St. Bernard Sheriff James Pohlmann was joined by a group of six St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office deputies and St. Bernard Parish President Guy McInnis to form a team for Gunning for a Cure held in early March at Stella Plantation in Braithwaite. Gunning for a Cure is an annual sporting clays competition designed to raise funds for prostate cancer research. Proceeds from the friendly competition benefit Dr. Oliver Sartor’s Prostate Cancer Research Fund at Tulane Cancer Center. The event, which also featured live entertainment, food and beverages, auctions and raffles, aims to improve the health of men by discovering the means to treat prostate cancer, while ultimately aiming to develop a cure. Pictured, from left: St. Bernard Sheriff James Pohlmann, St. Bernard Parish President Guy McInnis, Lt. Robert Broadhead, Capt. Brian Clark, Dep. Dusty Gould, Sgt. Gary Noriea, Lt. Ryan Melerine and Col. Chad Clark.

Chalmette resident Lyndsey Breksa returned home on March 17 from a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ukraine. She spent nine weeks preparing for a mission at the Mission Training Center in Provo, Utah, and then served for a total of 12 months in the Ukrainian cities of Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih.

The coronavirus has worked its way deep into St. Bernard Parish in the past three weeks. But the worst is yet to come.

Kelly Alfonso took the warnings about the novel coronavirus seriously. As a cancer patient and kidney transplant recipient, he couldn’t afford not to. But the warnings themselves may have come too late to save him.