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The John H. Scott Memorial Fund held a virtual scholarship award ceremony May 2.

Seven scholars were represented this year. They are Amahry Jackson of  Newellton who attends Tensas High School and  Westley Bowman, TaNoah Hampton, Destiny Jones, Karvan Powell Jr., Aalayah Scott and Zakara Williams, all of General Trass High School.

Tracy L. Reynolds of Lake Providence was awarded the Alease J. Scott Memorial Award. 

Unemployment rose sharply in Tensas Parish in March according to figures release this week by the Louisiana Works commission.

The jobless rate for Tensas Parish rose from 8.8 percent in in February to 12.1 percent in March. It is also up from 6.3 percent in March 2019.

That translates into 175 people being out of work in Tensas Parish last month as opposed to 120 in February and 86 a year ago.

The Tensas Parish workforce was up to 1,266 people in March, up from 1,241 people in February and down from 1,287 a year ago.

Strength for the Day is dedicated to a prayer for stress, fear, family, worry, peace and health and health control.

Then to have faith and to trust in our Lord, we should pray every day. We will look at the five ways of dealing with stress and family during this month.

You know, prayer is the key and faith unlocks the door.