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I drove out to look in on my father today; he’s in poor health. When I got there, he was sitting on the front porch with two sheriff’s deputies. Turns out the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Department has a program that commits three deputies to look in on the elderly, and to give them rides […]

I drove out to look in on my father today; he’s in poor health. When I got there, he was sitting on the front porch with two sheriff’s deputies. Turns out the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Department has a program that commits three deputies to look in on the elderly, and to give them rides to the doctor, if they need them. These two men, Jimmie Ritchie and Greg Foster, just dropped by to visit with my dad, to make sure he was getting along okay, and to see if he needed anything.

How about that? I think that’s pretty great, especially in a parish like ours, which is so rural.

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