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■ The Walk to Cure Diabetes on Saturday at Party Central located on Viking Drive in Bossier City is about raising money and awareness to help find a cure for the group of diseases known as diabetes. PAGE 8A Val Horvath/The Times

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■ Tonight, Loyola College Prep will celebrate its 100 years of football. The Flyers are hosting the Homer Pelicans at Messmer Stadium with a 7 p.m. kickoff. PAGES 1C, 2C

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‘Moneyville’ teaches children■ Future stock brokers can tune up their trading tricks at Sci-Port Discovery Center’s latest exhibition. “Moneyville,” a model city which promotes money management to students in grades kindergarten through eighth, opens Saturday. PAGE 11A

Loyola celebrates 100 years

■ A gentle breeze rustled the 727 pinwheels on the lawn of First Baptist Church School. Decorated by elementary and middle school art students, they are part of an international project, Pinwheels for Peace. PAGE 7A

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Hannah tickets come at a high priceBy Stephanie Nethertonsnetherton@gannett.com

Shreveporter Trent Tadlock did not have the heart to tell his 9-year-old daughter, Allison, on Saturday that she would not be one of 12,000 fans at the Nov. 15 Hannah Montana concert.

Just like hundreds of other parents, Tadlock’s wife spent the morning waiting for tickets outside the CenturyTel Center in Bossier City while he stayed at home hoping to nab them online when sales started at 10 a.m. Ten minutes later, the con-cert was sold out, and parents began crying foul play.

Within hours, hundreds of tickets for the local show were selling online at inflated prices.

“The tickets are supposed to be for local folks. Had 12,000 tickets been sold at CenturyTel, I wouldn’t have a problem. These are harder tickets to get than the Super Bowl,” Tadlock said.

“Now I’m uncertain on whether or not I want to let my daughter go. Do I want to be the dad that doesn’t deliver or be one of the crazy ones who pays too much for tickets? And what will this cost my family otherwise if I do?”

Hannah Montana fan club members were given the first grab at concert tickets before they went on sale to the gen-eral public. When tickets were made available to the public only 7,000 to 8,000 were still available and there was a limit of four tickets per purchaser.

“With inventory that day it would require only 1,500 to 2,000 people to make a purchase for tickets to be exhausted,” said Jess Marlow, director of sales and marketing at the Cen-turyTel Center.

Limiting the quantity of tickets sold per purchaser helps minimize second-hand sales by brokers. However, individuals can sell their tickets for what-ever value they choose.

“The broker Web sites are being used by individuals for resale, not brokers who have contracts with anyone to get large quantities of tickets. Your next-door neighbor could be a resaler,” Marlow said.

Once tickets are viewed online at Ticketmaster they are pulled from the system and out of the inventory, which is another reason for speedy sell outs. Even though there is no guarantee fans will get tickets, Marlow said they can better their chances by joining an art-ist’s fan club.

“If they are dedicated to the artist that gives them the oppor-tunity to get tickets before they go on sale to the general public,” Marlow said.

Sean Pate, public relations director for online ticket mar-ketplace, StubHub, said quick sell outs and high second-hand prices are a direct response to the insatiable popularity of Hannah Montana.

“There is a finite amount of seats and there are 50,000 to 70,000 people crashing the site trying to get tickets to that show. That’s the frustration that ticket buyers experience across the country when trying to get tickets to Bruce Springs-teen, the Police, Van Halen and Hannah Montana,” Pate said.

“It’s the hottest show in the country, bar none. Right now tickets, for the most part, are a little out of whack than where they will finally settle.”

Since Saturday’s sellout, 235 listings for the local concert have appeared on StubHub, ranging in price from $158 to

Tens of thousands of demonstrators from throughout the country march through Jena on Thursday to show their support for the Jena Six, a group of black youths who were being charged with attempted murder for beating a white student in connection with a noose-hanging incident at Jena High School last year.

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Thousands of marchers descend on small central Louisiana town

The Jena Six

Rally passionate but peacefulBy Loresha Wilsonljwilson@gannett.com

JENA — The voices of demonstrators echoed through the woods as thou-sands of cars crept up state Highway 8 into Jena early Thursday.

It began last September with a tree and three nooses, then a fight and now the question of justice.

Supporters, wearing black and white T-shirts with var-ious “Jena Six” slogans, descended for a rally to press for justice for six black teen-agers charged in the beating of a white classmate.

The Rev. Al Sharpton said it could be the beginning of the 21st century’s civil rights movement, one that would challenge disparities in the

Marchers make their way through the streets of Jena showing their support for the Jena Six on Thursday.

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By Ashley Northingtonadnorthington@gannett.com

JENA — Terri Pugh sat quietly on the front lawn of the LaSalle Parish Court-house on Thursday morning as thousands of people stood around her, chanting and yelling.

The owner of Mind, Body & Soul hair salon on Jew-ella Avenue in Shreveport arrived with her two young daughters and brother in Jena during the wee morning hours to show support for six black teenagers, dubbed

the Jena Six, who were crimi-nally charged in the beating of a white classmate.

For Pugh, the scene was reminiscent of a civil rights era march. She brought her children so they’d be able see the demonstration first-hand.

“Kids read about things like this in textbooks but this links what happened back then to things that are hap-pening now,” she said. “This is a lesson for them and a reminder for adults that we

cannot allow ourselves to be blind to injustice because these things are still hap-pening, even now.”

And while the nation is gearing up this month to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Little

Rock (Ark.) Nine, when nine black students deseg-regated a high school, faced intense racial discrimina-tion and served as a catalyst

Two bus loads of supporters of the Jena Six prepare to leave Shreveport and travel to Jena on Thursday morning.

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Locals travel to show support for Jena Six

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Man convicted of manslaughter■ A Natchitoches Parish jury this week convicted a Natchitoches man in the shooting death of another man in February. PAGE 9A

Student to take challenge■ Southfield School student Brice Lepow will compete with 40 other students across the country in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge. PAGE 6A

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Lots to do at the derby■ Louisiana Downs’ celebrates Super Derby XXVIII with autograph sessions, live entertainment, a hat contest and horse racing. INSIDE File/The Times

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