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Having been around for many a new year, I’m surprised, disgusted, angry, and just plain old frustrated by the amount and extent of corruption in government today. Seems like very few care anymore.

St. Bernard Parish is blessed with a rich variety of cultural influences.

Poor ole’ Joe Biden. The current president really has his hands full. Some think the world is going to hell in a handbasket, and the Biden team is enmeshed in pouring billions to other countries. The President has just approved a $105 billion military aid package to Israel, as the Israel-Hamas war is on the verge of spiraling into a wider regional conflict. Russia’s war with Ukraine seems more and more like a Russian war with America as the US has poured $80 billion in this struggle. Our Southern border is overflowing with a surge of immigrants with no plan to stop the flow. The president is up for election in just 10 months. And his favorable popularity has dipped to below 35 percent.

25YEARSAGO • Dan Johnson was sworn in as St. Bernard Arabi Kiwanis Club Treasurer for 1998-99.

It seems early, but the second week of January has proven to be the best time for starting tomatoes from seed for the spring season in my experience. I like to try to get my transplants in as early as possible, shooting for them to go in the ground on Valentine’s Day (this makes it easy to remember!). By following this schedule, it keeps the plants ahead of a lot of the more common issues that plague tomatoes in this area, including leaf-footed bugs, blight, and buckeye rot.

December 22, 2023 Kenilworth Sub., Square:g, Lot:5, St. Bernard.

The Battle of New Orleans, a military campaign extending from December 1814 through January 1815, was the final engagement between British and American armed forces in the War of 1812. The American victory in the Battle of New Orleans forever resolved the question of the United States of America’s ownership of New Orleans and the Mississippi River Valley. American ownership of the Mississippi Valley ultimately guaranteed national expansion westward to the Pacific Coast. That expansion made the United States a great global power economically and politically. Consequently, events which took place in modern day St. Bernard Parish determined the destiny of the United States of America. Additionally, descendants of Anglo-American colonists, Louisiana French, Spanish and Western European colonists, St. Domingue survivors, enslaved Africans, Free People of Color, Filipinos and Native Americans all fought as Americans to repel the British invasion of Louisiana thus establishing a diversity based cultural identity of American residents and citizens.