Private group seeks $2.7M in state funds to create regional animal shelter
A private funding group that has been working for four years to build a new animal shelter in Ouachita Parish has shifted the scope of the project after raising $1.2 million in private and public funds.
Now, they re asking for $2,658,154 in capital outlay dollars in the 2021 regular legislative session.
SOS Pets of Ouachita launched in 2017 with an initial goal to raise $800,000 in two years. The organization has had different building plans over time to create a new adoption center with heated indoor-outdoor kennels and a fenced-in play area.
Joan Cooper Hampton, director of SOS, said the scope of the project has radically changed.
Days after an uncharacteristic freeze saw snow pile up and ice cover roads across the Mid-South, multiple regions were grappling with the dangerous and, at times, deadly results of Sunday s storm while bracing for additional precipitation the National Weather Service expected to accumulate in some areas by Thursday morning.
Louisiana and Mississippi were contending with power outages and electricity shortages, with residents in both states bearing the added burden of water utility issues.
Tennessee s two largest cities hadn t been dealt a similar level of power problems, though like Louisiana, the state has record weather-related deaths.
For select portions of Mid-South states, in the southern parts of Alabama and Louisiana, the extreme weather had relented. Or, the precipitation had at least paused, as was the case in northwest Arkansas. Elsewhere in the Mid-South, though, residents largely awaited the third round of winter weather expected to commence Wednesday.
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Let the Mock Drafts Begin: Tryon, Onwuzurike Turn Up as First-Rounders
The former Huskies get singled out for recognition by noted draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah.
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Joe Tryon and Levi Onwuzurike didn t play football in 2020.
They opted out as University of Washington defensive players from a pandemic season that lasted only four games anyway.
These Huskies have not been forgotten.
Three months from the NFL draft, noted draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah has this pair slotted in his mock draft as first-rounders.
Tryon, an edge rusher, is projected to go to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at No. 29; Onwuzurike, a defensive tackle, shows up as the last guy taken in the first round by the Kansas City Chiefs at No. 32.