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FEBRUARY 2019 • VOLUME 13 • ISSUE 2

CONT HOME + LIVING

Page 26

FOOD + FUN

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MIND + BODY

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16 POV PICK

30 POV PICK

44 POV PICK

18 CHATEAU CHIC

32 LEADERSHIP THROUGH ACTION

46 I BELIEVE

36 OH SNAP

50 WE SUPPORT A HEALTHIER FUTURE

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Always a Fiesta!

22 THE OBSERVER

What We Want the World To See

24 S.A.R.A.H.’S PLACE

Renee Bertinot seeks to create a safe place for those battling addiction.

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Kelly Moreaux takes an active leadership role in the lives of others.

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38 BON APPETIT King Cake Crazy

40 POV POP-UP: CELEBRATING WOMEN Join us on Feb. 7!

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Grubbie Scrubbie

Penny Simmons uses her faith to help her thorough her battles with cancer.

Heart Health Strategies for Women

51 OPPORTUNITIES TO REACH YOUR GOALS

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ENTS EXTRAS

ON THE COVER

WORD, YA HEARD EPOCH A period of time in history or a person’s life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics

WORD ON THE STREET “Citizens believe the epoch of the 1960s was a major turning point for the United States.”

“Stan blames his early childhood epoch for majorly contributing to his status today. ”

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10 EDITOR’S NOTE A Few Bad@$$ Women!

12 INTERVUE Say What?

52 UNDER THE SCOPE Tannenbäume and Küste

For our February cover, we invited all three of our feature story women to participate in the shoot. It was important to us to show strength and togetherness in one image. Thank you to Kelly, Penny and Renee for allowing us to capture this image.

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58 THE ART OF SMART

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59 LOOK TWICE

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EDITOR’S NOTE |

MARY DOWNER DITCH • MANAGING EDITOR OF POV

A FEW BAD@$$ WOMEN Let me start off by saying I wanted to rename this issue the “The Badass Women Issue” but two problems arose… One, Bonnie doesn’t really like cuss words on the cover. Two… my Momma agrees with Bonnie. A lady never cusses, right?

We published our first Women’s Issue last April and it quickly became one of our most popular. We knew tackling it again in 2019 would be hard, but we accepted the challenge. To be honest, we had so many women that we wanted to recognize in this issue, we would have needed several volumes to cover them all. This issue aims to honor women in our community who put others before themselves, who step out there day after day to face the unimaginable, women who continually have the strength to Get. It. Done. no matter what.

This issue does begin with sorrow, with the story of a woman who lost her daughter to addiction. Renee Bertinot’s daughter, Sarah Pellegrin, died nearly one year ago of an overdose on fentanyl-laced heroin. Sarah left behind three beautiful children that Renee and her husband are now raising. Instead of hanging her head, Renee made the decision to raise her head high and help others in the same dark place as her Sarah. She started S.A.R.A.H.’s Place, an organization aiming to help those struggling with addiction. Read more about Renee’s brave endeavor on page 24.

It’s not always so easy to be the change you want to see in others. However, local educator Kelly Moreaux proves the exception to the rule. By leading her students to make wise decisions, advocating for those who need support and taking charge of things that matter, Kelly shows that change is the only way. Learn more about Kelly’s leadership roles on page 32.

When we struggle, we often lift our eyes to God to ask for his help in seeing us through. Penny Simmons is in her third battle with cancer. Throughout it all, her faith in God and the support of her family has lifted her spirits and given her the strength to battle on. Read about Penny’s journey to hopefully her forever remission on page 46.

Here in the bayou region, we believe in supporting one another, in lifting one another up. We also love any excuse to throw a party! This month, we are hosting our first event of the year with our PoV Pop-Up: Celebrating Women! We have gathered together local women-owned and run shops for a one-night shopping extravaganza at Geri Lynn Nissan.

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History is filled with strong women and so is our future.

We must be brave and unapologetic in our quest to move forward. We must help one another become bearers of the light that will shine to guide those that come behind us. POV

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INTERVUE |

SAY WHAT?

What does it mean to be a strong woman in today’s world?

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“A strong mother raised me to be a strong woman. She simply demanded it! It means facing life’s challenges head on, never succumbing to the fear we all feel at times. At the same time, we maintain our sensitivity and love for others at all times. After all, we are women, and we are blessed with fantastic ability to multitask and very diverse characteristics!

And of course, hair, makeup and lipstick at all times!”

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DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR “A strong woman in today’s world is one who has strength to listen, the ability to take charge, and the faith and willingness to help others.”

MELANIE | SALES OPERATIONS ANALYST

“Being a strong woman in today’s world is critical. As a member of Gen X, I had the opportunity to experience the shift from expected gender roles within families and society back in the day to women running large corporations. Success to me became realistic and achievable. As a woman currently working in the oil field, I have had my fair share of challenges, but strength of character and professionalism with a good sense of humor has allowed me to stay true to who I am while climbing the ladder. Being a strong woman in today’s world is less about achieving wealth and power and more about discovering who you are, the impact you make while you are here and the legacy you want to leave behind. Life never gets easier for anyone. We just get stronger and better equipped to handle the challenges.”

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“Being a strong woman in today’s world means knowing who you are and doing it on purpose. I have my girl Dolly Parton to thank for that little nugget of wisdom.

Knowing there’s no one else in the world who can do things the way YOU can, gives you the confidence to tackle anything life throws your way.

There’s certainly a beautiful strength in that kind of belief in yourself.”

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THE OBSERVER | 22 What We Want the World To See

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Celebrating five years in business this month, La Carreta recently freshened up their look by completing the original design. Working with Mouton Long Turner Architects and Gulf Coast Contracting Services, phase two of the original

design was executed flawlessly and design details from the original plan, selected by Kate Stark, came to life.

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WORLD TO SEE So it’s 8 p.m. on the day my article for POV is due, and as I’m putting groceries away, I remember that I told my editor I would turn it in by today. Truth be told, I started the article at work, but then got caught up in my “real job” and left the article on my computer without transferring the file to my email, where I could finish up at home.

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So here I am, late at night, with all my words I have in my head used up for the day. Possibly, even though it’s only a Monday, I’ve used up all the words for the week. It feels like that kind of Monday. It’s late. I’m done. Can we all just go to bed?

Youngest daughter just came by, noticing I stopped mid-task in putting away groceries and left potatoes and Pad Thai seasoning still out on the counter.

(Don’t stress. Pad Thai sauce doesn’t go with the potatoes. Potatoes are for potato soup. Pad Thai sauce is for Pad Thai. So all is right with the world.

Speaking of Pad Thai, I’m trying a new kind from an Asian market in Gretna, that I’m a little obsessed with. So there’s that.)

But she asks me, in all of her 9-year-old curiosity, why I’m not picking up groceries, and I’m sitting at my computer instead. So I tell her that today was my deadline, and there’s less than four hours left in the day, so I’m knocking out this article without any clear direction of what I’m writing about for this month’s Observer.

“Just write about me,” she says. “Write about how smart I am.”

Well then. Problem solved. I smile and nod, but inwardly laugh, because even though she’s smiling when she tells me this, she’s actually pretty serious about wanting me to write about her. She proves it with the next sentence.

“Write about how I’m in TAG.” That’s Talented and Gifted, for those uninitiated with 9-year-old smart talk lingo. So here I am, doing exactly what she told me to do. Because she’s smart, so maybe I should listen, right?

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Or maybe because it’s a little bit of what we all like best about in life. Which is why I want to laugh, but don’t because I know she’s kind of serious. That seeing an article about herself would be the best possible thing she could see in the February POV (other than a free Chick-Fil-A coupon - there’s always hope, right?)

We might not say it like she said it, but I’m pretty sure there’s a little bit of “write about me” in all of us.

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YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL!

I’m guilty of flipping through a friend’s wedding album, quickly scanning the 800 gorgeous pictures of the beautiful bride, really just wondering what I looked like on that person’s oh-so-important wedding night.

Maybe I shouldn’t be admitting that publicly. I’m supposed to act like I’ve never looked at myself first in a family picture, I guess. Or that I would love if someone wrote about my incredible smartness. Because truly, I keep trying to convince all the other six people in this house that I’m the smartest, but no one’s buying it. But maybe if someone wrote an article about my smartness, they would all become immediate believers.

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Maybe I want my pictures to look all right, because the real life me isn’t always picture perfect. Maybe I want my words to matter because I’m sometimes uncertain of whether I’m making the difference I’d hoped to make in this world. Maybe we all want a little bit of ourselves to be memorialized somewhere, somehow.

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And when we’re 89, we realize our heart won’t last much longer, and only the people we’ve loved who have seen us less than picture perfect and heard our un-memorialized words are the ones who can carry on the pieces of us that we want all the world to see. POV

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It is now abundantly clear that there is a drug-related death plague across the entire nation right now. With bodies still being counted for last year, 2017 contained just over 70,000 deaths due to drug overdoses in America—a new record. Nearly 30,000 of those deaths involved fentanyl—a synthetic opioid that is 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine—making that a 45 percent increase from the previous year.

Sadly, south Louisiana is not safe from this epidemic, as fentanyl and other dangerous opioids have taken many young lives here in the Bayou Region, with a combined 70 opioid-related deaths in 2017 in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes.

Addicts commonly relapse after leaving rehab, as

they get thrown back in the same environment that encouraged their addiction before. In the area, there is a need for a facility that helps those battling with addiction by giving them a safe place to stay while working on bettering themselves and their situation.

Houma native Renee Bertinot started an organization to build such a facility with S.A.R.A.H.’s (Seeking Action Raising Awareness & Hope) Place. A campaign dear to her heart as she unfortunately knows what the deadly effects of addiction causes someone close to you.

Renee’s daughter, Sarah Pellegrin, struggled with addiction.

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Sarah would eventually seek help and left the area to enter a rehab facility, where she was clean for nine months. However, soon after returning to Houma, she was triggered to use again.

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“She went to NA [Narcotics Anonymous] meetings and to classes, but the familiarity of the area, the surroundings and coming back to the same place where she left was not good. It causes triggers,” Renee explains.

Sarah passed away at the age of 31 on March 29, 2018 due to an overdose on fentanyl-laced heroin.

“When they get clean, it doesn’t mean the desire leaves. It takes a lot of committed, dedicated work on their part, and it is possible,” Renee says.

“But it takes a conducive environment for sobriety, along with support.

She had the support, but she had to go back to the same place she was living. I didn’t know any of this until after the fact; it was way too late by then.”

Now with the firsthand knowledge of what is necessary to keep at-risk loved ones away from drugs, Renee started S.A.R.A.H.’s Place with her longtime friend, Michelle Eschete.

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“With the transitional housing, one of our goals was to also offer outside counseling as well,” adds Michelle.

The S.A.R.A.H.’s Place organization was started to not only build a transitional facility in the Houma area and counsel people in the community but also to educate drug abusers, those close to them and other individuals in the community, especially on the dangers of fentanyl.

“It [fentanyl] is now being cut into everything: from pills to cocaine, to heroin.

You can read testimonies of kids in high school or college. They were out with friends and somebody said, ‘Here, take this.’ They never did drugs before. They’re going to try it, and they die because it has fentanyl in it,” Renee explains. “It is an epidemic, and we need to educate people.

We need to educate our young people on the dangers of even being prescribed opioids.”

Renee and Michelle also wish to remove stigmas that pertain to those with addiction and their families.

“People are cruel to addicts, and if you ever had an addict in your family, you realize they’re difficult to deal with because they’re so irrational. You cannot rationalize with somebody in active addiction,” says Renee. “Once you become addicted, people think, ‘Oh, you can just stop.’ It’s actually an illness. It is classified as a mental disorder in DSM [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders],” Michelle notes.

Renee also hosts meetings for grieving moms, and although the meeting is open to all mothers who lost a child, she says now the meetings predominantly consist of mothers who lost their children to drugs. “…People don’t know what to say to you. As if we don’t love our children because they died from addiction. We do and we want to talk about it,” Renee expresses. “When you have to parent an addict, it’s so hard because you’re so torn between the love for the child that you know and the addict who

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“…They're beautiful people that have an ugly problem.

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“Sarah loved to help people that were down and out. If she knew somebody needed something, she was going to do what she could to get it for them,” Renee shares. “…They’re beautiful people that have an ugly problem.

Whatever the addiction, it takes over their lives. Sometimes people just need to get that initial help, that push, that encouragement that their life can get better. Those are all things this organization stands for.”

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“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

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Edelman’s enlightened words easily apply to Houma native Kelly Moreaux. The 22-year educator made sure that all who entered her classroom would leave as smarter, more thoughtful individuals. She also spread the message of equality and inclusion, through her words and actions, and became an advocate for the local special needs community.

After teaching at a small high school in Texas and then moving back to Houma to teach at St. Francis de Sales Elementary School for a year, Kelly started educating at Vandebilt Catholic High School. There, she taught English, Psychology and a course she implemented at Vandebilt: Teen Leadership.

“I feel like Teen Leadership helped build confidence in students. I believe it helped them to connect with their peers and appreciate that people are not always what you see on the surface,” Kelly says on why she felt the need to establish the course.

Teen Leadership, now known as LeadWorthy, is a course that teaches youth how to positively lead those around them. The class teaches students how to take personal responsibility, express themselves (Students give graded speeches throughout the course.), make good, informed decisions and approach those around them with understanding and respect.

Participants in Kelly’s Teen Leadership course were encouraged to open up to each other and became close by the end of the semester. The class and Kelly are still held in affection to this day.

“Mrs. Moreaux was such a joy and inspiration, both as a teacher and a human. There weren’t many classes I looked forward to attending daily, but Mrs. Moreaux’s Leadership class was never a disappointment,” says Michelle Lyons, Kelly’s former student. “…She taught me the importance of being raw, truthful and vulnerable during times when hiding would be easiest. Most importantly, she instilled in me the value of fighting innate human judgment, holding all humans as equal and the importance of spreading love and kindness into the world.”

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However, this did not discourage her from finding such a class for her daughter—even if she had to create one and teach it herself.

“We had been meeting with the bishop to try to figure out how to incorporate Special Ed in the Catholic schools, and a private donor came forth and wanted to start one at Vandebilt…So, I got out of the typical classroom for a while and taught that class for a couple of years,” she remembers.

That program sparked others at Maria Immacolata Catholic Elementary School, E.D. White Catholic High School and St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School— where Ella is currently attending. “…As a Catholic school teacher, I could not fathom the idea that my child would not be welcome in a Catholic school, and as things stood—she wasn’t. I wanted to do everything in my power to work to include her,” Kelly shares.

Today, Kelly, who currently is the English department head at E.D. White, continues to advocate for those with special needs and change people’s perception of them through social media campaigns and by contributing to local organizations such as Bookin’ BUDS—a nonprofit that donates books to children with Down syndrome on their birthdays. “Advocacy is fighting for Ella to have the same right as her peers,” she says.

“Mrs. Moreaux had all the best characteristics you’d want to find in a teacher. She was passionate about her job, relatable and genuinely invested in her students…,” adds Kyle Eroche another former student of Kelly. “Going to Leadership class was something all of us looked forward to. There was such a sense of community and fellowship within that class; it was a safe place. The positive environment allowed for us to step out of our comfort zones and learn many skills I use now in my everyday life, such as speaking publicly.”

Although her Teen Leadership course and other classes she led touched many lives, Kelly’s impact during her 19 years at Vandebilt didn’t stop there.

While there, she met fellow Vandebilt teacher, Quinn Moreaux, and the two married and had two children: their oldest,

Jackson and their daughter, Ella—who has Down syndrome.

With Kelly being as beloved as she was in the Vandebilt community (given the first ever Inspirational Teacher of the Year award from the Diocese of HoumaThibodaux’s Council of Catholic School Co-operative Clubs), the student council decided to incorporate the national Spread the Word to End the Word campaign on campus, soon after Ella was born.

“It [Spread the Word to End the Word] was actually started by the Special Olympics. It was about avoiding using the word ‘retard’ as an insult, understanding what that really means and how that really affects people,” Kelly explains.

When Ella became older, Kelly researched Catholic schools in the area for her daughter to attend that had special education; she found there were none.

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And like her mother, Ella, who is now age 10, has become quite the influencer with the positivity she spreads through her joy, especially in the videos she makes for social media. Now gaining quite the following, the mother-daughter duo are soon to launch a website containing videos of Ella’s awesome cooking skills— displaying recipes parents can cook with their children.

“People have looked at her and asked me if I knew before she was born: No I didn’t, but it wouldn’t have mattered because she’s my child,” Kelly says. “Down syndrome is a small part of who she is. I think sometimes people think that anything that makes a person imperfect needs curing or changing, but if you really stop and think about the people you love the most, their imperfections are a lot of times what you love about them.” POV

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Despite local companies coming up with amazing king cake flavored goodies like ice cream, coffee and liquor, there’s nothing like the real thing. But what exactly do you do with the fifth cake that’s delivered to your home or office during the Carnival season? Cook with it of course! POV

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Believe.

It is a word that appears all around the Simmons home, where Penny Simmons resides with her husband Billy and two daughters, Madeline and Anne-Morgan. It is a word that stems from her devout Catholic faith.

It is a word that she considers her “saying.”

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And if there is any word the three-time ovarian cancer survivor would use to describe the powerful journey on which she has been over the last several years, that word would be “believe.”

“We were on our way to Ochsner, and we had to stop at Walgreens…and in the parking lot…they had a gold baby earring on the ground, and it saddened me that somebody had lost their earring,” Penny says. “When I came out, for whatever reason, I just couldn’t get over that somebody had lost their earring, so I picked it up, and when I picked it up, it said ‘believe.’”

Before that moment, she had spoken aloud to Mary, Mother of God, the words, “Blessed Mother, let me see you. Let me feel you. Let me know that you’re interceding for me.”

When she picked up that earring and saw “believe,” Penny felt that it was an answer to her plea.

“I knew that that was [Mary],” Penny says. “Along the way, God always sent me something.”

Penny received her first ovarian cancer diagnosis in November of 2011.

Earlier that year, she had begun to experience fatigue and swelling, which she initially put off as a product of her age. When she began to deal with pain and swelling in her abdomen, she knew something was unusual, since she had a partial hysterectomy two years earlier that left her with only her ovaries.

After kidney stones were ruled out, Penny suspected ovarian cancer.

“Immediately, that popped in my mind: ovarian cancer. The doctor asked me why would I think I had that, and I said because of the way my abdomen [swelled] up, and I only have my ovaries,” Penny says.

Penny had a benign polyp removed from her bladder, but she learned shortly after that her cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) levels were elevated, indicating that she had ovarian cancer. She was tested again at Ochsner,

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At the time of her diagnosis, her cancer was in the third stage.

Though Penny had experienced cancer firsthand through her father and mother who also had cancer, she said that learning of her diagnosis left her feeling distraught, especially since her daughters were both young at the time.

“I tell everybody you kind of think of yourself as like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz,” Penny says. “You’re living your life, and then all of a sudden everything stops, and then you’re in this world of tests and medicine…you’re just so overwhelmed.”

Because her cancer was advanced, Penny underwent a lengthy surgery

in November of 2011, during which everything was removed. She began chemotherapy afterward, reporting to Ochsner every week for a six-treatment process.

Penny had been in remission for fourand-a-half years when her CA-125 levels became elevated. In 2016, she began chemotherapy once again.

“I was so ready to get out of that world,” Penny says.

She went into remission again in June of 2017. In December of that year, she had another reoccurrence.

Her doctor put her on a different form of chemotherapy than she had previously done. The four-treatment process failed to work, though, and her

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tumor had increased activity. She then did three cycles of her previous chemotherapy, which reduced her cancer.

Because her cancer continued to reappear in the same area, her doctor agreed to allow her to try radiation therapy, which is not typically used for ovarian cancer. Penny underwent 30 treatments of radiation at Mary Bird Perkins TGMC Cancer Center.

As of today, Penny is once again in remission.

“I go back in March, and I get nervous every time I have to go back because I don’t every really know what the future holds, but I feel good about this,” Penny says.

Through all of the treatments, doctor visits and surgeries, Penny said that her family and her faith have been her greatest source of strength.

“My family lifted me up, literally, when I couldn’t walk,” Penny says. “My family takes care of me and lifts me up and gives me the strength to keep fighting, but my faith keeps us going.”

From her own experience, Penny says that the best way one can watch for signs of cancer is to learn his or her own body.

“If anything is out of the ordinary, go to a doctor. If you really feel like something’s wrong, then chances are something is,” Penny says.

Penny says her journey has shown her that cancer is an up-and-down battle, but it is beatable. She says she had to learn, though it may be difficult, how to ask for and accept help from other people.

Above all, she learned that she is stronger than she would have thought, which she attributes to her mother.

“My mom could cook and bake and crochet and knit and sew and quilt and do all these things that I cannot do,” Penny says, “When I was going through this, my brother-in-law said, ‘You know, I believe you can beat this because your mama gave you that…’ and in that moment I realized no, maybe she didn’t pass on that cooking thing or that crafty part, but she gave me the thing in life I would need the most, and that’s the strength to fight this.” POV

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HEART HEALTH STRATEGIES FOR WOMEN Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in both men and women. When it comes to risk factors like high blood pressure, cholesterol and obesity, both sexes are at equal risk for developing heart disease. But, there are some risk factors where women are actually at greater risk than men.

• Smoking: Women who smoke are more likely to develop heart disease than men.

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Checklist to Lower Your Risk of Heart Disease and Heart Attack We are always making check lists – shopping, errands, kids’ activities.

We should also make a list, (and check off) strategies to lower our risk of heart disease. As women we are sometimes better at taking care of others than we are of ourselves. But our own heart health should be a priority.

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Start and stick with an exercise plan. Regular exercise can not only help you manage your weight, but can help lower your risk of cardiovascular disease. The American Heart Association recommends 30 minutes of aerobic exercise, five times per week. The key to sticking with a regular exercise program is to find an activity that you enjoy doing.

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Manage your weight. According to the American Heart Association, even if you have no other related health conditions, obesity itself increases risk of heart disease.

Signs of a Heart Attack in Women Just as there are differences in some risk factors for cardiovascular disease for women than for men, some signs of a possible heart attack are also different.

For women, signs and symptoms of a heart attack are often more subtle.

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It should also be noted that women are more likely to ignore, or write off, symptoms of a potential heart attack. If you have any reason to suspect you’re having a heart attack, or if you have unexplained symptoms, call 9-1-1.

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Under the guidance of their career exploration program, BEOC offers virtual job shadowing licenses, which they buy and provide to their participants so that they can do a self-assessment.

Although BEOC is located at 205 Elkins Hall on the Nicholls State University campus, they also work with other institutions such as Fletcher Technical Community College, Bayou Cane Adult Education, South Louisiana Community College, Unitech Training Academy, cosmetology schools and out-of-state institutions.

“We are a free program that services the community, through different means of information, to assist them into furthering their education,” says Stacey Pennison, M.Ed.—Director of BEOC, La. State Certified Teacher and Certified Academic Coach. “Whether it’s a high school diploma, the HiSet—which is the now GED program through adult education —a certification program for their career, a two-year degree or a four-year degree, we can help.”

Two other dedicated specialists join Stacey, who has 14 years of experience working in education: Senior Outreach Coordinator Ja’Deion Johnson (bachelor’s degree in English, veteran and former high school teacher) and outreach Coordinator Emily Calamia (bachelor’s degree in Family and Child Services and former high school counselor and teacher). Together, along with their office assistant Zachary Smith, they have the ability to provide many educational and career needs.

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“The program [career exploration] guides them through the path that they would choose and shows them what they would have to do to reach their goals,” Stacey says. “…Even if they don’t want to get an education and they just need career assistance, we can help them with that.

Some people, especially adults, are not technologically-savvy; they can’t necessarily go on indeed.com or monster.com and know how to find a job. There are people that need this assistance and have nowhere else to go; so, we try to assist them.”

With their academic coaching, they are able to issue referrals to adult education centers to obtain GED and HiSet fee waivers as well as college entrance exams fee waivers for eligible individuals.

In addition to all of these services, BEOC can assist with exam preparation for the ACT and Accuplacer, which they can also offer fee vouchers for as well. The program makes sure to assist veterans of the community and their children who want to attend college and give out free school supplies starter kits to any adults who wish to further their education.

The Center’s outreach in the community is felt with their partnerships with other organizations such as the Haven, CASA of Lafourche and Crossroads Pregnancy Resource Center, among others.

BEOC seeks to help low-income and/or first-generation college students, but anyone can participate in their program. Whether it’s a 15-minute, one-time meeting to receive vital information or ongoing crucial help, they want to guide as many individuals as they can and get them on the correct path to success. “…So people who participate with us are basically getting academic coaching, counseling and career coaching, counseling,” Stacey says.

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AND KÜSTE Mom always said that I had asthma as a kid. So did her father, my papère, and so she knew what the symptoms looked like and what the suffering sounded like. And the symptoms were always worst for me during cold weather. For that reason, we never had real Christmas trees at the house. We tried once, but, according to my sisters who held mild but long-lasting resentment over the years that our gifts sat beneath a plastic green tree, I got wheezy, got nasty medicines from the local doctor, and the tree got taken out into the backyard. There was no complaint over the tiny and shiny silver tree that my grandparents assembled in their 1930’s-era house every holiday on behalf of Papère’s respiratory health, but in the progressive, 60s-style house of me and my sisters, the sentiment toward out fake tree was totally different. And it was my fault.

And so, years later, I make amends in a new way. Nowadays, in my own home, I have real Christmas trees every year. And despite some mild, allergy complains if the heater dries the tree out too much while warming the house, there’s no asthma. The tree faithfully performs its duties through Advent and until Epiphany, carrying new and heirloom ornaments, branching over and protecting gifts for friends and family, and attracting the occasional visiting cat who can’t seem to pass up trying to claw its way up the trunk to the shiny star on top simply because it can.

And after the tree’s duty is done in the house and all the gifts are given and all the ornaments are carefully packed for another year’s hibernation, my trees faithfully perform yet another duty.

I am proud to say that my real trees over the years have been retired to the Louisiana coast, and both right now and probably for another 10-15 years, they will be enjoying sportsman’s paradise by trapping sediments to help protect the coastal marshes. It was the brilliant and practical idea of a Dutch graduate student at LSU in the 1980s that Louisiana’s coastal marshes could be protected from erosion by building fences of trees that could serve to trap sediments as those particles washed ashore by the silty Gulf. It was a century-old strategy that the Netherlands had employed to protect their own marshes to good effect. And it works here, too. Today, there’s over a million of our trees out there, some of which likely carry signatures of life in PoV country, like captured airborne particles of roux adhered to the sappy needles and bark.

Talk about a gift that keeps on giving! But the future of this brilliant recycling idea is being challenged at the beginning of the whole tree life process. Last year in the U.S., there were 15,000 farms utilizing 350,000 acres of land to produce the 25 million trees consumed each year. But it takes 11-15 years to produce a saleable tree, and it seems that overharvesting

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and lack of replanting threaten annual availability of multiple species of fir trees that are our favorite yuletide decorating thing. Overharvesting and failure to conserve should be well known to us if we remember how the great red cypress forests supporting wetlands communities like Donner and Bowie were lost to history. Needless to say, that not all trees are being recycled and are otherwise probably ending up in landfills—space in which is something else we should be conserving. So, let’s do our best to fight for conservation and for recycling those already harvested for retirement at the Louisiana coast. And then, like a kid growing out of childhood asthma, we all breathe at least a little easier about our wetlands.

The song “O Tannenbaum,” better known to us as “O Christmas Tree,” was not originally a Christmas song. Rather, it was a folksong from Germany that lauded the evergreeness of fir trees, which we now commonly use as Christmas trees.

The lyrics were written to honor the “constancy and faithfulness” of these trees through the brutal Germanic winters and the expectation to see them once again when sun and warmth returns to the countryside. These days we can depend on that constancy and faithfulness in its ability to trap sediments to protect the wetlands along our coast, or, as they might have sung it old Germany, “die Küste.”

So, if you have some available land to your name, you might want to plant a series of 10-15 fir trees and harvest your own every year. After all, they’re cheaper to feed than horses. Old horses may be “put out to stud,” but, here, old Christmas trees are “put out to mud.” It’s a good retirement for the environment. POV

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Feb. 2, 8:45 a.m.-2 p.m.

February 7, 5-8 p.m.

The South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center hosts their 10th annual World Wetlands Day Celebration to raise awareness of wetland values and benefits with this year’s theme “Wetlands and Climate Change.” During the event, the Discovery Center hosts an education event complete with hands-on activities and a tour of the Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum. Schools visits begin at 8:45 a.m. and the public is welcome from 2:30-3:15 p.m.

Where: Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum, Houma Contact: slwdc.org, 985.580.7289

This month’s PoV Pop-Up Party takes its lead from February’s Women’s Issue and places local, women-owned-and-run shops front and center. We invite you to join us as we create a fun atmosphere for you to browse spring fashion, shoes, accessories and more inside the spacious showroom of Geri Lynn Nissan in Houma.

Food and beverage provided by Rouses Markets. Admission is free.

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6th Annual Love Your Heart Luncheon February 7, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Learn about the health of your heart while participating in cardiac screenings at the 6th annual Women’s Love Your Heart Luncheon.

Presented by Terrebonne General Medical Center (TGMC) Healthy Lifestyles Center and the Cardiovascular Institute of the South (CIS), this community event will include a delicious heart-healthy lunch as well as a Q & A Session on women’s heart health with Dr. Charisse Ward. Guests can also enjoy health screenings, including blood pressure checks and the InBody230 scale, and educational exhibits, including information on smoking cessation, vein treatment, women’s health, weight management and more. The Health Fair will be from 11 a.m. to noon and will be immediately followed by the lunch program from noon to 1 p.m. Registration for the luncheon is required, and space is limited.

Tickets are $20. All proceeds will benefit The Foundation for TGMC. Where: TGMC’s Medical Atrium Auditorium, 8120 Main Street Contact: 985.873.4616

Greater Love Banquet February 8, 7-9 p.m.

Enjoy a night of hearts beating for Life as Hope Restored hosts their first fundraiser banquet. The evening includes success stories from Hope Restored and guest speaker Pati Adams, Executive Director of Pregnancy Resource Center in Panama City. There will also be a silent auction and delicious food to enjoy. Tickets are $40 per person or $75 per couple.

Where: Hope Restored Pregnancy Resource Center, Houma Contact: hoperestoredprc.org

Cast Iron Cook-off February 16, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

The Cast Iron Cook-off presented by the Rotary Club of Houma will get cookin’ in downtown Houma. Teams competing can cook ANYTHING as long as it is cooked in cast iron cookware! The fundraising event also features live music by Beep Beep and the Jeeps, games, drinks and lots of fun. General admission is $5, which gives you a ticket to vote on your favorite dish.

Children 12 and under get in free. Proceeds benefit the education and service projects of the Rotary Club of Houma.

Where: Downtown Houma Contact: houmarotary.org

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1 Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847. Which of these inventions is NOT associated with him?

Carbon transmitter A Kinetoscope B

C Autographic printer D Air conditioner

2 On February 15, 1961, the entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team was killed in a plane that crashed in what country?

France A Belgium B

C England D Japan

3 M*A*S*H ended on February 28, 1983 after how many seasons?

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4 George Washington was born on February 22, 1732.

What president succeeded him?

John Adams A Thomas Jefferson B

C Abraham Lincoln D James Madison

5 On February 14, 2005, YouTube was launched. What was the first published video on the website?

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C “Me at the Zoo” D “Evolution of Dance”

6 The first patent for an integrated circuit, aka a computer chip, was filed on February 6, 1959 by Jack Kilby of which company?

IBM A Texas Instruments B

C Microsoft D Acorn Computers

7 On Feburary 5, 1972, Bob Douglas was the first African American to be inducted into the Hall of Fame for which professional sport?

Football A Baseball B

C Basketball D Tennis

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ANSWERS TO LAST MONTH’S CONTEST 1 Party cat on bed 2 Flag change on ship 3 Removed crossbones from pirate hat 4 Removed light from ceiling 5 Changed skull on mantle piece 6 Changed the color of the lamp shade

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