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LaSalle Parish students donned lab coats and goggles last week to create robots, moon sand and more during the fifth annual Very Special Summer Camp at the Centennial Cultural Center (CCC) in downtown Olla. The camp hosted special needs students from around the parish and included many activities such as painting, games, crafts and more. The camp was called “Very Special Science Camp” this year. Those helping with the camp range from special education teachers and paraprofessionals to parents, local youth and CCC employees, board members and volunteers. Students participated in a range of activities from crafting robots from plastic bottles and edible dirt cups with Oreos and chocolate pudding to planting seeds and creating moon sand and more.

Twenty-nine LaSalle Parish 4-H youth, parents and volunteers took part in the fifteenth annual 4-H Day at the Capital on May 30, 2018. During the morning assembly at the AZ Young Park, youth were provided entertainment by the State 4-H Performing Arts Board. State 4-H Executive Board members led opening ceremonies.

Starting a business but need help? Look no farther than the Louisiana Small Business Development Center who has partnered with LaSalle Economic Development District (LEDD) to bring a free workshop to LaSalle Parish entrepreneurs. The workshop, “Starting & Financing a Small Business,” is for individuals interested in determining the feasibility of their business idea, planning to start or have recently started a small business, seeking a small business loan or wanting to learn more about business planning.

Jason and Elizabeth Chisolm are pleased to announce the birth of a son, James David Chisolm.

He was born 1:35pm Wednesday, May 16, 2018, at Touro Hospital in New Orleans.

James weighed 8 pounds 12-ounces and measured 21.5 inches in length.

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LaSalle High School Principal Kara Masling, second from left, was informed last week that she is one of 24 semi-finalists being considered for the 2019 Louisiana Principal of the Year award. Dream Teachers, a co-sponsor of the award, sent representative Gary LaCombe, right, from Baton Rouge to present Masling with a gift basket for her honor of being a semi-finalist and he was joined in the congratulatory presentation by LaSalle Parish Secondary Supervisor Tish Taylor, left, and La-Salle Parish School Superintendent Janet Tullos, second from right. The 2019 Louisiana Principal of the Year will be announced during the 12th Annual Cecil J. Picard Educator Excellence Symposium and Celebration Friday, July 27, 2018, in Baton Rouge.

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The parents of Taylor Ann Gray and Nathan Kyle Williams are pleased to announce their engagement and approaching marriage.

The bride-elect is the daughter of Hollis and Traci Gray of Jena, and granddaughter of Glen and Sharon Taylor of Nebo and Donnie and Teresa Nugent of Whitehall. Taylor is a 2012 graduate of Jena High School and a 2016 graduate of the University of Louisiana at Monroe in nursing. She is currently attending the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and will graduate in 2019 as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She is employed as a Registered Nurse at Citizens Medical Center in Columbia.

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The Central Louisiana leg of the La. Torch Run kicked off in LaSalle Parish early Tuesday morning of last week. Runners joining the 1-mile run through downtown Jena included officers from the LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office, Jena Police Department, along with officers from Rapides Parish.

Special guests for the Torch Run were athletes from the LADD Center in Jena and LaSalle Parish School System Special Education program, as well as many other local supporters. LaSalle Parish was the first of many taking place around Louisiana to bring awareness to Special Olympics Louisiana the upcoming State Summer Games.

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