The Dynamic Duo
Jeanine and Addison Riecke
she leads us to the living room. Addison, or Addie
DRIVING UP TO THEIR HOUSE in Covington, you get
as her family and friends lovingly call her, is the first
the sense that the Riecke’s are your typical northshore
to speak, talking with me about all the things you
family. Their front porch drips with Southern charm;
would expect to hear from a happy 12-year-old. She
the well-recognized flags of LSU and Louisiana hang
excitedly tells me about how she attends Riverview
prominently out front over large bushes of blooming
Camp for Girls every summer without fail: “I’m a
pink azaleas. Like many others homes in the area, tall
Shawnee,” she says proudly of her chosen tribe. “This
stacks of timber lay alongside the driveway, indicative
will be my sixth year going to Riverview, and I just love
of damage caused by the recent unprecedented
it because I get to go with my friends from Covington,
flooding. But these could not detract from the beauty
and it’s one of those places that just feels like a
and cheerfulness of the home as I drive up on a sunny
second home to me.” She continues, talking about
morning. Jared, Jeanine and their young daughter,
her school, Kehoe France, and how she is on the
Addison, welcome me on the front steps with a level of
cheerleading squad, that she loves hanging out with
hospitality only instinctual to true southerners.
her friends and playing with her boxer puppy, Coco.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you,” says Addison with
But Addison Riecke is not your typical sixth
a polite and soft manner as she shakes my hand. Her
grader. For the last three years, the young actress has
parents, in turn, greet me with the warmth usually
had a full-time job playing Nora Thunderman on the
only expected from family.
Nickelodeon hit-sitcom The Thundermans. The show,
“So where should we start?” asks Jeanine, 4
laughing in a comfortable yet still hesitant way as
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by Maggie Murphy
Inside Northside
which was recently picked up for a fourth season