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Board asked to reconsider Head Start site BY ELLYN COUVILLION
Delaney favors a new location on the campus of Donaldsonville Primary School, at 38210 La. 3089, if possible. “It’s so isolated,� Delaney said of Head Start’s location in Donaldsonville. She said she thinks Donaldsonville Primary “would be a better setting not only for students but for the teachers� in the Head Start program, pro-
Start School at 600 Lee Ave. in Donaldsonville, the only Head Start site in the parish not loDONALDSONVILLE — Ascension cated at a primary school. Renovations, using 2009 bond Parish School Board member Robyn Penn Delaney asked the money, would include an elecboard Tuesday to take another trical upgrade to the building look at future plans for the lo- and the replacement of glasscation of Head Start services topped walls, Chad Lynch, planning and construction diin Donaldsonville. Plans in the works call for rector for the school system, renovating the Ascension Head said after Tuesday’s meeting.
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Gathering Jan. 21 at the Carline family home in Prairieville, from left, are Chief Deputy Tony Bacala, Sheriff Jeff Wiley, Troy and Lisa Carline, Deputy Steven Coriell and Maj. Ward Webb. The Carlines donated hundreds of stuffed bears to the Sheriff’s Office for distribution to children they meet in the community. The bears were collected in the ‘Claire Bear’ campaign after the family’s daughter, Claire, was killed in a car crash.
The Carline family, of Prairieville, donated on Jan. 21 hundreds of stuffed bears to the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office as part of the “Claire Bear� campaign honoring their daughter Claire Carline, who was killed in an early December car crash, a news release from the Sheriff’s Office said. Claire and her two sisters were traveling to school when another car slammed head-on into the girls’ car. Claire was pronounced dead on the scene and her two sisters suffered multiple injuries, the release said. After Claire’s death, the family asked friends to donate ted-
Board meeting, board President Lorraine Wimberly removed from the agenda an item that would have called for a vote by the board on whether to purchase a roughly 6-acre tract of property off La. 74 near Dutchtown High School that would provide another route to and from the campus. The price of the property is $200,100.
Wimberly said after the meeting that she felt the new board members should be provided with more information about the proposal before a vote is taken. The possible property purchase will be discussed in the board’s strategic planning committee on March 3 and come up for a vote by the full board on March 17.
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Carline family donates teddy bears to APSO Advocate staff report
viding new collaboration between teachers in each setting. Head Start is a federally funded preschool program that provides services to lowincome children and their families. The board’s facilities committee will look at the matter at its next meeting, on March 3. Prior to this week’s School
dy bears instead of flowers in honor of Claire, who loved teddy bears and was often called “Claire Bear.� The Claire Bear campaign received more than 1,700 teddy bears, and the family was overjoyed by the response from the community, the release said. Troy and Lisa Carline, the girls’ parents, met with Sheriff Jeff Wiley and expressed that they wanted to spread Claire’s love with others through her love of teddy bears, the release said. The Carlines said deputies could offer “children a little bit of comfort during those sad and scary times that children sometimes have to face,� the release said.
“It is our profession to investigate acts of violence, but it is also our job to make sure we bring comfort to children in those difficult times,� Wiley said. “By handing out these teddy bears to those in need, it will add comfort to those who may have been abused or scared of the unknowing. “Sometimes for children, not only hugging a teddy bear brings comfort in those complex times but conveys love and warmth,� he added. APSO thanked everyone who donated a teddy bear to the Carline family and also thanked the Carline family for considering “the APSO family to carry on Claire’s love of teddy bears,� the release said.
Dutchtown Primary selects Soaring Students
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Gathering Jan. 23 are the winners in Dutchtown Primary School’s Authors of the Month contest. Winners include, first row from left, Izayah Jackson, Faith Richards, Abby Taylor, Bryce Morton, Emilee Strzynski and Ayawyn Rayder; second row, Jacob Weber, Madelyn Gautreau, Carmi Burnett, Sophia Garbiras, Devyn Hope and Claire Simmons; and third row, Kaya Forbes, Emma Lamoureaux, Joseph Du, Denton Marks, Ally Kersten, Emily Farns and Jaxson Stovall.
Dutchtown Primary awards writing winners Advocate staff report Dutchtown Primary School handed out its Authors of the Month awards to students in prekindergarten through fifth grade Jan. 23. First-, second- and third-place winners showing exemplary writing were chosen at each grade level by teachers, a news release from the school said. Prekindergarten winners included Abby Taylor, first, and
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East Ascension visits Gonzales Middle
Members of the East Ascension High School administration visited Gonzales Middle School on Jan. 23. The high school delegation met with Gonzales Middle’s Student of the Year, John David Boylan. East Ascension Associate Principal Lauren Avery and East Ascension Assistant Principal Randy Loving brought Spartan sweatshirts to Principal Lori Charlet, Assistant Principal Chazz Watson and John. Gathering at the Gonzales school are, from left, Avery, John, Watson, Charlet and Loving. It was Loving’s last day at East Ascension. He now works at Dutchtown High School.
third. Winning the third-grade awards were Sophia Garbiras in first place, Devyn Hope in second and Emily Farns in third. Fourth-grade winners were Ally Kersten in first place, Joseph Du in second and Denton Marks in third. Emma Lamoureaux won the fifth-grade contest, with Jaxson Stovall second and Kaya Forbes third.
Dutchtown Primary School’s January ‘Soaring Students’ of the month were honored Jan. 30. The students, first row from left, are Bella Boies, first grade; Brooke Duplessis, kindergarten; and Bryce Lee, prekindergarten; and second row, Bella Latino, fifth grade; Makeal Desadier, fourth grade; Caden Richard, third grade; and Mason Miles, second grade. One student from each grade who exhibited exemplary behavior at school, was kind to others and respectful to teachers and staff was selected, school officials said.
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Faith Richards, second. Emilee Strzynski won first place in the kindergarten division, with Izayah Jackson placing second and Bryce Morton third. First-grade winners were Rylie Newcomer in first place, Ayawyn Rayder in second and Carmi Burnett in third. The second-grade winners were Madelyn Gautreau in first place, Jacob Weber in second and Claire Simmons in
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