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Narah Cano, who attended a Your Town Alabama workshop four years ago, talks about what's going on currently in New Orleans and how the Your Town Alabama philosophy is helping:
Hello everyone!
I decided to return to New Orleans, Louisiana to help in the recover effort post hurricanes and discovered I was in a frontier city. Although many things have improved, mail service directly to homes now, support personnel returned to many businesses and industries, thereby reducing the amount of time everyone had to wait everywhere for anything. A one hour wait was usual for ordering at fast food establishments which closed promptly at 5:00 p.m., post offices, banks, grocery stores, etc.
As a participant of “Your Town” four years ago, I just wanted to report on the progress that has occurred in Central City, a district of New Orleans which is blighted, crime infested (five shootings at 10:00 a.m. three streets over) and seemingly not progressing any where but down economically speaking.
Hello everyone!
I decided to return to New Orleans, Louisiana to help in the recover effort post hurricanes and discovered I was in a frontier city. Although many things have improved, mail service directly to homes now, support personnel returned to many businesses and industries, thereby reducing the amount of time everyone had to wait everywhere for anything. A one hour wait was usual for ordering at fast food establishments which closed promptly at 5:00 p.m., post offices, banks, grocery stores, etc.
As a participant of “Your Town” four years ago, I just wanted to report on the progress that has occurred in Central City, a district of New Orleans which is blighted, crime infested (five shootings at 10:00 a.m. three streets over) and seemingly not progressing any where but down economically speaking.
Continue reading A Your Town Alabama Graduate in New Orleans.
