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2nd Year, No. 12
PERFECT Goin’ fishin’ PICS
Advocate staff report
Often, a photograph can tell more about a person, feeling or situation than words can. It may be an expression captured, a look or feeling conveyed through the image that seems to sum up the story best. Photos tell the story of a community. It was extremely difficult to select only a few photos from 2015, but our editors and photographer selected the five we thought best represented comedy, youth, learning, excitement, love, faith and fun.
Advocate file photos by STACY GILL
Gifted and talented theater and choir students at Zachary High School are in rehearsals for the upcoming musical production of ‘Hairspray.’ Cece Kelly, left, as Edna Turnblad, and Alana Scott, as Motormouth Maybelle, peform a scene on Jan. 6 in the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the Zachary High campus. COMEDY: Zachary High School’s cast of “Hairspray� was colorful, talented and funny. YOUTH and LEARNING: The Living History students at Rollins Place Elementary School were remarked about by parents and teachers for weeks after the photographs appeared. EXCITEMENT: T h e Lady Bronco softball players were captured on film prior to an April game doing
Advocate staff photo by STACY GILL
John Patrick Hall, 7, fishes with his grandfather, Joe Lassalle, both of Baton Rouge, during BREC’s Geaux Fish Rodeo on Dec. 20 at Zachary Community Park.
Stocked ponds lure local families
Tycen Smith, a student in Molly Leroi’s class at Rollins Place Elementary School, takes part in the school’s Living History project in March. He portrayed äSee PERFECT, page 2G Colin Powell.
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BY STACY GILL
Geaux Fish Rodeo held Dec. 1920. More than 1,000 pounds of Though rainbow trout are trout were trucked in from Ava, not native to Louisiana, BREC Missouri, and stocked in ponds stocked four ponds in East Ba- at Zachary Community, Centon Rouge Parish for its annual tral Sports, Forest Community
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and Perkins Road Community parks. The event was free and open to all ages wishing to fish. According to BREC, the Geaux Fish Rodeos were designed to catch and release the rainbow trout, which require conditions
such as low water temperatures and dissolved oxygen levels to reproduce and survive. Because of the limited numbers of fish put into the ponds, äSee PONDS, page 3G
New year brings new goals, new opportunities Stacy Gill AROUND ZACHARY
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Wow, it’s hard to believe that another year has whizzed by; but it has, and 2016 is almost here. I know I’m not the only one who thinks about setting goals or breaking bad habits in the coming year. We’re so motivated at first, aren’t we? I mean, we wouldn’t be human if we didn’t try, try, fail and try yet again, would we? I wonder when the very first New Year’s resolutions were set. I doubt cavemen and women thought
about setting goals at the start of a new time span. And if they did set goals, might theirs be something along the lines of “kill more fur-bearing animals to get us through the winter months� or “learn how to make the perfect fire�? Actually, when compared to those goals, giving up sugar sounds like something I might be able to do. Happy New Year to you and your resolutions.
Christmas lights set to music
Residents are invited to set their radio dials to 105.9 FM and drive through Zachary’s Historic Village through Sunday. A holiday LED light show, featuring thousands of blinking and twinkling lights synchronized to Christmas music, comes on between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. each night, Zachary officials said. äSee GILL, page 4G
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