Maurepas Madness

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FOX 8 News covered the event…

photos and video below by Charlie London

It was crazy cool at the corner of Maurepas and Sauvage today. Louis Poche, pictured at left, made a shrine to Tara Jill’s dog inside the abandoned phone booth.

This man from the Sewerage & Water Board came out to flush the catch basin. Neighbors have been complaining of a foul odor at the location for a while.

The big event at Maurepas and Sauvage was the art installation by Frank Relle to help promote Team Gleason which aims to inspire people to live life to the fullest while fundraising to find a cure for ALS.
More at: http://teamgleason.org/

Check out the 30 second video below of today’s installation:

Team Gleason and the Stompers

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Faubourg St. John neighbor Steve Gleason invites you to become a Virtual 610 Stomper to benefit Team Gleason and The ALS Association Win the Virtual 610 Stomper Peep Show fundraising dance competition and become a 610 Stomper for a day.

Click here to check out the video about being a
Virtual 610 Stomper.

New Orleans’ favorite all-male dance team, the 610 Stompers, invites
you to show off your extraordinary moves to benefit Team Gleason and
the ALS Association. The 610 Stompers are proud to announce its 1st
Annual Virtual 610 Stomper Peepshow, a fundraising dance competition
that will put three competitors in 610 Stomper shoes for one glorious
day.

As part of the competition (open to all men and women over the age of
21) participants go to www.610stompers.com , learn a dance online via our instructional video and post the dance (and freestyle dance) on the Peepshow. Friends and family can reveal the dance by donating money to raise the virtual curtain.

Fans can also meet the Stompers in person on Thursday, March 8, 6-8pm to “Bust a Move” at 12 Bar, 608 Fulton Street, and let the Stompers film your video for you. Participants must sign up at www.610stompers.com beforehand.

Peepshow participants who raise $250 will win a 610 Stomper prize
package. The Peepshowers who raise the most money will then have a
chance to win one of three awesome prize packages (including airfare
anywhere in the Continental U.S., hotel accommodations and tickets to
Stompers events) that will put them, for one day, in the golden shoes
dancing through the streets of NOLA. The 3rd Place winner will dance
with the Stompers at their annual Bar Crawl, 2nd Place at the Sweet 610 Debutante Ball and the 1st Place winner will dance with the Stompers in a Mardi Gras parade.

Proceeds from the 610 Stompers Virtual Peepshow will benefit Team
Gleason and The ALS Association. These organizations help fund
research for ALS and improve the lives of the people and families
fighting Lou Gehrig?s disease.

Now is the chance to dance! The competition ends on April 15. Become a
Virtual 610 Stomper now at www.610Stompers.com

For more information on Team Gleason, go to: www.teamgleason.org
For more information on The ALS Association, go to: www.alsa.org

“Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.”