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Friday, July 10, 2009
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The River Region Art Association is celebrating its new partnership with Houmas House Plantation on Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house.
Residents are invited to view the art on display at the association’s new gallery inside the Houmas House Plantation gift shop, 40136 La. 942, Darrow.
DONALDSONVILLE — For three days in June, Vincent “Cy” Tortorich’s every move in a 1934 Ford depended on the detailed directions given to him by his wife of 48 years. Sewing the perfect quilting stitch is not the top priority for membership in the Krazy Patch 8 Plus 1 Quilting Ladies group. GONZALES — Nikia Martin will be a senior at Donaldsonville High School in August, and at the start of the summer, she was sure she wanted to be a pediatric nurse. A two-day jambalaya cook-off, music, truck and car show and motorcycle poker run are all on tap for the 12th annual Deep South Crane and Rigging Swamp Pop Music Festival set July 17-18 at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center. SORRENTO — Since the town of Sorrento was incorporated, officials have been compiling town ordinances. Ascension Parish officials are hoping that the installation of 20 emergency generators at key locations around the parish will aid in response efforts when a hurricane or dangerous storm hits the parish. DONALDSONVILLE — The Ascension Parish Council is keeping property-tax rates of area taxing districts the same in 2009 as they were on the 2008 tax rolls, parish officials said. “What America means to me” is the theme for the River Region Art Association’s July art exhibit. Allie Gremillion likes trees. When the eighth-grade Dutchtown Middle student saw the construction begin at the new Spanish Lake Primary School, she was a little disappointed to see the woods around it being cleared away. The River Region Art Association selected Frances Prestridge as its July Artist of the Month. Friends of the late Donnie Reynolds are hosting the Donnie Reynolds Memorial Golf Tournament at 1 p.m. Monday at Pelican Point. The Ascension Clerk of Court’s Office is hosting training classes this month to certify new election commissioners. The Gonzales Dolphins Swim Team competed June 25 against the Pennington Piranhas. Introduction to Microsoft Powerpoint: 10 a.m., Ascension Parish Library, Gonzales. TODAY: Pilates exercises, 9:30 a.m. Two Ascension Parish residents took home crowns from the annual Veterans of Foreign Wars State Convention on June 26-28 in Alexandria. The Gonzales Youth Flag Football League has competed two weeks of play, puttingit almost half-waythrough in its five-week season, league director Mark Peters said. While others were preparing for barbecues, swimmers filled the Pelican Point Pool for the annual “Fourth of July Swim.” Forty members of The Future Track Club are competing in the USA Track and Field Southern Association regional meet in Tennessee beginning Friday. After more than two years of work, the hospital and parish government have opened the St. Elizabeth Community Clinic, a health clinic inside the parish health unit building in Gonzales, parish and hospital officials said. Bad news for the economy became good news for Ascension Parish schools when bids on their most recent project, a new primary school for Orange Grove subdivision in Sorrento, came back, a school system official said Tuesday. DONALDSONVILLE — The Ascension Parish School Board opted Monday to take no action on a list of proposed projects to be funded from the proceeds of a bond initiative that may be slated for the Oct. 17 ballot. GEISMAR — Trenda Thompson stood in her brand-new classroom in Building A of Spanish Lake Primary School, directing her husband, Reginald, on where to move boxes. Thompson, who will be teaching second grade at the new school, was delighted to be there unpacking last week, “though he probably doesn’t feel the same way,” she said, nodding toward her husband, who smiled and shook his head. |
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