| WLOX interview on Volunteers Kathleen Johnson August 26th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Spin doctor – Preparing for the Katrina anniversary media hype Kathleen Johnson August 26th, 2007
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| Idiotic Quotes From Hurricane Katrina Click here for full story from About.com |
| And The Band Plays On Some More Kathleen Johnson August 23rd, 2007 Click here for full story |
| The Great Swamp Tour - capturing an aligator! Kathleen Johnson August 20th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Meeting the Open and Transparent platform – a new Gulf Coast demand. Kathleen Johnson August 15th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| At the center of every community in the south is the local church - Little Zion Baptist Church, Waveland. Kathleen Johnson August 13th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Across to Pass Christian and back Friday Kathleen Johnson August 10th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Behind the Trees, The Buck is Stopping Short of the Road Home 8/8/07 Kathleen Johnson 8/8/07 Click here for full story |
| The Red Rooster Crows Once More Kathleen Johnson August 6th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Rebuilding Martin Luther King Park – the community solution. Kathleen Johnson July 25th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Building an Elkview Home from 84 lumber – step by step Kathleen Johnson 8/11/07. Click here for full story |
| Out to Sea – July 4th Kathleen Johnson July 8th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Pensalcola Race From Gulfport - Ole Man And The Sea Kathleen Johnson July 6th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Race To The Cape -Where the Oak Tree Should Stand. Kathleen Johnson July 6th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Race Day at Long Beach Kathleen Johnson July 6th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Sailing the Wild Blue Kathleen Johnson July 6th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Martin Luther King Block Party Kathleen Johnson July 27th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Katrina Volunteers Feel Unwanted Kathleen Johnson, 7/21/07. Click here for full story |
| Beach Party for St Marys Kathleen Johnson June 23rd, 2007. Click here for full story |
| Ant March Kathleen Johnson June 8th, 2007 Click here for full story |
| A month of volunteer efforts in May 2007. Kathleen Johnson May 2007 Click here for full story |
| The White Magnolia Tree Kathleen Johnson April 21st, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Kids move mountains - Katrina juvenile responders Kathleen Johnson 4/15/07 Click here for full story |
| Not black or white – the problem or the solution Kathleen Johnson 4/13/07 Click here for full story |
| Ship Island - a days escape Kathleen Johnson 3/26/07 Click here for full story> |
| Martin Luther King Park Celebration at Easter Kathleen Johnson March 23rd, 2007 Click here for full story |
| Katrina Confinement Rage: Captured in a paper prison 2/24/07 Kathleen Johnson. Click here for full story |
| In the eye of the recovery is more havoc than landfall. 1/30/07 Kathleen Johnson Click here for full story |
| Goliath Said “Who Dat?”Kathleen Johnson 1/20/07
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| Developing The Katrina Workforce – a new phase in recovery Kathleen Johnson 10/23/06
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| Resource Brokering - A Katrina Enigma Kathleen Johnson 10/23/06 Click here for full story |
| After The Vines Of Summer – The Need For A Master Plan Kathleen Johnson 10/1/06 Click here for full story |
| The Long Way To Come Home – Katrina Week 57 Kathleen Johnson 10/1/06Sometimes as little as twenty eight feet to the FEMA trailer - where the breadth equals height of the storm surge.
Waveland went down to the sea for a memorial service and celebration of life. Click here for full story |
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The importance of remaining neutral
Kathleen Johnson 9/17/06 Kathleen Johnson 9/17/06 Click here for full story |
| Marketing Disaster – when the media hype fizzles
Kathleen Johnson 9/10/06Katrina, at her height, was the darling of the networks. It was a media frenzy fed by inflammatory bigoted images from white dome of the coliseum in New Orleans, the debris filled streets of southern Mississippi, inflated death counts, political shame, blame and political hop scotch, and hundreds of personal “me too” stories meant to heighten the feeding frenzy for more, more, more and more. The nation was glued to the TV screen unable to get enough of the images. Click here for full story |
| Down to the sea - Katrina Anniversary in Waveland
Kathleen Johnson 8/30/06
At 8am this morning, approximately an hour before landfall the previous year of hurricane Katrina, the residents of Waveland went down to the sea for a memorial service and celebration of life. Click here for full story |
| White Boxes, Return Key, and
System Malfunctions Kathleen Johnson 8/20/06
As we approach the aniversary of Katrina life for the victims revolve around white boxes. The white boxes they live in and the endless line of personally intrusive forms with white boxes they fill in constantly for assistance. Click here for full story |
| Home Owner Grant Checks Disbursement Later than Sooner - its going to be a long wait
Kathleen Johnson 8/4/06 The Mississippi Development Authority states that it will take at least eight months to process all the claims. It is likely that many homeowners will not see a check any sooner than well into next year. Click here for full story |
| Volunteers have interesting visit to New Orleans Wednesday night
Kathleen Johnson 8/3/06 Click here for full story |
| WQRZ given "Cease and Desist" Order Kathleen Johnson 8/2/06Hancock County local radio station WQRZ-LP 103.5 FM was given a cease and desist order from the FCC to stop transmitting from the satellite site at the EOC Operation Center in Kiln on Sunday night. Click here for full story |
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One Stop Shop Opens In Hancock County!
Kathleen Johnson 7/26/96 This ground breaking concept for resource shopping in the wake of Katrina opened today in Hancock County with all the dignitaries from the various supporting agencies Click here for full story |
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DRD – Disaster Response Database Kathleen Johnson 7/20/06 Today, in Diamondhead, Joan Buchop was teaching a class on the DRD – the Disaster Response Database which was produced for the National Lutheran Disaster Response.Click Here For Full Story |
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Waveland’s Middletown’s Trash Issues
Kathleen Johnson 7/20/06 And the trash still sits everywhere in Middletown. The volunteers worked hard to pick up the trash out of the right-of-way and ditches – but the “Contractors will not pick up the small piles" stated a city official from the department of Public Works.
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The Sky Is Falling
Kathleen Johnson 7/20/06 Or so it seems these days around Bay St. Louis and Waveland in Hancock county and all over the Gulf Coast. Well, actually its not the skyfalling but the almost year old dead pines trees left in the wake of Katrina – they are succumbing to every little wind, breeze, or rain drop that wafts this way and the trees are falling every way but loose onto roads and private property.
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Fortier Highschool, New Orleans
Kathleen Johnson 7/17/06
Everyday, is a new day here in the Katrina ravaged south.
Yesterday I travelled out of Mississippi and went to work in New Orleans at the Fortier Highschool. This school, built in 1912, is being renovated and made ready for occupation.
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Dunbar Village Nursing Home, Bay Saint Louis
Kathleen Johnson 7/16/06 Volunteers have been working on the Dunbar Village Nursing Home all week - tomorrow we will have 67 volunteers over there and, hopefully, it will be the last big thrust on gutting out prior to the building being handed over to a contractor for the construction phase. Click Here For Full Story
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Housing Issues On The Gulf Coast
Kathleen Johnson 7/13/06
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Mayor's Mower Looted Out Of Front YardKathleen Johnson 7/12/06 It was a grand day - finally the Mayor of Waveland, Tommy Longo, was going to have his house and yard worked on. A kindly soul donated a brand new mower and a team of 15 from the Presbyterian Church in West Boca, Florida, went to work on his yard.
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New benchmark at ground zero
Kathleen Johnson, Waveland, Ms. 7/2/06 Katrina cut a swath thru the tall pines in an area the size of England across the Gulf Coast leaving a tangled bounty of timber which has, for the most part, up to this point, been hauled off to be dumped and left to slowly rot in land fills all over the Gulf Coast. Click Here For Full Story
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