Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- Southern University Summer Band Camp drum majors, from left, Devante Logan, 17, Jamie Walker, 17, Peter Ringwood, 16, and Imani Rahim, 17, perform Friday with the band in a finale after the week-long camp at Southern University. Campers from seventh through twelfth graders learned music and a marching routine, while band directors attended workshops and clinics. Dancers were taught routines by the SU Dancing Dolls, who performed with Madonna at halftime of the 2012 Super Bowl.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON - Sale for a good cause - Vendor Ed Major, right, of Baton Rouge, prepares for a rummage sale to be held Saturday inside the Old New Roads Cotton Seed Mill. Major, his sister, Cindy O'Meara of New Roads and his son, Edmond Major III were placing the contents of his and Cindy's deceased parents' home into their booth on Friday. Proceeds from the sale will go towards maintenance and renovations of the building.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER -- Aidan Fletcher, 12, left, reads to his brother, Andrew, 5, as his brother, Paul, 10, fills Andrew's feeding tube and Isaiah, 7, reads in the Fletcher's library.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON - Matylda Holtmann, left, shapes a pottery bowl as instructor Bill Newman, right, helps Jeanne Luster during a six-week 'Introduction to Wheel Throwing' class at the WORK/Shop in Baton Rouge Monday. The new Highland Road business features art classes, workshops and studio space.

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING - Breezy riders - Jaiden Kinchen, who turned 2 years old on Monday, checks out the scenery from the basket of a two-seater tricycle as his grandfather, Frederick Grayer, pedals through BREC's Howell Community Park on Tuesday afternoon.

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING - Cook it up - J'Sean Whalum, 11, left, adds rice to a steaming pot of boiling water as Kaitlyn Ballou, 11, right, goes over a recipe for black beans and rice with camp counselor Danethia Saunders, center, a Southern University alumna and current LSU Masters program student, on Wednesday at the 'Cook Like a Chef' summer camp. The program, hosted by Southern, is designed as a fun way to help local students learn about nutrition and physical fitness, in addition to buck the rising obesity trend among children. Students ages 10-14 prepared healthy dishes for their lunch buffet in the kitchen of SU's Foods Laboratory in Pinkie E. Thrift Hall. The workshop was run by Anne Corr, an instructor in the Nutritional Sciences Department at Penn State University. She was brought in by Glenda S. Johnson, an associate professor and researcher at the SU Ag Center. The camp, which began in early June and continues through early July, consists of cooking education in the mornings and exercise at the Southern University Laboratory School Campus in the afternoons.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON - Another brick in the wall - Artists Clark Derbes, left, and Saliha Staib paint their 105-foot-by-28-foot untitled mural, the first one for the BR Walls project, along the west side of the McGlynn, Glisson and Mouton building in downtown Baton Rouge Wednesday. The BR Walls project is designed to beautify large wall spaces downtown. A party Thursday night in the parking lot adjacent to the Florida Street building honored donors, who gave money through Kickstarter, a website that allows people to pitch ideas to the public and collect donations.

Advocate Staff Photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING - Evelyn and Paul Nowacki frequently gather with friends under the arbor in the garden they've designed in a small space at their Windermere Oaks Court home.

The floodgate at the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Seabrook Floodgate Complex closes during a systemwide hurricane preparedness and response exercise Tuesday.

Advocate staff photo by ARTHUR D. LAUCK - Diving down - Da'Johnnia Sauls, 14, center, suits up for her first experience of scuba diving with the help of Amelie Passaro, left, and Donald Dawsey with Seven Seas Dive Shop on Monday morning at the pool at Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired. Students at the school's summer camp received one-on-one attention from scuba diving instructors.

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING - Zack Kopplin holds the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award he received for his efforts to pursue a repeal of the Louisiana Science Education Act, which critics say endorses teaching creationism in Louisiana schools.

Advocate staff photo by BILL FEIG - Mark Hafner, curator of mammals at the LSU Museum of Natural Science, looks at some of the specimens stored in one of the jar rooms.

Advocate staff photo by BRYAN TUCK - Director Walter Brown, right, works with actors, from left, Erin Boussard, Kayla Smith and Jarin Schexnider Thursday during a rehearsal for "Wolves in the Walls."

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER - Iliyah Robertson, 8, right, races her younger sister Gia, 4, in their front yard on Beech Street on Thursday afternoon. Despite the heat, the sisters enjoyed an afternoon outside playing with each other and their brothers.

Advocate staff photo by Travis Spradling - Helping spell out 'Stand for Children' are, from left, Macy Galmon, 13; Mariah Sharp, 14; Megan Sharp, 14; Breanna Galmon, 15; Pauline Lee; and Mary Galmon, 13, during the Stand for Children Baton Rouge kickoff event Saturday at BREC headquarters on Florida Boulevard.

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND - Aaron Johnson, a Baton Rouge Fire Department inspector, entertains Major McNair, 2, with a remote-controlled toy dalmatian during the annual Mayor's Office Red Stick Ready Day on Saturday at the Mall of Louisiana. During the event, agencies and businesses joined in sharing information and supplies helpful to the public in preparing for hurricane season. Alison McNair, Major's mom, said the family moved to Baton Rouge from Tennessee a year ago, and is not yet familiar with hurricane preparedness needs.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER - A group gathers around tables Saturday in the LSU Hill Memorial Library to admire original copies of John James Audubon's 'Birds of America,' published in London from 1827 to 1838. The LSU Libraries acquired the four-folio volume collection in 1965, and displays it annually to a limited audience.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER - Dance of India - Ipsita Subudhi performs her Bharatanatyam Arangetram, a recital of an ancient form of classical dance of India, Saturday afternoon at the LSU Union Theatre. Subudhi, salutatorian of her Baton Rouge Magnet High graduating class this spring, has studied Bharatanatyam for 10 years under guru Subhashini Rajgopal.

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND - Vince Hutchinson and the Heavy Storm Band perform during Saturday's annual Juneteenth celebation held jointly with a reopening party marking completion of a $380,000 face-lift for BREC's Gus Young Neighborhood Park. Enjoying the music are, from left, Deborah Wheeler, holding her pet dog, Jordan; Nyanza Adams; Metro Councilwoman Denise Marcelle; and Alicia Burns. Juneteenth commemorates African-American freedom as well as emphasizing education and achievement, according to http://www.juneteenth.com.

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING - Southern track and field athlete Demetrius Boone exercises under the watch of Corliss Fingers, the strength and conditioning coach at Southern University. Fingers, in her first year at the school, is one of only a handful of female head strength coaches at Division I universities. She's in charge of all teams on campus -- including the football players.

Advocate file photo by LIZ CONDO - First-time homeowner Kizzy Brown, left, reacts as former NFL player Warrick Dunn holds up the keys to her new home as her eldest son Isaiah Brown, 14, center, looks on. The Warrick Dunn Foundation provided $5,000 for the down payment on Brown's new Habitat for Humanity home in 2010.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER - Ray Zeppuhar, 93, travels weekends to the baseball games of his grandsons and great-grandson. His grandsons are Slade, 9, front, and Zane, 12, right, and great-grandson, Tanner, 10, left. All three boys are pitchers on their teams. Zeppuhar told them to play golf to avoid injury.