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Share your celebrations with us The holidays are family time for many in our area. Bountiful family dinners, festive gathering and gala parties take up much of our time until the end of the year. The Advocate family extends holiday greetings to our readers. As you get together in the next few weeks, don’t forget to share a few photos with The Advocate. It’s easy to send photos and information to us. Simply email photos — cellphone photos are fine — to southside@theadvocate.com and include Mid City in the email message. Include the names of the people in the photo and a brief explanation of what’s going on in the photo. Whether it’s a reunion of five generations or a visit from an out-of-state relative, please share your holiday memories.
CATS holiday hours
The Capital Area Transit System (CATS) will run an abbreviated schedule on Thursday, with service ending at 8 p.m. CATS will be closed Friday and return to its normal schedule Saturday. Call (225) 389-8282 or visit brcats.com.
Library holiday closures
The Carver, Eden Park, Main and River Center libraries are closed Thursday and Friday for Christmas, as well as Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 for New Year’s.
BREC holiday hours
BREC’s administrative offices at 6201 Florida Blvd. will be closed Thursday and Friday for the Christmas holiday. Normal operating hours will resume at all BREC facilities on Monday. All golf courses, Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, Cohn Arboretum and Magnolia Mound Plantation will close on Christmas Day. Highland Road Park Observatory will be closed Thursday through Saturday and Baton Rouge Gallery will be closed Friday through Jan. 4. Baton Rouge Zoo, Independence Park Theatre and Farr Park Equestrian Center will be closed Thursday and Friday and all recreation centers will close at noon Thursday and remain closed Friday. The BMX track and rock climbing wall at Perkins Road Extreme Park will close Thursday and Friday, while the skate park will remain open both days. All tennis centers will close at noon Thursday and remain closed through Friday. Normal operating hours will resume Saturday. Call (225) 272-9200 or visit brec.org.
LSU Lab School raises over $10K
BY C.J. FUTCH
cfutch@theadvocate.com Philanthropy and service to community have long been a part of the LSU Laboratory School’s culture, said Adrienne Gale, project manager of the school’s Centennial Celebration. Gale has documented service projects as far back as the 1940s, she said, and it’s a component the school tries to incorporate early on in the education process. This year, LSU Lab School celebrated 100 years since its founding and, as part of the
centennial year, asked the student body to raise at least $10,000 for good causes during the holiday season. The project, $100 for 100, challenged at least 100 groups on campus to fundraise a minimum of $100 each for a charity of their choosing. “I’m proud to say we exceeded that goal,” Gale said, with 113 clubs, groups, classes or organizations within the school coming up with their own fundraising ideas and successfully turning in the $100 minimum, and in many cases, more. “Some raised money for St.
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LSU Lab School students were challenged to raise money in celebration of the school’s 100th anniversary. Taking part in one of the fundraising efforts, from left, were Meridith Madison, Christopher Fields, Robert Marionneaux and Jacob WagäSee LAB SCHOOOL, page 2G ner.
BRPD officers roll in the new bicycles to go with the packages during the party.
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The Baton Rouge Police Department provided new toys for the 418 students at Bernard Terrace Elementary on Friday. The gifts were purchased by personnel throughout the Police Department as part of their fifth annual school adoption event. Santa Claus arrived at Bernard Terrace in a SWAT vehicle.
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Students line up for presents from Santa Claus, who receives an impromptu hug from kindergartner Tyler Minor, 5. BRPD officers bring in the bicycles to go with the packages at Bernard Terrace Elementary.
As mounted officers Sgt. Paul Patterson, left, and Cpl. Isreal Chatman watch, Santa Claus arrives in a SWAT vehicle.
Sacred Heart of Jesus celebrates with tree decorating, fashion dergarten teaching assistant Terry Fountain, junior high Sacred Heart of Jesus School math teacher Margaret Kling, held its annual tree decorating bookkeeper Missie Ourso and and sing-along in the school guidance counselor Eris Wiggym on Dec. 4 with Assistant gins. Reigning program queen Principal Cecilia Methvin as Amy Pickenheim crowned Hutson the new queen. program emcee. Each class performed a muThe program began with an Ugly Sweater Contest and sical number: prekindergarten, Fashion Show judged by junior “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reinhigh math teacher Ellen Aba- deer”; kindergarten, “There die and school mascot Stripes. Was a Little Baby”; first grade, Contestants and models includ- “All I Want for Christmas is ed Principal Joanie Hutson, My Two Front Teeth”; second art teacher Dorothy Calandro, grade, “Away in a Manger”; librarian Lizzie Cossé, prekin- third grade, “Silver Bells”; Advocate staff report
Teen Advisory Board
The Main Library’s Teen Advisory Board will meet from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the library’s Teen Room. Teens may earn volunäSee AROUND, page 3G
Jude, which does benefit local families in many cases, but the majority of the funds stayed in the Baton Rouge area,” Gale said. One of the groups benefitting from the fundraising events, 4 the Kids can’t get much more local. The nonprofit was started by a U High graduate Sydney Saia while she was a student there in 2012. She and a lifelong friend and neighbor, Elizabeth Sherman, a student at St. Joseph’s Academy, were inspired to raise money for Our Lady of
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Sacred Heart of Jesus School first-graders Amelie Schmitt, front left, and Bryce Plummer, front right, join eighth-graders and Beta Club members Emily DeMeulenaere, Elise Encalade, Caroline Dazzio and Faith Woods, back from left, at the school’s tree decorating on Dec. 4.
fourth grade, “Feliz Navidad”; fifth grade, “Little St. Nick”; sixth grade, “Sleigh Ride”; seventh grade, “Mele Kalikimaka”; and eighth grade, “Emmanuel.” The entire student body joined in the finale, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Students prepared handmade ornaments and decorated the two school Christmas trees with assistance from Beta Club members Faith Woods, Amelia Cave, Caroline Dazzio, Emily DeMeulenaere, Carlette Dunn, Elise Encalade and Maggie Hurdle.