Posts Tagged ‘volunteer’
Today was week three of Children’s PressLine. Last week, my aunt made me take my cousin because she needs a spring activity and she didn’t play softball this year. About 8-10 kids come pretty regularly, ranging in age from 8 to 13 — Eugenie is the oldest at 16. The kids read newspapers, looking for [...]
What do you see in the news? Without pausing, the kids in the room shouted their answers: crime, murder, violence, crimes. New Orleans had the highest crime rate in the country in 2008. Just this last week there were 11 shootings, 6 of them on Mardi Gras day in broad daylight in a “safe” area [...]
