Suburban Terrace Civic Association May 2025 President’s Report
Hello neighbors!
Spring is in the air! After we get our gardens spruced up, let’s look at what needs to be repaired/replaced on our houses and yards to get our homes ready for hurricane season. June and the start of hurricane season are right around the corner. Let’s plan ahead!
March 11, 2025, Meeting Recap
JPSO
Crime stats for our neighborhood continue to look good. Always a good sign when there is not much to report. Keep looking out for suspicious activity and report when necessary. Help JPSO help us. They can’t be everywhere. We are their eyes and ears!
Legislative update
We thank Louisiana State Senator J. Cameron Henry for attending our meeting and briefing us all on the State Amendments that were on the ballot for March 29, 2025. We appreciate Senator Henry taking the time to give us insight into those issues and answering questions from our members.
Margaret Ether – CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
We thank Ms. Ether for coming to speak to us about opportunities available to help in their mission.
If there is anyone willing and able to make a difference in the lives of these children, please contact Ms. Ether and find out how you can help.
CASA’s mission: Whatever their age, children who have experienced abuse or neglect face a frightening unknown: courtrooms, foster care, new schools. We make sure they don’t face it alone. Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteers are appointed by judges to advocate for children’s best interests. This best-interest advocacy makes a life-changing difference for children and youth who have experienced abuse or neglect.
For more information, please visit their website: https://casajefferson.org/
Tammany Baumgarten – Native Plant Initiative of GNO
Ms. Baumgarten is a licensed horticulturalist. She spoke about the plants that are native to our area. If these plants are used in our gardens, they have a much better chance of surviving in our climate. She also handed out small native plants for all to take home. If you would like more information, you can contact Ms. Baumgarten at: https://www.baumgardens.com/
Neighborhood News
On Saturday, 4/12/25, STCA formed a group to participate in the Keep Louisiana Beautiful Campaign. Lisa Loup, Jeannie Knesel, Kim Catalano and Judy Wolf met a representative from Jefferson Parish on River Road across from Jefferson Playground. The Parish provided us with supplies needed to pick up trash. We cleaned the area from the Huey P. Long Bridge to just past Jefferson Playground. We cleaned along the road and on both sides of the levee. The Parish gave out tee-shirts, bumper stickers, coozies and car coasters with the “Love the Boot, Don’t Pollute” logo. We picked up 12 – 55-gallon garbage bags of trash along that small stretch of highway. Please don’t litter and encourage others not to litter either!
Upcoming Events
May 13, 2025, Meeting
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at the Pink House (Thomas C. Laughlin Building) located at 4518 Jefferson Hwy. We are using this building until further notice.
The doors open at 6:30 pm and we will start promptly at 7:00 pm.
Our Guest Speakers – May 13, 2025
Ms. Angela DeSoto, Director, Jefferson Parish Engineering Department
Our guest speaker at the meeting will be Angela DeSoto, Director, Jefferson Parish Engineering Department. Ms. DeSoto has been working with STCA Board Member Suzanne Falgout on making improvements to the sidewalks on Jefferson Highway. This project is very complex. Different sections of the highway fall under the authority of different agencies. Suzanne and Ms. DeSoto have been working on this for quite some time. Please come and listen to the progress they have made on this project.
3 Southern Girls
A representative from the local restaurant will be at our meeting to discuss their restaurant. Let’s support our local businesses.
PLEASE BRING SCHOOL SUPPLIES TO THE MAY 13 MEETING TO HELP CASA!
We had a successful school supply drive last year for CASA and hope to be successful again this year. All supplies will be donated to CASA of Jefferson.
Refreshments – May 13, 2025
Refreshments for our next meeting will be chips and salsa. Refreshments are provided by our STCA Hospitality Committee. We thank Jeanie Knesel and Kristy Reeser for their work in providing us with a tasty snack at our meetings.
Please put our next meeting on your calendar, Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
STCA Facebook Page
We have created, maintained, and monitored our Suburban Terrace Facebook page. The page is dedicated to exchanging information between the paid members of our Suburban Terrace Civic Association. If you are a user of Facebook, are current on your membership dues, and would like to join, please send a request to join. We will check our membership rolls and allow admittance to our members. Anyone with an internet connection can access our website to find out more information about our association and join at: https://suburbanterrace.org/
Membership fees for 2025 are now due.
Individual Membership: $15.00/year
Household Membership: $30.00/year
Please renew your membership at our meeting by seeing either our Treasurer, Rhonda Gauthier, or our Secretary, Kim Catalano, at the welcome table or visit our website and renew your membership online.
Online payments are payable through PayPal.
When you are at our meeting, please visit our Advisory Board Member Suzanne Falgout to purchase 50-50 tickets. This helps add to our treasury and you could win money!
For everyone’s information, the annual dues collected are used to pay for refreshments at our meetings, yard signs that inform our neighbors of our meetings, our Annual Night Out Against Crime refreshments and entertainment, meeting supplies such as 50/50 tickets and various other essentials needed to run our organization. If any member would like a more detailed explanation of how our dues are spent, please make a request at our meeting and it will be sent to you.
We thank you all for your support. Your Suburban Terrace Civic Association would not be in existence without a team effort by our STCA Advisory Board Members. We live and work in this neighborhood right alongside all of you. Let us know where we can help. We do what we do on a volunteer basis to help preserve our neighborhood and make sure that it is a place we are proud to call home.
Hope to see you at the meeting!
Judy Wolf
STCA Advisory Board Member
Suburban Terrace Civic Association