tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-619381 2012-05-06T12:37:03-05:00 Holy Cross Neighborhood in New Orleans needs your help. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c89e853ef016305447e16970d 2012-05-06T12:37:03-05:00 2012-05-06T15:45:57-05:00

At last, the sustainably-designed and -built homes at Global Green's Holy Cross Project (corner of Douglass & Andry) are on the market! Holy Cross Neighborhood resident and realtor Marna David is working with the non-profit organization to sell these wonderful properties on the levee. Here's what she says: "Four of Global Green's 21st Century Shotgun Homes are ready for sale and you could call one of them home. Two are single story, two are two-storied...

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"The Guerrilla Garden" (Chartres & Charbonnet). Photo by Dave Macaulay.

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LOWER NINTH WARD – While some neighborhoods are starting to re-populate in the Lower Ninth Ward, the Executive Director of the Lower 9th Ward Village took our cameras to places where much work still needs to be done. via www.abc26.com

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By Frank Donze, The Times-Picayune Citing their inability to line up financing, developers have scrapped a proposal to buy the shuttered Holy Cross School campus and bring a full-service supermarket and affordable housing for teachers to the Lower 9th Ward site. A team led by New Orleans-based Green Coast Enterprises signed an agreement to buy the 16-acre tract last year. But the group notified the school's real estate agent recently that it would not be...

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To: Residents and Friends of the Lower 9th Ward Re: Public Hearing Opposing Alcohol Permit Application for 5202 North Claiborne Avenue (Gas station at Lizardi and North Claiborne). We are requesting your presence at this public hearing on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. in the City Council Chamber (Room 1EO7), City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street. WE DO NOT NEED MORE LIQUOR STORES IN OUR LOWER 9TH WARD COMMUNITY. Residents and friends of the...

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Louisiana Green Corps is looking for Orleans and Jefferson Parish residents, ages 18 to 21 to enroll in its three month job training program. This three-month job training program prepares individuals to enter the workforce focusing on construction and green industries. Throughout the program participants will have the opportunity to receive a variety of nationally recognized certifications and will be eligible for incentive payments, as well as an AmeriCorps Education Award of $1,250! In Addition,...

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The Preservation Resource Center's Operation Comeback renovates and sells blighted and adjudicated properties. All OC properties are carefully restored using historically sensitive materials and designs to retain the character of the home and neighborhood. OC has a revolving inventory of properties in various stages of renovation available to interested buyers. Several financing incentives are available for first-time homebuyers and first responders of Orleans Parish. 5450-52 Dauphine St. Please contact the realtor for more information. Raised...

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December 17th at 10 a.m. USA Mail and Parcel is hosting its annual Toy Give Away at 5000 St. Claude Ave. Toys for boys and girls between the ages of 6 months and 12 years will be available. If you are interested in donating you can drop of new toys at the address above or give a monetary gift. For more information please call (504) 944-8052 December 19th from 5 - 7:30 p.m.: "Celebration on...

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This Saturday, December 10, 2011, we are hosting our 5th “Fight the Blight” Volunteer Day from 9:00am– 1:00pm. This effort is being coordinated through ServeNOLA, the Mayor’s service and volunteerism initiative. With the holiday season upon us and a slate of big events coming to the City, this is a great time for the community to once again take a few hours to assist in cleaning our neighborhoods, improving parks and playgrounds, and litter abatement....

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By Christian Moises Two five-month streetscape improvement projects in the Lower 9th Ward are expected to start by January. Plus Concrete Inc. of New Haven, Mich., was the apparent low bidder earlier this month on the projects that will improve North Claiborne Avenue from Andry to Lamanche streets and St. Claude Avenue from the St. Claude Bridge to Egania Street. Work will include adding a walking path to the neutral ground, replacing concrete sidewalk panels,...

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Global Green's Holy Cross Project is on the 3rd Annual New Orleans Art Home tour! Be sure to stop be sure to stop by the Visitor Center at Douglass & Andry streets between 12 and 5:30 pm today to see the amazing collection of local art and photography. Art Home New Orleans is a program from the Creative Alliance of New Orleans that introduces participants to the depth and quality of art collectors in New...

staff tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c89e853ef015393090760970b 2011-11-13T21:48:59-06:00 2011-11-13T21:48:59-06:00

The New Orleans Fire Department is asking the New Orleans Police Department and the citizens of the community, to assist them in locating blighted and abandoned properties that are inhabited by unauthorized occupants (i.e. squatters). They are concerned about these individuals creating/using unsafe heating sources to keep themselves warm in the cold weather. NOFD would like to install smoke detectors in these properties in order to minimize the loss of life during cold weather and...

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Please join Common Ground Relief on Sunday, November 20th, from 1 to 4 p.m., for a party – with refreshments, great music including Irma Thomas and the Youth Orchestra of the Lower Ninth Ward, and hip, new tennis shoes by Civic Duty Shoes! What: November 20th Party at Common Ground Relief Where: Common Ground Relief, 1800 Deslonde Street, New Orleans, LA in the Lower 9th Ward When: November 20th, 2011, 1pm - 4pm

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Holy Cross resident Calvin Alexander is one of many local growers (and canners) who participate in the Sankofa Farmers Market at nearby Holy Angels. PHOTO: Rashida Ferdinand. And thanks to CSED Lower 9 News for sharing! In a continuing monthly tradition, the Sankofa Farmers Market will host its Second Saturday event on November 12th during regular market hours from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Second Saturday will feature the following activities and events: Health Screenings...

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Strategic Plan for Community Wellness to be Released by the Lower Ninth Ward Community Wellness Consortium on Monday, November 7th The Strategic Plan for Community Wellness will be announced at an open meeting scheduled for 6:15 PM on Monday, November 7, 2011 at the Caffin Avenue International Seventh Day Adventist Church, 1019 Caffin Avenue in the Lower Ninth Ward. Dr. John Ruffin, Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the...

staff tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c89e853ef0154367b2392970c 2011-10-28T17:27:22-05:00 2011-10-29T12:43:20-05:00

Fish Fry Noon to 2:00 PM Suggested Contribution $7 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Big Blast Block Party Cathedral High School Students (from Indianapolis, Indiana) With a new annual Sunday Tradition Come Enjoy Our Celebration & Final Day with You!

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Come celebrate with the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association Significant Lock Victory and 30 years of serving the community. RSVP here!

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"History Remembered at the Armonstrong School" (along St. Claude Ave.). Photo by Darryl Malek-Wiley.

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Tekrema’s Open House is this Saturday October 22. Please share this information with not only those who love the arts, but with everyone. Art is good for the soul! This event is free and open to the public, with activities for the entire family. What: Celebrating National Arts and Humanities Month Where: Tekrema Center is located at 5640 Burgundy Street When: Saturday October 22 from 1 – 6 PM Activities Include: Hip Hop Class for...

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Please join Prospect.2 artist Bob Tannen and Jeanne Nathan in celebrating our new studio/residence, Art House on the Levee at 4725 Dauphine Street where friends, artists and neighbors have joined in a collaborative work called "Art by Committee", reaffirming Tannen's conviction that we are all creative. From 3-7pm on Saturday, October 22nd you may also visit L9 to see an exhibition of work by Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun, and at the Global Green house...

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By Mark Schleifstein The Army Corps of Engineers was ordered by a federal judge in New Orleans on Friday to halt work on a $1.3 billion plan to expand the Industrial Canal lock at the Mississippi River to accommodate deep-draft vessels until it writes a second supplemental environmental impact statement addressing the effects of closing the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet on the plan. U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon found that the corps failed to adequately consider...

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Initial Pilot Is Another Step in Fighting Blight and Putting Citizens Back to Work Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced the creation of a new pilot program that will employ local residents in the City’s fight on blight. The Nuisance Lot Maintenance pilot program will give jobs to local residents citizens to cut, clear, and maintain overgrown lots in the Lower 9th Ward. The Lower 9th Ward area has the highest percentage of vacant lots in New...

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"Katrina 6 Memorial, Back from the Bridge" - Monday, August 29, 2011. Photo by Dave Macaulay.

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Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward are bracing for a major tropical storm expected to hit New Orleans this weekend...it's slow moving (about 1 mph) and could dump about 10-15 inches of rain on the area...so everyone's getting prepared. Tropical Storm Lee forms south of the Louisiana coast. Heavy rainbands continue to spread across much of southeastern and south-central Louisiana. At 1:00 p.m. CDT the center of Tropical Storm Lee was located by an air...

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Very nice piece in yesterday's Gambit - highlighting some of the community's efforts to build back green: While the city and the mayor's office had no official plans to commemorate the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the federal flood, local politicos announced their participation in several memorial services. U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, City Council members and area parish presidents all committed to anniversary events. In the Lower 9th Ward, several groups highlighted a different...

staff tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c89e853ef0153910c989e970b 2011-08-27T12:38:44-05:00 2011-08-27T12:38:44-05:00

Mayor Mitch Landrieu & New Orleans City Council Community Meeting District E Please join Mayor Mitch Landrieu and Councilmember Jon Johnson for a community meeting in your district to discuss budget priorities. The Mayor will bring his entire team including all Deputy Mayors and Department Heads, so come out and make sure your voice is heard. Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:30 to 6:00 pm - Resource Center (Citizens will have the opportunity to talk one-on-one...

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Important press release, fresh from the Mayor's office! As the sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, Mayor Mitch Landrieu and FEMA officials today detailed significant progress on New Orleans' recovery efforts since the Mayor took office in May 2010. Since Landrieu took office, a joint task force made up of officials from the City, Sewerage and Water Board, FEMA, and the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) meet regularly to coordinate and...

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Really nice video of Greer Mendy leading a tour of the Tekrema Center for Art and Culture at 5640 Burgundy (Burgundy & Lamanche). This was created nearly a year ago - but in case you haven't viewed it, please do: excellent overview of this community gem!

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"A Village Summer". Photo by Darryl Malek-Wiley.

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A nice piece from PRC's "Preserving Green" blog about a group of volunteers from Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma, working on Dauphine Street on a project coordinated through the Lower 9th Ward CSED: Volunteers clean up under 5450! Thanks to Brooke, Eugene, Carrie, Sandra, Victoria, PiePie, Rebecca, and Crystal who generous helped Operation Comeback clean up the site during their summer vacation. For two days we had eight volunteers connected to Bacone College in Muskogee,...

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It was a standing-room-only crowd at last week's Holy Cross Neighborhood Association (HCNA) meeting inside Greater Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church as a team of developers presented their ideas to residents for a new full-service supermarket on the old Holy Cross School site. Lots of discussion, lots of debate - and lots of promising ideas! Wendell Pierce, Jim Hatchell and Troy Henry of the development team. Ruben Teague of Green Coast Enterprises. ALL PHOTOS: Darryl...

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The Lower 9th Ward Village from Victoria Holt on Vimeo.

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Great discussion, great news at last night's Holy Cross Neighborhood Association (HCNA) meeting - as a group of developers led by Green Coast Enterprises and including New Orleans' own Wendell Pierce - presented their plans to build a full-service supermarket on the Holy Cross School site. The story has generated some great coverage by the press as well: And a nice story in the Times-Picayune, "Holy Cross Neighborhood Association reviews supermarket proposal": The team of...

staff tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c89e853ef0153908e3683970b 2011-08-09T13:21:19-05:00 2011-08-09T13:21:19-05:00

The Lower 9th Ward community that once surrounded Alfred Lawless High School has always felt a greater urgency than officialdom about the need to jump-start the recovery process. Back in 2007, 18 months after Hurricane Katrina breached the floodwall that stands just a few blocks from the campus, a group of local activists brushed past the objections of a school security guard and began hauling equipment from the second floor, claiming authority to salvage books...

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After Hurricane Katrina forced her from her home of 15 years, 83-year-old New Orleans native Shirley Charlot suffered through the nightmare shared by so many others in New Orleans. She spent three nights in the Superdome before being evacuated to Houston, where she took up residence with her sister. Upon returning to the Holy Cross neighborhood more than six months later, Charlot discovered her home had been wrecked by wind and water. It got worse:...

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“We were standing in his spacious front yard on Dauphine Street,” writes Danielle del Sol in the latest issue of Preservation in Print, “chatting about what it is that makes his neighborhood such a special place when Holy Cross Neighborhood Association President Bill Waiters put his finger to his lips. ‘Shhhh,’ he said. ‘Listen.’ I closed my eyes and heard nothing but birds singing. The breeze began to blow the branches of the tall oaks...

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Great turnout for the annual Holy Cross Neighborhood Assn. 4th of July Potluck on the levee! All photos by Darryl Malek-Wiley

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A friendly reminder of the Community Meeting tonight, Wednesday June 29 at 6 pm at MLK Charter School (1600 Caffin Avenue, corner of N. Claiborne and Caffin Avenue) to discuss our new high school for the Lower Ninth Ward. We need the support of all our community residents, leaders, friends and families. See you there!

staff tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c89e853ef0154335a614f970c 2011-06-29T14:28:04-05:00 2011-06-29T14:28:04-05:00

Another fine news feature on yesterday's marches against crime from WWLTV!

staff tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c89e853ef01538f864eb8970b 2011-06-27T11:24:00-05:00 2011-06-29T11:36:08-05:00

WWL TV produced a nice feature recently on Nanci McVille's Holy Cross home, beautifully restored by the the PRC's Operation Comeback in "Local group works to refurbish, sell homes in Holy Cross":

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Presented at last week's Holy Cross Neighborhood Association (HCNA) meeting by Williams Architects, here's a closer look at proposed designs for a new Lawless High School in the Lower Ninth Ward. Thanks to Joel Ross and John C. Williams of Williams Architects for sharing these. Please note: these are conceptual/schematic designs and still subject to change. We're still early in this process.

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"Bird flying over Bayou Bienvenue". Photo by Darryl Malek-Wiley.

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