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January
26
LSU Offers Online Fitness Videos
by The Weekly Staff
Fitness Webcasts can help you work off those holiday calories and get back in shape for 2012.
Lack of time to get to a gym isn’t an excuse anymore because Louisiana State University’s Department of University Recreation is streaming fitness videos and healthy lifestyle tips from professionals online via Mediasite by Sonic Foundry, a market leader for enterprise Webcasting and lecture capture.View More
Feature
January
26
Service Organizations Address Literacy Concerns
by The Weekly Staff
The Rotary Club of Golden Meadow and Rotary District 6200 partnered with International Orthodox Christian Charities to offer a shipment of educational materials to local educational, recreational and community-based service organizations.
Rotary District 6200 distributed reading and science kits, flash cards, classroom libraries, reading books, textbooks, workbooks, computer programs and math materials to over 1,000 children in an effort to fight illiteracy across the area. The YMCA, education departments of universities, community and day care centers, Rotary Clubs throughout the district and other local organizations helped to get these materials in the hands of the children during a cold day in December.View More
Feature
January
19
Nicholls News
Compiled by The Weekly Staff
Nicholls State University plans to offer a few new course options this spring through the Office of Continuing Education, despite having to respond to state budget cuts. In preparation of the 2012 carnival season, University Police are also offering all of the information you need to know concerning campus parking along the parade route.
Here are the current headlines at Nicholls.View More
Feature
January
12
Thibodaux Blood Bank Seeks Donors
by The Weekly Staff
A local blood bank is in urgent need of type O negative blood. United Blood Services in Thibodaux issued a call for type O negative blood because the current supply is alarmingly low.
Blood donations typically decline during the holiday season and supplies decrease because communities often experience an increase in motor vehicle accidents while fewer people stop by blood banks to donate during that time, said Ashley Bilello, donor recruitment representative for UBS.View More
Feature
January
12
Chili Cook-Off Benefits Downtown Beautification
by Terry Trahan Jr.
Administrators and volunteers in Terrebonne Parish are hoping a few pots of chili will be enough to spark interest in beautification projects planned for downtown Houma.
Chili and beautification? That’s right.View More
