By T. Scott Boatright
Sometimes the squeaky wheel rightfully ends up getting the grease.
Even when the road was long to make it happen.
But that is what occurred during Tuesday’s Lincoln Parish Police Jury meeting at the Lincoln Parish Courthouse.
After multiple LPPJ meetings with the congregation of St. Peter Missionary Baptist Church led by church member Dennis Woods pleading for help after the road to the church and adjacent houses on a street between Longstraw Road and Highway 146 that was cut off due to expansion of the city of Ruston’s Regional Airport expansion project finally received a glimmer of hope of being resolved.
That is because of a little help from state Rep. Chris Turner, who was present at Tuesday’s meeting, there is hope for a positive resolution for all.
During last week’s meeting the LPPJ voted in favor of doing just that — submitting a capital outlay application to hopefully receive funding for a cut-through road offering better access to the church and nearby homes.
Without Turner’s help, it might not have happened.
“Rep. Turner suggested a capital outlay application might be a good way to address this,” Lincoln Parish Administrator Courtney Hall said.
Now it is all about patience and timing.
If the project is included in an upcoming capital outlay bill, funding could happen sooner than later.
Or it could take years.
Hope is what drives Woods and his congregation.
“We only want what’s right and what’s fair,” Woods said. “We need our road back. And we are not going stop trying to make that happen.”
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