Community Service Field Notes: Traveling Wall in Sabine Parish

The Traveling Wall replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial came to Many, Louisiana last week and was hosted by Sabine Parish; Kelli Sepulvado, shown here, visited the Wall in her role as Sabine Parish Fairs & Festival Queen. Sabine Parish had 12 soldiers whose names are among the more than 58,000 inscribed on the wall, including a Zwolle High classmate of Kelli’s dad. Kelli’s uncle served in the Vietnam War but came home safe, which cannot be said of the loved ones of some of the families she visited with in her time at the memorial. On the final day of the visit, 50 veterans arrived by motorcycle in a group and rode a procession around the wall in honor of the soldiers. Kelli describes the entire event as making her feel both “proud and sad that so many have given their lives.”

Community Service Field Notes: Miss Sulphur Heritage and the kindest cut of all

Erin Husbands, Miss Sulphur Heritage, grew her

hair out for over two years, not as a style choice,

but as a community service. This fall, she had 10

inches cut off to donate to the non-profit organization

“Locks of Love,” which provides wigs for children

who have lost their hair due to illness. As reporter

Lee Peck of KPLC TV told viewers, this is the

second time; Erin first donated hair to Locks of Love

almost three years ago, and she planned for this

second haircut almost from the moment the first

was complete. That’s quite a vision—a donation

two years in the making. But Erin says that getting

new hair is “a life-changing experience for those

children, and I just had to step in and do what I could.”