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Ponchatoula
Rookies win
district crown
By DUANE E. HARRIS
Sports Editor
d Ponchatoula's 10 year olds, once the
istrict favorites, are now the district
clmpions.
. Competing in the Loranger District
lals Ponchatoula took the district title
l'hursday Ju[y 25 against Hammond
e--.efalu 6-2
It was a game of true sportsmanship
ad "The better sportsman won,"
0mmented Margie "Mrs. Baseball"
ssard. Ponchatoula finished as the
Udefeated and indisputed champs.
Ponchatoula's ]0 year olds have
ded another winning season to their
COmpetitive record. Looking back• the
tkies took the title in a home tourna-
n'nt last year, won the title in Franklinton
the year before, and the previous tow
ars. Ponchatoula took the title in a
ire Oak tournament and one before
at at home. Five years straight
0nchatoula has kept the title at home.
h However, Thursday's game ended in
.eared dispute, as it had begun. Injured
Players and countless protested calls
executed by Hammond coaches finally
lrsuaded the umpires to call the game
n the bottom of the sixth inning;
ammond's turn at bat.
• . In that hostile sixth inning, Hammond
t-oach Ken Pettigrew mocked the
Umpires for the last time. Pettigrew,
Who jeered the umpires on numerous
casions. forced the officials to call the
game.
"The cursing and language had to
lop. We didn't think the park needed
o post signs forbidding foul language,'
stated umpire Frank Edwards shortly
after his decision.
ThPOnchatoula came ready to play
ursday night, as pointed out by
center fielder Jason McMorris. "We
@
Lions'
Pride
These are the champions
1985 10-year-old District Champions,
Ponchatoula's Rookie All-Stars, in-
dude: (Bottom left to right) Bryan
Wolfe. Gene Malone, S/even Disher,
Jason Bertheiot, Ronnie Corbin, Jason
McMorris and Jerrod lxthelot. Top
came to win. We're undefeated in this
tournament and that's how it's going to
stay."
On behalf of his Hammond team.
Hammond sponsor Vincent Cefalu
spoke in complete confidence as to his
team's future performance. "Believe
me. it's possible for us to win tonight• l
mean we beat them bad two games in
Bush and we beat them bad the next
morning• Tonight it all depends on the
boys• One day they come off ready to
play and some days they don't. Really,
Ponchatoula didn't even expect to win
any games in Bush, not with the team
they had after just getting together
overnight like that."
Local spectators even rode horses to
the game.
"They had to win. We told the kids
that we weren't coming back tomorrow
n
Mrs. Lillian Berteau
Editor's Note: Ponchatoula's largest service organization, The Poncha-
tOula Lions Club, monthly chooses a senior citizen who has helped make
Ponchatoula the special place it is today, through unheralded effort in
the community. Honorees are those who normally get no recognition,
hose names and faces are rarely seen in the newspaper, but without
hose presence in Ponchatoula the city would be a poorer place. This is
hy the honor is named the Lion s Pride, because Ponchatoula Lions are
Proud of the lifetime of contributions made to the entire community by
those who are honored.
By BRYAN T. McMAHON
Editor & Publisher
Mrs. Lillian Berteau is the current recipient of the Ponchatoula Lions Club
Lions' Pride award.
The North Seventh Street great-grandmother defers comment on her exact
age, and goes on quickly to talk of the trip she and her young husband Troy
took from Gonzales in Ascension Parish, where she was born, to Ponchatoula
to pick strawberries on the Herman Helg farm. mentioning that the journey
Was a tough one over dirt roads.
That began a long life in Ponchatoula that saw the great strawberry farms,
the fening of the giant red tidewater cypress forests to Ponchatoula south, the
esulting boom in the logging industry here. and later the growth of industry.
Very new development included Mrs. Berteau in some meaningful way.
• She raised five children: Stribling, now deceased, who gave his mother
tour grandchildren, now living in Baker; Mrs. Juanita Kiss, also deceased,
Whose four children are Michigan residents; twin girls Jeanette. who lived part
f her life in Manchac and had five children, and Mrs. Geneva Galey, who
as two children and recently retired after 37 years working for Ma Bell; Mrs.
'haron McCrory, whose eldest son Shane was a baseball star at SLU. where
One of his two sisters now attends classes.
The children were raised in Millville after the young couple traded a rough
ire in teh fields for a rough life cutting and milling cypress. They lived on
thleen Street.
"It was nice in Millville then. The large home on the corner has been torn
and is now the athletic field where the children play. It's nice to see
fixing up the old homes. I take drives there with my daughter to see
is changing.
betw"! used to walk downtown to shop. Back then there were few houses
een Millville and Ponchatoula," Mrs. Berteau recalls.
She was always a hard worker and when industry came to Ponchatoula she
her part, working at both Gold Hill and for the Valmy women's apparel
mcern, retiring just ten years ago.
Her husband has been dead 16 years, she has outlived her two eldest
and Mrs. Berteau keeps on going, visiting with her many local
and with her daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She is an active member of the St. Joseph Catholic Church congregation.
Asked to share with young readers the secrets of a happy and fulfilled life,
active senior dtizen was quick to reply: "Health is the most important
If I have one bit of advice to give it is, stay healthy, i worked hard all my
and I have my health and my home. All three are important: hard work,
having a place you can call your own."
Row: Coach Joey Bert,helot, Jamie
Berthelot, Bobby Wolfe, Trey Landty,
Trey Harris, Tommy Ragan, Chris
Flannagan and Jason Berthelot.
(Times Photo by Duane Harris)
if they lost," stated Mrs. Lessard.
"They were great. The kids really
showed some remarkable sportsmanship
above all. They were prepared."
commented Coach Tommy Ragan
following the qame
To the surprise of many. Hammond
was not prepared. In fact, Ponchatoula
catcher Chris Flannagan loaned to the
Hammond catcher the proper safety
mask and guards.
Chris was later, in the fifth inning.
subiect to extreme turmoil when he was
SEE PAGE TEN
Ponchatoula 13-year-olds
go for state cl lampionship
By DUANE E. HARRIS
Sports Editor
At press time. Ponchatoula was in
position, weather, permitting, to play
host to the state baseball tournament for
13-year-olds. a state title Ponchatoula
players can win.
Ponchatoula athletes fill out most of
the all-Tangipahoa parish team's roster.
The Tangi team was rained out
Tuesday afternoon and if unfavorable
weather conditions persist in Belle
Chase. tournament officials has agreed
to relocate the double elimination
competition to Ponchatoula's Athletic
Park
The field hosting the Belle Chase state
tournament where Ponchatoula's 13-
year-olds remain undefeated will not
withstand any more rain. The field was
described by Ponchatoula coaches as
"an alligator pit" as late as Tuesday
night.
At that time Ponchatoula and
Alexandria stood out as the only
undefeated teams in the tournament.
After the location of the field was
determined Wednesday morning,
Ponchatoula was scheduled to play
Aiexandria when the final inning of the
Thibodeaux vs. Plaquemines game,
also postponed to Wednesday from
Tuesday, is finished.
According to the elimination bracket, if
Ponchatoula defeats Alexandria they
will play Jackson Parish.
If Ponchatoula defeats Jackson, then
they will play the winner of the
Thibodeaux vs. Plaquemines game.
If Ponchatoula should lose to
Alexandria. then they will drop to the
Chamber, mayor
honor merchants for
Sports Fest Parade windows
First Place - Sanders Archery and Outdoor Outfitters
Second Place - Olde Town Shoppe
Third Place - Country Cobbler
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loser's bracket.
Odds favor that Ponchatoula will
advance directly to the state
championship and. according to
officials. Ponchatoula will play
Alexandria.
If Ponchatoula and Alexandria hold
the same record, which means that
Ponchatoula would have had to lose a
game after they defeated Alexandria,
they will match up against each other in
the final elimination bracket.
Projections were made possible by
Tangi Coach Frank Lipps, Wayne
Foster, Mike Darouse and Asst. Coach
Lester Settoon.
City proposes new zoning map
By EDDIE PONDS and map drawn up by city planning
Times Reporter consultant John Dardis with a recom
mendation from the city's planning and
A public hearing was held July 25 on zoning commission. If adopted, they
the proposed new zoning ordinance SEE PAGETWO
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MY PONCHATOULA
By OLE HARDHIDE
The Alligator
1 must admit I got a little bit worried when Harvey Kliebert, my new valet,
:ame by one afternoon this past week, cracked an egg on the side of my
cage, tossed it in the pond, and it was poached in less than two minutes.
Now that's hot!).
If this turns out to be a real community disaster (what else would you call
the world's most famous reptile dmmlng in Ponchatoula gator boil?) do you
know who will be called in to handle the whole deal? Yup, ole Doug
O'Bannon, who this week became Ponchatoula's Red Cross representative.
(You can keep your cups of coffee, Long Fingers, just tell headquarters the
Red Cross needs to buy out all of Bootsy's ice supply for my pond. You bring
the ice and 1'11 supply the pond water and we'll have a party to compliment
the upcoming annual bash of bashes at Le Shucks, the Beach Party. Before
we're done, my Irish friend, we'll have the Red Cross properly organized.)
Speak of organization, the Mayor of East Pine is back - my artist friend
Fammie Henagan. The Craft Box is coming back nicer than ever behind the
secret paper drapes hiding the renovations and innovattns, whre handsome
bachelor Randy Henagan, 25, is preparing to run the family art supply and
free public gallery. This gator predicts a resurgence in art appreciation among
the young ladies of My Podchatoula. (Already I have noticed a Miss Toshia
Watts making herself useful, but I am assured the young lady is the new
owner's helpful niece).
Speaking fo relatives, how many out there know that the wild and crazy
"Bud Man" dressed in a violent red super hero costume complete with half
face cowl and full length cape, seen Saturday night in Ponchatoula (where he
had to try hard not to melt into the crowd) is the brother of a famous current
Ponchatoula High School coach. (In Ponchatoula fantasy comes easy. You
just stand on a street corner and it walks up to you and shakes your hand.
Being a columnist here is easy, especially for a reptile)•
Thanks to my Bedico float boating buddies the printers in Ponchatoula and
elsewhere are said to be burning out the bearings on their presses, owing to
the rush order for more Wildlife and Fishery ticket books. (Morale: If Ross
Reynolds, whose biting wit and disdain for fingers of authority clad in W&F
uniforms is your co-pilot, better be certain you are not breaking every law,
written or oral, in the history of boating, because the Enforcers are not known
to crave Don Rickles-style humor, eh Hardy?)
I absolutely refuse to speculate, inquire, or make any comment whatsoever
on Miss J's ouchy looking shiner.
But I am curious about bachelorette Debbie Wells. As you know (unless
you are a visitor who has been asleep under a mountain in Denver for the last
40 years) Ole Hardhide is the matchmaker of Ponchatoula. Single ladies and
gentleman make me nervous. Ray Muse makes me uneasy. He is a single
man. Debbie Wells, would you consider coming down to the cage Friday
night, say about 6 p.m. And Ray Muse, could you show up with concert
tickets for a little pep talk and coaching around 5:45. Better make that 5:15
Ray. You need work.
Chrystal Lesard, 15, and the snappiest Wavette I've seen in some time, do
you know you made your grandmother cry? But who could blame her, seeing
her pride and joy march past in the Baton Rouge parade opening the
National Sports Festival!
hey Dickie Wagner out EE Rodeo way in Springfield, so you think any of
your pretty Livingston Parish cowgirls would like to try riding a bucking gator?
(No spurs.)
Hey Cindy Brown, reporter for the P.H.S. Cypress Bark, why don't you
come by the cage for a chat with a famous columnist. Maybe we could
exchange notes.
I am so glad the German bakery is back with more selections than ever, in
the same location, and with a new name - Taste of Bavaria. I've seen the new
operation Mr. and Mrs. Larry Larrieu have on main street and from the looks
of it Germany might as well set up an embassy right here in Berrytown.
Speaking of food, Ella Zander, could you please teach the Klieberts a little
bit of your Home Ec. specialties - like how to prepare a live chicken for
chomping. Honestly, these fellows never even fold the napkins when they
serve me.
PLnchpenny brought back a souvenir from Canada, a warning on a pack of
ciqarettes in English and in French that tells you how to safely use the product:
"WARNING: Health and Welfare Canada advises that danger to health
increases with amount smoked. Avoid inhaling." i guess you avoid inhaling
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