Neighbors Act on Overgrown Area

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photos and details supplied by Robert Thompson

FLASH CLEAN – City Beautifiers strike neighborhood eyesore



Esplanade public right of way returns to “civilized” levels. Fire hydrant discovered! Planted shrubs uncovered! Trash removed, all thanks to volunteer efforts.

At 10 a.m., on Saturday, October 28, 2017, Robert Thompson led the charge for a FLASH-CLEAN! Neighbors met in front of the old Circle K-Half Shell (3101 Esplanade) and mowed, trimmed and cleaned the right-of-way on Esplanade. Robert said he was tired of visitors seeing this mess. Many hands made quick work. Robert brought supplies and tools as did the neighbors who participated. The City Beautiful Committee struck and the area is much nicer now.

This area on Esplanade at Grand Route Saint John needed attention. Robert Thompson organized neighbors to give the area some love.

Brod Bagert uncovers fire hydrant and hawthorne bush previously lost to the thicket. Despite a claim to advanced years, Brod tackled the weeds like a young whippersnapper!

Sally and Catherine knock down blight. They rescue a blooming azalea from the choking weeds!

about a dozen bags of trash. Now visitors can see Faubourg St John and not think it’s unkempt.

Fire hydrant and Indian Hawthorne finally see the light of day again. Thanks to all who helped!

Keeping New Orleans Beautiful

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February Updates from Keep New Orleans Beautiful

Keep Louisiana Beautiful “Healthy Communities” Grants now open
Orleans Sierra Club presents: “Common Sense Solutions to Waste, Litter and Pollution at the City Level”
YLC Recycles seeks Volunteers for Rock n’ Roll Marathon Feb 27 & 28
Lots of Spring Litter Clean-ups!

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1. Keep Louisiana Beautiful “Healthy Communities” Grants now open

The Keep Louisiana Beautiful Healthy Communities Grant Program is designed to encourage community action in the specific areas of litter abatement, waste reduction, environmental education and stewardship, training, litter enforcement, and recycling. KLB will support strong, sustainable, action-oriented programs dedicated to our mission, and which demonstrate a clear commitment to community education, volunteer engagement and behavioral change.

Applications are available to 501c3s, governmental entities, schools, universities and other civic organizations. Awards vary from $1,000 to $10,000 and are offered on a reimbursement basis. These are great grants for purchasing recycling bins. Applications for this grant must be submitted by April 7th, 2016. http://keeplouisianabeautiful.org/grants/

2. Orleans Sierra Club presents:
“Common Sense Solutions to Waste, Litter and Pollution at the City Level”.
Max Ciolino, No Waste NOLA
Sunday, February 21
6:30 PM refreshments
7 PM to 8 PM program
Audubon Zoo Dominion Auditorium
Call 504-307-0187 for information.

3. YLC Recycles seeks Volunteers for Rock n’ Roll Marathon Feb 27 & 28
YLC Recycles needs your help for our kickoff event for 2016, which is also one of our largest – The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon on February 28th! We have 4 shifts available for our volunteers to help: (1) setup shift on Saturday, February 27th and (3) shifts between 7:15AM and 5PM on February 28th. Refreshments and other perks will be given to our wonderful volunteers to enjoy the race after party. Please bring your friends because this will be all hands on deck!

RSVP below for your spot today!

Setup Shift

Sunday 7:15-11am

Sunday 10:45am-2pm

Sunday 1:45-5pm

Lots of Spring Litter Pick-ups!
If your group is planning a spring clean-up or Great American Cleanup event, let us know so we can help publicize!

NOLA Trash Mob: Has a full schedule of Sunday morning clean-ups throughout the spring. To find out each week’s location, visit their Facebook page

Leaders against Litter: On Friday morning, March 18, local leaders working against litter will gather as part of a statewide awareness event. To participate, contact ccnola1@gmail.com

March 23: Cleanest City Contest Judging : The Garden Clubs of New Orleans have entered the statewide Cleanest City Contest again, and they are calling on New Orleanians everywhere to mow lots, maintain green space, involve community and YOUTH, form adopt-a-block groups, clean curbs and catch basins, paint over graffiti, and involve schools, churches, and organizations to make New Orleans more beautiful. Send pictures of your efforts to ccnola1@gmail.com. On March 23, judges will do a drive-through visit to the city.

Keeping the Greenway Clean

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With the opening of the Lafitte Greenway fast approaching (end of Summer 2015), NOLA Trash Mob teamed up with Friends of Lafitte Corridor and volunteers from the LSU School of Public Health to clean up the Lafitte Greenway around the 2200 block of Lafitte Street on Saturday, April 11, 2015.

Friends of Lafitte Corridor, ladies from the LSU School of Public Health and the Trash Mob cleaned the Lafitte Greenway on April 11, 2015.
Friends of Lafitte Corridor, ladies from the LSU School of Public Health and the Trash Mob cleaned the Lafitte Greenway on April 11, 2015.
A few of the ladies from the LSU School of Public Health who helped clean the Lafitte Greenway on April 11, 2015.
A few of the ladies from the LSU School of Public Health who helped clean the Lafitte Greenway on April 11, 2015.
Volunteers enjoyed treats provided by the ladies from the LSU School of Public Health.
Volunteers enjoyed treats provided by the ladies from the LSU School of Public Health.
Children enjoying the playground at 2200 Lafitte Street in New Orleans.
Children enjoying the playground at 2200 Lafitte Street in New Orleans.
The Lafitte Greenway is projected to be complete at the end of Summer, 2015.
The Lafitte Greenway is projected to be complete at the end of Summer, 2015.
The Lafitte Greenway as of April 11, 2015.
The Lafitte Greenway as of April 11, 2015.
The Lafitte Greenway as of April 11, 2015.
The Lafitte Greenway as of April 11, 2015.
Lafitte Greeway progress as of April 11, 2015.
Lafitte Greeway progress as of April 11, 2015.
Work continues on the Lafitte Greenway which should be complete at the end of Summer, 2015.
Work continues on the Lafitte Greenway which should be complete at the end of Summer, 2015.
Progress on the Lafitte Greenway as of April 11, 2015
Progress on the Lafitte Greenway as of April 11, 2015
Lafitte Greenway progress as of April 11, 2015
Lafitte Greenway progress as of April 11, 2015

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The Friends of Lafitte Corridor distributed the flyer below at the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association meeting on April 7, 2015.
Click on any of the pages below for a larger view.

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The Mob is Looking for You

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NOLA TRASH MOB | 11 a.m. | Sunday, June 9

The monument by the Jeff Davis Trail where it crosses Tulane Avenue was surveyed and it was peppered with trash. This area has become the main battleground, and this Sunday, June 9 we’ll take it back. We can then mobilize toward where litter is dense, perhaps even over I-10 across the Jeff Davis Bridge if we’re so moved.

Meet at 11AM by Jefferson Davis Parkway and Tulane Avenue ready to take back one of our nicest green spaces!
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Participants are encouraged to bring their own gloves and garbage bags, but we will try to bring a limited supply of extras. The trash mob will last for about 1.5 to 2 hours, but people can participate however long they would like.

For those that are new to NOLA Trash Mob, we are a group of volunteers who want to change the way New Orleans thinks about litter, primarily through clean-ups or “trash mobs”. For these trash mobs, we select a public space, usually a particular city block or area that has a significant amount of litter, and we set a time and day to go and pick up trash there. They usually are scheduled about once a week on Sunday mornings.

We welcome feedback from the community of where areas there is a lot of litter to target for future trash mobs. Additionally, if anyone knows of any organizations that would like to publicize and/or sponsor a trash mob event, we are always in need of publicity, incentives for participants, and trash grabbers to save the mob’s back.

So tell your friends and come on out this Sunday to join NOLA Trash Mob!

Check it out on Facebook…
https://www.facebook.com/NolaTrashMob#!/events/130778570459960/

Trash Mob Sweeps Clean Sunday

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photos by Daniel Paschall
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Best mob yet! We were able to take on a very trashed lot with standard drink and food containers and wrappers as well as heavy debris, and we cleaned up in and around Comiskey Park. A big thanks to everyone who got the word out and came out to mob! ~Daniel Paschall
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Jefferson Davis Parkway at D’Hemecourt Street, New Orleans

Trash Mob is set to clean up in and around the beautiful park between Jeff Davis and S. Clark and between Baudin and D’Hemecourt. The trash is especially dense along the sidewalk along Jefferson Davis Parkway between Tulane Ave. and D’Hemecourt, so we will also pick up along that sidewalk as well.

For those that are new to NOLA Trash Mob, we are a group of volunteers who want to change the way New Orleans thinks about litter, primarily through clean-ups or “trash mobs”. For these trash mobs, we select a public space, usually a particular city block or area that has a significant amount of litter, and we set a time and day to go and pick up trash there. They usually are scheduled about once a week on Sunday mornings. The trash mob will last for about 1.5 to 2 hours, but people can participate however long they would like.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own gloves and garbage bags, but we will try to bring a limited supply of extras.

We welcome feedback from the community of where areas there is a lot of litter to target for future trash mobs. Additionally, if anyone knows of any organizations that would like to publicize and/or sponsor a trash mob event, we are always in need of publicity, incentives for participants, and trash grabbers to save the mob’s back.

So tell your friends and come on out this Sunday to join NOLA Trash Mob!

Bayou Clean Up April 20th

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Bayou Clean Up | Saturday | April 20th | 9-12

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It’s that time of year again, the flowers are blooming the birds are singing and people are paddling. The winds have been blowing and debris has been making it’s way into the bayou and Bayou Kayaks needs your help to keep Bayou St John beautiful.

Bayou Kayaks is organizing a Bayou Clean Up in preparation for the Earth Day Festival. Volunteers are needed to make sure the bayou is ready.

Volunteers will meet at the Bayou Kayaks launch site at 1101 Florida Ave (by the LSU Dental School) at 9 a.m. on April 20th and collect debris until noon.
There will be refreshments and a few supplies to aid in the clean up. Kayaks will be available for use on a first come first serve basis. Volunteers on foot are especially important as there are many items to be collected along the banks.

Please join this Bayou Clean Up on Saturday, April 20th to keep Bayou St John beautiful.

DESMARE | Saturday | September 22nd

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photo by Charlie London

Faubourg St. John neighbors and the Cabrini Dads Club worked together on September 22, 2012 to make Desmare Playground a better place for everyone!

DESMARE PLAYGROUND | 3456 Esplanade Avenue


A significant amount of debris
was removed from Desmare Playground.

Kennedy Park Warriors

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video by Charlie London

On June 23rd, 2012, fourteen neighbors worked hard to make Kennedy Park even more beautiful.

Kennedy Park in beautiful Faubourg St. John.

The Kennedy Park Warriors
Conrad Abadie | Henry Artigue | Karin, Josh and Mario Barbee | Ali James | Linda Landesberg | Charlie & Brenda London | Steve Mardon | Mona McMahon | Meg Seydel | Blain & Beverly Washington

Many thanks also to the New Orleans Sanitation Department
who quickly picked up the many large piles after the cleanup.

Faubourg St. John Gets Jazzed

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on page B-4 of the June 9, 2012 Times Picayune

JAZZ:

The FAUBOURG ST. JOHN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION organized volunteers to clean up historic Desmare Park as part of a rotating effort that started in March to clean parks and provide neighbors with a chance to socialize. The group has cleaned up Fortier Park and Capdeville Park, too.

Click here to read the Times Picayune’s coverage of the Desmare Playground cleanup.

Visit the link below to see Faubourg St. John’s post about the Desmare Playground clean up.
https://fsjna.org/2012/05/saturday-desmare-be-there/

Bayou Cleanup June 16

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CLICK HERE TO SEE THE TIMES PICAYUNE’s COVERAGE OF THE BAYOU CLEANUP

Green It, a project of the YLC will co-host a Bayou St John clean up on June 16th from 9am-1pm. Neighbors and local businesses are invited to volunteer their time to paddle our way to a cleaner bayou.

Bayou Kayaks will supply kayaks in the water and volunteers are encouraged to paddle their own boats in the effort. The goal of the Bayou Clean-Up is to create a community effort to help beautify the area.

Prizes in three categories:
Largest group business
Largest independent group
Most trash collected by an individual
Weirdest thing pulled from the bayou

Local businesses are requested to donate prizes for the cause. If you’d like to volunteer, offer your support or donate prizes please email bayoukayaks@gmail.com, subject Bayou Clean-Up. Don’t forget to include the name of your business, a list of volunteers, or what resources you’ll be supplying for the cause!

It’s Happening Here!

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Jazz Fest is over but great things are still happening here in Faubourg St. John. Below are some posts from FSJNAdotORG posted over the last week:

What Makes a Neighborhood Great?
https://fsjna.org/2012/04/what-makes-a-neighborhood-great/

Come for coffee or come to help for a while! Help your neighbors, gab and laugh and plant or rake and sweep or mulch and play. Bring the kids to play, everyone is welcome! SATURDAY MORNING | MAY 12th | 9 am to NOON | 3456 Esplanade | SEE YOU THIS SATURDAY!
https://fsjna.org/2012/04/coffee-rake-gab-garden/

Rivers Gleason slept as his parents, Steve and Michel Gleason participated in the annual swim across Bayou St. John that takes place after the Thursday Jazz Fest.
https://fsjna.org/2012/05/annual-sunset-swim/

More Sculpture in Fortier Park
https://fsjna.org/2012/04/at-home-with-a-saint/

Household Hazardous Materials Collection Day | Saturday, May 12, 2012
https://fsjna.org/2012/04/may-12-household-hazardous-waste-day/

French Marianetti, a new resident of Faubourg St. John restored the historic sign on the bayou
https://fsjna.org/2012/04/new-neighbor-restores-sign/

Mayor Landrieu announced all streetlights in New Orleans will be fixed by 2013!
https://fsjna.org/2012/05/magical-mystery-tour-streetlights/

Check out the margarita contest at Pal’s
https://fsjna.org/2012/04/local-bars-create-contest/

Mark your calendar for the Bayou Boogaloo! | May 18-20
https://fsjna.org/2012/04/bayou-boogaloo-may-18-20/

Bayou Boogaloo Poster
https://fsjna.org/2012/04/2012-bayou-boogaloo-poster/

CRAWFISH BOIL Saturday, May 19th Advance tickets only $25 per person.
https://fsjna.org/2012/05/exclusive-crawfish-boil-may-19th/

Old waterfall dam to be removed
https://fsjna.org/2012/04/old-flood-control-structure-to-be-removed/

Who Lived in Your House in 1940?
https://fsjna.org/2012/04/who-lived-in-your-house-in-1940/

Win a Fiat!
https://fsjna.org/2012/04/friends-raffle-fiat/

Check out some history
https://fsjna.org/2012/04/history/

“It’s not about the blocked punt or the Superbowl ring. It’s about the relationships, love and what you do when you walk out of this room.” – Steve Gleason

Team Gleason

The Mid City Cyclones AAU Basketball Organization is sponsoring its 1st Annual Golf Tournament on June 1, 2012 at City Park Golf Club. As the organization grows, the number of young boys participating in the program continues to grow as well. So this year, all funds raised will go towards the Mid-City Cyclones’ program and Team Gleason, Steve Gleason’s foundation to raise awareness towards ALS.

GOLF ONE FOR THE TEAM

Frank Relle installs giant photos

Maurepas Madness

The eyes are watching you!

Put On Your Best Face

Councilmember Palmer, who represents District C held a photo contest.

District C Photo Winners

FEMA has announced $40.1 million in federal funding for recovery efforts in Louisiana

Wishes Granted

I like crimemapping.com because it gives me an instant picture of where crime is in relation to where I live. If you are interested in seeing a map of crimes in our area:

CRIME MAPPING

Faubourg St. John neighbor, Vivian Cahn would like you to know that FEAST NOLA is a community dinner that unites creative, civic-minded individuals to invest in ideas and inspire action.

FEAST NOLA