Kids Avenue for Oct. 13, 2008

• By RELMA HARGUS AND CHANTE WARREN
• Advocate staff writer
• Published: Oct 13, 2008 - UPDATED: 12:00 a.m.

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Participate in fun Saturday activities while developing important skills for the future with the YWCA’s Y-Teens.

Field trips and community service projects are part of the programming which also includes leadership, career building and abstinence training.

For ages 13 to 18, Y-Teens meets 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the first and third Saturdays of each month at Dean Towers, 5700 Florida Blvd., Suite 602.

The program is free. Call Letrece Griffin at (225) 383-0681 or e-mail lgriffin_ywcayts@yahoo.com for an application.

Lafayette trolley tour fun
Take a trolley tour of historic Lafayette and help support the Lafayette Public Library Foundation. The program — music by Johnette Downing, the “Pied Piper of Louisiana,” along with two stops for storytelling with a cultural connection — is designed to make this a fun family outing for preschool through fifth-grade children, their parents and the young-at-heart.

Cajun storytelling by Allen Simon in his role as “Nonc Allain” and Creole storytelling by Rebecca Henry, noted folklorist and storyteller from St. Landry Parish, will be featured during the tour.

Children will receive a book, trolley conductor’s hat and a souvenir photo. The fundraiser is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $20 per person, and reservations are required.

The tour begins at the downtown library, 301 W. Congress. Call (337) 593-4500 to reserve tickets.

Deadline approaching
Grab your camera and start looking for people, animals and scenery to photograph for a contest being sponsored by National Geographic for young people ages 6 to 14.

Deadline for entering is Nov. 3. Enter as many of the three categories as you wish, but only once for each.

Three winners, one in each category, will receive a Nikon COOLPIX S550 camera and an autographed copy of the book “A Camera, Two Kids and a Camel: My Journey in Photographs” by Annie Griffiths Belt. Second-place winners, one in each category, will receive Belt’s book and a Nikon COOLPIX S210 camera.

ON THE INTERNET: http://www.kids.nationalgeographic.com

Scout earns Eagle
Fewer than 2 percent of Scouts in the United States earn their Eagle award. Scouts advance to Eagles by earning 21 merit badges, of which 12 — on such topics as finance, family life, law, astronomy, chemistry and nature — are mandatory to become an Eagle.

A Scout must also organize an Eagle service project that demonstrates leadership skills.