Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Between field trips to museums and art and music lessons, two summer enrichment camps will give teens and pre-teens a chance to discuss the rise in sexually transmitted diseases among their peers.
In this week’s Style File, where we catch people out and about, we find a woman showing off her spring style. When 13 LSU engineering students added up the time they spent on their senior project, they figured it was enough that each of them could have walked to and from Michigan — one at a time. Instead, they’re driving to Michigan International Speedway today, where they expect things to move much more rapidly. When many who fought in Vietnam returned home, they were received with less than open arms — even by veterans of previous conflicts. “I came home and went on down to join the VFW and they treated me like … I was just a piece of trash,” said Roger Arnold, of Port Allen. “They actually told me I wasn’t in a war. I don’t belong there.” Asked by her mother what she’d like to do for their next “Girls’ Weekend,” Eve Axelrod didn’t hesitate: “Meet Dr. Goodall.” Mother and daughter traveled to Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., to do just that. Spotlight for May 12, 2008 Here are some treasured mementos mothers (and children) shared with The Advocate. The memories are published in PDF form. I get e-mails from an outfit that promotes flying lessons. Birthday. Christmas. Father’s Day. Give someone — give YOURSELF — the gift of flying. The one I just got begins, “Mother’s Day is just around the corner … ” PORT ALLEN — The Rev. Jim Sawyer went into the operating room Oct. 17 to fix his back, but a rare surgical complication would change his life and his ministry. Some people will do anything to save gas — including waste it. A study conducted last year by a national fuel sales organization found that almost a third of drivers will drive to a gas station 10 minutes out of their way just to save three cents per gallon. As Mother’s Day approached about 25 years ago, a poor boy entered my mother’s florist shop and asked what kind of gift he might be able to get his mother for 30 cents. Like many teenage girls, Krystal Benoit and Amber Meaux started planning for the prom three months ago. Boys at their school asked to be their dates, and they each found dresses they loved. Each week The Advocate asks a different “quiz taker” for his or her current favorites in pop culture. After my wife died — a year ago tomorrow — I began to notice little projects she never finished. That brought back memories from losing my father and my Uncle Vincent. My father had cartridge cases lined up like little soldiers to be reloaded in his shop. On May 16, members of LSU’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity will travel from across the country to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Zeta Zeta Chapter, the country’s 31st DKE chapter. It’s a chapter that already had a history when it came to the LSU campus in 1923. |
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