Zachary High Student Wins National Endowment for the Arts Louisiana Poetry Out Loud Competition

Zachary High Student Jasmine Haynes recently competed in and won the Louisiana Poetry Out Loud competition. The State Finals were held earlier this month at the Louisiana State Museum in downtown Baton Rouge. A nationwide program created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud encourages youth to learn and perform famous poems for competition against other teens, first in school finals, then in city finals and then in the state final competition. As the winner of the state finals, Jasmine has won the opportunity to advance to the national competition to be held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC where she will be competing in April, 2009. Award-winning actress Tyne Daly, Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor, and poet Luis Rodriguez, among others, will judge the fourth annual Poetry Out Loud National Finals on April 28, 2009, in Washington, DC.

ZHS Agriscience Holds Spring Plant Sale

The Zachary High Agriscience / FFA Spring Plant Sale
Wednesday, March 1 through Friday, March 3 7: 30 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday, March 4 8:00 – 3:00 pm
Choose from:
Flowering bedding plants
Vegetable plants
Hanging baskets

All plants were grown by the Zachary Agriscience students. Look for the greenhouses near the stadium. Contact Kathy Conerly at 658-7326 for additional information

Real Men Wear Pink

The Zachary Bronco Baseball Team is joining with Lane Regional Medical and the Parkview Baptist Baseball Team to help raise money for Breast Cancer Research. The Real Men Wear Pink doubleheader will be held Saturday, March 21, beginning at 11 a.m.
Zachary High vs Parkview Baptist

Zachary Youth Park on Mount Pleasant Road

Members of both teams will be wearing pink jerseys.
No gate fee in exchange for donations to the Susan G. Koman Foundation for Breast Cancer Awareness

Show support for your team and wear pink!

Zachary High School students present Lost in Yonkers

Zachary High School will present Lost in Yonkers on March 12th and March 13th at the Zachary High School Auditorium. Both performances begin at 7 p.m. and the ticket price is $7.

Lost in Yonkers tells the story of Jay and Arty Kurnitz, two brothers, who after losing their mother to illness, are sent by their father to temporarily live with their paternal Grandmother, an old German woman who is stern and cutthroat. The play is set in 1942, during the time of World War II in Yonkers, New York. The boys’ father assures them that their stay is only temporary, while he works to create supplies for the war. The boys struggle to survive living in a disjointed household with a seemingly heartless Grandmother, two dysfunctional Aunts, and a felonious Uncle.

The members of the Kurnitz family will be played by Jace Swarner (Jay), Taylor Norris (Arty), Whitney Davis (Bella), Savannah Johnson (Grandma), Caleb Enselmo (Uncle Louie), Dustin Wray (Eddie), and Emma Susano (Aunt Gert).

“It was important for us to show our school and our community that we could put on a really good dramatic play,” says Savannah Johnson (Grandma). This the drama department’s first non-musical play in five years. The students of the drama department read several other scripts before settling on this play and decided that although this play has only seven character roles, its context was superior to the other plays they’d read. “The other plays we read had several roles so more people could be casted, but they weren’t nearly as interesting as Lost in Yonkers, “says Jace Swarner (Jay).

Although Simon, has been accredited with producing popular plays including Barefoot in the Park, Rumors, and The Odd Couple, Lost in Yonkers is the only play to earn him a Pulitzer Prize.

“I believe the family- oriented community of Zachary will connect with this story because it displays family relationships and the heartaches and sorrows that families undergo, in a comedic manner,” said Arica Lavigne, ZHS drama teacher & director of the show. “The citizens of this community will be able to identify with this storyline and perhaps see bits and pieces of themselves and their families in this production,” Lavigne continued.