The Mid City Advocate 04-16-2015

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Darlene Denstorff AROUND MID CITY

A crowd gathered for a tribute to fallen firefighters on Saturday.

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Earth Day effort seeks used soles Looking for something to do with shoes you don’t wear anymore? The folks at The Red Shoes are collecting gently used shoes for their Earth Day labyrinth at the Old Governor’s Mansion on Earth Day, which is Sunday. Shoes collected will be donated to Cenikor foundation, a center for drug rehabilitation. Bring your shoes to The Red Shoes, 2303 Government St., through Friday.

IN MEMORIUM Advocate photo by C.J. FUTCH

Tess Brunet tries to get Agnes the cockatiel — the store mascot — to face the camera at Lagniappe Records. The store will be participating in Record Store Day on Saturday, along with other record stores in Baton Rouge.

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Earth Day activities set

Speaking of Earth Day, Baton Rouge celebrates Sunday downtown with an all-day celebration featuring music, educational activities and food. For a complete schedule of activities, visit www.laearth day.org.

Independent stores celebrate

Walk supports MS causes

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society will host its Walk MS & 5K: Baton Rouge 2015 at North Boulevard Town Square starting at 8 a.m. Saturday. Hundreds of Baton Rouge residents will walk and run to raise funds and awareness for people living with the disease. The walk features a fully accessible 1-mile and 5K route that includes complimentary food and entertainment before and after the event. For additional information, visit walkms.org.

BY C.J. FUTCH

cfutch@theadvocate.com

Advocate staff photos by JOHN OUBRE

A bronze sculpture of a firefighter looks over gear presented in honor of fallen firefighters at a memorial on Saturday for those who have died in the line of duty as banners from various state fire departments line the background. The event also unveiled a new monument in honor of Louisiana’s industrial firefighters. Louisiana Walk of Honor Foundation President V.J. Bella speaks to the crowd on Saturday at an unveiling of a monument honoring industrial firefighters at the Louisiana Fallen Firefighters Memorial on Independence Boulevard.

Animal activist honored

Longtime animal rights supporter Holly Reynolds recently was honored by the Humane Society of the United States during the group’s Animal Care Expo in New Orleans. Reynolds, 96, said she was surprised when Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle called her with the invitation. “He offered to send a car to get me,â€? she said. But, not wanting to have the group spend money on her, she hitched a ride to the event with friends. At a banquet on March 30, before a crowd of more than 2,000 people, Pacelle called Reynolds’ name and presented her with a plaque äSee AROUND, page 2G

For most people who own a turntable and a record collection, the third Saturday in April — also known as Record Store Day — is already marked on the calendar. For the rest of the world, it’s an event worth checking out, even if you prefer your music in digital form, said Tess Brunet, who co-owns Lagniappe Records in Beauregard Town along with Patrick Hodgkins. Record Store Day, April 18, is a celebration of independently owned record shops everywhere, including nearly 1,400 in the United States, and thousands more like it across the world, on every continent but Antarctica, according to the Record Store Day website. Lagniappe, along with Kerry Beary’s Atomic Pop Shop and Capital City Records, owned by Dana Labat, will be offering the standard RSD treats — music releases available either only in independent stores on RSD, or first on Record Store Day. They include exclusive RSD releases — available nowhere else in the same format; limited-run or regional releases — available either only locally or in quantities of 1,000 or fewer; and RSD-First Releases äSee RECORD, page 2G

butterfly Heeding the call of the

BY C.J. FUTCH

cfutch@theadvocate.com Advocate photo by C.J. FUTCH

A caterpillar that will soon become a Gulf Fritillary butterfly — the Louisiana state butterfly — eats passionflower vine at Sarah Rayner’s house. Rayner tends the caterpillars until they become butterflies to prevent predators from eating them early on. Despite their scary appearance, butterfly caterpillars do not sting — and that cannot always be said of caterpillars that turn into moths, Rayner said.

Sarah Rayner woke up one day in 2009 with an overwhelming urge to raise monarch butterflies. “I’d never had any relationship to the butterfly before, other than the fact that I taught its life cycle as part of one of

my classes,� the biologist said. “I wasn’t particularly attached to them. I couldn’t explain it, I just had to do it.� Nature has always been a part of Rayner’s life, and so she knew that it had the power to heal, if you let it. But the mon-

archs were a bit of a mystery for a while. She went on to raise many different kinds of butterfly, but the monarch remains her favorite. It wasn’t until she heard, äSee BUTTERFLY, page 2G

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