Dr. Woodrow "Woody" Wilson Jr. is the administrator/CEO for the parish of Caddo, where he manages the daily functions of Caddo Parish government, overseeing eight departments and over 400 employees. He recently announced his retirement after 22 years of service to Caddo Parish.

Every spring before the pandemic, Bossier City and Shreveport residents craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the military aircraft gamboling across the skies in the annual Barksdale Air Force Base Air Show.

Maj. Jared J. Maline, ground boss of the 2016 show and operations flight commander of the Second Civil Engineer Squadron, described the enormous amount of effort and coordination required to produce the event. “It can definitely be a hectic kind of effort,” he said.