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MAY 9, 2019 38th YEAR NUMBER 32
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The future home of Jani-King
Jani-King "The King of Clean" broke ground this last Thursday
afternoon. Tom Enmon had some
help from his friends including Louisiana State Governor John Bel Edwards,
Ponchatoula Mayor Bob
Zabbia, Jani-King employees and local dignitaries. (Times photo by Amy
Brennan)
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Local Ponchatoula citizens have been asked to volunteer as extras in the
hallmark movie with the
current name “The miracle of Christmas” and the film is turning
Ponchatoula in a winter wonderland
in the months of May and June. Film crew workers have been all around town
shopping for props
and talking to locals. The film will actually take place in a town named
Ponchatoula. (Times Photo by
Amy Brennan)
You may have missed
your big chance to break
into movies
Times Report ’
Before this edition of The Times could go to press
seeking extras for a movie to be filmed in “America’s ,
Antique City Ponchatoula, LA,” a notice went out say-
ing no one was needed after all.
This is the original
press release submitted
for publication:
“Want to see how a
winter wonderland is cre-
ated in the middle of the
Louisiana summer? A 10-
cally filmed and produced
Christmas movie is seek-
ing volunteer extras for
several scenes shooting
in the Ponchatoula area.
The name of the town in
the film is Ponchatoula...
how cool!?!
“The crew will be film-
ing several scenes in!
around the downtown
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seeking volunteer extras
of all ages! Men, Women,
Children. Everyone is in-
vited to come join in the
festivities! They will have
raffles and entertainment
between takes and lunch
will be provided! This
film is a love letter to Pon-
chatoula, its culture and
its people, as well as a
heartfelt carol to the true
spirit of Christmas. This
is a massive community
effort and with a largely
Louisiana based crew
and production team who
are all incredibly excited
to share this experience
with y’all!
“If you are interested
please visit httpszllbit.
1y/2Y4VDGX to sign up!
You will be required to
sign a photo release. Once
signed up you will receive
an email confirming your
place. Shoot Dates: 05/13
06/02. Location/Ad-
dress: All locations will be
within less than a mile of ‘
downtown- Ponchatoula.
Specifics will be provided:
to you if you are selected
to be a part of the film.
“Time: Up to 8 hours.
Come help us show the
world h0w Ponchatoula
does Christmas!” ‘
Dynamic hospice duo address Rotary
House Administrator at The Richard Murphy
Hospice House Donna Landry Olivia, (left) and
J odee McWilliams Hoover House Executive Direc-
tor at spoke to The Ponchatoula Rotary this past
Thursday. The ladies work as a team and shared
with the Rotarians the history of The Richard
Murphy Hospice Home and the services it pro-
vides. The Richard Murphy Hospice Home offers
services to patients free‘of charge and operates
solely on donations. (Times Photo by Amy Bren-
nan)
Providing a haven to
those who need it most
By AMY BRENNAN
Times Reporter
The Richard Murphy Hospice Home began from
humble beginnings and was the result of local resident
Richard Murphy being diagnosed with terminal cancer
in 1982.
“The King of Clean"
breaks ground on
new headquarters in
Ponchatoula
By AMY BRENNAN
Times Reporter
Jani-King “The King of Clean” broke ground on its
new headquarters this past Thursday on the I-55 North-
east Service Road in Ponchatoula with Gov. John Bel
Edwards in attendance.
Jami-King is a locally-
owned franchise commer-
cial cleaning service that
opened .its Ponchatoula
majority of the franchises
located in the Southeast
region of the US. The
cleaning services franchise
headquarters in 1998. The
original headquarters is
located in downtown Pon-
chatoula in the Campbell
Building at 122 West Pine
Street.
Jani-King provides tai-
lored janitorial services
across the world which in-
clude 130 support offices
in 10 cuntries with the
counts among its clients
the Mercedes Benz Su—
perdome, hotels, resorts,
restaurants, banks, sta-
diums, and special event
cleaning, among its many
interests.
The
chise is owned by local
businessman Tom Enmon
PLEASE SEE PAGE 3
J ani-King fran-'
home surrounded by fam-x
Administrator of the
home, Donna Landry 01-
ivier, and Executive Di-
rector Jodee McWilliams
brought the hospice his-
tory to a recent meeting
of the Ponchatoula Rotary
Club as guest speakers.
Richard Murphy want-
ed to spend his final days
in the comfort of his OWn
ily'and friends. This ser-
vice is often referred to as
hospice. Hospice has been
evolving in Europe since
the Eleventh Century.
At the time the area
did not have a qualified
hospice provider until
Richard Murphy’s family,
PLEASE SEE PAGE 4
OUR Power-1A roam
By OLE HARDHIDE
The Alligator
Lost in space, or way down the bayou, is
Times legal eagle Jim Wattigny. Should you
find the wayward jurist, please send him
home.
Mike Dupont wasn’t performing the Mexi-
can Hat Dance debuted by Ole Pinchpenny in
Detroit [back in pre-history with his African-
American dance partner Linda Ford, the two
of them paired by accident of height and the
whim of the nuns at St. Martin Catholic El-
ementary School, but Mike was on hand for
the annual Saul Rubio Cinco de Mayo extrav-
aganzaat the Ponchatoula La» Carreta.
So was the forever gorgeous Alma Maintz,
the gallant City Councilman Vergil Sandifer,
Porch Recker David “Byrd” Boyd, and a host
of hat dancers who packed La Carreta for
the May 5 Wang-Dang-Do, where available
tables were at a premium and pretty ladies
. were shaking it in the streets While live bands
played inside and out. Oh whatta party!
I often wonder what our late-great Fran-
cophile BobTroyer would have to say about
all the hoopla surrounding Mexico’s trouncing
of the French in the Battle of Puebla on May
(Cinco de Mayo), 1862, his lasting memory
including Ponchatoula’s annual celebration
of the Falling of the Bastille with a Small pa-
rade trooping the French Tricolor. Viva La
France!
As the festivities continued Sunday in down-
town Ponchatoula, a crowd of Crusaders piled
in to further thicken the crowd after the St.
Joseph Spring Fair had finished bestowing a
super Mike Fulmer Berryland Camper mobile
home on fair raffle winner Joe Berteau. '
In case you haven’t caught the drift, if it is
fun you seek, you‘ need look no further than
“The Strawberry Capital of the World, Pon-
chatoula, LA.” (while I do hear that fermer
'Berrytown lawman and son of the Indepen-'
PLEASE SEE PAGE 7
