City Park Players hosts OnStage 2009 Awards Gala

 
 
Central Louisiana Community Theatre, better known as City Park Players, concluded its 61st consecutive season with a wonderful semi-formal evening event filled with great food, drinks, dancing, a silent auction, and live entertainment on November 20.

Awards were presented during a ceremony, which also featured snippets of performances by the actors that so ably [...]

Blame game full of players at Alexandria City Hall

By Leonard Ford Jr.
Though I have been quiet on the current problems happening over at Alexandria City Hall between Mayor Roy’s administration and some members of the Alexandria City Council, don’t think that I haven’t been keeping up with their shenanigans.
Too much doesn’t get by me. Sometimes I feel that it’s not my [...]

Too much money for 1 minority business

By Sherri L. Jackson
Publisher of The Light, www.everythingcenla.com
In February 2009, Mayor Jaques Roy maintained that Von Jennings, his assistant in charge of devloping and implementing a program designed tohelp minority-owned businesses acquire city contracts, was failing at her job.
In November 2009, it appears Roy is suggesting that the city’s program is working too well. Alexandria [...]

Former Peabody Warhorse drum major to lead SU’s band at Bayou Classic

Read more here: Nov. 15, 1-8

Red River Gymnastics of Pineville wins 3rd place in 2009 Warrior Challenge

Photo cutline: Red River Gymnastics Level 3 members, front row from left, Brittany Matthews, Abi Hoover, Jessica Wright, Abigail Miller and Harper Gunn celebrate their third-place team win with coaches, back row from left, Phil Fuselier, Robyn Ladner and Keri Beth Ellis. (Photo by Kathy Gunn)
 
The Level 3 team at Red River Gymnastics of Pineville [...]

APD narcotis conduct Operation C.L.A.M.P

About 100 officers from federal, state and local agencies assisted the Alexandria Police Department’s Narcotics Division in operation C.L.A.M.P. early Thursday morning, Nov. 12, according to Newman Bobb of the Alexandria Police Department.
Operation C.L.A.M.P – cleaning local areas and making progress — was designed to target all areas of illegal narcotics including distribution of cocaine, [...]

Nov. 1: Boys & Girls Club of Central Louisina hosts major fund-raiser

 
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