Sorry if you missed the LaPCA King Cake party that kicked off a frigid Carnival Season. Glad to hear if you made it.
To sum: Beer was drunken. Stories of flaming rats and hippo-tortoise love abound. King Cake was devoured. Thanks to the ever-gracious host Tierney.
Before going any further I want to apologize for neglecting this blog. I will try harder to not do so in the future, especially since I will be busy on blogger with other work for my real job.
Yes, that was a shameless attempt to send traffic to my other blog.
2008 will surely contain some service projects and ethnic dinners. Hopefully, King Cake will not be the only reason La.'s RPCVs gather to drink and trade war stories.
As for the service projects, the board seems pretty open to ideas right now. Here's a list of ideas from Jeff Grimes.
Check in more often. Send your ideas and suggestions. And, contribute please to this blog. It ain't hard. I'll gladly make you an author with full access, just email me.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Dec. 9 meeting minutes
Louisiana Peace Corps Association
Board of Directors Meeting
December 9, 2007
10:00 a.m.
CC’s Coffee House
2917 Magazine Street
New Orleans
Susannah Coolidge, presiding
Tierney Davis
Bruce Ingber
Brian Luckett
Brett Montague (guest)
Welcome and Approval of Minutes of the June 24, 2007 meeting:
The minutes of the June 24 meeting were approved with one addition: the Deaf School in Ghana received a $150 donation from LPCA on May 5, 2007.
LPCA Newsletter
o Tierney Davis, Editor of the Newsletter, will coordinate with Josh Norman to post the next edition of the newsletter on the LPCA blog.
o Tierney will post the newsletter by mid-January 2008.
o Brett Montague offered to contribute an article on his recent service to the newsletter.
Follow-up report on Rebuilding Together
o Bruce Ingber announced that the Rebuilding Together project was successfully completed in two weekends.
o In response to an email from Camille Lopez, an RPCV and Assistant Director of Rebuilding Together who requested that LPCA coordinate with NPCA for Rebuilding Together Projects throughout the year, Susannah offered to contact Camille for further information and clarification.
Next Social Event
Tierney Davis offered to host a King Cake Party on January 6 at her home uptown.
Future Service Projects
Suggestions for future service projects included the following:
+ City Park Clean-up
+ Cemetery Clean –up in coordination with Save Our Cemeteries (a suggested date for this was between Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest)
+ Possible Project in coordination with Arbor Day on April 5
Peace Corps Week
o Peace Corps Week in 2008 will be February 24-March 1.
o In 2007 13 RPCVs spoke to three schools in New Orleans about their experience in Peace Corps. Susannah said she would contact the MI Coordinators at Tulane School of Public Health and Jason Denlinger, a teacher at Rabouin High School to see if he can assist with the coordination of Peace Corps week for 2008.
Adjournment
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 11:15 a.m.
Board of Directors Meeting
December 9, 2007
10:00 a.m.
CC’s Coffee House
2917 Magazine Street
New Orleans
Susannah Coolidge, presiding
Tierney Davis
Bruce Ingber
Brian Luckett
Brett Montague (guest)
Welcome and Approval of Minutes of the June 24, 2007 meeting:
The minutes of the June 24 meeting were approved with one addition: the Deaf School in Ghana received a $150 donation from LPCA on May 5, 2007.
LPCA Newsletter
o Tierney Davis, Editor of the Newsletter, will coordinate with Josh Norman to post the next edition of the newsletter on the LPCA blog.
o Tierney will post the newsletter by mid-January 2008.
o Brett Montague offered to contribute an article on his recent service to the newsletter.
Follow-up report on Rebuilding Together
o Bruce Ingber announced that the Rebuilding Together project was successfully completed in two weekends.
o In response to an email from Camille Lopez, an RPCV and Assistant Director of Rebuilding Together who requested that LPCA coordinate with NPCA for Rebuilding Together Projects throughout the year, Susannah offered to contact Camille for further information and clarification.
Next Social Event
Tierney Davis offered to host a King Cake Party on January 6 at her home uptown.
Future Service Projects
Suggestions for future service projects included the following:
+ City Park Clean-up
+ Cemetery Clean –up in coordination with Save Our Cemeteries (a suggested date for this was between Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest)
+ Possible Project in coordination with Arbor Day on April 5
Peace Corps Week
o Peace Corps Week in 2008 will be February 24-March 1.
o In 2007 13 RPCVs spoke to three schools in New Orleans about their experience in Peace Corps. Susannah said she would contact the MI Coordinators at Tulane School of Public Health and Jason Denlinger, a teacher at Rabouin High School to see if he can assist with the coordination of Peace Corps week for 2008.
Adjournment
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 11:15 a.m.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Crisis Corps update
The Peace Corps recently opened multiple HIV/AIDS Technical Assistant positions throughout Malawi . The full position description is available at www.friendsofmalawi.org. Please read it over and contact Christina Breuer cbreuer@peacecorps.gov as soon as possible if you think you may be qualified, interested, and available for this assignment. The expected departure for this assignment is December 2007. The recruitment process consists of a phone interview, reference checks and medical and legal clearance. The entire recruitment and placement process can take up to 8 weeks. If you are interested, it is important that you act quickly.
For a complete list of open Crisis Corps positions go to www.peacecorps.gov/crisiscorps. If you have not been in contact with Crisis Corps in the recent past and would like to update your application, please send an updated resume to crisiscorps@peacecorps.gov.
For a complete list of open Crisis Corps positions go to www.peacecorps.gov/crisiscorps. If you have not been in contact with Crisis Corps in the recent past and would like to update your application, please send an updated resume to crisiscorps@peacecorps.gov.
Xmas in October
Here's the much delayed final update from Bruce on Christmas in October. Photos are below. To view them better, simply click on them.
Our combined volunteer teams finished the two week project on time and in glorious fashion (so I'm biased). The final coats of exterior paint were applied Saturday, blue "swimming" for base color, white for trim, and a grey-brown for concrete. Even some of the guys from the "hood" remarked how well the house looked. I especially thank our other volunteer teams, the USDA-SRRC and the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine teams, for sending such able-bodied volunteers.
The combined volunteer teams managed to scrape and prime the entire exterior of the project house this past Saturday. I thank all of you who volunteered to keep our efforts on time. Besides painting, damaged weatherboard was replaced and one door frame was upgraded.
Our combined volunteer teams finished the two week project on time and in glorious fashion (so I'm biased). The final coats of exterior paint were applied Saturday, blue "swimming" for base color, white for trim, and a grey-brown for concrete. Even some of the guys from the "hood" remarked how well the house looked. I especially thank our other volunteer teams, the USDA-SRRC and the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine teams, for sending such able-bodied volunteers.
The combined volunteer teams managed to scrape and prime the entire exterior of the project house this past Saturday. I thank all of you who volunteered to keep our efforts on time. Besides painting, damaged weatherboard was replaced and one door frame was upgraded.
October 13, 2007
I feel like there's gotta be some joke here about how many RPCVs it takes to paint a house, but I'm not that smart.
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