Cantrell appoints 2 Convention Center board commissioners
Mayor LaToya Cantrell has appointed attorney Geri Broussard Baloney and Ralph Mahana, general manager of the Windsor Court Hotel, to the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority, the governing board of the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
Baloney
Baloney, founder of the Broussard Baloney Law Firm, APC, serves as special assistant to Attorney General Jeff Landry, representing state universities, hospitals and other agencies. Baloney also owns Baloney Funeral Home, LLC and La Belle Place Reception and Conference Center in LaPlace. She is a graduate of Southern University of New Orleans and Loyola University School of Law.
It looks like the Oregon School District will have at least one contested race for two open school board seats next spring.
Josh King and Aaron Heisler announced their candidacies for seats currently held by Steve Zach and Troy Pankratz, respectively, in the election set for Tuesday, April 6.
Zach, a long-time board member and president since 2016, announced last week he would not seek another term. He represents Area I, which covers the Village of Oregon.
Pankratz, the current treasurer, has been on the board since 2018 is seeking re-election. He represents the towns of Rutland, Montrose, Oregon, Brooklyn and Union, and the Village of Brooklyn.
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Approximately 970 students participated in the University of New Orleans’ fall 2020 virtual commencement presented on Dec. 12. The ceremony, which was streamed live on YouTube, included a roll call of graduates and a keynote address by actor Harry Shearer.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic required the change and President John Nicklow greeted graduates via video while standing on campus near the fountain at the Robert Merrick/Latter & Blum Patio.
The graduates represented 31 U.S. states and territories, as well as 24 countries.
“Today’s program marks the end of long years of rigorous academic training, and the beginning of a transition to a different chapter in your lives,” Nicklow said in his virtual address. “I want you to think for a moment about how different you are today than when you first arrived at the University of New Orleans … You now understand what I mean when I say that education is transformational.
If Louisianaâs college graduates hoped for the âcollege experience,â they got both: college and an experience, especially these past nine months.
Thatâs what graduates likely thought this month and last as they concluded their academic programs and set out on the rest of their life journeys. If study during the novel coronavirus was not what they had signed up for, it was nonetheless what they overcame.
In south Louisiana, eight of nine University of Louisiana System institutions marked or are marking graduation with some type of in-person celebration. The ninth, the University of New Orleans, held a ârollingâ graduation with students in their vehicles, one last, last joyous ride through campus.