Advocate staff photo by JOHN McCUSKER -- Soldiers of the Louisiana National Guard's 2225th Multi-Role Bridge Company are bound for Afghanistan. A deployment ceremony for the soldiers and their families was held Friday at the Alario Center in Westwego. Rhonda and Cpl. Lamar Moreau snuggle during the ceremony Friday.

Advocate staff photo by ARTHUR D. LAUCK - Charlie's Place Alzheimer's Respite Center client Paul Humes, center, shows his excitement Friday, with Dana Tettito, left, and Billy Bezdek, before the group took a tour of downtown on a CATS trolley. The ride was in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the center, which serves those with Alzheimer's or dementia-related disorders.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON -- Southern University students, Rafeal Bolden of Melville, left, and Jarrett Lassair of New Orleans, right, wear their construction-paper bras as they and others march through campus on Wednesday to raise awareness for breast cancer detection and prevention. The event was sponsored by the university's Office of Student Orientation Outreach and Leadership Development Program.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER -- L'Auberge Casino & Hotel Baton Rouge opened its doors to the public Saturday afternoon. Hurricane Isaac delayed the opening, which originally was scheduled for Wednesday.

Advocate staff photo by ARTHUR D. LAUCK Wood workJohn Lacy, left, and Tim Nelson with Capitol One Bank work Wednesday to install 15 pint-sized benches at Bernard Terrace Elementary School in Baton Rouge. Volunteers from Capitol One are spending this week working on several community projects including the one at the school. The area near one of the school buildings is being transformed into an outdoor reading and classroom space.

Advocate staff file photoShoppers peruse the multitude of shops at last year's Hollydays Shopping for a Cause, which benefits the Junior League of Baton Rouge. Sixty new booths have been added to this year's market, which takes place Oct. 24-27 at the Baton Rouge River Center.

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- From left, Masaichi Hattori, Mieko Hattori and Sachiko Hattori are greeted by Holley Haymaker and Richard Haymaker as the Hattoris arrive at the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport on Wednesday. The Hattoris are the parents and sister of Yoshihiro 'Yoshi' Hattori, a Japanese exchange student who was staying with the Haymakers, and was shot while on his way to a Halloween party in Central 20 years ago Wednesday. The Hattoris have come to Baton Rouge to mark the the 20th anniversary of Yoshi's death by speaking at a gun violence conference and attending a rededication ceremony of the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge's peace stones from Nagoya, Japan.

Advocate staff photo by BRYAN TUCKPumpkin patch kidAnne Marie Roy, 2, walks among the pallets of pumpkins Tuesday on the front lawn of Church of the Covenant on Martial Avenue in Lafayette. Anne Marie was helping her grandmother, Shirlene Roy, choose a pumpkin while looking at the animals on display.

TRAVIS SPRADLING -- Mary Lloyd LeBlanc, an LSU junior from Ruston studying anthropology, looks at life a little differently Tuesday, for a while at least, as she maneuvers in a hammock strung between two trees in BREC's Milton J. Womack Park on University Lake.

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- Holley Haymaker poses on Aug. 21 with a photograph of Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro 'Yoshi' Hattori on peace stones that were shipped from Nagoya, Japan, and now rest at the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge. Hattori, an exchange student living with the Haymakers, was shot and killed 20 years ago in Central.

Advocate staff photo by BILL FEIG -- Cory Winburn, of the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office, receives his Capitol Area Regional Training Academy diploma from Lt. Pauline Carter of the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office on Tuesday at the Louisiana State Police Auditorium. The academy is part of the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office. Winburn won the top class award for physical fitness.

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING -- Dr. Eugene 'Gene' Berry, a recently retired cardiothoracic surgeon, will receive this year's Excellence in General award from the Baton Rouge General Foundation. He's performed more than 4,000 open-heart surgeries, and in 1974 was the second physician in the U.S. to implant a pacemaker in a child less than a week old.

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- Changing skill set -- Luke Broussard, 13, practices his skateboard skills in the Gonzales Skate Park on Friday. Broussard started skateboarding three months ago, and enjoys practicing every day, but he said he is much better at tricks on his scooter.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON -- Adrianne Stelzenmuller, left, helps Scott Wells, president and CEO of Independence Regained, into his handcycle Friday so Wells could finish the last leg of a 247.7 mile ride from Bossier City to the base of the Louisiana State Capitol Building.

Advocate staff photo by PATRICK DENNIS -- LSU students, from left, Catherine Cooper, Julian Tate, Rebecca Stewart and Aaron Lusk hold silhouettes while marching to honor victims of domestic violence Sunday night during the annual Take Back the Night rally and march on the LSU campus.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER -- A bull tosses Joseph Martin into the air Sunday during the pinball event at the Angola Prison Rodeo.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER -- A monkey-border collie team round up goats Sunday during 'The Wild Thang,' Tim Lepard's entertainment act at the 48th Annual Angola Prison Rodeo.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER -- Miss Southern, Erin D. Rogers of New Orleans, waves to a crowd on Harding Boulevard Saturday during the Southern University homecoming parade. Rogers is escorted by Southern's Student Government Association President Willie McCorkle III.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER -- Aaden Gray, 2, plays a plastic trumpet he caught during Southern University's homecoming parade Saturday as he waits for more floats to pass by on Harding Boulevard Saturday. Aaden, whose father is a Southern alumnus, traveled with his family from Houston to attend the parade.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER -- Deja McCain, left, and Jushawn Brown perform on the Southern University homecoming parade route Saturday morning. McCain and Brown traveled from Atlanta with the Benjamin E. Mays High School marching band to perform in the parade.

Advocate staff photo by ELIOT KAMENITZ -- Robert Tosso toots away Saturday as he plays alongside fellow members of the Bayou Bavarians band during Deutsches Haus' annual Octoberfest celebration at Rivertown in Kenner.

Advocate staff photo by BILL FEIG -- The LSU team takes the field before the game.

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- Mark Robinson rides a path through old 'Ford's Pasture' off Perkins Road as part of his route from his home near Kenilworth Parkway to LSU.

Advocate photo by Mark H. Hunter --The Rev. Cynthia Fierro Harvey, who began her service as the newest bishop of the Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church on Sept. 1, will be formally installed in a service at 11 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church.