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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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Jump Start Your Heart, a nonprofit organization, screened Southern University athletes and more than 200 high school athletes last year for a form of heart disease that can cause sudden death.
The athletes were healthy, as hoped for, said Danielle Kelley, executive director and co-founder of Jump Start Your Heart.
But if a screening ever reveals that an athlete has the heart condition, “You’ve saved a life,” Kelley said.
We walk into schools for the first time and begin looking for familiar faces and furnishings that we hope will remind us of the schools we attended. We sniff for smells that will take us back to places that thrilled us, frightened us, inspired us and made us want to learn. We love a woman who can admit to once wearing head-to-toe animal print. We learn from our mistakes. NAME: Tara Montgomery Madison, Baton Rouge AGE: 30 OCCUPATION: Attorney, Kean Miller Tell us about what you’re wearing. “A matte jersey two-toned print dress with belt by Muse.” From the earliest colonial days, Americans have loved glass. In fact, the colony of Jamestown had a glass-making house. “We like to say that glass was America’s first industry,” said Jane Shadel Spillman, guest speaker at the Friends of Magnolia Mound Plantation’s 10th annual Petite Antiques Forum. Jump Start Your Heart Inc., a nonprofit organization that works to promote enhanced cardiovascular screening in young athletes, is sponsoring this fundraising gala. Late arrivals at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church’s 7:30 a.m. Sunday Mass on Gus Young Avenue are greeted by the muted sound and vibration of a snare drum coming through the wall of the former Capitol movie theater. In south Louisiana this week, the obvious answer is that a saint is a member of the National Football League team from New Orleans. Church Law Seminar: 8 a.m. to noon, Gloryland Baptist Church Glory Center, 6745 Greenwell Springs Road, sponsored by the Greater Baton Rouge Louis A. Martinet Legal Society. (985) 320-8705. METAIRIE— They’ll never pass this way again. Oh, there will be other football seasons. There may even be another NFC championship. But none of it will happen as it did this year, when the Saintsations fielded a “dream team.” Driving back to New Orleans on a mid-November night in 1966, Roland Hymel Jr. heard a radio announcement that sparked his imagination. The New Orleans States-Item was launching a naming contest for the city’s new professional football franchise, and Hymel pondered the challenge. This might be the year to try starting some plants — vegetable and annual flowering plants — from seed. Even if the New Orleans Saints lose the Super Bowl this Sunday, their presence in professional football’s biggest game offers a welcome piece of positive publicity for a city that really needs it. How hard is it to be a fan of a good football team? Lay in enough chips and drinks. Turn on the television just before kickoff. Enter a “W” in your sports journal at game’s end. When New Orleans takes the field for the Super Bowl, I won’t be cheering for the Saints. I’ll be cheering for my son. |
