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Honor graduates from both high schools in the parish will lead in commencement exercises this week at each of the schools. Graduation at LaSalle High School will be at 8 p.m., Thursday, May 16, at Tiger Stadium. Graduation at Jena High School will be at 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 17, at the Guy Campbell Memorial Athletic Complex.

Fifteen retiring employees of the LaSalle Parish School System were honored during a reception at the Family Life Center of First Baptist Church in Jena last Thursday afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Superintendent Roy Breithaupt joined Supervisors and Principals in presenting plaques to each of the honorees during the reception. The 15 retirees represent a total of 406.5 years of service, with 377 of those years being with the parish school system. Retirees consist of one supervisor, one administrative assistant, a dozen teachers and a bus driver.

After more than a half hour of hearing arguments for and against adding four additional classrooms to the new Jena Elementary School, members of the LaSalle Parish School Board turned down the idea in a 6 to 4 vote during their regular May meeting held Monday night of last week. Board member Charlie Anderson opened the discussion on adding the classrooms citing his concern with the influx of new people in the parish due to the economic developments now underway.

The Town of Tullos Council chose for the Tullos farmer’s market to be called “Tullos Farmer’s Fest” during the regular May meeting held on Monday night of last week. Under new business, Mayor Charles Newsom said there were several aspects of the market to be decided upon by the Council besides the official name. “We’re the first of these type of markets in LaSalle Parish, which is quite exciting,” Mayor Newsom said. “We are looking so forward to opening our market, but first we need a name for it.”