Country Comes to Town: Policewoman Brings Her Horse to Inner City of BR

Harold Williams Wants Inner City Kids To Learn to Ride and Care for Horses To Help Build Personal Responsibility

NORTH BATON ROUGE — If businessman Harold Williams has his way, hundreds of inner city youth will have the opportunity to spend time in the country and learn to ride and care for horses.  It’s part of a plan he has to build personal responsibility for youngsters who might otherwise turn to lives of crime, drugs, prostitution, or dependency.

Williams, a member of the Republican Parish Executive Committee and an Executive Committee member of the new Chamber of Commerce of East Baton Rouge Parish, owns 1st Team Insurance Agency at 3745 Choctaw.  Last Saturday, scores of youth came to Choctaw at N. 38th to learn about horses and take a ride.

Williams and Central City News editor Woody Jenkins hope to start a mentorship program that will pair high school senior football players with inner city youth to help provide good role models for the youth and an opportunity for service for the seniors.  Every Saturday the seniors and the inner city kids would ride horses and learn how to care for them.  To help with the plan, call Williams at 806-6923 or Jenkins at 921-1433.