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Features Choose a lasting legacy over the next big thing (05/17/13) Graduates, you are living in a strange time of impermanence and uncertainty. How you fit into the big picture is anyone's guess. At any time, because of the technology at your fingertips, a new idea, a new concept may burst forth that travels like a viral video. In fact, it may be a viral video... Choose a lasting legacy over the next big thing (05/17/13) Graduates, you are living in a strange time of impermanence and uncertainty. How you fit into the big picture is anyone's guess. At any time, because of the technology at your fingertips, a new idea, a new concept may burst forth that travels like a viral video. In fact, it may be a viral video... A mother's remembrance (05/10/13) Jasmine Morelock-Field, well known artist in Shreveport, La., senses the importance of building bridges, of knocking down walls and barriers to enhance communication between hurting souls because life is just too short and too fragile for us to go through life scared to reach out, easing hurts that are often unspoken but sensed within each other's spirit... When a better today makes the past fade away (05/10/13) Shortly after Bishop James Johnston finished giving the message at the Mass of Thanksgiving for Pierce City's recovery on May 4, something unusual happened. The gray and overcast day changed. There was a break in the clouds and the sanctuary at St. Mary's Catholic Church was flooded with sunlight... Ten years of struggle and hope (05/03/13) Several memories come back easily in revisiting the Pierce City tornado story. The photos revive a sudden queasiness, an empty feeling in the stomach, even a sense of helplessness. While the Joplin tornado was so much worse, for many of us, the vividness of the first exposure to such devastation in Pierce City made the most lasting impression...