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VA Medical Center goes high-tech with patient records. Page 6B dhc dimes CONTACT CRAIG DURRETT 459-3248 or newsshreveporttimes.com MONDAY, MAY 1, 2000 Group aims to help newcomers adjust to Minden 'V' H' Tornado, rains don't deter 1-20 workers Highway workers have done a significant amount of paving on areas of Interstate 20 construction between Interstate 49 and the Benton Road overpass. Much of the paving is being done at night. Workers also continued working on the $22 million repaving when we first came to Minden, how hard it is for new people to make friends, to know what's Whom to call For more information about Women Helping Others, call Rebecca Bounds at (318) 377- 6009 or the Minden-South Webster Chamber of Commerce at (318) 377-4240. Gruber filiation with the national service club.

Dubbed "WHO," the new group will publish an informational booklet and hold quarterly get-togethers where new residents can meet each other as well as city and state officials. Minden attracts 20 to 30 new residents a month, based on utility hookups, said WHO organizer Rebecca Bounds. Most new residents rent apartments before building a house. "All of us are generally not from Minden," she said. "We remembered how hard it was Women Helping Others will publish booklet, hold quarterly welcome forums.

By Melody Brumble The Times MINDEN A revamped women's organization will strive to make life easier for newcomers to Minden. Women Helping Others of Minden was formed by members of the Quota Club after they decided to end their af of milk, once was the unofficial ambassador for newcomers to Minden. There's been no formal effort to reach new residents for several years, said Sue Gruber, Minden-South Webster Chamber of Commerce executive director. "We're getting a lot of new people, and we want to help them assimilate," Gruber said. "Sometimes they say it takes them a while to meet people." The Chamber of Commerce primarily sends newcomer packets to people relocated by their employers and pro- vides information to new businesses in town.

Its ambassadors program will work with WHO. WHO will develop a list of newcomers from city utility records. People who start water and sewerage service must sign a release so the city can provide their names and addresses to the group. The program will kick off in September with a public forum for everyone who moved to Minden in the past year. City Council members and state Rep.

Jean Doerge, D-Minden, are expected to attend. "Eventually, we want to project through Thy rsday's steady Bounds attended high school in Minden, then moved away. She returned 11 years ago and recalled that it took a while before she knew who to talk to and where to go in the community. The now-closed Sanitary Dairy, with its home delivery The Easter Sunday tornado have a newcomers club, where the newcomers can come in and take over this particular project," Bounds said. "That's what discipleship is all about, training others." destroyed two per PBBi3oafiOinis Area remembers Holocaust victims ft dbh EWE trial 1 tKWvr -otto Get results online When a verdict is announced in the trial of former Edwin W.

Edwards, The Times will offer readers immediate information via its Web site: www.shreveporttimes.com Jurors look confused by RICO statute, 5B i 5r 3 From Staff and Wire Reports BATON ROUGE A condensed version of the instructions that jurors must follow in their deliberations in the gambling racketeering trial of for-mef Gov. Edwin W. Edwards and six others will be made available to jurors when they report to court today. The new 51-page set of instructions is a guide to the 96 pages of instructions that U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola read last week before deliberations began.

Attorneys helped Polozola put together the shorter version in an attempt to ease jurors' difficulty interpreting the original guidelines. Polozola more or less acknowledged late last week that his lengthy instructions to the jury were far too complicated and difficult for all the jurors to understand. He did so by telling the jury that he would "simplify" and "compress" the bulk of the instructions. Jurors ultimately will decide whether to use the condensed version. The 12 jurors seven men and five women also must decide 91 criminal charges involving Edwards and his six co-defendants.

Edwards, his son Stephen Edwards, state Sen. GregTarv-er and state Gaming Control Board member Ecotry Fuller, both of Shreveport, former Edwards' gubernatorial aide Andrew Martin of Kenner and two of Edwards' close friends, Cecil Brown of Eunice and Bobby Johnson of Baton Rouge, are accused in a series Amy Beth Bennett The Times Commemoration Sunday. Van Thyn obligation is to the victims. We survivors speak for them." Holocaust survivor Rose Van. Thyn talks about her experiences at Au schwitz annual Holocaust Survivor honored for spreading her message to others 1 By Kacee Hargrave TheTimes manent highway signs and "every construction barrel they owned," said Harrison Han-non, district engineer with the state Department of Transportation and Development.

"It was a major mess putting everything back together." The thrust of work this week will 'continue to be concrete paving, in particular mainline paving on the road surface, Hannon said. Paving of the Traffic Street ramp and the ramps at Hamilton Road is nearly completed. Welcome center, area roads reopen Some -area roads and the welcome centerrest area on Interstate 20 at Greenwood have reopened, according to the state transportation department. The road reopenings include state Highway 4 from state Highway 507 for about two miles east of Castor in Bienville Parish, state Highway 4 from state Highway 792 south to Castor and state Highway 507 from state Highway 4 north for about two miles north of Castor. Attorneys to talk about successions The Shreveport Bar Association will sponsor a People's Law School from 6 to 8 p.m.

Thursday in Centenary College's Kilpatrick Auditorium. Attorneys Jeff Cox and Deryl Medlin will focus on estate planning and successions. The free event is open to the public. Parking is available near Kings Highway at Wood-lawn Avenue. 1 SRAC panels set to meet this month May meetings of Shreveport Regional Arts Council panels begin with the arts administrators session at 8 a.m.

May 8 at SRAC. Other meetings are the literary panel at 5:15 p.m. May 9 at SRAC and a brown-bag lunch session of the visual arts panel at noon May 10 in the Tower Gallery. The multidisciplinary and performance panels will not meet this month. Two tickets win lottery jackpots BATON ROUGE A ticket sold in Baton Rouge won the $825,000 Louisiana Lotto jackpot Saturday.

And a ticket sold in Destrehan won the $50,000 Cash Quest jackpot. No one won the $14 million top prize in the Powerball game. The next Powerball drawing will be worth an estimated $18 million. The next Louisiana Lotto drawing will be worth an estimated $250,000. Both will be Wednesday.

No ticket wins Lotto Texas jackpot AUSTIN No ticket matches all six numbers drawn Saturday in the Lotto Texas game. The jackpot in the drawing Wednesday will be worth an estimated $6 million. From Staff, Wire Reports of extortion schemes to ma- nipulate the licensing of Louisiana riverboat casinos from 1991 through 1997. All have pleaded innocent. If convicted of all the counts, Edwards, 72, faces up to; 350 years in prison.

Deliberations got off to a rocky start last week. On Wednesday, jurors sent the judge a note saying they could not agree on anything and 1 wanted to move on to another charge. The problem escalated Thursday when the jurors apparently stopped deliberating. Polozola reread his instruc- -tions to the jurors Thursday and told them to be patient with "themselves and each other." Then he dismissed the -panel two hours early. On Friday, jurors did not ask the judge a single question and I deliberated for seven hours be-' fore taking a weekend break Shreveporter Rose Van Thyn wants nothing else but for people to remember those who were killed during the Holocaust especially the 1.5 million chil Rose Van Thyn profile Age: 78 Born in: Amsterdam Survived: Auschwitz Freed: April Came to United States: 1956 Became citizen: 1961 Family: Husband, Luis Van Thyn, and two children.

kil dren who died in gas chambers. As a Holocaust survivor, Van Thyn said it's the least she can do Goodman St. Rest Baptist Church moves on after storm A participant lights a candle in memory of the 11 million victims of the Holocaust at the 17th annual Holocaust Commemoration, held at First Presbyterian Church. Sylvia Goodman. Van Thyn, who lost her parents, sister and husband in the Holocaust, has numbers tatooed on her arm as a permanent reminder of her torture.

Born in Amsterdam in 1921, she was forced to quit school at the Free University of Amsterdam and go to work in a factory. In 1942, she and her mother were taken to Auschwitz, the most extensive of 2,000 Nazi concentration and forced-labor camps and the largest camp at which Jews were exterminated by poison gas. While there, Nazis performed ex- for the 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews who perished. "My obligation is to the victims," she said. "We survivors speak for them." On Sunday, residents honored Van Thyn for her numerous speeches and appearances to put human faces on the statistics of those who died.

"We are honoring Rose because she has ignored her pain in retelling the events of her persecution so she can teach thousands of others about the horrors of man's inhumanity to man," said community leader strayed part of St. Rest in the 1600 block of Garden Street. "We are going to pull through this. There's no question about I it," said the Rev. Robert L.

Wal- ton, pastor of St. Rest. St. Rest's spring revival went on Sunday in Mount Canaan's sanctuary and will continue each night this week. For Ernest and Gloria Williams, who met at the church and eventually married, the tor- nado was the tliird challenge the church has endured since they became members in the 1940s, See CHURCH 4B Tornado damage doesn't dampen congregation's spirits.

By Kacee Hargrave The Times Voices of children singing Holy, Holy, Holy rang throughout the gymnasium of Mount Canaan Baptist Church temporary home of St. Rest Baptist Church. Church members said prayers thanking God for everything he has given them including the storm that de- terian Church in Shreveport. The Holocaust "keeps erupting like a volcano" that "bums as a constant warning for humanity," said Sara J. Bloomfield, director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

periments on Van Thyn. "Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if the Holocaust would not have happened," she said to a large crowd gathered at the 17th annual Holocaust Commemoration at First Presby Our Youth, Our Future MENTOR: Betty Henderson YOUTH: Leah Boehmler Whether it's a parent, a teacher, a preacher or a family member, children look to a variety of individuals as role models. As part of a yearlong focus on children, The Times features students and the adults in their lives who Age: 15. Grade: Ninth. School: Byrd High School.

School ac Occupation: Wife, mother, volunteer. Experience as a mentor: Church youth adviser, church schoolteacher, member of Know a youth who deserves recognition? Our Youth, Our Future spotlights young people for their good deeds and accomplishments along someone who has played a significant role in encouraging and teaching them in their lives. To I they say have tivities: Varsity soccer, plays violin in school orchestra, member of Student Council, Freshman suggest students school PTSA boards, Cub Scout den mother. Why Is it important to spend time with your children? "I love children. I If i i helped contribute to their success and happiness.

Today, tor children? "It's fun. They need good role models. Giving my time proves how important they are to me. They give me such support and love in return. We never outgrow the need to be a part of children's lives." How does being a mentor benefit you? "I really get to know the children I work with.

It is a joy to share experiences with children like Leah. I truly feel God has called me to give of my time, love and respect in service to others. Youth are our future." Did you have a mentor? "My parents and my church family." Best advice you received as a young person? "You are a gift from God valued, respected and loved." Lottery numbers APRIL 30, 2000 Volunteer Service Award. Goals: To become a pediatrician, to help teens who aren't happy about life and those in need around the world. Hobbies: Soccer, snow and water skiing.

Community Involvement: Candy striper for Christus Schumpert Medical Center, volunteer work for the Red River Revel, Salvation Army Christmas Toy Drive, church youth choir and youth group, Mississippi Food Bank. Philosophy: "Never stop at what others might expect of you, but dazzle them by going above and beyond." and mentors: Call: (318) 459-3262 or toll-free at (800) 462-6436, ext. 262. ICUlSiAMFICHTHKEE Boehmler Henderson 4 LOUISIANA PICK FOUR we introduce you to Leah Boehmler and her mentor and fellow church member Betty Henderson. "She has such a good attitude.

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