By admin on October 25, 2011
On Saturday morning, October 22, 2011, the 15th Anniversary Race for the Cure had a record number of over 14,000 participants.
Posted in City Government, Community, Events, Featured, Newsletters, Photo Galleries, Regional Parks | Tagged athletics, breast cancer, cancer survivors, City Park, genetic testing, Mayor Landrieu, Medicine and Health, Race for the Cure, State Government, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Women's Health
By admin on August 10, 2011
On August 10, 2011, City and State officials and representatives from Major League Baseball gathered to break ground on the site of the future MLB Urban Youth Academy.
Posted in City Government, Community, Events, Featured, Photo Galleries, Press Releases, Regional Parks | Tagged baseball, Education, MLB, NORD, pontchartrain park, Urban Youth League, wesley barrow stadium, Youth and Recreation
By admin on April 5, 2011
Mayor Mitch Landrieu today unveiled new private donations to the New Orleans Recreation Development Foundation, the fundraising arm of the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission.
Posted in City Government, Community, Featured, Good Government, Press Releases, Regional Parks | Tagged NORD, NORD Charter Change, Youth and Recreation
By admin on February 15, 2011
Brechtel Park and Joe W. Brown Memorial Park held events this week to promote rebuilding the parks, and to announce exciting plans as part of the park recovery effort.
Posted in Community, Featured, General, Photo Galleries, Recovery, Regional Parks | Tagged Algiers, Arbor Day, Joe W. Brown Memorial Park, N.O. East, regional parks, Youth and Recreation
By admin on January 25, 2011
City Council Vice President Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson and District “C” Councilmember Kristin Gisleson Palmer visited Brechtel Park to thank the middle school children who spent the day planting trees there.
Posted in Community, Events, Featured, General, Media Library, Newsletters, Photo Galleries, Recovery, Regional Parks | Tagged Algiers, Brechtel Park, NORD, Youth and Recreation
By admin on December 28, 2010
Clarkson said, “We’ve worked to bring it back, but it was Kristen Palmer who put together the team to get it done. Thanks to her leadership, the site will return to a productive space for L.B. Landry High School and NORD.”
Posted in City Government, Community, Featured, General, News, Regional Parks | Tagged Blight, Education, L.B. Landry, NORD, Youth and Recreation
By admin on December 17, 2010
The city has doubled NORD’s budget to $10 million, and commission members plan a national and local fund raising campaign, kicked off with a $1 million check.
“As soon as the Red Cross can start training people how to swim, they’ll see that immediately. Secondly, you’ll start seeing openings like the pool at Joe Brown Park, and then there will be other openings of those as well,” Landrieu said.
Posted in Community, Featured, General, Good Government, News, Regional Parks | Tagged Education, NORD, NORD Charter Change, Youth and Recreation
By admin on August 19, 2010
Friends of Joe W. Brown Memorial Park and the Louisiana Nature Center, a nonprofit established to promote the restoration and preservation of the park and Nature Center, has formed a new partnership with Parkway Partners.
Posted in Community, News, News Articles, Recovery, Regional Parks | Tagged Joe W. Brown Memorial Park
