by Robert Taylor, Literacy AmeriCorps
Friday, 12 June 2009 08:27 (but worth reposting!)
Don’t buy those books on your summer reading list! Support your local libraries. If you read books quickly as I do, go to Borders or Barnes & Noble find a quiet spot and enjoy a book by your favorite author!
Clubbing is important!!! It’s your time to party with your closest social circle, but it can be expensive. SAVE THAT MONEY BY SAVING THOSE WRISTBANDS! Saving wristbands can save you the cost of those expensive cover charges most clubs tend to throw at you. You are fabulous but broke so stretch your money to the limits!
After a busy week of service, you deserve a cocktail or two or even ten! Put on your best threads and take on the town! You are destined to find someone who will buy you drinks all night as long as you show them a little attention. So just flash a fake smile and work the room. IF YOU GOT IT FLAUNT IT!!! (Just not on AmeriCorps time!)
It is summer time and it is HOT!!! Find a style that can save you money! A summer cut usually does the trick. Try styling your hair at home. Find a great styling product and experiment. The goal here is to save money. Besides, your stylist may offer you a discount to get you back in the salon!
Before you shop, do an inventory of what you already have in your closet! Organize your closet by color, type of clothing item, and what you wear most often. How many times do you buy the same style of clothing, same color, and even the same item? Doing so will save you some money. When you have too much of the same thing in your closet, you not only limit the variety in your personal style, but also find yourself having price tags on many of those items. Take what you haven’t worn in over a year and go to a clothing exchange or better yet donate it to a charitable organization and write it off on your taxes!
Host spa parties! Invite your girlfriends over and have some fun. Everyone must bring their favorite color polish, moisturizer, and other spa essentials. You can have your own spa day or night. Don’t forget the wine and of course the FUN!
Make your day at the movies a weekday! The price of a movie ticket has skyrocketed. The price for an adult ticket Mon-Thur is $4.75 all day at any AMC Theater. Another great addition to a lower ticket price is a more intimate movie experience. The theater is not as crowded as it is on the weekend, so you have the feeling of being in your very own living room. So let’s make it a unity event and enjoy some great summer blockbusters! Don’t forget to sign up for a FREE movie watcher card for more GREAT SAVINGS!!!
Birds of a feather flock together!!! Get with your close friends and put those similar tastes in music to work. Take turns buying the latest greatest summer CDs. You can always burn them a copy or to save money on blank CDs, they can load it to their FREE i-tunes account. If you have to have the CD in your collection, just wait a few weeks and the price will definitely decrease!!!
Monday, July 19, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
NPRC Blog
Be sure to check out the NPRC Blog and see how the AmeriCorps members working at the Southeast Louisiana Chapter of the American Red Cross are "Getting Things Done!"
Another Reason to Love New Orleans
by Kevin Planchet, Literacy AmeriCorps New Orleans
Saturday, 17 July 2010 10:02
Isn’t it just like New Orleanians to do it our way. We can’t wait around for Mother Nature to send us snow, so we make our own, but with a twist. The warm weather wouldn’t be the same without the local delicacy called the snoball. And that’s ‘sno’ without the ‘w’, another characteristic which makes us unique. Other states certainly enjoy their shaved ice or snow cones, but it was New Orleans where the first machine was invented to give us the soft ice we enjoy now.
The first frozen treats date back to the Roman Empire, but up until the early twentieth century, the ice was shaved by hand, or chipped. In 1934 Ernest Hansen of New Orleans gave us the Hansen Ice Shaving Machine. Though there have been many imitations, the Hansen machine is still the standard for the industry, and for good reason; it’s the best!
Snoball flavors have grown beyond strawberry and grape to include wedding cake, peach and rainbow. If these flavors alone aren’t sweet enough, trying pouring condensed milk over the top. It’s enough to put you into diabetic shock! (If you are a diabetic, you can get them sugar free.) A favorite of the juice box set is the addition of gummi bears to their snoball, with flavors which follow their best loved television characters, like Hannah Montana and Dora the Explorer.
If for some incredible reason you’ve managed to get through your AmeriCorps year without standing in line in the heat for our favorite cold delicacy, there are several stands just waiting for your business. My personal favorite is Van’s Snoballs on General Meyer in Algiers, but if you like the uptown area, try Plum Street Snoballs. In Gentilly, there’s the Original New Orleans Snoball Stand on Elysian Fields near Brother Martin High School. You’re not a true New Orleanian until you have the syrup of a brightly colored snoball staining the carpet in your car.
Saturday, 17 July 2010 10:02
Isn’t it just like New Orleanians to do it our way. We can’t wait around for Mother Nature to send us snow, so we make our own, but with a twist. The warm weather wouldn’t be the same without the local delicacy called the snoball. And that’s ‘sno’ without the ‘w’, another characteristic which makes us unique. Other states certainly enjoy their shaved ice or snow cones, but it was New Orleans where the first machine was invented to give us the soft ice we enjoy now.
The first frozen treats date back to the Roman Empire, but up until the early twentieth century, the ice was shaved by hand, or chipped. In 1934 Ernest Hansen of New Orleans gave us the Hansen Ice Shaving Machine. Though there have been many imitations, the Hansen machine is still the standard for the industry, and for good reason; it’s the best!
Snoball flavors have grown beyond strawberry and grape to include wedding cake, peach and rainbow. If these flavors alone aren’t sweet enough, trying pouring condensed milk over the top. It’s enough to put you into diabetic shock! (If you are a diabetic, you can get them sugar free.) A favorite of the juice box set is the addition of gummi bears to their snoball, with flavors which follow their best loved television characters, like Hannah Montana and Dora the Explorer.
If for some incredible reason you’ve managed to get through your AmeriCorps year without standing in line in the heat for our favorite cold delicacy, there are several stands just waiting for your business. My personal favorite is Van’s Snoballs on General Meyer in Algiers, but if you like the uptown area, try Plum Street Snoballs. In Gentilly, there’s the Original New Orleans Snoball Stand on Elysian Fields near Brother Martin High School. You’re not a true New Orleanian until you have the syrup of a brightly colored snoball staining the carpet in your car.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Housing
Need a roommate? Housing Advice? Moving in or out of the city and got some things to buy or sell?
Please use this post like a discussion group to help you find everything you need to make a smooth transition in or out of the city!!
Please use this post like a discussion group to help you find everything you need to make a smooth transition in or out of the city!!
Sunday, February 28, 2010
MLK Day
MLK Day is a Day on not off!
We want to hear your story of service. Share Them NOW!
What projects did you do to keep service as a central part of this national holiday?
Here is one story from Literacy AmeriCorps - New Orleans Member Kathy Bailey:
On Martin Luther King Day, I volunteered for 5 hours at Camp Hope in St. Bernard Parish. Camp Hope is a volunteer camp that was previously run by Habitat For Humanity and located in the former Beauregard Middle School in Violet in St. Bernard Parish. When Beauregard was decommissioned last year, they relocated to another former school located in Arabi, where they are now funded by the Parish. They just re-opened for volunteers in early January, but still had work to do. They sent out a request to all former guests/residents to come help on Martin Luther King Day. There were over 50 volunteers there -- some doing planting out in the parish and some helping with Camp Hope itself. I stayed at Camp Hope and helped clear out and clean up the entrance and moved a load of potted trees and plants. I also helped clean up inside in the large room to be used as a cafeteria and meeting place. Crystal and Doug were the people overseeing my work.
We want to hear your story of service. Share Them NOW!
What projects did you do to keep service as a central part of this national holiday?
Here is one story from Literacy AmeriCorps - New Orleans Member Kathy Bailey:
On Martin Luther King Day, I volunteered for 5 hours at Camp Hope in St. Bernard Parish. Camp Hope is a volunteer camp that was previously run by Habitat For Humanity and located in the former Beauregard Middle School in Violet in St. Bernard Parish. When Beauregard was decommissioned last year, they relocated to another former school located in Arabi, where they are now funded by the Parish. They just re-opened for volunteers in early January, but still had work to do. They sent out a request to all former guests/residents to come help on Martin Luther King Day. There were over 50 volunteers there -- some doing planting out in the parish and some helping with Camp Hope itself. I stayed at Camp Hope and helped clear out and clean up the entrance and moved a load of potted trees and plants. I also helped clean up inside in the large room to be used as a cafeteria and meeting place. Crystal and Doug were the people overseeing my work.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
NATIONAL SERVICE SURVEY
HELP NEEDED!!!
We are conducting a series of surveys about national service in the Greater New Orleans area. The LINK to the member survey and information about the study is below. Please help improve the service experience and tell the story of national service post-Katrina by completing the survey and encouraging any Corps members who served in the GNO area since Katrina to complete the survey as well.
We hope to have all of the data collected by Feb. 12th at the latest. Once we have results, we will share them with the entire group and all participants.
MEMBER SURVEY: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/gnonationalservicemembersurvey
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR TIME!!
We are conducting a series of surveys about national service in the Greater New Orleans area. The LINK to the member survey and information about the study is below. Please help improve the service experience and tell the story of national service post-Katrina by completing the survey and encouraging any Corps members who served in the GNO area since Katrina to complete the survey as well.
We hope to have all of the data collected by Feb. 12th at the latest. Once we have results, we will share them with the entire group and all participants.
MEMBER SURVEY: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/gnonationalservicemembersurvey
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR TIME!!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
MLK DAY OF SERVICE
Need an MLK Day Project? Join the Literacy AmeriCorps group as we help rebuild our wetlands and serve an often forgotten part of our city - New Orleans East.
Audubon Louisiana Nature Center Forested Wetland Restoration
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and Entergy Corporation invite you to parti...cipate in a forested wetland restoration project at Audubon Louisiana Nature Center.
Prior to Hurricane Katrina, Audubon Louisiana Nature Center was named one of the top five urban nature centers in the United States. The Nature Center suffered considerable damage from Hurricane Katrina which devastated its
interpretive center, exhibits and an estimated 75 percent of the forest was destroyed.
This project is being completed through a partnership with Entergy Corporation, Restore America's Estuaries, Audubon Nature Institute, RPM Ecosystems, Natural Resource Conservation Service and the Coalition to Restore Coastal
Louisiana. Volunteers will plant approximately 500 pots of various species of wetland trees, including bald cypress, red maple and pecan.
When: Saturday, January 16 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Where: Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, 5600 Read Boulevard, New Orleans East (Behind Joe Brown Park)
All planting equipment (gloves, shovels, dibbles, etc.) will be provided. Lunch and drinks will be provided to all volunteers. You can volunteer for one or more days.
Additional information will be provided to volunteers after registration.
You can register to participate online at
http://www.crcl.org or call the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana at (888)-LACOAST for more information. Additional information will be provided to volunteers after registration.
Audubon Louisiana Nature Center Forested Wetland Restoration
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and Entergy Corporation invite you to parti...cipate in a forested wetland restoration project at Audubon Louisiana Nature Center.
Prior to Hurricane Katrina, Audubon Louisiana Nature Center was named one of the top five urban nature centers in the United States. The Nature Center suffered considerable damage from Hurricane Katrina which devastated its
interpretive center, exhibits and an estimated 75 percent of the forest was destroyed.
This project is being completed through a partnership with Entergy Corporation, Restore America's Estuaries, Audubon Nature Institute, RPM Ecosystems, Natural Resource Conservation Service and the Coalition to Restore Coastal
Louisiana. Volunteers will plant approximately 500 pots of various species of wetland trees, including bald cypress, red maple and pecan.
When: Saturday, January 16 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Where: Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, 5600 Read Boulevard, New Orleans East (Behind Joe Brown Park)
All planting equipment (gloves, shovels, dibbles, etc.) will be provided. Lunch and drinks will be provided to all volunteers. You can volunteer for one or more days.
Additional information will be provided to volunteers after registration.
You can register to participate online at
http://www.crcl.org or call the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana at (888)-LACOAST for more information. Additional information will be provided to volunteers after registration.
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