YOU ARE INVITED TO HAVE COFFEE WITH COPS

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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

Listen as some 2012 N.O.P.D. recruits
talk about why they joined the New Orleans Police Department

Salary after training – $43,070

Exclusive Dinner August 21st

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What: Dinner and Cocktails at Café Degas

Why: To benefit the First District N.O.P.D.

When: Tuesday August 21, 2012

Please arrive at 6:30 pm. Dinner will be begin at 7 pm

Where: Café Degas, 3127 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans

Please join your friends and neighbors to support our underfunded First District Police Department. Café Degas is hosting the event which is sponsored by FSJNA and Glazer’s. Chef Laurent Rochereux is preparing a special four course meal which is being complemented by cocktail pairings provided by Glazer’s.

Vegetarian and non-alcoholic options are available upon request.

How can tickets be purchased?
Tickets may be purchased at Café Degas by calling 504.945.5635 or by calling FSJNA at 504.373.6697
Ticket price is $100 per person

St. Germain “Dinner et Cocktails”
To Benefit First District NOPD

Café Degas
Tuesday Evening, August 21, 2012

All courses paired with a unique St. Germain Cocktail

Welcome Aperitif

A selection of Artisan Cheeses and Fresh Fruit

Classic Vichyssoise with Italian Truffle Oil

House Cured Salmon Gravlax with Bowfin Caviar

Over Organic Baby Arugula, Maravilla Ranch fresh organic Mississippi mission Figs & French Lentils, served with a French Garlic Vinaigrette

Roasted Maple Leaf Farm Duckling with fresh Organic Mississippi Peach glaze

Pan Sautéed Butternut Squash and Mississippi Farmed Organic Shiitake Mushrooms

Dessert Choices:

Degas Traditional Floating Island

Degas Frozen Lemon Icebox Pie

Chocolate Decadence

Contact OUTREACH@fsjna.org for more information.
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ABOUT CAFE DEGAS

FRENCH RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR – Best of Dining 2010
The masterpiece of proprietor Jacques Soulas, an artist and a restaurateur, and his friend Jerry Edgar, this creative bistro overlooking Fortier Park and romantic Esplanade Avenue is an authentic French jewel. The openness of the dining room, the intimacy of the bar, a live oak tree rising through the floor and a complete wine list adding pleasure to the French menu have guests looking up from their plates of moules et frites, checking the door to see when Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas will arrive. – T.M.- New Orleans Magazine December 2010
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“Something about Café Degas makes dining there feel as if you’re on vacation. No other restaurant makes it so clear how our food culture is interwoven with France. Time seems to go by more slowly, so you may as well have another glass of wine”.
Tom Fitzmorris, Restaurant Writer, New Orleans City Business
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“In business for 21 years, Cafe Degas has attained the status of a modern-day-neighborhood
institution. Its regulars have come to prize the place as equal parts romantic and practical,
upscale and comfortable” Gambit Weekly
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“… Cafe Degas’ temperature-controlled, practically wall-free dining room allows diners to both experience and appreciate the weather during any month of the year …”
Gambit Weekly – 1st Place Best Outdoor Dining
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“Charming European-style cafe with a delightful feel and creative bistro fare”
Zagat Survey of New Orleans Restaurants
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The semi outdoors deck has tremendous appeal. The big oaks of Esplanade Avenue and the little park across the street make for a delightful and very New Orleans scene… The food here gets better every time I try it. You want to find out straightaway what the day’s specials are; they’re the best food Cafe Degas has to offer.
Tom Fitzmorris, New Orleans City Business
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The service is “Impeccable and helpful. The waitstaff make you feel at home and don’t mind letting you in on their favorites”.
Jason McCann, CitySearch.com
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A pecan tree shoots through a hole in the roof of the porch where we dine. On a windy day, tumbling nuts dance a jig on the tin roof; rain sounds like a concert for drums…. the food woos you…Whether you’re served by David Musson, a limb of the Degas family on his mama’s side, or Jacqueline Guiot, who speaks a curiously understandable French (even if you ne parle pas), the food woos you into a Degas mood. Pate de campagne, duck mousse pate, and creamy vichyssoise emerge from a kitchen the size of a kerchief. Carolanne Griffith-Roberts, Southern Living

New Orleans Rail Gateway Program

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CLICK HERE for the February 9, 2012 article in the Times Picayune.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and the Federal Railroad Administration will conduct and open forum meeting on upgrades to New Orleans Rail Gateway Program in Orleans and Jefferson parishes.

Wednesday, 6-7:30 p.m., Joseph S. Yenni Building, Council Chambers, 1221 Elmwood Park Blvd., Elmwood.

Notice is hereby given that the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and the Federal Railroad Administration will conduct open-forum public meetings for:

State Project No. H.005168
Federal Aid Project No. DE-9208(500)
New Orleans Rail Gateway Program
Jefferson and Orleans Parishes, Louisiana

A public meeting will be held tonight:

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Joseph S. Yenni Building
Council Chambers
1221 Elmwood Park Boulevard
Jefferson, LA 70123

The purpose of the public meeting is to present an overview of the New Orleans Rail Gateway (NORG) Program and the study process for preparing an Environmental Impact Statement to evaluate environmental and related impacts of upgrading NORG and infrastructure in Jefferson and Orleans Parishes; and to provide an opportunity for all interested parties to express their views. All comments received during the public meetings and written comments post-marked within ten (10) calendar days of the meeting will become part of the official public record. If you are unable to attend the meeting, you may mail your comments to the address listed below.

New Orleans Rail Gateway
c/o The Hawthorne Agency, Inc.
818 Howard Avenue, Suite 300
New Orleans, LA 70113

Interested persons or their representatives are invited to be present at the above time and place to review the study materials and will be afforded an opportunity to express their views concerning the information presented. Information on the Program can also be viewed at http://www.dotd.la.gov/administration/public_info/projects/NORG/.

For more information and to download a map of the proposed project, please visit the link below:
http://www.dotd.la.gov/administration/public_info/projects/norg/

CLICK HERE for the February 9, 2012 article in the Times Picayune.

Lafitte Corridor One of Seven to Receive National Attention

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Photos by Charlie London

Katie Moore / Eyewitness News

NEW ORLEANS — U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar made a special stop in New Orleans during his visit on Wednesday.

He announced that the Lafitte Corridor has been chosen as a priority project for scarce federal funds.

Trains once carried cargo from the river to the lake on it, but it could soon carry people.

“Right now, this is an abandoned rail corridor. It’s basically just wasted space,” said Bart Everson, president of the group Friends of the Lafitte Corridor.

The Lafitte Corridor runs 3.1 miles through the city and is now slated for the development of a hiking and biking trail.

“We fully expect to break ground on phase one in 2013. So, in short order we can actually expect to see a trail being built. Now, it’ll be a very basic trail to begin with,” Everson said.

The project already has $7.5 million in Community Development Block Grant funds from Katrina.

“Because this project has been selected as one of the seven priority projects in the United States of America, and that’s a pretty big place, you will have priority in the funding even during these tough times,” Salazar said.

It puts the Lafitte Corridor on the short list for federal dollars as part of the “America’s Great Outdoors” initiative.

“We don’t know what the dollars will be at this point, but it will add to the assistance and the funding that we’re getting,” said Councilwoman Susan Guidry.

Even the hope of additional funding is welcome for those who have fought for years now to make New Orleans a great place to live, bike and even hike.

http://www.wwltv.com/news/lafittecorridornationaldesignation-135617473.html

article below by Alex Woodward of GAMBIT WEEKLY

Ken Salazar, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, met with Friends of the Lafitte Corridor today on the banks of Bayou St. John, flanked by a post office and Parkway Bakery & Tavern. Salazar announced the Obama Administration’s prioritized commitment to the to the Lafitte Corridor project via the Urban Waters Federal Partnership, led by the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and coordinated by the White House Domestic Policy Council. It also partners with local communities, specifically for outdoor and parks projects like the Lafitte Corridor. (To clarify a previous post: Salazar’s mention of $7 million is from an already-in-place Community Development Block Grant from the Louisiana Recovery Association, allocated to the Lafitte Corridor.)

“This is part of the revitalization of New Orleans,” Salazar told Gambit. The project will break ground in 2013.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar walks along the future Lafitte Corridor with Bart Everson, president of the Friends of the Lafitte Corridor.

Bart Everson, president of the Friends of the Lafitte Corridor (FOLC) group advocating for the project, said despite the project being “down in the weeds,” the “greenway” will “reclaim the space left behind,” rejuvenating a corridor formerly used as a shipping canal, a railway, and now for drainage, and open the space to its communities and visitors. It has the potential, Everson said, “to reconnect the city to its natural landscape.” Community meetings on the project’s design plans wrapped up this year.

More than 400 million people visit the United States’ 397 parks each year, Salazar said. “We are the envy of the world.” The administration’s three goals through the initiative are “preserving the crown jewels of America,” like the Everglades; protecting and preserving the country’s rivers systems; and, where the Lafitte applies, preserving the “great urban parks,” one of President Barack Obama’s highest priorities, Salazar said.

The Lafitte project is one of only seven parks projects nationally the administration is taking on. “Literally thousands could’ve been taken on,” Salazar said, adding the administration will work closely with Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s office and New Orleans City Council. (District A councilmember Susan Guidry said she wants the greenway to connect communities to the rebirth of Lake Pontchartrain.) The National Parks Service also will promote the greenway nationally.

“We don’t quit,” Salazar said to the crowd. “The best days of New Orleans are still ahead of us. … Ten years from now (the greenway) will be one of the iconic places (in New Orleans) and will look very different from what it does today.”

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2011/12/14/sec-of-interior-gives-greenlight-to-lafitte-corridor-greenway

Dec 14: Important Fed Visits Lafitte Corridor

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Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, will visit the Lafitte Corridor on Wednesday, December 14th at NOON.

Friends,
It appears the Department of the Interior is taking an interest in the Lafitte Corridor greenway project. The Secretary of the Interior (Ken Salazar) will be here Wednesday (Dec. 14) and would like to meet the Friends of Lafitte Corridor. Please come join us at noon at the very end of Bayou St. John, where the corridor intersects Jeff Davis Parkway. There will be time for some Q&A as well as a brief stroll on the site of the future greenway. The whole thing will be over by 1 PM. I’m sure you have many more questions. So do I! Unfortunately at this time I don’t know more than what I’ve spelled out here. It’s all come together rather quickly, and I hope to learn more Wednesday. Please join us.

Bart Everson
President
Friends of Lafitte Corridor