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Let maps take you away at Dr. Seuss event The Bluebonnet Regional Library will host Up and Away with Dr. Seuss from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday at 9200 Bluebonnet Blvd. In celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, two favorites, “Great Day for Up” and “I Am Not Going to Get Up Today,” will be featured. Children will make a hot air balloon from recycled maps. The event is for ages 5 to 8. Call (225) 763-2260 to register.
36 teams compete in Diocesan Quiz Bowl BY C.J. FUTCH
cfutch@theadvocate.com Students in a rainbow of Catholic school uniforms swarmed the Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church gym on Saturday along with parents, coaches and supporters at the Diocesan Quiz Bowl. Thirty-six teams, a total of 216 students representing 18 different parochial schools in the Baton Rouge metro area,
gathered to test their knowledge of math, science, religion, English/language arts and enrichment — a category that could include everything from art to sports, said Cheri Gioe, assistant principal of St. George Catholic, who was part of the committee that came up with questions for quiz bowl participants. Each team was grouped in a pool with three to four other teams, Gioe said, for the first
round of play. Teams answered a series of questions on a variety of subjects for one point each, and the team with the most points at the end of each session won the round. Teams advanced to the semifinals by winning their pool, and those winners adAdvocate photo by C.J. FUTCH vanced to finals. The competition can be in- Students from St. Jude Catholic School’s fifth- and sixthtense, said Anna Haldane, a grade quiz bowl team discuss their answer to a question in the final round of the Diocesan Quiz Bowl on Saturday at Our äSee QUIZ BOWL, page 5G Lady of Mercy Catholic School in Baton Rouge.
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Duct tape bracelets
Teenagers can make bracelets from duct tape from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Bluebonnet Regional Library, 9200 Blvd. Call (225) 763-2270.
Crochet Corner
Are you interested in crocheting? Join other teen and adult crocheters March 12 at Bluebonnet Library’s Crochet Corner program. The program is set from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. All experience levels are welcome, library officials said. Participants should bring a crochet hook size J (5.5 mm) or larger, organizers said. Limited yarn will be available, but participants can bring their own. Registration is required. Call (225) 763-2240.
A seminar that will help people navigate Facebook from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Bluebonnet Regional.
Advocate staff photos by HILARY SCHEINUK
LEFT: Joined by his son, Coren, 3, former LSU Tiger and current New York Giant Corey Webster makes a funny face to young students as he reads Dr. Seuss’ ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ on Monday at the Bluebonnet Library for a joint birthday celebration between both himself and Dr. Seuss. ABOVE: Former LSU Tiger Marcus Randall, a friend and former teammate of Webster, reads ‘The Cat in the Hat’ to students at the library.
Lapsit story time
Lapsit story time will be from 10:30 p.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bluebonnet Regional Library. Sessions are informal and include board books, simple rhymes, songs and finger plays, organizers said. They last approximately 20 minutes and babies, from birth to toddlers, are welcome, organizers said. Call (225) 763-2260.
Fun Time story time
Fun Time story time will be from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday at Bluebonnet Regional Library, 9200 Bluebonnet Blvd. Stories and activities are planned for children able to listen to a longer story, organizers said. The event is for ages 4 and up. Call (225) 763-2260. Contact Southside Advocate Editor Darlene Denstorff by phone, (225) 336-6952 or (225) 603-1998; or email southside@ theadvocate.com. Deadline: noon Monday.
THRIVE aids cancer survivor in battle BY C.J. FUTCH
cfutch@theadvocate.com When Jennifer LeBlanc found a lump in her right breast on April 27, she was 37, and she worried. She’d just been to her annual gynecological check up two weeks before, and she worried that it was already there and had gone undetected. She worried that, even worse, it
had just grown that fast. Neither one of them were good signs. “But that’s not what this story is about,” LeBlanc stopped herself. Learning to control her fears, or at least her reaction to them, has been one of the more useful things she’s learned in the months since, along with a dictionary’s worth of medical jargon, like
“triple positive invasive ductal breast cancer.” “It was Stage 1, which is good. But the triple positive — that’s the bad part,” LeBlanc said in a Feb. 2 interview with The Advocate. It means her cancer has all the right traits to move within her body, and it terrified her. “There was a while after my diagnosis that I couldn’t really talk about it with anyone
other than my family and my doctors. I didn’t want to talk about it. I didn’t want to think about it. I didn’t want to even acknowledge it had any affect on my body,” she said. When she began treatment at Mary Bird Perkins - Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center, she also scheduled a oneon-one session with Francinne Lawrence, survivorship coordinator of the center’s new
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THRIVE program. THRIVE is a program that offers “health and wellness coaching, yoga, art therapy, nutritional education, Pilates, water aerobics and more to help cancer survivors move beyond their disease to wellness,” according to a news release from the center. “You’re considered a surviäSee THRIVE, page 5G