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Oct

CCC Chat – Remembering Mrs. Leon Brooks

Printed in the JENA TIMES Olla-Tullos-Urania Signal – September 26, 2018   If you mention the name “Mrs. Brooks” to anyone who was a student at Urania Elementary school through the 1950s, you will only hear positive comments.   I was READ MORE

07

Oct

Printed in the JENA TIMES Olla-Tullos-Urania Signal – September 12, 2018   If you were a LaSalle High student in the 1950s or 60s, you probably spent some time hanging out with your friends at Allbritton’s Café.  Allbritton’s, in Olla READ MORE

07

Oct

Printed in the JENA TIMES Olla-Tullos-Urania Signal – August 26, 2018   I appreciate Mr. Sammy Franklin’s Country Editor column in the August 15 Times.  I’ve read the story of the big night at the Bucksnort Tavern in Ted Woods’ READ MORE

07

Oct

CCC Chat – My Dad

Printed in the JENA TIMES Olla-Tullos-Urania Signal – August 15, 2018   My father, E. Forrest Cook, Sr., was born July 16, 1925, in Urania, to parents Hardy and Myrtle Cook.  He attended Urania school, and graduated in 1941.  On READ MORE

07

Oct

Printed in the JENA TIMES Olla-Tullos-Urania Signal – August 1, 2018   -Some information for this week’s North LaSalle Parish History Tidbit was taken from a letter to my father, E. Forrest Cook, written by Luther Whitten in 1995.- The READ MORE

07

Oct

Printed in the JENA TIMES Olla-Tullos-Urania Signal – July 18, 2018     Driving past the Tullos park and farmer’s market, one would not suspect that at one time a brick school building sat on that property. Originally, children in READ MORE

07

Oct

Printed in the JENA TIMES Olla-Tullos-Urania Signal – July 4, 2018   This week we’re having a pop quiz here in Cultural Center Chat.  How many of these questions can you answer?  (see the answers below) How old was Henry READ MORE

07

Oct

CCC Chat – Before there was Olla

Printed in the JENA TIMES Olla-Tullos-Urania Signal – June 20, 2018   The town of Olla was founded in 1891 when Dr. Frank Mills set aside 40 acres of land for a town site.  This was in response to plans READ MORE

07

Oct

CCC Chat – Early Urania Boy Scouts

Printed in the JENA TIMES Olla-Tullos-Urania Signal – June 6, 2018   The first Urania Boy Scout Troop was organized in March 1923.   Quincy T. Hardtner was the chairman of the troop committee, which consisted of G.N. Tannehill, J.T. Payne, READ MORE

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Sep

Art, Jazz, and Jambalaya — September 28