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Friday, November 20, 2009
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Two LSU alumni brought their veterinary skills to a country recovering from years of civil war, dealing with an epidemic rabies problem and doing so with no veterinarians of its own.
When a friend asked if I might have any items for her church rummage sale, I really doubted if I could help her. We met Mike Bourgeois years ago when the paper did the first local edible landscape story. Bourgeois now promotes, as a volunteer, edible memorials. A couple of Canadians cruised through Baton Rouge Tuesday morning in a 1985 RV towing a Toyota Corolla that’s been used as a trailer since the car’s motor burned up two weeks ago. Gary Augustine, 61, and Mike Conlin, 63, have been friends since high school. Augustine owns a golf course in Prince George, British Columbia, and the RV which he’s still breaking in at 60,000 miles. That’s after Augustine and Conlin drove from Winnipeg on their way to New Orleans. Their plan was to end the trip Tuesday afternoon at the obelisk that marks the end of ‘The Jeff” in New Orleans. I have seen my death, and it is by Virginia creeper. Maybe the fatal day won’t come for years, but I’ll be working in my garden, stop to rest and slip into a nap. “Being one out of 10 percent of the school is a big honor. People respect you for it. It gives you a sense of selfpride.” About Town for Nov. 19, 2009 The little boy, an autistic child living in a northern state, would have a “meltdown” every time he tried to put on his winter gear at school to go outside. Each week The Advocate asks a different “quiz taker” for his or her current favorites in pop culture. QUIZ TAKER: Bobbi Zaunbrecher, 56, CEO of the Louisiana Capital Area Chapter, American Red Cross. Given the opportunity to wish for anything, a 5-year-old boy with a rare liver disease said he wanted to build a time machine and travel back to see dinosaurs. When we stopped the subject of this week’s “Style File” at a luncheon, we got fashion advice doled out with humor. NAME: Genevieve Stewart, Baton Rouge Mary Burnett started writing letters to soldiers during Operation Desert Storm. Then, she joined Soldiers’ Angels, which sends overseas military personnel letters, blankets, baked goods and more. This week's events More than 4,000 teens die in car crashes each year and another 300,000 are injured, making car crashes the number one killer of teens, according to The Allstate Foundation. This week's events The Animal Control Center, 2680 Progress Road, has plenty of animals that need good homes. A year removed from the death of their 10-year-old daughter Dru, Jada and Michael Mayon, of Sorrento, didn’t feel like they had much for which to be thankful. A Baton Rouge-born Texas preacher who grew up in Korea is the newly elected leader of one of the world’s largest Pentecostal denominations. Most children in the United States act out or draw the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Colony. They dress as Pilgrims and as Native Americans and create pictures of tables filled with turkey and other food. William Winters, a black man, says his entire family was outwardly supportive of his choice to date outside his race. In private, however, his grandmother often expressed her concern. She was "of the old school," said Winters, and had been victimized in numerous ways by racism. Women Wefof Love Conference: 10 a.m., Faith, Hope and Love Worship Center, 4055 Choctaw Drive, with Prophetess Robbin Hardy as hostess and many guest speakers. I was moving up a steep hill north in Ruston an hour before sunset with only the sound of my breathing for company. There was a sound I couldn’t place at first, a sound that had begun softly and built until there was what sounded like a waterfall in the woods on either side of me. |
