The Umbrella Foundation is offering FREE tutoring every Tuesday in January at the Hangout (across from Red River High School). Students in grades K-5 may participate. Contact Tarfarire Johnson 318.771.2376, Lessonna Clark 318.663.1202 or  Yashica Turner 318.663.9397 for more information.

First Baptist Church Coushatta is hosting Basketball JAM Camp, a month long camp that consists of weekly age-group practices honing in on learning the skills and drills of basketball, devotional times at the end of each practice and Family day on the last Saturday with scrimmages to show off what the children have learned. The fun will take place throughout the month of March. Coach Mike McConathy will be helping us with the skills and drills. Registration is now open for children in grades PreK4-6.  

Northwestern State University’s Office of Electronic Learning and Global Education will offer a 40-Hour Basic Private Investigator Training Course on Jan. 31– Feb. 2 and Feb. 7-9 in the second-floor classroom of South Hall on NSU’s Natchitoches
campus. The class will be on Friday from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. The fee is $375 plus an additional $100 board fee due on Feb. 9 made payable to the Louisiana State Board of Private Investigator Examiners. For more information or to register for classes, go to checkout.nsula.edu or call (800) 376-2422 or (318) 357-6355.