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Another Record Year!

Thank You Minden!

The Civic Center will be open Monday from 8 til 10 a.m. to pay and pick up items.

St. Jude store items will be 1/2 price on Monday!!!!

Congratulations Rick and Stacy Thomas owners of Eagle Nationwide Mortgage - winner of the Grand Prize!!!!!

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“The Man with a Mission”

Who is Cancer any ways?

How did he get here?

Did he just show up one day?

Was he on his way to Death?

And decide to stop by human flesh?

Can you meet him by just standing

In his Path?

Was he sent here by the devil’s wrath?

I had the pleasure of being his host.

Cancer and I have walked together

On the sidewalks of St. Jude.

Sometimes we fought, mostly we just talked.

He talked about death.

I talked about life.

How I wanted to grow up and be someone’s wife.

That’s where he gave me some answers.

Now I know a lot about the man

Named Cancer.

Cancer’s mission is to defeat.

But he’s not so tough, because I’m standing on my feet.

But there are still those who have fallen

I can sometimes hear their spirit’s callin’

In the doors and hallways

Telling me to hang on just one more day.

By Jamie Hilburn

 

(Jamie was diagnosed as having a brain tumor – ependymoma in 1998. She went through treatment and has been tumor free since surgery.  She graduated from high school in 1999 and then from ULM in 2004.  She now is getting her masters in counseling from LA Tech. She works at Minden Athletic and has fallen in love with the town of Minden. This poem was written in 1999 – her senior year in high school.)

 

 

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