St. Bernard Art Guild’s Annual Open Art Show
May 8, 2008
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
April 9, 2008
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
Anticipation is building for star-studded Jazzfest
April 3, 2008
By Keith Spera
Music writer
During last Tuesday’s news conference announcing the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival stage assignments and times, Mayor Ray Nagin urged locals to “put aside your post-Katrina stress disorders” and join him at the Fair Grounds.
Irma Thomas is ready for New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, are you?
“I’m going to be the first one in line to get a little crawfish Monica and a soft-shell crab po-boy,” the mayor declared. “Then I’ll sit down in the shade and go to sleep.”
There’ll be little time for sleep between April 25 and May 4. Seven days strong once again, Jazzfest 2008 is especially top-heavy with marquee names.
Jazzfest traditionally hosts a news conference/party 30 days before the gates open. A jovial mood prevailed Tuesday in the North Rampart Street offices of the Jazz and Heritage Foundation, the nonprofit that owns Jazzfest. A beaming Irma Thomas regarded Doug Bourgeois’ Jazzfest poster depicting her as a young vixen in a gold dress.
“I haven’t looked like that in 40 years!” Thomas declared. “I want to thank you . . . for making me look wonderful. When I look in the mirror, that is not what I see.” Read more
Venezuela says all Chalmette oil sent to China
April 2, 2008
Venezuela is sending to China all the oil it previously shipped to a US refinery jointly owned with Exxon Mobil amid a legal battle between the OPEC nation and the US oil giant, Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez said on Friday.
“With respect to the shipments, we put them at China’s disposal,” Ramirez told reporters. “All of it.” Exxon and Venezuela have been in dispute over supplies to the Louisiana-based Chalmette refinery since Exxon won court orders freezing $12 billion in Venezuelan assets as part of a legal battle over compensation for Exxon assets Venezuela nationalized in 2007.
State oil company PDVSA halted supplies to Chalmette, a 50-50 joint venture that can process about 193,000 barrels per day of crude, after Exxon began rejecting some of the cargoes that Venezuela destined for the refinery. Ramirez said PDVSA rerouted the supplies in protest, which he said were meant to pressure Venezuela as part of an international arbitration over the 2007 nationalization of the Cerro Negro heavy oil project that Exxon once ran.
Exxon wants at least $5 billion in compensation, though PDVSA says it is due less than $1 billion. A London court this month lifted one of the freeze orders, though Exxon still has similar injunctions in Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles courts. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is keen to export more oil to Asia to reduce traditional dependence on United States energy markets. (Reuters)
Louisiana Crawfish Festival
March 25, 2008
Mar 27-30
Crawfish dishes, live music, rides, family fun.
Entertainment Schedule:
Thurs. 3/27 6 pm -10 pm “Redline”
Fri. 3/28 5 pm - 7 pm “Gashouse Gorillas” 8 pm - 11pm “Topcats”
Sat. 3/29 Noon - 3 pm “Amanda Shaw” 4 pm - 7 pm “Irene Sage” 8 pm - 11 pm “Bag of Donuts”
Sun. 3/30 Noon - 2 pm “Bruce Daigrepont” 3 pm - 6 pm “Paul Varisco & the Milestones” 7 pm - 10 pm “Buck Town All-Stars”
St. Bernard Civic Auditorium Complex
Chalmette
504-271-0537
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