Sickle Cell Anemia Banquet
The Northeast Louisiana Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation annual banquet was held September 12 at the Monroe Civic Center. The foundation banquet is held each year to raise funds for the foundation’s efforts to battle Sickle Cell Anemia.
Some 300,000 children are born a year with Sickle Cell Anemia, a hereditary blood disorder in which blood cells take on a rigid, sickle shape. The disease is usually manageable with treatment and care, but many times sufferers can develop life-threatening complications.
The Northeast Louisiana Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation provides genetic screening, counseling services, referral services and support groups. Money raised by the foundation goes to support those services.
- Adrine Fields, Tira Powell, Oshenell Green, Chirita Brown, Millie Atkins, Linda Ross and Stephanie Williams
- Jasmine Moore and Arthurnese Nimmer
- Connie Page and Margaret Newman
- Gloria Sweet and Helen Collins
- Front Row: Jaunita Stokes and Stacey Smith. Back Row: Jimmy and Bessie Wilson, and Rosie Henderson
- Janie and Quentin Holmes
- Reginald and La’Toya Brown
- Kenyata and Eugene Ellis
- Tristen Spears, Lakisha M. Johnson and Kathy Y. Caldwell
- Bobbie Butler (Secretary) and Charlott Crayton (Treasurer)
- Betty Jackson, Sandra Brown and Shirley Cain
- Kimberly Gaut and Carissa Shaw-Odubela
- Kaleigh Staten, Kamryn Staten, Kaniyah Burrell and Latroya Brown
- Herbert and Myrtis Jackson
- Pamela Higgins-Saulsburry, Marcus Gaut and Mayme Corbin

















