• Always Best Care

Expands Service Area

Always Best Care Senior Services, one of the leading senior care franchise systems in the United States, announced that local franchise owner Keith Carter is growing his territory in and around Shreveport, La., to meet the demand of a growing senior population. Always Best Care of Northwest Louisiana has provided non-medical in-home care and assisted living referral services to the area since 2015. Carter has expanded to serve nearly 30 additional communities, such as Mansfield, Coushatta, Many and Natchitoches.

A longtime resident of Shreveport, Carter earned a bachelor’s degree in medicine and is currently in his second year of an MBA program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He worked for over 32 years in pre-hospital, acute care and post-acute environments. While searching for caregivers for his own father in 2014, he found Always Best Care and recognized the opportunity to help meet the in-home senior care needs of other families like his.

Since then, Always Best Care of Northwest Louisiana has been awarded an exclusive contract to provide in-home and respite care to the Caddo and Bossier Council of Aging and provides in-home care to military veterans through a regional contract with the VA Medical Center in Shreveport. Always Best Care Senior Services of Northwest Louisiana is A+ rated with the BBB and is certified by the National Association of Home Care. In 2019, Carter and his Shreveport team won the Always Best Care largest increase in business by any franchise in his division.

Always Best Care Senior Services of Northwest Louisiana is located at 4700 Line Avenue, Suite 111, in Shreveport, La.

For additional information on services available or for a free evaluation, call 318-424-5300 or visit alwaysbestcare.com/shreveport.

• BDC is Looking for Volunteers

The Greater Shreveport Chamber invites you and your business to join the Business Development Connection (BDC) leadership team. This exciting initiative will help you grow and bring exposure to your business. We are seeking energetic, positive business leaders to join.

Requirements: Membership is open to all employees of companies and organizations who are members of the Greater Shreveport Chamber, with special emphasis on business owners, management and emerging senior management employees.

The Chamber is seeking volunteers for the following: BDC Executive Committee, Women’s Leadership Chair, Small Business Chair and Capstone: Lead the planning for the Minority Business Opportunity Awards Dinner.

Committee Volunteers – Works on an event committee by providing valuable input, time and energy for the betterment of the BDC program.

Nominations are due Dec. 21. Contact Ellie Ward at ellie@shreveportchamber.org for questions.

• Kent to Serve Cuddy

Family Foundation

The Cuddy Family Foundation for Veterans announces that Joey Kent will be assuming the organization’s executive director duties.

Mr. Kent volunteered for this position after serving as a board member for the past three years. He has been instrumental in shaping the direction of the foundation from its inception and has devoted himself to helping veterans in need and others in peril.

As the CEO of Global Media Archives, Mr. Kent oversees a wide range of assets, including original music tracks and photographs from the Louisiana Hayride and more than 50 documentary and feature film projects. His innovative, creative talents will bring tremendous value to TCFFFV.

Kent’s primary mission with the foundation will be establishing a new program that provides prosthetic devices to veterans free of charge. This effort has the potential to benefit amputees on a national and international level.

Retired Judge Steven V. Calliway is sworn in as new Port Commissioner

• Port of Caddo-Bossier

Welcomes New Commissioner

Retired Judge Stephen V. Callaway was sworn in as the newest Caddo-Bossier Parishes Port Commission member. Judge Callaway (Ret.) officially took his new seat at the Port Commission’s meeting in November. He was selected by the Caddo Parish Commission to serve on the Port Commission to fulfill the rest of the unexpired term for Capt. Thomas F. Muphy.

After 28 years as a bankruptcy judge for the Western District of Louisiana, Judge Callaway retired from the bench. Judge Callaway practiced law in Shreveport as a partner in the firm of Burnett, Sutton, Walker and Callaway for 13 years before becoming bankruptcy judge. Judge Callaway is a graduate of C.E. Byrd High School, and he received his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctorate from Louisiana State University. He also served in the Marine Corps Reserve, earning the rank of E-5 sergeant.

The 4,000-acre Port of Caddo-Bossier is located at the head of navigation on the Red River Waterway in Northwest Louisiana. An inland multimodal transportation and distribution center, The Port works hand in hand with the port system of Louisiana to successfully link customers throughout the Ark-La-Tex region to domestic and international markets via the Mississippi River (the nation’s largest river system) and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.