Ruston Daily Leader (Newspaper) - July 4, 2006, Ruston, Louisiana peaches everywhere Local people line up to attain fruit following See page Louisiana Newspaper of the Year Runners go Down Under Choudrant trio earns national See page July 2006 Good Afternoon 500 School Jamboree plans unck August event expected to draw hundreds of children By Judith Roberts The Annual Family Day in the Park Back to School Jamboree is gearing up for its third run in August at Woodland but volunteers are still needed to make the event a Joy chair of the said the jamboree was coordinated through the Foundation in association with I Am tional alliance for This is an event that is held every year during the first week of We give school supplies to and we are going to raffle off four computers for kids and probably two LOCAL BRIEFS Art show to feature Louisiana Tech professor Louisiana Tech Professor Emeritus of Art Phoebe Allen Mathys has a solo exhi of her paintings opening day at the Schepis Museum in A survey of recent works will include acrylic and mixed media de voted to the human plant pets past and present and other Allen draws heavily from sketchbooks rather than photographs which ac cording to the inhibit the artistic process by presenting a factual recording of the nuances of light and Two series of paintings draw heavily from her Taos and Rome sketchbooks exploring the palette and qualities of light and shadow inherent in those The exhibition will run through the month of with an opening recep tion on Thursday from 68 at the Schepis located at 107 Main in or call Heroes Douglas Dicenzo Army Douglas of assigned to the 2nd 6th 2nd 1st Armored was killed May 25 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during combat opera tions in Price 500 Copyright Ruston This is a chance for families to come out to Woodland across from the old and spend time said currently they are looking for sponsor s for a basketball tour We want to have a basketball tourna ment this year for elementary and high school we have a scholarship for Kids need to write an essay on how important it is to give back to the This is for middle school and high school kids to use toward any supplies they need for Were looking for a sponsor to match that and take it to She said everything at the event would be from the materials handed out to kids and parents to the food and Lincoln Parish Sheriffs Office and will be and we will have different vendors from Louisiana Tech passing out educational tools such as flashcards and phonics Tellis Cooper This year we will have dif ferent vendors out there geared to getting information to One of those vendors is Project Elevate Site Supervisor Julie Holmes from We were given information about this event from the local radio and with Project we work with faith based groups who help students achieve in Holmes We will do math activities that day and provide students with math materials to take home with them so hopefully they will do better in math during the school Holmes said parents would not be left I think the parents need to feel they are she A lot of them want to help their but they dont know This is a fun atmo sphere that gives them a comfortable way to learn how to work with their said she was expecting hundreds of kids to show up to the After the first people started jumping Its grown every year by leaps and Im expecting it to be even larger this year with the New Orleans disaster and kids moving Were try ing to make sure we have enough of ev Rockets red glare Leader photo by CHUCK CANNON An early start to the Fourth of July Rain didnt dampen the spirits of area residents as both sides of the Service Roads along Interstate 20 near Temple Baptist Church were lined with vehicles and spectators to watch Rustons annual Fourth of July fireworks The program provided plenty of bombs bursting In air and brought countless oohs and aahs from those in Muslims talk about terrorists Editors note This story which looks at portrayals of Muslims in the media is the third of a series about By Laura Sloan At a time when terrorists slaughter innocent people in the name of local Muslims who practice the religion are experiencing anger and Muhammad a Muslim who emigrated with his family from Pakistan five years has watched national news coverage of terrorist events with It really hurt me when they said Mus lims are doing these said whose son served in the United States Army for three years in There is a lot of misunderstanding about what being a Muslim is In the past during wartime Muslims have been clearly ordered by leaders not to harm anyone not including women and and not to harm anything from nature like trees or Naj i a Muslim from Leba non who is in the Army said he welcomed the recent death of Al Qaeda leader Abu say ing the terrorist was hijacking his iden tity as a Of those who practice terrorist These people do not respect People like and bin I dont call them They kill in the name of re They are just like David who claimed to be Christian and 70 people got burned They are bad Randa a Muslim who attends Awan Louisiana supports the sentiments of Look at the Ku Klux Klan and what they are she Does that mean all Christians are doing that Ishaq said Muslims are the largest vic tims of people such as Hes not a real origi nally from said of Hes hurting Muslims more than Christians by giving them a bad And with his look at who is dying in Its primarily and Awan believe national media sources are guilty of unfair por of Awan said he was dis turbed to see cover age of a terrorist act which described the perpetrators only as who has been in the for 14 said with each era a new bo geyman In the 1940s it was the in the 1960s it was the Vietnamese and now its the he will soon be leaving to serve in Iraq as an interpreter for the I will put my life on the line to help the win the war against he she Im expecting about 500 Last it was right at that The jamboree is scheduled from 26 This is our third I thought of something I could do in my and I started contacting Tellis Cooper I was so amazed at how businesses were so generous in helping our kids and making sure they had the materials they It surprised me how easy it The event is for preschool through high school and if anyone is inter ested in donating or teering for the call per at Tech alive with sound of music By Rindy Metcalf Area music students will get their chance to sharpen their skills at Louisi ana Tech 23rd annual Music Camp that will run July Students from grades 712 will take courses in music tech nique and music Piano students will also participate in a master class where they will perform for a crowd Besides having the camp is to help them grow artistically as musi camp director Steele She said the students more performing experience with the private lessons with their specific Each student will overcome his her specific musical and that will take place in their lessons or in the master A master class is when a student will perform a piece of music from while other students give comments or suggestions on ways to improve it or make it said whether they play the guitar or play the piano young musi cians face many of the same Some problems they have are read ing not well to the sound they are knowing good knowing good sound quality and how to improve the Its difficult to teach how to find and achieve the most relaxed and beauti ful She said young musicians also have trouble exhibiting the right character or mood of the So far 10 campers are signed up to attend and receive suggestions from na pianist and teacher Constance Besides participating in the master she will also give a piano peda gogy and shes calling it Its All About I believe her talk will be a way to refuel for teach and her master classes will be en lightening for When you learn things in the master in front of therefore youre under perfor mance Material youll learn there will stay with your See page 2 Call 2553071 TODAY to 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