Pontchartrain Park

Dear Community, On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 6:00pm the Pontchartrain Park Neighborhood Association & Pontilly Neigborhood Association will hosts a meeting with the City of New Orleans to address the needs and concerns of the Pontchartrain Park and Pontilly Neighborhoods. The meeting will be held at Southern University, 6400 Press Drive, located in the Gym. All City Leaders will be in attendance to answer and follow-up on all of our issues and concerns. This meeting is a special mee [ ... ]

To:       Gretchen Bradford, President             Pontchartrain Park Neighborhood Association (PPNA) From:  Earnestine Bennett-Johnson Re:      Minutes of the Pontchartrain Park Neighborhood Association’s Meeting Date:   February 18, 2012   MINUTES Meeting was called to order by President Bradford with the agenda and information provided to the members/residen [ ... ]

  Dear Pontchartrain Park Community,   On today,   PPCDC Board Member, Chairman Wendell Pierce and Exec Director Stanley Jackson, Pontchartrain Park Booster President Wilfred “Ray” Morris, and PPNA President Gretchen Bradford, attended a ceremony sponsored by New Orleans Area Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen Restaurants to Present Donations to the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission (NORDC) to Rebuild Local Parks.  Almost seven years after Hurricane Kat [ ... ]

In New Orleans, an Actor Turns Grocer Cheryl Gerber for The New York Times By JANE BLACK Published: March 6, 2012 NEW ORLEANS Had Emeril’s Delmonico been open for lunch, Wendell Pierce would probably have ordered the duck confit leg, served with a creamy barley risotto, roasted beets and snap peas. Instead, Mr. Pierce, a star of the HBO series “Treme,” ended up a few blocks away at Houston’s, where — given his perennial dieting — he made do with clam chowder and steamed spina [ ... ]