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Monday, July 6, 2009
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Tate Tullier was 12 years old when he borrowed his mother Ida Tullier’s camera and began to take portraits of his younger cousin and friends. The St. Amant native said he was inspired by the ones he saw in magazines and desired to emulate them. So began what has evolved into a lucrative career as a professional photographer.
Spotlight for July 6, 2009 Fifty Girl Scout Juniors from the Baton Rouge area recently earned the Girl Scout Bronze Award, the highest award a registered Girl Scout Junior can achieve. Youth Calendar for July 6-12 With funding down, local nonprofits face having to do more with less this year. The Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations surveyed more than 300 nonprofits in Louisiana to determine the extent of fundraising difficulties among Louisiana agencies. Top executives of Baton Rouge area nonprofit organizations often are paid six-figure salaries. In other parts of the country, those salaries have been questioned for being too high and out of proportion with the amount the organization spends to fulfill its mission — whether that be running an animal shelter or a nonprofit hospital. It’s hard enough to quit smoking without having your successes and failures reported on the evening news. Even President Obama’s critics, if they’re smokers, must see themselves in the leader of, say it together, “The Most Powerful Nation on Earth” slipping into the backyard for a furtive smoke. Barbara Cerniauskas, Katherine Lastor and Michelle Begnaud advise people how to achieve a healthy weight as dietitians at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. So what do they do to stay slim themselves? Writing well is how Lynn Lamousin, of Baton Rouge, makes a living. But when she decided to write badly, she fabricated a winner. Warm soil helps palms get established. Summer, through August, is a good time to plant them, but keep new palms well watered. “Here, nature and life follow a pattern that has gone so far out of style that it gets rejected in the editorial offices,” the great Russian author Anton Chekhov once wrote in a letter to a friend. It was Chekhov’s way of letting people know that what happened around his household wouldn’t be counted as news anywhere else. A Patriotic Celebration: 6 p.m., First Baptist Church, downtown campus, 529 Convention St., featuring the Sanctuary Choir and brass. The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana will elect a new bishop this year and suggestions about who should fill that role are welcome. The nomination process closes on July 31 for the election scheduled for Dec. 5. Bishop Charles E. Jenkins will retire in January. Decorating and running a shelter may not have been what Sharon Green had in mind with her interior designer degree. Green, who graduated from Southern University in 1975, managed her own interior design business for 24 years until God called her to the ministry in 1999. When Dr. Cris Mandry of Baton Rouge leaves in the next week for his third National Guard tour in Afghanistan, he won’t be packing a stethoscope. “My exact words were ‘Oh my gosh. Is this really happening?’ Something like that never happens to me. I’ve never really won anything important.” Listening on the car radio as LSU won the national championship game brought back some unexpected memories. Of course there were the memories of LSU’s amazing string of College World Series wins, including the one in which Warren Morris won with a dramatic homer. Fletch has been a healthy basset hound since his owner Yvonne Thomas, of Zachary, adopted him after he was abandoned in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But a couple of months ago, Fletch, 6, began doing some odd things. Each week The Advocate asks a different “quiz taker” for his or her current favorites in pop culture. QUIZ TAKER: Margaret Tooke, 51, partner at the law firm of Taylor Porter Brooks & Phillips. “We have over 70 lawyers and a great staff. It’s a wonderful place to practice law.” Depending on what kind of grass you have, your lawn may be doing better than you think this dry summer. Chic and cool seem to be the watchwords of the subject of this week’s “Style File,” where we catch people out and about. |
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