“I stayed there at least a good week,” Fish said from the Nashville, Tenn., airport. She was headed to Minneapolis to open for ZZ Top the following night. “I have good memories of Shreveport. I spent a good chunk of my time in the studio, but I did check out some of the riverboat stuff … I also ate at a few nice restaurants.

Mayor Perkins and city department leaders of Shreveport have spent their evenings over the last month holding community meetings and listening to individual citizens express their vision for Shreveport. The sessions sought citizen input on the best use of money from the federal government to city governments after the pandemic.

That was in August of 1960. Since then, thousands upon thousands of people — young and old — have spent nights and weekends at Holiday Lanes in Bossier City. This summer, the venerable, family-owned bowling alley will celebrate 61 years of providing fun for generations of families.

There are many types of molds, which are fungi that thrive where it is damp and warm. They reproduce by spreading spores, asexual reproductive bodies. Spores are invisible to our eyes, and they float through outdoor and indoor air. Molds that cause allergies include Alternaria, Aspergillus, Cladosporium and penicillium.

Provenance, located in South Shreveport on the Southern Loop, recently broke ground on Building 1 of Phase II of the Provenance Commercial Village Center. That means more than 5,200 square feet is available for lease, in addition to the seven businesses already open.

“Mainly, it’s water in the bathrooms,” he said. “None of the male urinals work. The commodes work intermittently. They shut the men’s bathroom in the patrol division down because it flooded with contaminated water. The renovated gym was done around 2001 or 2002.

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