By John Peters jpeters@mtairynews.com
What is sure to be the highlight of the summer is coming up when the annual Eldora Handicamp takes place this coming weekend.
The annual gathering is a time when more than 100 volunteers come to the Homeplace Recreation Park to hold camp for area handicapped children and youth. The camp is usually a three-day affair, Friday through Sunday, but in a concession to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, this year’s event will be a single day, on Saturday, July 31.
“We’re just going to do a bunch of games, hopefully can do some crafts,” said Kevin Simpson, chief organizer of the event. “Usually, over the whole weekend, we do a hayride, go swimming, do crafts, have a band that comes, a big church service … Sunday, just whatever we can get into.”
SHREVEPORT, La As a new hurricane season begins, more relief supplies have reached Lake Charles by way of Shreveport. But these came all the way from suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Elks Lodge members there saw KTBS 3 News coverage last fall of a big relief effort from Shreveport. And they decided to pitch in, too.
Recently, they trucked 15 pallets of supplies to the Elks Lodge in Shreveport. And on Monday, all those supplies were loaded up and sent south to Lake Charles. That was thanks to two Shriners from that storm stricken city who made the round trip. That s America, said Brent Simpson of the Lake Charles Habibi Shriners. We re healing hearts. Trying to help out. Ease the stress and the pain. Give people products and materials and items that they need.
Brent Simpson is a former street kid, survivor of abuse and ex-bikie enforcer
After stints in prison, he began driving trucks until fatigue caused a breakdown
A friend encouraged him to start the podcast about crims trying to go straight
Ex-prisoners, underworld figures and bank robbers have been guests
Simpson s tough life allows him access and insight into those he interviews
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Subscriber only Schapelle Corby s half brother James Kisina has admitted he would have claimed responsibility for the marijuana found in her boogie board bag had he anticipated the severity of the punishment in Bali and the decade-long nightmare his family would endure. A 16-year-old Kisina spent a sleepless night in a Bali prison cell with Corby in 2004 after he carried his half sister s bag containing 4.1kg of marijuana through customs. Recounting the ordeal in a revealing and emotional interview on podcast The Clink, out on Monday, Kisina, 32, maintained their innocence and said the overwhelming global spotlight on his family left him angry, lost and on a downward spiral to his own run-ins with the law in Queensland.