Shreveport kicked off the summer season Wednesday with the opening of a new spray park at Lakeside Community Center. Bossier City also plans to add a sprayground to a park.

In these economically challenging times, Filipinos may rest assured of a wealth beyond imagination“It takes only two hours by land and 50 minutes by boat to find paradise in Luzon,” declares Ivan Lim, 32, the moving force behind Dos Palmas Resorts’

To people living elsewhere in the metro area, the common misconception of the Southwest Valley is a land of farmland and tract housing far removed from the pulse of the Valley.

The South East Association for Special Parks and Recreation has been helping special needs residents in Cook and DuPage counties make friends and learn life skills for more than three decades. Cathy Morava is the superintendent of Recreation at SEASPAR,

The Marshfield Recreation Department office is at 900 Ferry St. at the bottom of Coast Guard Hill. The office is staffed 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. For information, send e-mail to nbangs@townofmarshfield.org.