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Fine Food & Entertainment
with John Johnson
September 6-25, 2013.6-8 p.m. Everyone is invited to join Nan-
cy Lowentritt and 22 other local area artists at Tangipahoa Parish
Tourist Commission, 13143 Wardline Rd, Hammond, LA 70401.
Opening Reception with refreshments and People's Choice Awards
includes over 100 works of art in every art medium; paintings,
pottery, photographs, prints, jewelry, basketry, prints, wood, and
more! Vote for your favorite work of art! Show continues until Sep-
tember 25, 7 days a week during regular hours.
Saturday, September 21 - Krewe of Erin Jambalaya Benefit for
Walk to End Alzheimers 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Ponchatoula Coun-
try Market. Jambalaya will be cooked by Tom Pittman. Plates will
be $5. Delivery is available please call 985-507-7823.
September 21, 2013 - The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
Flotilla 4-11 will be hosting a recreational safe boating course at
the First Baptist Church, 325 East Pine Street, Ponchatoula from
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Anyone born after January 1, 1984 must complete
a boating education course and carry proof of completion in order
to operate a boat over 10 horsepower or a personal watercraft. To
register for this course or for more information, please contact Jim
Konczol at 225-567-1648 or 985-974-6336.
September 22, 2013- 3:00 p.m. Mt. Olive Baptist Church of Inde-
pendence Louisiana will celebrate its 100th Year Anniversary The
Speaker will be the Rev. Samuel Brown, Pastor of the Greater Mr.
Pleasant and Mt Vernon Missionary Baptist Church of Hammond,
Louisiana. Rev. Jerry C. Edwards is the Pastor and the church is
located on 54039 Mt Olive Church Road, Independence, Louisiana
70443. The public is cordially invited.
September 27-28 - Roussel's Southeast Louisiana Guitar Show.
Downtown Ponchatoula, no admission charge.
October 3, 2013 7:30 a.m.- 11:20a.m. Independence Middle Mag-
net school will be hosting its 1st annual College and Career Readi-
ness Day. There will be guest speakers, live events, and classroom
activities during this time. Attendance is highly encouraged won-
derful event.
Time for Oktoberfest!
As with every year, Middendorf's will feature a German entree
as a special, lunch and dinner, on Wednesdays and Thursdays for
six weeks.
October is a busy month for all who love pink and, like the rest
of the country, we hope to bring awareness to breast cancer with
our wait staff wearing their pink Middendorf's aprons.
Plans to open
local music school
James Bass
to perform at
September 27-28
Guitar Show
Times Report
Master musician James Bass
of Ponchatoula will perform
at next weekend's 2nd Annual
Guitar Show with Big A1 & the
Heavyweights, Friday night's
headliners, festival organizer
Chris Roussel told The Times.
Bass has several CD's on the
market, and he is well-known
by local students because he is
a music teacher with the Tan-
gipahoa Parish Schools.
Among the other music pros
performing Friday starting a 7
p.m. will be the Reed Alleman
Band. Saturday's performers
start playing at 2:30 p.m. fea-
turing the popular Millville-
based local band The Porch
Rockers which plays all over
South Louisiana, Chicken Farm
Road Society, Berger Band, and
The Avon Suspects.
There is no admission
charge.
Roussel added that Bass will
soon be opening a music school
in the redecorated rooms atop
his combination jewelry, an-
tiques, furnishings and music
shop, Roussel's & Company, lo-
cated in America's Antique City
in the first block of West Pine
Street at number 177.
Friday and Saturday, Sep-
tember 27-28, Roussel will open
his new concert venue behind
his store, which will showcase
a collection of vintage guitars,
such as the '63 Gibson ES330.
Musical instruments will be
available for purchase, sales,
and trade.
Bass teaches guitar, alto sax-
ophone, violin and other instru-
ments, as requested. He man-
ages the Roussel's & Co. Music
Studio. The new studio boasts
a "faculty of highly skilled and
trained instructors who per-
form regularly in the New Or-
THE TIMES, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013, facebook.com mesnorthshore PAGE 3
leans/Baton Rouge areas. We The building for most of its
offer lessons on stringed instru- history housed Richardson
ments, piano, vocals, brass and Hardware.
woodwinds.
Saturday, October 12, 6 p.m. Madisonville Wooden Boat
Festival - Patrick Cooper accompanied by Dwight Breland, Acous-
, tic Americana & Blues; 7:30 p.m. The M }ly Ringwa s "World's
Greatest 80s Experience.' : *:
Monday October 21, 5-8 p.m. - Tucker Elementary McDon-
alds fundraiser Tucker Elementary will receive 20% of all proceeds
earned.
Birthda o
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Occasion
Timothy H. McHugh, William
Bohning, Nan Bankston, Felic-
ity McMahon
September 26 - Eric Poche',
Evelyn Dickerson, Gerard Ge-
genheimer, Harry J. Gabriel,
Henry Arnold, Jamie Ernst,
Loren Connelley, Mark Basso,
Stephen Pugh II, Teri Gegen-
heimer, Vanessa Latino, Van-
essa Ohler,
Please Notify
Us Of Changes
You Wish Made
In our Birthday
and Anniversary
Greetings
985/386-2877tor@
ponchatoula.com
Art Gallery & Custom Framing
Special Pricing on
Festival Posters
Framed Art 40 % Off Retail
Monday - Saturday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. or by Appointment
1108 CM FAGAN DR-HAMMOND LA
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Vete ans 0rngnnatnons, Options,
Special Olympics and Relay for Life
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