Times Picayune Mirrors It

Maybe what I am going to write will not be interesting (let me know if that's the case) because I am sounding redundant relative to the hurricane event here in late August. But here's a slice of life on our progress in trying to rebuild more than 3 months after Hurricane Katrina demolished New Orleans and surrounding parishes.
What I have today is from my daily newspaper, The Time Picayune. It's a daily published list of announcements relative to community meetings, openings (schools and businesses that will finally be reopened after the storm) and web site and telephone number information for those in need of help in practically any area effected by the storm. It' an entire page of the newspaper, so I will concentrate in just the title of eight meetings that were listed.
I think that by reading the title it can best explain how much of a mess New Orleans still is. Here were today's meeting announcement headlines.
1) Red Mass For the Healing and Renewal of New Orleans- This as an announcement of a Catholic mass (we are a Catholic city), presided by the Archbishop of the area, for all members of the local law profession and for anyone else interested.
2) Gentilly Cleanup- Gentilly was a middle class and affluent area virtually completely destroyed by floods from Lake Pontchartrain after a levee break. Its is a call for any person who lived there or plans to rebuild to meet for a discussion of how the area might be saved and rebuilt. Few houses in Gentilly are still standing, none livable.
3) After the Storm, Managing Multiple Sclerosis- An announcement for a meeting of anyone with MS to give information on special help available for those of that affliction.
4) Welcome Home Workshops- Boy is this an optimistic group! It offers topics involved in aiding people in New Orleans who plan to fix their homes and return to live in them.
5) How To Parent In The Aftermath of The Storm- My own parish, Jefferson, is sponsoring this to give information on how to help our children cope with the disaster and de traumatize them so the kids may return to some degree of normality.
6) Pontchartrain Park Residential Aim To Rebuild- a meeting of a residents middle class neighborhood with their local political elected official. At this session, residents of the demolished subdivision will ask (some in a rather hostile tone) their local politician why they flooded and what will happen to the area next.
7) Delgado Community College Workshop- Delgado is one of the colleges destroyed by the flood waters. It plans to reopen in January and is using this meeting to make contact with past and future students.
8) Volunteers Sought: Paint Rally for New Orleans Public Schools- asks for citizen volunteers to help repair damaged school buildings- scraping and painting classrooms, landscaping and minor building repairs. It also asks for the volunteers to donate supplies to help. Only a few schools have reopened in New Orleans.
That's today's meeting list. Bear in mind that the lists changes each day, and that subject matters concerned in the lists also vary. It does show how crippled we are here and how badly help is needed to rebuild the buildings, and people who were attacked by Hurricane Katrina.