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Celebrate Easter with activities at St. John’s St. John’s Methodist Church is holding an Easter Eggstravaganza starting at 9 a.m. Saturday at the church, 9375 Highland Road. A pancake breakfast, craft projects and Easter egg hunt are on tap. Visit stjohnsbr.org/event/ easter-event-2015.
Burden art show announces winners BY C.J. FUTCH
had a vision of combining the arts with the natural resources and beauty of Louisiana. For the first time this year, The Brush With Burden Juried Art Exhibition and Sale an- the juried art show implenounced the winners of its 2015 mented an online submission show at an open house and art- system, Blades said, which not ists’ reception March 21, said only opened up the field for enMargaret Blades, who chairs tries nationwide, but also took the art show, along with Connie a considerable amount of work off the shoulders of her volunAbboud. This fundraiser for the Bur- teers. “We got 307 entries from all den Horticultural Society, in its fifth year, is the brainchild of over the country — California, Jinnie Bolin, Blades said, who Wisconsin, Texas and all over
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Louisiana,â€? Blades said. The judges selected 85 paintings, 49 photos and seven sculptures for the show. Proceeds support the LSU Agricultural Center’s Botanic Gardens at Burden, Blades said. Overall winners in the art category were: Photo provided by MICHELLE FULLER FIRST PLACE: “Connected,â€? Brush With Burden winners pose for a photo at the March Cheri Fry SECOND: “After the Rain,â€? 21 reception inside the Ione Skye Burden Conference Center. From left are Cathy Smart, Dawn Koetting, Donna Futrell, SheläSee ART SHOW, page 3G don Anderson and Arthur Viccar.
Visitors enjoy science at Engineering Day
Check out NanoDays
For the sixth consecutive year at Highland Road Park Observatory, big things in the universe take a backseat to all things tiny. Juana Moreno and her colleagues will celebrate nanotechnology from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the observatory, 13800 Highland Road. NanoDays will feature several hands-on activities for children of all ages. Visitors can see how big items are compared to nanoscale objects, understand how a scanning probe microscope allows scientists to explore the nanoworld, experience the effect of reducing the size of regular objects by trying to pour water out of a nano-cup, and learn about nanomaterials used in the manufacture of stain-free clothes. Children and adults will also have a chance to build models of nanoscale structures, play with liquid crystals and make fluid magically part in the middle using magnets. Additionally, the observatory will hold the March solar viewing session from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sponsors of NanoDays include LSU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, LSU’s Center for Computation and Technology, LSU’s Department of Chemistry, the Society of Physics Students and the Louisiana Alliance for Simulation-Guided Materials Applications. Visit www.bro.lsu.edu/ programs/nano.html for more information.
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cfutch@theadvocate.com Four-year-old Karlie Jackson held a small device that looked a bit like a glue gun to her skin, and saw an up-close image of its surface on a television monitor. She and Kamryn Johnson, 2, were there with Kamryn’s mother, Wendy, and Scotlandville Middle student Koby Thompkins to see exhibits at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum’s Engineering Day on March 21. äSee ENGINEERING, page 5G Photos provided by NOAH SIMON
Elizabeth Harris and Ruth Harb, owner of Harb’s Oasis, listen as Linda Auld answers a question about attracting Monarch butterflies to the garden.
Planting seeds,spreading wings Woman aims to increase Monarchs BY C. J. FUTCH
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Pick up spring plants
Friends of Hilltop’s Hodge Podge’s Spring plant sale is set from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Hilltop äSee SOUTHSIDE, page 4G
Caterpillars eat milkweed, their only source of food, on a plant Linda Auld brought with her to Harb’s Oasis on March 7, along with milkweed seed packets she is selling at Harb’s and other local gardening stores.
Linda Auld is known around New Orleans for two things: bugs and butterflies. Her reputation and mission are spreading to the Baton Rouge area. Her grandfather started Barber Laboratories in 1921, a pest control company that she runs today. But that’s her business. Her passion is for raising and attracting butterflies of all kinds, especially Monarchs, the national butterfly of the United States. But the number of monarchs counted along their migration route from the United States to Mexico and Southern California, and back, have been de-
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clining dramatically, Auld said, most likely because “of all the concrete.â€? Loss of open fields to construction have decreased the area of land where milkweed, the sole food source for monarch caterpillars, grow naturally, Auld said. Other factors contributing to the loss of Monarch habitat are pesticides and mowing, according to the website www. monarchwatch.org. Despite the fact that there are 33 types of milkweed native to Louisiana, she said, the plants have grown sparser, and because the native seeds are not commonly sought after, she had a hard time finding a place äSee MONARCHS, page 5G
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Brookelyn and Cassidy Corcoran, students at Northwest Middle School in Zachary, hold a microscope gun to their skin while Baton Rouge residents Kamryn Johnson, 2, and Karlie Jackson, 4, look at the close-up view on a television monitor. All four were at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum on March 21 for Engineering Day.