JOURNAL STAFF

Nearly every one of the 13 high school football programs in Caddo Parish was represented Thursday evening, sharing laughs and the anticipation of the fast-approaching 2022 preseason, and enjoying some extremely tasty jambalaya.

Origin Bank hosted an appreciation supper at its downtown Shreveport location on Market Street for Caddo Parish high school football coaches and related personnel, coordinated by the Shreveport-Bossier Journal, a free online product which is preparing for its first fall of local prep football coverage.

Principals, assistant coaches and staff members thoroughly enjoyed the outstanding food and hospitality provided by Larry Little and his Origin Bank staff, and mingled with Journal writers Teddy Allen, Jerry Byrd Jr., Lee Hiller, Doug Ireland, John James Marshall, Harriet Prothro Penrod and Tony Taglavore, along with photographer John Penrod and Online Journals general manager Bill Vance. Veteran SBJ scribe Roy Lang III was traveling but helped organize the appreciation supper.

The coaches, administrators and supporters heard about Journal plans to produce comprehensive coverage of local high school football expanding to daily editions seven days a week during the fall. Coverage emphasis will also include area colleges, LSU, and NFL games and news of interest as the Journal goes through its first fall campaign in the local market.

Bossier Parish high school head football coaches, administrators and related personnel were the guests of honor at Origin Bank for another appreciation supper with the Journal team last Thursday.  Origin Bank fed approximately 100 local educators supper over the past two Thursdays, just another way the financial institution serves the local community.