“I had just started there,” Williams said of her then-new job as a pharmacy technician at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport. “I was just finishing school. I was trying to move into my own place since I finished school, and everything was just tight moneywise.

“I had just started there,” Williams said of her then-new job as a pharmacy technician at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport. “I was just finishing school. I was trying to move into my own place since I finished school, and everything was just tight moneywise.

Comegys won’t be making biscuits as part of this year’s Taste fundraiser (online because of Covid guidelines) for Holy Angels. This Shreveport residential facility serves those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

“Charles Beaird, Pat’s brother, was our original investor, backer and professional mentor to me for many, many years,” Alexander said. “We were partners for a long time. I’ve been associated with the Beaird family for all these years. It even goes back to when my father was minister of First Presbyterian Church.

“I always look at it, first of all, what will sell,” Hill said when explaining how she chooses which shows to bring in. “My job is two-fold. Part of it is to bring arts to the community, and part of it is to keep that beautiful building open, which means I have to sell that product.

“I was ecstatic,” Gould said of her reaction when Dream Home builder Philip Rodgers – who also built the Goulds’ house – asked for her services. “Growing up in Bossier and going to it every year, I’ve always admired it. To be asked to do it was an incredible honor.

Jessica O’Neill, that’s who. O’Neill is a painter who studied fashion design at The Savannah College of Art and Design. She has teamed up with fashion and lifestyle consultant Janie Howe Dickson to take part in Dining By Design, a tablescape exhibit at Sci-Port Discovery Center.

“It got me thinking – life is too short,” Pourteau said. “I knew I needed to do something. The way I was going in life – just working customer service, going to work Monday through Friday, I wasn’t happy.