Get a team of your friends, family and colleagues together and join the City of Walker for some fun and fellowship – and the chance to spend just a few hours making the community an even better place to live. Mayor Bobby Font is inviting residents, business owners and community leaders to take part in the City of Walker’s “Community Clean-Up Day.”

The event will be held Saturday, May 19 from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Twice a year, citizens work side by side with municipal employees to rid the streets of litter. It provides an opportunity for families, businesses, Sunday school classes or individuals to pitch in and help clean up Walker. This year’s event takes place on Saturday, May 19. Those who wish to join in should meet at the Walker Municipal Building, 10136 Florida Blvd., at 7 a.m. and plan to work until 11 a.m. The City of Walker will provide water, as well as grabbers, garbage bags and safety vests. To register or for more information, please call [225] 665-4356.

Please join the SPCA of Livingston for a huge celebration/pet festival

Saturday May 19 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. - featuring Southern Boyz Outdoors, Reel Shot, Gator Trax , K-Love, CKC and Pit Stop Rescue

Pet Adoptions * Food * Fun * Crafts* Prizes * Pet Contests*

         HAMMOND – If the budget bill (HB1) currently moving through the Louisiana Legislature is not amended, Southeastern Louisiana University is slated to lose $16.5 million in state appropriations. 
        This will bring Southeastern’s total state funding reductions since Fiscal Year 2008/09 to $45.6 million, or 58 percent. As the current budget proposal stands, total reductions in state general fund support for all of higher education since FY 2008/09 would reach $585 million.
        “Over the past four years, we have absorbed significant reductions in our state support, and greatly streamlined our operations as a result,” said President John L. Crain.  “A reduction of this size, particularly given the magnitude of reductions already absorbed, would have a cataclysmic impact on the university and would drastically impair our ability to serve our students and communities.”