Youth News for June 29, 2009

• Published: Jun 29, 2009 - Page: 6D

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Drive’s goal school supplies
You can help needy classmates to have the supplies they need for the upcoming school year. The East Baton Rouge Parish School System and WBRZ-TV have teamed up for the Stuff the Bus with School Supplies drive.

On July 8, the goal is to fill a school bus with donated school supplies by the end of the day. Supplies will be accepted from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the parking lot of the Office Depot located at 3116 College Drive. The bus also will be parked there.

Can’t come by that day? Buy supplies a little earlier, and any of Raising Cane’s 15 area locations will accept them through July 7. You’ll get a free iced tea for each donation.

Last year, the first year of the program, some $33,000 worth of supplies were collected and distributed to students at 72 East Baton Rouge Parish public schools.

Needed supplies include No. 2 pencils, pens, notebook paper, notebooks, scissors, glue, Cray-ons (24 count), 12-inch rulers (metric and standard units), pocket folders, colored pencils, pencil sharpeners, highlighters and index cards as well as backpacks and calculators.

For more information, go online to http://www.2theadvocate.com or call (225) 922-5611.

Young artists hone skills
Several Baton Rouge residents were among 275 Louisiana high school students to participate in the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts annual summer session June 8-26.

The students successfully completed an application and audition process and were selected for their high aspirations and artistic talent to receive high-level training in their arts specialty.

Baton Rouge participants included Braxton Ray, classical instrumental music; Courtney Wilson, musical theater; Hannah Armstrong, visual arts; Denee Johnson, dance; Candice Francois, dance; Elise Wilson, dance; Annie Carlson, classical instrumental music; Emily Wright, musical theater; Anna Lacy, visual arts; Jessica Haley, classical instrumental music; Jansen Mitchell, media arts; and, from St. Amant, Addie Wilson, musical theater.

ON THE INTERNET:
http://www.nocca.com
Teens learn culinary arts
Several Louisiana teens spent June learning culinary arts through a program sponsored by the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Institute along with Johnson & Wales University, The Ritz Carlton and The Emeril Lagasse Foundation.

Participants received intensive, hands-on training in culinary arts at classes held in the professional kitchens of the New Orleans Ritz-Carlton.

Among the participants were area students Dorothee Goettert, Baton Rouge Magnet High School; Bethany Armstrong, Ponchatoula High School; and Taylor Sanders, Belle Chasse High School.