Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON - Joyce Turner Keller runs a non-profit agency called Aspirations that aims to counsel and help HIV and AIDS patients with their lives, providing them with condoms, food, clothing and support groups.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER - Tanner Winkel, 15, left, of South Haven, Mich., and Emmanuel Collins, 7, middle, listen as Johnny Williams, 8, right reads aloud Thursday afternoon in the auditorium of Melrose Elementary School. Winkel is one of 36,000 youth from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America who are rotating days engaging in service projects in areas surrounding New Orleans, including Baton Rouge.

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND - Homework picnic - Katie Young, an LSU grad student in elementary education, studies in Milford Wampold Memorial Park on Stanford Avenue Thursday, July 19, 2012. Young, who said she studies outside nearly everyday, calls the sessions her "homework picnics." "They make studying more enjoyable for me," she said, "I love being outside."

Advocate staff photo by BRYAN TUCK - Walk down memory lane - Adam Garza works to replace the 'No Parking' signs that line the bus zone in front of Carencro Catholic School on Thursday afternoon. Garza, a Teurlings Catholic High School student, said he is working about 20 hours a week at the school that he, his sister and his brother all attended when they were younger.

Advocate staff photo by ADAM LAU -- Proud perch - A rescued American Kestrel named Trinity sits perched on the gloved hand of Sally Farrell, owner of Wind In My Feathers, as Farrell speaks to a group at the Ascension Parish Library's Dutchtown branch in Geismar on Thursday. Farrell, a raptor rehabilitator based in New Orleans, delighted kids and adults bry bringing in owls, hawks, a kite, and even a young vulture for the presentation.

Advocate Staff Photo by Arthur D. Lauck - In flight survey - A Red-winged Blackbird takes off from it's perch on an American Lotus in University Lake on Thursday. The American Lotus can grow up to 3 1/2 feet above the water and are often confused with water lilies.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON - Peter Piccione holds his old uniform and a handful of medals awarded to him during his Army Air Corps service during World War II.

Advocate staff photo by Arthur D. Lauck - Stuff The Bus - Destine Scott,17, and JiJi Jonas sort donated school supplies Wednesday outside Office Depot on College Drive. The annual 'Stuff the Bus' event is sponsored by Volunteers in Public Schools, Raising Cane's, and WBRZ-TV. The supplies will be distributed to needy students at all East Baton Rouge Parish public schools.

Advocate staff photo by ARTHUR D. LAUCK - Zoo zebra - A frisky, newborn zebra gallops around its enclosure Wednesday at BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo. Born Tuesday morning, the zoo's newest addition joins four other zebras in the exhibit. The baby zebra's brown stripes will turn black with age. A zebra's stripes are like human fingerprints -- no two in the world have the same pattern. MAGS OUT / INTERNET OUT / ONLINE OUT/NO SALES/TV OUT/FOREIGN OUT/ Louisiana Business Inc. out (including Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, 225, 10/12, InRegister, LBI custom publications)

Advocate staff photo by PATRICK DENNIS - Staying cool - Gavin Bradford, 12, and Mary Bradford, 7, center, both of Plaquemine, play with Grace Crifasi, 8, of Baton Rouge, as they stay cool in the Shaw Center fountain Wednesday.

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING - Sadie McManus, 8, Camille Ferachi, 8, Courtney Miceli, 8, and Austyn Ardoin, 9, from left, work on dress designs at Design It! Fashion Camp at The Dunham School. The girls designed party dresses and created mockups of them using brightly-colored tissue paper.

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING - Samantha Bass, 9, Maya Vines, 9, Natalie Aptaker, 9, Sadie McManus, 8, and Camille Ferachi, 8, from left, model tops they designed at the Sew Fun Sewing School at The Dunham School. Natalie took the Intro to Sewing class and went home and made the Fourth of July dress she models.

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING - Kaydence White, 7, left, and Maya Vines, 9, create a dress design on a mini form at the Sew Fun Sewing School at The Dunham School.

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING - Catherine Enos, 10, left, and Sarah Barton, 10, get help from co-instructor Jane Schoen, as they prepare their tissue paper party dress for a photo taken by co-instructor Pati Ivey, background right, at a fashion sewing camp for young girls at The Dunham School.

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLINGA young designer plans her party dress, which she later made of tissue paper on a mini form at the Sew Fun Sewing School at The Dunham School.

Advocate staff photo by PATRICK DENNIS - Kyle Rector of Americorps, right, unloads lumber from a forklift operated by Dale McCoy with the U.S. Bowling Congress onto a truck at the Baton Rouge River Center on Tuesday. The bowling congress donated some of the lumber it used to build facilities for its tournament to the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity. Americorps volunteers are working with Habitat For Humanity, which plans to sell the wood from its ReStore on Airline Highway.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON - Frosted - Ian Worsham, 7, center, pelts Michael Allen, dressed as a snowman, with a snowball Tuesday during the 22nd annual Broadmoor United Methodist Church Summer Day Camp. The 10-week camp features a Christmas in July theme week, which includes shaved ice on the church's playground and other activities, such as making gingerbread houses.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON - Mounted patrol demonstration - Baton Rouge police Cpl. Mary Ann Godawa, left, allows children to pet her horse, Stan, on Tuesday at the East Baton Rouge Parish Scotlandville Branch Library. Stan is one of seven horses in the Mounted Patrol unit. All the horses are considered police officers, and someone who harms the animals can be charged with battery of a police officer, Godawa said.

Advocate staff photo by BILL FEIG - Copper Alvarez, left, chats with Oui Wang, right, chef/owner of Sushi Yama, a local Japanese restaurant, at the Thursday Red Stick Farmers Market.

Advocate file photo by GAVIN JACKSON - Attendees watch as the balloons fire up their burners during the balloon glow event at the Pennington Balloon Championships on the grounds of Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge in August 2010.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON - Watch and paint - Artist Terry Farrell, top left, of Gonzales, holds a model Monday of what children at the 18th annual Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge Camp Care will paint as a mural for the agency's workroom. The week-long camp includes children and their siblings that are either currently undergoing cancer treatment or have had the disease.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER - Betty's Hope curriculum coordinator, Alesia Alexander Layne helps Jayla Freeman, 5, make her handprint on a canvas that will decorate the Betty's Hope bus. Mobile Hope is a mobile grief support tool that will allow Betty's Hope to reach the community with grief counseling and support on the street, starting in mid-September.

Advocate photo by April Buffington - Space Day at Southern University - Veteran astronaut Bernard A. Harris Jr. discusses careers and goal setting Monday with Baton Rouge area middle school students during the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp at Southern University.

Advocate file photo by ADAM LAU - One of the largest bubble locations emerged from Bayou Corne near three natural gas pipelines in July. John Boudreaux, director of Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said Tuesday an "orphan" well being investigated as thepossible source for the mysterious natural gas releases in area bayou. Prior tests have determined the underwater pipelines are not the source of the natural gas releases.

Advocate staff photo by ADAM LAU - Madhurendu Kumar, director of the Geological Oil and Gas Division at the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources' Office of Conservation, center, answers questions Thursday from residents about gas bubbles and tremors in Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER - U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu speaks to Louisiana Youth Seminar 2012 delegates Sunday after receiving an outstanding seminar alumni honor called the "No Man Is An Island" Award. Landrieu credits the seminar for giving her the tools to advance into numerous leadership positions. Joining Landrieu in front of the delegates are her former chief of staff Norma Jane Sabiston, far left, and Barbara Jo Pease, the seminar's founder.

Advocate staff photo by Bryan Tuck - Gymnast Savannah Vinsant trains on the trampoline in Lafayette Friday. Vinsant will compete in the Olympic games

Advocate staff photo by PATRICK DENNIS - Jackie Kreutzer displays some of maternal grandmother Ernestine Clairain's handmade trousseau. Clairain married Anthony Oliver Pons in 1893.

Advocate staff photo by BRYAN TUCK - Horses and jockeys, including Mankato Strike and rider Billy Charles Patin, foreground, run the track during a June 8 race at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas. The horse industry as a whole has a $2 billion economic impact in Louisiana.

Advocate staff photo by BRYAN TUCK - Heroes Soul, ridden by Jockey Coby Bourque, is surrounded by owner Thomas Sam, third from left, his son, Keith Sam, left, and trainer Lester Simon, right, after winning a June 8 race at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas. Evangeline Downs was located in Lafayette from 1966 to 2003, and almost closed for good before moving to Opelousas and instituting a racino operation.

Advocate staff photo by BRAYN TUCK. - Horses and jockeys run the track at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas during a June 8 race. Nationwide, the industry has seen a reduction in money wagered, as race track customers switch part of their gambling money to the slots and other gambling venues.

Advocate staff photo by Travis Spradling -- Rhonda Thomas, right, fills out applications for her two daughters, from left to right, Deonna Hood, 3, and Diamond Harris, 10, at theLouisiana Recovery School District's enrollment fair Saturday at Star Hill Baptist Church on Foster Drive. Thomas' son, Deondre Hood, 2, sit perched on his big sister's lap as his mother fills out the forms for her daughters to attend Dalton Elementary School. Information and applications for the for seven schools that RSD runs in North Baton Rouge were available, as well as food, drinks and entertainment. The schools participating in the enrollment fair were Istrouma High, Capitol High, Prescott Middle, Glen Oaks Middle, Crestworth Learning Academy (a middle school), Dalton Elementary and Lanier Elementary. Enrollment information is available at RSD's Parent Center at Lanier Elementary, at (225) 357-5953, the RSD office, (225) 342-4046, or at http://www.rsdla.net. The RSD was established by the state to take over schools considered failing under Louisiana's public school accountability system.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER - Dancers from 'Of Moving Colors,' from left, Erin Gilbert, Emily Rodriguez and Stephanie Faucette perform a 'flamenco fusion' dance Saturday afternoon on the Town Suare lawn during Art Melt. Members of the community walked the streets downtown admiring local artists' works, watching performances and dining at the 9th Annual Forum 35 Art Melt.

Advocate staff photo by Travis Spradling - Kiaran Cortez, a member of 'The Art and Practice of Library Storytelling' class at LSU, tells 'The Cat Who Became Queen,' a story from the Hindu culture, during LSU's School of Library and Information Science's third annual Storytelling Festival on Saturday in Coates Hall.

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING - Emily Brupbacher, a member of 'The Art and Practice of Library Storytelling' class at LSU, tells a story Saturday in Coates Hall during LSU's School of Library and Information Science's third annual Storytelling Festival. Brupbacher told a Japanese folk tale called 'The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling.'

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER - Artist Ellen Rosewell Langford, of Jackson, Miss., paints the scene of Art Melt in downtown Baton Rouge Saturday afternoon. Langford joined local Louisiana artists in displaying her work and entertaining passers-by as she painted.