HOME BY HAND

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Home by Hand, an offshoot of Project Home Again, is launching a new home building program and is reaching out to residents in search of homeownership opportunities, including hospital employees, teachers, first responders, veterans, government employees, etc.  The homes will be new construction 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, energy efficient, modern design homes in the Filmore Gardens, Burbank Gardens and Milneburg neighborhoods of Gentilly. The sales price for the first 5 homes is $165,000. Home by Hand is providing up to $10,000 in closing cost assistance.

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The homes will be 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom brand new, energy efficient, modern design homes in the Filmore Gardens, Burbank Gardens and Milneburg neighborhoods of Gentilly.

The sales price for our 1st 5 homes is $165,000. We are providing up to $10,000 in closing cost assistance. The program is a self help housing model, where all participants will be involved in the building of their home from start to finish, contributing a minimum of 100 work hours over a 5-6 month period.

No construction experience is required.

Activities will include painting, landscaping, and site clean-up, to name a few. We have experienced, trusted builders for the majority of construction. Our groundbreaking is set for Thursday, January 14—

Erica Toriello

Director Of Outreach and Homebuyer Services
Home By Hand
www.homebyhand.org

504-529-3522

erica@homebyhand.org

Postcard from Home

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City Park is one of the nation's largest urban parks with over 1,400 acres.
City Park is one of the nation’s largest urban parks with over 1,400 acres.

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Conrad says, “Ro and I moved from our 3000+ sq ft home earlier this year. We have been able to donate much stuff to Goodwill, friends and family. However, there remain boxes of stuff to go through, mostly of Ro’s Bristow family. The postcards were the property of her late father, Dr. Louis Bristow, who was the former head radiologist of Baptist Hospital. He was a collector of many things, and went on a 1928 expedition to the Mayan Yucatan, with Dr. Franz Blom, the famous Tulane Archeologist ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Blom ).”

Many thanks to Conrad Abadie for allowing his postcard collection to be scanned and presented here.

Low Interest Home Loans

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HOMEBUYERS FINANCING AVAILABLE

· Finance Authority of New Orleans has new Single Family Mortgage Revenue Bond Program with interest rates as low as 3.25%.

· Compliments the City’s Soft Second Home Loan Program because many first mortgage loans are made at much higher interest rates.

· The low rate will allow more buyers to qualify for homes when they are also eligible for the Soft Seconds.

· But these low interest First Mortgage Home Loans aren’t limited to just first time homebuyers and they also have no household income limitations. The program will serve buyers who don’t qualify for the City’s Soft Second Program and will provide an opportunity to invest in New Orleans single family homes of up to $324,359 at this very low interest rate.

· Visit the Finance Authority website at www.financeauthority.org for more information.

The program can NOT be used to refinance.

POSTCARD from HOME

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Robert Thompson has generously allowed use of his collection of postcards. While his collection does have some postcards of local interest, his collection includes postcards with an artistic flair and some with national and international interest! Many thanks to Robert Thompson for allowing use of his collection to help continue the weekly POSTCARDS from HOME you see here at FSJNAdotORG every Sunday.

Today’s POSTCARD from HOME features Toxaway Falls in North Carolina.

Video on youtube by DleeG1960

Postcard from Home

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Robert Thompson has generously allowed use of his collection of postcards. While his collection does have some postcards of local interest, his collection includes postcards with an artistic flair and some with national and international interest!

Many thanks to Robert Thompson for allowing use of his collection to help continue the weekly POSTCARDS from HOME you see here at FSJNAdotORG every Sunday.

POSTCARD from HOME

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Robert Thompson has generously allowed use of his collection of postcards. While his collection does have some postcards of local interest, his collection includes postcards with an artistic flair and some with national and international interest!

Today’s POSTCARD from HOME is a bit unusual. The sender of the postcard described it as… “The newest thing in souvenir post cards which squares me financially but still leaves me hopelessly indebted in every other way.”

The crosses you see on the postcard held coins.

Many thanks to Robert Thompson for allowing use of his collection to help continue the weekly POSTCARDS from HOME you see here at FSJNAdotORG every Sunday.

Postcard from Home

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The Sunday Postcard from Home will be steering to a bit of a deviation from the local emphasis it’s had in the past.

Robert Thompson has generously allowed use of his collection of postcards. While his collection does have some postcards of local interest, his collection includes postcards with an artistic flair and some with national and international interest!

Many thanks to Robert Thompson for allowing use of his collection to help continue the weekly POSTCARDS from HOME you see here at FSJNAdotORG every Sunday.

President Warren G. Harding was born November 2. 1865 in Blooming Grove, Ohio. He was a member of the Ohio State Senate from 1900-1904, was Lt. Governor of Ohio from 1904-1906 and a United States Senator from 1915-1921. Inaugurated President of the United States March 4, 1921.


Dean Burridge would like to add:

“Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans, one of the first African-Americans to hold a national office was appointed by President Warren Harding as Comptroller of (U.S. ) Customs. At the time, the New York Times referred to the office as “one of the most lucrative federal offices” in the South. Later Cohen became the founder and president of the People’s Life Insurance Company in New Orleans, a large industrial company whose clients were African-Americans. Cohen was a member of Corpus Christi Catholic Church in New Orleans. He died in New Orleans and is interred here at St. Louis Cemetery III. The Walter L. Cohen Senior High School in Uptown is named in his honor.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_L._Cohen

http://cohenhs.org/

Postcard from Home

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The Sunday Postcard from Home feature will be steering to a bit of a deviation from the local emphasis it’s had in the past.

Robert Thompson has generously allowed use of his collection of postcards. While his collection does have some postcards of local interest, his collection includes postcards with an artistic flair and some with national and international interest!

This Sunday’s POSTCARD from HOME from 1918 features a scene in Waco, Texas.

They are still POSTCARDS from HOME. But, they may feature someone else’s version of paradise. Many thanks to Robert Thompson for allowing use of his collection to help continue the weekly POSTCARDS from HOME you see here at FSJNAdotORG every Sunday.

Postcard from Home

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The Sunday Postcard from Home will be steering to a bit of a deviation from the local emphasis it’s had over the past year and a half.

Robert Thompson has generously allowed use of his collection of postcards. While his collection does have some postcards of local interest, his collection includes postcards with an artistic flair and some with national and international interest!

They are still POSTCARDS from HOME. But, they may feature someone else’s version of paradise. Many thanks to Robert Thompson for allowing use of his collection to help continue the weekly POSTCARDS from HOME you see here at FSJNAdotORG every Sunday.