New Orleans Craigslist is an interesting story. A guy — Craig — in San Francisco develops this free thing there and then in a couple of other cities and now in mess of places where people can post up information for jobs, apartments, trades, and just about anything. It’s free. There’s no length. It’s unedited. …
Category: Personal Writings
Love in the Ruins
New Orleans Likely passed 600 houses on the clean-out program in New Orleans. We had some excitement though on Friday, when our field foreman, Rev. Brian Lewis, reported that two of the volunteers had asked if they could be married that afternoon on one of the job sites. She was from Seattle. He was from …
500+ and Counting on Home Clean-out!
New Orleans Today was another big day. More than 100 volunteers were part of the ACORN Services clean-up crews working in the 70117 zip code of the 9th Ward of New Orleans, just west of the Industrial Canal. Today’s full court press might mean 10-15 houses get done before the fall of the sun. …