Around the Westside for Aug. 29

Iberville Parish is accepting photographs of armed forces veterans for display on the Iberville Wall of Veterans.

The Wall of Veterans, at Iberville Veterans Memorial in Plaquemine, honors veterans and active-duty military personnel with ties to the parish. It includes more than 1,800 photos of veterans with their names and military branches.

The display will open Saturday and remain on view for a month after the parish’s Veteran’s Day ceremony on Nov. 11.

For online submission, log on to the Iberville Parish website at http://www.ibervilleparish.com. Look on the home page for the section on submitting a photo for the Veterans Wall.

Photos also may be dropped off for scanning at the parish libraries in Plaquemine, White Castle and East Iberville or at the Iberville Visitors Center in North Iberville.

Be sure you know in which branch of the military the veteran served: Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard or Marines. Photos submitted digitally must be high resolution.

For more information, call (225) 687-2642.

Chamber Expo

The West Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce is asking the public to save the date for its 2012 Procurement & Business Expo taking place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Addis Community Center.

The event will feature a new format that includes seminars on social media/networking and human resource tools for a better work environment. Bruce Lambert, executive director of the Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies, will be the featured speaker at the Expo lunch.

To register, contact the chamber at (225) 383-3140.

Museum activities

The West Baton Rouge Museum is holding three events that are free and open to the public during September:

• The Ethel Claiborne Dameron Lecture Series will be held from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 16. It will focus on the new book “West Baton Rouge Parish History: People, Places, Progress.” The book’s editor, Faye Philips, will be on hand to talk about the book project and autograph copies of the volume. Refreshments will be served and books will be available for purchase.
• From Sept. 22 through Dec. 2, the museum will present an exhibit on loan from the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism’s Division of Archeology titled, “Mardi Gras Shipwreck: Recovered Cache c. 1812.” The collection features artifacts recovered from the shipwreck that lay for 200 years under 4,000 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico.
• “Lunchtime Lecture & Book Signing” on Sept. 26 with Randy Harrelson, Brian Costello and photographer Richard Sexton highlights the Pointe Coupee Historical Society’s new book “New Roads and Old Rivers.”

Battery recycling

Keep West Baton Rouge Beautiful has started a parishwide battery collection program to promote battery recycling. Rechargeable batteries and A, B, C and D batteries can be dropped off for recycling at Addis Hardware, Port Allen Hardware & Supplies, West Side Lumber Co., West Baton Rouge Parish Library and Po-Folks Fruit & Vegetables. Deposit batteries in the marked battery collection boxes at each location.

For questions or more information, call (225) 490-8549.

To submit news, contact Westside Bureau Chief Terry Jones by phone, (225) 326-6627; fax, (225) 344-0099; or email, tjones@theadvocate.com.