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Feliciana Explorer • Tuesday, January 1, 2013 • Vol. 3, No. 1 • Published Weekly • Circulation 17,000 • felicianaexplorer.com • © 2013

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Zachary Post and the Feliciana Explorer family of newspapers asked readers to help identify in-dividuals who make a difference in the communities in which they live. We received an outpouring of nominations from the public and were deeply touched by all the nominees and their stories. It was a very difficult task to nar-row down the nominations to five finalists, but we did and we hope we did each of their stories justice over the five weeks that we published them.

Guided by the criteria for nomination, staff members chose five amazing finalists. Jonathan Loveall of Clinton, a math teach-er at Jackson Elementary who

does his best teaching outside of the classroom, was introduced first. Second was Shirley Sibley of Jackson who didn’t bow out of life after the loss of her sig-nificant other, but stepped up to help out at the local food bank. Mary Bellcase of Zachary, our third finalist, grew a non-profit that provides approximately 200 children with toys and clothes at Christmas from a small act of kindness 25 years ago. Futures are forever changed by Ann Hol-land of Clinton, our fourth fi-nalist, who GED instruction to inmates at Dixon Correctional. Last but not least, Sharon Phe-nald of Zachary proved that a leap of faith and courage can change many lives for the better

when she adopted a very special young lady 15 years ago.

Online voting officially be-gan on December 17, and in-dividuals may continue to vote through Friday, January 11, 2013. To vote, please visit www.zacharypost.com or www.felici-anaexplorer.com; only one vote per person is permitted.

The winner will be awarded $500 to be donated to the chari-table organization of his or her choice.

We hope that you will take some time out from the hustle and bustle of the season to rec-ognize our most inspiring givers by voting for your favorite 2012 Hometown Hero.

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It was twenty five years ago when Mary Bellcase helped her first student. She was talking to a friend who worked at Zach-ary Elementary and who saw first-hand the needs of some of the children; together, Bellcase and her friend decided to do something about those needs. "The first kid we probably helped was in third grade and he was wearing his dads cow-boy boots to school," remem-bered Mary. "We decided we would help, and we helped on a very small scale; well now its gotten to be a really big scale," she added. From this complete-ly spontaneous act of kindness grew a non-profit organization called Zachary Community Helpers whose major project is providing approximately 200 children with toys and clothes at Christmas.

Mary Bellcase, assisted by five or six dedicated volunteers and supported by an army of hundreds more who offer sup-plies, monetary donations and other kinds of help, provides the logistical coordination required to responsibly funnel donations of supplies and money to their most ef-fective purpose. But her duties are not restricted to organization; in one day, she may deliver a heater to a family, meet someone at the Lion's Club to receive a donation of toys, and go bargain hunting for school uniforms. She pulled out a plas-

tic bag to show me a pair of school uniform pants that she picked up at a local retailer for $2.97, stretching a dime into a dollar for some future

child-in-need. While the organization does

sometimes provide support at the family level, Zachary Community Helpers is particularly focused on the needs of children, a focus that developed naturally out of the first cooperative effort between Mary and Zachary Elementary. The organiza-tion primarily directs its giving based

on recommendations and informa-tion from educators in the Zachary school system who know first-hand which children and families are in real and desperate need—whether it be for a new pair of eyeglasses, a Thanksgiving meal, or even socks and underwear.

Applications for the Christmas Toy Drive, the organization's largest project, are made through the school system. Teachers are asked to recom-mend specific students and/or fami-lies who may otherwise face a very lean Christmas. Mary then sets out to find donors for each of these children, working with churches, businesses, and individuals with whom she has formed relationships over the years. Mary proudly explained that over the years, Zachary Community Helpers has been able to find donors for ev-ery needy family who has applied to the Toy Drive. Typically, they try to provide each child with his or her toy request along with needed clothing items.

I sat with Mary at the Lion's Club, grand central of Zachary Community Helpers. It was the day after their Thanksgiving meal distribution and Mary had met a family there earlier that morning whose phone had been disconnected and so missed the regu-lar pick-up time. During the months of November and December, you will likely find Mary there as, on av-erage, she makes 10 trips there every day and puts in about 60 hours per week. As the only volunteer permit-ted to hold a key to the Lion's Club, which donates much-needed storage

and work space to Zachary Commu-nity Helpers, Mary bears the burden of being at the Club each and every time it needs to be opened.

Besides being the coordinator of the enterprise, Mary is also the repos-itory of a storehouse of information about needy families in the commu-nity, keeping track of their specific needs year after year. It is this level of familiarity and personal, long-term connection with the people she helps that makes Mary so irreplaceable, a not-so-insignificant worry for those in the organization who understand that, to a certain extent, Mary Bell-case is Zachary Community Help-ers–though she would never say so.

As Mary explained, before her work with Zachary Community Helpers, she was not someone who always had a service project on the go. But once she was called to action 25 years ago, it became, in her words, "kind of like an addiction." Now, she is an inspiration to others. As the per-son who nominated wrote, "She lives every day to serve others. There has not been a time that I have not en-countered Mary that she was not pre-paring food, shopping, or planning to help a local citizen of Zachary."

Ironically, Mary and her husband no longer put up a Christmas tree; with the demands of the holiday sea-son, there is only so much time in the day and clearly, that time is dedicated to others. On the day I visited with Mary, she still had to deliver four turkeys to a volunteer's house to be baked for families without ovens.

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Inmates who assist as tutors and class participants at the Educational Center at Dixon Correctional Institute along with Ann Holland (center). Pictured (left to right) are: Gary Jones, Raymond Cockerham, Donald Burns, Shane Falcon, Jason Dove and Joseph Elphage.

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It doesn’t take more than a five minute conversation with Ann Hol-land to admire not only her simplis-tic attitude but her passion for others. Born and raised in Clinton, Ann spent most of her life teaching in the public school system, raising three children, being a wife and, all the while, mak-ing a difference in the lives of strang-ers.

“We moved to Baton Rouge when we were young,” said Ann. “My hus-band, Martin, coached for 40 years and I was a teacher for East Baton Rouge Parish.”

When Ann’s mom began to expe-rience dementia, they moved back to Clinton to care for her. “Mother need-ed help, and we knew it was what we needed to do,” Ann explained.

“I realized there was a women’s prison up the road from our home, and one afternoon I just decided to go there. I shook that chain link gate and got the attention of the warden, Mr. Foster. I told him I was Ann Holland, Mr. Brady’s daughter–that he knew me, and I wanted to talk with him.”

Ann inquired whether the prison offered a GED program for its in-mates and when she was told that they didn’t, “I asked him if he would al-low me to come and try to work with these women,” Ann remembered. “I laughed and assured him I was not a felon and my certification was on file with East Baton Rouge!”

For five years, Ann taught a GED program in the evenings at the wom-en’s prison while still driving to work in Baton Rouge five days a week.

When asked why she offered her services and time to prisoners, Ann replied, “Well, I guess we are com-pelled to go out and reach people, and it’s easy to reach out to those who are generous. But I feel I can be used for whatever God calls me to do, and he told me to go help those women.”

Ann taught the women twice a week, preparing them for the GED test. She felt many of them were caught in a ‘revolving door’ of life—they would be released and then be back in prison six months later. Still, there were stories of individuals whose lives were changed thanks to the GED they earned under Ann’s tutelage. Her service at the women’s prison came to an end when they suddenly closed the facility.

After retirement from the EBRP school system, Ann was approached by a friend who knew of her previous work at the women’s prison. She was asked to assist with the GED program at Dixon Correctional Institute (DCI).

“They were having trouble with the math, which is my field. I felt it really was something God laid on my heart to do,” said Ann. Ann volunteers at DCI in the evenings since the men in her classes work at the prison dur-ing the day.

Ann also devotes time each month

to the Dorcas Door, a local resale shop—something she started with her mother. “My mother, Thadlie Brady, was working there when we moved back to Clinton,” Ann explained. “She was beginning to lose some of

her cognitive skills, so I started going and sitting with her because momma had lost the ability to count money! I would count the money while she worked the store. I just kept work-ing there after she passed away, and I don’t mind helping.”

Ann has a very simple philoso-phy—if nobody else is doing some-thing, then you need to step in yourself. Living by this philosophy, if someone calls Ann from the Council on Aging and needs a ride somewhere—she is there. “Don’t wait to be asked. If you’ve got something someone needs, and you know they are there and they don’t get out, take it to them. That’s how it should be,” said Ann.

Ann has always tried to expose her children and grandchildren to oppor-tunities for helping others. “Oh, they don’t always want to go, but I pile those little rascals in the back seat and make them go. They need to experi-

ence it themselves,” laughed Ann. When I questioned her husband

Martin on his patience with Ann’s vol-unteer life, he smiled a slight grin and replied, “What she does is God’s work and she is just a remarkable woman, still, 48 years later.”

“I just feel like I have been blessed most of my life. People have given to me, people have helped me; and I am at the point in my life where I’m supposed to be giving back to people. If I help you, I help you for nothing, because I don’t need anything. I love that I had the opportunity to reach out to those women and these men, and to show them that somebody does care; they’re not forgotten,” said Ann.

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As a double major in English and American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Jonathan Loveall did not plan to enter the teaching profession. But following his graduation, he de-cided he needed to try to live in the world as he wanted others to live in it, practicing the virtues of cooperative effort, community involvement, and the fierce determination to encourage others' best efforts.

Originally from a small town of 5,000 people in the northwestern cor-ner of Iowa, Jon moved to Louisiana as part of the Teach for America pro-gram, which recruits non-traditional teachers–typically from the high-achieving ranks of college graduates–to teach in rural and under-served communities throughout the nation. Jon began teaching math at Jackson Elementary in 2008 and has remained in the parish ever since, well past his contracted service.

Jon has, in fact, made Clinton his permanent home, explaining that he enjoys the small-town atmosphere and measured pace of life in East Fe-liciana. Most importantly, he finds his work teaching third through fifth grade math intervention immensely satisfy-ing. As Jon described, it was a happy accident to discover that he's passion-ate about elementary math. "Elemen-tary math is where students develop the foundations for critical thinking, for problem solving, for analyzing situations in a logical thoughtful way. And what I appreciate…is that I get to help kids who didn't necessarily think they are good at math realize that they

are actually pretty fantastic at math; they just have a different problem-solving approach," Jon explained.

What sets Jon apart is the fact that his involvement in his students' devel-opment reaches far beyond the walls of the classroom and far beyond the subject of math. While we sat together watching a league championship foot-ball game between East Feliciana and West Feliciana that several of his past and current students were playing in, Jon explained, "The kid you see in school Monday through Friday is not the whole kid." He added, "It's impor-tant to support them and encourage them in all avenues of their develop-ment."

Jon attends his students' sporting events and is involved in the com-munity events their parents put on, he

tutors them after school on his own time and supports their extracurricu-lar activities. He is literally "there" for them, demonstrating by his very pres-ence that their efforts and achieve-ments matter. And if he can sneak a math problem into a conversation about sports or explain the concept of balance to kids on a teeter-totter–even better. As the person who nomi-nated him put it, "Jonathan knows that sometimes, the best teaching we do happens outside of the classroom."

Being a college English major, it is no surprise that Jon is also interested in the literacy skills of his students. He was on a committee that wrote a successfully funded federal grant that will bring funds to East Feliciana Par-ish to promote literacy. The project, called the Striving Leaders Literacy

Comprehensive Program, approaches literacy very holistically, guiding stu-dents from pre-K through high school to prep them for college and career–not at all unlike Jon's approach to teaching.

Jon is also on the board of the Wil-son Community Youth Organization, a group, he explained, that has been an inspiration to him for their efforts in giving young people social, educa-tional, and recreational opportunities. He is also a member of Clinton Pres-byterian Church, and his civic sensi-bilities even had him running for Clin-ton's Board of Aldermen.

Next weekend, Jon's agenda is packed with activities that reflect his world view and teaching approach: he will, by some superhuman effort, at-tend a Battle of the Bands in Baker, a bake sale, and a performance of gospel singers in Wilson–all in one day.

He put his jam-packed schedule into perspective for me: "Teaching is your opportunity to help make the world the way you wish it was. Frank-ly, the way I wish the world was was more of communities coming together on Saturdays to watch a football game and to do a walk to raise awareness for breast cancer. That's the kind of world that I want to live in," he said.

As we stood around on the football field while the winning team received their championship medals, I over-heard one of the mothers introducing Jon to someone who was unfamiliar with his work. She said simply, "He's a big supporter of the children in East Feliciana."

John Loveall congratulates a former student after a win this past Saturday at the "A" Team Superbowl.

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Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes they inspire sweeping change in a community or touch hundreds of lives through their service. But just as often, a hero quietly helps a single individ-ual, perhaps, as in Sharon Phenald’s case, making a life-changing deci-sion ultimately affecting the course of her life as well as the life of the child who entered her life in an un-common way.

Almost 15 years ago at age 48, Sharon Phenald (or Aunt Shine as her family members affection-ately call her) was pretty much set in her ways. She enjoyed her life, had great friends, was single with a grown son, and enjoyed her career working in the administrative side of the home health industry. Then she received a call from the wom-en’s prison from one of her nieces.

“Aunt Shine, I am in trouble. I am in prison for drugs, and I am pregnant. I don’t know what to do,” Sharon remembers her niece saying.

Sharon knew that her niece was a drug addict who wasn’t likely to get her life together, but she helped her get out of prison, pleading with her to take care of herself for the sake of the baby. It wasn’t long before her niece disappeared into the drug cul-ture for several more months before being arrested again.

Once again, Sharon received a phone call from her niece at the women’s prison.

“Aunt Shine, I am going to have

this baby soon; and I need you to take her till I get out,” her niece im-plored.

Sharon wanted to help her niece, but finances were tight and she real-ly couldn’t afford a baby at the time. It would just be too much.

That night as Sharon lay in bed,

she prayed about what she should do. “Just have faith,” is what Sharon recalled feeling God saying to her. “Have faith.”

As the days before the birth of the baby passed, Sharon remembers feeling a heavy burden on her heart, still unsure what to do. She relied on her faith to guide her through the dark moments as she stayed in and out of communication with her niece during the last few weeks of the pregnancy.

Finally, the day arrived. Sharon remembered: “I received a phone call from my niece saying that she was in labor, in custody, and that if no one came to get the baby then the infant would be separated from her and sent to an institution or or-phanage where prisoners’ babies go

because no one else in her family would help with the baby.”

At that moment a total peace passed over Sharon; she knew what she had to do. On the way out the door, she told a few of her friends, “I am going to bring the baby home with me!”

When Sharon arrived at the hos-pital, her niece had just given birth to a baby girl. Sharon followed the nurse back to her niece’s room, and as soon as she laid eyes on her, the

doubts and worries that had plagued her for the last few weeks drained away completely.

Sharon’s niece asked her if it was all right that she had already named the baby. Being new to this type of situation, Sharon asked, “Of course; what did you name her?”

“Her name is Faith. Faith Eliza-beth Varnado,” said her niece as she was taken back into custody.

Some 48 hours later, Sharon Phe-nald went home with Faith to find a fully outfitted nursery waiting for them thanks to the wonderful efforts of some friends and family she had notified on the way to the hospital. Faith, as she has been known her whole life, is now a very happy, and very fortunate, teenager.

“I am thankful and terribly blessed to be where I am today. I always think about how my life changed forever because of one car-ing, unselfish, and loving woman–Sharon Phenald,” said Faith.

Faith is an honor student at Northwestern Middle School; she loves animals and wants to be a vet-erinarian. She nominated her mom, Sharon Phenald, not only as her per-sonal hero but also as an example of the countless loving “parents” in the community who have decided to love and raise “adopted” children.

Faith has very little communica-tion with her biological parents, and she is perfectly happy with that be-cause, as she says, she knows who her real momma is…Sharon Phen-ald.

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The first time Shirley Sibley had contact with the Helping in His Name Food Bank in Jackson was after she lost her significant other and was in need of assistance herself. She vis-ited the food bank a few times for her own needs when, as she jokingly told me, "I made the mistake of saying, 'If you ever need any help, just call me.' I was looking for something to occupy my time because I was griev-ing," she added.

That was three years ago. Today, Shirley sits in the center of the action in a tiny little cubicle of sorts whose walls are essentially stacked boxes of donated food items. Every second and fourth Tuesday of the month, she takes her position in front of her file cabinets and printer, reviewing appli-cations from individuals and families, basically serving as a gatekeeper–al-beit a gregarious and compassionate gatekeeper– for the entire operation.

In addition to serving in the un-enviable position of paper-pusher, a job which Shirley was asked to take on when the duties weren't being reli-ably fulfilled, she also helps pack the food bank boxes on two Mondays of the month and helps to load up 26 boxes on Wednesday mornings head-ed to elderly, home-bound clients in Jackson Square Apartments.

Incredibly, Shirley is one of only four to five individuals who volun-teer at the Jackson Food Bank, feed-ing 200 families—and growing—a month. The food bank, which is only four years old, receives most of its food supplies from the Greater Baton

Rouge Food Bank; but the organiza-tion also receives monetary donations throughout the year with which it provides Thanksgiving turkeys to all of its clients.

Shirley never commented on the enormous commitment it takes to work for a food bank, not to men-tion the physical stamina. But as we sat amongst bags of potatoes, loaves of bread, and cans of tuna stacked in every conceivable space, it was clear that this is a commitment that one can-not make lightly. The work of boxing

and distributing donated food is ongoing–rain or shine, day-in and day-out. Individuals are counting on that food to get them through the month; and with five volunteers, there is no room for shirking du-ties.

"I just try to help people and really don't want any rec-ognition," Shir-ley explained. "I do a lot of things behind the scenes that people don't even know that I do, and I don't care. The Man up there knows what I'm do-

ing. He knows what's in my heart, and that's what counts…that's what counts to me."

Shirley, a member of Second Bap-tist Church in Jackson, credits her faith as the starting point for her good works. She explained, "I wasn't liv-ing a Christian life. And when I lost [my mate], I had nowhere to turn to but God. When I got my life straight and got going in the right direction, He just started opening doors to give me things to keep me occupied."

And occupied she is. Shirley doesn't just deal in food; she's also a versatile and talented seamstress who uses that gift to make quilts and pillows for Grace Nursing Home, Christmas stockings for children at her church, and supply pouches for new military moms. But, as she pulled out pictures of her work from her pocket, the project she was most proud of were the 50 stuffed cats she made last year, half of which were donated to Court Appointed Special Advocates, a non-profit group that helps abused and neglected children, and half of which were donated to the Jackson Police Department to be given out to children at the scene of domestic abuse calls.

Shirley won't be getting a break this week. She and her little red truck will be helping to deliver about 250 Thanksgiving dinners to shut-ins, a special project of her church, Sec-ond Baptist. She could not be happier about it: "To me, it's giving back to the community and doing what God wants me to do with my free time."

Pictures of some of Shirley Sibley's sewing projects including her favorite stuffed cats.

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call 225-635-3364.

Jackson Town Hall Monthly Meeting | January 14, 6:30 p.m.

This town hall meeting is open to the public and provides insight into the governing bodies’ agenda as well as discussions or areas of concern. Attendance by the public is encouraged. Meeting takes place at the Jackson Town Hall located at 1610 Charter St. For more information, call

225-634-7777

Adoption Matters Informational Session | January 14, 6-7 p.m.

This free one-hour information session about adoption and is presented by Catholic Charities Diocese of Baton Rouge which covers a 12 parish area including East and West Feliciana. The presentation will cover all aspects of finding families for children and attendees will hear how experienced social workers de-mystify the journey toward a successful adoption and building happy families. Space is limited and registration is requested. The event is free and will take place at 1900 S. Acadian Thruway in Baton Rouge. For more information, call

225-334-7494.

Slaughter Town Hall Monthly

Meeting | January 15, 6:30 p.m.This town hall meeting is open to the public and provides insight into the governing bodies’ agenda as well as discussions or areas of concern. Attendance by the public is encouraged. Meeting takes place at the Slaughter Civic Center located at 3337 Church St. For more information, contact Norma Ory at 225-654-4278.

Events in the Felicianas

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