🌱 How Evangel’s aggressive baserunning stunned John Curtis in Harahan

Hello Harahan! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• How Evangel’s aggressive baserunning stunned John Curtis in Harahan
• Pulitzer-winning photographer with Harahan ties remembered after his death

Also on today's calendar: Storytime with Craft - and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: What is the difference between a nicely dressed man on a tricycle and a poorly dressed man on a bicycle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Variable clouds, a t-storm, with a high of 83 and low of 70 degrees.
• Sunday: An afternoon thunderstorm, temps: high: 84, low: 72.
• Monday: Breezy, warm, with a high of 89 and low of 73 degrees. 🌶 Hot!

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📰 News we're reading

• Fastball Round 2: No. 14 Evangel takes down No. 3 John Curtis in first game of series, 3-1 (wgno.com) — High school baseball fans in Harahan saw Evangel top John Curtis 3-1 in a Division I Select bi-district matchup, powered by aggressive baserunning. The game featured standout quarterback Peyton “Pop” Houston helping spark Evangel’s offense, while WGNO’s Friday Night Fastball will continue spotlighting local diamond action for area viewers.
   

• Jack Thornell, AP photographer who captured assassination attempt on James Meredith, dies at 86 (wafb.com) — Residents may recall that Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jack Thornell, who once gave an interview in Harahan, has died at 86. Thornell’s iconic images of James Meredith and other Civil Rights-era moments helped document pivotal Southern history, and he later lived and worked in the New Orleans area.
   

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📸 Around Harahan

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Harahan

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★ Featured events ★

Sunday April 26

• Shades of HUNKS at Daiquiri Stop (Harahan, LA) 04/26/26
  Daiquiri Stop, 1700-1740 Hickory Ave, Harahan
  7:00 pm

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Other local events

Thursday April 30

• Storytime with Craft -
  Jefferson Parish Library - Harahan Library , 219 Soniat Ave , Harahan
  3:00 pm

Saturday May 2

• Story Time With Craft -
  Jefferson Parish Library - Harahan Library , 219 Soniat Ave , Harahan
  10:30 am

Thursday May 7

• Storytime with Craft -
  Jefferson Parish Library - Harahan Library , 219 Soniat Ave , Harahan
  3:00 pm

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📣 Harahan Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday April 25

• Recycling Drop-Off Event
  Jefferson Parish, LA Calendar
  8:00 am
• Pottery Hand Building Class
  Artsy Edge , 3228 Metairie Road , Metairie
  11:00 am

Sunday April 26

• Jagged Little Pill
  Jefferson Performing Arts Center , 6400 Airline Dr , Metairie
  2:00 pm
• NOLA CLASSIC Sunny Jazz Hall - 3 Hours
  Painting with a Twist , 4931 W Esplanade Ave STE D , Metairie
  7:00 pm

Monday April 27

• Hooked On Threads
  Jefferson Parish Library - River Ridge Library , 8825 Jefferson Hwy , River Ridge
  2:00 pm

Wednesday April 29

• Prosper Jefferson Seminar Series: Small Business Legal Basics
  JEDCO Conference Center , 700 Churchill Parkway , Avondale
  9:00 am
• Barataria Preserve - Wetland Trace Walk
  Wetland Trace , 4917 City Park St , Jean Lafitte
  1:00 pm

Thursday April 30

• JEDCO Executive Committee Meeting
  Jefferson Parish, LA Calendar , 700 Churchill Parkway , Avondale
  8:30 am

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🗞 Nearby News

River Ridge

• Proposal to create Louisiana's largest landfill examined at packed hearing (nola.com)
• Softball Playoffs: Mount Carmel advances to Sulphur with win over Alexandria (crescentcitysports.com)

Avondale

• Alex Smalley, Hayden Springer lead Zurich by 1 after Fitzpatricks' surge (statenews.net)

Jefferson

• re: Should Orleans Parish and Jefferson Parish merge? (tigerdroppings.com)
• Arrest made in Jefferson Parish fatal hit-and-run crash (wgno.com)
• Jefferson Parish jury finds Kenner man guilty of gunning down his brother-in-law (nola.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A tire. (Thank you Joan B. for sending it in!)
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