We Have Three More Slots for the Trip!

I posted this on the old blog before setting up this one. Here's the basic information gain for last-minute sign-ups.

We’ve got accommodations for Knoxville area volunteers who want to go to New Orleans over spring to help rebuild from Katrina in the 9th Ward. This is an opportunity to help save working class homes in a great American city. Read about ACORN's work here.

We will leave Saturday, March 4 and return Saturday, March 11. Volunteers will need to sign some forms and have $30 cash to cover gas expenses and personal spending on the road. This is not an official Pellissippi trip. Oh, and there will be a student video crew to immortalize you as you swing a crowbar like a pro!

We will stay in the four-star accommodations at Camp Algiers and work with ACORN, an organization that is fighting big developers to rebuild local neighborhoods so homeowners can return. We’ll sightsee in the nearby French Quarter and possibly other parts of the city. “What will we be doing” you ask? Gutting houses. You’ll be decked out in fashionable paper suits, removing everything (in the house I mean) down to the studs so they can be dried out and demolded before reconstruction. Sexy!

Want to go? Email me, fill out the forms, and meet us on time at 8 a.m. at the front parking lot at Pellissippi’s main campus by the lake.