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Bossier Parish bus driver honored after saving choking kindergartner

2711272 · March 6, 2025
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At its March 6 meeting, the Bossier Parish School Board recognized transportation employee Debbie Lockey with the Gold Star Award after she performed the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge a quarter from a kindergarten student’s airway during a January bus ride in Plain Dealing.

The Bossier Parish School Board on March 6 recognized transportation employee Debbie Lockey after Lockey performed the Heimlich maneuver to free a choking kindergarten student on a bus in Plain Dealing earlier in January.

Sonya Bell, public relations liaison for Bossier Parish Schools, told the board that Lockey “immediately started administering the Heimlich maneuver,” and after…

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