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A ‘Star’ student at DHS
Taylor Wyble, a junior at Destrehan High School, was chosen over hundreds of students to attend “STAR.” STAR is a free, educational summer camp sponsored by the Academics Division of Ochsner Health System. It provides qualified high school students with a unique opportunity to learn about the latest advancements in medicine and healthcare from Oschner’s physicians, nurses and administrators.
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St. Charles Parish Library offering Brainfuse’s HelpNow for live online homework help
With a new school year just beginning, the St. Charles Parish Library is proud to offer its patrons online access to expert tutors through the HelpNow program from Brainfuse, Inc., one of the nation’s leading providers of online tutoring services. Students in grades 3 through 12, as well as those taking introductory college courses, are able to interact one-to-one with a trained tutor for academic assistance in math, science, English, and social studies through HelpNow.
Hahnville High presents ‘Miss Nelson is Missing’
The Hahnville High School Drama Club will present “Miss Nelson is Missing” by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the popular children’s book by Harry Allard, starring St. Charles Parish teacher of the year Eugenie Smith as Miss Nelson, the too nice teacher who can’t control her crazy classroom until the evil Miss Swamp arrives.
2009 Miss and Teen Andouille Queen contestants
The 2009 Miss Andouille Queen and Teen Miss Andouille Queen pageant will be at 7 p.m. tonight at the St. John Theatre in Reserve. Tickets are $8 can be purchased today before the Pageant starting at 6:30 p.m.
Keep Louisiana Beautiful announces poster design contest for students
Baton Rouge – Keep Louisiana Beautiful is sponsoring its first poster design contest for students statewide. The contest will kick off on Monday, Sept. 28, with a call for entries. Middle and high school students (grades 7-12) are eligible to enter through Friday, Oct. 16.
Auditions for ‘Toy Camp’
St John Theatre will hold auditions for their upcoming musical, “Toy Camp.”
Farmer’s Bureau workshop brings together teachers from three school districts
Thirty-four elementary and high school teachers from across the river region came together at East St. John High School for the USDA’s “Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC)” annual workshop. Lynda Danos, who is the AITC State Coordinator and a Louisiana Farm Bureau employee, and local educators made the presentations during the workshop. The attendees represented St. John, Jefferson, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. James and Tangipahoa parishes.
When it’s good to get paddled
LULING — With 70 teams cooking jambalaya or gumbo, United Way of St. Charles kicked off its fundraising campaign with the eigtht annual Battle for the Paddle cook-off last week at the West Bank Bridge Park in Luling.
2009 Andouille Baby Pageant winners
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Louisiana Supreme Court Justice visits East St. John Elementary
RESERVE - Louisiana Supreme Court Justice John L. Weimer, the Honorable Madeline Jasmine and Honorable Sterling Snowdy made a special visit to East St. John Elementary School speaking to the sixth- through eighth grade-students. Their message to the students: devote yourselves to your schooling, follow rules and respect authority.
The queens of andouille
2009 Miss Andouille Pageant winners
Back in the Bayou
The Hurst Middle Wetland Watchers were back in action recently as 135 eighth-grade students used Wetland Watchers Park as a setting for activities focused on geography, history, math, language arts and science. As a service-learning project, students participate in activities where they are meeting required academics standards as well as helping to improve the community and the environment. Students will use some of the information gained to create interpretive signage for the Wetland Watchers Park boardwalk. During the school year, students also share the knowledge they are learning from experts at University of New Orleans PIES, Dow and Motiva to share with younger students across the region.
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