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TALLADEGA Ascension Academy held its annual awards day celebration Thursday morning at the First Presbyterian Church.

For the first time, this years presentation included a combined performance by the Elementary School Choir with the assistance of some high school aged students as well. The performance kicked off with This Is Me from The Greatest Showman, which featured a performance by Summer Bice. The whole choir then sang The Carpenters Sing A Song, followed by Somewhere Over the Rainbow featuring Bice, Carmen Brown, Charity Brown, Jalie Bussie, Taleia Easterday and Jeremiah Shears.

The last selection was Tomorrow from the musical Annie, featuring Brantley Ramirez and Amelia Whitson.

But the real reason for the occasion came after the choir performance with the awarding of the years academic honors and recognition of achievements, including graduation.

Braelynn Ramirez graduated from Kindergarten to first grade Thursday, and Carmen Brown and Wyatt Swinford will be moving up from sixth grade (elementary school) to seventh grade..

The top two awards this year were the Directors Award for Appropriate Decisions, Self-Discipline and Determination, which went to Asia Turner; and the Presidential Award for Character and Academic Distinction, which went to David Brown.

The STAR Reading and STAR Math Awards for greatest growth during the year went to Braelynn Ramirez for K through second grade. According to Director of Education Linda Harris, who presented the awards, Braelynn started this year with us not knowing the letters in her name. She has now successfully completed all of the kindergarten state curriculum requirements and is reading and decoding short vowel sounds and reads many sight words. She is ready for first grade reading.

In math, Harris added, she moved from kindergarten to seven months into first-grade level.

Ascension Leadership Academy Choir performs during their awards ceremony.

Tran took the top reading honors for grades three through six, increasing his reading level by one year and five months, where the average student progresses by about nine months per school year.

In math, Brantley Ramirez is a first-grader who started the year on a second grade level and is currently reading at nine months into fourth-grade level, Harris said.

For grades three through six, Carmen Brown has increased math levels by one year and seven months during the past year.

The Elementary School Yearly Average All As award went to Hanson Tran, with elementary school students Carmen Brown, Nyla Brown, John Robert Gallahar and Ashlynn Howell being honored for yearly average all As and Bs.

At the secondary level, Regan Sewell was the only student to earn all As during the first semester. She was joined by Phaethon Brown, Brianna Nino and Ava Parker for second semester.

First semester all A and B honor students included Charity Brown, Damian Brown, David Brown, Phaethon Brown, Brody Howell, Ava Parker, Bailee Taylor and Turner.

Second semester A and B students included Charity Brown, Damian Brown, David Brown, Howell, Emma Lackey, Lainey Swinford, Heaven Tatum and Taylor.

Carmen Brown took top honors in the accelerated reading program, and Tran won the most improved writing award for this year.

Braelynn Ramirez and Nylah Brown were honored for completion of all Alabama Course of Study requirements in reading and math, and Wyatt Swinford was honored for meeting the reading requirement as well.

In keeping with recent tradition, the ceremony concluded with a series of piano recitals from students ranging from first grade to high school.

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Ascension Academy celebrates annual awards day with more than just awards - The Anniston Star

It might have a weird name, but Christi Himmelfahrt (Ascension Day) is actually one of Germanys merriest public holidays. Perched at the end of May when skies are blue and its warm enough to drink outside, it also happens to be Fathers Day so keep an eye out for tipsy dads trundling crates of beer around in the name of tradition.

But its not all about booze. We round up some of the events and activities taking place in Berlin on May 26, 2022.

This year, the CTM Festival for Adventurous Music and Art is split into two parts, with the second instalment falling over the long Ascension weekend.

From May 24 to 29, CTM offers not only avant-garde electro music in all-night clubs, but an extensive workshop programme where music-makers can exchange ideas.

A series of lectures will focus on the interaction between music and social change, before moving from theory to practice at Berghain, Morphine Raum, Heimathafen Neuklln or the closing party at SchwuZ.

Desertfest takes place in Arena Berlin from May 26 to 29, and pretty much anyone thats anyone in sludge, heavy metal, progressive and psychedelic rock will be there.

Berlin metal institution Kadavar, old-timers Orange Goblin from London, and Baroness, who stirred up a lot of dust in the genre in the 2010s, will lead the party.

The strong line-up also includes Electric Wizard, Witchcraft, Elder, Truckfighters and a host of others. Maybe just the right music to celebrate Fathers Day.

From May 24 to 29, Berlins Performing Arts Festival returns to multiple venues across the city.

For the seventh time, indie artists from the dance and theatre scene will present small and large stage productions at over 40 venues in the city.

The programme is as diverse as the artists themselves. A wide variety of performing arts genres such as performance art, theatre, dance, circus and childrens theatre, as well as installations, video works and audiowalks will cover current social issues with the theme togetherness.

On May 28, the Day of Open House(s), fifteen venues from the indie scene will open their doors to the public and offer a glimpse behind the scenes.

Under the name Revolting, Berghain is celebrating into Fathers Day on May 25 with a gender-fluid party at its famously anything-goes sex club Lab.oratory, which lures you into the Labyrinth on the night before Ascension Day with the dirtier edges of house music.

Expect homoerotic house from the likes of Denny Voltage, Kiwi and Snecker on the decks.

Following an extended pandemic pause, Berlins folk festivals are emerging from enforced hibernation with a spring in their step. The traditional Steglitzer Woche starts this spring on May 26 and runs until June 12.

Expect over 60 fairground rides and attractions, as well as a beer garden with live music in the pavilion. Theres also a wide range of the usual barbecued food, snacks and sweets to enjoy, but maybe have a go on one of the carnival rides before you tuck in.

After the adrenaline rush, test your skills on the coconut shy or try a spot of duck fishing. There are raffles aplenty.

On June 12, artists from the fields of music, dance, comedy, acrobatics, magic and juggling will compete for the loudest applause at the cabaret awards.

This years Brckentag will be held in Mitte on May 27. Confused? The Bridge Day street festival will be held on the Friday between the Ascension Day public holiday and the weekend, and is organised by the Alliance New Orphan Bridge initiative to remind people that there are still no concrete plans for a new bridge to replace the former Orphan Bridge, which used to connect the Klosterviertel and the Mrkisches Museum in Mitte.

In addition to historical childrens games and open-air shows, the organisers will provide extensive information about their proposals for a new bike- and pedestrian-friendly bridge. Wallstrae will be closed especially for the festival.

As Berlin emerges from its six-month perma-grey winter, theres no better way to prepare your dinner than under the sky and overcharcoal. Whether youre out with the boys or the kids, that (vegan) sausage just tastes so much better when its charred to a crisp.

Head to one of the citys designated barbecue areas from Tempelhofer Feld to Preuenpark to Monbijoupark for some communal finger-burning.

However long youve lived in Berlin, its never too late to indulge in a tourist trip along the Spree. Join the old timers in their sun hats and take in the citys historical sights from the relative comfort of a boat. Dont forget to wave enthusiastically at the stoney-faced locals.

On Ascension Day, Berlins museums and most cultural institutions are open. This is the best opportunity to visit the exhibition The Great Masters of the Renaissance, which runs until August 7 at the Parochialkirche.

Here, the world-famous paintings and frescoes of the Italian artists of the early and high Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sandro Botticelli and Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino are exhibited.

If youre into gender stereotypes, nothing says Fathers Day more than a spot of familial laser tag. With a plastic gun and a glow-in-the-dark vest, youll look a bit like the hero in a sci-fi B-movie.

In Berlin there are plenty of places you can take aim:

Put the beer down and take in some high-brow culture instead. On May 26, Vienna-trained pianist Mitsuko Uchida will be at the Pierre Boulez Hall.

She interprets the great works of Mozart, Schumann and Kurtg in her own inimitably unpretentious way, for which she is so celebrated by the music world.

Connoisseurs will appreciate that she plays against the romantic patina of some of the pieces, all others will simply enjoy great music masterpieces interpreted by a virtuoso in her field.

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Ascension Day bank holiday: What to do in Berlin, from BBQs to Berghain - EXBERLINER.com

A disturbingly common mishap in recent Summer Olympic games has been the failure of U.S. track and field relay teams. Individually, these teams almost always are made up of the best runners, top to bottom, of any nations relay contingent. Best times, best individual win-loss records. But great individuals do not a successful relay team make. In a relay race, each runner is required not only to run her or his lap as swiftly as possible, but also to hand the baton to the next runner smoothly and securely within a specified number of meters. As the baton falls to the track during these attempted transfers, time after time, the truth becomes crystal clear.

In the quintessential American spirit, the members of the U.S. relay teams have spent far too much time honing their individual running skills, and far too little time practicing how to be a team (if theyve practiced at all). Passing a baton while both the passer and passee are running, one decelerating and one accelerating, within a limited amount of space takes practice, practice that is not nearly as sexy or stimulating as running as fast as one can by oneself.

Baton-passing serves as an interesting analogy for many human situations, particularly generational ones that involve passing a virtual baton from the geezers to the young punks. A successful transfer requires the ability and desire to receive and run on the younger generations part and a willingness to let go and slow down from the older veterans. Debate about curriculum reform swirled around my campus for close to a decade before a new core curriculum was established several years ago. The conversations centered on a large, four semester course, described as the core of the core at my college, that is required of all freshmen and sophomores. This course was created, and then established as the heart of the colleges core curriculum in the early 1970s, a course that was groundbreaking and audacious in its day.

Many of the faculty who were the young Turks of that time, the movers and shakers who invented this course and shepherded it through the faculty senate and administration against all odds, were senior faculty on the verge of retirement during the reform debate. Others have already retired, some have died. And the course they created, which defined many of their academic careers both in the classroom and out, became stale and badly in need of fresh vision and creative reconstruction. Despite the good will of many of the next generation of faculty, highly qualified and motivated women and men who willingly seek to carry a revitalized course forward for the next few decades, the reform debate was frequently poisoned by the resistance to any meaningful change by the older generation.It has been sad to observe.

By accident of age and time served at the college I was positioned, as both one of the youngest of the older generation and one of the most experienced of the new generation, at the very point where the baton transfer should occur. As a veteran of teaching in this program and a long-standing advocate for needed change, I was eventually asked to direct the new version of this program that emerged from curriculum reform as it transitioned from the past into the future. My years as director were largely successful, in spite of some continuing resistance. As Ive told several of my senior colleagues over the past few years, its impossible to run a relay race if you wont let go of the baton.

Tomorrow is Ascension Sunday. Thirteen years ago, Ascension Sunday happened to be the seventeenth and last Sunday that I would be worshiping at St. Johns Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota on sabbatical. As I sat in my choir stall seat during seven-oclock morning prayer, then in the sanctuary later in the morning during mass, there was a certain wistfulness and a bit of emotion, but not as much as I expected. For this Ascension Sunday was an appropriate milestone in my spiritual growth, a marker of the point at which I would tentatively and with fear and trembling take what I had learned and experienced over the previous four months into all the world.

I was never taught to pay attention to Ascension Sunday in my religious tradition. But even after I was introduced to the liturgical calendar for the first time in my middle twenties, Ascension Sunday was simply the Sunday before Pentecost, after which we would slog through week after week of Ordinary Time boredom in green through the summer and fall until we were rescued by Advent purple right after Thanksgiving.But as I inhabited for the first time the psalms and New Testament texts on that Ascension Sunday, I thought Wow. Jesus was the ultimately prepared and successful baton passer.

In one way, Ascension Sunday completes the story of the Incarnation that began with Jesus birth. Jesus doesnt ascend out of his human body to heavenhe takes it with him, because the next lap of this story, the Christ in us lap, is just about ready to explode. Jesus showed extraordinary patience with his all-too-human followers during his short stay on earth, teaching them basic truths through stories and actions, all preparation for when it would be up to them to receive the baton and run their own incarnational race. The forty days after the Resurrection were all practice for a smooth passing of the baton.

Jesus kept telling them Its all right. Im not leaving you alone. Its better for you that I am leaving, because Ill be sending you the greatest teammate ever. You can do this, because Ill still be with you. When I leave, dont go crazy and start running in every direction out of fear or impatience. Wait. Pray. Youll know when its time to run. And when you do, youll turn the world upside down. And when the clouds closed on Jesus heels as he ascended into heaven, for once the men and women who had loved and followed him did what they were told. They went into an upper room in Jerusalem and waited.

Im told that the receiver of the baton in a relay race should not seek to accelerate until she or he feels the slap of the baton in the palm of the receiving hand they have extended backwards as they begin to run. The receiver never sees the runner coming up behind, but theres no mistaking the transfer from the unseen runner when it happens. And in the upper room ten days after Jesus left, there was no mistaking that the baton had been successfully transferred.

The Incarnation goes on, and we recipients of the Holy Spirit carry it to the ends of the earth. In his homily on that Ascension Sunday, the Abbott observed that with Ascension Day, the Easter message of Glory, Glory, Glory that has been front and center since Easter changes to Go!The word to me that day and ever since was Take what youve been given, what youve found, and go. As my favorite Psalm says,

Day unto day takes up the story

And night unto night makes known the message.

We are carrying the baton, and are to run as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

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Passing the Baton: An Ascension Sunday Reflection - Patheos

IRVING, Texas, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --NorthStar Anesthesia, an industry leader in providing modernized anesthesia care for nearly two decades, has announced a new partnership with Ascension Alexian Brothers in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. NorthStar transitioned to provide anesthesia care in April as part of an expansion within the regional health system.

"We are proud to expand our footprint in the region and work with another facility under the Ascension umbrella," said NorthStar CEO, Adam Spiegel. "Ascension Alexian Brothers is a top destination for complex cardiovascular and pulmonary care, as well as cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, and critical care. We are excited to partner with their teams and continue serving patients across the state of Illinois."

Ascension Alexian Brothers is a 401-bed Catholic hospital with over 900 doctors working to treat more than 18,000 patients. It's ranked among America's 50 best hospitals and has received a five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In a seamless transition of services, NorthStar retained the entire CRNA team and a majority of incumbent physician anesthesiologists ensuring there were no gaps in coverage as the team was fully staffed starting on day one.

"Our teams are very excited to work with NorthStar and continue their existing partnership with Ascension," said Dan Doherty, CEO of Ascension Alexian Brothers. "We pride ourselves on offering comprehensive and coordinated care that addresses each patient's unique needs, and we know NorthStar's providers will enable us to deliver the best level of care."

NorthStar will continue to grow nationally, expanding into new states and within existing regions to offer modernized anesthesia services for their hospital and ASC partners.

To learn more about NorthStar Anesthesia, visit http://www.northstaranesthesia.com.

About NorthStar Anesthesia NorthStar Anesthesia is a company of caregivers, founded by an anesthesiologist and a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). With more than 2,000 anesthesiologists and CRNAs under its banner, NorthStar partners with more than 180 health care facilities to deliver a more productive and efficient model of anesthesia care. Its "care team" approach focuses on the provision of high-quality care while measurably improving operating room performance. For more information, visit http://www.northstaranesthesia.com.

Media Contact: Simone Jackenthal Trident DMG202-923-5296[emailprotected]

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NORTHSTAR ANESTHESIA EXPANDS WITHIN REGIONAL SYSTEM TO SERVICE ASCENSION ALEXIAN BROTHERS - PR Newswire

Ascension Christian High graduation took place Saturday, May 14 at Household of Faith Church.

Leading the class were valedictorian Gianne L'Jeanne Taylor and salutatorianJessica Mae Raborn.

Taylor, the daughter of Giovana Joseph and Kendrick Brown and Marcelles Taylor, has attended Ascension Christian since kindergarten. She is a four-year member of the Beta Club, a two- year member of the National Honor Society and a member of the Baton Rouge Youth Coalition. Taylor graduated with a 4.6 GPA and 24 hours of college credit. She was awarded a four-year academic scholarship from Nicholls State University as well as a Lions Legacy and Health Fellows Scholarship.

Her future plans are to attend Nicholls State University in the fall and major in nursing. Giannis inspirational scripture is Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and future.

Raborn, the daughter of Michelle Raborn and Charles Raborn, has attended Ascension Christian for the last four years. She is a two-year member of the National Honor Society and ACH swim team. This year she served as swim team captain.

Raborn graduated with a 4.5 GPA and 18 hours of college credit. She was awarded a four-year academic scholarship from the University of Louisiana Monroe where she plans to pursue a nursing degree this fall.

Her senior quote is Why worry? If youve done the very best you can, worrying wont make it any better. Walt Disney

Other graduates:

Bella Elizabeth Barbour

Brynn Elizabeth Bosworth

Lamont Dashawn Cooper-Edge II

Ethan Dwayne Cormier

Dylan James Cormier

Alexa Marie Garcia

Daniel Josue Garcia

Luke John Gautreaux

Brennan Reese Hunt

Ethan Lee Hunt

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Raisha Aaron Kelly

Brayden Michael LaBorde

Andrew DAquin Landry

Jacob Michael LeBlanc

James Michael Markey III

Mackenzie Londyn McDaniel

Joey Marie Painter

Daniel Reese Pyle

Christiona Janae Raven

Willie Matthew Robinson

Robert Michael Siharath

Brandon James Stokley

Dillon Matthew Summers

Emory Christopher Templet

Braden Martin Tregre

Aidan Michael Wascom

Daniel Scott Weimer

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Ascension Christian High Class of 2022 - The Advocate

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WVM.firstPrerollTagUrl = WVM.getFirstPrerollUrl(); console.log("calling backup ad tag url: " + WVM.firstPrerollTagUrl); WVM.activePlayer.ima.changeAdTag(WVM.firstPrerollTagUrl + "?" + dTime); WVM.activePlayer.ima.requestAds(); //WVM.activePlayer.src({ // src: masterSrc, // type: 'video/mp4' //}); //WVM.firstPrerollTagUrl = ""; } playerState.AD_ERROR = true; }); //player.off('error'); player.on('error', function(event) { if (player.error().code === 4) { player.error(null); // clear out the old error player.options().sources.shift(); // drop the highest precedence source console.log("now doing src"); console.log(player.options().sources[0]); player.src(player.options().sources[0]); // retry return; } }); //player.off('volumechange'); player.on('volumechange', function(event) { console.log(event); var theHeight = $('#media-container-' + playerState.ORIGINAL_ID + ' .vjs-volume-level').css('height'); var cssVolume = 0; if(theHeight){ cssVolume = parseInt(theHeight.replace('%', '')); } var theVolume = player.volume(); if(theVolume > 0.0 || cssVolume > 0){ $('#media-container-' + playerState.ORIGINAL_ID + ' .mute-overlay').css('display', 'none'); }else{ $('#media-container-' + playerState.ORIGINAL_ID + ' .mute-overlay').css('display', 'block'); } }); WVM.reinitRawEvents(playerState.ORIGINAL_ID); setInterval(function(){ WVM.reinitRawEvents(playerState.ORIGINAL_ID); }, 2000); } if(!WVM.rawCompleteEvent){ WVM.rawCompleteEvent = function(e){ var playerState = WVM['player_state186259']; console.log("firing raw event due to all other events failing"); var currId = playerState.VIDEO_ID; var newMediaId = WVM.getNextPlaylistIndex(currId); //if(playerSettings.autoplay_next && newMediaId){ if(newMediaId){ WVM.load_video(newMediaId, true, playerState.ORIGINAL_ID); } }; } if(!WVM.rawTimeupdateEvent){ WVM.rawTimeupdateEvent = function(e){ var playerState = WVM['player_state186259']; var rawVideoElem = document.getElementById('html5-video-' + playerState['ORIGINAL_ID'] + '_html5_api'); var fullCurrent = rawVideoElem.currentTime * 1000; 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//TIME UPDATE EVENT if( WVM['player_state' + playerId].TIMEUPDATE_EVENT){ rawVideoElem.removeEventListener('ended', WVM.rawTimeupdateEvent, false); } rawVideoElem.addEventListener('ended', WVM.rawTimeupdateEvent, false); WVM['player_state' + playerId].COMPLETE_EVENT = true; WVM['player_state' + playerId].TIMEUPDATE_EVENT = true; };

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- May is American Stroke Month, and the American Stroke Association is sharing tips on reducing your stroke risk.

Dr. Will Taylor is a stroke neurologist at Ascension Wisconsin. Taylor joined CBS 58 on Monday, May 23 with the signs you should know to spot a stroke F.A.S.T.

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Doctor at Ascension Wisconsin shares signs of stroke you should know - WDJT

Mike Stucka USA TODAY NETWORK| Gonzales Weekly Citizen

New coronavirus cases leaped in Louisiana in the week ending Sunday, rising 51.9% as 5,083 cases were reported. The previous week had 3,346 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Louisiana ranked 36th among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States increased 31.8% from the week before, with 796,108 cases reported. With 1.4% of the country's population, Louisiana had 0.64% of the country's cases in the last week. Across the country, 42 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.

Ascension Parish reported 96 cases and zero deaths in the latest week. A week earlier, it had reported 77 cases and zero deaths. Throughout the pandemic it has reported 33,403 cases and 293 deaths.

Within Louisiana, the worst weekly outbreaks on a per-person basis were in Orleans Parish with 294 cases per 100,000 per week; Plaquemines Parish with 241; and Jefferson Parish with 188. The Centers for Disease Control says high levels of community transmission begin at 100 cases per 100,000 per week.

Adding the most new cases overall were Orleans Parish, with 1,147 cases; Jefferson Parish, with 814 cases; and East Baton Rouge Parish, with 544. Weekly case counts rose in 52 parishes from the previous week. The worst increases from the prior week's pace were in Jefferson, Orleans and East Baton Rouge parishes.

>> See how your community has fared with recent coronavirus cases

Louisiana ranked 48th among states in share of people receiving at least one shot, with 61% of its residents at least partially vaccinated. The national rate is 77.7%, a USA TODAY analysis of CDC data shows. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which are the most used in the United States, require two doses administered a few weeks apart.

In the week ending Wednesday, Louisiana reported administering another 19,025 vaccine doses, including 2,727 first doses. In the previous week, the state administered 23,113 vaccine doses, including 3,305 first doses. In all, Louisiana reported it has administered 6,248,403 total doses.

Across Louisiana, cases fell in seven parishes, with the best declines in Natchitoches Parish, with 9 cases from 14 a week earlier; in Winn Parish, with 2 cases from 7; and in East Feliciana Parish, with 1 cases from 3.

In Louisiana, 18 people were reported dead of COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday. In the week before that, 19 people were reported dead.

A total of 1,183,889 people in Louisiana have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and 17,313 people have died from the disease, Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the United States 83,281,329 people have tested positive and 1,002,173 people have died.

>> Track coronavirus cases across the United States

USA TODAY analyzed federal hospital data as of Sunday, May 22.

Likely COVID patients admitted in the state:

Likely COVID patients admitted in the nation:

Hospitals in 31 states reported more COVID-19 patients than a week earlier, while hospitals in 29 states had more COVID-19 patients in intensive-care beds. Hospitals in 37 states admitted more COVID-19 patients in the latest week than a week prior, the USA TODAY analysis of U.S. Health and Human Services data shows.

The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Johns Hopkins University and the Centers for Disease Control. If you have questions about the data or the story, contact Mike Stucka at mstucka@gannett.com.

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Ascension Parish reported 96 additional COVID-19 cases this week - Weekly Citizen

An area hospital system recently adopted their own private police force.

It's still in the beginning stages, but it's making history.

"Wow, this is kind of pretty cool starting from ground zero," says Captain Chris Pugh, Ascension St. Vincent Police.

They are the ones who work to protect others.

Chris Pugh has always had a calling to be in law enforcement. He started with Evansville Police in 1989 working in everything from narcotics to SWAT.

In 2011 he became the Assistant Police Chief in the department, until he said goodbye in January of last year.

"It was a good job," says Pugh. "Everything I wanted, but it was time to retire."

For Pugh, his dedication to serve was still inside.

"I always say if you can leave one job you really like and come to a second one you really like, that's a really good thing," says Pugh.

That same month he accepted the position as Police Captain at Ascension St. Vincent.

"Things are moving forward," says Pugh. "It's just you can imagine, building something from nothing. There's a lot of work that needs to be done."

Not only is the new department groundbreaking, but it's also history in the making.

In the Hoosier State, Ascension is divided into three regions: South, Central, and North. Each with their own Police Captain, and Pugh just so happens to be the first in the River City.

"If the nurses and the doctors and the techs are going to provide quality care like they do to the patients, it has to be a safe environment," says Pugh.

It's a private force, independent from EPD, but the ability to work together still remains.

Pugh says they are still working on the infrastructure and looking to eventually build their force up, keeping Ascension St. Vincent safe.

"The ultimate goal is to just keep moving forward," says Pugh. "They will be small, sometimes you want to start running, but it's a crawl, walk, run. We're in this walk stage, almost to the point where we're ready to run."

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Recognizing the work of Ascension St. Vincent's private police force - WEVV

Check a map of Ascension Parish, and you might notice some interesting contradictions.

Roads on one side of an intersection have a state highway name, like La. 930 or La. 929, and on the other side have names like Causey or Braud roads.

These divergences, which are littered across the parishs growing east bank, are the result of sections of two-lane farm-to-market roads long ago being pulled into the state highway system.

The Parish Council Roads Committee had proposed this month to make a few of those state road names consistent in the Prairieville area, but ran into public opposition from residents and, on Thursday, put off the change for now.

The Parish Council did agree Thursday to give its first-ever parish government-built roundabout at La. 930 and Henry Road a new name the "Panther Roundabout" after the mascot of Prairieville Middle School nearby. But changes to the names of La. 930 and La. 929 in Prairieville were deferred.

The idea had sailed easily through committee earlier this month with no comments from the public but has since run into opposition from residents who live along those roads, saying they were blindsided by the idea.

Tyrone Weems, 49, a lifelong resident of that part of Prairieville, went to the Parish Council in Gonzales on Thursday to air his concerns, and a few other residents showed up but did not speak.

"But I'm concerned if anybody thought about repercussions, you know, the cause and effect of all the stuff that's going to have to be changed for the residents. You known, driver's licenses. That's a fee. Everything, bills, credit cards. Everything, everything changes, it's a fee. Who is going to incur those fees? I mean residents? And what's the reason and what's the cost?" Weems said.

In interviews before the Thursday night meeting, Councilman Michael Mason, who represents part of the area, said he has received many calls about the proposed road changes and what it will mean to adjust peoples personal data, at their cost.

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Councilman Chase Melancon said he has received similar calls. The proposal also stirred up comments on some popular local Facebook groups.

Parish officials had said the reason for the proposed change is that, in recent years, Ascension has taken over maintenance of a few of these highways in exchange for state cash to finance upgrades.

La. 930, a notoriously narrow, poorly paved and winding road south of La. 42 where development has flourished amid public opposition, is one of these roads earmarked for upgrades with state cash.

Because these roads are now under parish control, administration and Parish Council officials suggested renaming a handful of state highways to their nearby companion parish road: La. 930 to Daigle Road, La. 929 to Braud or Causey roads.

In the face of the complaints, however, Councilman Aaron Lawler, the council chairman for transportation work and a sponsor of the idea, proposed bringing action on La. 930 and La. 929 back to his committee for public input and likely meetings in the area for people to learn about the proposal and how to do address changes.

The rest of the council agreed to hold off.

The topic came up as the council also continued to hold off on whether to rename a road in the Modeste area of western Ascension that has been named, at times, after two different families in the area for generations. Some of those residents have complained earlier changes happened without notice.

Parish President Clint Cointment proposed that while the Prairieville name changes are deferred, he and Lawler would work on notifying residents and reviewing the parish procedure to change road names.

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'Prairieville Panther' is in Ascension's new roundabout, but renaming roads off for now - The Advocate

ASCENSION PARISH, La. (BRPROUD) The Ascension Parish Sheriffs Office is taking part in the annual Louisiana Law Enforcement Torch Run this Friday in support of the Louisiana Special Olympics.

Each year, law enforcement members carry the Flame of Hope, a symbol of courage and diversity. The two-mile run will feature multiple hydrations stations to keep everyone cool. In the end, participants will get a jambalaya plate and a t-shirt.

Donovan Jackson with the Sherrifs Office says the event had to be scaled back for the last two years, but it helps to raise awareness and money for Louisiana Special Olympics, which is really near and dear to the deputies hearts here, so its a pleasure to be able to get back involved in this.

The run begins next to the Arc of East Ascension at 10:00 am, located at 1122 E Ascension Complex Blvd, Gonzales, LA 70737. Theres no need to worry about missing out, registration opens at 9:00 am. The form is available on site, but if you want to print it out ahead of time, clickhere.

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Ascension Parish Sheriffs Office is passing the torch for Louisiana Special Olympics - BRProud.com