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Zachary police launching program for sharing security footage
Leila Pitchford AROUND ZACHARY
Don’t forget to set your clocks Daylight saving time will end at 2 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 2. Be sure to adjust your clocks back an hour. Daylight saving time will begin March 8.
Church festival set for Nov. 1 Novemberfest at St. Patrick’s is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Nov. 1. Food, games, a bake sale, classic cars, an obstacle course, crafters and vendors as well as community entertainment will be on had. The church and school are at 1322 Church St., Zachary.
Pack the pantry Schools in the Zachary Community School District will be competing in Pack the Pantry Nov. 3-20. Students will try to collect the most food for the food pantry.
12TH YEAR, NO. 3
BY OLIVIA MCCLURE
Elaine Stewart, left, helps bind a quilt for Mary Quebedeaux, right. Quebedeaux injured her arm and needed quilts finished as Christmas gifts.
CAMARADERIE IN STITCHES
Louisiana School to hold meeting in Baton Rouge Representatives from the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts in Natchitoches will host an informational session for prospective students and their families at 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 1, at the Louisiana Culinary Institute, 10550 Airline Highway, Baton Rouge.
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Warren Brady ZACHARY SPORTS
Contributing writer
Zachary Police are launching an initiative that will allow businesses and residents to easily share security camera footage with officers. Police Chief Darryl Lawrence announced the program, called Connect Zachary, at Mayor David McDavid’s annual prayer luncheon Oct. 24. People who sign up will be able to send officers videos that capture suspicious activity or offer clues that could help crack crimes. “Anyone who has a camera that’s registered with us at the police department, we’ll have the ability to — if there’s a crime that’s committed in your neighborhood — we can go back and we can send out a mass text to people in that area, that particular time, date, whatever we’re looking for,” Lawrence said. “If you can see anything that’s suspicious at all on your camera, we’re going to ask you to send that footage to us so that we can start our investigation.” He said privacy will be protected. “People are always concerned that we’re going to be logging into your cameras at home and all of this, and that’s not what we’ll do,” he said. “The only time we can do anything with your camera is if you send us a link.” Between cellphones and security systems, cameras are everywhere nowadays, Lawrence said. Connect Zachary will allow business owners and residents to join forces with police to leverage that technology to keep the city safe. “A lot of the crime that is solved by law enforcement is solved by the help of the community,” Lawrence said.
Catch up on the Zachary Stampede results The Zachary High boys crosscountry team finished first and the girls finished second in the Zachary Broncos Cross-Country Stampede at Port Hudson on Oct. 18. Over 780 athletes competed with 222 adult coaches/volunteers assisting with the event and many spectators. Top finishers for the boys were Tyson Franklin, fifth at 17:47.75; Vincent Bodine, eighth at 17:54.75, and Carson Southall, 10th at 18:11.99. Blair Smith, fourth, was the top runner and top 10 finisher for the girls with a time of 21:14.96. Twenty-one boys and 18 girls teams competed in the threemile course at the park. Crosscountry coach Julie Fink commented that “running off with a first-place varsity boys team champion trophy, a girls varsity team runner-up plaque and for top 10 finishes is what I call a great cross-country day.” The Broncos will compete in the EBR Metro Championship Oct. 29, followed by regionals
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PHOTO BY OLIVIA MCCLURE
Retired professional baseball player Sid Bream was the featured speaker at Mayor David McDavid’s annual prayer luncheon Oct. 24. STAFF PHOTOS BY LEILA PITCHFORD
Pam Flotte binds a quilt at the Honey Bees Quilting Guild meeting Thursday at the Zachary Branch of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
Zachary quilting group completes charity quilt project for year
BY LEILA PITCHFORD Staff writer
The Honey Bees Quilting Guild in Zachary collected charity quilts Oct. 23 for the Brave Heart program. The are quilts were made by members for the nonprofit program, which helps children in foster care. The guild displayed 23 quilts at the start of the
Retired baseball player speaks on social trends BY OLIVIA MCCLURE Contributing writer
meeting and teased each other about slacking off because it was fewer than the 35 charity quilts they made last year. The group has made quilts for the charity project for about 17 years. Members try to make quilts for various ages — up to teen — and for various tastes, as seen in the pile of quilts displayed at the meeting.
To baseball fans, Sid Bream is best known for what has gone down in sports history as “the slide.” It was October 1992, and Bream — then a first baseman for the Atlanta Braves — narrowly escaped a Pittsburgh Pirates tag and slid into home plate, scoring a gamewinning run that took his team to
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