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with Allison Clark, the Lafourche Parish Library’s Prime Time liaison and a Prime Time veteran program coordinator. Clark was delighted to have the able assistance of Rotary and the city to help her with a program in her parish. The Rotary Club and the City of Thibodaux picked up the expenses for the Prime Time program and also helped with the donation of door prizes and food for each of the six sessions. Ron Alcorn had attended the Prime Time training workshop held in New Orleans in December. "I think we can do this every year," said Alcorn, who has become a Prime Time devotee. With scholar Linda Stanga of Nicholls State University and storyteller Sue Peace, manager of the Methodist Day Care in Houma, leading sessions, approximately 16 families attended each week. The Fanguy family, who had perfect attendance for this Prime Time program, attended the Rotary Club’s April 1 meeting to give their personal testimony about the effect that the program had on them. FIRST CHOICE SECURITY, INC. Security Guard Service Let a group of dedicated professionals experienced in security provide your company with the safety you deserve 938 Lafayette Street Suite 105 New Orleans, LA 70113 Office: (504) 598-2198 Fax: (504) 598-2199 firstchoicekj@yahoo.com www.firstchoicesecurity.biz Services: Mobile Patrol, Two Marked Patrol Units, and Two Unmarked Patrol Units. Specializing in: Hotels, Hospitals, Restaurants, Apartment Complex Security, Churches, Weddings, Parties, Receptions, Concerts, Special Events and Nursing Homes and School Security. Collaborative Prime Time session in Thibodaux a success A collaborative effort among the City of Thibodaux, the local Rotary Club and the Lafourche Parish Library proved to be a success this spring for a Prime Time Family Reading Time series at the Thibodaux Library. Wanting to do something to counteract the illiteracy and semi-literacy problems in Lafourche Parish, Woody Falgoust, local attorney, bookstore owner and president of the Thibodaux Rotary, conceived this collaborative idea and did the groundwork for the event. Prime Time Family Reading Time is a unique intergenerational literacy program. Families gather at public libraries with humanites-based storytellers and facilitators to stimulate discussion about themes and problems encountered in daily life, as expressed through books. Woody Falgoust invited Dr. Olivia Pass, associate director of Prime Time, to speak about the literacy program at a meeting of the Thibodaux Rotary Club last year. That meeting cinched the Rotary Club’s involvement. Then, Falgoust and Pass met with Ron Alcorn, Thibodaux's director of recreation. Alcorn embraced the idea and talked with Mayor Charles Caillouet, who agreed that this program was a most worthy one for the city to undertake. From that point, Alcorn took the lead and met Let First Choice Security be your first choice in security. Summer 2008/LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 7 http://www.firstchoicesecurity.biz http://www.firstchoicesecurity.biz http://www.bevolo.com http://www.bevolo.com

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Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008 Contents Friends Editor’s Column Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities George Rodrigue’s Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs & Beyond Katrina The Historic New Orleans Collection After The Flood Faubourg Marigny: The Creole “Suburb” Preserving New Orleans Jazz, One Generation at a Time: Conversation & Music with Tom Sancton Louisiana Foodways Louisiana Architecture Baton Rouge Photographs, 1863-1910 Jazz Notes The Ogden Museum of Southern Art Louisiana Association of Museums Nature of the “Beast” Louisiana State Museum Bookstand Sound Advice Forum

Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Summer 2008

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