parish, providing

Audubon Market Breaks Ground in St. Francisville

A crowd of local well wishers came out Wednesday morning for the ground-breaking of the new Audubon Market on Hwy 61. From left to right: Dustin Schewe, Emerson LeBlanc, Sr., Marcus Brister, Mike LeBlanc, Carter Leake, John David, Darrell David, Billy D’Aquilla, Richard Jarreau, Lisa LeBlanc, Kevin Couhig, Robert Davis, and David Politz.

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jobs to so many of our residents,” Parish President Kevin Couhig said.

Weather permitting, the store will take about 9 months to complete, and should be ready for next football season!

“Our custom-designed facility will be a high energy and customer interactive store. We are looking for-ward to an early fall 2014 opening,” Feliciana Supermarket Manager Lisa Leblanc said. “We will have ev-erything from fresh sushi and hand cut steaks, to a floral department and upscale wine selections.” Leblanc added.

An Architectural rendering of the now under construction Audubon Market in St. Francisville.

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ride in and he was pushing me the day we got to see the Pope.”

“Father Bayhi knew a man who was a retired security officer at the Vatican,” Anderson explained. “This man was able to guide us to an area close to the Square where we could drive to so it would not be so far to push someone in a wheel chair.”

“Rick Smith was absolutely wonderful to me. Once we got into the square, we were initially told that we would be in a group of 5,000 who would have an audi-ence with the Pope in a big room at the Sistine Chapel. After wait-ing for a while, the plans changed and the Pope decided to hold the audience outside. All the people in wheel chairs and even those on beds were brought up to the front of the group. There were probably 30,000 people standing behind us in the Square.”

“As I sat there waiting for the Pope to come out, all I was think-ing was that I would get the oppor-tunity to see the Pope up close,” Anderson related. “At that point, I had no reason to imagine what was about to happen to me.”

“After the Pope came out, he began to move through the crowd of handicapped people in wheel-chairs and beds stopping to talk to some of them and blessing them. There were lots of us handicapped people that day so it took a while for the Pope to get over in our area. Finally we could see that he was coming down the row that we were in.”

“When the Pope reached me, he stopped,” Anderson recalled

vividly. “He took my hand in his, said a few words in Italian, and then placed his hand on my head and blessed me. As the Pope turned to walk on, he said to me in English, “Pray for me.” The Pope is a very warm, charismatic person.”

“It was an overwhelmingly, a once in a life-time experience for me,” Ander-son, a native of New Orleans, ac-knowledged. “It was particularly meaningful to me because last May, I lost my wife of 50 years to a sud-den illness. She was in reasonably good health, but one morning she just did not wake up.”

A n d e r s o n graduated from De Lassalle high school in New Or-leans in the late 1950’s. After at-tending UNO for a time, Anderson began a 40-year career in the bank-

ing industry. His first job was with the old Hibernia

Bank. However, he spent most of

his career in Alexandria as an Ex-ecutive Officer with the old Secu-rity National Bank.

“After Regions Bank bought out Security National Bank in the early 2000’s, my wife and I de-cided to move from Alexandria to the Zachary area to be closer to our grandkids,” Anderson pointed out. “We had a lot of good friends in Alexandria, but no family. We had been active in our church in Alex-andria for years and had a large church family.”

Both of Anderson’s children graduated from Menard High School in Alexandria. Son Jeffery, works for a British law firm that specializes in municipal bond is-sues throughout England and Eu-rope. An LSU and University of Michigan graduate, Jeffrey works in public relations in the bond di-vision of the British Law firm. Jef-frey is also a Rotary Club scholar, earning a year at the University of Durham in England.

Daughter Lisa works at the Lady of the Lake in the Human Resource Department. She has two children, and lives in Zachary.

Anderson is very active in vari-ous venues with Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church in Zach-ary. He expected the trip to Rome to be very enjoyable, but had no thought of be blessed person-ally by the head of the Catholic Church. It was a combination of not only being in the right place at the right time, but also being in the right condition.

Pope Francis

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Wildcat Softball Standout Signs Letter of Intent

It would be wonderful if all the churches in East Feliciana Parish would participate in Souper Bowl Sunday for Helping in His Name Food Bank of Jackson or another food bank of your choice.

Souper Bowl of Caring is youth across the nation working in their church to fight hunger and poverty for their community.

It all takes place the day of the big football game – the Super Bowl. On February 2, 2014 the youth stand at the church door and take up a collection (use a soup pot) asking for a donation. They also can have a huge box to take up a collection of food. It doesn’t have to be a can of soup but we love to get cans of soup but a jar of peanut butter, jelly or can meats is fine, also.

They give 100% of their donation directly to the food bank.In 2012, more than 10,000 groups collected more than $9.8 million in

dollars and food for local hunger-relief charities. That’s a total of more than $90 million collected since the movement began in 1990! Help us grow this movement and tackle hunger in America!

We thank each and every church in East Feliciana that plans to partici-pate.

Feliciana Residents Encouraged to Participate in Souper Bowl Sunday

Silliman senior Brooke Watts recently signed with Delta State for women’s softball. Those joining her celebration were her parents Todd and Tabatha Watts, sister Brittany Watts, mentor Kevin Ellzey, administrator Ann Kent, athletic director Sharon Kline, and softball coach Trae Weaver. Also present were her softball teammates and many other family members and friends. Congratulations Brooke on your exciting future!Brooke finished her senior year as a Lady Wildcat with a 21-8 overall record and a 5-0 district record. She threw 2,356 total pitches, had 179 strikeouts in 141.1 innings, 1.406 ERA, and threw 1 no hitter.Brooke earned the team pitching award at Silliman. She was selected to the MAIS 1st team All-District team, the MAIS AA South State All-Tournament team, and the MAIS AA State All-Tournament team. Brooke was also selected to play in the 2013 MAIS All-Star game!

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Black History Month Display at Rosedown: Month of Febru-ary, 10 am-4 pm. In celebration of Black History Month, Rose-down will mount a display in the gift shop conference room hon-oring the lives and accomplish-ments of African-Americans. The exhibit will feature pictures, brief biographies and music of African-Americans who had an influence on history. For more information, call 225-635-3110 in the St. Fran-cisville area, or visit the Office of State Parks web site at www.last-ateparks.com.

Garden Tour Fridays at Rose-

down: February 7, 2014, 10 am. A guided walking tour of the historic Rosedown Gardens and Outbuild-ings. Program occurs every first Friday of each month. For more information, call 225-635-3110 in the St. Francisville area, or visit the Office of State Parks web site at www.lastateparks.com.

Enslaved Life at Rosedown: February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014, 11 am. An overview of the history of Af-rican-American enslavement, spe-cifically in Louisiana, followed by a more detailed look into enslaved life at Rosedown. The layout of the plantation, including outbuildings, home sites, work areas and fields will be discussed. Also discussed will be the duties and accomplish-ments of the inhabitants of Rose-down, including a walking tour of outbuildings on the grounds. For more information, call 225-635-3110 in the St. Francisville area, or visit the Office of State Parks web site at www.lastateparks.com.

African and Caribbean Influ-

ence in Southern Antebellum Cook-ing at Rosedown: February 15, 2014, 11 am – 2 pm. In recognition/celebration of Black History Month, State Parks Staff will discuss and demonstrate the tremendous in-fluence of African and Caribbean peoples to the cooking heritage of the Antebellum South. Visitors will

receive printed menus and recipes of all dishes prepared during this demonstration, highlighting the specific African and Caribbean in-fluences in each recipe. For more in-formation, call 225-635-3110 in the St. Francisville area, or visit the Of-fice of State Parks web site at www.lastateparks.com.

A Gathering of Writers & Read-

ers Arts for All is pleased to an-nounce the return of an annual symposium for writers and lovers of writing to be reprised February 22, 2014 at Hemingbough. Through adoption of this event, Arts for All continues its mission of being the umbrella organization for ALL the arts in our parish! The event is growing in stature and popularity each year. For 2014, we have invited four of the best regional writers to share their works and their creative practices with those in attendance. The authors are Wiley Cash, Anne Butler, Rheta Grimsley Johnson and Julie Kane. Ernest Gaines, a recent National Medal of Arts win-

ner, will be present as our guest of honor. The 2014 Gathering of Writers and Readers promises to be our best symposium yet. These diverse authors have been specifi-cally chosen to give the audience a well-balanced appreciation for the art of literature---poetry, fic-tion, creative nonfiction, non-fiction, all with great appeal to Louisiana readers. They will share their creative processes and works; participants, including several students on scholarships, are encouraged to ask questions and will have an opportunity to interact with the authors. Seating is limited. For online information visit http://artsforall.felicianalo-cal.com. Tickets, $35, may be purchased at http://www.brown-papertickets.com/event/491750 and include parking, individual author presentations as well as moderated panel discussions, book signings, refreshments, lunch and a dessert reception with authors. For more Informa-tion call 225-302-3524

EVENTS IN THE FELICIANAS

There’s something to do every day in the Felicianas. From choir performances and rodeos to Main Street markets and special library programming for children, this area is rich in cultural and social activities. If you have an event you would like the public to know about, send and email to

info@felicianaexplorer.com. Space allowing, your event will be included for free in the Event Calendar section.

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Four Silliman students were chosen to participate in the Day with the Doctors program on January 8, 2014. These students, from Mrs. Sharon Kline’s Biology II class, were Devin Coarsey, Sunne Pace, Lexi Rodriguez, and Sarah Bordelon. The Day with the Doctorsprogram is open to eleventh and twelfth grade students with at least a 3.0 GPA. The program gives students the opportunity to spend a day at the LSU Health New Orleans Medicine campus. During their day on campus, students learn about medi-cal problems, work with specimens and microscopic slides, practice basic life support techniques, explore the anatomy and/or pathology labs, interact with medical students and faculty, and receive medical school admissions information and more. The girls’ favorite experience was shocking the “human simulator” back to life after it died from complications. They were thrilled with their experience and came back with many interesting stories.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. March on January 20The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee, will be celebrating our

Annual Candlelight March honoring the legacy of Dr. King. To com-memorate Dr. King’s Legacy we will pay special tribute to all veterans. This event will be held on Monday, January 20, 2014, with the march beginning at 6:00 p.m. from the Zachary City Hall and ending at the New Pilgrim Baptist Church. A program will be held at the church be-ginning at 6:30 p.m. Retired Major Patrick Jenkins, Director of Opera-tions, Zachary Community School Board will serve as our speaker for the evening.

The committee is asking all church choir members to participate in the community choir. They extend a special invitation to all veterans. They are asking everyone to wear red, white or blue.

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Zachary Committee will also be cel-ebrating their Annual MLK Scholarship Ball. This event will be held on Saturday, January 25, 2014, from 9:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m. at the Baker Municipal Center, Groom Road, Baker, La. The theme for this event is, “Living the Legacy and the Dream”. Tickets are $25 per person and can be purchase from any MLK Committee Member. This year chairpersons are Janice Huggins (225)939-3241 and Brenda Barber (225)978-4464.

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20th Judicial District Attorney to Sponsor Upcoming Boating Safety Course

The 20th Judicial District Attor-ney’s Office is sponsoring a Boating Safety Course on Saturday, February 15, 2014 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Jackson Civic Center, 2084 Hwy. 10, Jackson, Louisiana. The course will be taught by Agents from The Louisiana Department of Wild-life & Fisheries. The course includes information on choosing a boat, classification, hulls, motors, legal requirements and equipment require-ments, many navigations rules, navi-gation charts, trailering, sailboats and related subjects that include canoe-ing, personal watercraft and more.

Completion of the course will result in the student being issued a vessel operators certification card.

All persons born after January 1, 1984, must complete a boating safety course and carry proof of comple-tion to operate a motorboat in excess of 10 horsepower. The person may operate the boat if accompanied by someone over 18 years of age who if required has completed the course. It is illegal for anyone under the age of 16 to operate a personal watercraft (PWC).

Please contact Crystal at 225-683-8563 to register, seating is limited.

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