Bossier City native leads National Guard in Iraq

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Police look for missing woman, credit card thief
From Staff Reports
newsroom@bossierpress.com
Bossier City police
hope the public can help in
finding a missing woman.
Police are looking for
Amanda
20-year-old
Elizabeth Orr of Bossier
City. She last made contact
with her family on April 16
and has not been heard
from since.
Her family says it is
unusual for her not to contact them on
a
regular
b a s i s .
Police have
found no
evidence of
foul play
being a factor in her
Orr
disappear-
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Building a
Home: The
Foundation
Some marriages are
a happy union, but
some are a civil war.
The Bossier Central
Library Book Club
meets Thursday, May
28 from 6 to 7 p.m. in
the Conference
Room. Dave
Ramsey’s “Total
Money Makeover” is
this month’s book. If
you would like a copy
to read, call Anne
Madison at 746-1693.
Refreshments will be
served.
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Credit card theft
Bossier City police are
looking for a suspect who
made purchases with a
stolen card at a local business.
Video shows the woman
using the card at the CVS
Pharmacy in the 3000
block of East Texas Street
on April 17.
A Bossier City Police
Department’s White Collar
Crimes Unit investigation
shows the card was used to
make purchases totaling
approximately $750.
The investigation began
when the card owner’s
financial institution notified police that someone
used the card to make several unauthorized purchases at stores in Bossier City
and Shreveport since mid
April.
The suspect is a black
female with what appears
to be burgundy colored
hair. The woman is seen
wearing what appears to be
purple medical scrubs, an
indication that she may be
employed in the health care
field.
Anyone who can help
police identify this suspect
is asked to call detectives
at 318-741-8648.
Bar fight
leads to
man’s arrest
A Haughton man was arrested Tuesday
for second-degree battery.
Eric
Anthony
Hagmeyer, 32, of the 2700
block of Mayflower, was
taken into custody after
Bossier Sheriff’s deputies
were called to a bar in the
1700 block of Sligo Road
at about 10:30 p.m. in reference to a fight.
Hagmeyer
During the altercation,
Hagmeyer grabbed his exgirlfriend by the hair and threw her to the
ground, causing her to lose consciousness. She suffered a gash on her head that
was about 1.5 inches long and was transported to Willis Knighton Pierremont
where she received three staples to close
the wound.
Hagmeyer was taken to the Bossier
Maximum Security Facility and booked.
His bond is pending.
Bossier Parish
Libraries
Summer
Reading
Program
Library Book
Club Meeting
ance however police and
family members are concerned for her welfare.
Amanda Elizabeth Orr
is a white female, 5’2”, 90
pounds with brown hair
and blue eyes.
Anyone with information regarding her whereabouts is asked to call
detectives at 318-7418626.
From Staff Reports
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It is God's will for your
marriage to be a
happy union. He
wants your marriage
to be one, long
romantic cruise.
Unfortunately, the
Good Ship Marriage
is taking on water.
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Bossier Parish
Libraries Summer
Reading Program will
be held June 8
through July 13. “Be
Creative @ Your
Library” is this year’s
theme for the
Louisiana Summer
Reading Program,
which is sponsored
by the State Library of
Louisiana and the
Bossier Parish
Libraries.
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TOP: The Bossier
Parish Community
held
a
College
groundbreaking ceremony for its athletic
ball fields adjacent to
the Health and PE
Complex Wednesday
morning.
Right: The plans for
the new athletic
fields layout at BPCC.
The
long-awaited
fields are expected
to be completed by
August.
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Schedule
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10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Women's Resource Fair, Bossier Civic Center
Monday, June 8
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Albertson's, 3121 East Texas
Wednesday, June 10
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Lowe's, 2360 Airline Drive, Bossier City
2:30 – 5 p.m.
Brookshire's, US Hwy 80 (Oak Thicket), Haughton
Bossier City native leads National Guard in Iraq
1083rd Transportation Company says goodbye to friends and family in Minden Tuesday
Sgt. Beyonka D.
Joseph
Louisiana National Guard State
Unit Public Affairs
Soldiers
of
the
Louisiana
National
Guard’s
1083rd
Transportation Company,
165th Combat Sustainment
Support Battalion said
farewell to family and
friends at a deployment
ceremony held at the
Minden Civic Center on
Tuesday, May 27.
“Every Soldier that is
sitting here today is a true
patriot. These men and
women of the 1083rd
Transportation Company
remind us all what America
stands for and we are truly
proud of you,” said Maj.
Gen.
Bennett
C.
Landreneau, adjutant general of the LANG.
Soldiers and their family members were thanked
together as a team to meet know that the 1083rd will
for their support and sacri- ment.
“It is an honor to be the call of our state and our leave its mark on others
fices by distinguished
guest U.S. Congressmen commanding this group of nation,” said Herriage as he who have yet to discover a
Soldiers who have come stood before his troops. “I unit like us.”
John Fleming.
For
many
“Each and every one
Soldiers,
this
of you here today in uniwill be their first
form is my hero, and I
deployment.
want to thank you from
twoTwenty
the bottom of my heart
year-old
Sgt.
for your continuous
Travis L. Hahn
efforts for this country,”
explained how
said
Fleming.
“It’s
his sacrifice to
through your sacrifices
deploy was not
and your bravery of putonly his duty as a
ting your life on the line
Soldier…but an
that ensures our freehonor.
doms.”
“I am very
Approximately 170
excited to be
Soldiers from the LANG
given
this
and additional Troops
chance to serve
from outside the state will
my
country,”
depart
for
Camp
said
the
Atterbury, Ind., to begin
Metairie, La.,
training for their one-year
native.
deployment in support of
“After hearOperation Iraqi Freedom.
U.S. Army Photo/Sgt. Beyonka D. Joseph
Capt.
James
L. Members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 1083rd Transportation ing so many of
fellow
Herriage III, of Bossier Company, 165th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion bow their my
talk
City, will command the heads during a prayer at a deployment ceremony at the Minden Soldiers
about their expe1083rd during its deploy- Civic Center in Minden, May 27.
riences of being deployed,
it made me feel like I was
missing something, and I
knew that this was the perfect opportunity to serve
my nation.
“I know that this will be
an experience that will definitely test me, but I expect
to gain a lot of training that
I will be able to carry with
me throughout my military
career. Staying positive
and motivated will get me
through the speed bumps I
may incur while there,” he
added.
The 1083rd’s mission in
Iraq will include providing
heavy lift transportation
support and assets to the
theater of operations.
“Throughout all the
adversities we have faced,
the one thing that remains
constant is the character
and dedication of these
Citizen Soldiers,” said
Landreneau.