Living In Parish Magazine

06/16/2026

Thank y’all for the opportunity to be part of such a great event. We are honored to support Sports Talk 225 Cares and the incredible work being done to help fight student hunger in our community. Looking forward to August 1st and a great day in Downtown Denham Springs! 🩵

💜🏆 Community Sponsor Spotlight 🏆💜

We are incredibly honored to welcome Living in Parish Magazine as the first official Community Sponsor of the 1st Annual Battle for the Paddle 225 – Fuel the Field Cookoff!

Living in Parish Magazine has built a reputation for highlighting the people, stories, businesses, and events that make Livingston Parish such a special place to call home. Their commitment to supporting local communities perfectly aligns with the mission of Sports Talk 225 Cares.

Because of partners like Living in Parish Magazine, we’re able to bring awareness to student hunger and work toward making a real difference for local student-athletes and families in need.

Thank you for believing in our vision, supporting our community, and helping us launch this event in such a meaningful way. We are grateful to have you as part of the Battle for the Paddle family!

📅 Saturday, August 1st
📍 Denham Springs Antique Village

Please join us in thanking Living in Parish Magazine for their support!

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06/15/2026

Happy Marketing Monday, Livingston Parish! ☀️

If you own a business, work for a business, run a side hustle, sell at local markets, or know someone doing something awesome in our parish, drop it in the comments below!

Tell us:
📍 Business Name
📍 What you do
📍 Where you’re located
📍 A link to your page

Then take a few minutes and scroll through the comments. Give some local businesses a follow, like a few pages, share a post, book a service, or discover someone new. One of the best things about Livingston Parish is how willing we are to support our neighbors, and every follow, share, and recommendation makes a difference.

Also, nominations are still open for the First Annual Best of Livingston Parish Awards! 🏆

In just a few days, more than 1,300 people have already cast nominations for their favorite local businesses, organizations, and people. We have also added several new categories based on community feedback, including Market Vendor, Pet Service, Auto Service, Children’s Store, and more.

Remember, the businesses with the most nominations in each category will advance to the final voting round, so don’t assume your favorite has enough votes already. Every nomination counts.

Now let’s see what Livingston Parish has to offer. Drop your business below and show some love to the other local businesses in the comments. ❤️

06/14/2026

POV: you go to V-Watts Trade Days for “just a few minutes.”

The Cajun accent got progressively stronger with every booth I walked past, and if you watch closely you can literally see my hair give up on life in real time. Louisiana humidity: 1. Lizzie: 0.

Still came home with a haul though. 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

06/13/2026

Busy day for the Living In Parish crew!

This morning, Lizzie and Michelle traded the office for the farm and attended a soap-making class at Old Rusty Gate Farm. Between meeting chickens, goats, cows, and even a very friendly pig, we learned the art (and science) behind handcrafted soap and got our hands a little messy in the process. It was one of those experiences that reminds you how many unique small businesses and hidden gems we have right here in Livingston Parish.

After the class, Lizzie made a stop at V-Watts Trade Days and somehow managed to come home with a haul. We won’t discuss whether any of it was actually needed. Some questions are better left unanswered.

To wrap up the day, Mom and Lizzie spent the afternoon walking through the Antique Village, popping into shops, catching up with local business owners, and enjoying a little small-town Saturday.

Some days are packed with meetings, deadlines, and magazine layouts. Other days are spent holding chickens, petting cows, shopping local, and making memories. Today was definitely one of the fun ones.

Livingston Parish may keep us busy, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. 💙🐐🐄🐓🧼🛍️

06/12/2026

Well… we made T-shirts. 👀

After enough people asked about them, we finally decided to do a small run of Living In Parish Magazine shirts.

They’ll be our signature magazine blue with our LP logo on the front and our “I ♥ Livingston Parish” design on the back in a cream-colored screen print.

They’re printed on Gildan Softstyle shirts, so they’re actually comfortable and not the kind that end up in the back of your closet after one wash.

Shirts are $20 each.

We’re just trying to get a head count before we place the order, so if you’d want one, comment below or send us a message with your size.

I have a feeling we’re going to see these all over the parish before long. 🩵

06/12/2026

Happy Friday, Parish!

It’s time for one of my favorite things we do every month… Pets of the Parish! 🐾

Take a look at some of the adorable faces that made it into last month’s magazine. From dogs and cats to ducks, pigs, tortoises, rabbits, birds, and whatever Spud is plotting over there with all those snack cakes, we love seeing the personalities that make our parish special.

Want your pet to be featured in our July issue?

Drop a photo in the comments along with:
🐾 Your pet’s name
📍 Where they’re from in Livingston Parish

That’s it! We’ll be choosing a new group of furry, feathered, scaled, and otherwise adorable parish residents to appear in print next month.

And before anyone starts accusing me of favoritism… my own cats and dogs haven’t even made it into Pets of the Parish yet. No special treatment around here. If Cissy, Abby, Sylvester, and the crew have to wait their turn, so does everybody else. 😂

Tip from your friendly magazine editor: If you want your pet to have the best chance of being selected, upload a high-quality photo. Clear, well-lit pictures print much better in the magazine, and blurry screenshots or heavily cropped photos can end up looking fuzzy on paper.

Now let’s see those pets! 👇🐶🐱🐰🐢🦜🐷🐐🐓

(And yes, if you have something unusual, we absolutely want to see it.) 😆

06/11/2026

On a sunny afternoon in Satsuma, neighbors gathered alongside firefighters, elected officials, church members, and supporters to celebrate the opening of Fire District 4’s newest home, Station 11. While the building itself is impressive, the real story is what it represents: a continued investment in the people who call this corner of Livingston Parish home.

As families toured the station and children explored the fire trucks, it was easy to see the excitement surrounding the project. The new facility will serve as a hub for the firefighters who answer the call at all hours of the day and night, providing protection and peace of mind to a growing community.

The open house felt less like a formal ceremony and more like a neighborhood gathering. Visitors walked through the station, met the firefighters who serve the area, and spent time learning about the equipment that helps keep residents safe. Satsuma Baptist Church added to the welcoming atmosphere by providing lunch, reminding everyone that community support is often found in the simplest acts of service.

One of the things that makes Livingston Parish special is the way people come together around projects that benefit everyone. Fire stations are more than brick and mortar. They become landmarks, gathering places, and symbols of the people willing to serve their neighbors when they are needed most.

As Satsuma continues to grow, Station 11 stands ready to grow with it. We extend our congratulations to Fire District 4, its firefighters, leadership, and supporters on this exciting milestone and thank them for their continued dedication to protecting the communities they serve.

Welcome home, Station 11.

06/10/2026

Two days in and more than 800 people have already submitted nominations for the first-ever Best of Livingston Parish Awards.

That’s 800 people taking the time to support local businesses, local organizations, local restaurants, local people, and everything that makes Livingston Parish home.

And then…

Some of y’all used the survey section like it was open mic night.

One of our questions asked:

“If someone was visiting Livingston Parish for the first time, what is one thing they absolutely have to experience?”

Some of the anonymous answers included:

• Pelican Credit Union
• Best Looking Deputies
• Walker Walmart
• Yes

Just “Yes.”

No explanation. No context. Just confidence.

Special recognition goes to the person who answered ‘Best Looking Deputies.’ We don’t know who you are, but we admire your commitment to supporting local law enforcement… for whatever reason motivated that answer. 😂

Meanwhile, we’re over here trying to figure out who nominated Hobby Lobby and TJ Maxx for Best Home Decor Store. We said Livingston Parish. Y’all immediately left the parish.

At this point, reading these survey responses might be becoming our favorite part of the awards.

If you haven’t nominated yet, there’s still time. Be sure to answer the survey questions at the bottom too. There are four of them, and based on what we’ve seen so far, Livingston Parish is either incredibly passionate or completely unsupervised.

We’ll be sharing some of our favorite anonymous responses throughout the nomination period.

And yes, the person who answered “Walker Walmart” is currently winning the internet. 😂

06/09/2026

POV: You own a salon and accidentally become friends with a girl who has approximately 37 community projects, 14 business ideas, 3 upcoming events, and a different crisis every Tuesday.

Michelle has been doing my hair long enough that she probably deserves hazard pay.

So when we decided to recreate this trend, it felt pretty fitting.

Huge shoutout to Michelle and The Abbey Salon for always making me look like I have my life together, even when I absolutely do not.

Now enjoy our masterpiece.

06/09/2026

Yesterday, members of the Kiwanis Club of Walker traded board meetings for tortoises and spent the morning with the campers at the City of Walker Parks & Recreation Summer Camp.

The campers had the chance to get up close with Sulcata tortoises courtesy of Walker Kiwanis. They learned that these incredible animals can live 50 to 70 years or more, weigh well over 100 pounds, dig massive underground burrows, and spend much of their day eating. The kids asked questions, made guesses, shared fun facts of their own, and, of course, eagerly lined up for the chance to touch the tortoises themselves.

One of the best parts of the presentation was watching the campers’ reactions. There were plenty of wide eyes when they learned how long tortoises can live and even more surprise when they found out these gentle giants start out small enough to fit in your hand before growing into some of the largest tortoises in the world.

The morning was about more than turtles, though. It was about giving kids an opportunity to learn something new, spark their curiosity, and have fun while doing it. That is exactly what summer camp should be. Judging by the laughter, raised hands, and constant stream of questions, the campers were fully invested from start to finish.

A special thank you to Wildcat Nutrition for providing loaded teas for the camp counselors. Keeping up with a room full of excited kids discussing giant tortoises is no small task.

Days like these are a reminder that some of the best community moments are also the simplest. A room full of kids, a few volunteers, a couple of tortoises, and an opportunity to learn something new. Sometimes that’s all it takes to create a memorable summer day in Livingston Parish. 🐢☀️💚