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Stay active! Even while on vacation
Your beach essentials are packed, the car is loaded, your voicemail and e-mail are set for “out of office” and you’re ready for that beach vacation. You’ve worked so hard to just relax — but remember to bring your tennis shoes and water shoes, and plan to stay active.
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Exploring New Orleans As A Tourist
School is over for now, and it looks like we’re returning to some semblance of normalcy. How can you take advantage of the weeks you’ll have with the kids at home, and have some fun, relax, and unwind from a stressful year?
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Flood coverage — prepare for a wave of change
As if flood insurance weren’t complicated enough, the whole rating process is changing again as of October. Elevation certificates won’t be required any longer, but knowing the elevation of your first floor will become very important. Replacement cost and construction type (frame or brick) will be used as part of the calculation, as well as the actual distance to any water source, such as a river, shore, coast, levee, dam, lake, etc.
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Steel magnolia with a soft heart
LuAnn Pappas’s dad taught her what it means to give back. And as the 2021 recipient of the Annette O’Keefe Humanitarian Award, the CEO of Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort wishes Bill Sturm could share in the recognition. Bar none, she says, he was the biggest influence in her life.
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College Bound – Preparing Your College Freshman For Campus Life
Whether this is your first child or third to leave the nest, certain topics need to be covered and mental preparations to be made in order to help your incoming freshman smoothly navigate uncharted waters.