A Look at the Heroes Helping to Rebuild New Orleans
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Rebuilding New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina
By Kathryn M. Tyranski Comments : By scooter11, Sat Aug 23 12:32:27 EDT 2008 I am from SC and in October 2006 I was in New Orleans as a missionary and worked for a week on a home right next door to the new clinic. It is so great to see clinics ... [... more]
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Make It Matter: After the Deluge of Hurricane Katrina
By Gail Cameron Wescott From Reader's Digest Alice Craft-Kerney watched from her brother's New Orleans house as Hurricane Katrina split trees, broke windows, and swallowed cars, including her own. A few miles away, her best friend, Patricia ... [... more]
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The Heroes Rebuilding New Orleans
Before the hurricane, when people asked what life was like in New Orleans, I'd reply, "Nothing important happens here except culture." The city teemed with musicians, painters, writers, chefs, and parades. The architectural fabric ran from ... [... more]
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The Lowest of the Low
By Michael Crowley From Reader's Digest It was just one of so many Hurricane Katrina horror stories. But it was especially heartbreaking. East Texas relief workers took in a New Orleans man named Ray Johnson, who said his wife and three-year-old ... [... more]
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Real-Life Miracles
The alarm goes off at 4:30 in the morning. It's dark and cold outside, but Don Royston rolls out of a warm bed without missing a beat. It's the weekend before Thanksgiving and he has an assignment, one that he's handled for the last eight years. ... [... more]
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Life After Hurricane Katrina
Janice Rozetcki points at a withered bush outside her storm-ravaged New Orleans home. "This was my beautiful lemon tree," she says. The house is marked with spray-painted symbols left by search crews, its interior stripped to the studs. In the . [... more]
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A Healing Force
It looks okay, thought Regina Benjamin, as she maneuvered her light blue Toyota pickup through the mud-slick streets of Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Maybe we missed the worst of it. It was August 30, the day after Hurricane Katrina, and all along the ... [... more]
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Come Hell and High Water
Six days after Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast, the American Red Cross had still not reached many who needed them most -- 10,000 residents who stayed behind in New Orleans. Following the storm's landfall on Monday, August 29, ... [... more]
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