The Mid City Advocate 03-26-2015

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Darlene Denstorff AROUND MID CITY

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Melrose Place group plans walks Melrose Place neighbors are getting together twice a week for group walks. Beginning Tuesday and continuing every Tuesday and Thursday through the end of daylight saving time, walkers are invited to meet in Fairfax Park for the walk. For more information, call Sam Irwin at (225) 924-2756 or email MelrosePlaceBR@ aol.com. Join the Melrose Place Facebook group at www.facebook.com/ MelrosePlaceBR?ref=hl.

CASA needs volunteers

Capital Area Court Appointed Special Advocate Association is looking for volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected youth. CASA recruits, trains and supervises community volunteers who advocate for abused and neglected youth in the foster care system to help them reach safe, permanent homes. Volunteers must be at least 21 years old. CASA is accepting people into its next volunteer training course, which begins April 14. Learn more at 45-minute informational sessions set for 5:30 p.m. Thursday or noon Monday. Call (225) 379-8598, email volunteer@casabr.org, or visit casabr.org.

Kids, adults enjoy science at Engineering Day Visitors take part in interactive STEM projects

March 21. The girls took turns finding new object to see up-close — strands of their hair, strands of other people’s hair, including Brookelyn and Cassidy Corcoran, students from Zachary’s Northwest Middle School. BY C. J. FUTCH “I love it, and they’ve been having a cfutch@theadvocate.com blast,â€? Wendy Johnson said, adding that, Four-year-old Karlie Jackson held a small aside from the microscope, which was a device that looked a bit like a glue gun to big hit, the booth with the catapult cars her skin, and saw an up-close image of its was a popular stop for her group. Gina Guillory, who studies chemical ensurface on a television monitor. She and Kamryn Johnson, 2, were there gineering at LSU, manned the booth with with Kamryn’s mother, Wendy, and Scot- the microscope and several other science landville Middle student Koby Thompkins projects as a diversity ambassador for Scito see exhibits at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum’s Engineering Day on äSee ENGINEERING, page 2G

Advocate photo by C.J. FUTCH

Burden art show announces winners

CANVASSING IN NATURE Baton Rouge residents spent Saturday under the oaks at Art in the Park. An annual community event, Art in the Park highlights the visual and performing arts at City-Brooks Park on Highland Road. Family-friendly activities were spread out through the event with demonstrations for both children and adults.

BY C.J. FUTCH

cfutch@theadvocate.com

Bailey Reynaud, age 3, draws a multi-colored rainbow on the sidewalk on Saturday during an Art in the Park event.

The Mind’s Eye planned

The Baton Rouge chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness is presenting The Mind’s Eye, an art exhibition featuring works of art by artists living with mental illness. The Mind’s Eye is presented to raise public awareness of mental illness through free support groups and educational programs, to raise funds to present these free programs and to create an opportunity for artists to showcase their work. April 18 is the deadline to submit art. The selected artwork will be exhibited at the Community Gallery of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, 427 Laurel St. The exhibition and gala will begin at 7 p.m. May 30. For more information, call (225) 769-0361. Contact Mid City Advocate Editor Darlene Denstorff by phone, (225) 336-6952 or (225) 603-1998; or email ddenstorff@theadvocate. Deadline: 5 p.m. Friday.

LSU graduate student Rubaiyet Abebin, who is studying chemical engineering, explains to fifth-grader Maya and eighth-grader Benjamin Tilley, both Oak Grove Primary students in Prairieville, why an added polymer turns ordinary sand into something that behaves more like clay.

Advocate staff photos by JOHN OUBRE

Art in the Park participants visit various tables located under the trees in City-Brooks community park on Saturday that highlights the visual and performing arts. Jack Riggs, age 7, creates a piece of art with felt alongside his dad Jeremy.

Melissa Wilson performs on a minature wash board Saturday at the park.

The Brush With Burden Juried Art Exhibition and Sale announced the winners of its 2015 show at an open house and artists’ reception March 21, said Margaret Blades, who chairs the art show, along with Connie Abboud. This fundraiser for the Burden Horticultural Society, in its fifth year, is the brainchild of Jinnie Bolin, Blades said, who had a vision of combining the arts with the natural resources and beauty of Louisiana. For the first time this year, the juried art show implemented an online submission system, Blades said, which not only opened up the field for entries nationwide, but also took a considerable amount of work off the shoulders of her volunteers. “We got 307 entries from all over the country — California, Wisconsin, Texas and all over Louisiana,â€? Blades said. The judges selected 85 paintings, 49 photos and seven sculptures for the show. Proceeds support the LSU Agricultural Center’s Botanic Gardens at Burden, Blades said. Overall winners in the art category were: FIRST PLACE: “Connected,â€? Cheri Fry SECOND: “After the Rain,â€? Dawn Koetting THIRD: “Moonscape,â€? Arthur McViccar HONORABLE MENTION: “Spring,â€? Wendy Hazey ELIZABETHAN GALLERY MERIT AWARD, $100: “Burning the Fields,â€? William McInnis CO-OP BOOK STORE MERIT AWARD, $50: “Street View,â€? Andrea Kostyal ACADIAN FRAMING MERIT AWARD, $40: “Dinner at Antoine’s,â€? Betsy Neely BLICK ART SUPPLY MERIT AWARD, $50: “Walk Tall and Carry a Big Stick,â€? Jane Flowers CO-OP BOOK STORE MERIT AWARD, $25: “Radial Symmetry,â€? Marge Campane. Overall winners in the phoäSee ART, page 3G

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