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Bertrand appointedacting principal at BHS

BEARCAT WRESTLERS HEADED TO STATE MEET- The BHS varsity wrestling team trav-els to New Orleans this weekend to partcipate in the annual state meet. Team members are Kyle Teal, Gavin Christ, Brennan Langley, Gage Johnson, Cameron Berzas, Devin Bazinet, Neavonte Guillory, Raymond Bushnell, Isaac Cortez, Gavin Cortez, Lane Joubert, Zack Vin-son, Mason Deshotel, Coach Chad LaFleur, Trey Fontenot, and Lonnie Howard.

BEARCAT BASKETBALL TEAM- The BHS boys’ basketball team completed its season Tues-day night. The young squad has only one senior and looks forward to great years in the future. Team members are Kendrick Ceaser, RaShawn Murphy, Devonte Jarred, Coach Sam Bacon, Coach Matt Fontenot, Hunter Aucoin, Gabe Fontenot, Mark Ledoux, Sara Leger, stats.; Jeremy Klumpp, Rashad Murphy, Conner Fontenot, Dagan LeJeune, Cole Hyatt, Heath Au-coin, Laiton Langley, Mark Ivory, and Lincoln Fontenot, stats. Not pictured- Trent LeJeune.

BHS FBLA STUDENTS PLACE FIRST AT DISTRICT CONFERENCE- Kelsey Jenkins, Busi-ness Communications; Elizabeth Ortego, Job Interview; Lation Langley, Business Law; Gar-rett Johnson, Insurance and Risk Management; and T.J. Courville, Accounting.

Anthony “Coach Tony” Bertrand has been named acting principal at Basile High School by Superintendent Toni Hamlin and assumed duties on Thursday, February 6. He replaces Georgie Courville, who is on extended sick leave through the remainder of the school year.

Bertrand is a 1989 Basile High graduate with both an undergraduate degree in secondary edu-cation and a master’s in administration from Mc-Neese State University.

He returned to BHS in 1994 as a P.E. instruc-tor, English teacher, and assistant football coach. Through the years, he also coached Jr. High foot-ball and boy’s basketball, varsity girls’ track, and wrestling. He was named athletic director and head football coach in 2006 and has been serving as assistant principal since 2011.

The son of the late Russell and the late Brenda Bertrand, Coach Tony becomes the fifth Basile High alumni to assume the leadership role of principal at his alma mater. Prior BHS graduates who served as principal were Elden Brunet, Edward Landry, Jr., Johney Jeans, and Georgie Courville.

Bertrand is married to the former Natalie Cour-ville, who serves as the BHS librarian.

They have three children, Nick and Ben, both BHS graduates now at McNeese, and Lauren, a BHS freshman.

Acting Principal Tony Bertrand speaks at the recent assembly to honor retiring princi-pal Georgie Courville.

Five BHS students win first place honorsBasile High FBLA Chapter captures numerous superior, excellent awards at district

Five Basile High FBLA members garnered top honors at the recent district FBLA conference held at St. Edmund School in Eunice. Those five stu-dents and the subject area in which they competed were Kelsey Jenkins, Business Communications; Elizabeth Ortego, Job Interview; Laiton Langley, Business Law; Garrett Johnson, Insurance and Risk Management; and T.J. Courville, Accounting.

Kelsey Jenkins also received a superior rat-ing in Public Speaking II. In addition, another 15 BHS students also received Superior ratings. They were Uriah Wallace, Business Calculations; Taylor Williams, Business Calculations; Kyle Ber-geaux, Business Law; Nariah Thomas, Health Care Administration; Savanna Bergeaux, Hospitality Management; Lily Duplechin, Hospitality Manage-ment; Layna Fontenot, Hospitality Management; Emily Fontenot, Insurance and Risk Management; Christopher Hebert, Intro. to Business; Rheagan Ortego, Intro. to Business Communications; Bre-anna Comeaux, Intro. to Parliamentary Procedure; Joshua Bertrand, Marketing; Hedrick Deshotel, Marketing; Morgan Lavergne, Marketing; and Em-ily Ortego, Personal Finance. All first place win-ners and superior rated students advance now to the state convention competitions.

Basile High students See FBLA, Page 2

BHS Lady Cats at Metairie Park-Country Day

Bi-District Playoff Basketball GameThursday, Feb. 20 6 p.m.

Admission - $6 Students - $4

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FBLA SUPERIOR- Hedrick Deshotel, Emily Fontenot, Lily Dupl-echin, Layna Fontenot, Savanna Bergeaux, Rheagan Ortego, Emily Ortego, Christopher Hebert, Elizabeth Ortego; Laiton Langley, Bre-anna Comeaux, Kyle Bergeaux, Morgan Lavergne, Josh Bertrand, Kelsey Jenkins, Taylor Williams, Uriah Wallace, Garrett Johnson, and T. J. Courville.

FBLA EXCELLENT- Sara Leger, Allie Cormier, Connor Broussard, Bailey Fournet, Alison Miller, Josey Manuel, Josh Bertrand, Devin Bazinet, Gavin Cortez, Courtney Bergeron, Rashad Murphy, Mason Deshotel, McKayla Adams, Rylie James, Aushanti Belle, and Morgan Lavergne.

U. James RichardU. James Richard was born in Basile, LA on

July 25, 1932 to the union of Laddie Richard and Ivy Langley Richard. He was a 1950 graduate of Basile High School where he lettered in football, basketball, baseball and track. He departed this earth on January 25, 2014 at his home in Sulphur.

Upon graduation, he and a childhood friend, enlisted in the U.S. Navy, days after the out-break of the Korean Conflict. While serving in the US Navy, he was awarded the Good Con-duct Medal and the Presidential Unit Cita-tion. He received an honorable discharge.

He was predeceased by his parents, Lad-die and Ivy Langley Richard, his step mother – Ozema Fruge Richard, one sister – Leatrice “Lee” Didelot, and infant daughter Phoebe.

Also surviving him are his 6 children Celize (Liz) Johnson (Kenneth) of Basile, Glynis (Kay) Christ (Darwin) of Basile, LA, Benny Richard Sr. (Patsy) of Hayes, Louise (Shelly) LeBlanc (Ray) of Lake Charles, LA, J. Kent Richard (Gaby) of Laredo, Texas, and Chad Richard of Sulphur. He is also survived by 17 grandchildren, 37 great grandchildren and 5 great great grandchildren.

He is survived by 4 sisters, Deola Fuselier and husband Claude of Lake Charles, Leola Daugereau and husband James Ray of Sulphur, Margie Raborn and husband Doy “Red” of Monroe, and Ju-lia Deloach and husband David of Lake Charles.

Also mourning his loss is his lov-ing companion, Betty Elkins of Westlake.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 11 a.m. at Johnson and Ro-bison Funeral Home in Sulphur with Rev. Steve Shirley officiating. Burial was at Mimosa Pines Cemetery North in Sulphur under the direc-tion of Johnson and Robison Funeral Home.

Basile High lists third six weeks honor, banner roll

Stewart Elementary names banner, honor, merit students

Banner Roll and Honor Roll students for the third six weeks grading period at Basile High School were re-cently named. Honored students are as follows:

Banner Roll-Grade 5 - Hayden RozasGrade 6 - Isaiah CeasarHunter LangleyGrade 7 - Katelynn DougetPreslea LairdGrade 9 - Jeremy BustardeGrade 11 - Savanna Bergeaux

Grade 12 -Mason DeshotelElizabeth OrtegoPaige RozasHonor Roll-Grade 5 - Tyler Arn-

aud, Shelbie Bergeaux, Andrew Fontenot, Kelsey LeJeune, Wesley LeJeune, Payton Ly-ons, Cole Manuel, Jacey Manuel, Lainey Soile-aux, Daenen Stokes.

Grade 6 - Isabella Chaumont, Logan Da-vid, Ian Fontenot, Jude Guillory, Alyssa John-son, Rigoberto Mencha-ca, Katelyn Zaunbre-cher

Grade 7 - Conner Arnaud, Gavin Christ, Angel Clavier, Alaina Denette, Harlie Den-ette, Caitlynn Desho-tels, Reagan Ledoux, Cade Maglalang, Arys Rozas, Cade Smith, Shelby Sonnier, Jaylen Thomas, Madison Vic-torian.

Grade 8 - Cameron Berzas, Luke Dupl-echin, Cameron He-bert, Laila Ivory, Jessie Johnson, Bailey Miller, Michael Queflander.

Grade 9 - Kyle Ber-geaux, Daniel Bergeron, Emily Fuselier, Josey

Manuel, Patricia Mara-sigan, Alexys Miller, Rheagan Ortego.

Grade 10 - Lauren Bertrand, Allie Corm-ier, Kaelan Fontenot, Sarah Guidry, Jakob Richard.

Grade 11 - Kelsey Jenkins, Jude Johnson, Margaret McGehee, Emily Ortego, Nariah Thomas.

Grade 12 - Joshua Bertrand, Emily Fon-tenot, Trey Fontenot, Ruby Luna.

Banner Roll, Honor Roll, and Merit Roll stu-dents for the third six weeks grading period at W. W. Stewart Elemen-tary School were re-cently named. Honored students are as follows:

Grade 1 -Banner Roll - Ken-

nedy Dubroc, Kannon Espree, Paisley Wilson, Marshailyn Belton, Jo-seph Bertrand, Claire Brown, Alyssa Den-ette, Kadence Fontenot, Gracelyn Langley, Drew Soileau, Brian Walker, Kohen Comeaux, Jack-son Courville, Brady Duplechin, Malori Per-son, Zeke Trahan.

Honor Roll - Scott Berzas, Joshua Ceasar, Xavier Charles, Ka-leigh Deaville, Maxel Howell, Mattox Jen-kins, Gabrielle Leckelt, Gracie Martel, Preston Miller, Da’Shawn Ran-dell, Hunter Sonnier, Sy

Boenig, Isaiah Charles, Pierson Comeaux, Hunter Duplechain, Lillian Fontenot, Jacob Francois, Kayden Givs, Blake Myers, Bricelyn Thomas, Olivia Vidrine, Kiera Belton, Bailey Cormier, Jacob Corm-ier, Lazoria Johnson, Delanate Pitre, Kier-sten Veillon.

Merit Roll - Hayden Clavier, Devon Guillory, Eden James, Natalya Stewart, Lannie Fruge-Reed, Alijah Hardy, Bailey Leblanc, Sayg Smith.

Grade 2 -Banner Roll - Hud-

son Conner, Riley Dar-bonne, Lilith McGil-berry, Dakota Worley, Hannah Aguillard, Dai-sy Berzas, Pablo Lopez, Jaden Menard, Kather-ine Rodriguez, Abigail Roy, Drake Whalen.

Honor Roll - Piper Bushnell, Landon Dar-

bonne, Ayden Deaville, Lexi Fruge, Madison Jackson, Jeslyn Lang-ley, Jada Lavergne, Thomas Pousson, Alisa Scully, Devonte Deville, Jorden Finney, Aydan Istre, Tucker Leblanc, Gerrick Leckelt.

Merit Roll - Clifton Ceasar, Joseph Marc-antel, Tyler Newman, Blake Cormier, Camer-on Miller.

Grade 3 -Banner Roll - Alli

Chaumont, Isabella De-shotel, Hanna Manuel.

Honor Roll - Gavin Ardoin, Camille Berzas, Luke Fontenot, Madi-son Forestier, Laken Francois, Victoria Fran-cois, Ashland John-son, Gabrielle Pousson, Christina Richardson, Alexis Stewart, Tanner Arnaud, Briley Crochet, Mary Fontenot, Hayden Fruge, Amber Jenkins, Nathan Manuel, Land-

on Metrejean, Lydia Miller, Kaylea Hawkins.

Merit Roll - Chris-tian Bergeron, Amayah Bertrand, Molly Cor-tez, Jayden Guillory, Sara Lucero, Landon Thibodeaux, Connor Fruge, Layla Guidroz, Kelsey Marcantel, Greg Zaunbrecher.

Grade 4 -Honor Roll - Na-

thaniel Romero, Sa-mantha Ashford, Vivian Deshotel, Alex Guidroz, Ethan Langley, Cain Ledoux, Madison Wor-ley, Ethan Bergeron, Ethan Clavier, Sara Courville, Olivia Den-ette, Alexandria Dupl-echin, Matthew Fran-cois, Jessie Gathe, Jack Sonnier.

Merit Roll - Devon Dever, Luke Aguillard, Kaden Gibbs, Jynlee Conner, Ayden Cour-ville.

Obamacare assistance in parish An Affordable Care Act navigator will be in

Evangeline Parish during the month of March to assist people with their health care applications. The navigator will be at the main library in Ville Platte from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on March 11 and 18. She will be at the Mamou branch from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on March 11. She will be at the Pine Prai-rie branch from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on March 18.

Appointments are preferred. Please con- tact Lou Hulin at (337) 989-0001 or email her at lafnaviga- tor@swlahec.com.

The 2014 St. Au-gustine Church Ba-zaar has been set for Saturday, May 3 and Sunday, May 4 at the J.C. Speyrer Center.

The bazaar com-mittee members are

as follows: Natalie Bertrand, chairman; Georgie Courville and Cheryl Reed, auction; Regina Klumpp, sweet shop; Rosie Fournerat, country store; Rachel Manuel, children’s

games; Lois Marcan-tel, plant shop; Can-dace Klumpp, bingo; and Carmen Langley, competitive games.

There are still many things to be decided and many volunteers

needed. For more in-formation or to volun-teer your time, talents, or treasures, please contact Natalie Ber-trand at 277-2432.

St. Augustine Catholic Church Bazaar is May 3, 4

received excellent rat-ings in 20 areas of com-petition. The were as follows: Mason Desho-tel, Business Commu-nications and Current Events; Sara Leger, Business Law; Aus-hanti Belle, Computer Applications; Hedrick Deshotel, Computer Applications; Brooks Stroderd, Computer Problem Solving; Josh-ua Bertrand, Current Events; Raymond Bush-nell, Current Events; Alison Miller, Econom-ics; Rashad Murphy, FBLA Principles and Procedures; Chesley Hebert, Help Desk; Ry-lie James, Insurance and Risk Management; Gavin Cortez, Intro. to Business; Allie Corm-ier, Intro. to Business Communications; Josey Manuel, Intro. to Par-liamentary Procedure; Devin Bazinet, Intro. to Information Technol-ogy Concepts; Courtney Bergeron, Personal Fi-nance; Connor Brous-sard, Spreadsheet Ap-plications; McKayla Adams, Word Process-ing; and Bailey Fournet, Word Processing.

Basile High School FBLA advisor is Richelle Frey.

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Time to recertify for food boxesFood for Families/Seniors will be March 6, 2014,

Town Hall, 1pm - 2 pmIT IS RECERTIFICATION TIME. All PER-

SONS ON THE PROGRAM need to bring their 2014 Proof(s) of Income. Please bring it to the next distribution on March 6, 2014. This can be, BUT not limited to, your Award Letter, Bank Statement dated within 30 days, Copy of the current check, Food Stamp Income Verification, and/or Recent Pay Stubs, etc. If you have any questions, contact Evangeline Community Action at (337) 363-6800.

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By: Darrel LeJeuneThis is the sixth

in a series of articles that are appearing throughout this year as The Basile Weekly celebrates fifty years as your hometown newspaper.

August 25, 1965Bearcat coaches for

the 1965 football sea-son are Gerald Con-ner, line; Leslie Smith, head coach; and Donnie Smith, backfield.

The Southwest La. Swine Producers re-ceived top prices for the 650 pigs brought to the feeder pig sale last Thursday. Total sales amounted to $15,547.

Ferdie Andrus was recently elected Su-pervisor of Education for Evangeline Parish Schools.

Hebert’s IG is selling a 5 lb. bag of sugar for 49 cents.

September 15, 1965Basile Postmaster

M.J. Hester announces that all envelope prices have advanced by one cent each. Rural route patrons should leave seven cents for each regular envelope and 10 cents for each air mail envelope in their rural boxes.

September 22, 1965A dispensation from

the law of fasting on ember days has been granted by Bishop Maurice Schexnayder of Lafayette to Catho-lic teachers and other adults participating in the public school lunch programs in the Diocese of Lafayette.

October 6, 1965Jane Pelloquin is

crowned Miss Basile High School 1965 from a field of 35 entries. First runnerup was Gilda Corkin. Second runnerup was Elaine LaFleur. The pageant, sponsored by the Basile High Band Parents, has been a recent tradition at BHS since 1960 with the following girls re-ceiving the crown: Judy McClelland, 1960; Judy Deshotel, 1961; Judy Perrodin, 1962; Helen Langley, 1963; and Car-ol Christ, 1964.

Rod Bernard, Warren

Storm, and Skip Stew-art - The Shondell’s - will play every Tuesday night at the 4 Corners Club between Basile and Evangeline.

City Cash Grocery is selling 10 lbs. of red po-tatoes for 49 cents.

October13, 1965Two Basile men are

among seven locals un-der the employment of Meier Contractors, Inc. who are currently work-ing in Alaska for several weeks. Griffin LeJeune and Joe Douget are the two from Basile.

October 13, 1965A Junior Newman

Club has been formed at St. Augustine Catholic Church for high school students. Officers are Douglas Deshotel, pres-ident; Candace Fon-tenot, vice-president; Diane Ortego, secre-tary; Robert Andrus, treasurer; and Dione Redlich, reporter-his-torian. Supervision is under the direction of Rev. Jules Speyrer and Sister Mary Rose as moderator.

October 20, 1965The Class of 1939

is being honored at Homecoming this Fri-day where Elaine De-barge will be crowned as Homecoming Queen.

November 3, 1965Evangeline Parish

voters are being asked to go to the polls this week to vote for a pro-posed one cent sales tax to be used for teacher salaries.

November 24, 1965 A total of 1, 361 pigs

were auctioned Thurs-day at the Southwest La. Swine Association Pig Sale in Basile, net-ting $27,709, a new re-cord total.

Lionel LeJeune bagged a bobcat at Red Bluff, west of Basile. The cat weighed 14 1/2 pounds and was 45 inches long.

Gibson’s in Eunice is selling a BB gun for $8.88 as a Christmas gift special.

December 1, 1965 Cash and Carry Gro-

cey has announced its plans to close before the end of the year.

The Basile Home Demonstration Club will sponsor its annual Christmas lighting con-test with judging be-tween December 20 and 24. Categories include best overall, best win-dow, best outside deco-rations, and best door.

A look back at the past 50 years through the

pages of The Basile Weekly

Oberlin conquers Basile basketball teams By: Darrel LeJeuneThe Basile High

Lady Bearcats closed out their regular season last Tuesday in a heart-breaking one point loss at home to the Ober-lin Lady Tigers while the Bearcat boys suf-fered a crushing defeat against the number eight ranked Tiger boys.

Lady Cats 35, Lady Tigers 36The Basile girls

looked to be walking away with an easy win after the first quarter as they pumped in 12 points while allowing OHS only three points.

The Lady Tigers, however, came back strong in the second pe-riod with a 12-9 advan-tage, putting the half-time tally at Basile 21, Oberlin 15.

Both teams netted seven points in the third stanza, but Oberlin es-caped with the one point win when a jump ball call with one second on the clock gave the Lady Tigers an inbound pass under the goal that re-sulted in a shocking basket that gave Ober-lin 14 total points in the final quarter. Basile finished the last stanza with only seven points.

Rylie James led BHS with 11 points followed by Ryan Langley with 10, Daquana Deville with nine, McKayla Ad-ams with three, and Ne-Dasia Adams with two.

The Lady Cats end their regular season with a 18-14 record and a fourth place finish in tough district 4-1A.

The Basile High girls will now face Metai-rie Park-Country Day today (Feb. 20) in a bi-district playoff game on the road at 6 p.m. as the state’s number 22 pow-

er-ranked team.Bearcats 47, Tigers 69Basile’s boys put a

scare in the Oberlin Tigers during the first period of play with both teams hitting for 14 points by the end of one stanza.

The game remained close in the second quar-ter with Oberlin total-ling 14 points to Basile’s eight to put the halftime mark at 28-22 in favor of the Tigers.

OHS broke open the close game in third, net-ing 17 points to Basile’s 10.

A 24-16 Oberlin ad-vantage finished off the Bearcats in the fourth period.

Gabe Fontenot was Basile’s lead scorer with 16 points, including four three pointers. Hunter Aucoin was next with 11 points. RaShawn Murphy added nine, all on three pointers. Ken-drick Ceaser had a to-tal of nine, and Devon-te Jarred and Mark Ledoux added a free throw each.

The Bearcat boys still have two games on schedule for the regular season. One was played last Friday and the oth-er just this past Tues-day. See results in next week’s paper.

Senior Trent LeJeune preps for a rebound.

Senior Daquana Deville at the free throw line.

Feburary 4, 1965 - Sheriff Elin Pitre (right) presents the keys of a new police unit to Dep-uty Sheriff Sidney Stroderd of Basile. The presentation of the car fulfilled one of Sheriff Pitre’s campaign promises to his supporters in Basile. Deputy Sheriff Stroderd is now on 24 call for the people of Basile and all of Ward 2. His phone number is 432-6372.

October 27, 1965- Warren Landry (center), president of the BHS Class of 1939, is pictured with Miss Basile High Jane Pelloquin (left) and Homecoming Queen Elaine DeBarge at the reception prior to the Homecoming game against AIC of Opelousas.

September 1, 1965 - Mrs. Chester Fruge, Mrs. Barbara Perrodin, Mrs. Nelson Rich-ard, Mrs. Edwin Edwards, Mrs. Jess Burnett, and Mrs. Oren Ortego enjoy a social in honor of Mrs. Edwards at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Richard south of Basile. A total of 17 Basile ladies were in attendance plus 19 out-of-town guests.

The Afghanistan government’s recent release of doz-ens of imprisoned ter-rorists, many of whom had killed Americans, was a galling betrayal of those Americans who died defending Afghan-istan against the Tal-iban terrorists -- as well as those Americans who have returned home with arms or legs missing, or with minds traumatized beyond repair.

If we learn nothing else from the bitter tragedy of the war in Afghanistan, it should be that we should put an end forever to the self-indulgence of thinking that we can engage in “nation-build-ing” and creating “democracy” in countries where nothing resem-bling democracy has ever existed.

It would be a feat to achieve one of these objectives, but to achieve both at the same time is a gamble that makes playing Russian rou-lette look like a harmless pastime.

F.A. Hayek said, “We shall not grow wiser until we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.” Nothing is more foolish -- and immoral -- than sending men into battle to risk their lives win-ning victories that are later lost by politicians for political reasons.

That started long before the war in Afghanistan. Vietnam was a classic example. Years af-ter that war was over, the Com-munist victors themselves ad-mitted that they lost militarily in Vietnam, as they knew they would. But they won political-ly in America, with the help of Americans, including the media -- as they also knew they would.

The war in Iraq was more of the same. American troops won that war but our politicians lost the peace. Terrorists have now taken over, and raised Al Qa-eda flags, in some Iraqi towns that American troops liber-ated at the cost of many lives.

How did this happen? It hap-pened much the same way it happened in Afghanistan. We insisted on trying to create a “democracy” in the Middle East -- a place with a history go-ing back thousands of years, without a single democracy.

What we created instead was a local ruler, placed in charge as a result of the blood and trea-sure of Americans, but inde-pendent of us, because he won an election that we insisted on holding -- as if there are no prerequisites for democracy.

To compound the problem, we had members of Congress constantly talking about pull-ing out of Iraq, and demanding a timetable -- despite what mili-tary madness it is to tell your enemy when you will be gone.

With American military sup-port likely to be temporary and

Iran’s military presence next door

certain to be permanent, how sur-prising is it that Iraq’s leadership took Iran much more seriously than it took the United States?

Today, the Iraqi government is much more accommodat-ing to Iran than to the United States, despite the fact that Americans put them in power. The very same scenario was re-peated in Afghanistan, with President Obama himself an-nouncing a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops.

Afghan President Hamid Kar-zai saw the handwriting on the wall -- and what it said was that American support was temporary but the Taliban was going to be around long after the Americans were gone. He too decided that it was better to try to get on the good side of our enemies, in this case by turning loose some terrorists.

It doesn’t have to be this way.After World War II, the Ameri-

can military took over the govern-ments of Japan and West Germa-ny. We did not start out by setting up some local leader who would be able to put his own interests above ours and work at cross pur-poses against us. Nor did we an-nounce to the whole world when we planned to start reducing our troop levels in these countries.

Under the unchallenged su-premacy of General Douglas MacArthur, Japan was indeed turned into a very different coun-try, one in which democratic in-stitutions could be phased in, at whatever pace the circumstances made prudent. Something simi-lar happened in West Germany.

But this was not something that could be done quickly or on the cheap, with politicians sound-ing off in Congress about pulling out, and trying to micromanage from thousands of miles away. If we can’t be serious, we have no right to send young Ameri-cans out into the hell of war.

Thomas Sowell is a senior fel-low at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syn-dicate columnists and cartoon-ists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

Here are three things on which Louisiana liberals and conservatives should be able to agree.

First, Americans are among the most com-passionate people in the world. If you lose your job, you get unemployment benefits. If you get sick and can’t afford a doctor, you re-ceive free care. If you don’t have a place to live, we’ll provide one.

Second, this generosity is expensive. It may be free to its recipients, but it’s not to the taxpayers who pay for it. There are 126 social programs for low-income Americans (72 of which provide cash or in-kind benefits), and that’s just by the federal government. State and local governments have hundreds more. The federal government alone has spent $20.7 trillion in current dollars since 1964 on the war on poverty, and it currently spends $411 billion a year (12% of its budget) on programs for the poor, such as TANF, Sec-tion 8 vouchers, public housing, Medicaid, WIC, EITC, LIHEAP and TEFAP. We do it because Americans care. It’s what separates us from other countries that allow their less fortunate neighbors to suffer or die.

Third, because America’s social programs are so expensive, and require capital (tax-payer money) that could otherwise be spent on education, infrastructure, defense and re-search, or not taken from taxpayers in the first place, anyone who willfully lies, cheats or steals to get benefits from a social program for which he does not qualify should be pros-ecuted to the full extent of the law. No excep-tions. To do otherwise impugns the integrity of America’s social net, undermines the mag-nanimity that funds it, unfairly taints the people who need the safety net and play by its rules, and causes taxpayers to lose confi-dence in programs that help the poor.

Unfortunately, government frequently breaks this simple rule. Take food stamps (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pro-gram or SNAP), for example. SNAP provides money, through a debit card, to low-income citizens to buy food. The U.S. Department of Agriculture administers SNAP, but the ben-efits are distributed by the states, in Louisi-ana’s case the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). In 2008 there were 650,000 Louisianians on food stamps; today there are 900,000 (out of 4.5 million people). The program cost $836 million in 2008; today

it costs $1.5 billion.In May of 2013, the Louisiana Legislative

Auditor audited DCFS’s administration of the food stamp program in Louisiana. Here’s what he found:

In 2012, DCFS gave $750,000 in food stamps to 322 people who made more than $50,000 a year.

In 2011 and 2012, DCFS gave $1.1 million in food stamps to 1761 people who are in jail.

In 2011 and 2012, DCFS gave $107,864 in food stamps to 84 convicted and therefore ineligible drug felons.

From March 2010 to March 2011, DCFS gave food stamps to 1573 people who were double-dipping by receiving food stamps in Louisiana and another state.

In 2012, DCFS gave food stamps to 3060 people who spent most of the money ($2.06 million) in other states, suggesting they don’t live in Louisiana.

What happened to these food stamp viola-tors? Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

This is inexcusable. It is yet one more rea-son why middle class taxpayers--the people who pull the wagon--are so frustrated. They see people at the top getting undeserved bail-outs, people at the bottom getting unearned handouts and themselves getting the bill.

Tell your public officials to enforce the food stamp laws. Those who lie, cheat or steal to get benefits should be prosecuted. This is a principle on which liberals and conservatives should be able to agree.

John Neely Kennedy is the State Treasur-er of Louisiana. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from Vanderbilt University in Nash-ville, Tennessee, in 1973, a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law at Charlottesville in 1977, and an advanced law degree (B.C.L.) from the University of Oxford in 1979.

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LEGAL NOTICEevangeline parish police jury

regular MeeTingFeBruary 10, 2014

The Police Jury met in regular session assembled with the follow-ing members present: Kenny Burgess, Kevin Veillon, Eric Soileau, Lamar Johnson, Bryan Vidrine, Rocky Rider, Richard Thomas, Ryan Williams and Ryan Ardoin. All members were present. There were no comments from the public regarding the agenda items.

Motion was made by Richard Thomas and seconded by Lamar Johnson to authorize the payment of bills on file in the Police Jury Office. Motion carried.

Motion was made by Bryan Vidrine and seconded by Richard Thomas to approve the January 13, 2014 Regular Meeting Minutes. Motion carried.

Motion was made by Bryan Vidrine and seconded by Kevin Veillon to approve the February 3, 2014 Special and Committee Meeting Minutes. Motion carried.

Motion was made by Kenny Burgess and seconded by Lamar Johnson to approve the cemetery rehire list for the fiscal year 2014. Motion carried. (Cemetery rehire list can be viewed in the Police Jury office upon request)

Motion was made by Bryan Vidrine and seconded by Richard

Thomas approving to rehire Landscape Creations for the mainte-nance of the flowerbeds located on the Courthouse grounds at $150/mth. Motion carried.

The jury then discussed cost of living raises for Office Personnel, Road Crew employees and Health Unit/Sewer Department. Comparison sheets are being prepared and once completed will be discussed further at the March Finance Committee meeting.

The generator preventative maintenance quote was then discussed.

The jury is looking into having the Parish’s emergency generators properly maintained and tested to ensure accuracy before Hurricane season begins. A quote was received for maintenance of the gen-erators. Police Juror, Lamar Johnson, questioned as to whether the parish had employees qualified to do the testing. It was stated that the Basile Fire Chief checks their generator each month and the Office of Emergency preparedness also maintains their generator. If maintenance of generators are being done by parish employees, proper paperwork should be submitted to the office showing that maintenance is being done.

Stagg Parrot, AFLAC representative addressed the jury in regards to submitting bids for employee health insurance.

Motion was made by Lamar Johnson and seconded by Bryan Vidrine to approve entering into a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement with Mamou Fire District #1 to assist in providing a driveway to a pit which holds water where fire fighters can draw water. Property owner where the pit is located is in approval of this work. Motion carried.

Motion was made by Kenny Burgess and seconded by Ryan Williams to approve advertising for bids for employee health insurance. Motion carried.

Motion was made by Eric Soileau and seconded by Kevin Veillon to approve attendance to the LATA Conference March 12-14, 2014 to Rachel West. Motion carried.

Motion was made by Eric Soileau and seconded by Kevin Veillon to adopt the following resolution:

BE IT RESOLVED, that the Evangeline Parish Police Jury does hereby support Joseph “Joe” Bishop’s candidacy as third Vice-President on the Police Jury Association of Louisiana Executive Board.

The above and foregoing, having been submitted to a vote, was unanimously approved this 10th day of February 2014.

Motion was made by Lamar Johnson, seconded by Ryan Williams and unanimously approved to amend the agenda to add the follow-ing item:

1. Hiring of Marcus Boullard as Litter Abatement Supervisor for Region B and Region D.2. Executive Session – Discuss personnel issues.

Motion was made by Ryan Williams and seconded by Kenny Burgess to approve the hiring of Marcus Boullard as supervisor of litter abatement crews for Region B and Region D, contingent upon the approval of the Sheriff. Motion carried.

LEGALS

The Basile Weekly

continued on page 6

Several members of the Basile Bearcat wres-tling team competed at The Metro Lafayette Tournament held Febru-ary 8. Devin Bazinet and Mason Deshotel captured first place honors in their respective weight classes. Complete results from the BHS matches were as fol-lows:

Brenan Langley (3-2) - 4th - Team Points: 11.0

106: Brenan Langley (Basile) received a bye.

106: Brenan Lang-ley (Basile) won by pin over Adam Gas-pard (Kaplan) 3:14.

106: Dane Langley (Teurlings Catholic) won by decision over Bre-nan Langley (Basile) 9-3.

106: Brenan Lang-ley (Basile) won in sud-den victory 1 over Raven Guidry (Acadiana) 10-8.

106: Kyle Teele (Basile) won by injury default over Brenan Langley (Basile) 0:00.

Kyle Teele (4-1) - 3rd - Team Points: 0.0

106: Kyle Teele (Basile) received a bye.

106: Kyle Teele (Basile) won by pin over Raven Guidry (Acadiana) 5:51.

106: Kyle Teele (Basile) won by decision over Hogan Melebeck (North Vermillion) 7-0.

106: Kyle Teele (Basile) won by injury default over Brenan Langley (Basile) 0:00.

106: Seth Oubre (Co-meaux) won by tech fall over Kyle Teele (Basile) 0:00 15-0.

Gavin Christ (4-2) - 4th - Team Points: 15.0

113: Gavin Christ (Basile) won by inju-ry default over Daniel Trappey (Carencro) 0:00.

113: Gavin Christ (Basile) won by ma-jor decision over Blaze Seaux (Carencro) 20-6.

113: Gavin Becker

(North Vermillion) won by tech fall over Gavin Christ (Basile) 0:00 15-0.

113: Gavin Christ (Basile) won by pin over Issac Cortez (Basile) 2:59.

113: Gavin Christ (Basile) won by major decision over George Femmer (Lafayette) 17-6.

113: Luke Kilchrist (Teurlings Catholic) won by decision over Gavin Christ (Basile) 7-0.

Issac Cortez (1-2) - DNP - Team Points: 0.0

113: Keon Jones (Aca-diana) won by pin over Is-sac Cortez (Basile) 1:58.

113: Issac Cortez (Basile) received a bye.

113: Gavin Christ (Basile) won by pin over Issac Cortez (Basile) 2:59.

Zack Vinson (4-2) - 4th - Team Points: 12.0

120: Zack Vinson (Basile) won by major deci-sion over Korin Dominque (Comeaux) 14-6.

120: Zack Vinson (Basile) won by deci-sion over Alex Beraud-R (North Vermillion) 5-2.

120: Jake Verret (Co-meaux) won by forfeit over Zack Vinson (Basile) .

120: Rhett Maturin-R (North Vermillion) won by major decision over Zack Vinson (Basile) 10-0.

120: Zack Vin-son (Basile) won by pin over Taylor Har-rington (Kaplan) 1:23.

120: Zack Vinson (Basile) won by deci-sion over Jarred Jour-net (Carencro) 7-3.

Devin Bazinet (4-0) - 1st - Team Points: 24.0

132: Devin Bazinet (Basile) received a bye.

132: Devin Bazi-net (Basile) won by pin over Jimmy Higginbo-tham (Acadiana) 4:47.

132: Devin Bazi-net (Basile) won by pin over Tyler Prime-aux (Lafayette) 1:34.

132: Devin Bazinet

(Basile) won by deci-sion over Dante` Hebert (Teurlings Catholic) 6-1.

Trey Fontenot (4-2) - 4th - Team Points: 13.0

145: Cameron John-son (North Vermillion) won by pin over Trey Fontenot (Basile) 3:00.

145: Trey Fontenot (Basile) won by pin over Casey Henry (Rayne) 0:30.

145: Trey Fon-tenot (Basile) won by pin over Dakota Laque (Acadiana) 2:56.

145: Trey Fontenot (Basile) won by major deci-sion over Cameron Johnson (North Vermillion) 11-3.

145: Trey Fontenot (Basile) received a bye.

145: Cory Lafleur (Carencro) won in sud-den victory 1 over Trey Fontenot (Basile) 4-2.

Mason Deshotel-R (4-0) - 1st - Team Points: 24.0

170: Mason Deshotel-R (Basile) received a bye.

170: Mason Deshotel-R (Basile) won by pin over Ju-lius Johnson (Kaplan) 1:10.

170: Mason Deshotel-R (Basile) won by deci-sion over Peyton Cortez (Teurlings Catholic) 3-1.

170: Mason Deshotel-R (Basile) won by pin over Tanner Leger (Rayne) 1:13.

Lane Joubert (1-2) - DNP - Team Points: 4.0

182: Lane Jou-bert (Basile) won by pin over Brett Tatom (Comeaux) 0:45.

182: Colin Vaughn (North Vermillion) won by pin over Lane Joubert (Basile) 0:30.

182: Dillon Fontenot (Lafayette) won by pin over Lane Joubert (Basile) 2:40.

6 The Basile Weekly - Thursday, February 20, 2014 - Basile, La.

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g LEGALSContinued From Page 5

Ronnie Landreneau, Parish Engineer, gave the following report: • Electric and plumbing contractors have met with the Sheriff and the jail project should start up soon. • The new deadline for submitting bids for the Crooked Creek Pavilion is February 19, 2014, due to companies who are interested in bidding, requesting an extension.

Donald Bergeron, Secretary-Treasurer, gave the following reports: • Acadian Ambulance report is in compliance with the ordinance. • First payment of Ad Valorem taxes was in the amount of $1,778,540.42. • 2% Sales Use Tax collected for December 2013, $286,517.35.

Motion was made by Lamar Johnson and seconded by Richard Thomas to adjourn the meeting to go into executive session to dis-cuss personnel issues. Motion carried.

Motion was made by Richard Thomas and seconded by Lamar Johnson to go back into regular scheduled meeting. Motion carried. Motion was made by Ryan Williams and seconded by Rocky Rider to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried. /s/ Ryan Ardoin /s/ Donald Bergeron Ryan Ardoin, President Donald Bergeron, Secretary-Treasurer

/s/ Ryan Ardoin Ryan Ardoin, President

/s/ Donald Bergeron Donald Bergeron, Secretary-Treasurer

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