Sisters won't let Katrina, New Orleans be forgotten

[babylonsister]

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_5675630

Sisters won't let Katrina, New Orleans be forgotten
Girls organize benefit for hurricane victims
BY BAO ONG
Pioneer Press
Article Launched: 04/16/2007 12:01:00 AM CDT


Hannah and Molly Nemer surveyed a Hurricane Katrina-stricken New Orleans from a taxi: upright toilets surrounded by collapsed homes, the stench of mold rising, the silence hanging over once-crowded neighborhoods.

"I thought it was a year later and things would be looking up," said Hannah Nemer, a 14-year-old freshman at Henry Sibley High School. "But it hasn't changed enough."

It was December - more than a year after the hurricane hit the north-central section of the Gulf Coast - when the Mendota Heights girls visited the Big Easy.

Something needed to be done, they said.

Tourism in the region languishes, residents still battle to rebuild their lives and the city's problems are no longer the center of national attention.

The sisters turned their lessons from New Orleans into a campaign to raise awareness of the ongoing struggles and send money to help Katrina victims. They organized a benefit set for Saturday with the help of other young people, artists and community members across the metro area.

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[joneschick]

1. kicking!

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[babylonsister]

2. Hi, joneschick, and thanks.

It's nice to read about such selfless youngsters!
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