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Zachary Post • Tuesday, December 30, 2014 • Vol. 9, No. 52 • Published Weekly • Circulation 16,000 • zacharypost.com © 2014 PRESORT STD US POSTAGE PAID ZACHARY, LA PERMIT NO. 6 CAR-RT PRESORT POSTAL CUSTOMERS ECWSS Postal Patron Local The Post is the place for Zachary news. Proud to be Zachary’s only locally owned, managed and staffed newspaper. See NEW FIELD on page 2 School Board Addresses Safety Issues, Possible Field Replacement BY JEN BAYHI -GENNARO Superintendent Scott Devillier and the Facilities Committee met for a meet- ing at 5 p.m. on Monday, December 15 at the School Board Office for a discus - sion of safety and security. The discus- sion included the findings of a recent safety audit, but also notably introduced the need and request for a new track and field for Zachary High, which will cost between $650,000 to $1,000,000 of cur- rently unbudgeted money. Budget concerns are already an is- sue for the incoming school board to be sworn in January 6, 2015, even before the football field issue came up. The outgoing School Board’s term ends in early January, and they have voted to put a one-cent tax increase on the March 28 ballot. Should this sales tax pass, the rate within the boundaries of the Zach- ary Community School District will be at 10%, the highest amount allowed un- der the Constitution of the state of Loui- siana, and the highest rate in the nation. Zachary already has the highest proper - ty taxes in the state. The Zachary Com- munity School District has an annual budget of approximately $55 million. The proposed new tax would generate an estimated $4.5 million of revenue an- nually. Coaches Carrier, Brewerton and Cassard were in attendance to make their case before the School Board. Devillier noted that Athletics Direc- tor Jesse Cassard has cordoned off an area of the track and field due to “base failures.” “There are number of areas throughout the track, you’re walking it and you sink,” he said. Cassard said the technology that was used eight or nine years ago when the track and turf fields were built was interlocking drain mats underneath. “They’ve separated over time and have created holes. Some have separated feet and created a two- to-three inch hole. If you run, you are going to get hurt. Half a million kids per year go on that field. We had six events in one week on that field this year. For PE those kids are on that track every day, every hour,” he said. They have had discussions with Zachary resident Joyce Bourgeois received a blessing and a rosary from Pope Francis when she visited Rome earlier this month. While on a pilgrimage to Vatican City on December 10th, she was greeted and prayed for by the Pope. After his words to her, he asked: “Now, please pray for me and those who depend upon me.” Pictured: L to R in foreground: Nikki Plauche of Baton Rouge, Joyce Bourgeois and Pope Francis. Zachary Pilgrimage Receives Papal Blessing Laura Steen Announces Retirement from Bank of Zachary After 35 years of dedicated service, Laura Steen will retire from the Bank of Zachary at the end of the year. “It is with much sadness that we announce the retirement of our Chief Administra- tive Officer Laura Steen,” said Presi - dent and CEO Preston L. Kennedy. “She has rendered valuable service to the Bank of Zachary, and has been a tremendous ambassador in the com- munity.” Mrs. Steen was feted during the an- nual Bank of Zachary Christmas Party, held December 13 at the Copper Mill Swim Facility. Mrs. Steen joined the Bank of Zachary staff in 1979. A native of Mc- Comb, Mississippi, she spent her for- mative years in New Orleans. Laura and her husband Will have been resi - dents of Zachary for 36 years. They have a daughter, Rachel, and three granddaugh- ters. A past President of the Zachary Chamber of Commerce, she was in- ducted into the Cham- ber’s Hall of Distinction in 2009, and was honored as the Rotary Club of Zachary Citizen of the Year in 2012. A volunteer in numerous community projects, she is a founding member of FAZE Foundation Assist - ing Zachary Education, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Regional Veterans Park Association. Laura Steen

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Zachary Post • Tuesday, December 30, 2014 • Vol. 9, No. 52 • Published Weekly • Circulation 16,000 • zacharypost.com © 2014

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The Post is the place for Zachary news.

Proud to be Zachary’s only locally owned, managed and staffed newspaper.

See NEW FIELD on page 2

School Board Addresses Safety Issues, Possible Field ReplacementBy Jen Bayhi-Gennaro

Superintendent Scott Devillier and the Facilities Committee met for a meet-ing at 5 p.m. on Monday, December 15 at the School Board Office for a discus-sion of safety and security. The discus-sion included the findings of a recent safety audit, but also notably introduced the need and request for a new track and field for Zachary High, which will cost between $650,000 to $1,000,000 of cur-rently unbudgeted money.

Budget concerns are already an is-sue for the incoming school board to be sworn in January 6, 2015, even before the football field issue came up. The outgoing School Board’s term ends in early January, and they have voted to put a one-cent tax increase on the March 28 ballot. Should this sales tax pass, the rate within the boundaries of the Zach-ary Community School District will be at 10%, the highest amount allowed un-der the Constitution of the state of Loui-siana, and the highest rate in the nation. Zachary already has the highest proper-ty taxes in the state. The Zachary Com-

munity School District has an annual budget of approximately $55 million. The proposed new tax would generate an estimated $4.5 million of revenue an-nually.

Coaches Carrier, Brewerton and Cassard were in attendance to make their case before the School Board. Devillier noted that Athletics Direc-tor Jesse Cassard has cordoned off an area of the track and field due to “base failures.” “There are number of areas throughout the track, you’re walking it and you sink,” he said. Cassard said the technology that was used eight or nine years ago when the track and turf fields were built was interlocking drain mats underneath. “They’ve separated over time and have created holes. Some have separated feet and created a two-to-three inch hole. If you run, you are going to get hurt. Half a million kids per year go on that field. We had six events in one week on that field this year. For PE those kids are on that track every day, every hour,” he said.

They have had discussions with

Zachary resident Joyce Bourgeois received a blessing and a rosary from Pope Francis when she visited Rome earlier this month. While on a pilgrimage to Vatican City on December 10th, she was greeted and prayed for by the Pope. After his words to her, he asked: “Now, please pray for me and those who depend upon me.” Pictured: L to R in foreground: Nikki Plauche of Baton Rouge, Joyce Bourgeois and Pope Francis.

Zachary Pilgrimage Receives Papal Blessing Laura Steen Announces Retirement from Bank of Zachary

After 35 years of dedicated service, Laura Steen will retire from the Bank of Zachary at the end of the year. “It is with much sadness that we announce the retirement of our Chief Administra-tive Officer Laura Steen,” said Presi-dent and CEO Preston L. Kennedy. “She has rendered valuable service to the Bank of Zachary, and has been a tremendous ambassador in the com-munity.”

Mrs. Steen was feted during the an-nual Bank of Zachary Christmas Party, held December 13 at the Copper Mill Swim Facility.

Mrs. Steen joined the Bank of Zachary staff in 1979. A native of Mc-Comb, Mississippi, she spent her for-mative years in New Orleans. Laura and her husband Will have been resi-dents of Zachary for 36 years. They have a daughter, Rachel, and three

granddaugh-ters.

A past President of the Zachary Chamber of Commerce, she was in-ducted into the Cham-ber’s Hall of Distinction in 2009, and was honored as the Rotary Club of Zachary Citizen of the Year in 2012. A volunteer in numerous community projects, she is a founding member of FAZE Foundation Assist-ing Zachary Education, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Regional Veterans Park Association.

Laura Steen

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a few vendors, said outgoing school board member Scott Swilley, and a few schools in the area are replacing their track and field right now, includ-ing Catholic High in Baton Rouge. The consensus was that it would be cheaper to replace both the track and field at the same time, and that only addressing the problem areas would be a temporary band-aid.

Coach Brewerton said when he first got hired on, a coach from another school asked him what he planned on doing about the football field. “Every-body knows about the football field, and that worries me because if some-thing happens everyone knows about it, so they know we know,” Brewerton said.

“I’ll be honest with you. Track had a great year last year, the girls won state champs. We will not host a track meet-ing at Zachary High this year. We can’t. It’s not going to happen because of safe-ty issues. We’re putting ourselves at a big liability on that track,” said Cassard.

“The terrible thing…the issue is we may have to pay Baker High School to go use their track to practice. We’re going to host a track meet at West Fe-liciana, and Baker will let us go once a week and we can practice over there. It’s an unfortunate situation, the track is about eight years old and it’s starting to fail. There are some spots on the foot-

ball field that have some divots. The track is horrible. We’ve got to do some-thing because we have a state champion track team, and a world class sprinter that spent her time this summer in Chi-na running for the U.S. Junior Olympic Team, and I’m afraid to put that young lady and any of the other kids on that track,” Devillier said.

No numbers were actually given, no action was taken, and the three coaches left the meeting with instructions to come up with bids.

Patrick Jenkins took the floor and began to go over information detailed in a recent safety audit. He said the school system received a grant of $4900 for risk assessment and loss prevention, and a portion of that has been used to purchase some additional radios for school resource officers. The radios al-low the schools to communicate with one another on a shared frequency in case of emergency.

As part of the audit, each school was assessed to see what it would take to update to higher safety standards, for both prevention and response. The assessment team consisted of Board members and faculty, as well as police and fire fighters. Jenkins addressed each campus, describing the safety features

in place and what improvements should be made. Most of the schools have con-tainment doors in place, which require a file key or ID to enter the second part of the building, at which point all doors are locked and secure. Card access readers, perimeter fencing, crash bars, internal door locks, and security cameras with DVRs are the necessary safety features at each school, and Jenkins says it will cost approximately $217,000 for these upgrades to be made. The safety budget for this school year is only $50,000, and close to half has been used already.

“We’re talking about 200,000+ dol-lars, but personally I don’t see how you put a number on safety and security. It’s just something you have to address,” Devillier said. “The issue is that you have people in those buildings all day, possibly as many as 2,000 people per day on that high school campus. Ev-ery single day that facility gets a little bit older with wear and tear. We want to keep our facilities in tip top shape for safety and security reasons,” he said. Devillier said $250,000 will be a good initial investment, but it will require a yearly maintenance budget of $100,000. The recommendation is that the money would come from the surplus fund and move into the general fund.

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WHAT A RELIEF!

A Senior Youth “Lock-in” was held Saturday December 13 at St. Paul’s Study. Partici-pants were members of the St. John the Baptist Catholic Church high school students. The group is an organization formed by young Catholics who have been confirmed into the church and have completed the obligatory religious education classes. They formed the group to continue to have fellowship and to continue to learn and execute the Christian values of faith, hope and love. The discuss ways to grown spiritually and practice their faith. They meet at St. Paul’s Study regularly and adult leader is Suzanne Payne, one of the founding employees of St. Paul’s Study. During the “lock-in” they participated in games, went caroling in the neighborhood, watched Christmas movies outside by a bonfire and delivered presents and cookies. They also made lap blan-kets for homebound members of the church community. This was the first of quarterly “lock-ins” and confirmed senior high school students are invited to the activities that will be announced during the coming year.

Earlier this Fall, the Bronco Baseball team, Head Coach, Jesse Cassard, and Asst. Coach Jacob Fisher participated in the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes at LSU to sup-port one of their own. Cody Trisler, a junior at ZHS and Bronco baseball player, was diagnosed five years ago with Type 1 diabetes, but that hasn’t let him slow him down one bit. He continues to play the game that he loves. Thank you to the coaches, the baseball players and parents who came out to support Cody and for the donations to JDRF. All donations are used for research to hopefully one day find a cure, but until then...#type1strong.

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Francis Nezianya Takes Rotarian Commitment SeriouslyBy James ronald skains

“My becoming a Rotarian almost didn’t happen,” former Zachary Ro-tary Club President Francis Nezianya told the Zachary Post. “Rick Stroder, a former dentist and a man called “Mr. Rotary” here in Zachary for many years asked me to join the Rotary Club several times, but I always found a rea-son not to join.”

“I was asked to cater the Rotary Club weekly meeting from my Sub-way shop in downtown Zachary, which was close to where the Rotary Club was holding its meeting at the time in the Police Training Building. I would bring the food but leave as soon as I could. Rick and other Rotarians would ask me to stay for the meeting but I would always find an excuse that I was needed back at Subway. “

“By that time, I had a couple of monthly Rotary magazines in my pos-session which I carried with me on one of my out of town business trips,” Francis recalled. “Finally one night I began reading the magazine and be-came infatuated with the work that the Rotary club was doing to fight Polio and provide clean water for people in impoverished countries.”

“I remembered my young years in Nigeria when we had to walk for miles to get clean drinking water. When it rained, we were able to catch the rain-water off the roof of the house into a cistern, but for the most part we walked a long way for clean water. As I read, I learned about doctors who would give up months of their practice to go to dis-tant countries in order to help fight Po-lio. I soon realized that I would not be giving up much to become a Rotarian

and would gain much more by being an active of member of such a wonderful organization. I became a Rotarian in May of 2002.”

The worldwide, 1.2 million mem-ber organization started with the vision of one man—Paul P. Harris. Harris, a Chicago attorney, formed one of the world’s first service organizations, the Rotary Club of Chicago, on February 23, 1905, as a place where profession-als with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas and form meaningful, lifelong friendships.

Rotary’s name came from the group’s early practice of rotating meet-ings among the offices of each member. Paul Harris’ most quoted words have been: “Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world it will be known by the results it achieves.”

“I decided in 2002 that America had been very wonderful to me and that it was time for me to start giving back some of the blessings that I had received,” Nezianya, who came to the USA as a 20 year old student from Ni-geria, explained. “As soon as I could, I became a Paul Harris Fellow.”

To become a “Paul Harris Fellow,” a Rotarian must give $1,000 or more to the Annual Fund, Polio Plus, or an ap-proved Foundation grant.

“Polio is so close to being eradi-cated throughout the world,” Nezianya noted. “There are only three countries in the world where Polio is still a prob-lem and my home country of Nigeria is one of them.”

Nezianya became a very active member in the Zachary Rotary Club. First he was asked to serve as Zachary Club Foundation Chairman. In 2005-2006, Nezianya became president-elect of the Zachary Club and later President of the Zachary Rotary Club in 2006-2007. After his term as president, he was asked to serve again as Foundation Chairman of the Zachary Club. By this

time, Nezianya was working on the Rotary District Gover-nor.

“I was asked to help with a new project called “Family of Rotary,” whereby we got the Rotary member’s family involved in an event focused on having a good time for the kids with plenty of games for the kids by also the opportu-nity for the kids to learn more about what their daddy was doing in the Rotary Club. This program was also very helpful for the wives in their getting to know more about Rotary and what their husbands were do-ing in Rotary Club projects.”

Nezianya is now Rotary Club District Governor- elect for the 2016-2017 calendar years. In late May of 2014, Francis and his wife Lettima-rie and their five-year-old son, Immanuel, headed to Sydney, Australia for the 105th annual conven-tion of Rotary International.

“There were 18,000 Rotarians from 150 different countries attending the Sydney Convention. All of our Rotary activities were held at the Olympic vil-lage,” Nezianya pointed out. “All of our transportation to and from the Olympic Village to our hotels and around town were provided free of charge by show-ing our Rotarian badge.”

“At the Olympic Village, each coun-try that had Rotarians attending had a booth set up. We were all given “Rotary Passports” which we carried around to different countries and had our “Rotary Passports” stamped by each country. It was really interested visiting the differ-ent booths manned by Rotarians from 150 different countries.”

“On May 31, our kick-off event was a 3 K walk for Polio Eradication,” Nezianya, who is also a member of the

Zachary City Council, related. “This was a great event for me because we are so close to eradicating Polio. This especially means a lot me personally because of my home country of Nigeria still has occasional cases of Polio.”

Ron Burton from Norman, Okla-homa was the presiding officer of the Sydney Convention as International Rotary President for 2013-2014. Other members of the 20 person 2013-2014 Rotary International Board of Directors from the USA include: Anne Mathews of South Carolina, Andy Smallwood of Texas, Mary Beth Growney Selene of Wisconsin, Larry Lunsford of Missouri, and Steven Snyder of Auburn, Califor-nia.

John Hewko of Kiev, Ukraine is the General Secretary of Rotary Inter-national. Gary C.K. Huang of Taipei, Taiwan is new president for 2014-2015. Serving with President Huang from the USA are six Rotarians. President elect for 2015-2016 is K.R. Ravindran from Colombo, Sri Lanka.

“We had all kind of wonderful activ-ities during our Convention,” Nezianya elaborated. “Every day we had break-out sessions on different topics dear to the Rotary Club. The Prime Minister pledged a $100 million dollar donation to the Rotary from Australia. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation also has pledged to match any money going into the Polio Fund by a 2-1 ratio.”

“In September of this year, I attended a week long training session in Kansas City that qualifies me to work as a vol-unteer to work on the Zone Level which is composed of about 25 Districts.

I’m very excited about my Rotary work. Looking back, it’s hard to believe that it took me so long to say “yes” and become a Rotary Club member. I know that I will be an active Rotary Club member for the rest of my life.”

The Nezianya family in Sidney, Australia for the international Rotary Convention in June.

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Victims of Local Scams Come Forward, Post Obtains More InformationBy James ronald skains

The first article I wrote about my experience with a telephone scam artist carried me through Wednesday night of the episode. After thinking about my Wednes-day experience, I began to won-der how far these people would go to take more than the $100 that I already had invested in a “Green-Dot” paper money card that was virtually non-traceable. I decided to see how low these people would stoop to get my money so I devised a number of scenarios of delaying and baiting, i.e., scamming the scammer.

We had several phone calls and messages about the SCAM article we published on the 16th. Here is what three of our readers had to say:

“I don’t want any recognition but I’m glad you ran the story on the scam because I get at least two calls a day or two calls a week the from Jamaica area code number 585-479-6982. One time, I went all the way as the writer did until they got to the part for me to go to CVS and to take my cell phone with me and to give them the money card number with my cell phone num-ber. So I’m happy that you ran that scam story because they are do-ing this every day too, I know in Zachary. So I just wanted to let you know. Thank you, bye, bye.”

“Hi this is Donna. I was calling in regards to the article by James about the scam games that ap-peared in the December 16 issue. I just received a phone call from the same person on my cell phone. I don’t know how he got my num-ber. He identified himself as being from Publishers Clearing House. I had just read the article yester-day. So I knew about the scam and

I told him that I knew that it was a scam and I was going to report this to the FBI and I was just won-dering how do we report this to the State attorney general’s office? If you have any Information on how to report this scam, please let me know. Thank you.”

“Good morning, this is Bobby Joe. I just finished the article last night about the people who were involved with the scam artist. I had almost the same event from the same company last month. It pret-ty much paralleled the story and I have a couple of phone numbers he doesn’t. I don’t know if you know if it’s possible to speak to the writer. Are you actually going to continue turning in your information and so forth to the Attorney General’s of-fice. I can tell you the numbers I have and what’s going on with re-cording this event with the Attorney General’s office. I was taking notes during the whole time and it actu-ally occurred over several hours and then the people continued to call me throughout the day. Thanks so much.”

Now we fast forward back to Thursday, December 11. Mr. Green called me or I called him back to continue probing for more infor-mation about his scam 83 times within a 168 hour time span from Wednesday through Wednesday. He didn’t call on Sunday, so I as-sumed he must have either gone to church on Sunday or perhaps he wanted me to think he did.

At the close of my first article through Wednesday, he wanted me to send him $150 to cover the “transfer fee.” On Thursday and Friday, he would call me every few hours to ask me how I was coming in getting the money. He was very forceful telling me to either pawn

something for the money or bor-row. When he called on both those days, I would tell him that I had been able to borrow another $20 or $25 until I got up to $135 in money that I supposedly had available to send to him.

I assured him that I would get the remaining $15 on Saturday morn-ing. Sure enough he called me. I told him that I was able to get the $15 but had to spend $20 on gaso-line to keep from running out of gas. He asked me how much I had and I told him $130. He instructed me to send that to him by Western Union. He wanted me to stay on the phone with him while I went into a Winn-Dixie store that had a West-ern Union office. He told me that after I got back in the car, he would tell me how to fill out the Western Union send money form.

I did as he asked. Once I got the form and was back in the car, he asked me to read the Western Union form to him which I did. At that point, he was convinced that I had the right form in my hand. He instructed me to send the money to: Sussakana Morris in Kingston, Ja-maica. I had told Mr. Green was in the car with him and asked that he talk with her, but he refused to talk with my wife throughout the scam saga.

At that point, I went to another

phase of my game playing with him. “Mr. Green,” I told him, “My wife will not let me send the money on a Saturday afternoon to someone in Jamaica because she thinks it’s some kind of scheme. However, if you will hold my $750,000 check and my pearl white Mercedes until Monday I will send the money to you in Jamaica.”

He then began to tell me that I would have to pay a “storage fee” on the car and check if I waited till Monday. I told him that I would pay both on Monday. He said the storage fee would be $70 a day. Also, on Saturday during our wran-gling about sending him the $150, I had told him that this was all the money I had to my name and would not have enough money to make it through the weekend. It was at this point “Mr. Green” informed me that when the money was de-livered that $75,000 (10%) would be in cash.

I assured “Mr. Green” that I would have the $150 plus the stor-age fee on Monday morning. Sure enough he called me about 9 a.m. I informed that I had $1,100 that we had received from pawning my wife’s wedding ring. He assured me that I had made a very wise de-cision and I was a good man. He

See SCAM on page 6

kegs ~ wine champagne ~ beer

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then calculated the “storage fees” plus the “transfer fee” would be $500 and to send it to him by a “GreenDot Paper Money Card.” I told him that I would call him back when I got to a place where I could buy the card.

I called him back in about 15 minutes and informed him that “disaster had struck me;” my wife had grabbed the money, got out of the car and ran off.” He told me to go find my wife and get the money back no matter what I had to do.” I called him back about 20 minutes later to tell her that I couldn’t find her but I had another plan. She had another piece of jewelry that we had pawned previously for $2,500 and I knew that I could get $1,200 cash for the jewelry.

By this time it was late Mon-day afternoon. I called him and told him that I had made it to “Mr. Joe’s” pawnshop but that he had al-ready left for the day. But I assured him that I would get my $1,200 by 8 a.m. Tuesday morning. He called me at 8:20 a.m. Tuesday morning. I told him that I had the money and was ready to send him the money. He instructed me not to hang up the phone but he would stay on the line while I was buying the money card. He ordered me to put my phone in my pocket so no one would get sus-picious about what I was doing.

When I asked the clerk how much a $500 GreenDot money card was, she said she would have to calculate the amount. At that

point, I cut my phone off in my pocket. I then bought a $20 Green-Dot money card. I then called “Mr. Green” back asking him why he hung up on me, but I assured him I had the GreenDot card for $500. I scratched off the numbers on the back and gave them to him. He in-structed me to go home and wait for the delivery of the car and money.

In about five minutes, he started calling me back. I didn’t answer for about 30 minutes in which time frame he called me eight times even using different phone num-bers.

When I finally called me back, he went into an awful cussing fit accusing me of playing him for a fool. He had obvious found out the money card was not for $500. I be-gan trying to turn the tables by say-ing he was ripping me off by say-ing the $500 was not on the card. When he calmed down, he asked me was I going to make right the $500 on the card so that he could arrange delivery of the money and car to me.

He kept calling me all the way into Wednesday afternoon. I only answered one of his calls but that was enough; he was still ranting and raving and cussing me for hav-ing played him for a fool. My ears are still ringing. But I do think I have a better idea of the world we are living in than I did before “Mr. Green” and his group of scoundrels got ahold of me last Wednesday.

If you are a local scam victim, please contact either the Zachary Police Department at 654-9393 or the Louisiana Attorney General’s

Lane Regional Medical Center Receives Quality Award

Lane Regional Medical Center received the Champions for Qual-ity Care Award, presented by the Louisiana Hospital Association for its statewide Hospital Engage-ment Network.

The award recognizes hospi-tals for achieving goals estab-lished as part of the federal Part-nership for Patients Campaign that emphasizes improving pa-tient care and reducing healthcare costs. Since joining the initiative in 2012, Lane is one of 93 Louisi-ana hospitals focused on reducing avoidable patient harm and read-mission rates.

Lane was recognized in mul-tiple categories for achieving at least a 20% reduction in:

• Adverse Drug Events• Excessive anticoagulation

related to Coumadin usage• Hypoglycemia related to

hypoglycemic usage

• Opioid issues related to over-usage or under monitoring

• Catheter Associated Uri-nary Tract Infections

• Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections

• Early Elective Delivery• Injuries from Falls• OB Adverse Events• Hemorrhage• Pre-eclampsia• Pressure Ulcers• Readmissions• Ventilator Associated

Pneumonia “This is a hospital-wide rec-

ognition for our efforts to make Lane as safe as possible for our patients,” says Director of Qual-ity Director Rachelle Noland. “Every department plays an im-portant role to improve our qual-ity measures and engage our pa-tients in their care and safety

Pictured: Ken Alexander, Vice President, Louisiana Hospital Association; Rachelle Noland, Director of Quality Services, Lane Regional Medical Center; Kathy Bergeron, Performance Improvement Officer, Lane Regional Medical Center; Jena Aucoin, Qual-ity Improvement Specialist, Louisiana Hospital Association Research and Education Foundation; and Paul Salles, President and CEO, Louisiana Hospital Association.

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ClassifiedsWE NEED HELP – Business is too GOOD! The Zachary Post and Feli-ciana Explorer newspapers continue to grow and we are looking for a Sales Account Executives to join our newspaper family for a territory to be based in Baton Rouge . We are looking for the right people to not only sell to existing clients, but who want to be part of the community by getting involved with civic and business organizations. The ideal candidate will develop new busi-ness, service existing accounts, must not need to be micromanaged, conduct needs assessments, create proposals and close sales. Excellent customer service and relationship building skills are essential. Experi-ence working with Ad Agencies and Small Business Owners is a plus. Must be moderately computer liter-ate, and an interest in the editorial side of the paper would push appli-cants to the top of the list. We offer a very competitive package of base salary + generous commission. This is a fun and easy job for the right in-dividuals. If you feel like you would fit in with our team please email us at [email protected] or fax resume to 225-208-1165.We are looking for an honest and dependable person to clean a home one day a week in Zachary, pref-erably on Mondays or Tuesdays. Services will include thorough cleaning of bathrooms and kitchens, folding laundry, as well as dusting and general maintenance cleaning. Homeowner provides all supplies and equipment. Interested people should call 225-315-3670.FOR SALE. Mounted snow goose with approx. 3 foot wing span. Ask-ing $80. Call (225) 654-0118.Now Hiring! All Star Chevrolet North is hiring for all sales posi-tions. Contact Jim or Mark at 774-4152.2001 Chevrolet Silverado Truck-2500 series-4 wheel drive-Vortec engine-4 door extended cab-long bed-Warn winch and metal guard on front-220,000 miles. Ask-ing $6,500 (min. Blue Book value is $7,200). Call (225) 654-0118.FOR SALE. Mounted grey goose with approx. 3 foot wing span. Ask-ing $80. Call (225) 654-0118.Land for Sale in Slaughter. 50 x 140. $11,000. Call (225) 936-8729.Cross Creek Cowboy Church. 21160 Plank Rd, Zachary in blue Legendz building. Sundays 10:30. Come as you are, bring your lawn chair. 225-721-0333. Facebook.com/Cross-CreekCowboyChurch.FOR SALE. 2007 Chevy HHR LS, 2.2 L Engine, Good Condition. Call (225) 310-1026 or (225) 721-1003.For Sale: 2004 Chev Impala, 178K miles, Cold A/C $2500.00Call Andy@225-937-67532001 TOYOTA TACOMA 4x4 Double cab V6. One owner took excellent care. Tacoma Reliability! 274,000m. KBB value $9,874 OBO 225-362-2110Seasoned Oak Firewood. $125.00 half-faced cord plus delivery fee.

ClassifiedsCall (225) 635-0422.Immediate opening for experienced Medical Clerk and Medical As-sistant. Please fax resume to: (225) 658-8840.Landmark Bank Zachary Office accepting applications/ resumes for Teller/Backup CSR position. Con-tact Toni Dugas at 225-683-3371. 1137 sq. ft. udpated home in Jack-son, La. 2/3 BRs, 1 bath. Gas and electric. $66,900. Feliciana Proper-ties, LLC. 225-683-6032.Free to good home. 7 year old female Calico cat. De-clawed and spayed. Call (225) 721-0994.HOUSE FOR RENT. 8473 Steve Johnson Drive in Solitude, LA. $400 monthly rent. For more infor-mation, call(225) 931-5939, (225) 301-1540, or (225) 939-8533.3BR/2BA Trailer for Rent in Zach-ary. $650 per month. Call (225) 603-3059.For Sale 5 x 5 round bale bahaia hay $30. Square bales $4. Delivery available. Randy 658-8792Prime multi acre residential home-site in the heart of Zachary. Coun-try living in the City! Ready to build your dream home. Brokered by Monte Real Estate 225-658-1515. Listed at $69,000 with 100% lot financing available through Brandy Westmoreland at Guaranty Bank.For Sale! Seasoned firewood. $125 per truck load. Pick up only in Slaughter. 225-654-3236Now hiring - Medical assistant needed, fax resume to 225-683-3350.Help Wanted. Looking for experi-enced Mature Non smoking Chris-tian to work with individual with special needs in Zachary, Pride Area. Please contact me at 225-279-7649.Horse Help Wanted. Part-time feed and sales prep. Experience neces-sary. Ethel area. Call (225) 978-1328.

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