Central, Istrouma Grads Crowd NBR Reunion BATON ROUGE — More Than School Closed Two Years Ago Ovation
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General Excellence Louisiana Press Association CENTRALCENTRAL CITYCITY National Newspaper Assn. High-Ranking Ex-City Official Issued Citation For Incident at Central City Hall Page 15 ® & The Leader NEWSNEWSJuly 2016 • Vol. 19, No. 7 • 16 Pages • Circulation 14,000 • 30,000 online • www.centralcitynews.us • 225-261-5055 City of Central • Founded July 11, 2005 City’s 11th AnniversaryCentral Family Fun Celebration At 6 p.m. Saturday at Stadium CENTRAL — Citizens of the City of Central and their friends are invited to help celebrate the 11th Anniver- sary of the founding of the City of Central this Satur- day at 6 p.m. at Wildcat Sta- WILLIE dium. Mayor Jr. Shelton is urg- ing families to come and AMITE COMITE enjoy themselves. He said the fireworks display will be the biggest in Central history. Participants are encour- aged to bring lawn chairs and blankets so they can sit on the football field. Stadi- um seating is also available. Congratulations, The program includes the Central! Kenny Fife and Bac Trac Band beginning at 6 p.m., You’re 11 Years Old! the Molly Ringwalls at 7:30, Birthday Bash and the fireworks at 9:30. 6 p.m. ANOTHER FOUR YEARS — Doug Welborn of Central was sworn in for another four-year term as A barbecue food truck East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court on July 1 in ceremonies at the clerk’s office. Here he enjoys a will sell food, and the Kit- Saturday, July 16 laugh with former LSU football great and former head coach Jerry Stovall and Jodi Stovall. Welborn tens will sell cold drinks. Wildcat Stadium surprised the Stovalls by wearing a button that said, “I’m for Stovall,” a remnant of one of the occa- BREC will offer games and sions when some fans were trying to get Stovall fired as head coach and others were supporting him. inflatables. Central, Istrouma Grads Crowd NBR Reunion BATON ROUGE — More than school closed two years ago ovation. The opening will be 800 graduates of Istrouma, but will be opened in August on the 100th anniversary of Central, Baker, Redemptor- 2017 after a $22 million ren- Istrouma’s opening in 1917. ist, and Glen Oaks gathered once again at the Atrium of the Baton Rouge Sheraton for the Annual North Baton Central PT Now Open Rouge Reunion. Most of the graduates CENTRAL — Central Phys- therapy, fitness classes, were from the 1940’s to the ical Therapy has opened pilates classes, dizziness 1970’s, although everyone a brand-new facility at treatment, concussion is welcome. Even Baton 13111 Hooper Road. It management, and sports Rouge High graduates have features 6,500 square feet medicine. been known to sneak in! of space and a multitude Central Physical Ther- The event is held every of services, including apy is owned by Helen year from 6 to 8 p.m. on the dry needling, anti-gravity Balzi and Tom Coplin. To Thursday after July 4. ambulation, WorkSTEPS schedule an appointment, This year’s event coin- industrial testing, aquatic call 261-7094. cided with efforts by the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board to reopen Is- trouma, formerly the largest high school in the state. The 2016 Central High Football Schedule Sep 2 Mentorship H Sep 9 Dutchtown A Sep 16 Tara (Homecoming) H Sep 23 St. Charles H Sep 30 McKinley H Oct 7 Walker H Oct14 Scotlandville H Photo by Woody Jenkins Woody by Photo Oct 21 Denham Springs A Oct 28 Zachary (Sr. Night) H AQUATIC THERAPY POOL at Central Physical Therapy at 1311 CHARLIE RUSH, a member of Istrouma’s last State Championship Nov 4 Live Oak A Hooper Road in Central. The new facility has 6,500 square feet. team in 1962, examines the game ball, which was recently discovered. 2 CITY NEWS Thursday, July 14, 2016 COMMUNITY PRESS, LLC CAPITAL CITY NEWS CENTRAL CITY NEWS & & South Baton Rouge Journal Vol. 25 • No. 7 The Leader Vol. 19 • No. 7 • CCN No. 390 910 North Foster Drive Post Office Box 1 Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Greenwell Springs, LA 70739 Phone (225) 261-5055 • Entire contents © 2016 Email stories and photos to [email protected] Published on the first Thursday of each month (except January and July, when it is the second Thursday) by Community Press, LLC The Leader was founded April 30, 1998, and the Central City News was founded April 21, 2005. They merged May 4, 2006. The South Baton Rouge Journal began publication in 1989. It went on hiatus in 2008 during its 20th year of publication. The Journal resumed publication as the Capital City News on Aug. 16, 2012, with Vol. 21, No. 1. Editor & Publisher Woody Jenkins Business Manager Jolice Provost Account Executive Kim Powers Member, Louisiana Press Association, National Newspaper Association, Chamber of Commerce of East Baton Rouge, and National Federation of Independent Business Deadline for news and advertising: 5 p.m. Friday before publication $18 a year by subscription in advance • $25 a year outside East Baton Rouge DAYTON GUERCIO — 2016 Brian Wiese Most Outstanding Player Award Winner and 1st Team All District Outfielder Central High School senior Dayton Guercio signed as a pitcher with the BRCC Bears. Shown are BRCC coaches Roy Corcoran and LJ Dupuy; Dayton Guercio, and Central High coaches Mike Forbes and Brandon Efferson. The Week Baton Rouge Became a Community who was unruly or disrespectful. the inner city of Baton Rouge has a fluence of our churches in Baton People Recalled But things changed. With cross- remarkably different tone about it. Rouge is great, but their influence town busing and the breakdown of Once the shooting of Alton Sterling has been great within their own neighborhood schools, the school occurred and the protests began, congregations. But now it’s as The Things Their was no longer the center of life in something snapped! though all they’ve worked for all the neighborhood. People didn’t Out in the public, everywhere these years is spilling over into the Mama Told Them really know one another anymore. you go, people are now genuinely community in a very big way. Crime rose, and people became friendly, especially people of other Suddenly, the people of Baton Woody Jenkins more cautious and distrustful of races! They say hello. They ask Rouge are aware of one another. Editor one another. if you are okay. They open doors. We’re looking at each other and Growing up and living as I have For the past generation, life in the They shake hands. They smile! seeing a real person — not an ob- my entire life in the inner city of Mid-City area of Baton Rouge has And they express genuine concern ject but a person with feelings. And Baton Rouge, I remember a time been pleasant. The area is racially for one another. People are hug- we are saying to each other in sub- when Baton Rouge was a real com- diverse, and there have been few ging strangers and praying for one tle ways “I’m glad you are here and munity, not just a random collec- real problems between the races. another. glad we are in this together!” tion of people seemingly without Yet, there has been little warmth. Likewise, policemen who are I believe 50 years from now, much in common. It was a place A state of apathy set in. It hasn’t supposedly so hated are being people in Baton Rouge will still be where neighbors knew one another been a hostile environment but just thanked and hugged and prayed talking about these days. and were involved in each other’s cool. No one talks a lot. When you over by strangers of another race. They will remember the time lives. are out and about, if you see friends It’s as though everything our when Baton Rouge could have My parents never locked our and acquaintances, you chat them mamas taught us and everything exploded but didn’t because there doors when we were away, because up. But with strangers, no. Just we learned in Sunday School sud- were too many good people here to our neighbors might need to get “Hello” or “May I help you?” or denly kicked in! allow that to happen. in to borrow something! Parents “Thank you.” Not much else. “Love your neighbor as your- Most of all, I think they will re- were involved in the neighborhood Nothing that says, “I care!” self!” member this as the time when Ba- schools, and store owners knew the It was as if people didn’t really “Don’t judge people by their ap- ton Rouge became more than just names of their customers. Kids see you, especially if you were of a pearance!” a random collection of people but rode the bus downtown by them- different race! “Be good to other people. It will a real community where people re- selves, and any grown up on the But that all changed — rather all come back to you!” ally care about one another and our street would take charge of a child dramatically — last week! 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