and the survey says…

Robin Rather:, daughter of Dan Rather and representative of Collective Strength, will present the results of her in-depth survey of South Louisiana residents. Are they coming back? Do they trust the government? What are their biggest concerns? Do they think the region will ever recover?

Come see this dynamic presentation that will help you understand who we are, what we're facing, and where we need to go from here!

June 16th. 6-8pm. Musicians' Union Hall. 2401 Esplanade Avenue.

this weekend’s neighborhood recovery planning meetings

Saturday, June 17th, 2006
New Orleans East – Districts “D” and “E” Joseph St. Martin/Deron Brown, Architects

• Place: St. Maria Goretti Church, 7300 Crowder Blvd.
• Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Gert Town - Cliff James/Byron Stewart, Architects

• Place: Audubon Senior Center, 3425 Audubon Court
• Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

Ninth Ward/Holy Cross – David Lee, Architect

• Place: Holy Angels Convent, 3500 St. Claude Avenue
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Lakeview - Alfredo Sanchez, Architect

• Place: Lake Vista United Methodist Church, 6645 Spanish Fort Blvd.
• Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday , June 20, 2006
Hollygrove, Leonidas, Dixon – Gerald Billes, Architect

• Place: St. Joan of Arc School Cafeteria, 919 Cambronne Street
• Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, June 21, 2006
Treme/5th, 6th, & 7th Wards Zyscovich, Architect

• Place: St. Peter Claver Church Hall, 1023 St. Phillip Street
• Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Tulane/Gravier/Claiborne – Cliff James/Byron Stewart, Architects

• Place: St. Joseph Catholic Church, 1802 Tulane Avenue
• Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, June 24, 2006
Mid City - Cliff James/Bryon Stewart, Architects

• Place: The Grace Episcopal Church, 3700 Canal Street
• Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

Fairground, St. Bernard, Bayou St. John – Zyscovich, Architect

• Place: St. Leo the Great Catholic Church, 2916 Paris Avenue
• Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

a few pictures from the last couple of days

Subtitle: I know you're jealous of all the community meetings I get to go to….

My mother and I saw this make-shift memorial to a building lost. Strangely moving. If anybody can tell me more about this building, I'd be grateful.

CityWorks, Tuesday Night

Eat your heart out ladies! Gentilly Civic Improvement Association, Tuesday night

Let's Play "Count the Documentary Filmmakers"

Neighborhoods' Planning Network, Wednesday Night

Wait! You missed one!

Kathleen Blanco: Concerned yet Confident. LRA meeting. Today.

fun new thing

Thanks to Alan Gutierrez of Think New Orleans I have now discovered the glories of google calendar. I am now a total convert. Not only is it an extremely user-friendly interface for organizing appointments, it also allows people to create individual calendars for specific organizations/causes and share the content of those calendars with each other. Thus, I can simultaneously view my personal appointments, the thinknola calendar, and calendars I've created for the Lakeview and Gentilly rebuilding processes. The Lakeview and Gentilly ones are also publicly available so that anyone can use them. They're also linked to thinknola's calendar. I'm going to try to be able to like the calendar to this site… I'm gonna be such a maven!

The image above is the person who showed me the cool new thing.