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Jambalaya Fundraiser for Injured Central High Students – January 16th

Posted on 06 January 2010. Tags: , , , , , , , ,

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A benefit is being held for 3 Central High School students who were injured in 2 separate accidents recently. The benefit will be held on January 16th @ Oak Point on the corner of Greenwell Springs Road and Sullivan Road. Tickets are $6.00 each. For more information and to donate food please contact Dirk Arnold at 225.329.5564. The City of Central has set up an event on facebook for this benefit. You can find it by following this link.

Below is the information/names of the 3 students the benefit is being held for:

Michael Calamia is a student at Central High School and was involved in a head on collision and sustained multiple life threatning injuries and was hospitalized. He has recently recovered enough to return home to his family.

Ebony Watkins was involved in the same accident as Michael and she also suffered very serious injuries.

Kelsey Lieux was involved in a serious car accident on Wednesday, December 9, 2009. She’s been in a medically induced coma ever since. Wednesday, January 6, Kelsey will be in surgery for her neck injury. Her c2 vertebra is fractured so the doctors are going in and fusing C1,C2 and C3 vertebra together and adding a few screws.

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  • Elizabeth

    Let us all take the time to reflect on God’s will. He created seat belts so that we would wear them. If you are a driver and are hit while wearing a seat belt, it not only protects you, but it allows the driver to maintain better control of the vehicle; thereby reducing injury to all – from the other passengers inside your car to the other car’s drivers, to innocent pedestrian bystanders. Parents should set a good example and insist on the wearing of seat belts. Kids should insist that friends who are driving always wear seat belts. Parents should make sure the seat belts are comfortable and don’t cut or cause chafing on the skin of the neck (which sometimes happens with shorter drivers), so that the teens are more likely to wear them.

  • Paul

    First of all I want to give my condolences to the family of Kelsey Lieux. I know what y’all are going through. I lost a 19yr old son a little over 3 yrs ago in a auto accident. I can’t lie, it’s not easy, but by the grace of GOD and the peace he gives us,it’s the only way we have been able to make it through this. We need to keep Kelsey’s family in our prayers so that they may have the comfort it takes to endure such a tragedy.
    I also agree with Elizabeth, we need to stress to our children to always wear their seatbelts. My son didn’t have his on when GOD took him home, and if he did he may have been here today.


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