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‘Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.’ — Special Olympics motto
STAFF PHOTO BY JAVIER GALLEGOS
Student athlete Asher Creel crosses the finish line with the help of teacher Matthias Fowler during the 2025 Livingston Parish Special Olympics at Live Oak High School on Feb. 26. ä See story, more photos. PAGE 4G
Scooby-Doo helps schools celebrate Breakfast Week Community news report
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Kayla Authement and Tracey Quamme dress as Scooby-Doo characters for the Springfield Elementary School’s celebration of National School Breakfast Week.
The importance of a nutritious school breakfast was stressed as Livingston Parish’s schools celebrated 2025 National School Breakfast Week. Springfield Elementary’s celebration, held the last week of February, included a Scooby-Doo-themed breakfast celebration with members of the Springfield Fire Department from Livingston Parish Fire Protection District No. 2, who played games and interacted with students.
“Our menus reflect the tastes and preferences of our students, so recently we have emphasized increasing opportunities for students to sample potential breakfast items and provide feedback.”
to have better attendance rates and fewer behavioral problems. Livingston Parish Schools offer students traditional breakfast service in their cafeterias and bagged “grab-n-go” breakfast meals that can be enjoyed in their classrooms or in the comSOMMER PURVIS, mon areas prior to the start of class. supervisor Livingston Parish has of Livingston Parish Schools grown its breakfast particiChild Nutrition Programs pation by nearly 7% over the last school year, acResearch shows that cording to Sommer Purvis, students who participate in school breakfast tend ä See BREAKFAST, page 3G
Mammograms offered 22, Maurepas, on March Woman’s Hospital is 17. Call (225) 698-3435 to bringing breast imaging schedule. to Livingston Parish with On March 24, the coach its mobile mammography will visit Mandy’s Primary coach, which offers adHealthcare, 35701 La. 16, vanced 3D mammogram Darlene Denham Springs. Call technology at convenient Denstorff (225) 791-2400 to schedule. times and locations across AROUND For more information Louisiana. LIVINGSTON including the full mamPhysician’s orders are required and appointmography coach schedule, visit Womans.org. ments are strongly encouraged. Mammograms will be done Wednesday at RKM Primary Care St. Joseph’s Altar March 14 Livingston, 28315 S. Frost Road, Immaculate Conception CathoLivingston. Call (225) 283-1356 lic Church’s St. Joseph Mass will to schedule. Also on Wednesday, be held at 6 p.m. March 14 at the the coach is stopping at Sage church and the blessing of the Specialty Hospital, 8375 Florida altar will follow at 7 p.m. The anBlvd., Denham Springs. Call (225) nual dinner will be preceded by 924-8268 to schedule. the ritual of the feeding of the The coach is stopping at LPG ä See AROUND, page 3G Riverside in Maurepas, 18740 La.
Go Tell America bringing crusade to Denham Springs BY VIC COUVILLION Contributing writer
Evangelist Rick Gage, of Go Tell America, will lead a crusade in Livingston Parish on March 16-19 with meetings in the football stadium on the campus of Denham Springs High School. Gage has been leading such crusades for the past 30 years, and he has reached tens of thousands of PHOTO BY VIC COUVILLION people with the Gospels in such crusades both in the Evangelist Rick Gage, of Go Tell America, takes time United States and internationally. Gage and a group of pastors and faith leaders in to discuss the crusade he will lead in Livingston Livingston Parish have been planning the crusade Parish March 16-19 in the football stadium at for more than a year. In an interview, Gage said that Denham Springs High School. The sessions are set such gatherings require detailed planning to assure for 7 p.m. each night. He recently visited Denham that those attending the nightly meetings will be
Springs to meet with local church leaders to make final plans.
ä See CRUSADE, page 3G