The Voice of the Wetlands Festival, Part 6: Cypress Triangle, Martin Luther King Elementary and Michael Franti Singing

How You Can Help

The reality is that the Lower Ninth Ward is coming back against all odds. Good things just keep happening. The next logical step IS to begin to seriously restore Bayou Bienvenue and the Cypress Triangle. There are things that you, the reader, can do to help move things along. For example, for those of you who might be inclined to contact the New Orleans District Army Corps of Engineers about the Bayou Bienvenue Restoration Project to make inquiries or offer your support for the project, here is their contact info:

US Army Engineer District, New Orleans, CEMVN

Office Numbers:
    (504) 862-2077

Hours:
    Core Time: 0900-1530 CT
    Flexi Time: 0600-1730 CT

Executive Fax:  504-862-1259
Other Fax Numbers:  504-862-1608; 504-862-2492

Executive E-Mail:  Cemvn-de@mvn02.usace.army.mil

Mail Address:
    P.O. Box 60267
    New Orleans, LA 70160-0267

Office Location:
    7400 Leake Avenue
    New Orleans, LA 70118-3651

Website:  http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/

If you want to donate to, volunteer for or help support in any other way the Bayou Bienvenue Restoration Project, contact the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development at (504) 324-9955.

If you want to help with Common Ground Relief’s Wetlands Restoration Project, click here to get to their site and then click on the pull down menu labeled “how you can help” on the upper left or call (504) 442-2314, or email commonwetlands@gmail.com

Their website is: http://commongroundrelief.org/

To learn more about Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary Charter School, go to http://drkingcharterschool.org/ and start exploring.

Michael Franti and Spearhead Do MLK

Speaking of supporters of the Lower Ninth Ward period, to give you an idea of some of the people who have been showing up at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary Charter School besides President Bush to help both the school and the Lower Ninth Ward, in early May, 2008, the world-renowned singer, poet, composer and activist Michael Franti and his musically eclectic band Spearhead gave a concert there as a fundraiser for Common ground Collective.

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