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The LSU AgCenter is instituting school garden programs across southwestern Louisiana to teach youngsters where their food comes from and how to make healthful choices in their daily lives.
Seventh Ward Elementary school in rural Vermilion Parish is surrounded by crawfish ponds and sugarcane fields. But the students may not relate the area’s commercial agriculture crops to the foods they eat daily.
School garden projects help students see exactly where their food comes from, said Anna Barras, a family and consumer sciences agent with the AgCenter in Vermilion Parish.

In 2005, Sam Guarino’s family donated his blacksmith shop building the city of Abbeville, which relocated it to its current location on South State Street.
In the years since, the Sam Guarino Blacksmith Shop Museum has become an attraction for the city, highlighting the community’s strong Sicilian ties.
Plans are now in place to ensure that continues well into the future, with some help from its friends.

You’ve heard of summer camps such as baseball, basketball, softball, and football. But there is one camp you may not have heard of this summer. It is an art camp.
Yes, an art camp.
Last week at North Vermilion High School, NV art teacher Kelly deClouet held her first art camp in her classroom.
In her first year, 45 students of different ages attended the camp. Each session had a limited amount of 24 students.
In the morning, there was third grade through fifth grade, and in the afternoon, sixth grade through eighth-grade students. Each session was four hours.