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The St. Bernard Art Guild will hold its annual Open Art Show on Sunday, June 22, at the St. Bernard Parish Courthouse, 1100 St. Bernard Hwy in Chalmette. The Judge for show will be Auseklis Ozols, founder and director of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts.
Categories: Art Under Glass, Art Not Under Glass, Photography, Three Dimensional.

Awards, selected by juror Auseklis Ozols: Chalmette Refining, LLC, Best of Show Award and $125 Artist’s Choice Award, ribbon in each category: 1st - $100 & ribbon, 2nd - $75 & ribbon, 3rd - $50 & ribbon, 3 Honorable Mention ribbons. Read more »

Thieves target cemetery in Chalmette; two arrested

by Paul Rioux, The Times-Picayune

Monday April 07, 2008, 3:09 PM

In a macabre twist on the rash of copper thefts that has plagued St. Bernard Parish since Hurricane Katrina, authorities arrested two men accused of stealing more than 200 brass flower vases from a Chalmette cemetery and selling them as scrap metal.

“We’ve come a long way from the apocalyptic days after Katrina, but this is a sad reminder of just how low some people will go,” Sheriff Jack Stephens said.

The suspects allegedly sold most of the vases, which cost $600, to a scrap yard for $1.50 a pound, or about $25 each, sheriff’s deputies said.

Val Terry, 41, and Joseph Scorsone, 42, were arrested Saturday after sheriff’s deputies found 98 vases in the back of Scorsone’s pickup truck parked outside their Jupiter Drive home. The house is just a block from St. Bernard Memorial Gardens, where 223 vases were reported stolen in the past week, Stephens said.

Cemetery groundskeeper Michael Kennedy called deputies Saturday about 6:45 a.m. after seeing a black pickup truck drive away from a spot in the back of the cemetery where several vases were laying on the ground.

“I knew something was wrong because it’s very unusual for someone to visit the cemetery that early,” said Kennedy, who followed the pickup to a house at 3919 Jupiter Drive where deputies later arrested both suspects. Read more »

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