East Feliciana Parish 4-H’ers will be camping this summer from June 11 to 15.  It is open to fourth through sixth grade boys and girls.

Camping is one of the most valuable experiences a child can have. It’s a learning experience that helps boys and girls appreciate the outdoors, live together as a group, get along with others and appreciate people with different interests and backgrounds.  Many 4th, 5th and 6th grade boys and girls participate in 4-H Camp Grant Walker. The camp is held at the LSU AgCenter’ s Grant Walker 4-H Educational Center, an 80-acre campsite located near Pollock, La., on Highway 8 about 15 miles northeast of Alexandria.

One of the important things children learn from camp is to be self-sufficient. That is, they learn they can survive for four whole days on their own. The camp week lasts four days and starts on Monday afternoon, when the boys and girls arrive, and ends on Friday morning after breakfast. The first meal served at camp is supper on Monday night.

Russell Daigle, a volunteer with the Port Allen Food Pantry, was honored to receive a check for $4,000 on behalf of the Food Pantry from the Port Allen Rotary Club at the Club’s meeting on Tuesday, March 6. The donation was a portion of the Club’s annual golf tournament fundraiser held each fall. Daigle has been a volunteer with the Food Pantry for many years and spoke about how the donation will help those in need in the local community.

He explained that the Port Allen Food Pantry receives a monthly donation of food from the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, but there are other expenses to help meet the nutritional needs of families receiving assistance from the Port Allen Food Pantry. He and the other volunteers will use the donated funds to purchase additional supplies such as rice, peanut butter and jelly, cereal or other staples to help families. 

Nine News Neighborhoods is celebrating sweethearts on this day of love.  Melissa and Loran Conrad of Sunshine met on a blind date arranged by her sister and brother-in-law in 1995. They have remained sweethearts through 15 years of marriage.

Happy Valentine's Day!