As part of the implementation of Positive Behavior Support (PBS) in Central Community Schools this year, Central Middle School has adopted several behavioral incentive systems. One of these incentives provides positive recognition each month for students “Caught Being Great” by going above and beyond in some way. These students are nominated by other students, and these nominations are collected and screened by homeroom teachers all month long. During the week of “PBS Friday”, which is a monthly celebration of positive behavior occurring on the last Friday of each month, each team of teachers goes through all the students’ nominations and selects the most outstanding ones for the “Caught Being Great” student to represent their team that month.
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The following Central Community Schools will dismiss early on Friday, September 12th due to deteriorating conditions from Hurricane Ike:

Central Private, Central High and Central Middle will dismiss at 1:00pm

Bellingrath Hills, Tanglewood and Central Intermediate will dismiss at 2:00pm

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Central High School Wildcat Football started out the season with a convincing win over Zachary, 28 to 12 tonight in Wildcat stadium. On its first possession Central capped an 86 yard drive with a 35 yard touchdown pass from Will Briscoe to Shedrick Davis. Mathew Thibodeaux’s kick added the extra point. Zachary took the kickoff and fumbled at their own 40 and Central recovered and scored on a 6 yard QB keeper by Briscoe, extra point by Thibodeaux. The teams exchanged punts for several series until Zachary ran the ball in for a score, but Josh Veals blocked the extra point making it 14-6. In its last possession of the first half Central drove the ball 66 yards, culminating in a one yard keeper by Briscoe for the score, extra point once again by Thibodeaux. Central 21, Zachary 6 at half-time.

In the second half Central opened up with an on-side kick which was recovered by Zachary, who then drove in for the score. Zachary attempted a two-point conversion but fumbled the ball away to Central, making the score 21-12 Central. On Central’s next drive they moved the ball 73 yards down the field to score on a 3 yard pass from Briscoe to Miles Juneau. Thibodeaux added the extra point, making him 4 for 4 on the night. Central then took care of business by holding Zachary scoreless the rest of the game. Final score, Central over Zachary 28-12.

Shedrick Davis and Dequincy Brown each averaged almost 20 yards per reception tonight. Davis had 10 catches for 194 yards and a score while Brown had 4 receptions for 79 yards. At QB Briscoe went 25 for 37 for 315 yards, two TD’s and one INT. Zach Pourciau recorded eight tackles and Josh Veals had six. The Central O-Line did not give up a single sack tonight. The Wildcats piled up 394 yards of total offense while hoding Zachary to 182 total yards. Click this link: GAME STATS for the complete official game statistics. Our thanks to the CHS Football program and Nathan Corley for providing these stats so quickly.

After having six games cancelled due to Hurricane Gustav, the Lady Wildcats opened the regular season with wins over East Ascension and Ascension Catholic.  During the first game of the double header Carlee Wilson (5 kills) lead the way in a 25-12 and 25-14 win over the Lady Spartans.  Sarah Zito (5 kills, 2 aces) and Danielle Croswell (6 kills 2 aces) along with setters Whitney East (9 assists) and Casey Brown (7 assists) lead the Wildcats from a comeback win against the Bulldogs of Ascension Catholic.  The wildcats lost the first game 23-25, but rebounded to take the second and third sets 25-17 and 25-10.  Central will be in conclude pool play Saturday at Dutchtown (9:30).  Bracket play will start at 12:30.

CMS is currently collecting the upc barcodes off of any Community Coffee labels.  This includes any items that are made by Community Coffee, such as sugars, creamers, beverages, coffee shop receipts, and so on.  Last year, we received a check from Community Coffee for over $1500.00.  Thanks for your support.

Below are just a few pictures of the devastating affects of Hurricane Gustav in Central.

Central residents are encouraged to move storm damage debris to the streets as soon as possible. Clean-up crew could start as early as Wednesday picking up our storm damage! Please seperate vegetation debris from other materials as they will be hauled to different sites.

Cox Greater Louisiana released a breakdown of the percentage of customers with service by parish as of 7:30 a.m. today. – –East and West Baton Rouge and East Feliciana – 17 percent

Below is a map of electric customers out of service:

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