Brad Pitt Steve Bing steadfast in New Orleans support
The News Review:
- Brad Pitt Steve Bing steadfast in New Orleans support
- Ground Broken on Huge Gulf Floodwall
- Many Children Lack Stability Long After Storm
- Honors presented to tornado responders
- Sooners and Hurricane are right where they should be
Brad Pitt Steve Bing steadfast in New Orleans support
Los Angeles Times CA
When it happens it makes all the difference. Take Brad Pitt’s yearlong effort to assist residents of New Orleans’ ravaged Lower 9th Ward return to their own homes. Twelve months ago amid of blaze of international publicity Pitt and producer-financier Steve Bing launched a private effort (kicking in $5 million each) to build safe affordable housing for people who had lost all to Hurricane Katrina’s savagery. More than a few stars would have basked in the attention and moved on to the next project or fashionable cause. Pitt and Bing have stuck with the 9th Ward throughout the effort. And this week they were on hand to watch families moving into the bright new homes that guarantee them a future in the city they loved.
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Ground Broken on Huge Gulf Floodwall
New York Times United States
It will rise out of the marsh east of here in great circular pilings 66 inches in diameter a dozen miles or more from the stricken landscape of the Lower Ninth Ward. Though the barrier is too late to save what was there the hope is to protect what might yet be rebuilt. Officials say that when a major hurricane strikes the structure will block a lethal Gulf of Mexico storm surge from barreling down the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway into the Industrial Canal. It was that channel officially called the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River that burst through its protective walls in 2005 sending a wall of water into the neighborhoods around it including the Lower Ninth Ward. Even during the much milder.
Many Children Lack Stability Long After Storm
New York Times United States
— Last January at the age of 15 Jermaine Howard stopped going to school. Attendance seemed pointless: Jermaine living with his father and brother in the evacuee trailer park known as Renaissance Village since.
Honors presented to tornado responders
Chicago Tribune United States
The June 11 tornado killed four scouts and injured more than 40others from Iowa and. Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Director. The Iowa State Patrol also presentedPratt with the Chief’s Commendation Award.
Sooners and Hurricane are right where they should be
Tulsa Beacon Tulsa
Let’s begin with Bedlam which truly lived up to its name. Sure Oklahoma scored a whopping 61 points and beat Oklahoma State by 20 but OSU managed to rack up 41 points which would have been enough for the Cowboys to win all but one other game this season. OU finished the regular season with an overall record of 11-1 and 7-1 in the Big 12 but so did South Division opponents Texas and Texas Tech. Interestingly the Big 12 uses the BCS standings as its tie-breaker which in this case gave the nod to OU. According to the BSC OU was ranked No.