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Animal activist honored Longtime animal rights supporter Holly Reynolds recently was honored by the Humane Society of the United States during the group’s Animal Care Expo in New Orleans. Reynolds, 96, said she was surprised when Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle called her with the invitation. “He offered to send a car to get me,â€? she said. But, not wanting to have the group spend money on her, she hitched a ride to the event with friends. At a banquet on March 30, before a crowd of more than 2,000 people, Pacelle called Reynolds’ name and presented her with a plaque for her decades of service for animals. Reynolds founded Capital Area Animal Welfare Society in 1979 and later started the Coalition of Louisiana Animal Advocates. She’s spent most of her adult life “doing anything I could do for animals,â€? she said. She fought against puppy mills and backyard breeders and led efforts to increase funding for the local animal control center. She’s also worked for the protection of chimpanzees, whales and the environment. äSee SOUTHEAST, page 4G
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Baton Rouge animal welfare supporter Holly Reynolds, left, accepts an honor March 30 from Wayne Pacelle at the Humane Society of the United States’ Aminal Care Expo in New Orleans.
Grandmother is all ears with new hearing aid BY C.J. FUTCH
cfutch@theadvocate.com For the last decade or so, 82-year-old Adair Dunn has lived with significant hearing loss in both ears, particularly her left. “It’s more than just not being able to hear,� said her daughter, Dana Territo, one of Dunn’s nine children who got together and wrote the essay that won
Dunn a free hearing aid from Hearing Health Care, a company that fits people with hearing aids at several locations across south Louisiana. In the essay, Territo explained how her mother had always been a spirited debater and a very social person who loved gatherings of her enormous family — including 19 grandchildren and 4 greatgrandchildren. But that began
Kyla Saldivar, with Hearing Health Care in Baton Rouge, holds a mirror to show Adair Dunn, 82, how to insert her new hearing aid. Behind Saldivar are Dunn’s daughters, Sandy Sanders, in pink, and Dana Territo.
to change once her hearing, which had been compromised most of her life, started to decline when she was in her 70s. It was heartbreaking to see, Territo said. She couldn’t hear dinner conversations, so evenings out with the family eventually got more frustrating and stressful for Dunn.
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ONTHE RECORD
Saturday celebrates independent shops
BY C.J. FUTCH
cfutch@theadvocate.com For most people who own a turntable and a record collection, the third Saturday in April — also known as Record Store Day — is already marked on the calendar. For the rest of the world, it’s an event worth checking out, even if you prefer your music in digital form, said Tess Brunet, who co-owns Lagniappe Records in Beauregard Town along with Patrick Hodgkins. Record Store Day, April 18, is a celebration of independently owned record shops everywhere, including nearly 1,400 in the United States, and thousands more like it across the world, on every continent but Antarctica, according to the Record Store Day website. Lagniappe, along with Kerry Beary’s Atomic Pop Shop and Capital City Records, owned by Dana Labat, will be offering the standard RSD treats — music releases available either only in independent stores on RSD, or first on Record Store Day. They include exclusive RSD releases — available nowhere else in the same format; limited-run or regional releases — available either only locally or in quantities of 1,000 or fewer; and RSDFirst Releases — patrons at local shops on RSD will get the first crack at listening to a new release from some artists. And there’s always a little more, personalized to each shop. Limited-edition T-shirts also will be offered at some shops, as will raffles for other goodies, including turntables. “We’re going to run it like an old deli,â€? Beary said. “Everybody gets a number, and then we call No. 1, and then No. 2, and then No. 3,â€? she said, adding that everyone who lines up between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., when the Atomic Pop Shop opens, will äSee RECORD, page 2G
Race promotes cancer awareness, prevention Advocate staff report
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Tess Brunet answers a question for a customer in Lagniappe Records in Beauregard Town on Sunday. The store will participate in Record Store Day on Saturday, along with Capital City Records and Atomic Pop Shop.
Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, said Dr. Kelly Finan, a surgical oncologist with Mary Bird Perkins-Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center. Cancer of the colon and rectum are also among the most treatable — almost 90 percent of patients survive, if detected early, and the tests to detect colon cancer early are among the most reliable, she said. It’s also among the most stigmatized, Finan said. “Nobody wants to think about it, nobody wants to talk about it, especially the colonoscopy,â€? she said. It’s a lot better than it used to be, Finan said. “The prep process has gotten a whole lot better, and we use sedation to do the procedure, so you fall asleep, wake up and you’re done,â€? she said. She’s on a mission, along with many colon cancer survivors and other doctors, to desensitize Americans to talking about the colon. “When you think about how much worse the treatment for colon cancer is once it’s advanced, and how much harder to get a good outcome, it’s so much easier to just get it done,â€? she said. That’s why she’s picked up the banner for Get Your Rear in Gear 2015, a 5K run/walk with categories open for all ages, which will be Saturday at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road. The event will raise money that will stay in the community, Finan said, to fund projects relating to prevention, early detection and treatment, and will include refreshments, shirts äSee CANCER, page 2G
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