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Town Hall Seattle’s $25 Million Renovation Breaks Ground | Seattle … – Seattle Weekly

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The grand renovation will preserve the 100-year-old historic building while making room for the innovations that will define the organizations next chapter.

Each year since its inception in 1999, Town Hall Seattle has opened the doors of its home at Eighth Avenue and Seneca Street to tens of thousands of Seattleites for musical performances, political debates, spelling bees, and more. The Roman-revival-style building has since become a cornerstone of the citys civic life, growing to host 400 events each year, for which 110,000 people cross the threshold. The people who walk through the doors have helped shape that programming, but so too has the 100-year-old building itself.

Town Hall, from the beginning, was founded as a shared community resource, says Town Hall Seattle advancement director Kevin Malgesini. Between community input and community use, the opportunities and limitations of the building have really shaped our programming.

Now, though, the Great Hall has been darkened and the doors have been closed as the organization undertakes a year-long renovation to modernize its home and make it accessible for even more of the citizenry. The renovation is the fruit of the organizations deep bond with its community, allies and thousands of donors having helped Town Hall in a $25 million capital campaign that will ensure that the vital educational resource thrives for years to come.

Managed by Point32, designed by the architects at BuildingWork and acousticians at Jaffe Holden, and realized by RAFN Construction, the top-to-bottom renovation will give Town Hall a long-awaited upgrade, enhancing the buildings modern functionality and making it more accessible than ever before. The renovation will transform the building, explains executive director Wier Harman. Its going to be a very cool mix of very familiar and utterly new.

The buildings 100-year-old facade will get a face-lift, while still preserving its historic charm. The renovation will also add a downtown-facing entrance on the lower level of Town Hall. There will be major restructuring of the downstairs space to allow more natural light, better versatility, and flow. A flexible, moveable stage will be bookended by a library and a pub, optimizing the space for both intimate events and interactive participatory civic discussions alike. There will also be more accessible meeting spaces, improved multimedia capabilities, and acoustic improvements, changes that will literally break down barriers and allow a broader audience to experience its community-sourced programming.

Weve always worked to make our stages accessible and to remove barriers wherever we can find them, says associate director of development and messaging Missy Miller.

The project has been a long time coming. Since Town Halls inception, it has solicited feedback from dozens of community partners to determine how the building might better serve the community. Going into the project, we knew we really needed to make sure the choices we were making were facilitating their needs too, says Malgesini.

Seventeen new gender-neutral restrooms are planned for the main lobby area, in addition to seismic retrofitting, a new climate control system, and acoustic and AV improvements to the Great Hall. The project will also add infrastructure for a new digital stage, giving Town Hall more broadcast options and enabling more live streaming. Even people who cant physically gather in the space with us can still participate in our programming, says Miller.

The impact of the renovation will go beyond the walls of the building in another way as well. Town Hall will be using its experience to create a how to guide for sustainable historic renovations. This project reflects a core tenet of the organizations missionits commitment to education. The guide will include comprehensive project research findings on green building practices and offer the community another unique way to engage directly with the project.

What, though, are Town Halls patrons supposed to do in the year that the building is off-line? Well, in what theyve aptly named Inside/Out, Town Hall will continue to produce events during the renovation, at venues throughout Seattlein neighborhoods as far south as Columbia City, all the way up to Phinney Ridge. Along with its full range of regular programming, Town Hall plans to engage with communities on a more grassroots level. [Inside/Out] is an opportunity for us to throw the doors open even wider. To welcome in even more voices. To be even more intentional about reflecting the entire community, says Malgesini.

This latest chapter in the two-decade evolution of Town Hall should serve to strengthen the citys artistic, intellectual, and civic-minded population. And when the doors open again at Eighth and Seneca, it will be to an even larger community that will bring with it a new era.

At its core, Town Hall believes that every voice matters, says Malgesini. Now is the time has been the message so clearly and loudly spoken by the community.

Town Hall Seattles historic building is turning 100, and it needs some love. A top-to-bottom renovation will preserve the landmarks historic look and feel while making critical infrastructure, seismic, and performance advances. With state-of-the-art lighting and sound systems, a new downtown-facing entrance, and new multilevel restrooms, Town Hall will be more accessible, more comfortable, and more vibrant than ever. Learn more and get involved at townhallseattle.org.

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Chapel Hill wants affordable housing, but creates an unaffordable town Michael Jacobs – Durham Herald Sun

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Chapel Hill wants affordable housing, but creates an unaffordable town Michael Jacobs
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... consequence of many conscious decisions, which other Triangle communities should avoid. Chapel Hill boasts the highest all-in property tax rates in the state. It has the most expensive housing, caused by an intentional lack of supply of single ...

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Letter: Hey, Sinclair, we’ll be watching closely – Mad River Union

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(The following is an open letter to Sinclair Broadcast Group, its board members, shareholders and decision makers. Ed)

We the people of Humboldt County, on the Redwood Coast of California, would like to welcome you to our community. With your recent acquisition of four local television channels, you are now a major part of our media landscape. We may be a small market demographically, but we support our local news outlets and we have high standards and expectations for corporations that control access to information in our communities.

As the comedian John Oliver pointed out recently on his show Last Week Tonight, Sinclair has earned a somewhat unsavory reputation for biased coverage and inflammatory must-run segments that routinely misrepresent facts in order to benefit right-wing political agendas (more on this at tinyurl.com/LWT-Sinclair). While this behavior may stem from a legitimate belief that you are doing the right thing, you should be aware that it often comes across as cynical manipulation and intentional distortion of the truth.

From past experience, we know that consolidated absentee ownership reduces competition, threatens media localism and harms information diversity. For example, when the digital television transition modified the transmission systems for local TV broadcasters, coverage in large swaths of Humboldt County was significantly reduced.

While Bonten has made substantial investments in local origination, Sinclair has a reputation for requiring their owned affiliate stations to air non-local editorial content during local newscasts. This must air practice reduces local origination of news and information programs that address controversial issues of public importance. To become a trusted local broadcaster, your policies need to provide reasonable opportunities for local and opposing views to be expressed.

Since we would like to give you the benefit of the doubt as a new player in town, we have developed a short list of suggested actions that would help to demonstrate your commitment to becoming a responsible provider of high-quality information:

Ensure Localism with meaningful investments in local news and information programming to support public interests of local and tribal jurisdictions:

Station broadcasts should identify must air non-local content on-screen.

Provide equal airtime for local editorial content expressing opposing views.

Ensure that Spanish language channel(s) include equivalent local program origination as other channels, and that tribes have in-language programming available on-air.

Promote Universal Access with investments in new infrastructure for our least served people and places:

Install and maintain additional translator/repeater facilities to ensure full multi-casting coverage over the entire Designated Market Area served.

Transparency and accountability to local jurisdictions through community-based participation in local programming:

Maintain public files, including annual reports on compliance with contractual promises available at every local library location.

Dedicate multi-cast channel(s) programmed entirely with locally originated non-commercial content from local jurisdictions. (Note: This could be accomplished in coordination with Public-Education-Government access community media available now through the counties, cities and tribes served.)

While we would love to see all of the above actions incorporated into Sinclairs local operations, we dont hold out much hope that these issues will be addressed.

After all, were just one small piece of a growing monopoly, and there is lots of money to be made through media manipulation and control. Still, we promise to do everything in our power to make sure that you deliver services that meet local needs and community interests.

The North Coast is a very special place to its residents, and we sincerely hope you will thoughtfully consider these and other ways that we can work together to develop and support community-based media.

Think of this as a golden opportunity to improve your reputation and become a trusted and reliable source of news across the Redwood Coast region.

Welcome to Humboldt County, and rest assured that we will be watching closely and working tirelessly to help keep you accountable to the high standards of our community. Thats one piece of local news you can definitely count on.

Sean Taketa McLaughlin,

executive director, Access Humboldt

Eureka

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Sacred Space | Your daily prayer online

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One of my bags was lost in transit, and I couldnt wait for it so continued the trip without it. I had to buy shampoo and some socks. Other than that, I didnt miss the bag. By the time I headed home, the bag was back in my possession. I set it down in the hallway at home and didnt open it for a week because I couldnt remember what was in it. And if I couldnt remember, then could anything in that bag be so important?

This makes me wonder how much energy I use up, day in and day out, hauling stuff around that isnt even important. What burdens have I taken upon myself that just take up space and make me tired and anxious?

I dont think we were meant to live this waytoo many bags, and too much weight. I think God wants us to travel light and to enjoy the trip a lot more.

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Beam me up, Scotty! Scientists teleport photons 300 miles into space – The Guardian

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Chinas Micius satellite blasts off from Jiuquan in Gansu on 16 August 2016. Photons were beamed from a ground station in Ngari in Tibet to Micius, which is in orbit 300 miles above Earth. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images

Chinese scientists have teleported an object from Earth to a satellite orbiting 300 miles away in space, in a demonstration that has echoes of science fiction.

The feat sets a new record for quantum teleportation, an eerie phenomenon in which the complete properties of one particle are instantaneously transferred to another in effect teleporting it to a distant location.

Scientists have hailed the advance as a significant step towards the goal of creating an unhackable quantum internet.

Space-scale teleportation can be realised and is expected to play a key role in the future distributed quantum internet, the authors, led by Professor Chao-Yang Lu from the University of Science and Technology of China, wrote in the paper.

The work may bring to mind Scotty beaming up the Enterprise crew in Star Trek, but there is no prospect of humans being able to materialise instantaneously at remote locations any time soon. The teleportation effect is limited to quantum-scale objects, such as fundamental particles.

In the experiment, photons were beamed from a ground station in Ngari in Tibet to Chinas Micius satellite, which is in orbit 300 miles above Earth.

The research hinged on a bizarre effect known as quantum entanglement, in which pairs of particles are generated simultaneously meaning they inhabit a single, shared quantum state. Counter-intuitively, this twinned existence continues, even when the particles are separated by vast distances: any change in one will still affect the other.

Scientists can exploit this effect to transfer information between the two entangled particles. In quantum teleportation, a third particle is introduced and entangled with one of the original pair, in such a way that its distant partner assumes the exact state of the third particle.

For all intents and purposes, the distant particle takes on the identity of the new particle that its partner has interacted with.

Quantum teleportation could be harnessed to produce a new form of communication network, in which information would be encoded by the quantum states of entangled photons, rather than strings of 0s and 1s. The huge security advantage would be that it would be impossible for an eavesdropper to measure the photons states without disturbing them and revealing their presence.

Ian Walmsley, Hooke professor of experimental physics at Oxford University, said the latest work was an impressive step towards this ambition. This palpably indicates that the field isnt limited to scientists sitting in their labs thinking about weird things. Quantum phenomena actually have a utility and can really deliver some significant new technologies.

Scientists have already succeeded in creating partially quantum networks in which secure messages can be sent over optical fibres. However, entanglement is fragile and is gradually lost as photons travel through optical fibres, meaning that scientists have struggled to get teleportation to work across large enough distances to make a global quantum network viable.

The advantage of using a satellite is that the particles of light travel through space for much of their journey. Last month, the Chinese team demonstrated they could send entangled photons from space to Earth. The latest work does the reverse: they sent photons from the mountaintop base to the satellite as it passed directly overhead.

Transmitting into space is more difficult as turbulence in the Earths atmosphere can cause the particles to deviate, and when this occurs at the start of their journey they can end up further off course.

The latest paper, published on the Arxiv website, describes how, more than 32 days, the scientists sent millions of photons to the satellite and achieved teleportation in 911 cases.

This work establishes the first ground-to-satellite up-link for faithful and ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation, an essential step toward global-scale quantum internet, the team write.

A number of teams, including the European Space Agency and Canadian scientists, have similar quantum-enabled satellites in development, but the latest results suggest China is leading the way in this field.

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Around Ascension for July 13, 2017 – The Advocate

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Holiday market

Its Christmas in July when the Jolly Jingles Market sets up this weekend at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Centers Trademart Building. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Admission to the semiannual gift and general merchandise market is $5 per person. Parking is free and strollers are welcome. Goody bags will be distributed to the first 500 shoppers.

St. Mark Catholic Church of Gonzales invites parishioners ages 55 and older to a senior citizen get-together after the 4 p.m. Mass on Saturday in the Father DeMaria Activity Center. Seniors will enjoy a meal, followed by bingo and fellowship.

Registration is required. Call Evelyn Rousseau at (225) 647-5731 to leave a name and phone number.

Ascension Parish Library's summer reading program offers a variety of events for youths of all ages.

BROWN BEAR: Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the childrens classic with fun and games, 10:30 a.m. Monday, Donaldsonville. For all ages.

BUILD A BIRDHOUSE: Construct and decorate a birdhouse out of fun foam, 2 p.m. Monday, Gonzales. For all ages.

SPACE EXPLORATION: Learn about planetary movement and make a model of the solar system, 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Donaldsonville. For all ages.

HARRY POTTER INTERACTIVE MOVIE NIGHT: The movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone comes to life with an assortment of fun props, with costumes encouraged: 6:30 p.m. July 20, Gonzales. For children, teens and adults.

FRIDA KAHLOS BIRTHDAY: Celebrate the Mexican artist by playing lotera and making floral headbands, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dutchtown. For teens entering grades six through 12.

HARRY POTTER YULE BALL: Celebrate the end of summer with a Harry Potter themed Yule Ball, with wizardly and formal attire welcome, 4 p.m. July 20, Donaldsonville. For teens entering grades six through 12.

Ascension Parish Librarys Kanji Klub meets at 6 p.m. Monday at the Gonzales Branch. Members will watch the French anim Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline and craft nebula jars.

Kanji Klub is open to ages 18 and older. Cosplay is welcome. Call (225) 647-3955 for details.

Learn about musculoskeletal disorders and how to prevent them at PB&J Protect Your Bones and Joints at 11 a.m. Wednesday in St. Elizabeth Hospitals Sister Linda conference room.

The free class for teens, led by certified orthopedic nurse Charla B. Johnson, is aimed at preventing injury and promoting bone and joint health. A light lunch will be served.

Registration is required; call (225) 621-2906.

The Class of 1977 of East Ascension High School will gather for its 40th class reunion at 6 p.m. Aug. 19 at the Clarion Conference Center in Gonzales.

All East Ascension High graduating classes are invited to the celebration, which includes food, a cash bar, dancing and music by Kenny Fife.

Cost is $50 per person in advance or $55 at the door. Registration forms will be emailed upon request. Email trudybates@yahoo.com or l.rhett.bourgeois@gmail.com for details.

Contact Darlene Denstorff by phone, (225) 388-0215 or (225) 603-1996; or email, ascension@theadvocate.com or ddenstorff@theadvocate.com. Deadline: noon Monday.

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Ascension Athletics for July 13, 2017 – The Advocate

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Noah Fontenot strikes out 15 as Gauthier & Amedee win twice over weekend

The Gauthier & Amedee Wombats traveled to Westwego for their first-round game against Refuel, an Archbishop Shaw-based team from Marrero. Wombats starting pitcher Noah Fontenot actually was supposed to get a chance to pitch at Kirsch-Rooney Stadium where Delgado Community College plays. Its where he is scheduled to pitch for the next two years with the Dolphins.

Bad weather played a role in Fontenots opportunity to play at his future home field and moved Saturdays American Legion southeast regional to Segnette Field. Fontenot didnt let the move shake him at all and proceeded to pitch his best game to date in his young career.

Fontenots one-hitter, 5-1 victory moved his record to a perfect 5-0 for the Wombats, which is not terribly surprising as he finished his senior year at East Ascension compiling an 8-3 record on the mound for the Spartans in 2017.

My time at East Ascension playing for the Spartans will be a memory Ill never forget, Fontenot said. The people were great and treated me well; it was a lot of fun. Both of my parents went there and my dad, Andy, played baseball for the Spartans as well, so its sort of like keeping a family tradition alive.

Fontenot not only allowed just one hit but he struck out a career-high 15 batters going the distance, pitching a complete game in Gautier & Amedees victory over Refuel. Striking out for the opposing batters was not a unique item as the Delgado signee struck out everyone on the team at least one time and struck out the side in three different innings.

Fontenot retired the first two batters, then put two runners on base with a hit batter and a walk before ending the inning with a strikeout. But that was the end of the jitters. I got more and more confident with every inning, Fontenot said. I nailed the location on my fastball and I was able to throw my off-speed stuff for strikes.

Gauthier & Amadee started things off as they took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning. Dutchtowns Cameron Crawford stroked a bases-loaded single and drove in Larson Fontenot and EAs Preston Thrash. Another run was added by the Wombats on Brayden Caskeys groundout.

A single to left field by Devin Lansing in the third inning was Refuels (5-3) lone hit with one out and was left stranded at second base. Fontenot then retired 10 batters in a row after that single and a walk to pitcher Rene Brupbacher while fanning the side in the sixth.

For Gauthier & Amedee, Crawford went 2-4 on the game with 2 RBIs and a stolen base. Caskey was 1-3 with an RBI, while Larson Fontenot went 1-2, scored a run and had one stolen base. Preston Thrash went 1-2, scored 2 runs, had 2 walks and a pair of stolen bases.

On Sunday nights second round game at 6:30 p.m., the Wombats faced De La Salle-based Best Chevrolet at Kirsch-Rooney. Dutchtowns Jack Merrifield took the mound as the scheduled starter for G&A. The win moved the Ascension Parish based team one game away from reaching the American Legion state tournament as it hammered Best Chevrolet with an 11-1 mercy-rule victory in five innings.

G&As starter Jack Merrifield of Dutchtown took a no-hitter into the bottom of the fifth inning and was replaced by Jacob Spell after allowing a lead-off single to Corey Cook to right field. Merrifield (2-1) walked two and struck out four before being lifted.

G&A registered 11 hits and scored in every inning but the second. The Wombats scored two runs in the first inning, then tacked on another run in the third and blew things wide open, scoring seven more in the fourth inning.

Merrifield picked up the win and fellow Griffin Crawford led the way on offense with three hits, including a double and triple and two RBIs. Ivan Prejean was 1 for 1 picking up four RBIs and Merrifield piled on a pair of hits including a double and 2 RBIs to aid his pitching effort.

By press time, G&A (20-4-1) will have faced the defending state champion Pedal Valves on Monday night. A win will have sent the Wombats into Wednesdays championship game and lock in a berth in next weeks state tournament.

The effects from Tropical Storm Cindy are long gone and the water levels finally have returned to normal. The temperatures are heating up to summertime levels and so is the fishing.

Our waterways in the Amite/Blind River Basin have gone a few years without a major hurricane, which usually decimates the fish population for two or three years. They have made quite a comeback since the last one.

The summertime patterns are coming into play as far as the bass are concerned. The shad populations are very strong and that is a good thing as they are loaded with protein and the bass love to eat them. The shad form giant schools, which tend to make the bass school up and find places to ambush those schools in feeding frenzies.

Points (where two waterways meet) are one of those good locations for bass to lay in wait for an easy meal. Top water baits are a good choice for early morning activity, but dont store the rod after the sun comes up. The fish will feed throughout the day and if you catch them busting a school of shad on the surface, that top water bait will catch them any time of the day.

A crank bait is another good choice because they emulate shad and can get a school of bass stirred up enough to get in the feeding mode as well. This is a bait that can be fished really fast and cover a lot of water you to fish plenty of places a little quicker than other baits.

The plastic worm about rounds out my top three selections for summertime fishing for bass and probably is my favorite. This bait is versatile in the ways one can use them to entice a bass into biting. Texas rigged is probably the favorite style to fish, but the drop shot and the Carolina rig work well also.

The time is right and the fishing is hot, but so is the weather. The temperatures are in the dangerous zone as far as hydration is concerned. Bring plenty of water and hydrating drinks along for the trip. Its quite easy to get caught up in the fishing and forget about drinking water. Start when itsstill not too hot because its not easy to catch up if heat-related issues take place. Be safe on the water.

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Parish income investments rank second in La. – Donaldsonville Chief

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It would appear that the summer of 2017 has been a booming time for Ascension Parish. For the second time since 2016, Ascension has ranked second in the SmartAssets most income investments in Louisiana.

SmartAsset is a company based in New York, that estimates area around the country that have the most incoming investments in business, real estate, government, and the local economies. With people starting their businesses here, Ascensions business growth has grown to 6.0%. Ascension shows the second highest percent of growth next to Calcasieu Parishs 6.1%. West Baton Rouge was ranked first in most income investments in Louisiana, yet has 3.8% in business growth.

In Gross Domestic product or GDP growth in millions, Ascension Parish has a decrease of -$23 million dollars. West Baton Rouge has a decrease of -$6 million dollars in their GDP, with Lafayette having a decrease of -$90 million dollars the lowest of any parish. This generally means that the local and state economies are beginning to slow down. Last year our GDP growth was $53 million dollars, while other parishes were between 5 and 200. Lafayette had the highest at $204 million dollars. Market value grosses maybe decreasing, but these numbers could begin to rise again.

In new building permits, Ascension parish ranked second with 19.8 (per 1,000 homes). West Baton Rouge ranks first at 26.6 (per 1,000 homes). Lafayette is the lowest on the chart at 12.3 (per 1,000 homes). These numbers represent the growth of subdivisions and housing within the parishes. Subdivisions like Bayou View Estates on Boudreaux Road and Lake Summerset on Duplessis Road are just two of many fast growing subdivisions in Ascension. Developing subdivisions, like New River Oaks and Dutchtown Meadows may raise Ascensions ranking.

When it comes to Federal Funding per capita, Ascension Parish has around $20 dollars per capita. This score however, is the 4th lowest, with De Soto parish being the lowest at $0 per capita. West Baton Rouge ranks first again at $3,924 per capita. This federal funding is in the form of contracts awarded to businesses in each parish, which is divided by the population.

Lastly, there is the Incoming Investment Index. This is an assessment of each chart place in an overall number. Ascension Parish ranks second with 47.77 in incoming investments. West Baton Rouge ranks first with an income investment of 54.10. Cameron parish ranks last with an income investment of 34.92. These ratings show that Ascension is still as strong as it has been in the previous two years. Ascension was ranked the strongest parish for incoming investments in Louisiana in 2015, and the second strongest in Louisiana in 2016.

Now in 2017, Ascension is still ranked the second strongest parish in the Louisiana and the 155th strongest county in the United States.

"SmartAsset does research like this to get people to think and talk about their personal finances, community finances and what matters to them in the future," Managing Editor AJ Smith of SmartAsset said.

Ascension Parish is one of the strongest places to be for investors, and surely Ascension will achieve new highs in the future.

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Dancers light up stage to raise money for Arc of East Ascension – The Advocate

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Dr. Louis Lefebvre III's jive/freestyle took the top prize at Saturday's Dancing for a Cause.

Lefebvre, who danced with partner Alyssa Babin, raised $14,990 for the Arc of East Ascension, the agency that holds the annual fundraiser.

Lefebvre, owner of Main Street Dental Care, shined in a gold jacket for his upbeat presentation at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center.

Gonzales' chief engineer Jackie Baumann won second place and raised $7,440 with her samba/freestyle number.

Jackie Tisdell, public information officer for Ascension Parish schools, won third place, raised $6,650 and took the Fan's Choice award for her high energy jazz/funk number.

The event exceeded its $100,000 goal, raising $118,000, said event coordinator Sharon Morris.

Also dancing were Cheryl Mercedes, Terri Kaaihue, Craig Stevens, Tasheba York-LeBlanc, Malcolm Carter and Trevor Gautreaux.

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Ascension exec: Wisconsin faces $2.8B Medicaid-funding cut under Senate bill – Milwaukee Business Journal

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Wisconsin's Medicaid program would be slammed with a $2.8 billion federal funding cut under the proposed U.S. Senate health care bill, according to an analysis Ascension Wisconsin cites as reasons the bill could put health coverage at risk for seniors, ...

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