The Arlene and Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation has given the LSU AgCenter Livestock Show $150,000 to establish an endowment for Supreme Champion Animals in all six breeding species – beef cattle, dairy, poultry, sheep, goats and swine. This represents the single largest donation in the 80-year history of the show

Business is booming in St. Bernard’s film industry! Docville Farm was a location for a Wix.com Super Bowl XLIX commercial. According to iSpot.tv, “former NFL star Brett Favre discusses his career with his agent but the future looks bleak; not even Canada has called him all year.

Docville Farm’s crawfish pond is featured in the Fall issue of Louisiana Sea Grant’s Coastal Clips. The crawfish pond was created for AgMagic by the River. This year’s guided field trips will be held May 13 through 15 and it is open to the public on May 16.

The Meraux Foundation is hosting a training seminar at Docville Farm to help people protect themselves against stalking. The program is being presented by the St. Bernard Battered Women’s Program, Inc. and Metropolitan Center for Women and Children as part of National Stalking Awareness Month.

The Meraux Foundation was honored to support the City of New Orleans in its mission to end veterans homelessness.

One of the groups organizing events for the bicentennial of the Battle of New Orleans’ commemoration and reenactment broke ground Wednesday on the future “living history park” in Chalmette.

Ever since the Docville Farm in Violet was designated as an educational center, the Meraux Charitable Foundation has worked hard to create opportunities for students and teachers from across the parish and the Greater New Orleans area.

Startup St. Bernard presented by the Meraux Foundation is seeking out innovative entrepreneurs to compete for a huge prize package designed to help propel their business to the next level.

“Working on Water” to Feature Experts on Businesses of Ecotourism, Coastal Restoration, and Disaster Response

Delegation of La. educators returns from Rivers Institute in Minnesota A delegation of educators and environmentalists headed by the Arlene and Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation returned to St. Bernard Parish yesterday after attending the Waters to the Sea Rivers Institute at the source of the Mississippi River in Minnesota.

Louisiana loses a football-sized amount of its wetlands each hour. This rate of erosion will only increase, especially in the wake of the devastating hurricanes and natural disasters that we have experienced more frequently in recent years.

We are honored to recognize a pillar of the arts in St. Bernard. The Performing Arts Academy has given young people in our community the opportunity to be apart of spectacular productions.

The Meraux Foundation unveiled the Arlene Meraux River Observation Center (AMROC) this summer. The four-story educational facility features a classroom, community meeting spaces, and a fifth-floor observation deck overlooking the Mighty Mississippi.

The Meraux Foundation awarded scholarships to 58 St. Bernard Parish high school seniors as part of its annual scholarship program. To date, the Foundation has granted more than 550 scholarships valued at some $1.5 million.