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THRIVE aids cancer survivor in battle
Darlene Denstorff
BY C.J. FUTCH
just grown that fast. Neither one of them were good signs. “But that’s not what this stoWhen Jennifer LeBlanc ry is about,” LeBlanc stopped found a lump in her right herself. Learning to control her breast on April 27, she was 37, fears, or at least her reacand she worried. She’d just been to her annual tion to them, has been one of gynecological check up two the more useful things she’s weeks before, and she worried learned in the months since, that it was already there and along with a dictionary’s worth had gone undetected. She wor- of medical jargon, like “triple ried that, even worse, it had positive invasive ductal breast
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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 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 survivor from the moment you’re
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The Jones Creek Regional Library’s calendar is full this month with a variety of program for children, teens and adults. For a complete library calendar, visit www.ebrpl.com/. The library is at 622 Jones Creek Road. Upcoming events include:
Meet the Tutors
An expo to introduce tutors in the Baton Rouge area will be from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. Area tutors will be spotlighted at the library, event organizers said. Parents who are looking for tutors for their children are invited to come and meet tutors and discuss their subject specialties. Call (225) 756-1180.
Movie matinee
An afternoon movie matinee will be from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. The featurelength movie will include popcorn and punch. Call (225) 756-1150 for information.
Walking club
The Pacers walking group will meet at the Jones Creek Regional Library at 6 p.m. Monday and walk mapped routes surrounding the library. When it rains, the Pacers will walk inside the library, organizers said. All levels of fitness are represented people of all ages and abilities are welcome to join. Call (225) 756-1150 for information and to sign up.
Book Club
The Historical Society Book Club will meet from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the library. This month’s selection is “Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President” by Candace Millard. Call (225) 756-1180.
Knitting fun
Jones Creek Regional Library will host a program about basic knitting skills from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday. The library will provide assorted yarn and needles for the class; participants may bring their own yarn and needles if they prefer, organizers said. Call (225) 756-1180.
Wellness program
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A CHILLY FLIP
Advocate staff photo by HILARY SCHEINUK
Louisiana State Police Trooper Jared Sandifer, left, watches as Louisiana State Police Sgt. Johnnie Brown takes a second plunge, this time by way of a backflip, Saturday during the annual Louisiana Special Olympics Polar Plunge at Cabela’s in Gonzales.
36 teams compete in Diocesan Quiz Bowl BY C.J. FUTCH
category that could include everything from art to sports, said Cheri Gioe, assistant principal Students in a rainbow of Cath- of St. George Catholic, who was olic school uniforms swarmed part of the committee that came the Our Lady of Mercy Catholic up with questions for quiz bowl Church gym on Saturday along participants. Each team was grouped in with parents, coaches and supporters at the Diocesan Quiz a pool with three to four other teams, Gioe said, for the first Bowl. Thirty-six teams, a total of 216 round of play. Teams answered a series of students representing 18 different parochial schools in the Ba- questions on a variety of subton Rouge metro area, gathered jects for one point each, and to test their knowledge of math, the team with the most points science, religion, English/lan- at the end of each session won guage arts and enrichment — a the round. Teams advanced to
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the semifinals by winning their pool, and those winners advanced to finals. The competition can be intense, said Anna Haldane, a religion teacher and moderator — equivalent to a team coach — for the OLOM team. “The question is read, and the rules are very strict. It can only be read one time, so you have to listen very carefully,” she said. Students have a limited amount Advocate photo by C.J. FUTCH of time to answer the question, Students from St. Jude Catholic School’s fifth- and sixth-grade or it passes to the next team, she quiz bowl team discuss their answer to a question in the final äSee QUIZ BOWL, page 3G round of the Diocesan Quiz Bowl on Saturday.
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