The Southeast Advocate 11-19-2015

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BROTHERSACROSSAMERICA Baton Rouge Magnet High School teacher Brothers Kevin and Scot Nee pause on their transKevin Nee takes a breather at the Devils America bike ride to enjoy the sights at Riverside Tower National Monument campground in Park in downtown Spokane, Wash. Devils Tower, Wyo., during his trans-America bike tour earlier this year.

Nees make the most of coast-to-coast bike ride

Photos provided by KEVIN NEE

Kevin Nee bikes across the Melrose-Twin Bridges County Road, a 21-mile dirt road Nee and his brother took to avoid riding 50 extra miles through Montana during his trans-America bike trip earlier this year.

road. This summer, Nee, 60, completed his longest bike trip by himself more of a rock-climber nast now coaching gymnastics traveling 4,532 miles on his BY KATE STEVENS and teaching at Baton Rouge Surly Long Haul Trucker tourthan a bicyclist. Special to The Advocate ing bicycle from Bellingham, But, around the age of 50, the Magnet High School. So, Nee put aside his rock- Washington, to Virginia Beach, Although Kevin Nee had been sport became a bit too rough taking long-distance bicycle for an “aging guy like me,” said climbing equipment and an- Virginia. “Life at 10 mph is pretty awetrips for years, he considered Nee, a former collegiate gym- swered the call of the open

some,” 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 home in Tullahoma, Tennessee, to Huntsville, Alabama, a distance of 60 miles, just to spend the night in a baseball park and

NATURE + SCIENCE

Darlene Denstorff AROUND THE SOUTHEAST

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Adults can color to relax

Adults looking for some stress-free relaxation are welcome to spend an hour or two coloring at Jones Creek Regional Branch Library from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Coloring sheets and colored pencils will be provided, or you may bring your own.

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 after their trans-American bike ride. The pair started off with their bicycle wheels in the Pacific Ocean in Bellingham, Wash. on June 1.

Children at the Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center spent the afternoon Saturday learning about cyanotype, which is a photographic printing process.

ART

Story and craft time

A story and craft time for children ages 8 to 11 will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Jones Creek Regional Branch Library. After a reading of “Balloons Over Broadway” by Melissa Sweet, kids will discuss Thanksgiving traditions and make a balloon-filled cornucopia to take home. Call (225) 756-1160 to register.

Author discussion

Dana Cathy-Williams will discuss her first book, “Deep Darkness: Who Said Success is Not a Part of God’s Plan,” a chronicle of domestic abuse, from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Jones Creek Regional Branch Library. äSee SOUTHEAST, page 2G Advocate staff photos by BRIANNA PACIORKA

Palmer Crain, left, and Slade Coffrey, center, watch as cyanotypes develop in the afternoon sun at the Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center on Saturday. Children spent the afternoon learning about cyanotype, which is a photographic printing process.

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 äSee BROTHERS, page 3G

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 Education representatives were paired with principals in East Baton Rouge public schools. Myer was matched with Charlotte Britten, principal of Buchanan Elementary, near the LSU campus. The representatives and principals shadowed each other to observe what public äSee VIPS, page 3G


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