Exciting news in Gentilly: HONO Day 2010, Jericho Road Community Garden/Clean Up Day

Two great projects in Gentilly this past weekend:

HandsOn New Orleans Day 2010

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Jericho Road's Community Garden/Clean Up Day

HandsOn New Orleans Day 2010 was a celebration of our organization's 4th anniversary! Over 200 local and visiting volunteers helped to clean up Gentilly's very own Indian Village on March 20th. Teams of hard workers, from high school students to parents, utilized our TLL's cache of gloves, shovels, rakes, weedwackers, and hand tools to clear street debris and cut down overgrowth. In a matter of hours, the community had seen a great transformation and the celebration of genrously donated food, Mardi Gras Indian spectacles, and top volunteer recognition awards had begun.

Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative held a Community Garden/Clean Up Day in Gentilly the following Sunday where a number of volunteers beautified a section of the neighborhood and overhauled the site of an impressive community garden plot. Rachel of Jericho Road and her equally enthusiastic accomplace, Tammy, returned their tools with great stories of accomplishment. You can view their photo album on Facebook here and catch the visual storyline of what you can imagine was a monster-sized project. We're glad such individuals and organizations have this much motivation to see their projects to the end!

Do you have pictures of the house you are working on or the community site your friends fixed up? The HONO Tool Lending Library would love to share your story as a member of our Greater New Orleans community so that others can be inspired. Feel free to contact us with your pictures and stories via email or in person.

Cheers,
Marc

Thank you GNODRP for your wonderful donation!

We would like to extend a big thank you to Jeff, Asa and the great staff at GNODRP for the wonderful donation of tools ya'll presented to us earlier this month!  Dozens of tools were marked for community use like pruning shears, shopvacs, tile cutters, weedwackers, and many more useful goodies.

 For those of you who don't know, GNODRP stands for Greater New Orleans Disaster Relief Partnership.  It is a name that embodies their intrinsic value as a positive force in supporting our region's recovery and future disaster preparedness.  For more information, visit their website at www.gnodrp.org.

Donations like these help us keep our expansive tool inventory stocked and ready to serve community needs.  We are always willing to accept tool donations of new, used, or easily repairable tools.  Just contact us here at tools@handsonneworleans.org for any questions or comments.

Thanks again ya'll, I have plenty more updates to bring to light in the upcoming days so stay tuned!
-Marc