Around Livingston for Jan. 05, 2009

• By DAVID MITCHELL AND BOB ANDERSON
• Advocate Florida parishes bureau
• Published: Jan 5, 2009 - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

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‘Mansion’ to get off  the ground

Parish President Mike Grimmer, other elected officials and community leaders plan to attend a groundbreaking Tuesday for the 2009 Children’s Miracle Mansion at Greystone Golf and Country Club, 9214 Greystone Drive, Denham Springs.

The eighth one built by the Capital Region Builders Foundation, the home benefits Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital through chances sold to own the home.

Developers Ron and Susan Menville and Greystone Golf and Country Club donated the lot. Builder Tricia Guitreau will donate her time to oversee home construction, which starts this year. Donations of labor and material come from the community.

Refreshments start at noon; groundbreaking at 1 p.m. It was canceled last month because of snow.

Young voices sing again

The Livingston Parish Children’s choirs resume rehearsals today and Tuesday. Registration forms are available online at http://www.lpccsing.org or by calling Shelly Strobel, (225) 665-6057.

The Apprentice Choir, for kindergarteners to second-graders, rehearses for 70 minutes in two groups Tuesdays.

One group starts at 5 p.m.; the other at 5:30 p.m. The Chorus, for third-graders to ninth-graders, rehearses from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays.

The choirs rehearse at New Covenant Baptist Church, 215 Florida Ave. Southeast, Denham Springs.

Tea ‘lovely, dark and deep’

Get a sip of Earl Grey, a bite of cookies and the pleasure of the spoken word from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 17 at the Denham Springs-Walker branch of the parish library.

The branch’s “Warm Enchantments:  Hot Tea and Poetry Party” marks National Hot Tea Month with hot tea, hot chocolate, coffee and cookies inside the branch meeting room along with winter-themed music and poetry.