Under
the leadership of Sheriff Daniel Edwards,
the Reserve Deputies are volunteers who must complete mandated
training at the Reserve Academy. After completion, they are
allowed to carry weapons and make arrests; and they are subject to
the same rules and regulations as full-time Deputies. Since
taking office in 2004, Sheriff Daniel Edwards has stressed that only
the best can wear the badge of the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office.
Web Author Note: NRLO is
proud to introduce these fine examples of this country's "Ultimate
Volunteers" and extremely proud to say that they are a 100%
participating NRLO group.
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Photo Ops of the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Reserve
Deputies
Working the 2010 Ponchatoula Strawberry
Festival
April 9 - 11, 2010
Click here for a brief history of the
Festival
(Photographs provided by the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's
Reserve Deputies)
Group
session preparing for day's activities.
Morning
Pep Talk
(What happened to the donuts?)
Dale
Brouillette
(We see who found the donuts.)
Above: Alton
Harper
(I'm upset... Dale is trying
to eat my box of
donuts.)
John Perilloux and Charles
LaPrime
(Preparing for a day of fun at the
Ponchatoula
Strawberry Festival.)
Chief Dennis
Pevey
(Rare photo of Dennis wearing Class "A"
uniform.)
Louisiana Strawberry Queen XXXIX Theresa
Pevey posing with John Perilloux
(Finally found a way
to make John smile.)
Alton Harper and
John Perilloux with Louisiana Strawberry Queen Theresa
Pevey
(Smiles for everyone!)
Jimmy Graves
showing trainnee how it's done.
(...you use all of the barricade
to distribute your weight.)
Alton
Harper
(Back on the wagon.)
Stanley
Higginbotham
(Striking a pose.)
Stacey Newsom and
Dy Alexander
(Fun, food, and laughs)
Tracy Eady and Stacy
Newsom
(Partners in Crime)
Shannon Kazerooni and Stanley
Higginbotham
Earl Hutcheson
(So FULL of
JOY)
Alton
Harper
(That's not what we call working, Alton)
Luther Chavers
(Running with
the young dawgs)
Marcus
McMillian
J. R. Johnson and Deshone
Williams
Stanley, Shannon,
and Dale
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support staff, Detective, or volunteer Reserve, please call the
Human Resources Department at 985-345-6150.
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2010 Ponchatoula Strawberry
Festival
April 9 - 11,
2010
A little history of the
Festival
- A Louisiana
celebration second only to Mardi Gras in its magnitude and is the
second largest free festival in the state -
The Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival Board was
organized in 1971, by City Councilman Dr Charles H.
Gideon. The planning was started for the first
festival to be held in April of 1972. The first festival was
co-sponsored by the Ponchatoula Jaycees and the Ponchatoula Chamber
of Commerce from which both organizations provided three members to
serve on the festival board. The location of the first two-day
festival took up the first block of North 6th Street and had
only 11 booths. The festival started off with a baseball game
between Southeastern Louisiana University and Wisconsin State.
Later that day, the first annual parade made its way through
Ponchatoula with 65 units from all over the state. Estimated
attendance for the first Strawberry Festival was 15,000. The
estimated crowd for 2008 was over 300,000.
From the
Strawberry Festival's humble beginning, it has blossomed into a
Louisiana celebration second only to Mardi Gras in its magnitude and
is the second largest free festival in the state. Today, the
annual festival is organized by the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival
Board, Inc. The Board is comprised of a chairperson,
chairperson-elect, treasurer, secretary, parliamentarian, and other
essential positions. Decisions of the festival board are the
responsibility of the 16 voting board members who represent the
following organizations: Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce,
Ponchatoula Jaycees, Ponchatoula Rotary Club, Ponchatoula Kiwanis,
Knights of Columbus, Ponchatoula Youth Baseball, Champ Cooper
School, and the American Legion.
Louisiana Strawberry
Queen XXXIX Theresa Pevey represented her hometown of
Ponchatoula. Queen Pevey is one of eight daughters of Paul and
Angela Pevey. She is pictured in a few of the photo
ops taken by the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Reserve
Deputies above.
For more
information on the Festival, please go to http://www.lastrawberryfestival.com
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