Tuesday, October 19, 2010

blog assignment #28/Current News Photos

20 Pictres that reflect news today
More than 300 people attended a presentation and public forum discussion on proposed school closings and changes to school construction Monday at the New Light Missionary Baptist Church gymnasium in Scotlandville.Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts fourth-grade students, from left, Leighann Cloudet, Stephen Nguyen, Sarah Park, Jaiden Brown and Davis Copeland practice their performance in the opera, ‘An Illusion on the Beach,’ during the final dress rehearsal Monday. Diane Sneed, a fourth-grade teacher, said the students completed almost every job needed to get the production on the stage.Angola prison inmate Michael McDaniel leads Brand No. 600 out of the auction pen during Saturday’s inaugural Angola Prison Horse Sale. From the podium, auctioneer Foster Bridewell, left, and Louisiana State Penitentiary agriculture program director Danny Hoover tell buyers about the next horse being auctioned off. More than 100 horses netted the state $77,100 by the time the sale ended.Alice Boucher Elementary School Librarian Martha Baden, right, reads ‘The Snowy Day’ by Ezra Jack Keats on Thursday during the Read for the Record literacy event at the school. The library floor was filled with shredded paper to simulate snow. Kindergarten children were paired with fourth- and fifth-grade ‘buddies’ to assist their reading skills.One of the sites being considered by the Lafayette Parish School Board is the old Super K-Mart building on Ambassador Caffery Boulevard. The site also includes an undeveloped, 5-acre tract behind the building.A Bullet Films production was shot recently at Blackham Coliseum in Lafayette. Since early 2008, Bullet Films has been shooting in Lafayette and the Acadiana area, recently completing principal photography on its 10th movie, ‘Weather Wars.’The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Homecoming court for 2010 features, from left, Hilary Villien, of Maurice, Randi LeBlanc, of Breaux Bridge, Queen Danika Arenibas, of Lafayette, Rachel Bonnette, of Lafayette, and Candice Dazet, of Slidell.

Tyler Ortego looks for signs of oysters attaching themselves to a man-made reef in Vermilion Bay on Thursday. Ortego is employed by the company that created the material to make the reef.Abbeville High School teacher Shannon Sewell conducts a freshman algebra class Wednesday. Data-driven instruction and programs focusing on freshmen are thought to be factors in rising graduation rates in Vermilion and St. Martin parishes.This home on the 400 block of St. Charles Street near Louisiana Avenue in Lafayette was the site of a shooting Tuesday morning, according to police.Restaurant operator Sammy Nagem is asking zoning officials for clearance to build a new Sammy’s Grill restaurant near literary figure Robert Penn Warren’s former Colonial Revival residence in Ascension Parish.Barnes & Noble Digital Sales Lead Cindy Horne, standing, shows Pecan Grove Primary School teachers, from left, Emily Lambert, Samantha Romeo, Cindy Ingolia, Allison Brown, Vicki Templet and Courtney Dumas functions of the Nook, an e-reader, Sept. 22 on campus.
Kathy Daigle of Gonzales works on an oil painting during River Region Art Association’s annual Awesome Art in Autumn Gardens at Houmas House Plantation Saturday. Authorities are searching for Demond Cook, a convicted robber who escaped this morning in downtown Baton Rouge while being taken to the courthouse for sentencing, authorities said. All schools in the area are on lockdown as a precaution, and people living within two miles of the courthouse are being called.
The Sheriff's Office is looking for this couple in connection with the use of a lost or stolen debit/credit card.LSU stays with two
Central Thruway GroundbreakingMayor WattsSouthern linebackers Corey Ray, left, and Sir Edward Staten talk after the Jaguars’ 49-45 last-second loss to Jackson State on Saturday in Jackson, Miss.
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