The East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office will team up with Senator Sharon Weston Broome, State Representative Regina Ashford Barrow,  and Councilwoman Ronnie Edwards, to host its third annual Scotlandville School Supply Giveaway  this Saturday, August 6 from 10 a.m. to  1 p.m. at the BREC’s Hooper Road Park, 6261 Guynell Street. School children will receive school supplies.  There will be a number of vendors including:  

DHH/EBRP Medicaid ( LaCHIP)

Louisiana Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health, Inc.

YWCA ( HIV Prevention/Testing)

City Year Baton Rouge

LSU Ag Center

EBRSO DARE

Clerk of Court Kid ID’s

There will also be entertainment, food, and guest speaker Judge Michael Guidry.

On Tuesday, Aug. 9, LSU will conduct a safety drill consisting of a full-scale exercise for a residence hall fire emergency. The exercise will take place from 8 a.m to noon at Herget Hall.

This exercise will allow for a realistic response by all affected public safety agencies, LSU departments, and governmental and non-governmental agencies including LSU Emergency Operations, LSU Police, LSU Facility Services, LSU Student Life, LSU Residential Life, the Baton Rouge Fire Department, East Baton Rouge Emergency Medical Services, the American Red Cross and others. During the drill all agencies will be activated as they would during a real emergency.

LSU Residential Life staff will stage themselves in two floors of Herget Hall prior to 8 a.m. The LSU Fire and Emergency Training Institute will initiate simulated smoke on those floors, and a fire alarm will then be pulled, notifying participants to evacuate. LSU Police will receive the alarm notification, and all emergency response operations will follow.

During the exercise, the Herget/Miller parking lot will be closed.

The Southern University Marching Band has been selected as the top marching band among the nation’s historically black colleges, according to a national news magazine website.

HBCU Digest listed SU’s "Human Jukebox" as the number one marching band, outranking rivals Florida A&M University’s "Marching 100," Jackson State University’s "Sonic Boom of the South," Grambling State University’s Tiger Marching Band and the Bethune-Cookman University "Marching Wildcats."

"To even be mentioned in the same breath as these great marching bands is something to treasure," said Director of Bands Lawrence Jackson. "To be considered the best is an awesome payoff for the hours of sacrifice invested by our young men and women."

Jackson, a former Jukebox member himself, said the marching has had to be innovative in the past several years to "maintain the legacy of the great band directors and members before me."

"I am honored that someone would consider our band as the best HBCU band in the country," Jackson said.