[StBernard] Field of Dreams

Westley Annis westley at da-parish.com
Wed Mar 7 23:34:19 EST 2007


I laugh as well everytime I read someone's opinion of where this money
should be used when it clearly states that FEMA has this money set aside for

RECREATION PROJECTS ONLY, not sure where RECREATION fits into giving
everyone 50,000 dollars. Not sure if you understand how FEMA works either,
you use the money for what they say or you don't see the money. So why not
a recreation facility for the children living down here including mine?

How much does anyone want to bet that the people complaining are the ones
not living in St. Bernard? That is a guarantee. I know Jer is one of the
non-St. Bernard residents.

Hopefully all phases proceed and then one day you can come ride the train
with us around Val Riess Park.

Chad
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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--





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