The annual Congress of Cities was held in New Orleans this year, with over 4000 elected officials in attendance. Margaret had the NLC Board meeting and dinner at Antoine's and spoke to a group of other councilmembers on the City/School partnerships in Duarte. Alana took a few days off and flew to New Orleans to meet with attorneys that are involved in city government. One of the things that we did was to help rebuild New Orleans in some of the devastated parts of the city. The three pictures are of a one- day operation to put together a playground for a badly deteriorated neighborhood. The first picture is about 11:30 a.m. and the final picture is of part of the play equipment about 4 p.m. There were about 200 people to help make the playground a reality. We have learned a lot of lessons from this trip about being prepared for disasters in the city.
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Wow! That is really impressive to have a park built that fast. There must have been some really organized people in charge. Looks like you are both having a great time.
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