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Welcome
to www.CleanNO.org - Home of the
Katrina Krewe
Pitching
In for a Cleaner
New Orleans
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Links
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Krewe
Aiding
Trash Removal
In
the New
Orleans Area
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CLEAN UP EFFORTS: For Litter/Disposal info see Contacts page
Saturday, Aug 26, Katrina
Krewe Clean Up, see home
page for more info.
*Note
- below are not Katrina Krewe
events, see respective links for details. For most you may need to bring your own gloves, bags,
and a rake or shovel.
Please
report your experiences to us.
Upcoming
Dates:
Thursday, Aug. 24th
from 5:30 to 6:30. We would like to invite any other businesses to join
in on helping keep Canal clean!!! We will supply garbage bags. If you
or your business would like to join, pleasecontact Chad at 565-5438 or
email chad@lift-la.com
Aug 26,
6:00am-9am, begin at Earhart & Hollygrove St... Hollygrove
September 16th ...9am
to noon...Lake
Pontchartrain Basin Foundation Beach Sweep is
gathering volunteers to clean streets and storm drains
in various zones in Orleans Parish. If your group would like to
take a zone (see Zone List), volunteer, or take locations in other parishes , please contact JoAnn at 836-2238 or joann@saveourlake.org. The
xxx'd zones on
the list are already
covered, but could always use more
volunteers. Free
picnic (by Outback) from noon to 2pm for all participants.
Ongoing Efforts:
Algiers
Clean Team
(Sat. clean ups) : www.AEDF.biz
1 House at a time yardwork :Lakewood
North & South
Lakeview clean ups: Lakeview Civic Organization.
Downtown/Warehouse
District Business Clean Ups: Catherine@lift-la.com
New Orleans City Park : www.neworleanscitypark.com/katrinavol.php
Operation Helping Hand:Denise Chetta 371-7747 dchetta@archdiocese-no.org
Wetlands
and Fisheries Recovery (via LSU Ag/City Park): We Kare
Episcopal
Dioces
Disaster Relief: www.edola.org
Central
City clean ups: www.youngleadershipcouncil.org
Broadmoor Improvement Association: BIA
Faubourg
Marengo Neigh. Assoc.: juliebob@bellsouth.net
Mid
City Krewe thomshep@hotmail.com
New Orleans
Brain Trust: Drain Clearing Awareness
Hollygrove Clean ups: Hollygrove
Downtown/Warehouse
District clean ups: Catherine@lift-la.com.
Citywide Youthgroup
effort
Also,
many other neighborhood
associations are
initiating their own clean ups, please check with your Neighborhood
Group,
or start one of your own.
NEW...
Mowing Public Spaces...
The Parks and Parkways department could use some volunteers to assist
in the maintainenance of
public neutral grounds and parks through out the city. To help, please
contact Anne McDonald at 658-2176 or aemacdonald@cityofno.com
Katrina
Anniversary Events:
Mon., Aug 21 from 9-11 p.m., Acts III & IV and Tues, Aug 22, from 9-11 p.m. .Spike
Lee-directed documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four
Acts". All four acts air on HBO from 8 p.m.-midnight on the 1st anniv.
of Katrina, Tues., Aug 29.
Tues., Aug 29th...There are a multitude of
Katrina Anniversary activities, please refer for NOLA.com for more info.
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VOLUNTEER
ORGANIZATIONS:
BEAUTIFICATION
EFFORTS:
ACCOMODATIONS:
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Katrina Krewe has joined with New Orleans Fine Hotels to
provide donated and discounted hotel
rooms on a 1st come,
1st served basis, to our
volunteers surrounding our monthly summer clean ups. Katrina Krewe will provide a
voucher upon completion of
our
clean up, which should be presented to the hotel upon check out...all
questions directly to New Orleans
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SUPPORT NEW
ORLEANS: (To donate to Katrina Krewe see Donate link)
Shop
New Orleans has a list of Open Businesses. PLEASE Support them.
To
purchase Kwickans
used to
prop bags open at clean ups... www.Kwickan.com
Paul Soniat,
who wrote "So Glad I was Born here in New Orleans", has a great new CD
out, "Below the Water Line", available in local shops and www.cdbaby.com/cd/paulsoniat2
"Feel
good" member of the Katrina Krewe, Chris
Rose, has
published a book which captures the raw emotion of what happened
here this fall. Check out his website - chrisrosebooks.com
Renaissance Publishing is giving away a free one year subscription to
anyone that dines at a fine dining restaurant this summer New Orleans
Magazine. Local restaurants need your business, please support New
Orleans flavors!
Making Change for Katrina, is a citizen driven campaign to collect a
portion of the estimated $10.5 billion of spare change in American
homes. In partnership with Habitat for Humanity and Coinstar, the
campaign will help replace over 1,000 homes that were lost or damaged
in the hurricanes last year www.makingchangeforkatrina.org.
Desire NOLA is a 501 (c) (3)
not-for-profit corporation dedicated to rebuilding the Greater New
Orleans area one small business at a time by providing grant and
business development assistance to locally owned businesses that embody
the unique culture and ambiance of New Orleans. www.desirenola.org
Save New Orleans..This could happen
all over again if we don't restore our wetlands. Donate at America's
Wetlands & Women of
the Storm
Shay,
who appeared on the "Ellen
Degeneres Show" (same day as Katrina Krewe Windows Media
Player) and lost everything to Katrina, was surprised with a Quizno's
Sub Shop at
339 Baronne St....581-1735... Please go support her...Check out the
menu: http://www.quiznos.com/menu.asp
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POSSIBLE HAZARDS:
KEEP IT
KLEAN!!
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