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Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016 Issue 49 - 2016 Free Newspaper St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana

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Volunteers for Family and Community Host A Christmas Fashion Show

By Barry Lemoine It was a good time for a good cause when the St. Ber-nard Volunteers for Fam-ily and Community (SPVFC) hosted its recent Christmas Fashion Show. The show and luncheon were held at the Maumus Center in His-toric Old Arabi and served as the 24th annual fundraiser for the SBVFC’s scholarship program. The event also in-cluded tours of the Maumus

Center and Planetarium con-ducted by site director, Gena Asevado. The SPVFC is an umbrella organization for the Chit-Chats, Stitch in Time and Versailles clubs. The clubs work separately and together for the betterment of the St. Bernard Parish community. Arabi resident and chair-woman of the event Shirley Pechon said she and her fel-low members devote many

hours of community service to the parish along with mon-etary donations from various fundraisers and patrons “We give three $1,000 scholarships to graduating St. Bernard Parish seniors and anything over that goes to other charitable organiza-tions, local schools, and com-munity groups in the parish,” Pechon said.

The fashion show models strike a pose soon after leaving the runway.

Photo Courtesy of SPVFC

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St. Bernard Awarded $30 Million Coastal Restoration Project

The Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration(CWPPRA) Tech-nical Committee has recom-mended approval for Phase 1 (design/engineering) of the Bayou La Loutre Ridge Res-toration and Marsh Creation project in eastern St. Bernard Parish. The project will re-store approximately 5.5 miles of historic forested ridge along Bayou La Loutre and will create or nourish over 380 acres of marsh. It is es-timated that the total overall project cost will be $29.4 mil-lion. Design and engineering is projected to begin in 2017.

Restoration of the Bayou La Loutre ridge has been in-cluded in multiple coastal planning documents for over a decade, including Louisi-ana’s 2012 Coastal Master Plan. The St. Bernard Parish Coastal Zone Advisory Com-mittee (CZAC) designated the project as a top priority for the parish in 2015 and the Natural Resources Conserva-tion Service partnered with the Environmental Protec-tion Agency to nominate the project for CWPPRA funding in early 2016. The CZAC and St. Bernard

Parish Council subsequently approved the project as a top tier priority in St. Bernard’s 2016 Coastal Strategy Docu-ment, which was adopted in August. The project was vot-ed number one by stakehold-ers in the Lake Pontchartrain Basin and was ultimately en-dorsed by 18 nongovernmen-tal organizations, community groups, and coastal scientists from around the region. St. Bernard Parish Government officials lobbied extensively on behalf of the project lead-ing up to the CWPPRA Tech-nical Committee vote on Dec.

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Sheriff ’s Department Arrest Reports

ACCORDING TO REPORTS RELEASED BY SHERIFF JAMES POHLMANN, THE FOLLOW-ING SUSPECTS WERE ARRESTED BY THE ST. BERNARD PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT DEPUTIES. ALL SUSPECTS ARE PRESUMED INNOCENT. THE FOLLOWING INFORMA-TION IS OBTAINED FROM PUBLIC RECORDS WHICH HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO US BY THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND PUBLISHED AS SPACE PERMITS.

-November 29, 2016-Aviance Brown, 30; 3124 Guerra Drive, Vio-let: Bench Warrant, $10,000.00 Bond.

Aviance Brown, 30; 3124 Guerra Drive, Vio-let: Bond Surrender, $10,000.00 Bond.

Erick Devine, 37; 1900 River Edge Drive, Chalmette: Simple Battery, $500.00 Bond.

Hope Hatcher, 32; 2811 Stacie Drive, Violet: Theft of Goods under 500, $1,000.00 Bond.

Keith Hebert, 27; 128 Nutria Drive, Arabi: Illegal Possession Stolen under 500; Theft of Goods under 500; Resisting an Officer; Criminal Trespass, $3,000.00 Bond.

Theodore Jones, 28; 2445 Charbonnet Street, New Orleans: Schedule I Possession Marijuana; Fugitive, $1,250.00 Bond.

Kari Ledet, 38; 2217 Paul Drive, Meraux: Theft of a Firearm; Theft under $750, No Bond.

Kenneth Lefebvre, 42’; 218 Oak Street, Braithwaite: Aggravated Criminal Damage to Property; Reckless Operation Vehicle; Disturbing the Peace, No Bond.

Tisa Mullen, 45; 3509 Rosetta Drive, Chal-mette: Theft of Goods under 500; Fugitive, $1,000.00 Bond.

David Van Patten, 41; 2423 Lyndell Drive, Chalmette: Domestic Abuse Battery; As-sault/Simple, No Bond.

-November 30, 2016-Christopher Bailey, 30; 2525 Walkers Lane, Violet: Bench Warrant; Resisting an Officer, $8,500.00 Bond.

Joseph Bailey, 42; 2208 Delta Queen Drive, Violet: Theft Under $750; Illegal Possession Stolen Under 500, $1,500.00 Bond.

Adam Brown, 24; 2917 Legend Street, Me-raux: Illegal Possession Stolen Over 1500, No Bond.

Sheena Culliven, 31; 1116 Scottsdale Drive, Harvey: Theft of Goods under 500; Fugitive, $1,000.00 Bond.

Paul Dantoni, 17; 2102 Corrine Drive, Chal-mette: Possession Marijuana 1st Offense, $1,250.00 Bond.

Simone Dennis, 26; 1305 Flood, New Or-leans: Bench Warrant, $7,500.00 Bond.Robert Dugars, 37; 1227 France Street, New Orleans: Schedule I Possession Marijuana; Felony Carrying Illegal Weapon; Illegal Pos-session Stolen Firearms, No Bond.

Kurt Hartson, 40; 3340 N Highway K, Mer-rill: Unauthorized of Inhabitant Dwelling, No Bond.

Vincent Magallanes, 18; 2409 Riverland Drive, Chalmette: Schedule I Possession Marijuana; Driver Not Licensed; General Speed Law, $1,750.00 Bond.

Termaine Major, 40; 5645 6th Street, Vio-let: Failure to Register Sex Offender 1st, No Bond.

Melissa Scott, 42; 1509 Schnell, Arabi: Drugs-Schedule II, No Bond.

Irvin Secrest, 30; 9 Woodchase Drive, Vio-let: Bond Surrender, $25,000.00 Bond.

Juwan Suren, 19; 2305 Plaza Drive, Chal-mette: Schedule I Possession Marijuana, $1,250.00 Bond.

-December 1, 2016-Bernell Aisola, 27; 5914 Stretch Drive, Dal-las: Resisting an Officer, $1,000.00 Bond.

Michael Andrews, 28; 2108 Bartolo Drive, Chalmette: Contraband in Correction Cen-ter; Heroin Possession, No Bond.

Michael Andrews, 28; 2108 Bartolo Drive, Chalmette: Fugitive, No Bond.

Michael Andrews, 28; 2108 Bartolo Drive, Chalmette: Bench Warrant, No Bond.

Alvin Duplessis, 47; 2818 Daniel Drive, Vio-let: Drugs-Schedule II, No Bond.

Allan Hoey, 25; 2413 Flamingo Drive, Chal-mette: Violation of Protective Order, No Bond.

Timothy Sagona, 29; 2225 Aycock Street, Arabi: Probation Violator, No Bond.

Tiffany Sortino, 28; 3413 Judy Drive, Me-raux: Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, $500.00 Bond.

Alex Thompson, 32; 1354 St. Bernard Av-enue, New Orleans: Proper Signal to Turn; Driver Not Licensed; Illegal Tinting of a Window, $450.00 Bond.

-December 2, 2016-Joseph Ballon, 32; 1900 Flood Street, New Orleans: Fugitive, No Bond.

Francis Brossette, 34; 2200 Reunion, St. Bernard: Theft $5000-$25000, No Bond.

Charlitta Desdunes, 42; 5509 E Judge Perez Drive, Violet: Fugitive, No Bond.

Fredmond Foster, 33; 1821 N Gayoso Street, New Orleans: Vehicle License Required; Scheduled I Possession Marijuana; Pos-session of Drug Paraphernalia, $1,850.00 Bond.

Jack Gallego, 51; 7700 Read Boulevard, New Orleans: Fugitive, No Bond.

Rodrick Gipson, 38; 5109 Laurel Street, New Orleans: Fugitive, No Bond.

Stacy Major, 51; 2918 Daniel Drive, Violet: Disturbing the Peace; Simple Criminal Dam-age under 500, $2,000.00 Bond.

Hollie Pilet, 34; 1935 Laura Street, Chal-mette: Bench Warrant, $1,500.00 Bond.

Shawerlle Sylve, 24; 2201 Manhattan Boule-vard, Ap. #278, Harvey: Fugitive, No Bond.

-December 3, 2016-Gabrielle Nikolaidis, 22; 2008 Kingbird, St. Bernard: Bond Surrender, $10,000.00 Bond.

-December 4, 2016-Valle Martinez, 34; 224 Livingston Avenue, Arabi: Disturbing the Peace Fight; Simple Battery; Drugs-Schedule II, No Bond.

Brandi Miller, 28; 10027 1063 Highway, In-dependence: Illegal Possession Stolen 500-1500; License Plate, Switched, No Bond.

Dicxon-Alexande Moreno-Alvardo, 32; 224 Livingston Avenue, Arabi: Resisting an Offi-cer; Disturbing the Peace Fight; Simple Bat-tery; Resisting an Officer, $3,000.00 Bond.

Shamir Munoz, 21; 2218 Jackson Boulevard, Chalmette: Simple Battery; Resisting Officer Force Violence; Battery/Police Officer; Dis-

turbing Peace Fight, No Bond.

Nicole Paschal, 39; 2221 Dixie Road, Ber-nice: Battery/Aggravated, No Bond.

Irvin Secrest, 30; 9 Woodchase Drive, Violet: Bond Surrender, $3,500.00 Bond.

Kevin Suarez-Sanchez, 35; Disturbing the Peace; Simple Battery, $1,000.00 Bond.

David Sumera, 3; 10027 1063 Highway, In-dependence: Fugitive, No Bond.

Barney Summers, 55; 2922 Stacie Drive, Vi-olet: Battery/Aggravated, No Bond.

-December 5, 2016-Marvin Cordova, 44; 2537 A.P. Tureaud Av-enue, New Orleans: Driving-License Sus-pended; No Liability Insurance; Illegal Pos-session Stolen 500-1500; Fugitive; License Plate, Switched, No Bond.

Angelica Gerdes, 20; 2329 Centanni Drive, Violet: Illegal Possession Stolen under 500, $500.00 Bond.

Allan Hoey, 53; 2104 Packenham Drive, Chalmette: Driving Roadway Lane Traffic; Driver Not Licensed; Drugs-Schedule II, No Bond.

Darren McKinney, 50; 6329 St. Claude Street, Arabi: Fugitive, No Bond.Perry Menesses, 36; 2121 Guillot Drive, St. Bernard: Contempt of Court, No Bond.

Bickett Theophile, 20; 1030 Castlewood Drive, New Orleans: Bench Warrant, $10,000.00 Bond.

Donjai Thomas, 25; 3321 Laplace, Chal-mette: Bench Warrant, $5,000.00 Bond.

Nicholas Wagner, 29; 217 De La Ronde, Chalmette: Contempt of Court, No Bond.

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FASHION

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This was the group’s fi rst year hold-ing the annual fundraiser at the Mau-mus Center, as well as its fi rst Christmas Fashion Show. “It was a big draw, and I hope it continues to grow each year,” said Pechon. For over 20 years, the annual fun-draiser event for the SBVFC was the Christmas Tour of Homes, but this year’s event will serve the same purpose — to help others. The organization usually donates up-wards of $30,000 dollars to non-profi ts serving St. Bernard Parish including St. Bernard Battered Women’s Shelter, Arc of New Orleans (Chalmette), 1st Bap-tist Church of Chalmette Food Bank, St. Bernard Catholic Church Food Bank, Council on Aging, and the St. Bernard 4-H Clubs. Pechon said hosting a big event re-quires a lot of teamwork and wanted to thank the contributors to the event: SB-VFC’s Patrons; Stage Department Store;

Chalmette Refi ning, LLC; Gerald’s Do-nuts and Richie Lewis; Ditto’s Printing; Stitch In Time Club; Chit Chats Club; Versailles Club; Lucy Ruffi no; Denise Clark; Hamilton’s; Arabi Food Store; Claudette Ponstein; Neil Ponstein; Rocky and Carlo’s Restaurant; MeMe’s Restaurant; The Palm’s Restaurant; Crave Restaurant; Albert Carey; Gena Asevado; Charles Cassar; and St. Ber-nard Parish School Superintendent Do-ris Voitier. The fashion show was presented by Susan Klees, and the models represent-ed a wide array of community groups. Strutting their stuff on the runway were Alexis Canseco, Nora Egan, Kallie Ev-ans, Gabrielle Glapion, Tiff any Glapion, Katie Green, Judge Jeanne Juneau, Katherine Lemoine, Carol Ludwig, Cin-di Meyer, Faith Moran, Katie Ourso, Neil Ponstein, Rhett Pritchard, Ruston Pritchard, B.J. Schultz, Donna Schultz, and Sean Warner. For more information on the SBVFC, visit their Facebook page at St. Bernard Volunteers for Family and Community.

Rhett Pritchard, a teacher and author, models some of the o� erings available at Stage Department Store as part of the recent SPVFC Christmas Fashion Show.

Donna Schultz, a principal in the school system, struts her stu� .

Photos Courtesy of SPVFC

Photos Courtesy of SPVFC


PROJECT

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7. “I am very proud of our coastal de-partment and our advisory committee

for their dedicated service to our com-munity in obtaining this important project. Our administration is dedi-cated to enhancing and preserving the culture of eastern St. Bernard Parish,” said Parish President Guy McInnis.

� e Bayou La Loutre Ridge Restoration and Marsh Creation project in eastern St. Bernard Parish will restore approximately 5.5 miles of historic forested ridge along Bayou La Loutre and will create or nourish over 380 acres of marsh.

Photo Courtesy of St. Bernard Parish Government

Chalmette Valero Boys Basketball Christmas Classic Tournament ScheduleBoys Basketball (all games at Chalmette High School gym)Wednesday, Dec. 14Game 1: Warren Easton vs. Northshore, 4:30 p.m.Thursday, Dec. 15Game 2: Central Lafourche vs. Salmen, 3 p.m.Game 3: Riverside vs. Game 1 winner, 4:30 p.m.Game 4: H.L. Bourgeois vs. Slidell, 6 p.m.Game 5: Higgins vs. Chalmette, 7:30 p.m.Friday, Dec. 16Game 6: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 3 p.m.Game: 7: Game 4 loser vs. Game 5 Higgins-Chalmette loser, 4:30 p.m.Game 8: Game 2 winner vs. Game 3 winner, 6 p.m.Game 9: Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 Higgins-Chalmette winner, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17Game 10: Game 7 winner vs. Game 3 loser, 1 p.m.Game 11: Game 6 loser vs. Game 7 loser, 2:30 p.m.Consolation game (12): Consolation, Game 6 winner vs. Game 7 winner, 4:30 p.m.Third-place game (13): Game 8 loser vs. Game 9 loser, 6 p.m.

Girls Basketball (all games at Chalmette High School 9th Grade Gym)Thursday, Dec. 15McDonogh 35 vs. Chalmette, 4 p.m.McMain vs. Higgins, 5:30 p.m.Friday, Dec. 16Higgins vs. Chalmette, 3 p.m.McDonogh 35 vs. Fontainebleau, 4:30 p.m.Belle Chasse vs. McMain, 6 p.m.Cabrini vs. Mount Carmel, 7:30 p.m.Saturday, Dec. 17Mount Carmel vs. Higgins, 10 a.m.Chalmette vs. Cabrini, 11:30 a.m.Mount Carmel vs. Fontainebleau, 1 p.m.McMain vs. Cabrini, 2:30 p.m.McDonogh 35 vs. Belle Chasse, 4 p.m.

Championship game (14): Game 8 winner vs. Game 9 winner, 7:30 p.m.


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Dominique You Lodge #468 Meets on The First and Third Wednesdays of the Month.

Andrew Jackson Lodge #428 Meets on The First and Third Tuesdays of the Month.

St. Bernard Parish Leisure Pro-gram is hosting Pancakes, Pajamas and Pictures with Santa on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Frederick Sigur Civic Center, located at 3220 Jean Lafitte Parkway in Chalmette. The cost to attend is $10 per child, check or money order only (Infants 12 months and younger are FREE). For more information, contact the Recreation Department at 504-278-4295 or email Denise Montalbano at [email protected].

Need help preparing for a presen-tation or interview? Want to improve your communication and leadership skills? Join us at Chalmette Toastmasters. Visitors and guests are always welcome. Our next meeting is on Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Bernard Council on Aging building, 8201 W. Judge Perez Drive. Call Tina Guillot at 504-338-7927

or email the club at [email protected] for more information.

Visit the St. Bernard Parish Library’s Chalmette Branch on Thursday, Dec. 22 between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. for its sec-ond annual Christmas Craft Open House. Tables will be set up with stress-free ac-tivities for families to enjoy. For more info, please stop by the library at 2600 Palmi-sano Blvd., call us at 504-279-0448, visit our website at www.mysbpl.org or like us on Facebook.

Members of NARFE (National Asso-ciation of Active and Retired Federal Employees) Chapter 1398, St. Ber-nard, will hold its annual Christmas party and installation of officers on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016, beginning at 11 a.m., in the Sicilian Room of Rocky and Carlos Restau-rant on St. Bernard Highway.

Anyone interested in participating in a free GRIEF support group should call 504-481-9464 for a free, confidential assessment as well as for more informa-tion about this event. A support group is different than a therapy group in that it is conducted by the members who provide encouragement, information, and support to each other.

Moving Beyond Bereavement. Mov-ing past grief is so much more difficult in non-traditional loss circumstances such as murder, suicide, AIDS, death due to alco-hol or drugs, failed relationships, failing health, long term incarceration, or mul-tiple losses at once to name a few.Grief can be complicated by a variety of factors. If you would like to learn more, meet other people having similar experi-

ences and feelings, call 504-481-9464 for a FREE, confidential screening to par-ticipate in a FREE community support group.

St. Bernard Parish Transit is now picking up and dropping off passengers at a new bus stop near the entrance of the St. Bernard Parish Hospital. St. Bernard Transit buses run a fixed route between Poydras and Arabi from 6:21 a.m. until 8 p.m. The fare is $1 with a discounted fare of 50 cents for passengers who are age 60 or older. Passengers who hold a Medi-care Card also qualify for the discounted

fare. Children who are five years old or younger ride free. For more information, contact the St. Bernard Transit office at 504-277-1907.

State Sen. JP Morrell invites students to submit an original holiday-themed poem for a chance to win an Amazon Fire tablet. Email original holiday-themed poem to [email protected] by Jan. 1, 2017. Entries must include student name, grade level, school, telephone number, and email address. For more information, call the senator’s office at 504-284-4794.

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St. Bernard Sports Hall of Fame Hosts 21st Annual Golf Tournament; Resumes for

Inductees and Award Winners Now Being Accepted

The St. Bernard Sports Hall of Fame and Gulf Coast Bank recently hosted its 21st annual golf tourna-ment at Oak Harbor in Slidell. The winning foursome included Jona-than Moore, Scott McKenzie, Blair McKenzie, and Mark Mayne. All proceeds from the golf tournament will be donated to athletic organi-zations and athletes in St. Bernard Parish. Nominations for induction into the Hall of Fame and 2016 Male and Female Amateur Athletes of Year are now being accepted. Resumes are due no later than Dec. 31, 2016, and may be submitted either by mail

or email. Amateur nominees must be current students or have graduat-ed from high school no earlier than 2016. Applications are available at www.stbhof.com. For more information, please contact one of the following board members: Eddie Appel, President 504-301-6135, Dr. Jerry Graves, Vice President 504-343-4041, Dr. Bryan Frichter, Treasurer 504-554-2685, or Roy Cortes, Board Mem-ber 985-246-8354. The Hall of Fame may be reached via mail at PO Box 1602, Chalmette, Louisiana 70044 or via email at [email protected].

Lennon Reeb of Chalmette won the All-Around gold medal for his division at the McDonald’s Invitational at New Heights Gym in New Iberia after he placed first on Still Rings, first on Parallel Bars, first on Pommelhorse, and second on High Bar. Lennon is eight years old and is a Level 5 Men’s gymnast on Empire Gymnas-tics Academy’s team. Photo Courtesy of Ashley Reeb.

St. Bernard Holds Pearl Harbor Ceremony On a beautiful, sunny day, the Ed Jones Chapter of the Pearl Har-bor Survivors Association held its annual Memorial Service on Dec. 7 to commemorate the 75th Anniver-sary of the Bombing of Pearl Har-bor at Pearl Harbor Memorial Park — the only park in honor of Pearl Harbor on the U.S. mainland. Attending the event was a num-ber of elected officials, Chalmette High School’s ROTC, veterans, families and friends of the Pearl Harbor Survivors. The event in-cluded the presentation of colors by the U.S. Navy Color Guard, a fly over by the Civil Air Patrol, Greet-ings by Parish President Guy McIn-nis, history of the park by designer Mike Hunnicutt, presentation of a memorial wreath, presentation of roses for the ships that were de-stroyed or lost during Pearl Har-bor, TAPS by LA State Trooper Monty Montelongo and music by Parish Employee Pamela Wegener Griffith. The Guest Speaker for the event was Assistant U.S. Attorney John Murphy of the Eastern Dis-trict of Louisiana. Debra Jones Barry, President of the Ed Jones Chapter of the Sons and Daughters of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, reminded those in attendance of Pearl Har-bor’s casualty statistics and told them that 2,403 people on the U.S. side lost their lives on Dec. 7, 1941. Barry said the chance to meet and

talk with Pearl Harbor Survivors no longer exists because the last survi-vor passed away earlier this year. Also during the ceremony was the dedication of a Blue Star Mark-er by the State and local Garden Clubs. Members of the various Gar-den Clubs presented President Guy McInnis with a beautiful Blue Star Marker that is placed behind the Memorial sign. The following individuals and organizations were recognized dur-ing the ceremony for their contri-butions to the Pearl Harbor Memo-rial Park: Valero Meraux Refinery for cleaning and landscaping the park; the Disabled Veterans of Louisiana, Chapter 4 for donating 20’x30’ flags yearly; the Law Offic-es of Sidney Torres, Floyd and Rita Gue, Meraux Foundation, Boasso America Corporation, Mary Ellen and Clifford Miller, Pat and Claire Pescay, American Sugar Refin-ing, and St. Bernard Parish Tour-ist Commission each for donating a Palm Tree that was placed in the memorial park; Artists Claire Pes-cay, Donna Lind, Ed Estopinal and Rodney Asevedo for revitalizing the mural at the Pearl Harbor Memo-rial Park and parish employees who assisted with the event. For more information about the Pearl Harbor veterans, contact Shirley Rambeau, Secretary of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association at [email protected].

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CHS Christmas Basketball Tournaments Start WednesdayBy Mike Strom, Correspondent The won-loss record may not be what the Chalmette Owls boys basketball team would like, but plenty of time remains in this young season to accommodate whatever tinkering Coach Butch Stock-ton and his staff deem neces-sary. The Owls have a definitive agenda in place for playing host to the Chalmette Valero Boys Christmas Classic that tips off Wednesday and runs through Saturday at the Chal-mette High School gymnasi-um. “We’re playing OK, but we’ve still got a ways to go,” Stockton said of his 5-3 team, which plays at Brother Mar-tin at 7 p.m. Tuesday before heading into Christmas Clas-sic competition on Thursday. “We’re still working on things, trying to get better.” The Owls dropped their most recent outing, 66-62, to Comeaux at the Chalmette gym in which center Mitchell Robinson scored 25 points and guard Glenshawn Amos contributed 17. Chalmette’s current record does not include two losses sustained against out-of-state foes in The Lighthouse Thanksgiving Classic played three weeks ago in Corinth, Miss. Those defeats to New Hope, Miss., 65-64, and For-est Hill, Miss., 53-49, do not count against the Owls’ power rating in determining a po-tential Louisiana High School Athletic Association playoff berth. Stockton has targeted three areas in need of im-provement for a team that boasts one of the nation’s top players in 7-foot center Mitch-ell Robinson plus four other returning starters from a 23-8 squad. “First of all,” Stockton said, “we’ve got to improve our defense. We’re giving up too many points. And the sec-ond thing is we’ve got to do a better job of protecting the basketball. We’re committing too many turnovers. Then the third thing is we’ve got to im-prove our rebounding.” This message has been de-livered loud and clear to the Owls on virtually a daily basis. “There are three things I put on the board before every game: rebounds, turnovers and defense,” Stockton said. “We don’t want to give up any easy baskets. “Then after the game, those are the first aspects I look at, our turnover ratio, our assist ratio and our rebounding to see if we got out-rebounded. I look at how many offensive rebounds we got. “Because those are things that take you a long way. You’ve got to take care of the basketball and you’ve got to

rebound.” Chalmette plays defend-ing champion Higgins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, one day after Warren Easton plays North-shore in a single game open-er scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. The nine-team tourna-ment then kicks into full gear on Thursday with Central La-fourche and Salmen meeting at 3 p.m. followed by Riverside versus the winner between Easton and Northshore at 4:30 p.m. and then the pairing of H.L. Bourgeois and Slidell at 6 p.m.. All boys teams are guar-anteed a minimum of three games in the tournament that features a winner and loser’s bracket. The Chalmette Valero Girls Christmas Classic begins a three-day run on Thursday with the Lady Owls playing host to McDonogh 35 at 4 p.m. following a non-district home game against Slidell at 5 p.m. Tuesday. All girls games in the tour-nament are being played in Chalmette’s ninth-grade gym-nasium, with Mount Carmel,

Cabrini, McMain, Higgins, Fontainbleau and Belle Chasse rounding out the eight-team tourney that guarantees each team three games, but pro-duces no definitive tourna-ment champion. Chalmette (6-2 overall, 1-0 in District 8-5A) enters the Slidell game having won two straight, with the most recent outing being a 34-28 victory against Dominican last Friday at Chalmette. The Lady Owls complete the tournament by playing host to Higgins at 3 p.m. Fri-day before facing Cabrini at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. “The kids have done out-standing given what we have, and I appreciate their efforts every day,” Coach Shondra Johnson said. “They give ev-erything they can. That’s what I’m proud of with this group of girls. Even with our lim-ited number, they never let me down; and they never let themselves down. They push through.” Guards Hailey Marshall and Alanna Donaldson scored 17 and 14 points respectively to pace the victory against Do-

minican that followed a 63-14 victory against Bonnabel in Chalmette’s District 8-5A opener. The available roster also has expanded by one with the return of sophomore guard Daja Johnson from a hand in-jury. “Our girls are trying to im-prove as much as they can at practice and that’s where our foundation is set,” Shondra Johnson said. “They’re giving me all they can in practice. So then it’s just a matter of com-ing out and executing and try-ing to finish the game. “Our will to keep play-ing and finish have been two positives so far. We play five girls 99 percent of the game and that’s tough for five girls to play with the intensity and tempo that I want them to play. “I think their will to take the ups and downs of the games, the highs and lows and to keep playing and finish the games is what I’m most im-pressed with.” Stockton similarly has been pleased with the deter-mination exhibited by the

Owls boys. “I’ve been pleased by the kids’ effort,” Stockton said. “They’ve really been getting after it, playing hard. We’ve been in every ballgame. One thing our kids do a good job of getting the basketball to each other. They really do. They look for each other.” In addition to Robinson and Amos, senior point guard Carlton Campbell, two guard Joshua Williams and transfer forward Larry Bentley com-plete the starting five. “I’ve been pretty pleased with the play of our starters,” Stock-ton said. “I’m just trying to get more support out of our bench right now.” Three tournament games in three days against a qual-ity field of outside competi-tion that is headed by River-side, Salmen, H.L. Bourgeois and Central Lafourche should help in that regard. “I think we have a very strong field this year. It is really strong,” Stockton said. “You’ve got to come ready to play each and every night. You’ve got to be ready to perform. You want to stay in that winner’s bracket.”

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Senior point guard Carlton Campbell (No. 3) has been a driving force in Chalmette’s 5-3 start this season. The Owls play at Brother Martin at 7 p.m. Tuesday before opening play in the Chalmette Valero Boys Basketball Christmas Classic on Thursday.


Stitch In Time Club, an organization under the St. Bernard Volunteers for Family and Community, that is sponsored by the LSU Ag center, recently held its Xmas Lun-cheon at Windsor Court, New Orleans. Photo Courtesy of Hazel Maniscalco.

JJ the Saints Super Fan at 14 Brings His Contagious Spirit to the Sheriff’s Office Jarrius Robertson, better known as JJ the Saints Super Fan, has a small stature because of a chronic liver disease called biliary atresia, which has affected his physi-cal growth. But he makes up for it with a big spirit and personality that is conta-gious to be near. JJ and his father, Jordy Rob-ertson, who live in St. James Parish, visited the St. Bernard Parish Sher-iff’s Office last Wednesday and cap-tivated employees. At 14 he is larger than life.When Sheriff James Pohlmann pre-sented him with the badge of a sher-iff’s deputy he immediately raised it high and began talking about how he was going to put bad guys “in his closet” and said he could pepper spray them. But Sheriff Pohlmann joked with him, saying “We don’t pepper spray people anymore. We spray them with perfume.” JJ was invited to St. Bernard by Sheriff’s Dep. Richard Scheuer-mann, who has come to know the

teen at Saints games, which Scheuer-mann and his father, Randy — who is also a sheriff’s deputy — attend. Richard Scheuermann helped collect toys for JJ to bring to Tulane Medical Center’s children’s wing. After meeting the sheriff and others at the department, JJ rode in a Humvee vehicle driven by Sgt. Chris Scheeler, who brought him to a department equipment warehouse where he wore a vest and toured the department’s mobile command cen-ter and a S.W.A.T. truck. But when JJ got to talk over the public address system in a police car he was really having fun. “Pull over,” he told an imaginary driver on an imaginary road. “You’re going to jail. If you don’t pull over I’ll hit your car.” His father, Jordy, was loving seeing the boy have fun. The father said JJ has been a regular in hospitals. He had a liver transplant when he was a year old, which left him in a coma for an en-tire year. From that point he has of-

ten been in a hospital and has had 13 surgeries. He is on a list for another liver transplant. The boy first met members of the New Orleans Saints when he was hospitalized at Ochsner Hospital and has become a regular at games and practices. That’s how he became

JJ the Saints Super Fan. Doing that and making excur-sions to the Sheriff’s Office and a Fire Department he visited has been good for the 14-year-old, the father said. “It gets him out and keeps his spirits up,” Jordy Robertson said. “I try to keep him busy.”

JJ is 10th on a list for a liver transplant, he said. “We’re close” and it could happen early next year, he said. JJ admits he is enjoying going places, being interviewed and get-ting noticed. “I am having a whole lot of fun,” the boy said. “I like being famous. Everybody knows you.”

JJ the Saints Super Fan, lifts his folder holding a sheriff ’s deputy badge given to him by Sheriff James Pohhlmann, standing behind him. Photo Courtesy of S.B.S.O.


WeatherBarry D. Keim, Louisiana State Climatologist, Louisiana State University

Hurricane Katrina High Water Mark at Starbucks

On Harrison Boulevard in the Lakeview neighborhood in New Orleans stands a Starbucks Coffee Shop. Since I love coffee, I love this coffee shop. How-ever, I love this shop perhaps more than any other because it also has something that is near and dear to me — a Hurricane Katrina high water mark (Fig-ure 1)! Actually, it’s a high water line that wraps around the outer shell of the building. Don’t misunderstand, I hate

all the devastation that Katrina brought to our beloved city, but it happened indeed, and there is nothing I can do about that. Me-morializing and archiving the impacts of the storm, however, is a whole ‘nother thing. That is why this Starbucks is so special to me, as I can get my venti decaf skinny latte, while at the same time marvel at just how under-water that neighborhood was in the throes of Katrina. Must be the weather geek coming out in me, as these two passions of mine (coffee and climate) get satiated simultane-ously here, in this unique loca-tion. I do wonder sometimes, however, how the local coffee addicts feel about seeing that water line every time they reach out for some caffeine. This coffee shop has served as a rallying point for several reasons when I lead LSU-related field trips down to New Orleans and Da Parish. These reasons

obviously include the coffee and water line, but the fact that the location also has a bathroom is an added bonus, since I am usu-ally heading there from Baton Rouge. This upcoming week, I’ll be leading another tour of the city with a group of graduate stu-dents from Georgetown Uni-versity on Tuesday, and then on Thursday, I’ll be shooting a doc-umentary about Katrina with a group from Canada. In both cases, we’ll visit this Starbucks, and with the latter, I’m meeting the television crew there to kick off our day. Most of my field trips to the city are centered on Katrina and its impacts, which makes this stop particularly rewarding. What is interesting is that the water levels across this neigh-borhood reached as high as 2.5 feet above mean sea level, which is approximately where that wa-ter line is located in both Figures 1 and 2. In Figure 2, I am show-ing approximately where sea

level is situated with my right hand. What this means is that the surface where I’m standing is about 3 to 3.5 feet BELOW mean sea level, and note that Harrison Boulevard is located a few feet below that. When I step back and think about that fact, the New Orleans metropolitan region, Chalmette included, has to be one of the more unique and interesting landscapes in the world where people chose to live and raise their families. Cup o’ gumbo anyone? E-mail me with questions or feed-back at [email protected].


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