NORA News
Showing Signs of Progress - NORA’s Recovery Tours
Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Times Picayune *A twice-daily recovery tour takes sightseers around New Orleans *
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
By Richard Thompson, Staff writer
Seeking to highlight the positives five years after Hurricane Katrina, a key New Orleans recovery agency is offering twice-daily bus tours of some of the neighborhoods most heavily damaged by the storm, including eastern New Orleans, Gentilly and the Lower 9th Ward.
The effort, organized by the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority, aims to give elected officials, business leaders and local residents another glimpse at the extent of the damage and the progress of the recovery.
“I think you’re going to be surprised, maybe delightfully surprised,” Monica Pierre, the former television reporter and morning radio show host, said as she narrated the inaugural tour Monday, which was attended mostly by members of the media. “It’s not all perfect, so you’re not going to see perfection, but we will show you the signs of recovery.”
Fox 8 News Highlights NORA and the Recovery Tours
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