Simmesport,Louisiana takes a strong stand & stands shoulder to shoulder with the community in support of our children through education and the performing arts.

Online PR News � 10-April-2018 � After many hours, weeks and months of patience, hard work and intense negotiating with the Louisiana Avoyelles Parish School Board and after assuring them the Joe Simon Community Educational Programs will be gigantic for the citizens of Simmesport and it will also encourage and highlight the positive social lifestyle of the community, the keys for the Dunbar School were handed over to the Mayor of Simmesport, Mayor Leslie Draper III.

The school has been officially renamed the Simmesport Community Center. On November 9, 2017, the town of Simmesport, Louisiana declared and adopted Resolution NO: 11-2017- 29 Collaboration With Joe Simon Outreach Ministries

The Joe Simon Community Outreach Ministries civic programs range from educational to the performing arts and much more. The Joe Simon Outreach Ministries bring together people of all ages connecting children, young adults and senior citizens creating in the youths a sense of pride and vested interest in their community. The new Simmesport Community Center sits on the old Dunbar High School property, later changed to Simmesport Elementary School prior to 1988 and more recently the Dunbar school was used and operated as a jail, a correctional facility for women run by the Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's Department.

Simon says, "A city's economy is only as good as its infrastructure, and its infrastructure is only as good as the character of the people. I would like to thank the Louisiana Avoyelles Parish School Board, the Simmesport Community, and the Mayor of Simmesport, Mayor Leslie Draper III for giving me this great opportunity to partner with and help my hometown/ community of Simmesport, Louisiana."

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