The following calendar of business meetings and events is for July 3-8. The deadline for submissions to the business calendar is 10 days prior to publication date.
July 3
Breastfeeding Support Group, Lakeview Regional Medical Center, 95 E. Fairway Drive, Covington; 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Free. To register for any of these classes call 1-866-4-LAKEVIEW.
July 4
Windsor Court's dinner and fireworks, 300 Gravier St.; seatings at 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $76 per person, includes three-course dinner, admission to 23rd floor terrace, and glass of champagne. Reservations required; call 523-6000.
July 5
Soul 2 Soul benefit with Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, and Emeril Lagasse, Celebrity lunch at Emeril's New Orleans restaurant, 800 Tchoupitoulas St.; 12 p.m.
Students and parents who've borrowed to cover college costs should consider consolidating their loans by Friday because interest rates rise 2 percentage points on Saturday.
The reason: The deficit-reduction act Congress and President Bush OK'd this year changed the rules for students' Stafford loans and parents' PLUS loans that include higher fixed interest rates for new borrowing.
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