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J. Pat Beaird TOP INDUSTRY AND TOP BUSINESSES OF THE YEAR AWARDS LUNCHEON
These businesses were nominated under specific guidelines as defined by the Small Business Administration. They must be a service business and/or retailer with annual revenues of $3.5 million or less, a manufacturer with fewer than 500 employees or a wholesaler employing fewer than 100 workers.

WINNER of J. Pat Beaird Award for Industry of the Year
“Metro Aviation is one of our city’s hidden gems,” said Dr. Timothy Magner, president of the Chamber. “They are the largest air medical completion center not just in Louisiana, not just in the U. S., but in the world as well as the largest traditional air medical provider.

Top Business of the Year: Flying Heart Brewing
Flying Heart Brewing & Pub is a craft brewery and restaurant that manufactures craft beer recipes on site, as well as root beer and ginger beer. There is seating capacity for 275 people, including inside as well as a covered beer garden in the newly renovated downtown Bossier City.

Top Business of the Year: SOBO Promotional Products
“Upon receiving the award notification, I was completely shocked and humbled,” said SOBO owner Jamie Lopez. “While I put my heart and soul into building our business, it's not done for accolades. Rather, I strive to make a difference in the lives of our clients, those in our community, as well as our employees.

Top Business of the Year: Maxim Watermakers
Maxim Watermakers designs, engineers and manufactures water treatment equipment, specializing in distillation and membrane technologies. Maxim has 70-plus years of experience working with clients to provide solutions for waterrelated needs, both onshore and offshore.

Top Business of the Year: RSI Building Products
For Sayres, winning this award means “knowing that a lot of the things you try to do throughout the years finally worked, and they’re able to make a difference not only seen by our employees but our customers and the community,” he said. “It’s a great honor to have that.

MARGARITAVILLE PROPOSED EXPANSION
Too much business. “We’ve had 15 consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth, and our hotel is full every night,” said Barry Regula, Margaritaville’s senior vice president and general manager. “We realized we have the demand to fill another 150 units in the hotel every day, and we need more suites.

THE FREEDOM TO HEAR
excuses for the ruckus in the hearing. He explains how it wasn’t – at all – the protesters’ fault for disrupting the hearings, saying, “What we’ve heard is the noise of democracy,” and, “this is what happens in a free country when people can stand up and speak and not be jailed, imprisoned, tortured or killed because of it.

BIG BUCKS
Caddo commissioners are the top paid. And Caddo Parish School Board members the lowest. Based on the budget sizes of each group, commissioners are overpaid by a large measure. And school board members just the opposite. (For the record, the Caddo Commissioners are the highest-paid part-time elected officials in the state.

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Wow! It is hard to believe Forum has been around for 30 years. When we began in 1988, fax machines were the latest business tool and at that time revolutionary. The devices are now relatively obsolete. We started out doing paste-up, shooting film and driving photos and layouts to our printer in Alexandria.

Legendary
1) Gov. Buddy Roemer: January 1989 2) The Mayor's Club: John Hussey, Billy Hanna, Calhoun Allen and Jim Gardner: January 1990 3) Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster, Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco and music icon Kenny Wayne Shepherd: October 6, 1999 4) Shreveport CAO Ken Antee and Mayor Keith Hightower: February 24, 1999 5) Virginia Shehee: February 25,1989 6) Gov.

Celebrate!
12) The 26th production of Les Boutiques de Noel, Shreveport Opera Guild’s annual fund-raiser; co-chair Fran Huckabay; event sponsor, Mary Jean Lewis, owner of Lewis Gifts; Opera Guild President Virginia Chastain; and Chairman Carolyn Templeton: November 2, 2000.

Our Town
4) When you're proud to be an American, you lend your support. These proud mericans were responsible for the beautiful bronze eagle on Clyde Fant Parkway. With their leadership the funds were secured to provide this memorial for those who served our country.

All Stars!
3) Chef John Folse turns up the heat at the Banking Quarterly exclusive Shreveport Club for Glitz and Grits, an annual fund-raiser At Home for the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum: August 30, 2017.

Outstanding
1) A production of “The Women” at The Strand Theatre: Mimi Hussey, Sandra Braddock, Jan Elkins, Helen Black, Donna Curtis, Janet Lindsay, Glenda Erwin, Betty Jo LeBrun-Mooring and Jodi Glorioso. It took the front and back page to show these ladies off: October 25, 2006.

Well Connected
2, 3, 4 and 5) Under the umbrella of the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce, the Young Professionals Initiative (YPI) has partnered with Forum for 11 years to present the top 40 Under 40 honorees. This will be the 12th year we share this honor. 2017, 2016, 2014 and 2015, respectively.

318 Forum
Deal and his wife, Louisa Marie (1866-1949), lived upstairs over their grocery store, and there they raised their family. The Deal Grocery Company also had one of the city’s earliest telephones (phone number: 8).

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CULTURE CALENDAR 365
The 2018-2019 Arts Season literally fills the calendar with front row seats at the theatre, evenings at the opera, the sounds of a symphony, the drumbeat of downtown, the fun of a festival and the gala of an art gallery opening.

2018 2019 CULTURE CALENDAR
East Bank Theatre and other area venues. 630 Barksdale Blvd, Bossier City, LA 71111 Times vary $5-$50/person mahoganyensembletheatre.org.

Meet The Northwest Louisiana Roster Artists
Priscilla Adams Brent Aldridge Bruce Allen Eric Allen Dawn Ash Ransom Ashley Alison Atkins Ali Bahler Qean Ballard Bre Banks Julieann Banks Susie Barrett Trish Barton William Baten Kimberley Bennick Martha Bills Neecee Blackwell Joe Bluhm Philip Bradbury Sonya Bratlie Billie Brown Nicola Bryant-Ballard Mark Burt Nicholas Bustamante Renee Caldwell A.

CULTURE CALENDAR PT.II
in partnership with the Bossier Arts Council (BAC), Downtown Development Authority (DDA), Highland Open Studio Tour Sundays (HOSTS), Agora Borealis, Norsworthy Gallery, Minden Cultural Crossroads, and the North Central Louisiana Arts Council. These tours give a peek behind the curtain at how NWLA Artists create.

NWLA ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
whose primary mission is to provide access to simple, stress-free painting opportunities for inpatient and clinic cancer patients. Visit our website for more information. If you would like to volunteer with us, please contact Darlene Whitaker at (318)814-1458.

It's Just Business!
is first in a series of articles about local businesses that are reaching important milestones, beginning with a brand new business, Joseph Guin Barber at 6108 Line Ave., which opened mid-August. Year one has begun. JGB is already trending as a hotspot, so drop in for a cut, shave or shoe shine at this new neighborhood barbershop.

Southern Trace
Southern Trace County Club, off Norris Ferry Road in Shreveport, is 30 years old. That’s nine years younger than Ramsey was when he and two partners began development. Today, Southern Trace has approximately 900 members and 500 homes. What started as 550 acres has expanded to 750 acres.

Joseph Guin Barber
a career, a dream and a passion come together, magical things can happen. No one knows that magic better than Joseph Guin, owner of Joseph Guin Salon in downtown Shreveport. Mr. Guin opened Joseph Guin Barber in mid-August at 6018 Line Ave. to much fanfare.

Eddie’s Restaurant
On July 14, Eddie’s Restaurant, a humble Shreveport eatery located at 1956 Hollywood Ave., celebrated 40 years in business. The restaurant was founded in 1978 by Chef Eddie Eugene Hughes. Prior to opening his own restaurant, Hughes had worked for many years in the kitchen of Shreveport’s historic Freeman & Harris Café.

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Brammer Engineering
brimming with independent geologists who had ideas on how to get the oil and gas from the ground; they just didn’t have the staff and operating knowledge to operate themselves. That’s where L.R. “Bob” Brammer Jr. came in. He found the need and filled the need.

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Aulds Horne & White / Standard
“When I started out, we would have basically a bullpen of typists,” Griffith said. “When an appraisal request would be sent out, you would type up a request and mail it out. You did the same thing for a credit report or verification of someone’s employment.

A PATH TO DESTRUCTION PART II
or we will save over $13 on that person as an adult. As Frederick Douglass said, ‘It is easier to build a strong child than to repair a broken man.’” This is the second piece in a two-part series on trauma, also known as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and how it relates to addiction and other self-destructive behaviors.

PENICILLIN ALLERGY?
Ten percent of all patients in the United States claim to have a penicillin allergy. Of those, 90 percent are not truly allergic and can tolerate the drug. That means millions of people take alternative antibiotics, which are more expensive and can put their health and potentially the health of others at risk.

TUBES, TUBES, TUBES!
Why tubes in my kid’s ears? Well, for starters, antibiotics and other methods have failed to resolve the fluid behind the child’s eardrum.

TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES
Sunday, Sept. 2, marked the beginning of LSU football season. While the news is filled with the latest football rankings and fans dressed in their favorite team apparel, this time of year also brings about more and more coverage of the increasing number of sportsrelated traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), namely concussions.

CHILDHOOD EYLID ABNORMALITIES
Children can be born with or develop abnormalities of the eyelids. These abnormalities can be mild and require observation or can be significant and cause permanent loss of vision. If there is a significant abnormality, the child should be seen by an ophthalmologist.

Alopecia and how to prevent it
There are a few steps you can take to preserve your hair: 1.) Avoid tight hairstyles that pull on the hair. So, forget braids, ponytails, cornrows and tight hair rollers. The pulling causes some hair loss, especially along the sides of the scalp. This type of hair loss is called traction alopecia.

Talk of the Town
THROUGH OCT: GLORIA RALLISON FIGURAL ART ON EXHIBIT..

Gibbons Fine Grill
Appetizers start at $4.95 Salads & soups start at $3.50 Sandwiches and burgers start at $7.95 Entrees start at $7.50 Desserts start at $4.95 – Mark Crawford.

On the Scene
An enthusiastic group of ladies gathered at the home of John and Shan Ponthie on Aug. 22 for a kickoff and planning party for the 66th annual Loyola Style Show..