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Rayville will be getting a cleaner look thanks to a $20,000 Louisiana Government Assistance Grant.

“We were able to get this grant and we’re going to use it for our demolition program,” Rayville Mayor Harry Lewis said.

The town will use the money to tear down vacant buildings throughout Rayville and clean up the lots. 

“This is something we are able to do through a grant without it costing the taxpayers a cent,” Lewis said.

Just like the men and women of the armed forces throughout the ages have answered the call to serve, so have many answered the call to sponsor wreaths for their military dead through Wreaths Across America, but many more are needed. 

The Rhymes Memorial Building, in downtown Rayville, will once again be the local headquarters for Wreaths Across America, which gives loved ones the chance to honor those who served in the military with a balsam wreath placed on their gravesite. 

What would life be like if you stopped seeing things for what they are but rather for what they could be?

It’s kind of a joke among a few of my colleagues that Beverly “drank the Kool-Aid.” In fact, I’ve been told, “You didn’t just drink it! You guzzled it!” 

I’ll admit it. I did.