Evangeline attends annual Natchitoches Christmas Festival December 7, 2007
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Each year, Evangeline attends the Natchitoches, City of Lights, Christmas Festival. My family and I attended the festival on November 30-December 2 this year. The Natchitoches Christmas Festival is on the Cane River, and downtown Natchitoches is covered with beautiful Christmas lights. The decorations on the bridge, river, and throughout the town were unlike any I have ever seen.
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SJH religion classes help less fortunate December 7, 2007
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Every year, all of the Religion classes join together to make baskets for the poor. This year every grade from first to twelfth will be donating various items for the less fortunate. Mr. David Merrick, head of the Religion department, is organizing the event this year. He has already started planning and finding families to help. The effort to collect toys, cards, anything that will brighten
their day has not officially started yet. We will be starting this fundraiser next Monday. For the past few years, we have been adopting families to give the children toys, and the parents whatever they may need. Last year we helped over ten families. Many people in the community took notice and were very pleased with St. John Students giving back to the community. This year, we hope to live up to expectations and deliver the Christmas baskets once again.
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Deer hunting season opens December 7, 2007
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Starting on Saturday, December 8, dog season will open up. The purpose of dog season is for the hunter to run their dogs into the woods so the deer will run out of the woods so the other hunters can shoot the deer as they come out. This style of hunting is fast pace; where as, still hunting is a very slow and relaxed style of deer hunting. Still hunting is when the hunter sits in a stand in the woods and waits for a deer to pass.
Just Say No December 6, 2007
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Drugs are bad. I’m sure that is what people mostly hear from “the man”. Don’t get me wrong, drugs really are bad but most people don’t really know what’s out there. Kids today hear about mostly marijuana, cocaine, heroine, crack, there are a few others but believe it or not there are more popular drugs that are easier to get now and most people don’t know about.
I have a lot of friends that are associated with drugs. Some went to a school downtown called E.B.R.A.T.S. (East Baton Rouge Arts and Technology School). For those of you who don’t know that wasn’t the best school around. It was shut down because of their test scores. There were few rules and the people that went there for the most part were all on drugs. There was only on known straight edge person that went there and the other kids influenced that other wise. Straight edge is “poison free” which basically means you don’t smoke, drink do drugs, anything that alters a state of mind. There are actual gangs of this nature that will “act” upon people that aren’t straight edge. That is really bad in Boston because of the hardcore music scene. To learn more about that watch Boston Beat down.
Anyway, back to my point, now day’s kids have to worry about more prescription drugs. Ecstasy, Lori tabs, Zanibars, and 2ce (If that’s how you spell that). Those are the popular ones. I actually know people that get chemical research drugs that haven’t even been tested yet and take that. Bottom line is that just because it’s not your typical bad drug that you know about doesn’t mean that it’s not a bad drug. For more question about this just come ask me and I will further elaborate why these are bad and what they do to your body.
By Scotty Baldwin
