The Fairmont Hotel
has "adopted" Crescent House, a local shelter that provides short-term housing to battered women and their children and helps them move into safe homes. The hotel recently sent furniture, linens, clothing, toys, toiletries and kitchen supplies to Crescent House as part of a national initiative by its parent company, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.
Dr. Gholam A. Peyman,
a Tulane University ophthalmologist, has received the 2001 Innovator’s Award from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. The organization recently recognized Dr. Peyman’s work on the development of the vision correction procedure known as LASIK. He also is known for having developed intraocular lenses for patients with low vision.
The Sewerage and Water Board
(S&WB) is again receiving a barrage of complaints from residents who say their houses have been damaged by drainage canal construction in their area. Mayor Marc Morial asked the S&WB last week if digging canals is possible without soil subsidence damaging nearby homes. The question should have been addressed long ago.
A Caddo Parish teacher
at Huntington High School admitted she changed students’ LEAP test scores so they could pass, according to School Superintendent Robert Schiller, who would not release the teacher’s name. Six high school seniors re-took portions of the test after the state Department of Education noticed that several of the students’ answers appeared to have been erased and changed. The teacher faces a June 19 hearing before the Caddo School Board.
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