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Thursday, August 7, 2008

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When Quentre Roberts, 12, scanned a pair of Old Navy blue jeans, flip-flops and T-shirts, the computer displayed the cost, leaving Roberts with nothing more to do than bag the items and politely thank his mock customer.

Each week The Advocate asks a different “quiz taker” for his or her current favorites in pop culture.

The first board game I remember seeing was checkers. My parents jumped the red and black pieces making slapping sounds on the board. One of them would say “king me” and there would be the clicking of checker topping checker.

GEISMAR — Body parts — tiny heads, arms and feet. That’s what you’ll find on almost every surface in Stephanie Cauley’s workshop. But Cauley has no criminal intent. She’s an Ochsner Health Center optometrist by day and a doll-maker by night.

Legendary fiction writer Ernest Gaines and Baton Rouge nonfiction author Mary Ann Sternberg will be recognized for their work to promote justice and harmony at the 46th annual Brotherhood and Sisterhood Awards Banquet Thursday, Aug. 21.

After less than a year of riding lessons, Joseph Montgomery has collected an impressive number of ribbons. Even more important to the 14-year-old, he has his own horse.

When two LSU students created a Web site in 2005 to help fellow students buy and sell used textbooks, they learned a hard fact of business life: It’s hard to grow if people don’t know about you.

Cool and professional. That’s what the subject of this week’s Style File, where we catch people out and about, brings to the office.

It’s quite a journey from Donaldsonville to Hollywood, but Stacy Caballero has made it with a few significant stops in between. She’s an up-and-coming costume designer who worked on two recently released movies, the Will Smith superhero movie “Hancock” and the action racing movie “Speed Racer,” as well as the next, “Star Trek,” scheduled for release in May 2009. She was the assistant costume designer on all three films.

If Matt and Randy LaBauve’s high school buddies had picked which of the two brothers’ wall would one day be covered with international track and field medals, few would have picked against Randy, who was already lighting up the track at Brusly High.

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A trip to attend the “2008 Rainbow PUSH Coalition” in July provided student leaders of the Louisiana Leadership Institute an opportunity to see their agenda work — and to make quick changes when it didn’t.

Events scheduled for this week.

Life got much worse before it got better for LaJean Mitchell. She was ‘abandoned’ at the hospital for weeks after she was born — before being adopted.

Religion Bulletins for Aug. 2, 2008

Traveling more than 1,000 miles for a temporary job might sound like desperation. In the case of Jan McBride Sumrall and Nancy Peele, it’s a matter of party loyalty.

They’re not for sale, but if you want to see what 3,000 bedding plants, representing more than 300 varieties, look like, the LSU AgCenter’s Hammond Research Station is the place to be from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.

The best beach book I’ve read this year can’t be found in any library or bookstore. It’s a journal, kept since 2004, by the various visitors to a rental beach house near Gulf Shores, Ala.

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