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A host of holiday camps BREC is hosting a variety of fall holiday camps for children to enjoy during their school Thanksgiving breaks. Call (225) 272-9200 or visit brec.org/holidaycamps for details. FALL HOLIDAY CAMP: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Independence Community Park, ages 4 to 12; and Milton J. Womack Park, ages 4 to 5, children must be potty trained; holiday-themed games, arts and crafts. Fee is $42 per child or $14 per day. FALL ZOO CAMP: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at Baton Rouge Zoo, ages 6 to 12; guided zoo walks, seasonally-themed games and crafts and interaction with zoo animals. Fee is $35 per day for East Baton Rouge Parish residents and $42 per day for out-of-parish residents. Call (225) 775-3877, option 2. FALL HISTORY CAMP: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at Magnolia Mound Plantation, ages 7 to 12; fallthemed crafts, history talks, tours of the historic house and grounds and cooking in the open-hearth kitchen. Fee is $44 for EBR Parish residents and $52.80 for out-ofparish residents. Call (225) 343-4955. GOBBLE GOBBLE THANKSGIVING TENNIS CAMP: Monday through Wednesday at City-Brooks Community Park, ages 6 to 16. Fee is $129.99 per person. Visit brec.org/tennis. TURKEY TROT JUNIOR TENNIS CAMP: Monday through Wednesday at Independence Community Park Tennis Center, ages 5 to 16. Fee is $140 per person. Visit brec. org/tennis.
Make-and-take craft
River Center Branch Library will host a make-andtake craft time for children ages 3 to 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Wednesday. Children will make a cardboard turkey decoration for the Thanksgiving table or to display at home. Call (225) 389-4959 for details.
Books Cinema Week
The Main Library will show movies based on titles featured in the “Tattered Books” exhibit at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Nov. 27. All ages are welcome, but children younger than age 9 must be accompanied by an adult. Call (225) 231-3760 for details.
Monopoly mania
In celebration of National Game/Puzzle Week, Monopoly in various forms will be available for teens to play at Carver Branch Library. Enjoy classic Monopoly on Monday, life-sized Monopoly on Tuesday and Monopoly Deal on Wednesday. All games will be played from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Ragtag crafts
Teens, bring your old Tshirts to Eden Park Branch Library at 3 p.m. Tuesday äSee AROUND, page 3G
Photos provided by KEVIN NEE
Brothers Kevin and Scot Nee pause on their trans-America bike ride to enjoy the sights at Riverside Park in downtown Spokane, Wash.
Baton Rouge Magnet High School teacher Kevin Nee takes a breather at the Devils Tower National Monument campground in Devils Tower, Wyo.
Kevin Nee bikes across the MelroseTwin Bridges County Road, a 21-mile dirt road Nee and his brother took to avoid riding 50 extra miles through Montana during their trip.
Brothers Kevin and Scot Nee celebrate the end of their journey with bicycle wheels in the Atlantic Ocean in Virginia Beach, Va., on Aug. 10.
Brothers make the most of coast-to-coast bike ride BY KATE STEVENS
an “aging guy like me,” said Nee, a former collegiate gymnast now coaching gymnastics and teachAlthough Kevin Nee had been ing at Baton Rouge Magnet High taking long-distance bicycle School. So, Nee put aside his rocktrips for years, he considered himself more of a rock-climber climbing equipment and answered the call of the open road. than a bicyclist. This summer, Nee, 60, comBut, around the age of 50, the sport became a bit too rough for pleted his longest bike trip by Special to The Advocate
traveling 4,532 miles on his Surly Long Haul Trucker touring bicycle from Bellingham, Washington, to Virginia Beach, Virginia. “Life at 10 mph is pretty awesome,” Nee said. “You see a lot more than what you see zooming by in a car at 70 mph.” Nee began biking in the ninth grade when he rode from his
HAPPY TRAILS
Sacred Heart run, walk for good cause
home in Tullahoma, Tennessee, to Huntsville, Alabama, a distance of 60 miles, just to spend the night in a baseball park and come home the next day. Since then, 22 of Nee’s 32 bicycle tours have been more than 500 miles long, he said, including trips from Chicago to Baton Rouge and along the Mississippi
River from Kansas City, Kansas, to Baton Rouge. International trips have led Nee along trails from Quebec City, Quebec, through the Canadian countryside to Nova Scotia and then on a ferry to Portland, Maine. äSee BIKE RIDE, page 3G
Sacred Heart of Jesus School sixth-graders Madeline Brown and Anna Musso break into dance during the school’s Tiger Trail event on Friday. Making their way behind them are sixth-grader Cindy Tran, fifth-grader Katelyn Meyers and sixth-graders Ian Barber and Dashiell Pickenheim.
Advocate staff report Sacred Heart of Jesus School held its first Tiger Trail run Friday on the school campus, raising $13,000. Students in prekindergarten through eighth grade participated in the event sponsored by the Sacred Heart of Jesus Home and School Association. Students walked or ran the trail for 30 minutes. Sacred Heart parents Catharine McKay and Katie Cheatham co-chaired the event. Students recognized for collecting the most money from their individual sponsors were third-grader Daniel Manchester, first place; fourth-grader Isabella Rawlinson and second-grader Graysen Rawlinson, tied for second place; and sixth-grader Jemma Wood and first-grader Rich Akin, tied for third place. The class raising the most money was Jennifer Williams’ Photos provided by LISA BLACK COSSÉ first-grade class, followed by Kendra Charbonnet’s first- Sacred Heart of Jesus School seventh-grader Janelle Parker, front, enjoys the Tiger grade class and Kyla Lewis’ Trail walk/run with classmates Madelyn Adcock, Abby Frens, Katie Betz and Caroline fourth-grade class. Murphry on Friday. The event raised $13,000.
Sacred Heart of Jesus School thirdgrader Daniel Manchester collected the most money for the Tiger Trails event. Kindergartners, from left, Kamryn Baker, Blake Broussard and Alex Landry take part in the event.
Photo provided by RENÉE BOUTTE MYER
Charlotte Britten, left, and Renée Boutte Myer arrive at Buchanan Elementary as part of Volunteers in Public Schools for a recent Principal for a Day program.
VIPS lends skills, heart in schools BY RANDEE ILES
Manship School News Service Volunteers are working to improve public education in East Baton Rouge Parish through Volunteers in Public Schools, a community nonprofit with multiple programs aimed at achieving this goal. In two of the programs, EveryBody Reads and EveryOne Counts, volunteers meet with children to read to them and help with math problems. Besides volunteering, VIPS is helping schools by creating partnerships with area businesses and organizations through Partners in Education. LSU’s College of Human Sciences and Education participates in the program. “We have so much human capital and human resources and kind hearts and hands that will hopefully be able to make a difference,” said Renée Boutte Myer, outreach and advocacy coordinator for the college. Myer participated in a recent VIPS Principal for a Day program, where Partners in EduäSee VIPS, page 4G