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BACK-TO-SCHOOL BASH CONNECTS KIDS, RESOURCES
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Covington Boys & Girls Club gets a permanent home
Facility to be built with state money, private donations BY ANDREW CANULETTE Staff writer
gave away 300 backpacks and some
After several years of bouncing from place to place, the Covington Boys & Girls Club appears primed to find a permanent home once again. State Sen. Patrick McMath and state Rep. Mark Wright, both of Covington, helped procure $1 million in funding from the state’s supplemental budget before the last legislative session ended. That money, along with $1.5 mil- McMath lion donated by a local benefactor, as well as an ongoing capital campaign administered through the Northshore Community Foundation, will provide the economic boost the club needs to finance a new building in downtown Covington. Wright Club officials already have a spot selected for the building, too, with a donated lot at the corner of West 29th Avenue and Tyler Street ready for construction. Architectural renderings on the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Louisiana website call for an 8,400-square-foot building that would serve approximately 150 northshore youths ages 6 to 18.
school supplies to a host of excited
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PHOTOS BY GRANT THERKILDSEN
Chayne Alexius gets a backpack from Amber Cardon when the Children’s Museum of St. Tammany hosted a Back to School Bash on July 26, at Pelican Park near Mandeville. The Children’s Museum of St. Tammany
children at its Back-to-School Bash on July 26 at the Pelican Park near
New public school principals take over in 2025-26 school year
Mandeville. The bash also included dozens of organizations giving away or selling child-oriented services and productions. It was a free gathering open to kids, 4 years and older, and their families. Organizers said the goal was to help families connect with resources and programs that provide chances
BY JESSICA SAGGIO Contributing writer
for children to engage in activities that
As incoming Principal George Herdliska took the reins at Slidell High School, it didn’t just feel like a new adventure for the veteran administrator. It felt like coming home, he said. “Slidell High means so much to me, and I spent so much of my life there and raised a large portion of my family there,” said Herdliska. “It is home.” Herdliska has deep roots at Slidell High.
promote school readiness. There were even some free haircuts given. ä More Back-to-School Bash photos. PAGE 4A
Joseph Garro gets a free back-to-school hair cut from Jaime Ford in Pelican Park.
Editor’s note: There was such a positive response to our “Where Are They Now?” stories last year that we brought the series back this summer. We asked that question about some of the best athletes in local sports and then we went out and found them. This week, we feature former Mandeville volleyball standout and current coach Rachel Lindelow Schulingkamp.
ä See PRINCIPALS, page 5A
Schulingkamp still a force for Mandeville volleyball BY MIKE GEGENHEIMER Contributing writer
It was the fall after Hurricane Katrina and Rachel Lindelow was about to play the biggest volleyball game of her young life. Just a few months earlier, Lindelow had no FILE PHOTO BY PATRICK DENNIS idea if she’d return to Mandeville High for Mandeville coach Rachel Lindelow Schulingkamp her senior season as St. Tammany was still instructs her players during a match against Parkview. reeling from the devastation. The All-Dis-
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