[StBernard] FIELD OF DREAMS

[Westley Annis]

Jer & Wendy -
 
I have read both of your posts on this site over the past 18 months, and
just wanted to say I couldn't agree with you both more.

Kathy

	----- Original Message ----- 
	You know, Wendy, I tried to laugh firstly at this revelation, but
instead
	chose to sit back and wait to see if at least one citizen/former
citizen of
	that area spoke in favor/disfavor of that "bright idea" by someone
we
	know/may not know.
	
	Consider this. One of the first challenges to that Versailles area
at
	Palmisano/Plaza was to get people back. That hasn't happened for a
	wide-assortment of reasons. Mostly, because of working people who
still
	haven't gotten their money from Road Home/Murphy/COE, etc. to give
them
	incentives as to whether to make the area rise from its ashes. A
park is an
	incentive? Will 10,000 people live on the park grounds, relive
Woodstock in
	Chalmette, or give up the chance to domicile once again in the area
in lieu
	of playing baseball?
	
	One has to wonder if the 15.8 million plus would have been more
humane to
	distribute 50,000 each to a citizen who chose to go back than waste
almost
	16 million on swamp land and a chance to have it flood again at some
point
	(remember the "ground zero effect" in Chalmette?)..
	
	I've walked that park on a daily basis during happier times but
would gladly
	have given up the pipe-dream to have money for basic necessities and
good
	mental health. Remember what I've spoken about on many occasions and
	remember Love Canals and Katrina Canals as well. That area is
abandoned for
	a good reason: People want to move on from the bad taste in the
mouth and a
	swift kick in the a$$ by a bitc& called Katrina. Somehow we can
remember
	Pearl Harbor, civil rights bridges and the Holocaust, but I'll be
dammed if
	people surely have such short memories for the worst natural
disaster in
	American History and a surety of history repeating itself at
sometime
	experts say "soon" on the horizon.
	
	I smell politics, whether it's from someone presently or
past-officially.
	Tread lightly .. we're told.
	
	Superparks. Tee-hee. At some point, we'd like to see
super-reasoning.
	
	--jer--
	
	-----------------------------------------------------
	What is the parish thinking? Is it me or is this insane...in the oil
spill
	area they are going to invest 15.8 million!!!!!!! We have people
still
	without homes and they want a super park. While I think a super park
will be
	good in the long term, in the oil spill area, it's not. They have
just
	opened the parish up for every lawsuit imaginable in ten years.
	
	Wendy