FORTIN STREET DESERVES BETTER

September 5, 2016 by Charlie London

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The Fair Grounds Recovery Roads program will include multiple construction repair projects with an estimated value for roadway improvements that is approximately 3.8 million dollars. Design of the future road repairs is currently underway and is being closely coordinated with the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans. The project timeline is under development. Road resurfacing work will be limited in some areas of Fair Grounds.
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FORTIN STREET DESERVES BETTER

Every so often when I send around info on cleaning the front of storm drains, I get an angry response from a Fortin Street resident exclaiming that there are no storm drains on Fortin Street by their home.

Every so often I write the Councilmember asking that Fortin Street get storm drains, repaving and a makeover.

Fortin Street is the entrance to Jazz Fest, runs along the Fair Grounds and should be a welcoming entrance to Faubourg St. John.

It would be awesome if there was an arch on Fortin by WBOK (like you see at Desmare and Stallings Playgrounds) that said “Welcome to Faubourg St. John”.

Fortin Street gets run-off from the Fair Grounds’ sea of cement but does not have enough storm drains.

The owner at 1641 Crete installed his own drainage system rather than wait for the City... 10 years ago.   Click on the photo for a larger view.
The owner at 1641 Crete (at the corner of Fortin and Crete) installed his own drainage system rather than wait for the City… 10 years ago. Click on the photo for a larger view.

A year or so after “the storm”, a man that lives on Fortin on the corner that is one block off of Gentilly, paved the ditch by his house and installed his own pipe to funnel away water run off. It looks nice but the City should have done this.

Fortin street should have storm drains on both sides of the street all the way from Gentilly to beyond Mystery Street.

Fortin street should be repaved and have curbs installed all the way to the end where the Fair Grounds’ property ends beyond Mystery Street.

Fortin Street should have trees that provide shade like Ursulines Avenue.

Fortin Street should have permeable pavement and permeable sidewalks to reduce flooding from run-off.

Currently, this is a pipe dream, (pun intended) but, it doesn’t have to be.

I think a coalition that includes the Fair Grounds, Jazz Fest, City Officials, WBOK, and passionate Faubourg St. John neighbors could make Fortin Street a show-place.

Can you help make Fortin Street all it can be?

Please call 311 from a local phone or 504-658-2299 from an out of area phone with an address or hundred block and cross street. You can email [email protected] with the information as well. If you email [email protected], please include a photo along with the specific location of the problem.

Charlie London
[email protected]

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NEW ORLEANS POLICE OFFICERS ARE PART OF OUR COMMUNITY

July 23, 2016 by Charlie London

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Ronnie Brink, Jim Danner, and Linda Landesberg represented the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association at the “Carwash for Cops”.

 

New Orleans Police Officers are part of our community and risk their lives every day to keep us safe. They deserve our support.

Many thanks to Diaz Markets, Rouses Markets and the countless New Orleans residents and businesses that have shown their appreciation to the New Orleans Police Department and all law enforcement officers this week!

New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Michael Harrison thanks Diaz Market owner Giselle Diaz Eastlack, as the Diaz Market Mid-City and the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association hosted a “Carwash For Cops” as a way of showing their support for the men and women of the NOPD in New Orleans. All NOPD Patrol Cars were invited to stop by the Canal Street Diaz Market location for a free car wash the weekend of July 22-24, 2016.

The NOPD is teaming up with Diaz Market at 4701 Canal in New Orleans along with the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association to support patrol officers across the city.

NEW ORLEANS POLICE OFFICERS ARE PART OF OUR COMMUNITYCar Wash for Cops provided a free car wash July, 22, 23, and 24, 2016 for all officers assigned a City vehicle for neighborhood patrol. In addition, Diaz Market will give one free professional car wash every day for the rest of the year to the officers in the 1st District. Many thanks to Giselle Diaz Eastlack, owner of Diaz Market.

“It is a small token of appreciation for the police, and we hope that this encourages others to do something no matter how small it may be to show support,” Giselle Diaz-Eastlack said.

The idea began when the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association approached the convenience store about offering car washes to NOPD’s First District. The company decided to expand the offer throughout the area.

“We feel better knowing that our customers and our employees are protected by such hardworking professionals as the New Orleans Police Department and other police departments across the state,” Diaz-Eastlack said.

“This is such a critical time in America, especially in New Orleans, that we would have private-public partnerships. We would have community engagement,” NOPD Superintendent Michael Harrison said. “Citizens and police joined together to help one another and that citizens would show support for the hard work that men and women in this department and all departments do every single day.”

“This work is hard,” Harrison said. “This work is dangerous, and these men and women you see behind me have made a life commitment to serving this community, and it means a great deal to have partners like Faubourg St. John and the Diaz family.”

https://fsjna.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Diaz-CarWash-NOPD-FSJ1.mp4

Fox 8 video obtained from the story in the link below:
http://www.fox8live.com/story/32510987/local-businesses-show-police-appreciation

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NATIONAL DAY OF CIVIC HACKING

June 4, 2016 by Charlie London

Happy National Day of Civic Hacking

We’re not the only ones excited about the thousands of volunteers who are working together to #HackforChange this weekend.

Cecilia Muñoz, Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council, and Megan Smith, Chief Technology Officer of the United States, have a special video message for all the creative, hardworking, and passionate people who power the Code for America Brigades.


The most important word in the Constitution — that document that starts with ‘we the people’ — is that first word: we. We have the capacity to make the kind of change we want to see around the country. And that’s what National Day of Civic Hacking is all about. And that’s why we’re so excited you’re participating,” said Cecilia Muñoz.

Government and technology are the two biggest levers for improving people’s lives at scale. While difficult, when it’s done right the results can make a huge impact in people’s lives.

Roll up your sleeves and make an impact this weekend. There’s still time to go to your local event. Anyone can participate. You don’t have to be an expert in technology; you just have to care about your community.

To celebrate National Day of Civic Hacking, federal agencies put together challenges to hack on. Check them out >

If you’re following along at home this weekend watch #HackforChange for news and updates.

See you this weekend,
Jennifer Pahlka
Founder, Executive Director
Code for America

P.S. Inspired by Cecilia Muñoz’s message? Meet her and other incredible government leaders at our Summit in November.TwitterFacebook
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YOU ARE INVITED TO HAVE COFFEE WITH COPS

June 1, 2016 by Charlie London

YOU ARE INVITED TO HAVE COFFEE WITH COPS

You’re invited to Coffee With Cops this Saturday

The NOPD and McDonald’s restaurant owners from the Greater New Orleans region are teaming up to bring together police officers and the community they serve. Come out to participating locations on Saturday, June 4, 2016 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Meet the officers who serve in your neighborhood and enjoy a free cup of coffee.

Participating McDonald’s locations:
•1918 North Broad Street
•3443 South Carrollton Avenue
•3250 General DeGaulle Drive
•10001 Interstate 10 Service Road

YOU ARE INVITED TO HAVE COFFEE WITH COPS

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NOLA FOR LIFE DAY January 10th

January 4, 2015 by Charlie London

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Join Mayor Mitch Landrieu, City departments and agencies, and citizens of New Orleans for a day of service to the community.

On 10 January 2015, the ninth NOLA FOR LIFE Day will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

in and around Sampson Playground at 3101 Louisa Street.

NOLA Trash Mob will be cleaning up in and around the Playground during the event.

Please bring gloves. White or clear bags are used for recyclables and black bags for trash.

RSVP here (and please put NOLA Trash Mob as your organization):

http://www.nolaforlife.org/events/nola-for-life-day-sampson-playground/

NOLA FOR LIFE DAY

January 10, 2015 10:00 AM through January 10, 2015 2:00 PM

Sampson Playground-3101 Louisa Street New Orleans, LA 70126

Mayor Mitch Landrieu will host the ninth NOLA FOR LIFE Day on Saturday, January 10, 2015.

All residents are invited to get involved and help rebuild our neighborhoods.

Activities will take place in and around Sampson  Playground at 3101 Louisa Street from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

 

About NOLA FOR LIFE

Launched in May 2012, NOLA FOR LIFE is New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s comprehensive murder reduction strategy to tackle the city’s historically high murder rate. Recognizing that law enforcement alone cannot solve the murder problem, NOLA FOR LIFE takes a holistic approach to get to the root of the problem, and implements initiatives in five main categories: Stop the Shooting, Invest in Prevention, Promote Jobs and Opportunity, Strengthen the NOPD and Get Involved and Rebuild Neighborhoods. For more information, visit www.nolaforlife.org external link and tune in to NOLA FOR LIFE original programming 24/7 on Cox Cable Channel 99.

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CN Railroad Helps Neighborhood

January 3, 2015 by Charlie London

In the video, CN locomotives clear snow off of the tracks with a large plow. CN also clears the way for many non-profits all over North America by donating millions each year to many worthy causes. Canadian National Railway gave the maximum grant available to employees and their spouses to the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association in 2014. CN authorized $ 1,250 dollars for the volunteer work of Charlie and Brenda London.

CN took note of the hundreds of hours Charlie puts into FSJNAdotORG as well as the neighborhood Facebook and Twitter pages. Charlie also sends out subscription-only (no cost for subscribers) emails from Charlie’s Neighborhood News. Charlie’s Neighborhood News provides information on community events. Charlie also provides free promotional services to several neighborhood non-profits whose missions are to improve or preserve the quality of life for all residents in our area.

CN was impressed with Brenda’s contribution to the many outreach events in the neighborhood as well as her four years as the previous Treasurer of the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association.

Many thanks to CN for their generous donation of $ 1,250 to the Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Association each year for the last 4 years! CN donates millions each year to many worthy causes all over North America!

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Freshening the First

September 1, 2014 by Charlie London

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Jesuit High School students will be repainting the interior of the NOPD First District station on Saturday, October 4th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Lunch will be provided.

The NOPD First District station is located at:
501 North Rampart St | New Orleans, 70112

Please contact First District Quality of Life officer Kristie Lavigne for more information:
[email protected] 504.658.6010

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Distinguished Neighbor

August 16, 2014 by Charlie London

info below courtesty MIT news
caulfieldR. Erich Caulfield SM ’01, PhD ’06
New Orleans Federal Team Lead, White House SC2 Initiative
Caulfield obtained his SM in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2001 and received his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science in 2006. He began his professional career as an associate at McKinsey & Company, from 2006 to 2008, focusing on public sector projects. In 2010, Caulfield was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a White House Fellow, working at the White House Domestic Policy Council. In this role, he worked on economic development and long-term disaster recovery. Caulfield served as the New Orleans Community Solutions Team Lead for the White House Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Initiative. He is currently serving as the Founder and President of The Caulfield Consulting Group based here in New Orleans.

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R. Erich Caulfield SM ’01, PhD ’06
As a graduate student, Erich served as cochair of the Black Graduate Students’ Association, committee chair of the Graduate Student Council (GSC) Orientation, and GSC president. For those contributions, he received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award in 2005. As an alumnus, Erich continues his active engagement. He served as a recent graduate to the Corporation in 2005, where he brought a relevant perspective and enthusiasm to chairing the committee. Erich served his first term on the Architecture, Libraries, and Mathematics Visiting Committees in 2005 and on the Dean for Student Life Visiting Committee from 2007-2010. He chaired the MIT Corporation Screening Committee in 2009, and in 2013, he began service to the MIT Corporation with appointments to the visiting committees for the Dean for Student Life, Dean for Undergraduate Education, and Urban Studies and Planning. Erich recently completed a one-year term on the Association’s Ad Hoc Program Transition Committee.

 

Speech by R. Erich Caulfield

Speech by the president of the Graduate Student Council at MIT’s Commencement exercises June 4

caulfield-graduationGood morning, family and friends of MIT. From the dawn of the human experiment, we have grappled with the challenge and the potential inherent in our existence. Today, my graduate student brethren and my sistren, you join a grand procession that has marched across the sands of time, marshaled by the first human being who gazed up at the magnificent majesty of a midnight sky and asked the question, what more can I know?

Culminating at this time, at this place, at this junction in the space-time continuum with you, and this august and awe-inspiring assembly of the academically accomplished… For whether you are the first in your family to attend college or of the fifth generation to finish graduate school, you represent the collective dreams of countless of your comrades and ancestors, some no longer with us, who have aspired for centuries to join with you in this moment here today.

For you have become the embodiment of accomplishment, of drive, of passion, of perseverance, of ambition, of strength and hope. For in graduating today from one of history’s great wombs of wondrous ideas, credos of creativity, nursery for Nobel laureates, you prepare to take your place amongst the great thinkers and movers of our time. For indeed, you have ascended to the top of the Mount Olympus of the modern academic world.

However, ascending to the top and becoming the scholastic and pedagogical gods and goddesses of your department does not signify that your journey is over. To the contrary, it merely means that you have a more excellent view of a future that is pregnant with a plentitude of possibilities.

And so now that you’ve come to MIT and flexed your magnificent mental muscles, made mighty by the methodical mastery of mathematically menacing, scientifically sophisticated, econometrically intimidating systems of equations, and such, you have proven that you are now ready to leave, for you have outgrown this place.

When I take time to consider the significance of this moment, I am compelled to ponder the proclamations of the poet who confessed, “I’m tired of sailing my little boat, far inside the harbor bar, I want to go out where the big ships float, on the deep where the great ones are. And should my frail craft prove too slight, for the waves that sweep those billows o’er, I’d rather go down in a stirring fight than drowse to death by the sheltered shore.”

In the purest sense, the poet captures the essence of this experience exactly. For whether you’ve been here for one year or two years or three years or n years or n+1 years, in a career that will last nearly a half-century, your greatest deeds have yet to be done. And you can scarcely imagine the impact that you’ll have on society and, indeed, on human history. So I encourage you not only to reflect on and appreciate the awesomeness of your contributions thus far, but also to marvel at the magnificence of future feats yet to come.

Now, as you prepare to set sail for the great world outside of MIT, it is my hope that triumph will be your ever-present companion. May passion fuel your every endeavor. May innovation infect your every invention. And may a preternatural propensity for progress pepper your every project. And may a blaze and torch of morality light your path. And as you go forth, I would urge you to stand boldly at the great helm of history and steer a course that such future generations will say, with passionate regard, that you graduated from MIT, and the world is a better place because of it.

And so, ye daughters and sons of MIT, it is with the greatest of pride and elation, heartfelt joy and awestruck admiration, and the deepest respect that, on behalf of the graduate student council, I bid thee felicitacion, gong he… In other words, congratulations on an outstanding display of academic magnificence. Go ye forth, gentle geniuses. History is waiting to hear from you. Thank you.

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December 21, 2013
by R. Erich Caulfield

Caulfield1-ObamaHi All,
I hope you’re doing well!
About two weeks ago, I wrapped up my time with the White House SC2 Initiative in New Orleans. Although I already miss my colleagues, the work, and the fun times, I’m excited to share that I’ve incorporated my own NOLA-based management consulting firm, The Caulfield Consulting Group.
I’ve been working on the idea for a while, and have partnered with another firm to put in a bid for our first contract and have some other potential projects in the pipeline. Although I did consulting for a couple of years at McKinsey, running my own firm is new to me. If you have experience with launching a (consulting) company or know people who do, I’d greatly appreciate any feedback/suggestions you could offer. Also, if you have subject matter expertise that you’d be open to sharing from time to time, please do let me know. I’d appreciate that too!

In case I don’t get to see you before the end of the year, have a wonderful holiday season! I hope you’ll have the chance to spend time with your family, friends, and loved ones!

 

All the best,

Erich

Click here to see a PDF of Erich’s photos

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GiveNOLA DAY MAY 6th

April 18, 2014 by Charlie London

More details at http://givenola.org/

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What is GiveNOLA Day?

Hosted on Tuesday, May 6th by the Greater New Orleans Foundation, GiveNOLA Day is the community’s first one-day, online giving event to inspire people to give generously to nonprofit organizations who make our region a stronger and thriving community for all.

It’s our day to come together as one! Every dollar donated from midnight to midnight on May 6th will be increased with additional “lagniappe” dollars provided by the Greater New Orleans Foundation and our generous GiveNOLA Day sponsors.

Built on successful models from other cities, GiveNOLA raises money for the community, brings new donors to local nonprofits, and helps make our region a more vital place to live. This year GiveNOLA Day is tied to a national event called Give Local America where hundreds of community foundations across America are asking their communities to give back on May 6, 2014.

 

More details at http://givenola.org/

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